Liveline: Thread with no name, Host with no shame

I got on simply because I was going to sound “sensational” by saying that I was randy as hell in spite of menopause, a caller to “balance” the stories of menopausal woes and suffering, where Joe seemed to want every woman in the country to be given any amount of cancer & clot-hazard HRT for the rest of her days. Joe would certainly not have influenced medical prescribing guidelines. Before going on I was actually asked by the researched had I vaginal dryness during sex! They will go to any lengths to draw out a “suffering” angle, and I can guess Fungus has them all well tutored to “get at least one negative angle, researchers! Nobody has a perfect life, it doesn’t make for good radio, people do not want happy stories, we won’t get the advertising unless we get a human angle”.

I don’t think people are too impressed with the doll cancellation.

Liveline on Moday:

“Barbara on line 1, your point please!”

”Joe, I was born in a mother & baby home. Though I couldn’t remember the exact trauma it was all brought back to me when my grand-child came to my house with her new Barbie Doll. It was like I was traumatised all over again”.

”What colour was the doll wearing, cawler?”

In truth I do have as many reservations about modern, foreign adoptions, as with the ones engineered in days of old by the Catholic Church. Of course this does not apply universally, but I think there is a share of some quite dodgy adoptions, but of course most of these children are very much loved by their new parents. I’m wondering will Joe explore this avenue of enquiry as to the legitimacy of certain overseas procurements of children for adoption, or would this be too sophisticated a task and too sensitive a subject for Liveline?

One case comes to mind that featured on the show, but that nothing came if it. A single man was adopting a baby from Russia. I can’t recall the details, but I think he was complaining about not getting the baby he was entitled to and was being u fairly detained in Russia due to Covid quarantine, or something like this. There was no apparent response one way or the other to the call.

A good sausage in there.