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She said something like: "...and my long cotton skirt was sticking to my legs as they do when wet as you know - well you wouldn't know obviously..." That surprised me because the last time I saw her was a hot day two or three weeks ago. I was walking past her front garden, in a black, kne...

We live in by far, the most free country on the face of God’s earth. ... A private employer should have the right and freedom to hire who they choose and fire who they choose - without having to justify it. If you add so much value to that organization that they simply must overlook whatever it is ...

I thought female nurses wearing dresses as part of their uniform was a thing of the past and they all wore scrubs and trousers nowadays. I was in hospital (two hospitals) for an extended stay a few weeks ago and most of the nurses wore dresses. It must be NHS Scotland where the uniform is all tunic...

I visited Stockholm about ten years ago and (at least in the city) everyone spoke English. About half the people we met spoke with a kind of flat American accent and the other half with a London accent. When I asked the desk clerk in our hotel about it, she said that in school they are taught London...

For small business, cash has the advantage of being easier to hide from the IRS when it comes to tax time. Payments on credit cards can be easily audited and shown to be relevant business income. If someone is doing most of their business transactions in cash, it is a lot harder to audit business in...

I have to flip a coin on this one (remember coins?) Heads - the corporate and sovereign corruption that is intrinsic to the global fossil fuel extraction and distribution system Tails - all incentives (is that more than one thing?) that encourage print, broadcasting, social media, cable, and other m...

Marx Brothers Cocoanuts
Casablanca
Do the Right Thing
Fantasia
The Commitments
The Producers
Alien
The Harder They Come
Birdcage
Trading Places

Subject to change of course!

I'm pretty sure I don't have my first skirt, seeing as how I bought it somewhere around 1974 and it was a size 22 (and I wear a 14 now).

I guess I shouldn't be, but I'm always surprised by the difference in the reaction I get when I wear a kilt as opposed to an "ordinary" skirt. I often wear skirts and generally get little or no reaction. Yesterday, though I got four (!) positive comments (one unusual one) in less than a mi...

On the other hand, we have this Texas school district prohibiting skirts and dresses for everybody as a means to encourage professionalism.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/24/us/forne ... index.html

"Woke" does not exist outside of social media. It's easy to underestimate the progressive left because they do such a good job of making themselves and their positions look foolish. However, if instead of using the word "woke" you think of people who share similar views on clima...

Despite having spent some happy years in Oxford, I dislike the Oxford comma because it doesn't add to or clarify the meaning. It's just extra clutter. Oh but it does clarify meaning. The classic example is a dedication to "my parents, Sigmund Freud and Queen Elizabeth." Is the writer dedi...

I read once that for "professionals" (ill defined, I know) in the same type of work (office I assumed), the men actually spent more on their wardrobe's on average per month. It was like $10 more out of 65 or so, monthly. I figured it was due to the inordinately high cost of men's suits an...

I guess a modern equivalent is a simple pair of jeans. There are people out there who would not be seen dead in a pair outside of those tagged for their assigned gender. We may see that it makes no damn difference but they most certainly will not. But there is a difference. Women's jeans are usuall...

I thought we'd beaten this dead horse into the ground. {sigh} I'm not a big fan of "mandates" either, but sometimes they have to be used. Personally, I'd just appeal to societal responsibility (and that's a bit of a swear term in the USA) and put some teeth into it. To start with, if you'...