Blimey, more American domestic code that needs a good googling. H...O...A...
What kind of snobbery is this, that you'd rather trash the planet using a tumble drier than expose you domesticity in your own domestic setting???
In British films and TV productions, clean laundry billowing in the breeze is often used as an artistic backdrop and a prop. We like our beautiful, clean laundry.
Besides, if you don't hang it out, how would all the neighbours know how often you wash?
I got the bad dad joke, the acronym I had to google. I'm pretty sure my Miele adjusts the amount of water according to the load, but I've never read the tome of an instruction manual that came with it - I just laughed at the extensive German Hausfrau intructions on how to clean the cleaner. I think my mum must have written that for them, it sounded so like her accented English.
I've been given to understand that any electrical appliance involving water is a fire risk and anyone dull enough to leave one in operation unattended may find themselves with less accommodation than usual. In the UK, some electricity suppliers used to charge less at off peak times, encouraging the practise of laundering over night. Fire Service personnel and washing machine engineers get pretty agitated about theb mere thought, I've noticed.
When my mum first emigrated to England she was horrified at the indignity of English women working in retail scrubbing floors on their hands and knees. It's actually very helpful during pregnancy to allow the baby to get in the right position for birth, but in Germany one would have some kind of machine that was operated from a standing position.
She certainly wouldn't have entertained the idea of using a clothes peg that wasn't cleverly engineered, or might leave a mark on freshly laundered items.
Clearly you needed my mum to show you how to hang out clothes efficiently so that didn't happen.
There's your next foolish mistake - living in a country that has a sun.
It seems bizarre to me that you might own a property and not be able to have a washing machine. They are a fire risk, though, and some people are dull enough to leave it running when they go out, or when they sleep.
I have a very old second hand Miele washer dryer that I paid £100 for over three years ago. Finding that was a stroke of luck as I could never justify the cost of buying one new.
I rent a council flat that has plumbing for a washng machine in the kitchen, as is standard in any abode over here.
I only use the drier in emergencies, though. It's environmentally unfriendly and expensive compared with hanging laundry on an outside washing line, or indoors rack.
I've seen a lot of articles about over-laundering recently. It uses excess water, excess power and wears laundry excessively.
I like myself, my laundry and my surroundings clean, German Hausfrau style, but washng a towel after just one use seems OCD to me. I'm clean when I finish bathing.
I hear what you're saying about the 'dancing girls', which if true, demonstrates how steeped in misoyny this institution is.
However, had Trump been allowed to continue his office without being voted in, he would have. The only reason he wasn't capable of executing the duties of the office for a second term was because he wasn't allowed to. That negates your argument that Pelosi could pick the next president due to incapacity.
Finally, if Trump admitted that he lied about election fraud in a bid to overturn the election, he'd fall foul of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.
Had he genuinely won the 2020 election, but been unlawfully deprived of executing his duties of office, I suspect that the debate would be between whether he could run again and whether he should be reinstated by default with no election necessary. It would then be Biden et al who would be measured against the 14th in the interests of establishing whether he knowingly and unlawfully took office.
As there is no evidence of widespread election fraud in the 2020 election (unless you count Republican lead gerrymandering and other Republican lead underhand methods of disenfranchising voters like disallowing social housing government issued ID impacting poor voters and voters of colour the most), then all of this is moot.
If Trump has done anything for the US, it is in highighting both the fragility and robustness of the democratic system. In the wake of George Floyd's murder there started a paradigm shift which currently involves legally challenging the kind gerrymandering that the likes of DeSantis are still attempting to get away with. It both addresses some of the racial discrimination in the democratic process as well as addressing the deliberately managed skew in favour of the Republicans, thereby plugging some of the the leaky holes of unfairness, inequality and fragility.
We're all adults here, but you expected Red to apologise to you when you felt discomfort because of one of her comments. (Incidentally, I also initially misinterpreted that comment as her having a pop at you, but unlike yourself accepted her next comment to you explaining that she wasn't.)
