Another tip of the day.

I expect most people who have a disability or condition feel a bit down about it in some way at times,heck we are all probably lacking in some ability or other compared to others, People with weight conditions they cannot control, people who are so ugly they can?t get laid. Some conditions can be fixed and others cannot. Your barren male and female examples born that way may be treatable but removing functioning testicles or breasts with the accompanying chemical treatments to become on outward appearance the opposite sex to what people are born as doesn?t take them the whole way to be a complete functioning example of the opposite sex any more than giving someone born without legs some prosthetic ones suddenly makes them have normal body. GH

Could be dangerous on ladders, when all the fellas rush over at once to steady the bottom of the ladder each time she climbs up.

And then you run into instructions like: "Remove skirt before attempting to remove batten holder cover"

I've been work at home for most of the last 18 years. One of those was a financial institution where I joined as a manager and introduced working from home in my team as a first in the company. It enabled me to retain a good member of staff who was going to leave because he needed to move near to family, and enabled me to employ a recently new mum to work significantly at home and strange hours that gave the team more cover out of normal hours, and fitted around managing the baby. You also get much more flexibility from your staff when you are flexible with them. When selecting staff and if you are looking for the best, if you can't handle staff working remotely, you ruled out over 99% of possible applicants who aren't within daily reach of your office, including over 99% of the best staff.

I wouldn't have people in my team who I didn't trust, so I had no desire to sit and stare at them working. However, this is often an issue the other way around too with staff who haven't worked fron home before feeling they must make themselves noticed, and it can take time to settle in to the scheme. It's also really important that the regular team banter continues amongst remote workers to keep them feeling part of the team, and I did have to go and have a word with HR to say, yes, I did expect my team to be talking about their holidays in firm emails, just like they would if they were all sitting together at their desks, and HR were fine with that once I'd explained.

Finally, don't force it on people - it doesn't suite everyone, and some people want a clean break between work and home, and that's fine too.

The 'good cop' says that to soften them up.

They've never had bollocks to remove.

It was the Catholic Church to, as a result of the prohibition on women singing in church, discovered the delightful sounds produced by men who had been (accidentally) castrated as boys. A discovery later exploited in opera.

I would have thought it was obvious why the child was asking?

Also read "The Alteration" by Kingsley Amis.

Difficult to tell from recordings made over 110 years ago, supposedly the last one. A bit weird to modern ears.

GH

If someone is so convinced their 'soul' (if you want) is of the wrong gender that they wish to go through the trama of surgery and hormone treatment to alter themselves to what they consider better, WTF has it got to do with you? Other than to have compassion for them?

Why do you think that is ?

How would a catholic church decide whether a child was a boy or a girl ?

Other than childhood curiosity I'm not sure.

If it was obviuos perhaps you'd like to say why the child was asking ?

count the holes that a standard RC c*ck could be inserted into?

So if you're a priest and find an extra one that means the applicant must be female and hence rejected for chior service ?

whisky-dave presented the following explanation :

Kids can ask some really embarrassing questions, when they first meet an unusual situation. When I was around six or seven, travelling on a bus with just my mother, sat opposite us was a black man, the first I had ever seen. I said something like 'mam that man's face is black'. I remember my mother was very embarrassed and apologised to the man. I remember saying something similar, when I first saw a pregnant woman, commenting on how fat she was.

Yes they can and adults can do that too.

Wow what century are we talking about ?

If you're mother was Harry he'd have said it's because his muslim and goes around bombing people and that is why God gave him a black face.

and how do you know she was pregnnant ? Because she was female ?

"Has that woman had too many pork pies?"

"She's had too much of something!"

Yes she's been porked.

Although to be honest she could have had IVF, or a turkey baster as some might assume if the women is a lesbian.

whisky-dave used his keyboard to write :

As with 99% of those posting in this ng, the last century. The big clue, I didn't live in cosmopolitan London.

:-)

No of black kids in my school from start to finish of my schooling - zero.

The number of contacts in my phone are probably a couple of hundred.

How many are black? Two. One apprentice and one customer.

Number of Russian nationals in my phone contact list? Five.