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Post by mermaidsal on Jun 3, 2020 11:42:22 GMT
can't believe how few people here, if any, observed Blackout Tuesday. is it just too far away in everyone's heads? all unions did at least something, is it because outside the public sector we're just not unionised?? sad to see anyway, this is everyone's battle
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Post by mermaidsal on Jun 3, 2020 11:39:28 GMT
is it me or have we got a worse culture of animal sadism in SoT than other places, or does it just get reported more?
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Post by mermaidsal on Apr 13, 2020 0:40:44 GMT
We're all pulling for you Jackie, you can do it xxx
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Post by mermaidsal on Apr 3, 2020 22:26:07 GMT
PLEASE PLEASE listen to this!!! I'll keep doing my solitary exercise for as long as I'm allowed because I need to keep my lung capacity as good as poss but the moment it changes I'll be content in the garden, we all have to be. I don't like heavy authority on principle in normal times but this isn't normal in any way and I'm actually frightened NOT to see army and police on the streets. we need that badly No. No we don't. We do not need the army on the streets. Stop it. I've got a friend on a ventilator and in daft towns like this people are still ignoring the basics of social distancing and going to non-essential jobs. if the army's what it takes to tell them their business yes we absolutely do
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Post by mermaidsal on Apr 3, 2020 14:12:15 GMT
I just can't believe how relaxed the supposed lockdown is... I see so many expressing an opinion about being able to go for walks, exercise out and about, sorry I DONT agree. Lockdown should mean absolute fucking lockdown. No park walks, no exercise apart from in and around YOUR property. You can't appear to have strict regulations and then insert several exceptions, it defeats the whole purpose. It's asking for the lockdown to be ignored. Unfortunately it's going to take personal loss for a lot of folk to really comprehend wtf is actually happening here. I'm completely at a loss. PLEASE PLEASE listen to this!!! I'll keep doing my solitary exercise for as long as I'm allowed because I need to keep my lung capacity as good as poss but the moment it changes I'll be content in the garden, we all have to be. I don't like heavy authority on principle in normal times but this isn't normal in any way and I'm actually frightened NOT to see army and police on the streets. we need that badly
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Post by mermaidsal on Apr 3, 2020 11:36:50 GMT
I went out in the car yesterday for the first time since week before last. I drove it out of the garage into the drive, washed it and drove it back again. we'll be remembering how people used to put their cars up on bricks for the winter to stop the tyres going into weird Jon Parkin shapes....
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Post by mermaidsal on Apr 3, 2020 11:25:32 GMT
For context, this is a "man" who on here has labelled all Chinese as being "Dirty fuckers....and crispy, underfried bat eaters", and on the other board has started a thread about NWO/Illuminati bollocks where everything in the world is all a conspiracy, based on a video by a woman who believes that crop circles are "implanted energies" from the cosmos and that she can heal animals with the help of her "Extra terrestrial guide" who she met in 2014.....yet apparently, it's those of us that don't agree with him who are apparently "sheeple" who just believe anything we're told. Mental stability and thegift berqahinosgoals don't (and never have) tend to mix!
I saw a programme not long ago where people in pubs were fessing up to doing the crop circles , bet it was a great laugh at the time we're gradually deleting the racist crap but obvs there's so much of it we're not perfect - if you report, it'll be dealt with asap. I do hope it doesn't give the world an accurate picture of quite how dense Stokies really are...
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Post by mermaidsal on Apr 3, 2020 11:23:40 GMT
I've been horrified this week at the return of traffic as I go for my regular 5k (well, ish) pushes round the roads near home. On Sunday and into Monday it was like Christmas morning and I could smell the air in ways I haven't been able to for years. Today it's almost normal. Don't tell me those are all vital journeys, or that the work people are going to shouldn't have shut down. Outside world calling Castilians (and Stokies even): you have no idea what you're ****ing with. Even if you think the people giving out the messages are berks ffs take this about 10 times more seriously.
