There May Be Some Swelling

All is now well with Jason, who described the pain of his treatment as “ten out of ten.”
I’m feeling a two just reading about it.

The men in my family call 17-hours a “premature ejaculation”. The rest of you better get yourselves checked.

Looks like a cock up to me, somewhere

I did a project for a telesales pharmacy flogging Viagra over the phone and Internet. I created an interactive questionnaire for the sales reps to guide them through deciding whether we could sell to a given customer, and to warn the customers about potential side effects. We had a doctor on staff whose job it was to make the final sign-off based on the questionnaire. I remember asking him about the priapism warning we had to give (it won’t go down after four hours seek medical assistance etc.) and was this a big problem. He said that if anyone ever found himself in that position he should call an ambulance or get someone to drive him to A&E as quickly as possible. Possible complications included gangrene, amputation, septicaemia and death. It’s an absolutely dire medical emergency along the lines of a strangulated hernia or burst appendix in terms of severity. At 17 hours this guy’s lucky to be undamaged.

Suggested musical accompaniment: ZZ Top, “Woke Up With Wood”

and then going for a jog
Much to the amusement of passers by.

One or two of Oxford’s colleges used to have rules that today a lot of people would call sexist – with some reason – women being excluded from senior common rooms etc. There were a few eminent female dons – some of them very leftwing, now I think about it.
Anyway I’m no longer close to things but I get the impression that feminist and leftist tendencies have been strong for a while at Oxford University. I suppose this has made them susceptible to the loonier parts of those belief systems.
Oxford therefore contains a lot of bright kids who don’t know much about the real world – but who have a knack for learning and excellent verbal debating skills (they are definitely not stupid) who also regrettably have a massive investment in very political ideologies that are full of shit. We’ve seen that list of Guardian staff with the Oxbridge colleges they attended many times
So basically we’re wasting some of the country’s best talent. A university whose academic staff and tutorial system used to be the envy of the world is now producing quite a lot of the smelly stuff, frankly. Some of the cleverest, most knowledgeable people I ever knew worked for Oxford University. The future looks pretty unpromising, and it doesn’t fill me with joy

The ‘heteronormative college marriage’ issue resurfaces practically every year. Each time the people complaining appear to believe that they are being new and edgy, while everyone else just sees them as making a silly fuss about a faintly meaningless ritual.
It’s very much like any given day on CIF, in fact.