Pick My Postcode’s Stackpot Draws

Well, it's clearly the weekend again - only it isn't newbies or anons causing upset, it's the regulars! :-D

Barrie, it's often been said (by women) that 'if men had to carry and deliver babies they' have found another way' although I think that's a two-edged sword. Yes, it means men would never bear the pain of childbirth the way women have to - and frequently several times, but it could also mean that men would find another way - why haven't women, then. I could see your post was a joke, I just thought I could hear the placards being raised from over here, and it was obvious what would happen. I think women in engineering is not a particularly new thing - I saw a programme years ago of a very high-tech modern building (airport?) designed by a woman with a wavy roof, lots of different angles and faces, and I have a feeling that instead of a moving road inside for passengers to load their luggage and stand on, there was a complete floor that moved, but I could have mis-remembered that bit. Not sure where it was - Korea? Very, very high tech and very well done.

ANN you got what you deserved in the backlash from women posters on here. If your posts were meant to be amusing, they aren't remotely funny

Barrie if god is a woman the prostate is our retribution for the menopause, endometriosis and all our female associated problems, plus the crass so called jokes from you men.

In addition Barrie I work in metric and fully understand metric.

Lol63, well what can I say you had to bring up women drivers didn't you.

It's obviously a slow news day and let's get at the women on PMP.

Yes I'm annoyed, and pretty angry with the comments from the men. Yes I've had a sense of humour failure, I'm sure there will be backlash telling me to chill out it was only a joke. Well I ain't laughing.

Oh dear! For a moment, reading these comments, I thought that I was on Facebook!

I think we ought to warn newbies about your sense of humour! 😬

I tried asking my wife what she thought God looked like and she just said "Will you get out of the kitchen, I'm busy", which is odd as sometimes I find her sitting down in the living room so she's obviously not so busy she can't take time off. Oooooh I'm not in more trouble am I?

@Beth - If god existed which she doesn;'t. She would be a female because a male wouldn't have given men a prostate & all it's problems.

My turn now, Nick! Someone will moan about my post on Main Draw being about God, and not having 'He' instead of 'he'.

Why are women such bad drivers?

Because of all the times they've been told "this" is 8 inches.

And they all come out of the woodwork, over a joke. They walk amongst us.

The first statement is not accurate. "All the engineers" are certainly not men.

The consequences drawn from that false statement are in any case extremely surprising, extremely disappointing and equally inaccurate.

What a pity to hear such prejudices still being propagated.

What a pathetic joke about someone trying to get kids interested in Engineering.

@ANN. I can hear the pitchforks being sharped from here. 😂👍

Try explaining to a woman (who was taught imperial measurements) approximate metric size equivalent.

Yep they definitely should have Beth. What a needless comment ANN made. What was the point? I agree with Buttercup; men are the size exaggerators 😂

Nick, you really should have expected that! 😊😊

Oh dear, I am so sorry I've upset you so much. If I'd realised the upset I'd cause I'd never have posted it. In fact I'd probably never even have been born. I can't believe how much upset my mere presence on this planet has caused.

I guess it's a good thing I really don't care.

True about there being an item on BBC Breakfast, but misleading in phrasing it as "Because if a woman was an engineer she's likely to ..."

One female engineer on a YouTube channel encouraging kids to be interested in engineering made a working giant toothbrush and hairdryer at the suggestion of her subscribers. One female engineer. How many male engineers have produced outsized working models of things for TV or social media? If the item on the BBC had been about a male YouTuber making a giant item for his kids' channel, would you have tried to turn it into a joke about male engineers? I doubt that.

Partially a joke, but the facts are true over the size of the items a female engineer has made. It was on BBC breakfast today.

Got to agree with Buttercup2 only about the men exaggerating, not the antiquated opinion.

There is an excellent movie called "Hidden Figures" about three brilliant female NASA engineers and their struggles as black women (at a time when they were not allowed to use the same washrooms and buses as white people). One of my favourite scenes is where the woman (who had to make a legal case to take a book on coding out of the library) flicks some switches and the new IBM computer starts to work.

Is that supposed to be a joke ANN? Please explain it, my tiny woman's brain doesn't understand it!

What an antiquated outdated opinion, a lot of engineers are women and men are more prone to exaggerate on size than women!

Lemons. Thanks, I hope I can quote you.

Lots of films depict things that are illegal. Anyone remember 'Taxi Driver'?

Many others depict things that are legal where they were set but are not legal here - for example, the magnificent 'Christiane F' featuring a then 15 year old Natja Brunckhorst playing the 14 year old Christiane, a drug addict and child prostitute in 1980's West Berlin. Before you get irate, there is absolutely no sex in the film at all. But some scenes are harrowing in the extreme and it was many years before it received a licence for general viewing (as opposed to film clubs) in this country.

'Romeo and Juliet' is distinctly dodgy with its portrayal of what we would now regard as under-age sex - remember the mother of 13-year-old Juliet telling her daughter, "By the time I was your age, I'd had you."? (apologies if I've misquoted the original but that is the gist of it.)

And how long before we outlaw all films and TV programmes that depict violence, murder and other crimes?

As an aside, there are no laws against incest between consenting adults in France (or, I believe, Belgium and Spain) nor in Japan.

And if scenes portraying women dressed as schoolgirls are to be made illegal, maybe this could be enforced in the real world, for example hen parties?

We need to be able to differentiate between fact and fiction. And most of us can. The others need to learn.

The shipwrecked boy and girl (characters) in The Blue Lagoon (1980) are cousins. They get over friendly and the girl ends up having a baby.

