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  • Paralysed man moves in mind-reading exoskeleton
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-49907356

    The headline reads like the start of a sci-fi horror film

  • How about riding a bike ?
    The weather is love. Oh. Wait.

  • I did.

    They all died in pawverty.

    Catastrophic.

    etc

  • Goose smashes through taxi window:

    Goose smashes through taxi window.

  • Goose gone wild

  • You evil bastard, wanting to 'use' cute kittens. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

  • I didn't say I agreed with it or thought it was fair.

    The fact is whatever the topic your extreme responses are always particularly offensive. The escalation to name-calling and swearing is incredible to watch. I can only assume you are a very sad and deeply unsatisfied little man. The forum is not better for your presence.

  • Have you considered anger management training?

    This is a forum for discussion and you seem incapable of it without descending into sneering condescension or just plain fury.

  • I’ve not read about the part time bit. Can you elaborate or point me in the right direction?

    Idk when it changed, but historically there was no obligation or facility for part time workers to have pension contributions. For the obvious life factors women were much more likely to be in part time work. However, it was also common for "women's jobs" to be made "part time", more or less regardless of the real hours worked.

    Heaven forbid I give a personal anecdote for fear of abuse, but my grandma for was Dr's secretary who often worked enough hours to be full time. She was viewed as part time and as a result had a lower pension than my grandad. She is not remotely in the current crop of people, but I wouldn't be surprised if the younger women in her place of work didn't have the same experience.

    Unfortunately it's a hard subject to do internet research on now because of all the auto-enrolment info.

    From the people I've heard speak on the subject I think there is also an inherent feeling of unfairness in that every "gain" has to be bitterly fought for and is protracted, but a disadvantageous policy like this seems to have been implemented with ease.

    (sorry for all the "quotes marks")

  • The point, again, is that you yourself immediately made it about you and your experience, and having admitted you hadn't taken the initiative to read up on it before spaffing off you're now trying to say that I'm somehow not appreciating your sincerity and willingness to engage.

    To which I would say, get over yourself, not my problem..

  • Have you considered, like your co-contributor, detaching your nose from it's current lodgings in your anus and rehousing it somewhere where it might be able to detect some small semblance of the wider world out with 'conversations with mimsy sometime in the 1990s' 'personal childcare arrangements/hooray for me' etc?

  • The point, again, is that you yourself immediately made it about you and your experience

    Which you asked for, no?

    How many kids have you raised? Career break, lower salary etc?

  • Was prompts for reflection on the status and expertise of the WASPI demographic. Not, funnily enough, a request for a survey of male metropolitan types of the 2019 generation who may feel the need to blindly beg the question as to why they're not considered equal to these women.

  • Speaking of white knighting...

  • Not everyone grew up in a home counties 'Enid Blyton approved' social environment: it may behove you to know that out with your own social mores other places indulge in swearing, colourful language, intolerance of bell ends, tossers and cunts and avail themselves of the freedom to tell them to roundly fuck themselves when they indulge in self aggrandising histrionics is tolerated and encouraged.

    Hope this clears matters up for you.

  • And yet other people are able to explain the point and issues without being cunts. 🤷‍♂️

  • Fuck me-as far as oblivious bloviating cunts go you're all set for a job at the Tory party, and that's saying something with their current crop of professional idiots. Well done.

  • And yet other people are capable of reading and comprehension prior to broadcasting misinformed inanities. A marvel.

  • Yep. Why aren’t you?

  • Do you think you’ve added anything of worth to this discussion? Bloviating, self-aggrandising histrionics appear to be your MO.

  • I’m not sure who that reply is to but you haven’t really explained anything. I’m trying to understand why people think it’s so unfair when from the outside it doesn’t seem that way (although obviously I can see how on a individual level it does).

    Presumably men who retire later will have even more pension contributions, so I’m not sure what your point is there."

    Actual lol

  • I grew up in a council flat in Southwark with my single parent nurse mum. You've already missrepresented my original comment, how about you keep the class war/privilege check shit to yourself as you seem to be way off with your estimations so far.

    You are plain and simply a bully. I bet you're the kind of guy who hates to see bullying, but here you are, over and over, doing it to other people.

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  • In other news this makes depressing reading:

    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/bike-blog/2019/oct/04/why-are-female-cyclists-targeted-by-aggressive-drivers-for-abuse

    Being one half of a cycling couple i'd always felt I got more flack than my partner and that was largely down to my temper (and her ability to stay calm even when people do dumb shit). She's been targeted with some racist shit from van drivers but AFAIK I don't think she's ever felt singled out by drivers for being female. Sadly the sexist stuff generally comes from male cyclists trying (and failing) to get back in front after she's flown past them.

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