Cars and penises. Bad news

MarkMas

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GeoffCapes said:
How is it that it's fair game to bash men for potential inadequacies in the trouser department because they drive a fast car? yet you make any mention that an overweight woman is unhealthy and straight away you're accused of fat shaming????

It's clearly sexism gone too far, where men cannot be sexist yet women can! and are!

What about women who drive fast cars? what inadequacies do they have? or are we not allowed to ask?
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I just don't get this sort of fragility and 'whataboutism' - someone mentions a joke about dîcks and cars and suddenly it is "What about fat women?" and "Why can't I be sexist any more?" and "Oh, everyone listen to how I've been silenced again!"

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Felonious Crud

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MarkMas said:
I just don't get this sort of fragility and 'whataboutism' - someone mentions a joke about dîcks and cars and suddenly it is "What about fat women?" and "Why can't I be sexist any more?" and "Oh, everyone listen to how I've been silenced again!"

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Wait wait wait. It wasn't a joke. It was a serious, albeit not yet peer-reviewed, scientific article.

Otherwise, yes, I agree with you. Christ, even the bloody anti-snowflake brigade are sodding brittle-ego'd snowflakes.
 
Swedish Paul

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MarkMas said:
I just don't get this sort of fragility and 'whataboutism' - someone mentions a joke about dîcks and cars and suddenly it is "What about fat women?" and "Why can't I be sexist any more?" and "Oh, everyone listen to how I've been silenced again!"

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And I ask this question with some seriousness. Why is it politically correct? Surely it should be socially correct? Or humanly..
 
MarkMas

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Swedish Paul said:
And I ask this question with some seriousness. Why is it politically correct? Surely it should be socially correct? Or humanly..
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Good question.

This is what Wikipedia has to say.

"The phrase politically correct first appeared in the 1930s, when it was used to describe dogmatic adherence to ideology in authoritarian regimes, such as Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. Early usage of the term politically correct by leftists in the 1970s and 1980s was as self-critical satire; usage was ironic, rather than a name for a serious political movement. It was considered an in-joke among leftists used to satirise those who were too rigid in their adherence to political orthodoxy. The modern pejorative usage of the term emerged from conservative criticism of the New Left in the late 20th century, with many describing it as a form of censorship."
 
Wattie

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GeoffCapes said:
How is it that it's fair game to bash men for potential inadequacies in the trouser department because they drive a fast car? yet you make any mention that an overweight woman is unhealthy and straight away you're accused of fat shaming????

It's clearly sexism gone too far, where men cannot be sexist yet women can! and are!

What about women who drive fast cars? what inadequacies do they have? or are we not allowed to ask?
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Which reminds me of this.



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Kiwibrit

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Nibby said:
In the early 80s I had a bit of an amphetamine habit, anyway some people call it 'willy shrink' because that's what happens when you take it. Coming home from seeing Genesis at Milton Keynes Bowl in 1982, a very wet miserable Autumn day, I was a passenger in a mate's car we got stopped in St Neots by the police and took down to the station and strip searched. Not well endowed anyway, bit of willy shrink and a cold wet day, eat your heart out King Dong.
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I was there too....still have the original programme somewhere. I also believe that day was the rainiest day in the history of the planet, so well done at least for getting out of the car park
 
Nibby

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Kiwibrit said:
I was there too....still have the original programme somewhere. I also believe that day was the rainiest day in the history of the planet, so well done at least for getting out of the car park
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What a day. Six Of The Best
Do you remember Gabriel carried on stage in a coffin?
Sad to say two of the support acts on that day no longer with us, John Martyn and Mark Hollis from Talk Talk.
 
Wack61

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Nibby said:
What a day. Six Of The Best
Do you remember Gabriel carried on stage in a coffin?
Sad to say two of the support acts on that day no longer with us, John Martyn and Mark Hollis from Talk Talk.
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One of my biggest regrets was not going , a mate went, decided the shortest route to the car park was over this 4ft wall in the dark, 4ft this side 10ft the other side which came as a surprise , it got worse though , there was a stream the other side and he couldn't get back over the wall so he had to swim it
 
DLax69

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Nibby said:
What a day. Six Of The Best
Do you remember Gabriel carried on stage in a coffin?
Sad to say two of the support acts on that day no longer with us, John Martyn and Mark Hollis from Talk Talk.
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I think late-era Peter Gabriel made most people forget how relentlessly weird early Peter Gabriel was...at least on this side of the pond.
 
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