What is it with men? Some men, perhaps, but TOO MANY

I’ve just had to look it up and must admit I found it revolting, why would a man risk his career, he must know it’s a horrible thing to say.

crazyH

Never liked the man - has a leery look about him

🤣 your comment make me Spit-out my Porridge crazyH

I will be 80 in April and am perfectly aware of this term and its meaning. I doubt my husband is. But if he were, he would never use it. No decent man would.

Sarnia yes, in my post yesterday afternoon I updated us on the bishop’s resignation

Keeping the pot boiling is the Bishop of Liverpool who has resigned after misconduct allegations were made against him, one accuser being a female priest.

Oh I’d forgotten that cracker, the talk of the wash house.
I remember early Coronation Street, which mum tried to stop us watching. She thought it was ‘common’ a very serious thing in her world view. She also worried that those in the south would think were all like that awful Elsie Tanner.
My two sisters and I still revert to ‘and think on Martha Longhurst” in the true Ena Sharples manner

We still go to the foot of our stairs in my house, Iam, and unsuitable behaviours are considered likely to be " the talk of the wash-house ".

Yes Iam, for me it was a response to ‘well I thought….’

Wonderful memories and people Iam, like you I think of them more and more.

night owl / exactly on the response if we said ‘I think’ - you know what think did followed a muck cart and thought it were a wedding
So, we learned to “think on”

We had Yorkshire relatives / miners with mill work this side of the penines

The older I get the more I value those kind, hard working and it must be said, doting grandparents. One would buy our Easter rocks, the other shoes. Same with school uniforms. I confess to being a doting grannie following their example

My mum used that expression too Iam, born and bred in Yorkshire.

Another one was ‘you know what thought did - followed a muck cart and thought it were a wedding’.

My grannie wasn’t born in Bury but in Coventry. Aged about 11-12 she was put into service in the big house. She hated it and along with her younger sister got to Bury where an uncle put them up and got them work in the cotton mill.
She became a Bury lass. Another favourite was “well, I’ll go to the foot of our stairs”
My other gran was Manchester born but married and lived in Bury. Another mill worker and with the same great phrases

'They must think we fell of a flitting' - where does that originate Iam64 - I like it!

JamesandJon33

Not a very good opera singer though !

Really?
He's been in a lot of productions with Welsh National Opera, at the Royal Opera House, several others, BBC Proms etc.

You may not like his latest behaviour and I do not condone it in the slightest but I think that there's no need to start disparaging his career or being nasty about his looks, as one poster (not you) was.

I'm not defending his behaviour in the slightest.
As I said, what a stupid thing to do.

Unless he has Tourette Syndrome and can't help himself but therd seems to be no evidence of thst.

Boz

Caitlin Moran in The Times to-day.

There is a certain kind of man who never realises how lucky they are. They think “acting professionally” is for boring nobodies; they ignore disciplinary procedures; and they will not learn. In the end every industry is a game of statistics. Thus far, after 97 years of terrestrial television, we are yet to have a single scandal about a female presenter acting inappropriately.

I kinda agree

We’re going to stop subscribing to The Times, but I’m really going to miss Caitlin’s articles and comments. I’ve followed her ever since she wrote for The Observer.

I see the bishop of Liverpool has “retired to ensure he doesn’t become a distraction”. He’s denying any inappropriate behaviour

As my grannie might have said “they must think we fell off a flitting”.

Caitlin Moran in The Times to-day.

There is a certain kind of man who never realises how lucky they are. They think “acting professionally” is for boring nobodies; they ignore disciplinary procedures; and they will not learn. In the end every industry is a game of statistics. Thus far, after 97 years of terrestrial television, we are yet to have a single scandal about a female presenter acting inappropriately.

I kinda agree

Galaxy - I’m with you on pornography, so called ‘sex work’ etc
I also agree that some men who see themselves as what I still see as trendy or right on, are so often casually misogynistic. My first understanding of woke related to its use by black people in their own support
It’s like PC - a ridiculous phrase aimed at shutting down debate I fear

Iam64

Unless MountainAsh considers the criticism of him woke nonsense

I would advise that MountainAsh doesn't search for 'Spit Roast' on the computer!!!
It's not for the faint of heart & it's certainly not a nice family recipe! 🥴

As I have mentioned before many dont see woke as progressive. Online 'woke' men tend to be very aggressive. They generally get very cross about any criticism of porn.

Its the opposite!

Mountain Ash do you actually know what Woke means. I doubt it very much. Definition Progressive or left-wing attitudes or practices, esp. those opposing social injustice or discrimination. So let us all be Woke.
"Spit roasting" is when 2 men have sex with a woman at the same time!
How is that anything to do with being Woke!

Not a very good opera singer though !

He's not just the Go Compare bloke although that advert made more people aware of him. He's an opera singer, had a radio show then became more well known through Strictly. Now notorious.

He's let himself down. Stupid man.

Nothing to do with woke, banter, mental health, grief or any other lame excuse.
Just plain old disgusting, disrespectful, unacceptable behaviour.
Time he and others of the same ilk disappeared from public life.

Unless MountainAsh considers the criticism of him woke nonsense