Yes. There's a tendency these days to think that a person's sexuality is the be all and end all. In fact most of the gay people I know lead very ordinary lives and their sexuality is irrelevant most of the time.
Bill
I remember hearing Scargill speak at a public meeting in St Austell, Cornwall debating the pros and cons of the Nuclear Industry. He was up against our local Tory M.P who seemed to have a very slight speech defect or hesitancy. Scargill was a brilliant public speaker, the best I've ever heard. And surely the Coal Industry along with ship building was killed off by a Tory Government under the late un-lamented Margaret Thatcher.
Peter
Labour closed more pits than the Tories did.
No, Labour before her actually closed more coal mines.
And no politician killed off ship building, that was killed off by the stupid unions who made it completely uncompetitive with Japan and South Korea.
And Ed Milipedes 2008 Climate change act would have finished off those that might have snuffled on (with subsidies) even if Mrs T hadn't put them out of their misery.
The Japanese and South Koreans killed off the UK mass-market ship building industry, not Mrs T. Just look at the utter debacle of the Ferguson Yard in Glasgow where those two Cal Mac ferries, being built, are years behind schedule and about 3 times over budget.
Yes. You stated the 'nastiness' of that couple outweighed the 'niceness' of the others. Which means you must decide about a group of people as a whole. Not as individuals.
Scattering around 'probably' and 'most' in such a way shows logic hasn't entered into it.
Scargill was the 'subject' on a kids 'question time' I worked on. Fairly undertandably, many of the questions the kids asked had been supplied by their parents, etc. Or based on parent's views.
There was a possible fault with the recording, so it had to be checked on another machine. Meaning a lengthy wait for all.
Scargill was very chatty off camera, and the kids asked their own questions. Wish that had been recorded as it was far better than the actual prog - and showed Scargill in a totally different light from his meja one.
When I was at school, had a pal whose mother was a widow. Husband killed at the end of WW2. Her sister lived with them. Both women worked as teachers.
Many years later, the sister died. Only then did it become public she wasn't her sister. Of course their relationship could have been platonic.
In the last year of my primary school in 1952 we had a woman teacher with very short hair, wore a tweed jacket and a tie, smoked a pipe and rode a motorbike. She had a 'friend' who worked in a local shop who looked exactly the same. I can't understand why 2 women acting like men fancied each other. I thought opposites attract?
It could be wearing men's clothing was simply more practical. Would you find a dress the best thing to wear while working etc?
It wasn't a question of practicality, they were both trying to look like men. The one in the shop even had a gruff voice.
Come on Dave. She was teaching students. I could do that in a dress.
All the fiddly bits are when you go for a piss and the bottom off the dress ends up in urinal and you have to dry it off with the hand drier.
There's no reason why we shouldn't generalise about groups of people. Or form a general opinion about members of the group, as an average.
It's the thing to do when you're generalising. Not everything is black and white.
Bill
She was probably a bloke then.
Bill
I've chatted with him and found him perfectly agreeable.
Bill
I had a 'bachelor' great aunt. Midwife to our family actually. WWI VAG, magistrate, didn't smoke, but very much 'Miss Marple'. Lived with a 'companion' of the female persuasion. Not unattractive and very intelligent. Probably frightened all the Edwardian men to death...
...its not necessarily about sex, its often just two people cohabiting for company, who happen to get on with the same sex better than the opposite.
To Our Dave it is.
I have met him. He did not like me.
She was the shopkeeper's daughter and was more feminine in her younger years.
We used to call them "maiden aunts" and I had one.
Mine too, in a commercial operation, one of the last of the commercial lending libraries which also sold other stuff like fancy crockery and ornaments etc.
Neither of mine were like that.
And more socially acceptable to the middle class in those days. I am not aware that they had any male friends except family at all.
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