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13. Important

12. Gloomy toons

Well yes … we used to call it music to slash your wrists to.

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10. Kate and Wills

First thought is … bollox:

9. Great advertising

8. Laura Perrins by the numbers

I like Laura, to the extent that if I see a post by her, I’ll bookmark it for later. However, she does have that regulation, modern woman touch of “woman can do anything, woman can do no wrong”, which is utter guff, as women know deep down.

I certainly play along with that to a point, as imho, women need to have some advantages in the old M-F dance of yore. We should open doors for them, stand if they come into the room, defer in so many ways to the ladies … I do believe that.

On this issue, I’m half and half … here’s one commenter below the post:

“What kind of man pounces on a woman who is under the influence of drink and drugs?”

What kind of woman intoxicates herself with drink and drugs in the company of men who are professional brutes known for arrogance, violence, swaggering, rude insolence, fighting and humiliating people?

The old double-standard is raised once again. The woman ‘under the influence of drink and drugs’ goes uncriticised for rendering herself vulnerable through her uncontrolled desire for a state of intoxication, whereas the man is enjoined always to possess ‘clear thinking, self discipline, and moral courage’.

Mrs Perrins should demand higher standards of behaviour from women, as well as of men. Sobriety might be a good start, for both sexes. And no, I am not excusing McGregor’s behaviour in the slightest degree.

Yes but Laura won’t be evenhanded, as she’s in high dudgeon over the physical treatment of the woman (rightly so by the way) …. thus she can only see one side, no cause and effect. I know some ladies who, though they struggle to concede there might be two sides to an issue, nevertheless end up admitting it … mainly as they know I’m soft on them and they’re soft on me.

As for this McGregor … what an animal. For a start, going near a drunk woman is one thing (guilty, m’lud), taking advantage of the situation (also guilty, m’lud) … but roughing her up? That’s deathcult stuff. Hates women? Why? I always failed to think that way and can’t understand a man who does hate the ladies. Like why? They’re lovely … at least any I’d be interested in, those who could look past my negatives sufficiently to form a bond.

I really don’t understand McGregor, despite a certain amount of Irish blood within … wildness is in this blood, dour curmudgeonliness in the Yorks blood. When a colleen becomes impossible, I used to just storm out and go down the pub.

And yet … and yet … every female I’ve ever been at close quarters with (just one or two y’understand, me being near-virginal) has definitely liked being manhandled … with respect. It can’t be expressed in words but I’m sure y’all understand this thing. The crime is in treating her like a slab of meat because then it’s all about you … but it needs to be all about her. Simple enough to understand I’d have thought, even for a man.