RIP Cynthia Payne

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RIP Cynthia Payne

#1 Post by themanintheseersuckersuit » Sat Nov 21, 2015 4:19 pm

This was too entertaining not to post
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituar ... tuary.html

She barred men under 40 (“all Jack-the-lads boasting about their prowess”); her regular clients included a night watchman in his sixties who availed himself of a special £5 discount for pensioners, a vicar with a penchant for plump angels, an exhibitionist professor, and a barrister who would arrive as if dressed for court, then change into a full tart’s costume of extra high heels, black stockings and make-up.
Suitguy is not bitter.

feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive

The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.

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