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🐞CURMUDGEONS' CORNER XV🐞

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  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    steveTu said:
    Not sure what that has to do with mixed teams. I'm all for more women's teams. I've just heard that the mixed events are for 'gender balance' - why not then have more women's events? Why fudge it?


    Some sports have tried to balance events rather than have mixed teams.  Cycling and canoe slalom are two of them.  I actually thought the mixed 4 x 200 relay in the swimming was fascinating, because not all teams had male or female in the same place in the line up.  Watching swimmers like Adam Peaty ripping metres back on their swim was amazing.  I'm not keen on the idea of mixing the sexes in team sports where all are on the pitch at the same time.  Most females would simply be flattened by most males if contact was permitted.
  • Chris-P-BaconChris-P-Bacon Posts: 943
    edited July 2021
    steveTu said:


    Don't think so... Someone actually thought it up for 'gender balance' - don't you think they under-thought it?


    I was being slightly tongue-in-cheek.. :#
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Can I be curmudgeonly about the presenter on Radio 2? Cat Deeley? 
    She sounds like she's addressing a class of 5 year olds.
    Devon.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    She’s keeping the seat warm for Rylan … I agree that Radio2  DJ ing isn’t her forté … but maybe there’s not a lot of choice at this time of year … “they’re all going in a summer holiday 🎶” and all that 😉 


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    "especially never wanted to move to Scotland (sorry Scotland), "
    That's ok @pansyface. I'm half English but would never want to live in England  ;)
    I never had any desire to marry and have children either, until I met my future husband when I was 27. Even then it was a long time till I felt maternal, and I'd almost accepted that it just wouldn't be for me. We're all different.  :)

    My Dad was more or less forced into being married, because the implication was that something was wrong with you if you weren't married by the time you were about 21 in those days.
    That didn't end well. Fortunately, he met my Mum. The disgrace of being divorced though.....
    We've come along way in the last century, even though it doesn't always seem like it  :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Oh glory be … there’s another Boffle on the way … I hate to be unkind to a new mum who is undoubtedly happy about this … but really??? ….. I mean have you really thought about this … I mean really really weighed up the pros and cons …. all of them …? 🙄 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Oh glory be … there’s another Boffle on the way … I hate to be unkind to a new mum who is undoubtedly happy about this … but really??? ….. I mean have you really thought about this … I mean really really weighed up the pros and cons …. all of them …? 🙄 
    has he even admitted how many he's got already?
    Devon.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Why do you keep harping on about that @Hostafan1?  Who cares?  well except maybe the poor kids and their mums.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Obelixx said:
    Why do you keep harping on about that @Hostafan1?  Who cares?  well except maybe the poor kids and their mums.
    Hardly "harping on about "
    Just seems odd that he refuses admit how many he has, unless of course he has something to hide.
     I've never met anyone who refused to admit how many children they have. Have you?
    Devon.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Men who go round seeding offspring on several women very often don't admit to how many there are or else go the other way and boast.

    "Harping" refers to the many times you have mentioned his unconfessed sirings.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
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