I don't suppose it's occurred to you that if Rubiales' employers have never provided any discrimination training, it goes somewhere to diffusing his personal responsibility. If you insist that his employers didn't have any obligation to ensure that he behaved appropriately around the young women who were his responsiblity, then that puts the blame squarely back with him and him alone.
I didn't ever say that he should be punished for others' bad behaviour. I highlighted Hermoso's statement where she said that this was the last straw in a culture of misogyny and abuses. Now there is evidence, both publicly witnessed and on film which is a very rare thing, Hermoso is able to make a stand against this one action (including the pressure she and her familiy were put under to defend his actions which is a part of the abusive and misogynistic culture where the blokes at the top are more interested in protectng their own interests and comfort.)
Addressing this issue in this way is the only way to create change. Until there are consequences for abusive and/or intrusive behaviour it gets dismissed, just like you're dismissing it. This pattern of dismissing and covering up has repeated itself so many times in so many situations. For example, Derek Chauvin wasn't punshed for all the black men unlawfully killed by white police officers, or white men, but because this murder was captured on film it became a landmark incident where someone was actually held to account for their unlawful actions.
I would rather give her the benefit of the doubt that she is coerced and trapped (especially as a mother) and be wrong, than assume she's a super-b*tch and be wrong.
She certainly never seems to enjoy the lifestyle if her thunderous and sometimes crushed facial expression is anything to go by. Plus, she's worth about $70M in her own right, so I'm sure she could manage without him.
It's the coersion, denial and defensiveness that has compounded the incident and linked it with historical misogyny in women's football/sports.
Had Rubiales apologised immediately and said he accepted that his actions caused Hermoso discomfort, it likely wouldn't have escalated in the same way.
It's clear from Vilda's protestations that his sacking was unfair due to his success in his role, that these chaps have bugger all understanding of gender discrimination and abuse. It's not acceptable for men in power over women's teams to feck up like this.
I wonder if they had any gender discrimination training, and if not, why not?
How selective are you in your perceptions and assumptions that you've never heard me going on and on about the US justice system, including the extraordinarily long sentences as compared with other Western nations?
In the UK we currently have 65 people who have been given a whole life order. An average life sentence in England and Wales is 15-20 years before being released on license.
In the US, some 53,000 people have life without parole, or virtual whole life sentences of 50 years, or more despite only having five times the population of the UK. Five times 65 is 325 compared with 53,000.
Personally, I think caging people should be reserved for those who are a danger to society and that whole life tariffs are a cruel and unusual punishment because they leave prisoners without hope.
Clearly Trump and Giuliani are alleged to be a danger to society, but at their age there will come a point relatively soon when they are not. If they received 10 years at their age it would a devaststing sentence.
They are already getting special treatment for being high status white males given they are both still on release. Perhaps it's time the US started treating everyone more reasonably.
The thing is, Giuliani famously said, "Truth isn't truth".
Why would anyone offer him a plea deal when anything his says after swearing to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth can so easily be undermined by Trump's defense?
Just as an aside, it's not that I don't think Giuliani, Trump and many others shouldn't be tried, but does anyone else shudder at the thought of these old men possibly spending the rest of their lives incarcerated?
Whoop! Leap of subject, but while we're here, surely identifying as a school desk would be transobjectism.
I don't know why you would hope that a child's transgenderism is a passing phase. In my albeit limited experience, gender identity is no more something to grow out of than s*xual preference. Any distress is based in bullying and bigotry, just as it always has been with identifying as gay.
There is no precise definition of 'race' and certainly, there is no biological basis for distinct racial groups.
Having said that, race is a relevant part of social identity that cannot, should not be ignored. Bigotry won't go away if we simply pretend is doesn't exist and history suggests quite the opposite. We'd also be ess interesting and fun.
The word 'race' is, and has been used to signify a number of different groups including Jewish people, particularly where the group belonging has been inherited through the mother's line. I refer to mysellf as racially Jewish for that very reason, although I was raised Catholic and am now non-religious. It's still a part of my heritage.
