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Fleecing Bells Dec 2016 7:54pm, 16 Dec 2016 32,030 posts	Quote Pin Fleecing Bells Macca: there was a conference in my field recently which had 4 male keynotes and no females. In a field where women are probably in the majority this is pretty fucking unforgivable, and the response to the Twitter-bombing which ensued was laughable. But I'm betting next year they make more of an effort. God knows what it's like in a male-dominated field. I've forgotten what I came in here for now
McGoohan Dec 2016 7:56pm, 16 Dec 2016 27,111 posts	Quote Pin McGoohan "Telephone banking", i.e. spending my friday evening a) going through a million bloody options just to speak to an operator; except b) just being kept on hold for 15 minutes
shyfire Dec 2016 9:36am, 17 Dec 2016 984 posts	Quote Pin shyfire Guardian "lifestyle columnists" like this one who have no clue at all what it is like to be truly alone with no family to turn to yet churn out the same sanctimonious twaddle year after year theguardian.com and again theguardian.com Once, 14 years ago he was on his own for half a day ...
Jono. Dec 2016 10:06am, 17 Dec 2016 4,829 posts	Quote Pin Jono. THE Guardian
Wriggling Snake Dec 2016 3:17pm, 17 Dec 2016 14,037 posts	Quote Pin Wriggling Snake Agreed. The Guardian full stop. Used to be a decent paper but is mo cringeingly hand-wringingly corrrect and dull.
Raptors Claws are coming to town Dec 2016 3:24pm, 17 Dec 2016 35,034 posts	Quote Pin Raptors Claws are coming to town There does appear to be an increasing quantity of blatant drivel and flimsy stuff in The Guardian. And HOW many agony-aunty type columns does it have now? It seems to be full of that sort of stuff.
Atonal Miserabilist (AFKA TRO) Dec 2016 3:59pm, 17 Dec 2016 14,047 posts	Quote Pin Atonal Miserabilist (AFKA TRO) The abbreviation 'Uni'. Nothing says 'pretentious student wanker' louder....
CStar Dec 2016 4:34pm, 17 Dec 2016 6,381 posts	Quote Pin CStar Isn't being a pretentious wanker part of being a student ?
ChrisHB Dec 2016 5:09pm, 17 Dec 2016 14,270 posts	Quote Pin ChrisHB To me it's just modesty. "University" sounds so pompous, and even when I was a student at one of those, I called it "college".
Fleecing Bells Dec 2016 5:12pm, 17 Dec 2016 32,050 posts	Quote Pin Fleecing Bells University is much too long a word when 2 syllables would suffice