Much Wittering

@jpoliveras @ramirezlopezand @mathsrick_ But you don't need to go through the faff of all that because you can just use pythagoras, which is WAY easier, especially with the numbers involved in this example.

@much_wittering @ramirezlopezand @mathsrick_ In this case u draw the other line u have the 4m so thats the adj and hyp so u can get cos x using the adj over hyp

It needs brain and effort to solve

@graceVworld @gangajilouis @veinIuvr @DylEulenspiegel Yep. Real, non-saggy or big, you can only have 2 out of 3.

@gangajilouis @veinIuvr @DylEulenspiegel Show us REAL none saggy big boobs. We’re waiting ⏰

tell me u haven't seen big naturals without telling me u haven't seen big naturals

@StephanieJaneG6 @HodsonAnn @Geri_E_L_Scott I do occasionally, but most places don't have them as it's more efficient both in terms of space and time to have cubicles and communal sinks. If you look back you'd actually see I'm in favour of unisex loos, as long as it's additional provision, not removing single sex ones.

@much_wittering @HodsonAnn @Geri_E_L_Scott Just how big do you think the sinks and dryers are in these unisex toilets, and where they position them? You obviously don’t use many of them, do you? Besides, if you don’t like them, you’ve only got yourselves to blame, for making a nonexistent moral panic about trans women.

Excl: Bridget Phillipson told Britain’s equality regulator that it must “tone down” its guidance over single-sex spaces and make it more inclusive before she presents it to parliament. Phillipson said today she would publish the EHRC code of conduct next month after the local elections, and the EHRC confirmed it had "made adjustments where they help the code provide legally accurate, practical guidance that is useful to duty bearers". A source with knowledge of the process said much of the discussion had been over the “tone” of the document, with a feeling it had been approached with the aim of excluding transgender people rather than finding inclusive ways of operating while also upholding the law. Sources close to Phillipson said they "completely dispute" that she asked the regulator to "tone down" the guidance. They said the request was that the EHRC ensured there was clarity for all kinds of services and that the code was accessible and robust. The Times understands that the changes that have been made to the resubmitted code are minimal and that while the guidance itself will not change, the regulator had been asked to include more examples of how organisations can be inclusive within the law. thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…

@ramirezlopezand @jpoliveras @mathsrick_ Eh? I'm agreeing with you.

@much_wittering @jpoliveras @mathsrick_ Show me one scenario where, a rectangle with two 90 degrees angles on bottom could contain a non 90 degrees angle?

@StephanieJaneG6 @HodsonAnn @Geri_E_L_Scott Of course they do, as you're having to fit the loo, the sink and the dryer in the cubicle! While you may be able to claw back a bit of space from the communal sinks, once you've got more than 3 cubicles, there's not a 1:1 ratio of sinks and dryers to loos.

@much_wittering @HodsonAnn @Geri_E_L_Scott No they don’t take up more space. And what if someone with epilepsy is using a disabled toilet, collapses, and isn’t able to pull the emergency cord? What happens then? Those toilets are self contained with floor to ceiling doors?

@DrMikeHill @helensaxby11 @Kathryn34326890 @annetteholliday @Posi61 @Janet4369587977 @akuareindorf @Broonjunior @FondOfBeetles @TisDeanoPVFC @michaelpforan Yep, but that clause doesn't exist in isolation, you have to look at it in the context of the whole of s19(2). Which PC are you saying that women and transwomen share that men don't?

@much_wittering @helensaxby11 @Kathryn34326890 @annetteholliday @Posi61 @Janet4369587977 @akuareindorf @Broonjunior @FondOfBeetles @TisDeanoPVFC @michaelpforan See s19(2)d

The hyperbolic language of "policing toilets" is used to sow confusion and panic. Services should have rules and enforce them, as they do for things like health & safety rules. Let's get away from semantic nonsense about "policing" and "enforcing". Just follow the law.

@DrMikeHill @helensaxby11 @Kathryn34326890 @annetteholliday @Posi61 @Janet4369587977 @akuareindorf @Broonjunior @FondOfBeetles @TisDeanoPVFC @michaelpforan It's part of the reason why the WI no longer allows transwomen members, because they were threatened with legal action by a man for sex discrimination, and they couldn't use the exemptions as a defence as they were no longer a de facto single sex organisation.

