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s'alright -Elisheva, you’re okay. Mighty fine.

I was being a complete arse. It used to be my permanent role upon the previous iteration of this site.

I haven’t been around in a long while and was just looking for a pulse; waving the red rag. I knew that I’d invoke a few pilgrims and an innocent or two, but I was fishing; seeing if I couldn’t raise one of my old hard-bitten tNBW lady friends to smack me down verbally.

I suppose they’ve all passed away by now. For they were all very old with shrivelled hearts and other peoples hair and teeth; and yet I loved them dearly.

'Vern the Wise', site transition survivor; he’s heard it all and seen it all before. Several times.

Are your employer’s mad? Everyone knows that it means awful bad luck to have a woman on a boat!

There isn’t even an accurate alarm term coined for a female falling overboard!

And computers on yachts; are you sure?  They obviously can’t afford a proper means of propulsion; you'd think they’d splash out on an engine before they blow their cash on a PlayStation.

That'd be handy for blokes tea and coffee breaks. Do you know your male colleagues by their names or do you identify them as 'milk, no sugar' and 'black with two please.'

Of course you do. Most women believe they a good drivers (or singers, dancers, or cooks etc.) but as we know, belief is a substitute for fact (here I'd cite religion as an example, any one them).

Do you think you could break out of your stereotypical conditioning and consider for once just how annoying and inconsiderate it is when women persistently leave the toilet-seat down?

Only in the USA though. In Europe the circular saw was invented by a Greek called Archimedes (287-212 BC). It was reintroduced and used extensively throughout the Roman Empire  between 27 BC and 264 AD. In China variants of the circular saw have been around since pre-history, but the one preserved in the Chongqing Science and Technology Museum dates from 97 BC

I fear it is more of a gender based affliction than stereotypical trait Mariana. My wife once exclaimed (of the car) that 'if it were invented by a woman then it'd be a far better machine."

I remember we contemplated that for a while and then burst out laughing as we simultaneously realised that no woman has ever invented anything.

Much Appreciated!!

Personally I like to maintain a high ratio of female characters within my writing.  I feel this gives the writer far more scope within the plot for characters to be irrational, illogical and emotionally flawed. You can have them distracted from key aspects of the plot by; say a new handbag or damage to their hair-do. There is the opportunity for humourist sub-plots where they’ll get lost by reading a map upside-down or baffled by (or fumbling with) technological devices. The image of a female character running in high-heeled shoes is also great imagery as is the inability to park a car without gross inefficiency and episodic behaviour.