Idiot Steps Down

[jim360]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33090022

Good.

[bazwillrun]

"Here we go 'round and 'round again! "

haha beat me to it...same old posters same old game...Deja vu anyone ?

[-Talbot-]

Has ummmm's question been answered?

[ummmm]

Yeah...he still thinks they're slappers.

[andy-hughes]

baz - //Here we go 'round and 'round again! "

haha beat me to it...same old posters same old game...Deja vu anyone ? //

Obviously Naomi and I are exempt from this post - we concluded our discussion on this thread some time ago.

[-Talbot-]

Ah, Ok
(I wish that when I was younger I had the ability to spot a slapper just by looking)

[ummmm]

Looking at ladies wearing the same kind of dresses they'd wear to a wedding!

[andy-hughes]

Talbot - //(I wish that when I was younger I had the ability to spot a slapper just by looking) //

You can do it now! Anyone can! All you need to do is grasp firmly the twin concepts of stereotyping an entire gender based on clothing and appearance, and a willingness to denigrate said gender simply because their default position is one of inferiority.

[-Talbot-]

simply because their default position is one of inferiority.

I'm struggling to comprehend that bit.

?

[ummmm]

A lot of men still look at women as though they are still inferior by default.

That was my take on it anyway.

[EcclesCake]

I was stunned by Mikey's blanket comment given that HMQ was in some of the pictures, calling The Queen a slapper is somewhat harsh!

[andy-hughes]

ummmm - //A lot of men still look at women as though they are still inferior by default.

That was my take on it anyway. //

Exactly!

[jno]

men fall in love with women in the lab, therefore there shouldn't be any women there.

Nobel Prize for logic right there.

[Peter Pedant]

He is not resigning his Nobel or even his knighthood

at age 72 he is resigning being head of a lab - and as Jim says who is probably the only post-grad Aber who is doing research - a good job too.

and for the gurlz - at risk of earning another zillion comments of 'what's he on about, is she a scientist - or wha' ? ' - I recommend looking at the life of Jocelyn Bell Burnell

who really did cry ........[ she did whaaaaa'? ]

when her thesis supervisor stole her results and published them

.... on quasars

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Bell_Burnell

Her comment is: " I havent done badly in a career as' the woman who should have got the Nobel Prize' "

[ oo eck yeah yeah I know - a thousand ABers post: woss this got to do with a woman scientist - apart from the fact she's a woman ? ]

[-Talbot-]

and a willingness to denigrate said gender simply because their default position is one of inferiority.

I think it's the way you phrased it, andy.

and a willingness to denigrate said gender simply because their default position *on women* is one of inferiority.


That would have made it clearer.

[andy-hughes]

Talbot - //and a willingness to denigrate said gender simply because their default position is one of inferiority.

I think it's the way you phrased it, andy.

and a willingness to denigrate said gender simply because their default position *on women* is one of inferiority.


That would have made it clearer. //

Not really!

'gender' and 'inferiority' are both in the second half of the sentence, therefore they are linked which is how I intended it - and how most people appear to have understood it.

Thanks.

[-Talbot-]

Well I don't think it as their default position.

[andy-hughes]

Talbot - //and a willingness to denigrate said gender simply because their default position *on women* is one of inferiority.

No - their default position on women is one of SUPERIORITY - which is why I didn't word it like that.

If you don't feel it is a default position, we can agree to disagree, but my grammar and sentence construction is sound.

[-Talbot-]

their default position


Maybe the confusion is who 'their' is referring to.

[andy-hughes]

It's referring to 'said gender' - women.

[-Talbot-]

Well 'simply because their default position is one of inferiority' reads as if that is a statement that you are making.