What are Your Pronouns?

 

NatWest staff will be able to display their favoured pronouns and phonetic name spellings on new environmentally friendly bamboo badges from next month as the taxpayer-backed lender launches a drive to appear more inclusive.

The bank, which has been trialling the new name tags since late last year, said the changes will mean that someone called Louise can now have "Looweez" on their name badge so that customers don't pronounce their name wrong.

Branch staff across the UK will also be able to add their chosen pronoun, such as she/her, he/him or them/theirs, to their new plastic-free badges and can choose to be identified by an abbreviated or ‘known as’ version of their first name if they prefer. These changes are all optional, the bank said.

I wonder where this nonsense will stop, if anywhere.

No matter how people wish for it, there are still only two genders: male and female. Any suggestion that there are others is Leftist nonsense.

Can you imagine working in a company with several hundred employees and trying to remember what pronouns - and there are said to be numerous of them - to call someone? You call on the phone and before you discuss anything, ask for the person at the other end's preferred pronouns. FFS.

Maybe it's reasonable to include the phonetic pronunciation for those with impossible to guess names like Podsiadly which isn't pod-si-ad-ly, but podchadly when considered in English. This would still be a problem on the telephone although when answering a person could give their name and its proper pronounciation.

What do you think? What are your pronouns or are you like me and don't give a rat's arse what pronouns someone uses for you?

#Robinoz

Truth in Profiles

Owls - Nothing fake here

There are said to be millions of fake social media accounts that are being used to influence people's worldview, especially in politics, ideology, buying decisions, and much more.

Fakesters have been caught flooding the internet with identical commentary, all promoting a specific topic eg, climate change and how it's going to kill off the planet or how we need to vote for a particular political party.

While I'm a believer in as little government imposition in the lives of citizens as possible, I do think there is a need to legislate that organisations like Twitter, Parler, YouTube, Instagram, and the thousands of others involved in social media require proof of identity for those subscribing to their services.

Even if they charged a nominal fee paid via EFT or credit card it would improve the situation because the name on the account would have to be identical with the credit card account. Users would only be allowed two accounts, a personal account and if they had a business, a business account.

Better still, proof of identify at sign-up would be a great idea.

This would reduce much of the obnoxious commentary aimed at individuals by those hidden under pseudonyms, stop anyone having dozens of separate, ad hoc accounts to influence others on what is right or wrong. It would clean up the industry very well.

The only social media network I know that requires proof of identity, or more accurately, proof of residence, is Nextdoor. When you sign up for a Nextdoor account, you are required to verify your address, which helps verify your name. Even if you provide a fake name, you can be found via your address.

Unfortunately, this plays into the hands of the World Economic Forum elites who want to impose a one world government upon us and a social credit score. The latest madness is that we will all require a "Personal Carbon Allowance" and be penalised if we exceed it.

However, there is still time to implement the proof of identity concept and reject the unelected WEF idea of communism imposed on the unwashed masses.

#Robinoz

Dear Diary - Every Day is the Same

 

Today's diary entry says it all.

Every day is a repeat of every other day. Well, it is when one is retired. Not completely, but mostly.

Let me explain.

Most days for me go like this, I:

1. wake up and change into my day clothes
2. look out the front door (to the East) to see what type of day it's likely to be (sun's up!)
3. open the blinds to our loungeroom side door and rear windows that look out into our patio cover and lovely garden full of lilly-pillies, lavendar, wooly-bushes and an oversupply of a variety of succulents (they grow very well and easily)
4. boot my laptop
5. turn on the television (which I later regret)
6. make a cup of coffee
7. jot down a few things in my diary/notebook that I expect to do today - in conjunction with my Google Calendar. I do a lot of volunteering so most days I have something to do for someone
8. check email and the news
9. make a cup of tea for my wife who usually sleeps in longer than I do
10. have breakfast between 10 and 11 am when I get hungry
11. do some volunteer work, much of which is on a laptop (writing grant applications etc)
12. go for a walk, ride, do some rowing exercise in my rower and a few reps of fitness tube exercises
13. have lunch around 2 pm
14. sit down in my comfortable Lazyboy chair and watch some tv after lunch
15. make dinner or help make dinner at about 6:30 pm
16. watch Home and Away (much to the laughter of my daughter who thinks I'm too old for that)
17. view some how-to videos on YouTube: carpentry, cooking, tool use
18. go to bed at 11:30 pm

The next day is much the same. But at the back of my mine, it seems that life is like that. We get into a routine, follow it and it becomes a way of life. Wake up - go to work - go to sleep with a few different thing in between.

Some days I think it's boring. 

#Robinoz

ANZAC Day Tanunda

 

ANZAC Day at Tanunda went well.

Given that Monday was a public holiday during school holidays, we had an enormous turn-up at both the Dawn Service and the late morning Service after our march from the Tanunda Post Office to the Soldiers' Memorial Hall.

I attended the Dawn Service and marched, but I didn't attend the late morning Service.

The highlight of the Dawn Service for me was an address delivered by a senior school student from the local Faith Lutheran College. Given the age of the young man, his presentation was flawless, the content emotive and inspiring, and he didn't appear to be nervous at all.

After the Dawn Service we held a Gunfire Breakfast that many people attended including members of the RSL Tanunda, although most of us who are members had "jobs" to do. I worked in our bar serving beer, large amounts of Coopers stout, and pouring small amounts of Beenleigh rum into coffee, a tradition on this special day.

The Gunfire Breakfast was also attended by a contingent of RAAF serving members who had participated as a catafalque party (you can see several in the image above) or supported them. I managed to take a photo of the group.

Here they are outside our Hut. Those with weapons are obviously part of the catafalque party.

We appreciate and thank them for their service and hope that they will never be called upon to sacrifice their lives for their fellow Australians as many others have throughout the short history of our country.

We are so fortunate to live in a relatively free democracy with a decent standard of living and reasonably sound governments.

Every day I recall how very lucky I was to be born in Australia. If you are reading this and you're Australian, you should feel lucky too.

#Robinoz