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Post by mermaidsal on Mar 12, 2020 2:23:49 GMT
we're so near the end of the season... for football's sake I'd rather see it finished but behind closed doors... but for SCFC's sake, just to be on the safe side would I really hate season abandoned so much?
suspect we'll have a govt decision on this by mid-next week latest
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Post by mermaidsal on Mar 10, 2020 0:04:56 GMT
There was a full 1919/20 season played, Spanish Flu will still have been a major thing when it began - anyone know if any steps were taken to prevent spread? The appetite to get football and life in general back to normal must have been so massive in 1919 In 1918, in America, several cities banned all large public gatherings and those cities ended up with relatively low infection rates, however in Philadelphia they turned a blind eye and staged a huge WW1 parade ... www.smithsonianmag.com/history/philadelphia-threw-wwi-parade-gave-thousands-onlookers-flu-180970372/"For Philadelphia, the fallout was swift and deadly. Two days after the parade, the city’s public health director Wilmer Krusen, issued a grim pronouncement: “The epidemic is now present in the civilian population and is assuming the type found in naval stations and cantonments [army camps].” Within 72 hours of the parade, every bed in Philadelphia’s 31 hospitals was filled. In the week ending October 5, some 2,600 people in Philadelphia had died from the flu or its complications. A week later, that number rose to more than 4,500. With many of the city’s health professionals pressed into military service, Philadelphia was unprepared for this deluge of death. Attempting to slow the carnage, city leaders essentially closed down Philadelphia. On October 3, officials shuttered most public spaces – including schools, churches, theaters and pool halls. But the calamity was relentless. Understaffed hospitals were crippled. Morgues and undertakers could not keep pace with demand. Grieving families had to bury their own dead. Casket prices skyrocketed. The phrase “bodies stacked like cordwood” became a common refrain. And news reports and rumors soon spread that the Germans –the “Huns” – had unleashed the epidemic." my God. thanks. that's terrifying
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Post by mermaidsal on Mar 9, 2020 23:09:41 GMT
Medical experts reckon coronavirus can be kept in check , by regularly washing your hands , for at least 20 seconds , in the correct manner . Didn't anyone tell the Chinese or the Italians, or Iranians that? The Sal theory (this may just be optimistic bollocks) is Covid-19 will prove to become less virulent as it travels further West from its source - northern Italy got unlucky because of returning travellers. And to be fair people in the first week or two can't have known what hit them (or had Boris there to tell them)
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Post by mermaidsal on Mar 9, 2020 23:06:54 GMT
as for closing off this season... I honestly don't know. suspect we'll know if it's a serious likelihood this month. I could see matches played behind closed doors, but would that be a national decision or just in Coronavirus hotspots (which we're bound to get).
anyone know what the FA, Prem and FSF positions are on this, are the emergency plans ready in place in case of epidemics? Malcolm??
for what it's worth this is the first week I've started to be afraid, for my mum and dad mainly but my disability means reduced lung capacity so I should worry about me too really. not cutting back on what I usually do yet tho, just being extra sensible
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Post by mermaidsal on Mar 9, 2020 23:01:21 GMT
There was a full 1919/20 season played, Spanish Flu will still have been a major thing when it began - anyone know if any steps were taken to prevent spread? The appetite to get football and life in general back to normal must have been so massive in 1919
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Post by mermaidsal on Mar 9, 2020 22:58:29 GMT
We have now scored 49 league goals with 9 to play. Of course we spent most of those years in the Prem with reduced games, but we did do well in a lot of those seasons. Interesting to see how many we chalk up this season. At our current rate under O'Neill it would be about 15 more so 64 altogether, 5 short of the total we managed in second place back in 2008. great stat to pull out - out of interest what would the figure be, hypothetically, if we'd had Mick all season??
