BS: Hospital in Brighton has gone bonkers

Subject: RE: BS: Hospital in Brighton has gone bonkers
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 25 Feb 21 - 08:48 AM

Grr. I meant, it's not the size of DWandle...

Subject: RE: BS: Hospital in Brighton has gone bonkers
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 25 Feb 21 - 08:37 AM

It's not the size of the DWandle...

Subject: RE: BS: Hospital in Brighton has gone bonkers
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 25 Feb 21 - 08:16 AM

DWandle - a male or female, or the river?

Subject: RE: BS: Hospital in Brighton has gone bonkers
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 24 Feb 21 - 07:32 AM

It won't in Croyden. But DWandle will get you to the Thames

Subject: RE: BS: Hospital in Brighton has gone bonkers
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 24 Feb 21 - 02:28 AM

I know !!

Subject: RE: BS: Hospital in Brighton has gone bonkers
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 23 Feb 21 - 06:01 PM

Denial will get you nowhere!

Subject: RE: BS: Hospital in Brighton has gone bonkers
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 23 Feb 21 - 05:53 PM

We are as far south of South Croydon as you can get - 500 yards from border with Tandridge!!

Subject: RE: BS: Hospital in Brighton has gone bonkers
From: robomatic
Date: 23 Feb 21 - 05:51 PM

I appreciate it when folks go out of their way, and potentially their comfort zone, to describe their modes of thought and struggle to be understood. If I'm an advocate of anything, it is that people have a right to express themselves without hindering other people. I try to call folks what they want to be called.

I think we are not so much settled as in multiple states of flux. I think in future there might be fewer genders than a dozen, unless some triple sexed aliens show up. The utilization of exoplanetary pronouns will lead to some pretty neat graduate theses.

Subject: RE: BS: Hospital in Brighton has gone bonkers
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 23 Feb 21 - 05:49 PM

And I've heard that they're all like that down Croydon way, which is why I've never been!

Subject: RE: BS: Hospital in Brighton has gone bonkers
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 23 Feb 21 - 05:46 PM

He doesn't mind if you take the mick out of him. He was nice enough to wish me well when I got sick at the weekend, and we have sparred occasionally!

Subject: RE: BS: Hospital in Brighton has gone bonkers
From: Jeri
Date: 23 Feb 21 - 05:40 PM

I wouldn't pay too much attention to Bonz. He doesn't know the difference between gender and sex. Seriously, when someone's THAT invested in being intentionally ignorant, it's not worth the 100th of a calorie you'd use typing a response.

Subject: RE: BS: Hospital in Brighton has gone bonkers
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 23 Feb 21 - 04:06 PM

Usually happens when their mothers don't leave them outside in their prams when babies.

Subject: RE: BS: Hospital in Brighton has gone bonkers
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 23 Feb 21 - 04:05 PM

Nonsense

Subject: RE: BS: Hospital in Brighton has gone bonkers
From: The Sandman
Date: 23 Feb 21 - 03:12 PM

However, gender isn't about someone's anatomy, it is about who they know them self to be. There are many different gender identities, including male, female, transgender, gender neutral, non-binary, agender, pangender, genderqueer, two-spirit, third gender, and all, none or a combination of these.

Subject: RE: BS: Hospital in Brighton has gone bonkers
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 23 Feb 21 - 03:03 PM

And you're both of 'em!

Subject: RE: BS: Hospital in Brighton has gone bonkers
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 23 Feb 21 - 01:57 PM

Gender is very easy considering there are only 2!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Hospital in Brighton has gone bonkers
From: leeneia
Date: 23 Feb 21 - 10:22 AM

Mrrzy, I agree with you about pronouns.

Subject: RE: BS: Hospital in Brighton has gone bonkers
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 22 Feb 21 - 02:12 PM

Fine! I'll call you nowt else.

