Women's rights general conversations - Thread 8

[Kucinghitam]

Continuation of Thread 7.

There is so much excellent information and so many active discussions on FWR that I wondered if it would be useful to have a thread to sort of "cross-fertilise" between them - airing little thoughts or vignettes that wouldn't themselves merit their own thread, to highlight other posts/threads of particular interest or to point to notable developments on fast-moving threads so that casual observers know where to look.

(For example, "the X thread has meandered onto a fascinating discussion of Y" or "Poster P's amazing analysis on thread Z might have relevance to the scenario in thread W" or "Has anybody noticed this recurring theme that keeps coming up??" or even "Random bloke asked me to smile while I was choosing onions in the supermarket, grr"- that sort of thing).

Ain't clicking on that (especially at tea-time)! Can we go back to cat pix, please?!

I did put a cat pic on the other thread a couple of days ago, but will put it here too.

This is Barney, sitting on his portrait.

Wise choice! The header of the article is honestly enough!

I read it all. Should have stopped but carried on in horrified fascination at what men will do.

I haven't seen it for a couple of years, but there used to be a medic who did a regular Xmas roundup of Things People¹ Put in Their Anuses This Year. Just from his own hospital, I think, but still managed an impressive variety.

¹ Men. Although he did have other categories like ears and nostrils that were probably a more equal sex balance (and mainly featured under 5s).

When my dad was a junior doctor he had to deal with someone who'd stuck a pepper pot up his arse. Said he 'sat on it'.

Great Barney pic, Veg!

@Mouseminge!

Hello @BezMills . Tis I, alive and kicking against the odds!

Huzzah, @MouseMinge - have you been released into the wild yet?

Which reminds me, a local friend has acquired a new puppy, can't recall the name of the breed but it's one of those small, charming-but-ugly little critters with a flat nose, pop-eyes and a protruding lower jaw. They have named her after a character in The Jungle Book who is (a) male and (b) feline. WTAF?

Shere Khan!?

Ah but smoked eel is delicious! (Only when it's lived a long and happy life in water, not up a man's bum).

What is it about men?

That's just nasty. When my sister was a casualty nurse, during the 80s, there were at least two men with lightbulbs up their arses. The surgeon used to invite as many medical staff as possible to the removal procedures...

I occasionally sing with a very posh chap who is a colo-rectal surgeon, and, as such, has a bazillion appalling stories to tell. My favourite is of a repeat offender of the pusher-up-the-arse variety - "Well. After the THIRD time I'd operated on him, I thought I really ought to have a word. So I sent all my students away and went to talk to him at the end of ward round. I sat on his bed and said 'Now look here, old chap, when Aneurin Bevan founded the National Health Service in 1948, this was NOT THE SORT OF THING HE HAD IN MIND'..."

Arf! 😄

Bagheera? I'm still not free and have been on water only again 12 days. But! Camera endoscopy tomorrow, I have all digits crossed that the join they're worried about is fine, I get to clear fluids, within a couple of days free fluids (which includes soup, ice cream, custard and jelly) and then I happily go home getting to the next milestones from there. My least liked doctor told me on Sunday that I could go home on water and I found my "No" voice. I have two far more impressive scars than I was expecting.

Sorry for derail although I think the eel and what some people who are usually men do with their bottoms had left us all slightly discombobulated. Next time I post here on this thread it will be on the general topic!

Ooh, jelly! Jellied eel?

I hope you're home soon.

If you hate eels you'll like Séamus Heaney's lines on them, MouseMinge :

He stood at night when eels
Moved through the grass like hatched fears
Towards the water. ...
Phosphorescent, sinewed slime..

'Hatched fears' - good, eh?

I'd rather not think about jeelied eels at any time, but especially not just now. I recommend something like raspberry instead.

Newsnight is discussing Huw Edwards. One of the panel is Adam Bolton.

Interviewer asked whether Bolton would be remaining friends with him, given today's conviction. Bolton's response was that he doesn't believe in cancelling people so would extend a hand of friendship once Edwards is out of prison, and that after all Jeffrey Archer (and someone elsI've e forgotten) had also been in prison. Interviewer pointed out that driving offences weren't quite the same thing as category A child abuse images, and got a rather shruggy response.

Bolton also started by pointing out how unpleasant this all was for Edwards and his wife. Oh, and the children - as rather an afterthought.

Tbf, I wouldn't have liked to be in Boulton's shoes.

On jellied eels:

I've had them and enjoyed them. I'm currently working with a brash, loud, likeable Cockney from Millwall. He was complaining that it's hard to get, these days.

I said that l like them, in contrast to the other guys.

He leant over and with narrowed eyes, asked:

"Are you SHAW yawr a fackin' Jawdie?"

A Norwegian flatmate in my student days told me one of his friends was a doctor. The worst case of foreign-object-from-batty removal she'd had to do was a dead hamster.

I've never tried jellied eels, but I often go for an Una-kyu maki roll at a Japanese restaurant I often go to. That's eel and cucumber and is rather tasty.

The Dutch and Belgians do thinly sliced smoked eel. I love the stuff.

Definitely food of the gods, isn't it Sinner but hard to get in UK.? I'm going to Glyndebourne next week (so looking forward to it, as i haven't been for ages, and it's Wagner, even better). I'm planning on smoked eel in the picnic, to push the boat out good and proper. If I can find it...