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Post by mermaidsal on Mar 9, 2020 22:55:14 GMT
but.... exactly! we agree. doesn't make the headline any less valid imo tho But it does because we are both coming at the same argument from different viewpoints, or in the poor ability to interpret meaning of text without the emotion and lilt of the spoken word. Your response about with the 17.3% gap came across to me as a “FFS men are paid more” gripe that is often used to denigrate the system and portray women within the language of victim hood. Normally an attack on men within the workplace. If that was not your intent I apologise but I hope you can understand how difficult to understand intent through text. Mine is a position of yes, there is a disparity but let’s have a look at why. Ah, there are more men in higher paid roles, or men are paid more in similar roles but is it like for like? Futhermore it should open the question of not just understand why there is a difference but benchmark so that male and female outputs are truly reflective in income. I,e, research shows that on average men work more hours than woman (for many different reasons) and if we prorated that to the same hours, with like for like experience and roles, would they show the same income. If not why not... more understanding is needed that simply headline data. For example, the only benchmarking I do for a salary for a role is if it compares against the market. Are we paying in line with the market or can we do better to attract the best candidate.... regardless of gender. If they are experienced with many skills we may pay above market rate (regardless of gender) if they are less experienced or new to that level they will be closer to the baseline. It was really noticeable on the last CIPD conference the amount of female HR personnel there were about 90-95% of attendees ranging from advisor to senior executive. The majority of us men were advisor/ junior management with one executive (me) less one of the speakers... In engineering (when i was working in Oil and Gas) the opposite was true and female engineers and project managers were scarcely seen! Guess which are the higher earning career pathways especially at entry level and middle management before we even see the even bigger gap at professional executive level between HR and engineering. BTW im not moaning about inequality in my sector, I understand why there is a „pay gap“ increasing to the advantage of women in HR. There’s more of them and they are increasingly starting to occupy the top jobs in our sector and i applaud that! The only thing im moaning about is my daft life choices that didn’t lead to a career in law 🤣 you're right, I wish we were in a room doing this and could get the shadings. there's a world of difference between the gender pay gaps of, eg, lifetime earnings of female v male HR professionals, or doctors, or teachers - where promotion chances are similar providing a woman hasn't lost career years to child or older parent family responsibilities, which will always skew things somewhat - but essentially opportunities are equal and have been for a while now - with as you say, some females actually getting the better of it (if we were talking about a gender 'fight', which I'm def not). so a world of difference between that and women stuck in rubbish non-unionised jobs picking n packing, care work especially, where there's a whole layer of low-paid and powerless female workers who daren't protest (also the case for males in those sectors but they're majority female jobs)
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Post by mermaidsal on Mar 9, 2020 0:35:34 GMT
gender pay gap = the lifetime difference in income between women and men. not a matter of my perception, just the accepted definiton 17.3 = govt stats. widely available Ha ha ha.... have you broken the stats down??? No I thought not and that is the issue. You are not comparing like for like where studies have shown that like for like in the Under 35s (and increasing in age) woman are earning more... But don’t let the facts get in the way of headline grabbing stats. And by the way, I’m not suggesting more could be done. Of course we need more women in higher positions and in time this will and should happen. But before you scream “look at the government data 17.3%” etc.... break it down and do a like for like representational research. Do a comparison in my sector (HR) and you will be very surprised if you did the same analysis as you just did. The headline data will show that the gender pay gap and representation will lean heavily for women and against men in the entry level and middle ranges with reports of 80% female representation and men being paid 16% less than women. At Senior level men do dominate but once again this is a legacy issue and is also reported to be due to a number of senior women taking time out to raise a family thereby stagnating their income level. Yet I understand this... and not screaming that male gap is 16% behind women! Furthermore do a representative comparisons between a man and a woman, both 30 years old, with the same experience, same length of service in the same role.... you will be very surprised how close they are if not in favour of women. but.... exactly! we agree. doesn't make the headline any less valid imo tho
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Post by mermaidsal on Mar 9, 2020 0:33:57 GMT
gender pay gap = the lifetime difference in income between women and men. not a matter of my perception, just the accepted definiton 17.3 = govt stats. widely available A "lifetime" of what? A male hospital porter v a female surgeon? A female library assistant v a male lecturer in Classics at Oxbridge? well no obviously not, do I sound like a total idiot?? these are aggregated figures for total female v male population.
