Speedo “endurance” to be precise grum.
I never questioned what your mother said about the half glass of wine Molgrips. I agreed with it, offererd an explanation, suggested that it was pragmatic common sense not sexism and added “probably 2/3” because that is my experience.
As for you wife, I’ve never seen anything from eiher of you on this forum to suggest your wife has spent a long period in France, speaks the language fleuently, has had French lovers, has worked in a French company … and yet in your first reference to France you said her comment on French attitudes to women was based on living in France. “living” means more than a holiday. I therefore asked you how long she’d spent in France. Is it so unreasonable to ask how long?