Bit of a dark ad for a toy. 1976 ad for Dinky Die Cast Toys - The 'Foden Tipping Lorry'. Foden were founded by Edwin Foden in the 1880's and his son Edwin Richard Foden founded ERF, another truck manufacturer, in the 1930's.
V. E. Walsh Cartage's 8x4 flatdeck ERF EC14 Olymic seen nestled between CV Conpton's 2002 Kenworth T904 and TSMS Ltd's №3 an 8x4(?) Kenworth K200.
The ERF EC14 is quite common in New Zealand, and this was one of two Olympics at the show. In fact, I know of a flatdeck sitting out near Kaukapakapa and another EC14 near Whangarei. The other EC14 was a 6x4 articulated unit.
I have no idea who V. E. Walsh Cartage are, because annoyingly google will not tell me who they are.
JxC insiste con la "unidad del trabajo" para el "crecimiento de la ciudad"
Se llevó a cabo la inauguración de una sede para Juntos en Acción, una pata más del peronismo en Juntos por el Cambio (JxC), desde el Municipio de General Pueyrredón (MGP). De esta forma, el oficialismo local empieza a demostrar un gran poderío territorial contra Unión por la Patria (UxP).
“Este espacio está abierto a todos aquellos partidos que conforman Juntos por el Cambio, porque la idea es…
the cass review into gender care on the NHS is depressing in many ways, but one of the most nonsensical aspects of it is how they’ve chosen to define a child as anyone under 25:
so you can vote, join the military, pay taxes, get married, have children, attend - and finish - university but you’re still not a mature adult capable of making life-changing decisions
i wouldn't say it's entirely inaccurate to say that alot of ra/dfem ideology is based in hating men but the issue with assuming that t/erfs hatred of trans women is rooted is "misandry" isn't just that it's actually transmisogyny but that people just generally underestimate how much t/erfs just straight hate women, not just trans women but also sex workers, cis women who aren't entirely feminine, bisexual women, lesbians, women of color and also themselves, like so much of t/erf ideology ends up just being "women are fundamentally work and inferior to men" but like. in a woke way i guess.
generally, I don't have a lot of tolerance these days for people who vocally and gleefully and proudly go (implicitly or explicitly) "ew, men, why does there have to be men here" and "if there's any man involved, I don't care" and "I can't believe people find men interesting" and "ugh, she's wasted on a man" and "I hope she just brutalizes him because it's what men deserve" and similar sentiments at all times.
yes, that includes in fandom space—there's a massive difference between critiquing fandom's tendency to prioritize men over women and having double standards vs. automatically hating characters or dismissing people on the basis that they are men.
I no longer trust people who do this, especially those who do it constantly. it has a bad vibe to me, and I do not trust how these people engage with masculinity and with intersectional issues that affect men (including but not limited to race, sexuality, disability, economic status). it always feels just... incredibly narrow.
i know a lot of people, especially young people, think that this is what supporting women and complex female characters in narrative and fandom spaces looks like, but it is actually immensely off-putting and creates incredibly narrow, exclusionist spaces that is hostile to any intersectionality and lays down pipelines to unsavory places