Anti "manspreading" chair gets award.
Margaret, come and take a look at this!!!
https://metro.co.uk/2019/07/18/student-creates-chair-put-end-manspreading-10418726/
OK now this student isn't clearly the brightest and neither are those who awarded the design for they seemed to not recognise the main issue with taking up too much room is when you are on a bus or on a narrow sofa, not when sitting on individual chairs!!!
I admit I sometimes have caught myself "manspreading" (I wear longer shorts now!) , but more often I am a hug the arm of the settee person, so what next, armless settees... eiderdowns stitched to the mattress down the centre, to stop people who pull it all to their side?? I just don't believe it!!
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People who go that far with a small problem do indeed hold some deeper problem. What we should do is sew a pair of balls on her and then put her onto a train and see how she gets on!
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Basil Fawltly would be ok though as Sibel had his removed.
But really when I first seen this mentioned on another forum it was all folks up in arms because of how its reported. Now I think its a bit of joke, and perhaps as much aimed at sending up the feminists as anything.
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A few Spectrum game fixes.
Go back to wearing Crinoline dresses with hoop skirts!!
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Author of A Yankee in Iraq, a 50 fps shoot-’em-up—the first game to utilize the floating bus on the +2A/+3,
and zasm Z80 Assembler syntax highlighter.
Member of the team that discovered, analyzed, and detailed the floating bus behavior on the ZX Spectrum +2A/+3.
A few Spectrum game fixes.
Are there any ladies still using the forums?
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Thanks - I can't always tell from usernames.
BTW haven't seen ZxBeccy for a while, maybe she's got tired of the speccy scene?
I have no idea what this f*cking manspreading phenomenon is? I spread out if I have the room, but if somebody on public transport or otherwise needs the seat I'll "unspread" if that's even a thing, has this generation of pathetic unconfrontational soy latte pussies even gone beyond the point of being scared to ask "Is somebody sitting there?", or has it gone to the point where it's assumed you shouldn't have to ask that because a random strangers comfort means nothing? Or if a Wymin enters a man's space he should know the "PC" protocol instinctively? If me and missus Boozy have kids and they come home spouting this sh*t, I'm gonna beat it out of them, even if I might get social services called on me for not teaching kids how to be actual humans that won't rely on the "Safe Space"....That does not f*cking exist in the real world, you can't retreat yelling an imaginary place to people who confront you, and expect everything to be OK....It's not f*cking realistic.
Now fair play for Manspreading if some dude spreads out across 3 seats, and outright refuses to give up a space on public transport, or in a train station or something like that he's being a knob.
But this chair, hmmm most sensible men when confronted with it would simply lift their legs over the wooden bits, and "Manspread" anyway Have you also noticed the female equivalent goes the opposite way, they get to spread their legs, because it's supposedly healthy to do so. I'd be inclined to agree if I'd never been stuck on a plane with a big fat cow who was at least 4 times my size squashed up against the window with her basically taking up 2 seats next to me with her big fat sweated coochee reeking of f*cking **** and fat person cheese...…..FAT SHAMING? Yeah when you're that fat you take up 2 chairs and make the person next to you inhale that vile body stench that only morbidly "FAT" motherfuckers have maybe you should feel ashamed you big fat fucks!!!!!!
Yup you read that I said it!
...and no I'm not fat-phobic, I'm not scared of fat people at all, I'd just rather not smell the stench of the ones who can't be arsed to take a f*cking shower before they get on a plane. Yup.... I'm just not gonna pander to a double standard that if I have to inhale fat-cheez I can't complain about it, when if a fat **** hears me complaining about it I'm suddenly the devil.....
Also can we have a bunch of genuine "phobics", and I mean people who suffer from genuine debilitating phobias post a vid up and say how wrong it is for everything you don't agree with to be a phobia these days Phobics need to take back their genuine fear. They need to stand and say that all these so called Phobias the special people claim are against them don't exist. Really they don't all these people who scream "Phobia" just shouldn't, the people who genuinely hate them aren't scared of them they just hate them, simple as that. If it was a phobia the people that supposedly make they lives a misery would be easy to spot, as they be screaming uncontrollably, or practically running up a wall every time one of these "victims" came near them
I understand phobia, and hatred towards people different to you is not a phobia it's simply hatred.
Pander no more.
If this "Manspreading" is actually a social justice thing I've never actually seen it, as to not give up that space basically isn't even a sexist thing, it just goes against basic politeness, and unless the 3 wymin who've actually encountered this so called "problem" went up against the epitome of chavvy scumbags who outight refused to move then maybe there would be an issue, but I'm feeling like there's not, and never really has been. This is Feminazi bullshit, looking for anything they can grasp at to get that tiny shred of "Equality" they so desperately desire...…..It's Orwell style equality though "Some Animals are more equal than others"....
Try female privilige instead.
https://youtu.be/m1gRNv561CE
Thumbs up Kaija!