@DrMikeHill @helensaxby11 @Kathryn34326890 @annetteholliday @Posi61 @Janet4369587977 @akuareindorf @Broonjunior @FondOfBeetles @TisDeanoPVFC @michaelpforan Which general exemption would that be? The general principle is that you can't discriminate, but there are single sex exemptions to that if proportionate. If you're saying your service is for women and transwomen, then that's not single sex, and the exemption doesn't apply.

@fahdbinjaber @mathsrick_ The right hand right angle is slightly off though.

@mathsrick_ This better reflects the dimensions.

@jpoliveras @ramirezlopezand @mathsrick_ But you don't know what the other angles are, so you can't use sohcahtoa. You just extend a line parallel to the base from the top of the 3m side, and that creates a right angled triangle at the top, which means you can use Pythagoras.

@ramirezlopezand @mathsrick_ But the answer is 6 because the missing opposite is 3 Even tho the long side is 3 as well U cant always go by visual scale Which is why i said sohcahtoa is the safest bet when its a shape like this

@StephanieJaneG6 @HodsonAnn @Geri_E_L_Scott Nope, as self contained cubicles take up a lot more space, so converting them all drastically reduces the available capacity. In addition, the requirement to have floor to ceiling doors for privacy endangers those with epilepsy and other conditions if they collapse inside.

@HodsonAnn @Geri_E_L_Scott Depends on how they do it. If a trans person, who wasn’t out to their colleagues, is now having to use a unisex toilet at the other end of a building, that is still discrimination. In this case, the best solution is to convert every toilet into a self contained unisex cubicle.

@SportSEENuk @Sport_England This wasn't a registration questionnaire it was more of a feedback one, but if they're getting it wrong there my guess would be they're doing the same elsewhere docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Thankyou. We will add this to the list of sports we have been writing to about their registration questions Most fail to ask the sex of the athlete and force respondents to select a gender identity, including for children @Sport_England have just updated their Active Lives Child survey to include sex; so there’s no reason for any Sport England funded sport not to follow suit

@SportSEENuk You might want to have a chat with the WSL about the development of their EDI strategy, given that the equalities monitoring on their latest survey includes gender identity not sex.

@klarathesalt @mercifuIl The subtitles for the facial expressions were a particular joy ☺️

@mercifuIl LMAO this is my edit!! You’re welcomeee 😆

I FINALLY GOT MY COMPILATION 😭 #TheOtherBennetSister

@IllicitusProduc It was LOVELY. Ella was fabulous casting, and everyone else was pretty great too. I'm not sure what made me laugh louder, the bit with Mr Ryder trying to get into the boat or the "warming up" in preparation for going up the mountain. Is there going to be a DVD release eventually?

So happy that Mary’s story is turning the most hardened souls into hopeless romantics! The final 2 eps air on BBC tonight. 💜 #TheOtherBennetSister

@Carm5012 @CatherineHume10 @TheAttagirls This may explain why my Mum refuses to go to the bar in the pub but sends my Dad instead, while I'm happy to, as by the time I was old enough to get served it was no longer an issue.

@CatherineHume10 @TheAttagirls When my mum was young women weren't allowed into pubs - then when they were it was only in certain areas and a landlord could refuse service to lone women until 1982!

