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It struck me today that perhaps the reason the EU won't negotiate further on a withdrawal deal is that our PM has no clue how to negotiate. Let's take her recent declaration: "Back my deal and I will quit." (I'm paraphrasing). So, applying logic, she will quit once her deal gets through...

Jon - stop being mischievous. Everyone deserves a decent standard of living. The side issue is that we can categorise countries by calling them first and third world. But, I am not going to be diverted from the original point. Creating one society with smart people and one society with not...

Exactly that, Doc. o_O:oops::censored:

Everyone deserves a decent standard of living. Whether that's first or third world. Intelligent or not.

Thank you all for your support on IWD 2019. I shall, however, continue to support you on IMD. Just as I did last year. You're welcome ;)

Jon, that's not the point I am making. Being a doctor means you have to have a certain level of intelligence - combined with an ability to apply it. I know plumbers who earn as much as doctors. Different skillset. You could argue that plumbers 'need' less intelligence. But where would the high...

Actually, coming back to this, there's another point I hadn't thought of. That of meritocracy. If we send people with low IQs to the 3rd world, in exchange for their smarter counterparts, aren't we simply saying that if you aren't smart, you don't deserve to have a first world standard of life...

I lodge with a gay couple. I walked in on them... naked (them, not me) in the living room. Not quite what I expected at 06:45 on a Wednesday morning in Milton Keynes. It was actually hilarious. One of them grabbed the nearest thing to hand to cover his blushes. It just so happened to be a...

I wanted to update this thread as it's interesting reading back knowing what has happened since. I took the job, I now work in a town called Milton Keynes and it's exactly 131.6 miles door to door. I drive up very early on a Monday morning and travel back at lunchtime on Thursday, so I can...

Firstly, contributions to society shouldn't be measured purely in terms of IQ. There are many ways to contribute. Let's take an extreme example: A friend of mine has two sons, one of whom has Downs Syndrome. He is never going to be able to work or support himself, and his IQ is limited. Yet...

I think sometimes conversation just pauses naturally. When we chat to each other, either electronically or face to face, we both receive a lot of information and give out a lot of information. The brain needs time to process what it's heard and that's why sometimes conversation can be stilted...

No - I am not evading. I am irritated and will come back to the discussion when I have had time to think about it. For the record, as the only woman who posts with any regularity on this forum, I'm having a hard time dealing with jibes about sexism and toxic masculinity. Both issues are...

You promised to teach me.

A fact is not a 'feeling'.

I have never, ever had a partner who earns more than me.

It's an interesting point, Doc. But for me, all of the examples quoted by both you and Jon are simply examples of what the patriarchy is teaching our males to aspire to. As a woman, I don't want my lifelong mate to die for me. Or be maimed saving me. Or even slightly wounded. Quite apart from...

Name me 5 films where the male hero dies for romantic effect.

Dangerous ground. You may as well say why not go the whole way and bring in Eugenics. Where does it stop? It's less than 100 years since people were segregated in concentration camps and the Nazis attempted to exterminate them because they didn't fit the ideal standard of the time. Not just...

I see the supplements are working wonders for your cognitive skills, Jon :ROFLMAO::unsure::whistle:

The tale we tell today is a sanitised version of the original, which was very dark and troubling. In Sleeping Beauty’s original story, the “hero” is a king who meets a beautiful sleeping princess and decides to rape and impregnate her while she’s sleeping. Creepy, huh?