whisky-dave presented the following explanation :
Other than childhood curiosity I'm not sure.

If it was obviuos perhaps you'd like to say why the child was asking ?

Kids can ask some really embarrassing questions, when they first meet
an unusual situation. When I was around six or seven, travelling on a
bus with just my mother, sat opposite us was a black man, the first I
had ever seen. I said something like 'mam that man's face is black'. I
remember my mother was very embarrassed and apologised to the man. I
remember saying something similar, when I first saw a pregnant woman,
commenting on how fat she was.

On Friday, 11 May 2018 12:01:22 UTC+1, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
whisky-dave presented the following explanation :
Other than childhood curiosity I'm not sure.

If it was obviuos perhaps you'd like to say why the child was asking ?

Kids can ask some really embarrassing questions, when they first meet
an unusual situation.

Yes they can and adults can do that too.

When I was around six or seven, travelling on a
bus with just my mother, sat opposite us was a black man, the first I
had ever seen.

Wow what century are we talking about ?

I said something like 'mam that man's face is black'. I
remember my mother was very embarrassed and apologised to the man.

If you're mother was Harry he'd have said it's because his muslim and goes around bombing people and that is why God gave him a black face.


I
remember saying something similar, when I first saw a pregnant woman,
commenting on how fat she was.

and how do you know she was pregnnant ?
Because she was female ?

On 11/05/2018 12:01, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
whisky-dave presented the following explanation :
Other than childhood curiosity I'm not sure.

If it was obviuos perhaps you'd like to say why the child was asking ?

Kids can ask some really embarrassing questions, when they first meet an
unusual situation. When I was around six or seven, travelling on a bus
with just my mother, sat opposite us was a black man, the first I had
ever seen. I said something like 'mam that man's face is black'. I
remember my mother was very embarrassed and apologised to the man. I
remember saying something similar, when I first saw a pregnant woman,
commenting on how fat she was.

"Has that woman had too many pork pies?"

"She's had too much of something!"

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On Friday, 11 May 2018 13:54:58 UTC+1, Max Demian wrote:
On 11/05/2018 12:01, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
whisky-dave presented the following explanation :
Other than childhood curiosity I'm not sure.

If it was obviuos perhaps you'd like to say why the child was asking ?

Kids can ask some really embarrassing questions, when they first meet an
unusual situation. When I was around six or seven, travelling on a bus
with just my mother, sat opposite us was a black man, the first I had
ever seen. I said something like 'mam that man's face is black'. I
remember my mother was very embarrassed and apologised to the man. I
remember saying something similar, when I first saw a pregnant woman,
commenting on how fat she was.

"Has that woman had too many pork pies?"

Yes she's been porked.


"She's had too much of something!"

Although to be honest she could have had IVF, or a turkey baster as some might assume if the women is a lesbian.


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whisky-dave used his keyboard to write :
Wow what century are we talking about ?

As with 99% of those posting in this ng, the last century. The big
clue, I didn't live in cosmopolitan London.

On 11/05/2018 18:38, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
whisky-dave used his keyboard to write :
Wow what century are we talking about ?

As with 99% of those posting in this ng, the last century. The big clue,
I didn't live in cosmopolitan London.


:-)

No of black kids in my school from start to finish of my schooling - zero.

The number of contacts in my phone are probably a couple of hundred.

How many are black? Two. One apprentice and one customer.

Number of Russian nationals in my phone contact list? Five.



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On 11/05/2018 12:01, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
whisky-dave presented the following explanation :
Other than childhood curiosity I'm not sure.

If it was obviuos perhaps you'd like to say why the child was asking ?

Kids can ask some really embarrassing questions, when they first meet an
unusual situation. When I was around six or seven, travelling on a bus
with just my mother, sat opposite us was a black man, the first I had
ever seen. I said something like 'mam that man's face is black'. I
remember my mother was very embarrassed and apologised to the man. I
remember saying something similar, when I first saw a pregnant woman,
commenting on how fat she was.

"Has that woman had too many pork pies?"

"She's had too much of something!"

Leeky sausage?
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"Harry Bloomfield" wrote in message
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whisky-dave presented the following explanation :
Other than childhood curiosity I'm not sure.

If it was obviuos perhaps you'd like to say why the child was asking ?

Kids can ask some really embarrassing questions, when they first meet an
unusual situation. When I was around six or seven, travelling on a bus
with just my mother, sat opposite us was a black man, the first I had ever
seen. I said something like 'mam that man's face is black'. I remember my
mother was very embarrassed and apologised to the man. I remember saying
something similar, when I first saw a pregnant woman, commenting on how
fat she was.

Weird, I can't remember anything that young. The only
one I can remember was asking what used to be called
my maiden aunt, why she drank tea in the hottest weather.

And getting ****ed off when the school teacher said that
I couldn't say 'jumped on the train' in one of my first storys.

On 11/05/2018 12:01, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
whisky-dave presented the following explanation :
Other than childhood curiosity I'm not sure.

If it was obviuos perhaps you'd like to say why the child was asking ?

