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andrewducker- 1. Your parents may have helped you, but they made everything more expensive for everyone else
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- 2. Tories Blame Too Much Housebuilding For Local Election Losses
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- 3. What Happens When a Woman Walks Like a Man? (I have observed this a *lot* - and been guilty of it myself when I wasn't thinking about it)
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- 4. Anyone here care about Good Omens season 2?
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- 5. Edinburgh Tram Inquiry: Final report sent to printers
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- 6. Autonomous underwater drones are now crossing the English channel
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- 7. Renewable energy projects worth billions stuck on hold because the grid isn't ready for them.
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Date: 2023-05-11 11:16 am (UTC)with a wheeled walking frame/rollator due to knee issues.
A group of four or five men were briskly walking four or five abreast quite some distance away. (Maybe 800 metres? Maybe a kilometre? It was a very long, perfectly straight, road). They could see me coming from ages away.
"Surely they'll bunch up when they get closer to me?"
I thought. "After all, there's nowhere for me to go unless I leap onto a busy road full of cars!"
No, one of them RAMMED HIS SHINS INTO MY SOLID STEEL WALKING FRAME AT TOP SPEED, and then acted annoyed at ME.
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Date: 2023-05-11 11:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-05-11 11:20 am (UTC)but I thought most men would want to avoid bare legs in shorts colliding HARD against solid steel walking frames -
that they'd avoid a collision from self preservation,
even if they didn't give a fuck about other pedestrian's health or safety.
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Date: 2023-05-11 03:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-05-11 11:26 am (UTC)A crowded bus on the way to work. I needed a seat due to chronic back pain issues that meant I couldn't safely stand on a moving bus. The only seat available was the priority seat - a thin elderly man was manspreading over a seat meant for two people.
Me: excuse me, I have an injury that means I need a priority seat, can you please move your leg?
Man: ignores me
Me: repeats another 3 or 4 times
Man: ignores me
Me: starts very VERY slowly lowering my bottom towards the seat, thinking "he'll move his leg"
Man: does not move
Me: All 85 kilograms of me is now resting on his leg
Man: yelps in anger shock and horror "YOU SAT ON ME!!!!"
What did he think was going to happen if he didn't move?
I had TOLD him that I needed a priority seat, and he was stubbornly manspreading over a seat for two people and refusing to shift his leg.
(and no, he had no sign of any injury that would cause him to need to manspread so dramatically)
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Date: 2023-05-11 03:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-05-11 11:37 am (UTC)3. I am unsurprised. I try to avoid practicing such things, and have become more conscious of the concern...partly as a side effect of the Pandemic Still In Progress.
4. I'm not a fan. I do know a lot of people who are hopeful about this next season with varying degrees of caution, so I hope they find cause for some joy here.
7. Distressing. The death-and-disability tolls still being taken by the Pandemic Still In Progress are putting us further behind!
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Date: 2023-05-11 02:53 pm (UTC)Re 3. I think Canadians in general are better about this? I've never had lilysea's experience with my walker. People actually step off the sidewalk even when there's space for them to pass, and the horde of high schoolers on Bloor will at least move aside a bit unless they're looking at their phones. Certainly no one rams into me.
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Date: 2023-05-11 03:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-05-14 12:06 pm (UTC)https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/conservatives-housebuilding-planning-voters-anti-development
7 GB Queue
Date: 2023-05-11 11:55 am (UTC)I'd also take the grid operators scheduling pessimism with a pinch of salt. They are strongly incentivised to be pessimistic and strongly disincentivised not to be optimistic. They want to avoid any suggestion that they are on the hook for power plant being curtailed and not able to sell their production.
Our fundamental problem is and will remain that we are a long narrow island with all the people at one end and all the wind at the other.
Re: 7 GB Queue
Date: 2023-05-11 12:04 pm (UTC)Or we could sell all the wind to the Danes, get them to sell it to Germany, who sell it to France (possibly via Benelux), who sell it to England?
Re: 7 GB Queue
Date: 2023-05-11 01:54 pm (UTC)Manslamming.
Date: 2023-05-11 01:19 pm (UTC)Re: Manslamming.
Date: 2023-05-12 12:09 am (UTC)So walk like a man"
Yeah. Right. So much of this is wrapped up in (perception of) status. Too many "men" appear to believe that stepping out of the way for someone makes them that person's inferior in their culture. And given that they believe that All Men Are Superior To Any Woman, it would be inconceivable that they give way in that context.
How about something like "Polite people don't run into other people"? Maybe not; far too many of that ilk don't seem to have much interest in being polite.
Re: Manslamming.
Date: 2023-05-12 09:40 am (UTC)Re: Manslamming.
Date: 2023-05-12 10:01 am (UTC)Oh, also, women universally stepped over protruding legs/feet on crowded trains, with what seemed automatic grace - men pretty much always just tripped over them.
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Date: 2023-05-11 07:07 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2023-05-11 08:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-05-12 02:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-05-12 07:26 am (UTC)(3) Would benefit from comments by transgender people who have undergone gait coaching: it's body language as well as locomotion.
Also from women with manic depression: the anecdotal reports I have suggest that they can stride confidently though crowds in the 'up' mood, and are continually bumped and struggling in their 'down' phase.
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Date: 2023-05-12 07:47 am (UTC)And it wouldn't surprise me about mood. We were taught focused walking in Beltane and I'm sure that made a difference.