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Post by mermaidsal on Mar 8, 2020 22:10:11 GMT
this is mainly a note to momo. as a woman and a feminist please can I protest strongly against demeaning a nice lady part by comparing it to this lying, cowardly, bullshitting scumbag? new term of abuse please xx Good luck with that sal it's his favourite word. haha I know but sometimes we all have to make sacrifices for the greater good
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Post by mermaidsal on Mar 8, 2020 22:09:04 GMT
so the 17.3% pay gap just sort of doesn't exist then??? ffs Two simple questions. 1. What do you perceive as being a "gender pay gap"? 2. Where do you get 17.3% from? gender pay gap = the lifetime difference in income between women and men. not a matter of my perception, just the accepted definiton 17.3 = govt stats. widely available
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Post by mermaidsal on Mar 8, 2020 21:47:14 GMT
this is mainly a note to momo. as a woman and a feminist please can I protest strongly against demeaning a nice lady part by comparing it to this lying, cowardly, bullshitting scumbag? new term of abuse please xx
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Post by mermaidsal on Mar 8, 2020 21:45:35 GMT
Pay gap is a misnomer and has been quashed many times when you take into consideration of same experience and same working terms and conditions. In fact, especially in the 35‘s and below (and the age range is rising) independent fiscal studies (Including CIPD of which I’m a member) have shown that under the same working role and conditions, including experience and length of service, women are earning slightly more. And you have proven my point legislatively women are not unequal. Such legislative practices take time to change individual perception but we are getting there. ok so the 17.3% pay gap just sort of doesn't exist then??? ffs
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Post by mermaidsal on Mar 8, 2020 21:44:06 GMT
so are all the anti-XR lobby happy to see the planet burn and flood by trusting the politicians who've been fucking up for nearly 40 years? for all its faults XR is the best we have and it's actually DOING SOMETHING. if you want to make XR work better than it currently does (God knows it's very far from brilliant) , come and join us instead of jeering from the sidelines and doing nothing??
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Post by mermaidsal on Mar 7, 2020 18:47:59 GMT
Magic. Rampant. Ruthless (well almost). 10*. end of. So sorry for Joe tho add * if you were there please
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Post by mermaidsal on Mar 4, 2020 13:56:44 GMT
so sorry to hear this, thanks for letting us know
RIP Collsy from me and mine
xx
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Post by mermaidsal on Feb 29, 2020 17:06:40 GMT
Sounds like you absolutely believe in transgender/ transvestites Sal but not quite enough to let them into your safe space of the women's bogs..... ....anyway this wasn't the point I was making in the OP. When is the correct time to introduce young children to transvestites? Surely this pioneering headteachers ears should have pricked at the name Flojob? What right has she to inflict her beliefs and views on the children in her care? It raises many legitimate questions simply because of the age of the children and the nature of this particular subject matter. The BBC radio article alluded to the social network comments made over the years by Flojob unfortunately none of them could be aired during a daytime programme aimed at adults because they were deemed fat too blue. If the pioneering headteacher is going to be perfectly honest she perhaps should have served up the actual Flojob performance instead of some sanitised PC version of a drag artist reading stories which has absolutely no bearing on the person or the act. The headteacher has said that had she had full knowledge of Flojob's internet history then Flojob would not have been invited onto the premises. Pioneering but absolutely lacking in common sense. How about letting them be kids and then from senior school onwards letting them get to know about the intricacies of the world they're going to live in with both sides of the argument. I have absolutely no problem with drag artists apart from Lily savage's metamorphasis into the dull Paul whatshisname This suggests you think all people in the same position - primary teachers - should disclose all their private interests to be put to The Morality Police before being considered safe enough for public consumption. What about my ex who wanted me to dress up like a prison guard and do her up the chutney? High time the Brown Wings thread made a return... fancy going first (so to speak)?
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Post by mermaidsal on Feb 29, 2020 17:04:24 GMT
Sickener - we'd arguably have stolen not earned 2 more vital points if we'd held on but who cares? Plus points for keeping it tight again for the majority of the game, closing them down better than we did last time (altho for quality Luton really do belong on Wolstanton Marsh) but... was that really the extent of Mick's plan, did taking the game to them just not come into it after minute 9??
