Ian wrote:
> "The corporation has arranged for a mass exodus of the womenfolk of
> Harby to see how their men survive without them. Eighty of its 119
> women are to be put up in a hotel for seven nights at the BBC's
> expense while their husbands try to cope with everyday life."

Well, if they're doing this, I would say that the BBC is going downhill
faster than a base jumper.

The premise is absurd.  Do they really think they'll show that men
can't live without their women?  What do they think single men do?

Then there's the can of worms they open.  When the men of Harby, as
well as those who watch the show, see how little value these wives
really have, and how great a time the men have without them, some will
consider whether to throw their insignificant others from the gravy
train.

> BBC feminists are having a laugh at this one, women will doubtlessly
> laugh at the carefully edited shows on how men can't iron.

Some men can't iron, but the launderers can, and men have the bucks to
pay them.  The cost of having a shirt laundered and pressed is about a
dollar over here.  What is it over there?

Regardless, men will see that what their wives provide can be bought
for much less money than it costs to have a wife.  This show will
reveal the extent to which women live beyond their means at men's
expense.  Women will wish they had kept the secret.

> I look forward to the day when they show they corollary, when women
> have to survive without men.

And also survive without a public trough that men have to fill.

> Apparently they were going to do that one first, but they're trying
to
> figure out how to get round the problems of filming when then men's
> contribution to society is taken away. The batteries on the cameras
> only last two hours, so after they turn off the electricity, gas,
> water, and heating, and remove the food, medicine, and buildings,
> leaving the women to live naked in the fields eating nuts and leaves,
> the filming becomes quite difficult.

Camille Paglia said they'd all be living in grass huts.

> Mind you, I'm still waiting for a contra show to the expose they did
on
> the BNP, to be filmed in Finsbury Park Mosque.
>
> It's quite an interesting place Harby. It lives in the shadow of the
> Edge, which is this long ridge running north of Lincoln. It's only a
> couple of miles from England's biggest antiques fair, and also the
home
> of the red arrows. It also has Gainsborough golf course, which has
two
> excellent 18 holers, really cheap.

And the men will be able to play there without getting nagged for it.

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