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[ramAnag]

Another one, who knows nothing

You do know the meaning of ‘pathetic’ don’t you? It means…pitiful…so with absolutely no knowledge whatsoever of these women’s level of ability you have written them off as ‘pitiful’ while, as ever, abusing anyone who disagrees with you. That, TTR, is ‘pathetic’.

Moving on from your idiocy and rudeness. Coincidentally, for the first time ever on the ferry over to Dieppe a week ago I saw something I’ve never seen before…the presence of heavily armed members of the ‘Gendarme Maritime’ throughout the crossing. Five of them, all carrying holstered hand guns in addition to what I took to be semi automatic weapons. Didn’t know whether to be alarmed or reassured, but came down on the side of the latter given the potential terrorist threat as we sailed on the opening day of the Paris Olympics.

As a matter of fact…one of the five was a giant of a man…the other four all smaller than me. Doubt whether it would have made any difference and I’d have been just as reassured if any of the five had been women, but the question RS poses is one I fear we are all going to have to face up to in the not so distant future…been the case in Spain for ages and I’ve never felt intimidated, but then I’m unlikely to set out to harm anyone.

[MadAmster]

TTR, although there are no legal height requirements to become a police officer in the UK, most forces won't even look at you if you're male and under 5 foot 7 or female and under 5 foot 4. I presume your 4 foot 11 comment is a colloquialism.

Khalifa. From what I've read, and it's possible I haven't seen all relevant facts, it appears that she was born with a vagina, a uterus, a womb, has periods and can have children. She is female, not trans, fully transitioned or simply self identified. She's not even Hermaphrodite, an issue that saw Caster Semanya barred from running 400m, 800m and 1500m unless she underwent hormione treatment. It seems that the only time there has been any doubt was when the IBA, halfway through a tournament, decided she had too much testosterone in her body to meet their criteria for what constitutes a woman. The IBA is not a body the IOC recognises which is why she has been allowed to take part in the Olympics. One Irish boxer is on record as saying that she and 8 others have beaten Khalifa in the ring so she's certainly not all conquering.

If you can find any reliable sources that conclusively prove she ever had "dangly bits" I'd love to see them.

[ramAnag]

If you can find any reliable sources that conclusively prove she ever had "dangly bits" I'd love to see them.

Pervert!:

[Andy_Faber]

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Pervert!:

Yes, ill chosen words of a different sort there MA!

[Andy_Faber]

You do know the meaning of ‘pathetic’ don’t you? It means…pitiful…so with absolutely no knowledge whatsoever of these women’s level of ability you have written them off as ‘pitiful’ while, as ever, abusing anyone who disagrees with you. That, TTR, is ‘pathetic’.

Moving on from your idiocy and rudeness. Coincidentally, for the first time ever on the ferry over to Dieppe a week ago I saw something I’ve never seen before…the presence of heavily armed members of the ‘Gendarme Maritime’ throughout the crossing. Five of them, all carrying holstered hand guns in addition to what I took to be semi automatic weapons. Didn’t know whether to be alarmed or reassured, but came down on the side of the latter given the potential terrorist threat as we sailed on the opening day of the Paris Olympics.

As a matter of fact…one of the five was a giant of a man…the other four all smaller than me. Doubt whether it would have made any difference and I’d have been just as reassured if any of the five had been women, but the question RS poses is one I fear we are all going to have to face up to in the not so distant future…been the case in Spain for ages and I’ve never felt intimidated, but then I’m unlikely to set out to harm anyone.

Funny you should mention Spain rA, and I can’t explain this, but I have far more confidence in any given Spanish ‘policeman’ (be it Policia Local or Guardian Civil) than I do in the equiv in the U.K., when I see one in day to day mooching around. also to contrast, I doubt a day went by when I didn’t see a Spanish foot patrol of some sort, the last one I saw in U.K. was before I moved house over two years ago

[swaledale]

TTR, although there are no legal height requirements to become a police officer in the UK, most forces won't even look at you if you're male and under 5 foot 7 or female and under 5 foot 4. I presume your 4 foot 11 comment is a colloquialism.

Khalifa. From what I've read, and it's possible I haven't seen all relevant facts, it appears that she was born with a vagina, a uterus, a womb, has periods and can have children. She is female, not trans, fully transitioned or simply self identified. She's not even Hermaphrodite, an issue that saw Caster Semanya barred from running 400m, 800m and 1500m unless she underwent hormione treatment. It seems that the only time there has been any doubt was when the IBA, halfway through a tournament, decided she had too much testosterone in her body to meet their criteria for what constitutes a woman. The IBA is not a body the IOC recognises which is why she has been allowed to take part in the Olympics. One Irish boxer is on record as saying that she and 8 others have beaten Khalifa in the ring so she's certainly not all conquering.

If you can find any reliable sources that conclusively prove she ever had "dangly bits" I'd love to see them.

I don't know MA, if only we could go back to the 1950's when men were men and women were women and each knew their rightful place in society. We had none of this same *** or trans malarkey in those days, oh wait didn't we disgracefully mistreat a very intelligent guy who was gay whose code breaking helped win the war?

[swaledale]

Funny you should mention Spain rA, and I can’t explain this, but I have far more confidence in any given Spanish ‘policeman’ (be it Policia Local or Guardian Civil) than I do in the equiv in the U.K., when I see one in day to day mooching around. also to contrast, I doubt a day went by when I didn’t see a Spanish foot patrol of some sort, the last one I saw in U.K. was before I moved house over two years ago

Mm I witnessed the Spanish Police in action at a football match a while back and they were indiscriminately beating people who hadn't done a thing. I'm rather more confident that the Uk Police are less likely to use mindless violence than most of those abroad, especially to people not involved in any confrontation with them.

[swaledale]

I see Thickys mates are out and about on the streets, attacking Police, looting shops and causing general mayhem! Admittedly some of them seem slightly more intelligent than Thicky, but that's not a high bar.

[MadAmster]

I don't know MA, if only we could go back to the 1950's when men were men and women were women and each knew their rightful place in society. We had none of this same *** or trans malarkey in those days, oh wait didn't we disgracefully mistreat a very intelligent guy who was gay whose code breaking helped win the war?

Indeed, there were no "trans" back in those days but we did have "cross dressers".

[ramAnag]

Funny you should mention Spain rA, and I can’t explain this, but I have far more confidence in any given Spanish ‘policeman’ (be it Policia Local or Guardian Civil) than I do in the equiv in the U.K., when I see one in day to day mooching around. also to contrast, I doubt a day went by when I didn’t see a Spanish foot patrol of some sort, the last one I saw in U.K. was before I moved house over two years ago

That wasn’t really my point, AF. I wasn’t comparing in that way. It’s just that I think I’m correct in saying that the police in most countries I visit regularly - Spain, Germany, France and the USA - seem to be armed, whereas the Brits aren’t and I think, as RS intimated, it’s going to become more of an issue in the near future.

Unfortunately, because of the nature of the job and the ‘power’ that goes with it, the police force will always attract a number of bullies so while I have faith in the majority of all police in all the countries I visit there will be a not insignificant minority who it might be entirely inappropriate to arm. That is a problem and my personal ‘jury’ remains ‘out’ on this one.