MrsDoyle @ MrsDoyle @sh.itjust.works

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My dentist is lovely. Last visit I told him how much I appreciated his care and advice, and he blushed and said no-one ever thanked him. He needs a hug!

I don't hate you.

Well that took me a minute - oh, autumn, you're talking about autumn! Ha ha, excellent dad joke.

The imbalance in numbers isn't just in movies. Think about the judiciary, legislators, business leaders... It's everywhere. In my own career I was the first woman to hold a senior position with one of my employers. Crazy. Achieving even what we have has been uphill all the way. I'm glad you've woken up to this - maybe you can keep spreading the word!

How do I feel about it? Really fucking exhausted. It's not just the movies, it's my everyday life. Being patronised, talked over, ignored, belittled... Ugh. A lot of men seem to outright despise women. On the bright side, most of this behaviour comes from men of my own generation (I'm old). Young men in general seem much less arrogant, more respectful of women. My sister suggested this is because we remind them of their grannies, lol, but they speak well about women their own age too, and regard them as equals. (Apart from this one young bloke who talked about "women and other minorities", sigh.)

I'm not really up on the Bible, but wasn't it Joseph who was allegedly descended from David? Joseph, who definitely wasn't the father of Jesus?

It's not antisemitism, it's anti-Zionism. And accusations of Zionism being fascist aren't new. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irgun

An extract: 'Albert Einstein, in a letter to The New York Times in 1948, compared Irgun and its successor Herut party to "Nazi and Fascist parties" and described it as a "terrorist, right wing, chauvinist organization".'

But what would a genius German Jew who escaped the Holocaust know about fascism, right?

Father Ted.

Ugh, I have a friend whose humour often involves mean-spirited jibes and put-downs. I was in a low mood one day and told him I didn't like the tone of his "jokes", that they sometimes stung. He really dialled back after that.

That looks delicious, really nice combo.

The drink on the right is caffeinated, maybe that's why they added sweetener? The label on the left doesn't mention caffeine.

It was when I tripped and fell over outside my house. The next day my neighbour said, "I hear you had a Fall."

Yes, when you're old you don't fall over, you "have a Fall". Everyone hearing about your Fall will make concerned noises. (I was perfectly fine! I'm not OLD old!)

Do obnoxious stuff for "librul tears".

Cry like a baby when people do obnoxious stuff back.

Oh yum, now I want a big chunk of brie.

Britain's favourite crisp flavour. Here, you're weird for not liking them.

Combatting AIDS isn't dumb.

In the staff fridge at work someone used to label their milk as "breast milk" and people would go eeeww. Like it was snot or something. But from a cow's breasts? Fine! So weird.

Unlimited garlic bread, yay!

I found it on the internet.

This felt close, in a way: in May 2014 I flew UK to NZ on Malaysian Airlines. One of their planes had gone missing in March that year, so I came in for some joshing over my choice. I flew out of NZ on 22 July. The Kuala Lumpur-Amsterdam leg had a slight change of flight path because on the 17th a Malaysian plane on that route was shot down over Ukraine.

(I felt so sorry for the air crew - some of them may have lost friends and colleagues on those flights, and here they were, smiling away and bringing us drinks.)

Good chunks of my youth. When I look back I think, those kids were not your friends.