[Mike Halliday]

Do gay men make better carpet cleaners?

after all have you seen how long they take to get ready to go out , if they take that long to make them selves look beautiful they must be good at carpet cleaning.

plus they have lots to talk about with the female customers,

Eg; flower arranging, the latest winter fashions, Judy Garland

I bet they'd make great carpet cleaners. any gay carpet cleaners on this board?.

Mike

Ps how long before this gets deleted

Mike

[Derek]

Hi

I am not sure whether Mike posted this as a 'tongue' in cheek' posting or was being serious this time.

I have worked in houses owned by gay people and their attention to detail is obvious... I reckon that they  make excellent carpet / upholstery cleaners and probably put many straight cleaners to shame.

I did come across a transexual carpet cleaner a few years ago who had an excellent reputation for the standard of cleaning she did.

Derek

[Dynafoam]

Derek,

Was she located on the north Essex coast?

I think I know who you mean.

[Mike Halliday]

Although i posted this in jest to try and achieve a 'not posted before topic' i feel I have to apologies to any gentlemen reading this who may bat for the other side

I believe all men are created equal and all have an important part to play in our society.

I'm trying to remember a film I watched last year about the breaking of the enigma Code used by the German during WW2 The Colossus machine built at Bletchley Park was instrumental in breaking the Code and subsequently saved 100's of 1000's of lives by shortening the war by a minimum of 2 years

The man credited with inventing this machine later committed suicide because he was to be prosecuted for being a Homosexual ( at the time it was illegal)


I’m not too sure were I’m going with this post but hopefully it shows all genders have a contribution to make.

Mike

I may have got some of the enigma fact s wrong because I’ve got a bad memory

[woodman]

The guys name was Alan Turing and your right he was raging and considered to be a security threat at the time because of this :-/

Had he been able to patent his invention which was to all intense and purposes the worlds first computer then he would have been richer than Bill Gates but Churchill insisted on all documents relating to Bletchley Park (station x) which included his invention  be destroyed after the war, god knows why.

Any way, he wouldn't have made a very good carpet cleaner if that was your question

[Dynafoam]

...........his invention which was to all intense and purposes the worlds first computer

I think you forgot about Babbage, who invented the first computer  in the previous century.

[Derek]

John

I think you may be correct.....

Derek

[woodman]

The Bolton Boys

Babbage didn't actually build his invention which I think he called an engine but he did put his drawings and calculations down on paper which quite amazingly proved correct.Imagine where we would be at today if computers had been used in the 19th century.

We might all be using robotic carpet cleaners and not going out at all

Turing along with another guy who was a GPO engineer actualy built a working computer and could have patented it hence they take credit for building the first computer.

[Dynafoam]

Woodman,

I conceed that Turling had the first build, but would award the inventor title to Babbage.

His 'engine' was built towards the latter part of the last century and worked exactly as predicted.

Either way, they were both important pathfinders.

Regards,

John.