6 from me
add * if you were there please
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Post by mermaidsal on Feb 27, 2020 2:29:48 GMT
I do hear you... but, erm again, have you not noticed that non-gender bathrooms are getting more common in the UK too, if not in SoT? As a working psychologist I'm telling you, there's a well accepted and scientifically supported understanding that there's a small but significant group of people whose gender falls into a grey area regardless of external genitalia. Really truly, I'm not being weird about this, I'm pretty mainstream in my working practice (and I still believe in the need for women's safe spaces too). It's simply not a correct statement to say people are born male or female no matter what, sorry but that's just Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve pub talk. Women's safe spaces....you've just proved my point re what a pampered generation we are becoming. Do you believe in the need for men's safe spaces? You keep talking about scientific understanding etc but there is no such thing as grey areas where gender is concerned. Brainwashing children with this nonsense doesn't help either. The human population isn't developing a third sex, the fear of offending people who are trying to label themselves as something they simply aren't is trying to. The Loretta speech in the film 'Life of Brian' was a hilarious moment for it's absolute ridicule of Eric Idle's character in the film wanting to be something he simply wasn't, sadly that nonsense is now almost a blueprint for what some people are actually trying to achieve and be recognised as. They have become that character. It's pampered to have a place you're not likely to get raped? ffs. see you in the 18th century some time
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Post by mermaidsal on Feb 27, 2020 1:40:43 GMT
Erm... is that what you meant to say? Scientific paradigms change constantly, and there are major changes in scientific understanding and method at least every generation. If you think any 'scientific' point is an absolute that's a moral judgement trying to claim unchanging science as evidence, which is simply wrong. A simple example: 20 or 30 years ago it was generally thought that being transgendered was a sexual perversion, which might be treatable with therapy. Thankfully not all clinicians believed that but a fair few still did. Now our knowledge of neuroscience and endocrinology has advanced to the point where we know transgender brains are actually different. What I'm saying is you are born male or female no matter what you label yourself. This non gender and similar nonsense and wanting to tag yourself as something different is ludicrous. Makes me laugh when people us the, get with the times, is the 21st century and all this, all it means is that we are now a pampered generation where political correctness is rampant for fear of upsetting some group who want to be accepted like everyone else but feel the need to hang a tag on themselves in doing so. Like I said, if you feel that a drag artist with a ridiculous name like Flojob is the right person for young children at school then fine but don't get upset when others don't agree and use the excuse of what year it is to force your opinion on them. We have this barrier being created now of how dare you speak out against my life choice of wanting to be this or that and this absolute farce in the USA of campaigning for non gender bathrooms etc, something that simply doesn't exist but of course if you dare to tell them his you are met with abuse. I do hear you... but, erm again, have you not noticed that non-gender bathrooms are getting more common in the UK too, if not in SoT? As a working psychologist I'm telling you, there's a well accepted and scientifically supported understanding that there's a small but significant group of people whose gender falls into a grey area regardless of external genitalia. Really truly, I'm not being weird about this, I'm pretty mainstream in my working practice (and I still believe in the need for women's safe spaces too). It's simply not a correct statement to say people are born male or female no matter what, sorry but that's just Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve pub talk.
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Post by mermaidsal on Feb 27, 2020 1:11:59 GMT
Erm... is that what you meant to say? Scientific paradigms change constantly, and there are major changes in scientific understanding and method at least every generation. If you think any 'scientific' point is an absolute that's a moral judgement trying to claim unchanging science as evidence, which is simply wrong. A simple example: 20 or 30 years ago it was generally thought that being transgendered was a sexual perversion, which might be treatable with therapy. Thankfully not all clinicians believed that but a fair few still did. Now our knowledge of neuroscience and endocrinology has advanced to the point where we know transgender brains are actually different.
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Post by mermaidsal on Feb 26, 2020 23:21:33 GMT
Flojob, what next a Ladyboy? I reckon this is brilliant and the fuss is just ridiculous. Time to demystify all this gender mallarkey and join the 21st century, pretending it shouldn't exist or is pervy or dirty is idiotic (and does kids so much harm whatever their sexuality and wherever they are on the gender continuum)
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