Behind every man

I just had to find a way of using this old Ovaltine advert, so now I am obliged to write a whole post around it. My mother used to give me Ovaltine when I was a kid, but it didn't work.

Someone recently sent me a load of very incorrect adverts like this, including one showing farm animals in a yard, all singing, "DDT is good for you!"

There is another for asbestos, saying what a wonderful product it is and how it can replace all roofs of all buildings very well. I recall how Radox foot-bath salts used to contain  very high levels of uranium, when they were trying to sell it as a health-giving wonder material.

Yesterday's posts regarding the schoolboy antics of a bunch of wealthy men groping young women for charity which provoked a storm of 'Me Too' band-wagonettes, brought up the major difference in how women deal with things as opposed to men.

In the playground, boys just hit each other for little reason then forget it, but girls are much craftier than that. They are subtly - and not so subtly - very nasty to each other. I bet most women alive today can remember one poor girl at school who was deemed a mis-fit by her peers and subsequently ostracised without explanation, if not actually psychologically bullied.

I remember seeing the Mods and Rockers being encouraged to fight each other on Brighton beach - by their girlfriends. It reminded me of all the old women screaming for blood in the front row at wrestling matches.

The pendulum never ceases to swing.