Reply to: which women on banknotes?

[mudskipper]

Wow, this thread is funny but ultimately depressing reading. Were there really that few notable women in the last few hundred years? It's unusual to have living people (other than heads of state) on bank notes so anyone still alive is out.

Ada Lovelace for inventing the computer (pretty much).
Caroline Herschel for finding Uranus
Emily Pankhurst suffragette

Jane Austen of course.

Surely there are many more? Are there really that few British women or are we a bunch of sexist male pigs here and can't think of any who weren't totty? Ahhh OK, I think I've figured it out.

Women, until relatively recently, were largely confined to the domestic sphere. That's why there weren't that many that went on to achieve public acclaim. Hopefully by the next generation there won't need to be a discussion.

[NickFitz]

If we're going to have Ada Lovelace - which we should - then we have to use one of Sydney Padua's drawings of her:

[SueEllen]

Thing that really cheeses me off about this is why does it HAVE to be a woman. Just pick someone that everyone agrees has made an impact in whatever fields or match whatever criteria they pick. If it is a man ******* live with it. Picking a woman just to pick a woman isn't right. If you are gonna do this why not put Clare Balding to keep the gay contingent happy and Lenny Henry on another. That way everyone is happy without going through all this again later.

The reason it has to be a woman is so that in 40 years time we don't have this discussion. After all you don't want to hear people your grandchildren's generation discussing this.

And we can't have Clare Balding or Lenny Henry as they are alive.

[northernladuk]

Thing that really cheeses me off about this is why does it HAVE to be a woman. Just pick someone that everyone agrees has made an impact in whatever fields or match whatever criteria they pick. If it is a man ******* live with it. Picking a woman just to pick a woman isn't right. If you are gonna do this why not put Clare Balding to keep the gay contingent happy and Lenny Henry on another. That way everyone is happy without going through all this again later.

[Wanderer]

Wow, this thread is funny but ultimately depressing reading. Were there really that few notable women in the last few hundred years? It's unusual to have living people (other than heads of state) on bank notes so anyone still alive is out.

Ada Lovelace for inventing the computer (pretty much).
Caroline Herschel for finding Uranus
Emily Pankhurst suffragette

Jane Austen of course.

Surely there are many more? Are there really that few British women or are we a bunch of sexist male pigs here and can't think of any who weren't totty? Ahhh OK, I think I've figured it out.

[northernladuk]

Sam Fox

Nice jugs

Why not just put some random jugs from some unknown. No one cares who it is and they won't have to pay any royalties.

Better still : Pic of arse on a fiver, pic of rack on a tenner, snatch on a twenty and a full frontal on fifty. Sorted.

[MyUserName]

Sam Fox

Nice jugs

[OwlHoot]

On any note except a £5 to confuse people

Oh yes, hehe - Forgot about the rhyming slang aspect

[SimonMac]

Why do they need to be modern? How about Boudicca, or Lady Godiva (nude on a horse )

On any note except a £5 to confuse people

[OwlHoot]

Women on bank notes: is the Bank of England finally listening? | Life and style | guardian.co.uk ...

Why do they need to be modern? How about Boudicca, or Lady Godiva (nude on a horse )

[doodab]

Only for about 50 years as Churchill is going on.

Was he controversial?

[SueEllen]

That would rule thatch out as well.

Only for about 50 years as Churchill is going on.

[doodab]

2. Doesn't the person have to be non-controversial? So Marie Stopes is out though it would be funny to have strict religious types refusing to handle a certain bank note.

That would rule thatch out as well.

[SueEllen]

Just saw this -

1. Don't the women in consideration just like the men have to be dead? This means Ellen MacArthur is out.

2. Doesn't the person have to be non-controversial? So Marie Stopes is out though it would be funny to have strict religious types refusing to handle a certain bank note.

[Mich the Tester]

You sure I think she is really cute

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&rc...73110482434345

I'm sure. No.