Originally Posted by HBG (Post 10787998)

It was a horrible comment to make, but people often make comments they regret and before our wired-up age it didn't matter all that much. It does now, call someone a Pleb and you're sacked; the whole of America is rocked to the core when someone mentions the N word; Germans are trying to airbrush the war out of their history; and every week some politician apologises for some act in history hundreds of years ago.

It won't be long before they invent something like a swear filter which they fit in your mouth to stop you making inappropriate comments.

George Orwell wrote about it 60 years ago.

Originally Posted by Fredbargate (Post 10788017)

Possibly because women themselves are obessed with their appearance and spend £billions each year trying to turn themselves into something that they are not.

Originally Posted by jimenato (Post 10788089)

Interesting one Fred.

It's a bit like - why do women get so annoyed because men look at their boobs when they do all they can to bring them to our attention. They push 'em up, stick 'em out, separate them, get them surgically enhanced, push them together, cover them in lacy, pink, see through...

:o

...Sorry, got a bit carried away.

Originally Posted by Fredbargate (Post 10788017)

Possibly because women themselves are obessed with their appearance and spend £billions each year trying to turn themselves into something that they are not.

Originally Posted by old.sparkles (Post 10788094)

Until you get old - then gravity has a devastating effect and you keep them warm in your knickers :rofl:

Originally Posted by Lynn R (Post 10788136)

And possibly because the few who don't bother and obviously don't care a jot about what they look like (the academic Mary Beard who recently presented a TV programme, for example) are invariably castigated and insulted right, left and centre in the press, although their looks don't affect their professional ability one bit.