Subject: RE: BS: Hospital in Brighton has gone bonkers
From: Mrrzy
Date: 22 Feb 21 - 02:02 PM

Doubt it all you want.

No variations. The nickname was invented at my birth by my much older sisters. Long before I knew I was nonbinary I was already using it to avoid my gendered name. As soon as I realized I did not belong to my body's gender I had my name legally changed.

Pronounced like the river Mersey, or like mercy with a Z, or like myrrh+zee.

Subject: RE: BS: Hospital in Brighton has gone bonkers
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 22 Feb 21 - 12:27 PM

"It's Mrrzy, duh."

I doubt it, but I'll you it anyway.

Subject: RE: BS: Hospital in Brighton has gone bonkers
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 22 Feb 21 - 09:00 AM

I thought I read it explained as being pronounced like "Mersey" ( a river that should be well known to a Liverpool supporter) a few posts back or in another thread? A google search @@'@ tried yielded nothing for that but did find "Merzy". Are they variants of the same name?

Subject: RE: BS: Hospital in Brighton has gone bonkers
From: Mrrzy
Date: 22 Feb 21 - 08:48 AM

It's Mrrzy, duh.

Subject: RE: BS: Hospital in Brighton has gone bonkers
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 22 Feb 21 - 05:03 AM

We don't know your name.

Subject: RE: BS: Hospital in Brighton has gone bonkers
From: Mrrzy
Date: 21 Feb 21 - 01:07 PM

Interesting take on this in WashPo:

Blicky.

If paywall, lemme know.

What I don't get is why people worry about what pronouns to use in *addressing* anyone. "You" has no gender. One only uses a gendered pronoun in English in 3rd person, singular.

If you talk about me out of my hearing, I don't know -and don't care- what you use.
If you talk about me while I am there, use my name. And *then* use They to avoid repeating my name.

Subject: RE: BS: Hospital in Brighton has gone bonkers
From: The Sandman
Date: 21 Feb 21 - 08:57 AM

can you give examples i do not know one folk singer who lives in brighton

Subject: RE: BS: Hospital in Brighton has gone bonkers
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 21 Feb 21 - 07:28 AM

Brighton is where every queer and awful folk singer imaginable lives!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Hospital in Brighton has gone bonkers
From: Jeri
Date: 18 Feb 21 - 03:43 PM

Both o' yez, grow up!

Subject: RE: BS: Hospital in Brighton has gone bonkers
From: The Sandman
Date: 18 Feb 21 - 03:36 PM

Compliments returned, the whole thread is fuckin stupid, just bringing humour to a fuckin stupid thread

Subject: RE: BS: Hospital in Brighton has gone bonkers
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 18 Feb 21 - 03:15 PM

Don't be so fucking stupid Sandman.

Subject: RE: BS: Hospital in Brighton has gone bonkers
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 18 Feb 21 - 01:20 PM

Steve,
Hmm. Dunno, Doug. At least a couple of women on the telly who are in single-sex marriages refer to their wives...

I did start my comment with "Given Bonzo's opinion, demonstrated here in this thread, ....". How likely is it that Bonzo would be in a same sex marriage?


Dick,
Don't be silly!

DC

Subject: RE: BS: Hospital in Brighton has gone bonkers
From: The Sandman
Date: 18 Feb 21 - 12:46 PM

well perhaps chongo minds.Bonzo has to prove he is a man

Subject: RE: BS: Hospital in Brighton has gone bonkers
From: Senoufou
Date: 18 Feb 21 - 12:31 PM

If Bonzo is a chimp it doesn't matter one bit. I like him very much, and love hearing about his dog Dreamy.
How is Dreamy getting along Bonzo? Hope the snow wasn't too much of a problem for walks!

Subject: RE: BS: Hospital in Brighton has gone bonkers
From: leeneia
Date: 18 Feb 21 - 12:22 PM

Yes, isn't Bonzo a chimp from Blind River, Ontario? Companion of the opprobrious Shane?

