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I have cut the pumpkin in pieces, they still weren't impressed...(that sounds like code for spy talk)...:D
Calico, good luck with the electrician! :eek:0 -
Just had to giggle imagining someone's reaction if yours was the first post they read on this thread Byatt
I was a feminist in the 70's, I was driven to it by many things including the fact that I was working full time but my tax rebate was paid to my husband, going into a shop to buy a screwdriver and being asked what my husband wanted it for :mad: I remember the sarcastic comments when I first wore trousers to work too, not that long ago but seems like a million years.... don't throw the string away. You always need string!
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Byatt
My mother says that she got sacked when she got married (early 1950s). Don't know how many women did resign as the employer wanted and how many refused to resign and the employer sacked them instead? The way my mother talks about it, I didn't know resigning was expected...she just said she was sacked.
As she had decided to carry on working until she had children, she just found another job elsewhere that accepted a married woman as an employee.
Some female Civil Servants in my age group have suffered in recent years from finding that the marriage gratuity (or whatever the name for it was) that they thought was a freebie gift just for getting married has turned out to have been a partial buy-out of pension rights and they wouldn't receive the full pension their length of service entitles them to because they fell for that particular con trick. Personally, I think I would have asked the obvious question of "If its a freebie gift for getting married..then how come men aren't getting it too?" and been a bit more cynical than that...but some less cynical women fell for it.
I remember the fight to be able to wear trousers at work. I walked out of school wearing trousers one week and was at work being told I wasn't allowed to wear trousers the following week. The thought hadn't even crossed my mind that an employer would try and forbid me wearing trousers and I just turned up at work wearing them, only to be told by other women that "We are still fighting to be allowed to do so":eek:. Mind you...it's in my (very recent) memory of having a period where they brought in a Dress Code at work and tried to make me stick to it :eek::rotfl::rotfl::T(nearest smilie to appropriate one:rotfl:).0 -
Yes, I think we tend to forget how far we've come in quite a short space of time.
This has prompted me to remember an incident from the mid 80s in my first job fresh from school, when I handed in my resignation and explained that they weren't training me, so I was bored and leaving...to which the astonished male manager replied, but you have a boyfriend, we assumed you'd be getting married...
I remember being so shocked as I'd come from a local comprehensive school that had male and female teachers from all walks of life, married/unmarried, whatever, and had been encouraged to think of myself as an independent being with a mind.
Gawd, that was nearly 30 years ago now :eek:. Surely not!
So, perhaps it isn't so surprising that some people's attitudes still need time to be revised, but bloomin heck, how long does it take...perhaps I should have asked the Joiner!
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I have cut the pumpkin in pieces, they still weren't impressed...(that sounds like code for spy talk)...:D
Calico, good luck with the electrician! :eek:
Ok...call me chicken-researcher extraordinaire...anyway, it seems most chickens love squashes and pumpkins but some don't. Some will take a while to even think of eating it and then devour it. Some owners have baked pumpkins and the chickens have eaten them, others have had the chickens turn their beaks up at them baked.
Sound like fussy human beans to me...I'd just leave it out and they may get to it.
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moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »
I remember the fight to be able to wear trousers at work. I walked out of school wearing trousers one week and was at work being told I wasn't allowed to wear trousers the following week. The thought hadn't even crossed my mind that an employer would try and forbid me wearing trousers and I just turned up at work wearing them, only to be told by other women that "We are still fighting to be allowed to do so":eek:. Mind you...it's in my (very recent) memory of having a period where they brought in a Dress Code at work and tried to make me stick to it :eek::rotfl::rotfl::T(nearest smilie to appropriate one:rotfl:).
This made me chuckle. When I was at school in the 70's I started a petition for us girls to wear trousers. We won :T
Nowadays I see the girls wearing such short skirts you can almost see their :eek::eek::eek:0 -
OMG....electrician has phoned and said he has just been to get the new switch fitting....(??....i figured it was just going to be a re-connectomy with existing switch??).....also he must be psychic...as he doesn't know the exact type I have...or what I want...??
If he has got it right and he is fact a genius....should I lock him in a cupboard....lol.
YES! :rotfl:
In fact, if he does a good job, send him my way as I seem to have lost my electrician...I have a new shower, but no one to connect it...:(0 -
LavenderBees wrote: »YES! :rotfl:
In fact, if he does a good job, send him my way as I seem to have lost my electrician...I have a new shower, but no one to connect it...:(
Well he's not here yet.....he has my socket ready....i ha ve a gag and cuffs ready to shove him in cupboard....lol.
Got his number from local business freebie magazine...but have googled him and he looks ok, as much as you can tell. he's just phoned to say on way...thats about 5 times he's phoned now and I haven't even met him yet.
Not entirely sure what I think of this....beginning to wish I had put some makeup on now as he sounds quite cute....but haven't brushed hair since Tuesday.....will just pretend i've been sleep after night shift. Also have old trousers on covered in bleach stains as was going to paint.......!!!!!!z....i haven't planned this well. Will shove some perfume on...all I have time for...lol.......and dim the lights.
Lol....edit....i forgot about black eye..!!!....this is not a good look!!Yep...still at it, working out how to retire early.:D....... Going to have to rethink that scenario as have been screwed over by the company. A work in progress.0 -
For gawds sake , don't dim the lights...he might think you have more of an electrical problem than you actually do have!!
""My electrician"" has rung to say later next week for my shower. Hope my old one lasts that long. But the good news is that its getting nearer to pay day all the time, which helps the financials a bit.
Good luck with your work this afternoon
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lizziebabe wrote: »This made me chuckle. When I was at school in the 70's I started a petition for us girls to wear trousers. We won :T
Nowadays I see the girls wearing such short skirts you can almost see their :eek::eek::eek:
That had me doing some quick calculations there. Guess schools varied. Mine turned "liberal" the second it changed from grammar to one half of a comprehensive and it was such a different mindset instantly and that was in the 1960s. Obviously one I quickly adapted to and then spent decades subsequently (including even within the last few years in some respects) going "What do you mean that there is a rule/standard way of behaving in such-and-such a respect? There wasn't at my school:)". I don't think I realised that that school was about as liberal as any State school could be until quite some years later. Think it only started to dawn on me when someone said "Oh..you're from THAT school are you? Ah.....no wonder...:rotfl:".0
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