Another thing women have to worry about....their RBF

Cookie said:
Is it a case of judging a book by its cover?
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We do that all the time in self-defense training - it's part of "environmental awareness" training, where you judge a person by both their appearance and your gut instinct.
 

NancyNGA said:

So which of these little old ladies would you rather help across the street?​

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One in a wheelchair, safer that way;).
 
To Imp and Davey: SifuPhil could handle either one. He knows martial arts.:cool:
 

And to think I've spent over 64 years forgetting to worry about this crucial issue! How very neglectful of me!
 
ndynt said:
Agree, DW. That smile is frightening....
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It's a long story over here, Nona. That particular lady is a long serving member of Parliament who has recently been the Speaker of the House of Representatives. This is supposed to be an impartial position, free from political bias. However, she has proved to be an appalling choice and has thrown out MPs over 400 times in less than two years of sittings, all but six of them from the ranks of the Opposition. She refuses to allow questions or points of order, even before the MP has finished them because she remains a "fierce political warrior" for her side of politics. I've seen her face to face at political meeting and she is a very hard nut indeed.

To make a long story short, she has been under public scrutiny in the press and social media for her extravagant use of parliamentary entitlements and travel allowances. Recently she spent $90,000 on a two week overseas trip to Paris where she was lobbying for, but failed to get, a cushy international job. Then it came out that she had hired an expensive helicopter (over $5,000) to take her some 40 miles down a motorway to arrive at a party political fundraiser. She justified this expense as "official business". She has in the past used the same excuse to claim air fares to attend the weddings of colleagues, claiming that she held meetings there as part of her committee responsibilities but the meeting were apparently secret and no other members of the committees were aware of them. She's been revealed as a woman with an autocratic attitude who has built her reputation in parliament as a savage inquisitor of public servants on the subject of wast and mismanagement. Every day new stories about her exaggerated sense of entitlement hit the headlines.

Public opinion has turned against her so strongly that she has been forced to resign as Speaker. At first she tried to appease the public by a mealy-mouthed apology two weeks after the Choppergate story first broke, not because she wanted to but because the Prime Minister's office told her she must. Her face on that occasion was a picture to behold because this is not a woman who ever apologises and nobody believed that she was at all sorry. Pressure didn't let up and the PM looked like being flushed down the political drain with her. His own party members were threatening to abstain from voting to support her when motion of no confidence was raised at the next sitting of the House. Finally he has lanced this particular boil by asking for her resignation which he announced while simultaneously calling for a review (another one?) of the system of parliamentary entitlements.

Her face is either the scary smiling face or the scary scowling one. What you see is what you get. Photos here: https://www.google.com.au/search?q=...&authuser=0&tbm=isch&q=bronwyn+bishop+speaker
 

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