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Like I said earlier,. trans men aren't the problem. The problem is male predators. The trans lobby want to make a rule that any trans woman with a full set of male genitalia can go into women's changing rooms and strip off in front of naked women. But what are their proposals to ensure that the only people with a full set of male genitalia who want to strip off in front of women are trans women? Have they a foolproof system for telling the difference between a trans woman and a pervert who claims to be a trans woman? Maybe I'm just old fashioned. Back in the day, if a man dropped his trousers in front of a woman, the woman was entitled to scream and call for help and (as Linehan suggested) hit him where it hurts, because he might be an abuser. Now, she is expected to nod and smile because he might not be an abuser. Can any good come frm giving rapists, abusers, and perverts free access to the women's changing rooms?

Trans people aren't the problem. the problem is that far too many people think that it is fair and reasonable for ANY man, be he trans or predatory, to go into women's changing rooms and take off his clothes and be resent while they are taking off their clothes. I think some poeple genuinely believe that making a rule that any person with a penis who says he is a woman and is telling the truth should be allowed in, and any person with a penis who says he is a woman and is lying should be kept out. It isn't a practical policy. If it is normalised for men to enter women's changing rooms, then the wrong type of man will do it.

Is that a problem? There are still a lot of people who think that women should not be allowed a private woman-only space to get dressed in. Until that opinion goes back into the fantasy world where it belongs, or until we live in a world where women are no longer in danger from men, then it should be published loud and clear.

How could you possibly leave out "The bowler's Holding, the batman's Willey". [edit - I hadn't realised there was another page and Trav le Bleu beat me to it by a mere 13 hours!]

Never invest with a salesman who tells you that. It's bound to be a crooked deal.

They shouldn't be allowed to charge for stopping more than 2 hours. One of their legal obligations is to allow drivers a place to rest and recuperate, and who are they to say that no driver ever needs more than 2 hours' rest?

You don't necessarily reduce potential future growth by withdrawing the tax-free sum. You can take it out of the pension and put it in a deposit with the pension provider, and leave it in exactly the same investment. I have a "pot" handled by Skipton Building Society where some of the money is in a pension, some is in an ISA, but the total is lumped together in the same investment vehicle. That's not saying it's a good idea to take tax free cash, just that it doesn't have to mean cash in the bank - it can stay invested.

I see the point, but do you apply it consistently down the line? Should I go on holiday this year or should I give the money to good causes? Is it right to eat an an expensive restaurant when there are people begging on the streets? All of us, governments included, spend money on "vanity" or "enjoyment" projects when there are more worthy causes.

And finally, the Brewers have made it to the second round of the playoffs!

I doubt it's worth it. I claimed £450 or so for water damage a few years back and paid it back in increased premiums within two years.

I don't think it was harmful ignorance, because covid vaccines for children probably did more harm than good. It was still fraud, which he seems to have got away with, but (however much blind chance and prejudice was involved) he was right that children were better off unvaccinated against covid.

Yes and no. I understand that conditions may be different between hiring a car for a week when on holiday in Spain, and hiring one for three months for business purposes in the UK. I'd find out where youy're going and what you need the car for before I made any commitment. Last time I hired a car I got one at a high rate with damage fully covered, and it arrived with bumps and scrapes at every corner but lovely to drive. For driving on Majorca, it suited me fine. We booked it on a daily rate via the hotel, and I'm certain there are cheaper ways to do it, but this was zero hassle and zero risk.

At lower league matches you can get pretty close to the action, and at Keighley Cougars v Rochdale Hornets (that I went to recently) there was little sound of public school accents. And I may be wrong, but I don't think Wigan and Hull Kingston Rovers are public school sides either. I don't agree with your premise that footballers are too stupid to stop swearing while rugby players are intelligent, and I don't agree with your premise that rich people swear less than poor people.

Anyone is allowed to speak to the ref in rugby league, assuming the ref is willing to talk to them of course. And in rugby league, the ref is miked up so that the world can hear what the player is saying (and yes, they know how not to swear!). I remember one ref was telling off a player and the player was trying to put forward his defence - and the ref said, "No, I'm talking and you're listening". Catch the FA supporting a ref who laid down the law like that? Not a chance. Actually, in rugby league they mandated a few seasons back that any player who swore at the ref would be sent off. There were quite a few red cards, perhaps a dozen or so, in the first half of the season, but they learned. Once again, it was taken for granted that the rule was there and the players did not have the right to ignore it.

