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Forum: The Maple Leaf
Feb 1st 2017, 12:02 pm
Replies: 196
Views: 10,053
Posted By dbd33

Re: Gender equality

I don't think private organizations should be allowed to have membership policies at odds with the law as it would apply to, for example, a pub. It is, for example, ridiculous to exclude women from...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Feb 1st 2017, 1:32 am
Replies: 196
Views: 10,053
Posted By dbd33

Re: Gender equality

I blame the Scouts for interfering with my daughter's ideas of their station in life. One sailed all over the world, met a chap in the Detroit bus station, moved to Alaska with him, stayed up there a...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jan 31st 2017, 7:07 pm
Replies: 196
Views: 10,053
Posted By dbd33

Re: Gender equality

The daughter of someone I know has gained a place in Brownies. This is apparently a cause for celebration, as it's not easily done. Something like getting a place at Oxbridge.
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jan 31st 2017, 3:41 pm
Replies: 196
Views: 10,053
Posted By dbd33

Re: Gender equality

My children, now grown up and some of them having children of their own, were, at the appropriate age, in mixed gender scout troops in Canada. I know it's a blessing that hardly anything happens in...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jan 30th 2017, 3:56 pm
Replies: 196
Views: 10,053
Posted By dbd33

Re: Gender equality

People write in with questions and the columnist answers them. Trump's tie was the subject of the first question.
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jan 30th 2017, 3:36 pm
Replies: 196
Views: 10,053
Posted By dbd33

Re: Gender equality

The second question in today's fashion Q&A column might have relevance here:

https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2017/jan/30/tie-length-a-worrying-guide-to-trumps-state-of-mind
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jan 28th 2017, 12:02 am
Replies: 196
Views: 10,053
Posted By dbd33

Re: Gender equality

Nonce was in common use in London when I grew up. I'd be surprised if it wasn't used in The Sweeney. Pedalo, used in this context is, I think, more recent but widely understood; the connotation of...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jan 27th 2017, 5:53 pm
Replies: 196
Views: 10,053
Posted By dbd33

Re: Gender equality

I don't think goof to mean nonce is common usage.

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/goof

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/goof

That sense is apparently used in Canada....
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