There is no Woman of the Day today. Instead, I want to explain why I do what I do. No one really knows who first said, “History is written by the victors” but I’d bet you any odds it was a man. Think of your schooldays and count the number of times you learned about the roles played by women in shaping history, other than regnant Queens and perhaps Marie Curie and Florence Nightingale. Yet women lived, worked, networked, debated, campaigned, organised, invented things and built them too - but you’d never know this if your lessons, like mine, were confined to history books. For a practical example, just look around you. Fridge, washing machine, dishwasher, ironing board, home security system, call waiting system, car heater and windscreen wipers, even the very first computer algorithm: all invented by women. Are you surprised? Confined to the house, denied access to higher education, barred from engineering, denied entry to all branches of science and the professions for centuries, those bright analytical minds turned their attention to their immediate surroundings and saw what was needed to free them from domestic drudgery. In return, history ignored women’s achievements, glossed over them or consigned them to dusty footnotes. If all else failed, their work was credited to - or stolen by - men, the phenomenon known as the Matilda Effect, first identified by feminist Matilda Joslyn Gage in 1870. In 1993, it was named for her by historian Margaret Rossiter who said, “It is important to note early that women’s historically subordinate ‘place’ in science was not a coincidence and was not due to any lack of merit on their part. It was due to the camouflage intentionally placed over their presence in science.” Once you see it, you cannot unsee it - the Matilda Effect is everywhere - but now substitute ‘history’ for ‘science’. The proposition still stands. What I try to do is to pierce holes in that camouflage by writing about the almost-invisible women of history who overcame manmade barriers and changed the world. As a Second Wave feminist, I thought we’d won all the big battles, that it was just a matter of mopping up the resisters and dragging them into the 20th century. I did my bit to redress the balance in an overwhelmingly male environment, but how had I managed to miss the barefaced theft of our words, our spaces and services, our sports? How had we suddenly been reduced to a walking collection of body parts? It was a wake-up call. Once I saw, I couldn’t unsee the terrible damage being done to girls and young women who did not conform to the offensive sexist stereotypes being imposed on them by men who mimic women and their inane female cheerleaders. It made me fearful for non-conforming girls: tomboys. They need to see strong women as role models, women who don’t care about performing femininity, women who defy convention and do things their way. If you can see it, you can be it. So I went digging around in those dusty footnotes, found a little gold and started from there. I found thrilling tales of women who were inventive, resourceful and brave. Then I started sharing what I found more widely, tied to the calendar as Women of the Day. How do I find them? Often by pure chance. I go looking for one woman, spot a couple more names along the way - women whose stories really resonate with me - and file them away for the right time. Women’s history had been right under my nose the whole time. I just hadn’t realised that you needed to dig a little. The rather unexpected bonus was that in giving them a voice, I found mine. I am a conspicuously law-abiding woman, a former prison governor, and if you had told me when I retired that one day, I’d be standing outside a police station in protest at the hounding of gender critical women and singing “Go catch some rapists” to the tune of Guantanamera, I’d have advised you to seek immediate medical attention for the effects of the bump to your head. But here I am, telling women’s stories, and behind the scenes, pursuing a second career as a women’s rights activist. I won’t ever fall asleep at the wheel again. Tomorrow, I’m off to Cardiff with my Women of Wessex sisters, to protest about @bphillipsonmp’s inexplicable decision to delay laying the EHRC Code of Practice before Parliament — and make no mistake about it. It IS a decision; one that is causing real harm and damage to the rights of women and the protection of children. Some of you come for the occasional stories of women in history hiding in plain sight, but I hope you stay because you care about fairness and safety for women. For now, I leave you with this thought from the 1949 memoirs of Somerset suffragette Nelly Crocker (1872-1962): “Modern young women seem unaware of the price paid for their political and social emancipation, and modern historians have greatly ignored the struggle”.

@s0cialistscully @rbenison89 IIRC avoid caffeine as well.

@rbenison89 i have not been, i wasn't aware that was supposed to help! thanks for the advice! i'll probably hear back from my doc this week with her advice, but i'll def look into that

i've been taking iron supplements for months now to raise my ferritin, per my doctor's recommendation. i just got bloodwork done and it's still only 11 😅

@Gracie_Blue89 @JCACHAIR That's a skill issue. If you make note of how much milk you put in to get it how you like it when you add it last, all you have to do is add the same amount beforehand instead.

@JCACHAIR I can't do milk first 😭

Never EVER trust a person who puts the milk in first 🫣 Are you even British?? 🇬🇧

@Seansfanclub @anonwhistleblew @dwilso_10 Adult children living with their parents is one of the scenarios that Shelter specifically excludes, but a separate property with proper tenancy is different apparently, possibly due to recent caselaw about it. I agree DWP will probably be difficult though.

@much_wittering @anonwhistleblew @dwilso_10 I was a welfare rights officer for 30 years, if the real circumstances are disclosed it’s almost impossible to get DWP to agree it’s a commercial tenancy. If it was it would mean adult children could claim housing benefit for living with their parents.

Last year I saw a house for sale on Rightmove that was £90k and needed a bit of work doing to it. I presumed it would get snapped up by developers and resold at a higher price. Fast forward 9 months to today. I visit a 51 year old lady who was a heroin addict for 20 years but 1/2

@FondOfBeetles I'd agree with all of that except I think they think having a hole AND tits is it.

You will never know what it feels like to be a woman. You just think having a hole is it.

A cell layer that has developed to protect your body from the outside doesn’t work like a cell layer that has developed to protect your body from the inside. The cells lining my vagina are not the same cells, and they don’t have the same function, as the ones wrapping your penis. There’s a name for what happens when you subject dry-adapted “outside skin” to wet-adapted “inside conditions”. Further reading: trench foot.