Quote: sootyj @ August 22 2013, 9:18 PM BSTExcept in the field of writing idiotic text messages and wedding speeches.
That still requires a professional.
Are you quitting the job? Take the leap, Soots.
I read the news today oh boy! Page 1,276
I'm standing on the ledge and the nice negotiator is going
"jump already my teas getting cold"
I kinda set out my concerns with work in an email, support needed, preference for reduced hours.
Now I wait to see their response.
Piss off already most likely.
Quote: Kenneth @ August 22 2013, 4:50 PM BSTGender? We're just humans. Who cares if male or female?
If only that was the case! That would be quite wonderful. Unfortunately though, people do care. To the point where they eat themselves up emotionally over years. At the point where someone decides to transition to another gender they've already gone through a hell of a lot and taken a very big and often difficult step in just coming to the decision. Anything I can do to make their journey less horrible, I'll do.
Quote: sootyj @ August 22 2013, 9:20 PM BSTI kinda set out my concerns with work in an email, support needed, preference for reduced hours.
Now I wait to see their response.
Piss off already most likely.
That would be a great compromise until you are sure you can support yourself just on writing. Fingers crossed for you.
I agree if you really and truly believe you're in the wrong body fine.
But when people start saying their kids are transgendered age 6, then I get uneasy.
Quote: Jennie @ August 22 2013, 9:24 PM BSTThat would be a great compromise until you are sure you can support yourself just on writing. Fingers crossed for you.
Well I can support myself without too much reduction in circumstance I'm just over cautious and pessimistic.
Quote: sootyj @ August 22 2013, 9:29 PM BSTI agree if you really and truly believe you're in the wrong body fine.
But when people start saying their kids are transgendered age 6, then I get uneasy.
I totally agree. That's largely a question of emotional experience. You can't make that decision when you're a young child. You may identify differently from an early age, but I think you have got to have lived at least to the point of sexual maturity, once you are through puberty. You go through so many changes before you even leave school that it is impossible to know who you are by that point.
http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2013/08/22/man-stabbed-in-wolverhampton-street/
Well I'm glad the police didn't just say 'F**k it.' and walk away.
It's like dishing out ritallin for ADHD, once it's standard procedure than it's standard procedure.
Surgery was at one time the treatment for a high sex drive in women.
So it' really unhealthy to pathologise every eccentricity however well intentioned.
Some times people are just a little weird, or f**ked up.
Quote: Kenneth @ August 22 2013, 10:53 AM BSTGolly! The good Doctor is back! That brightens up this place no end. Fatted calf now being dispatched. This is up there with finding Souvenirs Disc 3 of The Frank and Walters this week. Can the Doctor administer a drop of elixir to purge the stagnant ponds that have been enshrouding parts of this forum in banal shite?
What's up with the world outside that all the absentees are rushing back to shelter in the BCG.
Quote: Jennie @ August 22 2013, 8:02 PM BSTUnfortunately, we have a madman at the helm. A madman who doesn't understand that British justice cannot be bought and sold.
Just bought...
Quote: Kenneth @ August 22 2013, 4:50 PM BSTWe should respect the fact that Japan still denies the extent of many of its war-time atrocities and mass rapes, and write about Japan's war years in a glowing manner because that's what Japan wants? No.
Regrettably we British do the same. We still glorify "The Dam Busters" yet blowing up dams above civilian populations is nowadays classified as a war crime.
Quote: Jennie @ August 22 2013, 8:38 PM BSTI didn't know that! That is very interesting.
The problem with Grayling is that he has no respect for lawyers and fundementally believes that the world would be a better place without us. Which is probably true.
There was an article in the Metro the other day about how he thought victims of serious offences should be cross examined "months before the trial" so they could "get on with their recovery" without being subject to "bullying tactics of counsel".
This drove me insane.
1) "Get on with their recovery?" What happened to innocent until proven guilty?
2) Cross examination before the Crown have served the papers in the case. Yeah, that'll work.
3) "Bullying tactics by counsel". Arrrggghhh! I had to cross examine a six year old last year, on a desperately unpleasant allegation. But, I am trained. I did it delicately and properly. She told the witness care woman afterwards that "the lady had been nice to me" which made me feel so good. I do not bully, because I am competent.
Grayling's Proposals will lead to less competence, which will lead to more mistakes and more wasted money.
Did he say "victims" or "those accused of" because you seem to be taking it as the latter ?
Quote: playfull @ August 22 2013, 10:55 PM BSTJust bought...
Not now. But soon.
I promise to shut up about legal aid if you all promise to listen to this. John Finnemore at his absolute finest, putting the case better than any lawyer.
Quote: Jennie @ August 22 2013, 11:19 PM BSTJohn Finnemore at his absolute finest, putting the case better than any lawyer.
Very clever, very funny, very topical, very well delivered.
Quote: Jennie @ August 22 2013, 8:46 PM BSTYou have a lawyery vibe to you.
*Runs off to shower*
Ben Affleck will be the new Batman.