Going back to being grumpy for a second though can I have a quick moan about fireworks. It's been lashing down all evening, it's not even the 5th and still it's been non-stop since before it got dark. I've made the dog a nice bed by the washing machine to try and mask the noise. I'm not one to support terrorism either but recently I'm starting to think Guy Fawkes may have had a point.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Not quite sure what data analytics would make of that burst of sexism... I thought the only thing that ever looked good in leather trousers was cows. Perfect fit. Reading that back it sounds a bit pervy.
Equal sexism though @steveTu We had fireworks last night too when it was chucking it down @wild edges. Don't know how they can be bothered. I think a lot of people decided it was the best night for a party because of the 5th falling on a school night. We used to get them regularly as soon as it was the school holiday week, which is the 2nd to middle week of October. Weeks and weeks of them going off
It's definitely improved since they brought in some more regulation about when they can start selling.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Now this is going to sound sexist... I think sexism is good. I honestly don't subscribe to the '...boys and girls are the same...' mantra (I saw a BBC thing a while back showing that boys and girls at a young age are the same and I wasn't convinced). So sexism in as much as the sexes are different - and should be appreciated - is what the world is all about.
BUT I hate discrimination - and that includes the so called 'positive' discrimination that now seems so prevalent. ANY discrimination is just plainly wrong to me.
Bonfire night used to be the thing for us. I lived on a council estate when I was a kid, with a massive wasteland behind. Each 'block' of flats collected stuff for bonfires - and was like a competition to see who could build the biggest bonfire - there were three or four in a chain. Brilliant times - making the guys and doing the penny for the guy bit. Insanely mad though looking back on it, with fireworks going off all over the place with each family doing their own thing. But I don't recall any problems in the years we were there.
And the toffee apples and jacket potatoes.... Good memories.
Hmmm .... I think it would be better if we regarded folk as individuals rather than expecting everyone to fit into one box or another.
I was a ‘tomboy’ as a child, playing in mud and muck, charging around on a bike and go-cart and totally ignoring the dolls I was given and was happiest in jeans, not dresses. But none of that meant that I was not female and no one ever suggested that there was anything wrong with me ...
Girls are meant to be ‘more caring’ which teaches them to be maternal? Whoever said that had obviously never been inside an all girls school 😥 ... or watched a young boy with a puppy or litter of tiny kittens. 😍
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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We had fireworks last night too when it was chucking it down @wild edges. Don't know how they can be bothered. I think a lot of people decided it was the best night for a party because of the 5th falling on a school night.
We used to get them regularly as soon as it was the school holiday week, which is the 2nd to middle week of October. Weeks and weeks of them going off
It's definitely improved since they brought in some more regulation about when they can start selling.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Girls are meant to be ‘more caring’ which teaches them to be maternal? Whoever said that had obviously never been inside an all girls school 😥 ... or watched a young boy with a puppy or litter of tiny kittens. 😍
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.