From http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/05/ought-women-not-to-be-abolished.html
On March 28th of 1912, an eminent bacteriologist named Almroth Wright wrote a lengthy, pompous letter to The Times in which he argued that women should not be allowed to vote, and in fact should be kept away from politics altogether, due to their supposed psychological and physiological deficiencies. Unsurprisingly his opinion generated many responses, the best of which was the following witty letter from "One of the Doomed," printed in the paper two days later. Unbeknownst to all, its sender, "C.S.C.," was 26-year-old Clementine Churchill.
> March 30th, 1912
> To the Editor of The Times.
> Sir,
> After reading Sir Almroth Wright's able and weighty exposition of women as he knows them the question seems no longer to be "Should women have votes?" but "Ought women not to be abolished altogether?"
> I have been so much impressed by Sir Almroth Wright's disquisition, backed as it is by so much scientific and personal experience, that I have come to the conclusion that women should be put a stop to.
> We learn from him that in their youth they are unbalanced, that from time to time they suffer from unreasonableness and hypersensitiveness, and that their presence is distracting and irritating to men in their daily lives and pursuits. If they take up a profession, the indelicacy of their minds makes them undesirable partners for their male colleagues. Later on in life they are subject to grave and long-continued mental disorders, and, if not quite insane, many of them have to be shut up.
> Now this being so, how much happier and better would the world not be if only it could be purged of women? It is here that we look to the great scientists. Is the case really hopeless? Women no doubt have had their uses in the past, else how could this detestable tribe have been tolerated till now? But is it quite certain that they will be indispensable in the future? Cannot science give us some assurance, or at least some ground of hope, that we are on the eve of the greatest discovery of all—i.e., how to maintain a race of males by purely scientific means?
> And may we not look to Sir Almroth Wright to crown his many achievements by delivering mankind from the parasitic, demented, and immoral species which has infested the world for so long?
> Yours obediently,
> C.S.C. > ("One of the Doomed")
[The main source is found at page 93 of
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By Richard Eden for The Daily Mail | Link to article
Prince Andrew’s ill-judged friendship with has left his reputation in tatters, but he wasn’t the only member of the to have been targeted by the late sex offender.
A new book includes a previously unpublished interview with Epstein in which he claims that he knew and had accompanied her to a number of events.
The allegation is made in Too Famous, a new collection of work by the distinguished American journalist Michael Wolff. He asks Epstein — who was found dead in a prison cell in 2019 at the age of 66 — if he went out with Diana.
A new book includes a previously unpublished interview with Epstein in which he claims that he knew Princess Diana and had accompanied her to a number of events.
The super-rich financier replies: ‘I escorted her on occasion.’
Epstein does not give details of where his outings with the Princess took place, and there is no known photographic evidence, but they may have been during her visits to New York, where Epstein owned a £37million town house.
Of course, any relationship between Diana, who died in 1997, would have been long before he was convicted in 2008 of procuring a child for prostitution and of soliciting a prostitute.
By contrast, Diana’s former brother-in-law, Andrew, remained friends with Epstein after he was released from jail, having served almost 13 months in custody. The Queen’s second son stayed with Epstein at his New York home as recently as 2010.
Through his friendship with Andrew, Epstein went on a shooting weekend to Sandringham, the Queen’s Norfolk retreat. He even helped pay off some debts owed by Andrew’s ex-wife, Sarah, Duchess of York.
Last year, this newspaper revealed that Epstein had befriended Princess Diana’s bridesmaid Clementine Hambro. She worked for Christie’s auction house when she was invited to Epstein’s Santa Fe home in 1999 to discuss art. A month later, as his guest, she flew aboard his jet to Little Saint James in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Clemmie, who is Winston Churchill’s great-granddaughter, said: ‘I was not abused, nor did I see anyone abused. I was clearly very lucky.’
I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
I have spotted so many Downton actors in The Crown, here are the ones I found - please add to the list if I missed any.
Irina Kuragin - Princess Alice Lady Shackleton - Clementine Churchill Bertie Pelham - Martin Charteris Princess Mary - Venetia Scott Henry Talbot - Anthony Armstrong-Jones
Two of my favourite shows, sharing actors.
Do your worst!