Pivotal to it. When we got promoted in 2014 he insisted that a large chunk of the Sky TV money should be used for redeveloping the training ground. It cost £11m in the end, out of perhaps £40m annual TV money at the time. (After the previous promotion in 2009 they had spent nothing on upgrading.)

Just a couple of points about Dyche's time at Burnley. 1. When he arrived, the training ground was such that the club never took potential sigings to see it because it was such a disgrace, and the players all changed at Turf Moor and drove to Padiham to train. And drove back to shower. The academy was category 3 and appealing against demotion. There wasn't a lot of youth talent to pick from. 2. He played entertaining football in both his Championship promotion seasons. (There is hardly a type of winning football that isn't entertaining.) 3. He has a superb record for doing a lot with not much. In his first full Championship season, he had to sell top scorer Charlie Austin and could only sign free transfers, but he managed to turn Scott Arfield, Tom Heaton and David Jones along with the rest of the 12th-placed squad into a 2nd place promotion side. In the process he managed to take youngish players such as Tom Heaton, Nick Pope, Michael Keane, James Tarkowski, and to a lesser extent Jack Cork, from nowhere near England quality to getting England caps. 4. His last few years in the PL were marred by lack of funds. His 2020-21 transfer windows were panned further up the thread - well, his total spend (not net spend) was £1.1m. It's hard to build a PL squad on that sort of money. So he kept his formerly young, now getting on a bit stars because they were better than the potential replacements, and that's why his team aged. Mike Garlick, the then chairman, was storing up cash reserves, ostensibly for future development but actually so that he could sell the club and let them use the cash for the sale proceeds. We had £80m saved up in cash when Garlick left; we're now £80m in debt. Whether he's right for Leicester now? I can't say and I'm not going to try. You're the ones who reap the results, anyway. But his track record based on having lack of cash is extraordinary. His track record of spending large sums is limited but unexceptional. His mistake (I reckon) was that in the season we qualified for Europe, he played some reserves in the third qualifying round against Panathanaikos, and we got knocked out. It upset the players. Anecdotally at least, Ben Mee (captain) wasn't happy to be left out.

I think they'll probably water the grass overnight. Is the 10 minute break a special Wimbledon rule, or do they do it at all tournaments? They do in Australia, I know, with extra breaks if the temperature goes over 40 degrees.

Warmer winters mean that fewer people die because of the cold, and the saving there outweighs the increased numbers who die of the heat in summer. It's probably the same people, by and large, who have managed an extra 6 months on earth because of the warmer weather.

In 1976 the heatwave began on the first day of Wimbledon, which would be at the end of June so it wouldn't affect the average much. What were the equivalent July figures?

Since the turn of the century, Leicester have had 21 permanent managers and are (presumably) looking for number 22. Brendan Rodgers is the only one to manage 4 years, and that was only because he got an FA Cup win. Other clubs are the same. Appointing a manager for the long term is just a pipe dream.

OK, if that's what passes for politeness in your world.

Are you so aggressive in real life, or just on the internet? There are ways to disagree that don't need to involve abuse. And also there are ways to disagree without inventing something I haven't said and disagreeing with that too.

You're overstating the duties of the 1st team manager in respect of the academy admin. The reason we lost Category 1 is that the new owners came in and sacked the academy boss (who knew what he was doing) and replaced him with someone who didn't know what he was doing. Dyche was not in charge of that appointment. When Dyche got his first promotion to the PL, he took a large chunk of the budget that could have been used for new signings, and insisted it was spent on the training ground. Without that, category 3 was the best that could have been hoped for - and possibly not even that. Before Dyche, they used to meet potential new signings in Manchester to avoid showing them where they would train.

You can't live your life doing everything with a view to what other people will think. If he's happy, and the parents of the children are happy, anyone else can make up their own minds.

If he's lived a lifetime of contact with bacteria, he'll be more resistant to it than someone who hasn't. Chances are he'll be fine.