Cold Ale - The Blokes' Thread!

[BienvenuJDC]

Do you really think that Harvey would be involved in a shouting match?

[Scheherazade]

Do you really think that Harvey would be involved in a shouting match?

Don't know; never met him... So, I will *have to* take your word for it!

[Michael T]

Ooooh, what's a Bank Holiday? Do the banks close down for a day or two?

We get a few Bank Holidays every year. They are a national holiday...usually on a Monday. They are best known as days that the whole of the UK looks forward to with dreams of picnics and sunbathing on the beaches. However, they inevitably pour with rain and 97% of the population visit D.I.Y. stores instead. (D.I.Y. stores are about the only stores that open on Bank Holidays) I might add that I despise D.I.Y. with a passion! Henceforth, I shall be spending my Bank Holidays in the 'Blokes Thread' bar with the newspapers and a few drinks!

Hope that helps LostPrincess.

[BienvenuJDC]

Don't know; never met him... So, I will *have to* take your word for it!

Both he and Elwood are the most polite chaps I know...

[Lokasenna]

We get a few Bank Holidays every year. They are a national holiday...usually on a Monday. They are best known as days that the whole of the UK looks forward to with dreams of picnics and sunbathing on the beaches. However, they inevitably pour with rain and 97% of the population visit D.I.Y. stores instead. (D.I.Y. stores are about the only stores that open on Bank Holidays) I might add that I despise D.I.Y. with a passion! Henceforth, I shall be spending my Bank Holidays in the 'Blokes Thread' bar with the newspapers and a few drinks!

Hope that helps LostPrincess.

Living in a seaside town, and being tremendously overworked at the moment, I took a rather perverse pleasure in watching the rain and the wind batter the beach yesterday... it also drowned out the noise of that pathetic and ridiculous funfair they shove in the town centre... grumblegrumblehumbug...

Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris.

[Virgil]

You can say that anytime. Charlie Sheen is unwatchable and can't act. Luckily, most of his parts, he plays.... Charlie Sheen. He's a moron. You couldn't pay me to watch him. His brother/s and old man can act, though.

You are absolutely right.

[The Atheist]

With 'the end' it is very hard to continue conversation, unless someone is found to disagree with your respective opinions. I don't know enough of Harry Dean Stanton's work to either agree or disagree, so I will drink too much whisky and have a shouting match at the bar with my imaginary friend Harold.

I'll join you in a quick tot, it's a cold and bleak morning here, with the cold air moving up from Antarctica.

One in the tea sounds about spot on!

[Emil Miller]

OK guys, here's the drift. Do you think it is right, as per news item below, to allow Marks & Spencer to levy this charge?

M&S chief faces shopper revolt over £2 extra for bigger bras.
by Rosamund Urwin.

Marks and Spencer chairman Sir Stuart Rose is set to have a face-to-face confrontation with campaigners over the store's surcharge on bigger bras.

Protesters have been lobbying the company to drop the extra £2 they charge on bras above a DD-cup.

Campaigners say the surcharge discriminates against well-endowed women. They argue that other items of clothing are the same price regardless of size.


Now I think we must show solidarity with our female members on this question and give support to well-endowed women by showing a a hands on approach to the problem, and also writing collectively to Sir Stuart Rose in favour of large-breasted women.

[Virgil]

Bigger bra sizes ought to be subsidized by taxes from men.

[BienvenuJDC]

I will have to side with the makers of the bras on this. If the bras are larger and thus cost more to make, then the law of supply merits that the product should cost more. Discrimination should not be a factor. If those who are protesting do not want to pay a higher price, then they can choose NOT to buy and use the product.

[Nightshade]

You know I know the women had this discussion once...

[Virgil]

I will have to side with the makers of the bras on this. If the bras are larger and thus cost more to make, then the law of supply merits that the product should cost more. Discrimination should not be a factor. If those who are protesting do not want to pay a higher price, then they can choose NOT to buy and use the product.

Now I see the madness to your method.

[The Atheist]

OK guys, here's the drift. Do you think it is right, as per news item below, to allow Marks & Spencer to levy this charge?

Well, the pragmatic part of me agrees with Bienvenue and says that economics, not discrimination is at play here and it's a typically awful attempt by big boobed babes to play the discrimination card.

As should be obvious to any DD++ woman, men do not discriminate against larger boobs.

Campaigners say the surcharge discriminates against well-endowed women. They argue that other items of clothing are the same price regardless of size.

And that's flagrantly wrong, because a woman who takes a DD++ bra isn't likely to fit those off-the-rack clothes anyway.

However, this is an excellent point!

Bigger bra sizes ought to be subsidized by taxes from men.

Perhaps a subsidy on all cosmetic surgeons and XXX film-makers is the answer?

[prendrelemick]

The protesters are showing alot of front, and certainly have some weighty arguements to bring forward. But are they Genuine? Or have they been blown up out of all proportion?

[The Atheist]

The protesters are showing alot of front, and certainly have some weighty arguements to bring forward. But are they Genuine? Or have they been blown up out of all proportion?

Very good!