Equality was lost years ago, now it's about middle class pink haired, thick glasses wearing c*nts yelling in peoples faces about how their "demographic" is wrong even though they are the epitome of hypocrisy. You ever seen those fat shaming rallies, you even seen those black lives matter rallies, you ever seen those whatever supposedly downtrodden people rallies they can come up with? Who's always at the front yelling and screaming. Middle class pink, or red, or purple haired thick glasses wearing, hairy arm pitted thin white women....Literally screaming in faces of people who probably just wanted to take a break and go get a sandwich...The people they represent often stand behind them as well, not saying a word looking subdued....I'm not gonna say who as such but look at any so called social justice rally from the last 5 years that has those ridiculous c*nts yelling at the front of it, and everybody they're protecting from being offended is standing behind them like sheep, too scared to say they're offended by the shills that are protecting them....I can almost see some of them twitching at the misrepresentation from theire soy infused saviours….But hey what do I know? =))
Author of A Yankee in Iraq, a 50 fps shoot-’em-up—the first game to utilize the floating bus on the +2A/+3,
and zasm Z80 Assembler syntax highlighter.
Member of the team that discovered, analyzed, and detailed the floating bus behavior on the ZX Spectrum +2A/+3.
A few Spectrum game fixes.
The very last one in that video doesn't half ring some bells (sexism only applies to women).
In the mid-90's I was working in Local Government and this was at the very height of anti-sexism and political correctness. The office balance was about 60/40 in favour of women, probably about 70 people altogether on this one floor and, don't get me wrong, it was an okay place to work most off the time, with lots of office banter.
One time, the women in the office decided to compile a "tap list" of the men in the office. This list was a list of all the men, and each woman had a vote to put alongside the bloke they would like to cop-off with.
Can you even imagine this being done the other way around? A bloke's feet wouldn't have touched the floor on the way to a Final Warning, probably the sack these days. But they saw nothing wrong with it ("it's just a laugh") and not one person got into the slightest amount of trouble for it. Even Millie Tant joined in with it - and woe betide any decision in the office should be even slightly pro-male.
A couple of years later one of the male team leaders jokingly, and it was obviously jokingly, told one of the interviewers during the latest round of job interviews that he didn't want too many women this time. Dumb-as-f**k thing to say, yes, but within a month he's involved in a full tribunal, given a final written warning, placed on probation for twelve months, etc. Basically, only being a member of the union saved his backside.
You know the sad thing is this type of thing I have seen out in public, airports are bad for this type of thing, I've had to stand at the end of a row of seats next to missus Boozy a few times because the seat in between her and the girl sitting next to her had a bag and a laptop on it. I did on one particular occasion ask if she could move it, and she said no somebody was sitting there. I said OK, but luckily this airport had a ledge next to the windows at the edge of the row so I sat on that. You know what though, this somebody who was supposedly sitting on that chair never showed up, and what's more annoying is when they called the plane that was leaving in the gate next to ours she got up grabbed her stuff and walked over to the gate at the far end of the waiting area we were in. She wasn't even sitting in the place where her plane was taking off from, and I know it's not strictly enforced or anything but if your gate's way over there you tend to sit in the seats that your gate is next to, some airports have signs that politely suggest this especially at larger airports, with larger waiting areas that tend to have multiple gates in them. Oh and this somebody who was sitting in that seat still never showed up, girl didn't seem too panicky about somebody not showing up, as she boarded the plane alone. Maybe her laptop was called Simon, or Bill, or Roger, or something?
Strangely enough though there was one occasion when I was on a little break from work in Arizona. We decided to take a tour through these caves that are usually underwater, while we were waiting for the vehicle to take us out to where the cave was I went for a smoke, no sooner had I stood up than some scruffy hippy looking girl, and her man slave had taken my seat and the seat next to it. What bothered me was there were more seats available in other directions. I came back from smoking, and an elderly Japanese tourist gives up his seat next to the wife so I could sit back next to her. Made me feel awful, but it wasn't so bad, I guess seeing me go for a smoke inspired him, cos' he kind of asked me in broken English to borrow my lighter. I would have of course offered the seat back to him when he was done. Worked out alright though as by the time he came back it was time for our group to leave.
So he got his smoke in, and he got his chair back.
Knowing how insular that makes you, I have no qualms about waving a hand in front of someone's face and making it explicit I'm drawing their attention because I want the seat they've occupied with a bag. Never had any problems with it, from men or women, they move the bags (though sometimes it's plain how unhappy they are about doing so - but that's tough).
Same for someone spreading out. Fat bird or spreading bloke, I will physically resist and shove my way into getting the space that is 'mine' if they're making me uncomfortable.
I find blokes are far worse about it tbh.
(Speaking of which, gotta go have a smoke.)
Author of A Yankee in Iraq, a 50 fps shoot-’em-up—the first game to utilize the floating bus on the +2A/+3,
and zasm Z80 Assembler syntax highlighter.
Member of the team that discovered, analyzed, and detailed the floating bus behavior on the ZX Spectrum +2A/+3.
A few Spectrum game fixes.
Then decided f*ck it, let's give it to some headline-grabbing antagonistic tripe instead.
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