The girl was played by Brooke Shields, I can't remember who played the boy, but the film deserved to be banned just for his hairstyle.

We aren't all being turned into criminals, you can still call your wife by her sisters name because that's not incest, and you can still watch Call the Midwife because it's not pornography.

Another example of our new PM running around fiddling with the little matters that are already dealt with, instead of planning a proper course of action to sort out the big problems.

Barrie The law: "...or people pretending to be related." It doesn't need to be real to be an offence. It's the old idea of taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut. There are some bad things out there but instead of dealing with it, let's just make everyone criminals. A bit like the TV licence.

Incest is already illegal so if the film is genuine the makers are guilty anyway.

I vaguely remember a film called Blue Lagoon. Didn’t that have a brother and sister ‘experimenting’? And what about books? Are they banned ? Or are you incarcerated for reading them? As if there is any room to incarcerate anyone…

There are many videos of supposedly young guy & stepmom or aunt, daughter & stepdad or uncle, man & wife, all legal relations, anything you can imagine has already been done hundreds of times. Many don't say what the context is.

I don't like being told I can't watch something, I can make up my own mind. Why are the Govt wasting taxpayers money to tell us what we can't watch?

If you didn't watch it you'll never know what it was, if you watched it you're guilty, if you do manage to delete someone else's work then they can sue you, or that's concealing of evidence. ... 👀 Big Brother is watching YOU.

I'm sure i remember where this situation was aired in an episode of Call the Midwife (??) I felt it was portrayed with a lot of sensitivity considering the "uncomfortable" subject and found it quite moving.

Not only not made but if you have a copy you could get up to two years in prison.

There was a film (I think in the 80s) about a half brother and sister who were reunited when adults and then had a sexual relationship. I suppose that could not be made now.

BuaD. No, I haven't seen a copy of the actual law yet but from what I've read it isn't just reality it's the depiction of relatives even if they actually aren't. And yes it is acting, it says if you have it deleted it or you'll be committing a criminal offence. Hence my comment 'totally unbelievable'. Let's see what the law brings, only three weeks to wait from my reading of it. Now I have seen it:

Penetrative sexual activity between close familial relatives (or people pretending to be related, such as father and daughter, brother and sister, or step/foster relationships).

Note: "People pretending to be...."

I can't imagine acting is included. I think it only applies to people who really are related (like that Austrian creep who locked up and raped his daughter).

Not just banned but you'll be criminalised for watching it. At least it will increase revenue for the police as they'll just need to stand outside theatres and arrest everyone leaving.

Does this mean that performances of the classical Greek play Oedipus Rex will also be banned? And come to that I think there was some dodgy stuff going on in Game of Thrones.

No, nothing missing. As I mentioned there are other categories to be banned, like kids etc, but the 'related' from what I read, is anyone related so although I didn't miss anything it makes you wonder if they did. But as you say "does anyone really believe they're mother and son!" apart from me? Looks like the Government do as well.

There must be something missing in your post. Surely no one believes that they are really mother & son (or whatever combination). Admittedly incest is illegal but has Arnold Swarteneger really dropped villains over a cliff which is also illegal?

Thirded 😊

Agree Barrie

😁 to all.

There were calls for help but management replied "DIY".

😂

And brush it under the carpet?

Management tried to gloss over the accident

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Was he called Matt?

A brush with death

I'm a 'not nice' person, too, and I'm 87.

‘Just’. It’s not only unnecessary it’s very often dangerous. ‘I’ll just have one biscuit (despite being on a diet)’ ..’Go on, just one drink won’t put you over the limit’… ‘Just one cigarette won’t hurt you’…

My English teacher also said not to use the word nice, perhaps to make us think of other adjectives. I’m 71 next week so it is perhaps an age thing.

How about misuse of the word "like" in modern speech. My understanding is this is a word of appreciation. It drives me crazy every time I hear someone say "I was, like ...". You either were or you weren't!

@ B up and D. Wish I was young again - like 68.

I'm 68

NokeyBlokey, BUAD & Tiseye, I'm wondering if we are all in our mid-seventies as I, too, was taught to avoid using "nice" and to find an alternative. Perhaps our teachers all attended the same training establishment? :-)

@NokeyBlokey..

Yes, my teacher said exactly the same thing and I am like you.... always think of a better word to use.

I wonder if we have the same English teacher. Did you go to QEGS ?

My English teacher implored us to never use the adjective ‘nice’. It was, in his words, ‘bland beyond comprehension’ and we should strive to use more thought when describing something that was, well, nice. Funny how some advice never leaves you, and I have avoided the word with enthusiasm ever since. And he was right; there is always a better description if you have time to dig into the brain cells a little - although, some biscuits are ‘literally’ Nice.

Sorry @Lol 63!

" SO....", hope is fairly useless on the scale of humanity. Except in 'I hope the end times are not as bad as they potentially could be' type statements.

People don't seem to be able to make a remark, these days, without starting it with, " SO...."

PacMan, my English teacher said the same, but included 'Got', and 'Getting'.

"Never use Get, Got or Getting".

ONLY......

Get.

English Teacher told us never to use it.

Momentarily is one of those words that have different meanings on opposite sides of the Atlantic. In the US you would be happy to take off momentarily.

@Sandy Shore - Wonder how many of us have googled your "worthless" suggestion?

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especial

'special' does the same job and is shorter.

floccinaucinihilipilification.

Which is ironic when you know what it means.

literally.

As in "I literally died."

Er... No, you didn't.

Momentarily - always misused, as in: Pilot “ we’ll be airborne momentarily “ . Not what you want to hear

Of, in particular in the sentence ‘he fell off of the roof’! 😱