Friday Ephemera (675)

I’m not convinced that his perceptions are entirely reliable.

The current logic is that maladjusted gatecrashers are more reliable witnesses than well-adjusted invitees.

The maladjusted obsess not only about themselves but about how well the well-adjusted have it. That’s categorized as broadmindedness, and not as envy or covetousness.

The well-adjusted can sometimes get through a whole day just living their lives and not thinking about the maladjusted. This is categorized as privilege, which might not be a sin in itself, but it is a sin if having been told about their privilege they fail to “do the work”, which means obsessing over the maladjusted as much as the maladjusted obsess over them.

Doh…my comment re Block by Block is in reference to Darlene’s post:

Update on how that “defund the police” policy is working out

Over the course of his reign, His Majesty pledges for the YouKay…

The Hippocratic Oath may not be dead, but it is gravely ill.

My class was divided into two camps, those of us who wanted to do the Oath of Hippocrates and those who wanted to do the Declaration of Geneva. The rationale of the latter camp was pearl clutching over things like swearing to Greek gods and not “giving a pessary to induce abortion” and totally failing to understand the fundamental principle of even swearing to the Oath of Hippocrates.

The Declaration of Geneva is a watered down Hippocratic Oath ginned up by a group called the World Medical Association in 1947 and has been changed six times depending on the prevailing winds.

For example, the version half my class took said:

I WILL NOT PERMIT considerations of religion, nationality, race, party politics

or social standing to intervene between my duty and my patient;

It also deleted a statement about respecting human life from the time of conception that had been in the original.

Now (2017) it says:

I will not permit considerations of age, disease or disability, creed, ethnic origin, gender, gender identity, nationality, political affiliation, race, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status or any other factor to intervene between my duty and my patient;

Imagine that. Little wonder that there are current docs who think “gender, gender identity…sexual orientation” means free rein to do anything.

A brief, salty guide to the French Revolution.

That.

And this is not a penis. And the person to whom it’s been attached is not a man.

How many people who argue ever so passionately about this have ever seen the FtM results? I get all the warnings about looking at such things but honestly, so long as I remind myself before looking that what it is is definitely not a man, I actually find that almost comical. I suppose I should be ashamed to say such a thing. But after much reflection, I’m not. I do feel very badly for the poor female who allowed this to be done to her. She had a mental problem and no one was willing or able to address that. That indeed is tragic. But think of all the other people involved here. Not just the doctor(s) who performed the procedure, but the nurses, the administrators, the clinic or associated hospital involved, the psychiatrists and psychologists involved. All her “supportive” friends and relatives. All those people honestly expect the rest of us to just accept this end result as a good thing. And by extension, even many people whom I know. Friends (well sort of…once). I doubt I’m alone in the latter. It’s like the final punch line of a Simpson’s or South Park episode. I have the (unnatural?) desire to shove that picture into my friends’ and others’ faces to witness the result. I’m just afraid I would be hard pressed to contain my laughter at their reactions. But hey, after the last half-dozen or so years I’ve grown used to being the bad guy.

How can a doc in good faith do such a thing?

Money?

Given the pronounced overlap of wokeness, neuroticism and farce, I suppose it was inevitable.

In all fairness, the RCMP have pretty much gone full-on Stasi.

Student prank in Montana

There’s an old joke about a Cambridge student who cited a centuries-old bylaw that in any exam longer than two hours, an undergraduate could “request and require cakes and ale” for sustenance, and did so successfully. Two weeks later he was summoned to the Dean’s office and fined five pounds for failing to wear his sword to the exam.

it’s one of those details I remember noticing as a child

I suppose it’s because by 14 I was doing backstage theater tech and stagehanding, but my reaction to Doctor Who was generally “errrr, that’s quite the shite set design budget, isn’t it” rather than trying to reconcile the inconsistencies. I also don’t care where the Enterprise bridge crew poops.

Europe has a tradition of protectionism

It’s only a trebuchet if it was made in the Trebuch region of France. Everything else is just a sparkling catapult.

