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dvs101 wrote:I was wondering what you all thought about the length

Back to the plot. Get the shorter one, I'd say.

AMM wrote:One topic that keeps coming up at SkirtCafe is why most women wear trousers instead of skirts.

4. They don't...

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Who's also trying it? Are you happy with it? I have one of these, and it's - almost - useless. In my experience, a cheap regular electric shaver (less than half the price) gives far better results. This thing is loud, it's incredibly slow and it doesn't give a very close shave. Its only saving grac...

I think most folk in the UK would quickly 'pick up' on a lad wearing a 'girl's skirt' (purely by virtue of the right-over-left 'rule') Are you serious? How many people do you suppose are even aware of this 'rule', and how significant do you imagine the distinction is next to the shock of seeing a m...

ziggy_encaoua wrote:http://www.defiant-angel.com/fashion_article_index.htm

Let me know what you reckon?

Embarrassingly awful! Get someone to edit your stuff and you might have a chance of making your points. Even then, you aren't going to convert anyone by insulting them.

I also heard that a news reader was told to remove a small Crucifix she had from a chain around her neck crazy or what A different argument altogether, though one for which I suppose a reasonable argument might also be made. Badges of religious faith are more or less of an issue depending on one's ...

Not a very thoughtful view - I particularly liked the bit about how people can only exist on the internet, as if the internet were a place!

iain wrote:why quote me..? whatever I wrote is still there..

Unless it had the word "paedophile" in it!

I don't think Bob's post was about <censored>, I think it was about the perils of inhabiting a closed community where the continual validation of any random cultural assertion leads to its acceptance as 'normal'. Like it or not, this happens here too!

merlin wrote:has been forced out of normal useage.

But isn't this how language evolves? Words mean what we intend by them, and when enough people intend the same thing, that thing is adopted as a 'meaning'. That's how dictionaries are compiled!

Agreed, however I suspect the subtlety of that is lost on a group of ten and eleven year olds. Then again, is it likely that the girl who started the conversation was using “gay” as a term of endearment? If this girl was indeed baiting your son, then it seems the teacher has responded selectively a...

Jock wrote:The teacher's attitude didn't surprise me though

My guess is the teacher's objection was to the word 'dyke', which is generally considered perjorative.

Since1982 wrote:the cameraperson

Ah yes, the cameraperson! I doubt if shows like "Cops" offer any kind of insight into day-to-day policing.

crfriend wrote:It has no connotations of femininity or masculinity

If 'skirt' had no connotations of femininity we wouldn't be having this discussion. (And I imagine this forum wouldn't exist!)