Reply to: New sperm bank in Birmingham?

[MicrosoftBob]

doesn't tick the 'person of colour' box that seems to be the yardstick of equality.

Now if she had married Cab Calloway....

No if it was equality she'd have married a black disabled post op lesbian with mental health issues, 'person of colour' is so last century

[MicrosoftBob]

yes because Charles was forced to marry Camilla, Diana though he was strongly pushed and Wills didn't test drive Kate.

25 Commoners Who Married Royalty - Business Insider

been happening for decades.

There is a difference between and arranged marriage and marrying within your own social circle. I bet soon one of the Windsors will marry someone from an ethnic minority.

One did want to marry an ethnic minority, strangely they died before it could happen

[Old Greg]

I wondered how long it would it be before someone trotted out that self-loathing bollocks.

In poor countries where old age means worn-out at 50 from manual labour then, yes, old people do get taken in by their children. That works fine because the woman of the house (and it is always the woman doing the care work) has been a domestice slave all her life and if her husband says she's going to be an unpaid nurse for her mother-in-law then that's how it's going to be. Otherwise she might just be having an unfortunate accident involving matches, some kerosene and a very inflammable sari.

This isn't too practical in wealthier societies where old age manifests itself as mental incapacity at 75+ and requires specialist medical care. Not only are the youngers untrained in that care but they're often off doing some other job. Woman here in the unenlightened, savage west have these things called careers.

Southern European countries that have grown rapidly wealthier in recent decades have made the same move from at-home care to institutional care that Britain did in the earlier part of the last century. This change is starting to happen in south Asian culture both in south Asia and in the UK. The rate of change is unsurprisingly more rapid in groups that were already quite wealthy and educated like Ugandan Asians than it is amongst immigrants from more rural poor backgrounds in southern Asia.

You might think that females in the workplace are a sign of the decadence of western society and they should all be at home wiping geriatric arses but some people disagree and they're not about to change their minds just to indulge your middle-class, 'ain't poverty beautiful' fantasies of the mysterious east.

Were you very badly treated as a child?

[GreyWolf]

Broadly I agree, but I guess we also learnt to dump our elderly parents in old people's homes. The Asian family across the road have built a large annex to their house and the elderly dad has moved in. Bloody savages.

I wondered how long it would it be before someone trotted out that self-loathing bollocks.

In poor countries where old age means worn-out at 50 from manual labour then, yes, old people do get taken in by their children. That works fine because the woman of the house (and it is always the woman doing the care work) has been a domestice slave all her life and if her husband says she's going to be an unpaid nurse for her mother-in-law then that's how it's going to be. Otherwise she might just be having an unfortunate accident involving matches, some kerosene and a very inflammable sari.

This isn't too practical in wealthier societies where old age manifests itself as mental incapacity at 75+ and requires specialist medical care. Not only are the youngers untrained in that care but they're often off doing some other job. Woman here in the unenlightened, savage west have these things called careers.

Southern European countries that have grown rapidly wealthier in recent decades have made the same move from at-home care to institutional care that Britain did in the earlier part of the last century. This change is starting to happen in south Asian culture both in south Asia and in the UK. The rate of change is unsurprisingly more rapid in groups that were already quite wealthy and educated like Ugandan Asians than it is amongst immigrants from more rural poor backgrounds in southern Asia.

You might think that females in the workplace are a sign of the decadence of western society and they should all be at home wiping geriatric arses but some people disagree and they're not about to change their minds just to indulge your middle-class, 'ain't poverty beautiful' fantasies of the mysterious east.

[vetran]

The Queen married a German-Greek if that helps.

doesn't tick the 'person of colour' box that seems to be the yardstick of equality.

Now if she had married Cab Calloway....

[Old Greg]

There is a difference between and arranged marriage and marrying within your own social circle. I bet soon one of the Windsors will marry someone from an ethnic minority.

The Queen married a German-Greek if that helps.

[CloudWalker]

"Just out of curiosity, what's the going rate for a shot these days"

[vetran]

I think someone forgot to tell that to the Royal Family and other members of the aristocracy.

yes because Charles was forced to marry Camilla, Diana though he was strongly pushed and Wills didn't test drive Kate.

25 Commoners Who Married Royalty - Business Insider

been happening for decades.

There is a difference between and arranged marriage and marrying within your own social circle. I bet soon one of the Windsors will marry someone from an ethnic minority.

[MicrosoftBob]

well if they weren't 'spermist'



If they were white being 'particular' I wonder if that the sentence would be different?

Agree they should have retained the anonymity.

The sentence would be the same, the difference being if they were white it would be racist

[Batcher]

We outgrew arranged marriages a century or two ago. It was very common then.

I think someone forgot to tell that to the Royal Family and other members of the aristocracy.

[vetran]

Broadly I agree, but I guess we also learnt to dump our elderly parents in old people's homes. The Asian family across the road have built a large annex to their house and the elderly dad has moved in. Bloody savages.

hey I didn't say our culture was perfect!

I love the way Asian & Indian cultures care for their folks. Interestingly some Christian folks do very similar.

[Old Greg]

We outgrew arranged marriages a century or two ago. It was very common then.

We also learnt 50 years ago to not discriminate based on religion, ethnic sub-group (e.g. within India), caste.

I think its time for other cultures to come into the 21st century.

Broadly I agree, but I guess we also learnt to dump our elderly parents in old people's homes. The Asian family across the road have built a large annex to their house and the elderly dad has moved in. Bloody savages.

[vetran]

I think there may be a bit more complexity to this. If you consider a culture where marriages are traditionally arranged to ensure a match between religion, ethnic sub-group (e.g. within India), caste, economic and educational status, this approach is consistent with the approach to marriage, as bonkers as the whole thing may appear in my humble Western liberal opinion.

We outgrew arranged marriages a century or two ago. It was very common then.

We also learnt 50 years ago to not discriminate based on religion, ethnic sub-group (e.g. within India), caste.

I think its time for other cultures to come into the 21st century.

[vetran]

<barges MTT out of the way>

She can collect my tadpoles ina test tube or any way she wants. I would swim across a shark infested ocean with bits of meat tied to my nads for that.

lust at first sight, how romantic!

[BrilloPad]

Laura Witjens, NGDT chief executive


Not bad!!

I'm sure I've seen some internet videos of her (or someone like her) collecting sperm but iirc it was across her face, not in a test tube

<barges MTT out of the way>

She can collect my tadpoles ina test tube or any way she wants. I would swim across a shark infested ocean with bits of meat tied to my nads for that.