Blather, Waffle and Poppycock!

Started by Leon, 24 February 2013, 05:21:09 PM

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flamingpig0

Quote from: Orcs on 23 September 2022, 11:47:42 AMAgreed, but if they go on to become abusers, sterilisation should break the chain of abuse. Thus reducing the number of abusers for further generations.

How?
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Lord Kermit of Birkenhead

Aren't these posts a tad heavy for what is supposed to be a light hearted thread Gentlemen ? (unsubtal hit)
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flamingpig0

Quote from: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 23 September 2022, 01:13:36 PMAren't these posts a tad heavy for what is supposed to be a light hearted thread Gentlemen ? (unsubtal hit)

Probably

 Just a little story which for reasons that are unclear to me  I wish to share.. I used to work as an advocate for all  sorts of  marginalized groups and one of my clients was trying to recover her  child from, social services. It concerns a youngish lady I shall call X , Now, we read through the social service notes together and it said "as X was abused as a child there is a high chance that she  herself will become an abuser.  I said to X – that seem remarkably unfair and even logically questionable." To which she said – "I don't know Ian – what I do know is that it is rubbish and I was never abused as a child" Basically social services had confused the notes on two of their charges to the detriment of X and her attempt to get her family back together.
Anyway just a little story  around  abusers  real and supposed

Now the case  involving the 6ft tall fetish model and the gypsy curse I will leave for another time
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FierceKitty

Quote from: Orcs on 23 September 2022, 11:47:42 AMAgreed, but if they go on to become abusers, sterilisation should break the chain of abuse. Thus reducing the number of abusers for further generations.

Man hands on misery to man;
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And don't have any kids yourself.
I don't drink coffee to wake up. I wake up to drink coffee.

Heedless Horseman

24 September 2022, 12:10:17 PM #3934 Last Edit: 24 September 2022, 01:11:58 PM by Heedless Horseman
On 'Confusion' of records.
Dentist, a few years ago. Well knackered tooth. X Rays before referral to Dental Hospital for extraction... dentist put one up.
"Oh Dear! Well, THAT one looks very bad too... I'll add it onto notes."
THEN, had another think... and realised Assistant had put X Ray WRONG WAY ROUND!

Talking to Radiographer... happens quite often!  Pre op.
VERY occasionally, in Hospital Op theatre, Good surgeon might think "Well, That does not look bad... let's  double check, again!"
I think it becomes filed as 'Exploratory Surgery'... do stress, VERY rare! And, at least the good bit has been looked at!

Still got what is left of tooth, maybe 6 years on!

"My Lord... THERE are your Gums!"  ;)
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flamingpig0

QuoteOn 'Confusion' of records.
Dentist, a few years ago. Well knackered tooth. X Rays before referral to Dental Hospital for extraction... dentist put one up.
"Oh Dear! Well, THAT one looks very bad too... I'll add it onto notes."
THEN, had another think... and realised Assistant had put X Ray WRONG WAY ROUND!

Talking to Radiographer... happens quite often!  Pre op.
VERY occasionally, in Hospital Op theatre, Good surgeon might think "Well, That does not look bad... let's  double check, again!"
I think it becomes filed as 'Exploratory Surgery'... do stress, VERY rare! And, at least the good bit has been looked at!

Still got what is left of tooth, maybe 6 years on!

"My Lord... THERE are your Gums!"  ;)

It could have been worse

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/21/elderly-man-has-wrong-leg-amputated-at-austrian-clinic
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FierceKitty

No longer necessary - people are noticing it for themselves now.  ;D
I don't drink coffee to wake up. I wake up to drink coffee.


FierceKitty

Macdonald's call their wares "food". Does anyone believe them (twice, anyway)?
I don't drink coffee to wake up. I wake up to drink coffee.

Raider4

QuoteMacdonald's call their wares "food". Does anyone believe them (twice, anyway)?
And their retail outlets are clearly not restaurants, despite their claim.

Language does evolve with usage, otherwise we'd all be still spelling stuff like this:



Printed in London by "G.B. and R.W." in 1643 (Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

flamingpig0

Quote from: FierceKitty on 27 September 2022, 09:41:53 AMMacdonald's call their wares "food". Does anyone believe them (twice, anyway)?

Sadly, yes
"I like coffee exceedingly..."
 H.P. Lovecraft

"We don't want your stupid tanks!" 
Salah Askar,

My six degrees of separation includes Osama Bin Laden, Hitler, and Wendy James

Lord Kermit of Birkenhead

Bear in mind that spelling only standardised with mass printing - Billy Spearshake couldna spell.
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