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Book Review and Sisterly Solidarity
Emma Barnett. I’ve not heard of her before September, probably due to my living abroad for several years. She’s a journalist, often on Newsnight and BBC Radio 5. Barnett has recently published a book. I heard her being interviewed about it in September. I was impressed.
This is the book: Period.
Full of various euphemisms…
It’s not normally the kind of book I would read. Normally I am interested in books on history, humour, languages, but not “wimmin’s things.”
Why did I buy the book? Well, several reasons:
- I was listening, lying in bed, and sat up to listen to the interview. Barnett was engaging and entertaining in her interview.
- I’m a man. I think it is good to know how 50% of the population is affected.
- I’m a bit Berlin Wall-ed out.
My copy arrived on Tuesday. I’m now so far halfway through the book. It’s good. It’s informative, educational, entertaining. Ten percent of British women have endometriosis. Compare that with the number of British people who have type 2 diabetes (10%). Spending on research into the latter is 35 times more than on endometriosis.
I sit at my desk, laughing at some parts, sucking in air at other parts.
I then text a female friend of mine (FFM) about the book, saying how I never realised what women have to go through:
- Menstruation
- Childbirth
- Menopause
FFM writes back:
Yeah, we all to get used to it between the ages of 12-14. Too bad if you don’t feel too good during that week.
The empathy…
It then occurred to me, do some women have an attitude of:
I have periods, too. Suck it up, buttercup.
I’ve known women who have intimated to me that they prefer to see a male doctor because he will be more sympathetic than his female colleague who has the aforementioned attitude.
Tell a man, “it’s that time of the month,” and he’ll:
- Offer you a hot water bottle
- Offer you a pack of Ibuprofen
- Let you lie on his sofa and bring you a duvet
- Tell you he is so glad he is a man
- Crack a joke about PMT and lightbulbs to lighten the mood
Women – show some sisterly solidarity!
Have an empathetic day, won’t you!
Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans
Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans was the title of a Noel Coward song. I fully agree. Let’s be beastly to the Dutch instead.
Last week I sent the following cartoon out to my British and German friends, many of whom then forwarded it in turn to their friends via Facebook, Whatsapp, etc.
Have a guttural day, won’t you!
Your Occasional Soviet Joke
Brezhnev goes to a milk production factory and asks:
Do you think that you can double the production?
The farm manager responds:
Yes comrade, we can do that.
Brezhnev is pleased with the response and decides to push it a little and asks:
How about trebling the production?
The farm manager responds but this time a little less confident:
Well, yes we can but I fear public may found it a bit watery!
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Ad-Solutely Fabulous
1970’s police series were the business. Hard-smoking, hard-drinking, womanising cops with politically incorrect, maverick, methods of catching criminals, including car chases galore.
The Sweeney was beyond my bedtime in those days. Saturday nights were for The Professionals. Both had great car chases and theme tunes.
Then in the 1990s Nissan produced some hilarious spoof adverts based on The Sweeney and The Professionals.
Shut it! Enjoy!
Now – The Professionals spoof advert!
Have a professional day, won’t you!
Am Dreizehnten August…
The Thirteenth of August is a significant date.
- International Left-Handers Day.
- The Berlin Wall was built on this date in 1961.
Here’s a joke to take you through this date.
Günter Schabowski has passed away today. On arriving at the gates of heaven, St Peter tells him,
“You will be getting into heaven.”
Schabowski asks St Peter,
“When?”
St Peter shuffles his papers and says,
“Das tritt nach meiner Kenntnis… ist das sofort, unverzüglich.”
Have an august day, won’t you!
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A better class of vandal…
I don’t normally like grafitti. I will admit that. However, when I was a student at Nottingham University in the early 1990’s, the gents toilets in the science library had some highly entertaining writings on the cubicle walls.
Sociology degrees: please take one.
Written on one cubicle wall:
To play toilet tennis, please look at the other wall.
Written on the other cubicle wall:
To play toilet tennis, please look at the other wall.
(Note the use of correct punctuation, upper and lower cases and spelling.)
The same joker used to put some joke comments in the science library suggestions book. Here was one classic.
Name: J R Hartley.
Department: Marine Biology.
Question: Have you any books on fly-fishing?
Fortunately, the library staff had a sense of humour. Their reply:
No. Try Yellow Pages!
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