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29 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Ok, the threads gone, so this is something I’ve been saying for a while. 

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I can get it safely back on track with a tale of a young lad who went to the corner shop to pick up a big box of Ariel Automatic.

 

The grocer walked over and trying to be friendly, asked the boy if he had a lot of laundry to do.

 

"Nope, no laundry," the boy said, "I'm going to wash my dog."

 

"But, you shouldn't use this to wash your dog. It's very powerful and if you wash your dog in this, he'll get sick. In fact, it might even kill him."

 

But, the boy was not to be stopped and carried the detergent to the counter and paid for it, even as the grocer still tried to talk him out of washing his dog.

 

About a week later, the boy was back in the store to buy some Haribo.

 

The grocer asked the boy how his dog was doing.

 

"Oh, he died." the boy said.

 

The grocer, trying not to be an "I-told-you-so" said he was sorry the dog died, but added, "I tried to tell you not to use that detergent on your dog."

 

"Well, the boy replied, "you may be right, but I don't think it was the detergent that did for him…. It was more than likely the spin cycle”.

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Ehh, definitely not all in agreement... I think it's great that you grumpy old sods have something to complain about, but the same kind of advances in medical science that brought us revelations like, I dunno, the discovery of bacteria, or an understanding of the different blood types, or the building blocks of our DNA... that whole sort of thing... that kind of science now tells us that while, yes, most of us are born with a clearly-defined set of both genitals and sexual predilections, the fact is that both sexuality and our own sense of gender is not binary, and is in fact more of a spectrum. 

Once again: most of us are lucky that our own place on the bisexuality spectrum is heavily skewed 99% one way rather than the other, but all that means is maybe you haven't met the right Thai lady boy that does it for you yet, not that the right one doesn't exist.

 

The same is true of our own sense of gender... most of us are unbelievably lucky to have such a concrete idea that our gender matches our genitals. I know I'm flipping thrilled that I have it so easy. But that's not to say that, in all the complicated wiring that goes on in our brains, sometimes a few of the connections don't always match up. It's nothing new, and it isn't unique to only the human race... it's been observed across all species for thousands of years... all that changes is human society's reception of the people it affects. We seemed to be on an upswing for a while there, but it looks like we've been knocked down a rung or two on the empathetical ladder.

 

All this to say... you grumpy old farts crowing about the teenagers with pink hair sound as ridiculous as someone at the start of the 1900s whinging about the unnecessary labels given to their blood type... "I'm not some A-rhesus-f*cking-negative nancy, there's only one blood type, and it's red!" 

 

Ach, whatever. It affects me approximately this much (I'm holding my thumb and index finger together, see?), about as much as it does every single one of you, but at least it doesn't keep me awake at night, gnashing my teeth that some tomboy was allowed to have a shit behind a locked door with a picture of a stickman on it. 

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Pink hair? Remember when the olds used to moan at us for mohicans? I guess the kids later will moan again about their grand kids having coloured hair too and odd liberal ideas. We get old, some get grumpy.

 

(anyway Peds, it is usually smoke and mirrors, get them riled up about the insignificant, and while they are distracted do what you really want.)

 

 

I am going to derail this though and show my old gitted-ness with a Tony Hancock reference - Rhesus Positive? Their monkeys aren't they, classic.

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