Kids can ask some really embarrassing questions, when they first meet an
unusual situation. When I was around six or seven, travelling on a bus
with just my mother, sat opposite us was a black man, the first I had
ever seen. I said something like 'mam that man's face is black'. I
remember my mother was very embarrassed and apologised to the man

I always thought it unreasonable when, as a kid, I was told off for
saying anything about anyone - called "passing remarks". Always said in
innocence/ignorance, whereas when adults say things about other adults
it's more knowing and malicious/gossipy.

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On 10/05/2018 23:00, Marland wrote:
Difficult to tell from recordings made over 110 years ago, supposedly the
last one.

There are occasional men with high voices. One of my teachers had an
unbroken voice (and a very thick beard!). I never heard him sing though.
I think it takes a bit more than a high voice.

Andy

Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

In article ,
Marland wrote:
I expect most people who have a disability or condition feel a bit down
about it in some way at times,heck we are all probably lacking in some
ability or other compared to others, People with weight conditions they
cannot control, people who are so ugly they can¼t get laid. Some
conditions can be fixed and others cannot. Your barren male and female
examples born that way may be treatable but removing functioning
testicles or breasts with the accompanying chemical treatments to become
on outward appearance the opposite sex to what people are born as
doesn¼t take them the whole way to be a complete functioning example of
the opposite sex any more than giving someone born without legs some
prosthetic ones suddenly makes them have normal body.

If someone is so convinced their 'soul' (if you want) is of the wrong
gender that they wish to go through the trama of surgery and hormone
treatment to alter themselves to what they consider better, WTF has it got
to do with you? Other than to have compassion for them?

Indeed, it seems a strange kind of quasi-theological bigotry that says
babies born with testicles must be socialised as men and babies born
with ovaries must be socialised as women.[1] The immediate question
that strikes me is: "Why?". Either because god says so or an appeal
to some non-existent "natural law" I suppose? Perhaps what is really
the problem is the vast differences in dress, behaviour and other life
choices that are required of men and women, for no very sound or
fundamental reasons. If men or women could behave or dress in any way
they preferred then the problem of which gender to choose would perhaps
not be so severe.

[1] It is ironic that various inborn errors of development make babies
with testicles that are anatomically apparently female and babies with
ovaries that are anatomically apparently male. The bigots got this
wrong until at least the nineteenth century - how embarrassing for them!


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On 08/05/2018 22:00, Bob Eager wrote:
On Tue, 08 May 2018 19:36:12 +0100, GB wrote:

On 08/05/2018 19:05, ARW wrote:
Double check the sex of the person at work before you call them
"fella".



One of our neighbours named their daughter Fella. It means butterfly in
Italian. I just looked it up.

As long as her middle name isn't Tio.

that would be a bit of a mouthful.


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On 08/05/2018 19:05, ARW wrote:

Double check the sex of the person at work before you call them "fella".

Not keen for a shag then?


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On 11/05/2018 19:40, ARW wrote:
On 11/05/2018 18:38, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
whisky-dave used his keyboard to write :
Wow what century are we talking about ?

As with 99% of those posting in this ng, the last century. The big
clue, I didn't live in cosmopolitan London.


:-)

No of black kids in my school from start to finish of my schooling - zero.

The number of contacts in my phone are probably a couple of hundred.

How many are black? Two. One apprentice and one customer.

Number of Russian nationals in my phone contact list? Five.




Ditto. never saw a single black or coloured face in the South
Wales town where I grew up, except for the blokes who operated
the coal hoists down at the docks. They ended their working
day really black. Ditto the blokes whose job it was to scrape
the clinker out of the steam engines at the end of the day.

The only 'real' brown and black people were down the area of
Cardiff known as tiger bay. Most people never ventured down there,
even though it was just a mile or so from the the main shopping
area.

On 13/05/18 12:29, John Rumm wrote:
On 08/05/2018 19:05, ARW wrote:

Double check the sex of the person at work before you call them "fella".

Not keen for a shag then?

Nice of you to offer. Please don't post the vid!

In article , Andrew97d-
says...

The only 'real' brown and black people were down the area of
Cardiff known as tiger bay. Most people never ventured down there,
even though it was just a mile or so from the the main shopping
area.

Birth place of a certain Shirley Bassey ...

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On 10/05/2018 18:54, Andrew Gabriel wrote:

the scheme. It's also really important that the regular
team banter continues amongst remote workers to keep them
feeling part of the team, and I did have to go and have a
word with HR to say, yes, I did expect my team to be talking
about their holidays in firm emails, just like they would if
they were all sitting together at their desks, and HR were
fine with that once I'd explained.

Reminds me of a story from my GEC days, where a bean counter had been
trying to save cash by making it harder for people to use the phone for
non business calls. As a result he got a block put on the numbers for
things like the local squash courts.

Needless to say it did not take the engineers long to work out that the
internal phone system (being one of the largest private networks in the
country - since it joined all the bits of the empire together), allowed
calls to be routed through multiple exchanges at other sites if needs
be. Hence you could dial your way around any blocks just by finding a
site which allowed free access to unrestricted outside lines.

This came to the attention of the bean counter (lots of people dialling
unreasonably long phone numbers), and he brought it to the attention of
the line manager, and demanded to know "what are you going to do about
it?". The bean counter was rather taken aback when the manager said he
would go and congratulate his staff, since it demonstrated exactly the
kind of lateral thinking and problem solving ability he wanted from them.


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