tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34128264.post1947933252378982098..comments2024-03-25T12:55:40.911+00:00Comments on Caron's Musings: Alex Neil, don't you dare tell me I'm not a pretty sightAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04988201531739344840noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34128264.post-85242158362122275412013-01-12T06:13:28.356+00:002013-01-12T06:13:28.356+00:00Thanks Jennie touché as they say (or very nearly)!...Thanks Jennie touché as they say (or very nearly)! I see you are another one that wants to attribute plain speech as trolling. Maybe the best thing for you to do would be to think you have attained the moral high ground by not responding when you can’t form a cogent response, rather like Caron does herself. So much easier to call me an offensive troll than make any attempt to justify Caron and your ludicrous neo-feminist stance.Munguinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16475165830302054002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34128264.post-19406833830872841412013-01-09T15:44:09.784+00:002013-01-09T15:44:09.784+00:00Sorry, Munguin. I thought you had genuinely misund...Sorry, Munguin. I thought you had genuinely misunderstood. I didn't realise you were being a purposefully offensive troll; if I had I wouldn't have bothered replying. Do carry on.Jennie Rigghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14893281560181289667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34128264.post-16114401025749913572013-01-09T15:28:41.651+00:002013-01-09T15:28:41.651+00:00Incidentally, I would add to my last comment that,...Incidentally, I would add to my last comment that, if I wished to persuade a man to cut down on booze, I would talk about big beer guts and brewer's droop, both of which are encumbrances to sex... which is far more important to men than looks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34128264.post-74509342038944860172013-01-09T15:14:29.555+00:002013-01-09T15:14:29.555+00:00Drinking is a massive problem in Scotland. It cost...Drinking is a massive problem in Scotland. It costs the country a fortune. It makes problems for our tourist business, as people find that "Downtown" on a Friday or Saturday night is a no go area for anyone who isn't bladdered.<br /><br />It is an undeniable fact that woman (and to a lesser extent men) spend a fortune buying incredibly expensive moisturisers that over the last few years have started to promise (wrongly probably) that they will remove wrinkles. One thing above everything else which makes people look old.<br /><br />Tiny bottles at as much as £100 a shout are sold to people who really can't afford them (mainly but not exclusively women) so that they won't end up looking ancient.<br /><br />Then they get ratted and they dehydrate, and any slight good that these miracle potions have done, disappears out of the window.<br /><br />Simple psychology: If you want to try to get women to cut down their excessive drinking, little good pointing out that cirrhosis of the liver is a very painful death... but point out that after a night on the drink they look ten years older.<br /><br />I know which one I'm putting my money on having success.<br /><br />Men are traditionally less worried about looking older, possibly because many women find older wrinkly, bald, grey men sexually attractive. Very few men find older women with wrinkles and grey hair sexually attractive.<br /><br />It may be politically incorrect to say it, but by and large it is biology.<br /><br />And no matter how feminist, and equal we all are, most of us still like to be fancied. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34128264.post-31101563534243205972013-01-09T15:04:50.448+00:002013-01-09T15:04:50.448+00:00Caron I’m sorry I was under the impression that fe...Caron I’m sorry I was under the impression that feminism had gone out of fashion now that women had got all the things they burnt their bras to get and that this sort of new age right on feminism was more of a silly fashion gimmick that looks for the feminist angle no matter how preposterous and convoluted. As in this item where Caron wears her feminist, proud sister etc credentials on her sleeve and has a pop at the SNP into the bargain. Trebles all round eh!Munguinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00834368282562483207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34128264.post-68737158782773124132013-01-09T14:58:42.767+00:002013-01-09T14:58:42.767+00:00Jennie maybe I’m not in touch with my feminine sid...Jennie maybe I’m not in touch with my feminine side and that’s why I don’t see this with silly feminist rose tinted glasses on. Drinking to excess ruins your looks. That is a fact. Women spend a lot of time and money attempting to accentuate the positive. That is also a fact. To avoid facts and reality so as not to offend wimmin like Caron is simply preposterous. Oh and I can assure you that almost everything that Caron writes regarding the SNP is an effort (mostly a fairly poor one) to twit the SNP. Pathetic I know, but what can you do. Consensus politics seems impossible here in Scotland.Munguinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00834368282562483207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34128264.post-75677424559341978572013-01-08T18:16:41.743+00:002013-01-08T18:16:41.743+00:00I don't see how this is any different than the...I don't see how this is any different than the "Keep your head screwed on" campaign aimed at young men in Scotland a decade or so ago. The message then was that you will be less attractive to young ladies if you drink too much. Did you complain about that at the time?<br /><br />The more important point is whether the assertion is backed by research evidence. Just because you find the message unpalatable or don't like the messanger does not invalidate the point being made. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34128264.post-78768566257850427952013-01-08T17:32:01.988+00:002013-01-08T17:32:01.988+00:00Munguin, it's just a feminist rant, no neo inv...Munguin, it's just a feminist rant, no neo involved. <br /><br />I just think that if we want to reduce alcohol consumption, we need to put resources into finding out why women drink and tackling those reasons.<br /><br />I don't think it's right for the state to reinforce the rubbish out there about how looks matter above all else for women, Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04988201531739344840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34128264.post-68392716444969648382013-01-08T16:38:15.011+00:002013-01-08T16:38:15.011+00:00Munguin: seemed perfectly clear to me. Maybe drink...Munguin: seemed perfectly clear to me. Maybe drinking ruins your looks and maybe it doesn't but surely there are better reasons to put on puritanism than that?<br /><br />Looks shouldn't matter, at least not to the exclusion of all else, is the point I saw.<br /><br />PS, I'm English, so didn't even realise this was a dig at the SNP, I thought it was a dig at any idiot who says a woman's looks are her most important attribute.Jennie Rigghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14893281560181289667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34128264.post-11506285351191566012013-01-08T16:10:02.190+00:002013-01-08T16:10:02.190+00:00Suspect part of what ages (some) women is stress, ...Suspect part of what ages (some) women is stress, and stressing about how they look won't help.Jennie Rigghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14893281560181289667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34128264.post-45248506615111609122013-01-08T15:28:08.664+00:002013-01-08T15:28:08.664+00:00I’m confused Caron....having read your neo-feminis...I’m confused Caron....having read your neo-feminist rant I’m not sure now if you agree that drinking to excess can in fact ruin your looks or not. Or is this just having a pop at the SNP through whatever convoluted and silly prism that comes to hand?Munguinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16475165830302054002noreply@blogger.com