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Same defence could be applied to; ‘60 year old man calls his trusty old Mercian bicycle ‘she’ out of some slightly outdated (but not ill-meaning) fashion; not because he is trying to symbolise the literal riding of a woman, but because it was socially acceptable to do so amongst his peers, in his time - and because he, as a man, says it’s okay to do so then it is?’
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Highlight of an east end walking tour as part of a stag do was to learn about streets commonly being named after what occurred in them, quite a long association between the C word and anatomy.
Piers Morgan school of retorts