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Just finished reading If This Is A Man. Could only bear to read 2 chapters per day.
In my humble opinion, this should be compulsory reading for everyone. Everyone.
If dithering about where to place your vote, read this book.My Reform voting friend is rich. Very. From a very affluent area. And my father in law is more than comfortable, again from an affluent area.
Purwell that just made me cry.
I’m currently reeading If This Is A Man – Primo Levi – and again, I’m not by any means saying it will be like this here, but I have deep worries anyway.
Well I’ve had a crash course in politics over the weekend. I’m horrified to find that my father in law and also a close friend both voted Reform ‘because they’ll stop the boats’. When I asked how, they couldn’t tell me, just that ‘they will’.
I knew my father in law was racist, but didn’t have an inkling about my friend,who apparently ‘knew I wouldn’t like it’.Richard Stupid Tice actually said Net Stupid Zero and I’m beyond appalled that the people in this country think it’s a good thing to have people of his ilk in power. And I know from our last local elections, we didn’t have them this time, that our Reform candidate was even worse. Could barely string a sentence together, but what he did say was loud. My heart has sunk to my boots.
Politics isn’t my thing at all, but I’ve seen Tice on tv twice in the last few days and he terrifies me.
Rude, overbearing, vile little man. Shout and just talk over everyone means you win???? (Worked in America I suppose).
Along with slimy Farage, the thought of them winning anything makes me ill.
Why on earth would anyone vote for these truly horrible people? Ordinary people who live in this country have done so.As someone who knows nowt about politics, I can’t understand why. Enlighten me?
Backed him to win the GN at 88-1. No great insight there, I backed him every time he ran.
I remember one of his owners saying all he was bothered about was the horse not shaming him, which said a lot to me about his owner. I never had doubts about Aurora
Such sensible words,with which I completely agree.
I guess I just get so sick of the rubbish I have to put up with every day from men who think I’m there to ‘just have fun’ with that I get to the point where I want to stop it before it goes further, grows.
But yes, agree with everyhing you’ve so eloquently said.
No need to feel sorry for me Griff, I’m not that type at all, nor some timid little ‘frightened of everything’ wallflower. I too despair at the ‘poor me’ way the human world is going.
And how humans are currently treating the world makes me sick to my stomach. Of course, it’s much more important than the trivialities spouted on here.
But I think how someone looks and dresses is the least important thing about them, and, on a forum that seems to be peopled (mostly) with decent people, it seemed inappropriate, to me, to be acting like schoolboys, perving over how women look and are dressed and comparing them. Which is how it came across to me. Just because it’s not a world war doesn’t make it ok.
People also criticise men on tv, but they haven’t put up with the abuse women have, forever. But neither is alright.
And yes, a couple of the responses were of the ‘calm down dear’ type.
I’m not easily offended, far from it, spend most of my time in male company. But I don’t post often and did because schoolboy banter doesn’t need to be on a shared forum. Could have been worse, I know, if there’d just been men here, or it was less public maybe. Trust me, I’ve heard plenty. I still think it should be called out. Someone ‘just having fun’ does not make it ok.
And now I’m done.Good grief. That’s neither what I said nor what I meant. Nothing like.
I took exception to what I assume, correctly or otherwise, to be grown men, bitching publicly about the dress sense of women in the public eye. Good dress sense being of course, subjective.
Whether it was meant as funny or not, it wasn’t nice, and I thought, in my innocence, it’s the kind of thing that’s just not necessary.Well, as I’ve said before, I’m not very bright.
But women, like it or not, have spent far too long being judged on how they look. These people will have agonised about what to wear, knowing they’re going to be judged and go out hoping they look ok.
Men, on the other other hand, throw on a suit and call it good.
Whatever, I’m assuming you’re all adults and should know better. You’ll presumably have or have had, mothers, sisters, wives. Think how you’d feel to hear them pilloried in such a fashion.
And, childishly, maybe they wouldn’t be that impressed with your dress sense. You’re not being bitched about though.I mean seriously, do you all realise how childish, sexist, and shallow you come across, bitching about how women on tv are dressed? Tedious.
Not the only Pipe horse to live to a grand old age. I haven’t checked (maybe I shoulda before posting), but I think Bonanza Boy was about 30 and Minnehoma was 29 I think.
Beat me to it Ruby. I’m one who remembers him. Lovely story and he had a lovely life.
Yes, quite right, I’ve posted on the wrong thread.
I stupidly just responded to Griff’s posting without checking which thread I was on. I’m not very bright.
Griff has posted the same post on the ITV thread, where I intended to reply, but there’s no response to that one either. Even though it’s on the right thread!
No-one has to respond to any post of course, much better to just keep on bitching about the only free-ish racing coverage we’ve got.Agree with Griff, who’s post has had a massive response (not).
It’s not perfect, but neither are any other outlets. I can watch it, as can anyone who can’t or won’t pay extra.
Home Schooling is a joy and they’re good on horse injury updates.
Just to still be able to see racing is a bonus for many.
Sometimes it seems as though some people just like to have a bit of a bitch.
Personally, I appreciate the programme while it’s still available to the masses. It may not last.