Subject: RE: BS: Hospital in Brighton has gone bonkers
From: The Sandman
Date: 18 Feb 21 - 12:09 PM

you could be a chimpanzee

Subject: RE: BS: Hospital in Brighton has gone bonkers
From: The Sandman
Date: 18 Feb 21 - 12:08 PM

no bonzo, prove you are a man. i do not believe you

Subject: RE: BS: Hospital in Brighton has gone bonkers
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 18 Feb 21 - 11:54 AM

Ha ha!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Hospital in Brighton has gone bonkers
From: The Sandman
Date: 18 Feb 21 - 10:05 AM

doug chadwick, unless one knows bonzo in person , he could making his wife up, he could be a woman or a trans as well as a right wing troll

Subject: RE: BS: Hospital in Brighton has gone bonkers
From: The Sandman
Date: 18 Feb 21 - 09:31 AM

mrs thatcher?

Subject: RE: BS: Hospital in Brighton has gone bonkers
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 18 Feb 21 - 09:05 AM

Hmm. Dunno, Doug. At least a couple of women on the telly who are in single-sex marriages refer to their wives...

I'd have thought that a more solid deduction would be that no woman would come out with such uniformly daft notions as Bonzo does... :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Hospital in Brighton has gone bonkers
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 18 Feb 21 - 08:31 AM

Bonzo, how do i know what sex you are?

Given Bonzo's opinions, demonstrated here in this thread, then "........my wife's school ......", posted just two messages up from yours, should give you a clue.

DC

Subject: RE: BS: Hospital in Brighton has gone bonkers
From: The Sandman
Date: 18 Feb 21 - 08:08 AM

Bonzo, how do i know what sex you are? I think you might be a woman, so would it not be safer if i just call you dog warden or dog person, i know you are dog matic , but that is the only certain thing about you

Subject: RE: BS: Hospital in Brighton has gone bonkers
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 17 Feb 21 - 07:35 PM

Headteacher. Hardly a PC word...

Subject: RE: BS: Hospital in Brighton has gone bonkers
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 17 Feb 21 - 06:24 PM

My school had a headmaster and my wife's school on Buenos Aires had a headmistress . None of modern day neuterising!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Hospital in Brighton has gone bonkers
From: The Sandman
Date: 16 Feb 21 - 01:40 PM

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Bertrand Russell

Subject: RE: BS: Hospital in Brighton has gone bonkers
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 16 Feb 21 - 01:06 PM

Thankyou Jeri, absurd is absolutely right.

Subject: RE: BS: Hospital in Brighton has gone bonkers
From: Mrrzy
Date: 16 Feb 21 - 01:06 PM

Ooh and now it's a music thread, Bilky boy, Billy boy...

Subject: RE: BS: Hospital in Brighton has gone bonkers
From: The Sandman
Date: 16 Feb 21 - 12:30 PM

jeri, you have been to the movies, i am impressed, you have been to the movies and you can bake a cherry pie.
another great step forward for mankind

Subject: RE: BS: Hospital in Brighton has gone bonkers
From: Jeri
Date: 16 Feb 21 - 11:08 AM

Or you.
If someone is trying to talk about their female parent, saying "mother" is more specific.
Language police: let em spin, let 'em scatter in the wind, I have been to the movies...

Subject: RE: BS: Hospital in Brighton has gone bonkers
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 16 Feb 21 - 11:07 AM

IMHO/edumacated guess..

One factor guaranteed for minorities to annoy & alienate 'mainstream' society,
and for right wing groups/media to exploit against them;

is militant minority activists who attempt to exert a disproportionate sense of entitlement and power
over the vocabulary and conduct of the mass population..

Getting this right is a fine [near impossible ?] balance...

Subject: RE: BS: Hospital in Brighton has gone bonkers
From: The Sandman
Date: 16 Feb 21 - 10:41 AM

anyway brighton are not going to take any notice of people like bonzo and jeri