Institutional neuroticism.

Reminder again that less than 4% of the population of Canada is black. Less than the Indian population (dot or feather).

Everything else is just a sparkling catapult.

Sparkling: for launching vampires into the enemy castle?

Hot damn! You get a cookie!

Sorcery.

I thought you were going finally going to reveal what you did with the dough. Still pretty darn cool though.

Hot damn! You get a cookie!

A mess of pottage must be out of style.

In further clownworld news, presumably if a moppet identifies as an attack helicopter, the headmaster should get a big ‘H’ painted on the shool playground forthwith…

Trebuchets.

I faintly recall a story towards the end of the intermittently entertaining series Northern Exposure where Chris the DJ built a trebuchet in order to launch a cow, or was it a piano?

Either way the justification was that this constituted “art” and when compared to some examples which have graced this site it arguably did.

Proper workplace email grammar is important.

I am not sure they can “take back” what wasn’t theirs to begin with.

To mark Ramadan this year, the group teamed up with Wiggle and Adidas TERREX to create a range of prayer mats designed specifically for outside use, and installed signs pointing to Mecca along popular hiking routes in the Peak District.

For the enjoyment and inclusion of everyone, I guess.

Muslim Hikers is one of a range of organisations tackling the real problem of minority exclusion from the countryside.

“Exclusion” I guess means just not getting off your forth point of contact and doing something radical like going to the countryside.

Nigerian-born Enoch Adeyemi, co-founder of Black Scottish Adventurers, recently shared his experiences of hiking with a large group of Black men, revealing they are constantly subject to spurious complaints about “littering”, condescension and demands to stop playing music.

Seriously, everyone enjoys litter and rap being blasted, so why the complaints?

Be sure to read the bits about “Colonialism in the Countryside” because Brits colonized Great Britain, or something. Also some boilerplate whinging how someone else should pay for their gear and outings.

Seriously, is anyone in all the UK stopping anyone from going to a national park?

Proper workplace email grammar is important.

I always write it s-apostrophe. For the sake of ALL. But I’m rather inclusive that way. My parents raised me more properly than most people.

Nigerian-born Enoch Adeyemi, co-founder of Black Scottish Adventurers, recently shared his experiences of hiking with a large group of Black men, revealing they are constantly subject to spurious complaints about “littering”, condescension and demands to stop playing music.

No true Scotsman…sorry, it had to be said.

Are you aware of the new leader of the ruling Scottish National Party (SNP)?

Heh. I suppose I should have been but not until now. How that slipped under my radar…

I still can’t get the image of the fake penis out of my mind

Think of it as an homage to pale bologna. In its natural casing of course. That help you any?

Think of it as an homage to pale bologna.

Thank the gods it’s not a blutwurst

I should put that in the brochure

I would be curious to see what the typical results do look like. Do the doctors/butchers involved in these surgeries show their victims pictures of what their past “successful” outcomes looked like? Seems they should have been able, even required, to provide the victims some sort of idea on what to expect based on previous real world results. Call me what you will but…Looking past the obvious carnage, based on the very limited visibility otherwise, that poor young woman appeared likely to have had a nice shape to her.

Cleveland Texas, population 7500, median household income $24K, briefly in the news this weekend for an assault rifle mass shooting where it’s turning out not to be a white MAGA guy which the media could make interesting but a case of vibrant cultural fusion which the media is going to make boring. Depressing town, last notable thing that happened there was another case of vibrant cultural fusion.

Apropos of nothing in particular, I recommend this book:
“Catapult: Harry and I Build a Siege Weapon” by Jim Paul.
A literal, funded, art project resulting in a weapon of (retail) destruction.
Trigger warning: May contain the phrase “boobs and wangers”.

Via Ace, when to speak up. I have not read the two Chinese ladies this podcast references but I hope to shortly.

[ Slides down left side of bell curve, going wheee. ]

Heh.

[ Tickles tip jar in such a way that it will tickle in a regular, if albeit modest, way ]