I respect your self-identity, as I'm sure you respect mine.
In answer to the blog topic, who died and made you god?
Riz can identify as he pleases, when he pleases, how he pleases and to whom he pleases.
It's not his responsibility to avoid offending others' bigotry.
To judge a whole group on the basis of the actions of some members of that group is an act of bigotry and discrimination, whether that's judging all Catholics for the paedphile priests, all Muslims for terrorism, all Germans for the slaughter of the Jews, all Jews for the occupation of Palestine, all Russians for Ukraine, all Republicans for Donald Trump, all Christians for not saying thank you to medical staff, all Christian bloggers for some stupid shit, or all non-Christian bloggers for some stupid shit.
Having said that, to suggest that organised religion is sacrosanct and off limits for discussion is how abuses and bigotry have thrived within them. We do need to discuss many things including, but not exclusive to, aspects of organised religion if we are to evolve our humanity.
The issue is not the discussion, but that it's not being discussed intelligently, fairly, or with humility.
In the wake of Ken's comment that 'violence in a hostile environment is how America was created' and your comment 'the American people are violent by nature its in their genes', I thought it was relevant to point out that we Brits probably trump everyone in terms of a violent, bloody history.
I don't think we're entirely slaves to the US either, although there is an element of that. We've got Tony Blair's war crimes, the occupation of Northern Ireland and donating our policing resources to the Saudi's despite them torturing and hanging children, disabled people and peaceful protestors.
And yet we don't have the same culture of weapons and gun crime.
I've heard a rumour that SA doesn't exactly have a utopian history, either. Is it in your genes?
Some might speculate that if Trump hadn't raped, stolen, defrauded, lied and conspired to overturn a constitutional democracy, it would have been less uphilly for him.
And it's only going to get more uphilly as his former colleagues, employees and co-defendents realise that loyalty only goes one way in Trumpworld. Y'know, more flipping than an Olympic gymnastics event in a bid to avoid full culpability for their own criminal actions.
In fact, it's beginning to look a bit North face of the Eiger uphilly for quite a lot of the nice Republican folk. Flipping for many will be the difference between getting down from base camp alive and becoming a frozen monument to failure somewhere inbtween base camp and the peak.
PS. (because you did manage to distract me briefly) It's notabe that you didn't say my comment was irrelevant because Trump doesn't show malignant narcissistic traits.
PPS. If Biden is a puppet with multiple handlers, then a very large group of people can't have a Persnallity Disorder by default, ergo Trump is still the malignant-narcissist-Hitler-alike.
PPPS. How quickly you forget how much time Trump spent of vacation.
Yeah, like I said, the more you claim that everyone is in on it, the more you shoot yourself in the foot. The more you claim how unpopular Trump is, the more you admit there was no stolen 2020 election.
Having said that, Section 3 of the 14th Amendment is self-executing thus a large number of Republican's in office are already automatically disqualified from those positions on the grounds of insurrection, rebellion, or providing aid, or comfort.
In practise it will take a while for all those disqualifications to make their way up to the Supreme Court, but it's looking like the Republican party in it's current form may well be decimated.
Hopefully that process will happen sequentially enough that the criminals and fruitloops can be replaced with law abiding, rational Republicans without disrupting the normal functioning of government, or what used to be the normal functioning of governent before folks started thinking Jews were firing laser beams from the sky and election workers were likened to drug dealers on the basis of no evidence whatsoever and indeed evidence to the contrary. <--- sorry to remind you, I thnk you're trying your best to ignore Rudy's outright admission that he lied about there being election fraud.
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Blimey, more American domestic code that needs a good googling.What kind of snobbery is this, that you'd rather trash the planet using a tumble drier than expose you domesticity in your own domestic setting???
In British films and TV productions, clean laundry billowing in the breeze is often used as an artistic backdrop and a prop. We like our beautiful, clean laundry.
Besides, if you don't hang it out, how would all the neighbours know how often you wash?