Puerile sexist shite

Pictures or it didn't happen ;)

You can be there, and you can referee.

I find it offensive that people find it offensive, but not its male equivalent. Fear of the word = fear of the thing. Mebbe.

where do we stand on 'cocksucker'? i've taken to saying 'cunt-licker' instead.

i wasn't saying you weren't normal. how do you respond to that? "yeah, maybe i should get a test?"

Told them I didn't give a shit?

I have a theory, that autism can be something that can affect people partially, or fully.

there is an autistic spectrum..

Fair do's.

But I can't tell you how interesting it is to hear an 80 year old woman descibe her life....the ups and the downs, her cheating on her hubby, and him cheating on her. How sacrifice was everything for kids, and olden concepts of extended family. Its like actually talking to the History Channel, and being able to ask questions......and when you see tears well up in their eyes, you realise what a beautiful thing you are learning.

Thats how I learned some things from outside of my normal age range experiences.

The sad thing is that you have to explain this to someone. Even sadder is the fact that they probably still don't get it...

You can be there, and you can referee.

We need to set out some rules. PM me....

there is an autistic spectrum..

without the far end of which this forum would have very few active members.

I didn't say that, I think my original comment has been altered.

You may be on to something there Watson...

You may be on to something there Watson...

"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." :)

I think they all got it, its just that that would never have been something that seemed worth exploring.

I was different to my own buddies at high school too. My girlfriend, could have been the mother of my friends girlfriends. She looked like a mixture of Egyptian and Ethopian, and like now, I wouldn't take no for an answer.

:)

Those were the days. In case you're wondering - I was 17, and she was 34. I was a bit of a hero to my mates at school.

You're a hero to all of us

Sarcky El Bastardo! ;)

Most autistics have special talents, that leave them far more interesting than the regular herd............
.................I believe that I may be partially autistic

it's starting to make sense.

I was 17, and she was 34. I was a bit of a hero to my mates at school.

I know a song about that...

Was TV even invented yet? ;)

I think the Chosen One has revealed himself

He certainly has, and his Shit Paste Security Tool is available from all good retailers.

I will have sex on the floor with you at Southies, when everyone is watching.

That profound enough for you?

No jokes please, I am trying to give this thread serious consideration

No jokes please, I am trying to give this thread serious consideration

derail? sounds like a full-on train-wreck

Most autistics have special talents, that leave them far more interesting than the regular herd.

I have a theory, that autism can be something that can affect people partially, or fully. I believe that I may be partially autistic, and I don't worry about that for one second.

there is an autistic spectrum..

Not only that, but 'autistic' people are very, very different in the respect GA2G cites, as it is an ill-defined spectrum. It has something of lumping together all people with light brown hair, although it is of course not quite this simple. That most autistic people have these 'special talents' is a very persistent myth, brought on by perceptions of people diagnosed with 'high-functioning' Asperger's Syndrome, and, at an even greater remove, of 'savants'.

We could conceivably have a syndrome that was defined precisely enough to allow such generalisations, but we don't. I'm not sure that it would even be desirable. Many people diagnosed with autism or Asperger's Syndrome have mental health difficulties more than anything else, and even 'mental health difficulties' is an excessively general label that can do more harm than good, much as sometimes the ways in which people suffer resemble each other.

I have certainly met very 'autistic' people whom I liked very much and found very interesting, but I've also met plenty of non-'autistic' people whom I liked just as much. People are people and it's a pious fiction that disabled people tend to be more interesting than others. Disabled people are as diverse as any other group of people you could care to assemble.

Oliver's post was interesting, albeit laced with the kind of crude vernacular and grammar favoured by old timers like Platini.

Having a kid brought gender issues into stark relief for me. Having always espoused the suitability of men as much as women to be child raisers, I was suddenly floundering in the reality of finding the world of the infant an alien affair.

I really struggled with those first 12 months of my son's life. Sure, there was other stuff going on. I was doing a vocational degree that, due to the changing political landscape, was suddenly going to spit me out into a jobless landscape in a few years' time; various relatives started dying of cancer, or were in a position where I was the only relative around to support them through life-threatening illness and surgery; the council, after 10 years of procrastination, chose to gut/refit our kitchen & bathroom, so we were living out of one room with a shitting and crying machine; my parents moved abroad; and so on...

... so I got a bit depressed. I had some counselling. It's not the first time I've had suicidal thoughts (and probably won't be the last).

Anyway, your own upbringing comes back to haunt you. Mine was not good. My wife's was. Our backgrounds were polar opposites in a lot of respects, and yet we'd come together having reached a lot of the same conclusions about life. But suddenly you're a mummy and a daddy and everything is scary and new again. Gender stereotypes at every turn. Shock horror - it was utterly apparent that there was no way I'd handle being a house-husband i.e. primary care giver. There was loads of stuff like that where it just seemed more appropriate for the mother to do it. I haven't a clue what motivated this outlook, but I imagine it's a whole heap of stuff I haven't the inclination to go into right now.

And I left my degree. The urge to be a bread winner was overwhelming. 2 more years of form filling and begging for hand-outs didn't appeal.

We're not conventional, by anyone's standards. We both work part-time; we both cook; we both clean; we both spend hours as sole carers of our son; we both cringe in the face of the über-straights and their unimaginative lifestyles and lack of independent thought.

But I'm the fucking daddy, and she's the fucking mummy. I'm the bad cop and she's the good cop. I spend more time outdoors with Tynan, she spends more time indoors with him. It definitely feels like we're conforming to gender roles somewhere along the line.

Oh I dunno.

You've done really well, I love the t-shirt I bought that he designed

But I'm the fucking daddy, and she's the fucking mummy.

And together, you made the fucking baby. Okay....we get it.

But since parenting has made you look at gender roles newly, does that mean that in your eyes, there is a specific difference between men and women, at a socially functioning level? Because if there is, then you are not the only person who thinks that way.

Right or wrong, many men are different from others, just as women are. And this will explain why some women on here won't mind the brash goings on, and others who don't care for it.....just back away.

But I am thinking that the backing away is being put down to nothing more than the north winds, .....as it couldn't possibly have anything to do with the way some women are feeling put out by some of the careless behaviour on display, here at Camp Lfgss.

Still, its good to hear you recount your experience, and your change of previous viewpoint.

I have to admit that I have scanned the last few posts as I have discovered the ultimate way to sink this thread.

The overall message seemed to be that women needed protecting from the puerile and sexist men from the initial post- and I mean no disrespect to Fred who I count as a friend.

This was rebutted by a number of people (deliberately not naming names for fear of the order of naming having me flamed, let me just say both male and female), who stated that women are strong enough to discount the locker room shit that goes on here.

This reminds me very strongly of Olivers major post in Roxy's helmet thread.

To paraphrase (massively) Olivers point is that (possibly ineffectual) protection was an extremely poor substitute for increased participation.

Helmet thread- more cyclists the better off we all are.

This thread- the more women the better off we all are, as rather than the (afore mentioned) "little ladies" attitude the women (and the existing women are strong in their views) will equalise the forum.

Please forgive me for terrible spelling throughout.

although i don't think a child should be using that kind of language.