Juxtaposition of threads

I love these. My favourite was What are you knitting now? followed immediately by Solar panels.

So long as it wasn't Knitting and Weetabix. All those stupid little images of grannies knitting away is bad enough but then waiting adoringly for the old fellow to quality control their work ... Pass me the sick bucket.

Why is an image of a granny knitting stupid? They are just people knitting. Plenty of people who aren't grannies knit too y'know. Nothing wrong with knitting. #downwithknittingprejudices!

Shreddies, actually Nanado but other than that I agree!

But perhaps you were referring to something from TV, which I wouldn't know about.

That advert, though, stereotyped grannies as plump, grey haired, happy little people...mmmm, think I'll stop there!

Bags, you need to see it to find out why it is so irritating, particularly the point made that the women have to ask the man to pass their work!

OK, I can appreciate it with your description, gn, but don't men who make things also ask their partners for a... well... judgement? I'm thinking of DH and his paintings. I'm just being picky and pointing out that it's not all one way.

Besides, women don't have to ask men to pass their work, nor vice versa.

I expect I'm just being thick.

One of the reasons we don't have a TV is because so much that's on it appears to be stupid.

Who has complained to the advertising authority, then?

Bags, you don't need a TV to google and find out what percentage of women there are on the boards of the top 100 UK companies.

The Issue:
Women are well represented in companies all the way up
to the ‘marzipan level’ of management (just below the
icing!) but this falls off at board level.
In 2011, women made up 12.5% of board members in the
FTSE 100 companies, and 7.8% of board places across the
FTSE 250.
Of 185 new appointees to FTSE 100 boards in 2010-2011,
only 18 were women.
At the current rate of change, it will take over 70 years
to achieve gender balanced board rooms in the UK’s
biggest companies.
Source: The Davies Report (Feb 2011)

I think I'm out of my depth here. What have knitting and Shreddies got to do with women in board rooms? Yes, I see there's a link with attitudes to women, but that's all.

If the ad is so dire, I presume those who think so are complaining to advertisement authorities as well as on gransnet. Otherwise.... pish.

bags Shreddies are advertised as being knitted into squares by Grandmothers. the archetypal "dotty grandmothers" that is.

Very demeaning to some GNrs who think the heads of Nabisco should not promote such images. I can't say I get too worked up about this one though.

So today we have:
dogs are the best type of pet to have
immediately preceding
carpet cleaning
Yes, that follows

gracesmum . Sounds like the voice of experience!

Gransnet gets more surreal every day. From knitting grannies to the boardroom equality battle in the same thread - wonderful

I agree, Ceesnan.

I've just spotted this one.....

Calling all Gransnetters on the Sussex coast

Lets have a mass walk to the shops today

Good - that lets me out