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Originally Posted by Graham

Excuse the large number of emoticons there, but I *CANNOT* believe that you just asked me that!!

"Are you still beating your wife" is the *CLASSIC* "loaded question" because *however* you answer it, you're going to end up in the wrong and the *only* way to answer it is *not* answer it at all!

If you answer yes, then you admit beating your wife.

If you answer no, then because of the way it's worded "are you still...?" the obvious corollary is that you may no longer be beating your wife, but you *admit* to having beaten her in the past...!!!

Most people would answer "never have done, never will"
Are they in the wrong?

Now to put that question into the same context as the one asked in this topic, it would be something like "Do you beat your wife?"
In order to put the question asked in this topic in the context of the one you asked would be something like "gays still overreacting/looking for trouble?" or "gays overreacting/looking for trouble again?" in which case a perfectly good answer would be "they weren't in the past but I feel they are now" or "they weren't in the past and they still aren't"

Originally Posted by Graham

No they are not because, by your own statement, it is only *off shift*!

Thats because they're not allowed to wear them on shift because of this rule you wally :pp
Before this rule came about, many hetrosexual PCs wore either one or two earings while on duty.
I know several