Posts by Rich 11

And twats abound in Westminster.

Re: Daft idea

Every watt

No, not for energy which is used to form chemical bonds for compounds (and/or subsequent metabolites) which do not ultimately break down into greenhouse gases.

Re: Quick maths

each covering 2827.4 sq ft (262.68 sq m).

To put that into a more readily visualisable context, that's about a 30th of the size of a football pitch.

Hey, I've got this great idea...

Re: Cool idea, but...

How dare they hide our oilsunlight underneathon their sand!

Re: Don't tell Marjorie Taylor Greene!

That moron. Doesn't she understand that all she has to do to stop the Jews from setting light to California is to go and rake the forests?

Re: Opt out?

Remind me who helped start the Iraq War?

And, remind me, which party supported them in doing so? Only two Tory MPs voted against the motion, compared with the 84 Labour MPs who voted no.

Donuts are on a special today -- buy one hole, get a second hole free.

Re: Homer

Homer would be prouder still of finding a bogey shaped like Moe.

Re: this apha code is not fit for production!

It's a very small country.

You're being generous there. In matter of fact, Luxembourg's front drive opens onto Belgium and the gate at the bottom of the garden leads to Germany. If you want to visit France you have to jump over the neighbour's fence.

Re: French water meters

electrical wiring that looked like Napoleon had installed it

No light fittings higher than 5'2"?

(Desolé - 1,57m.)

Re: No gravestone for me

One medieval thinker conjectured that the human body must contain a small, invisible, intangible, indestructible bone from which God could reliably recreate and reanimate the entire body, regardless of where the bone ended up. He was worried that good Christians whose remains were destroyed by fire or lost at sea, and therefore never buried in hallowed ground, facing east and ready to rise on the Day of Resurrection, would miss out.

It would have made a lot more sense if he'd just given God an Infinity Gauntlet.

Re: Let's unhook the stirrups

You can be arrested if you have your underpants read Lolita.

Re: Sir Christopher Wren's epitaph

My gravestone will be inscribed with 'Hic iacet nemo' and nothing else. If I can be arsed to arrange a gravestone. Or afford one.

Re: Sir Christopher Wren's epitaph

I'm upvoting you, not because I have any interest in Oxonian transport but for the phrase 'professional bellend Jeremy Clarkson and his snivelling sycophants'.

Re: Strike out!

Or to put it another way, a dim slogger with a decent memory will go further than someone who's bright but with poorer decontextualised recall- especially if they have been able to get through the previous school years by relying on thinking rather than recalling.

This is the excuse (and to some degree it is an excuse rather than a reason) I use for my poor exam results at school. I always did well throughout the year but considerably less well in the exams at the end of the year, which was really bloody demoralising and I never found a way to fix it (though focusing on the subjects I loved helped most). So it really galls me when I then see privately-educated Oxbridge PPE graduates in government who have put themselves forward to be responsible for the running of our society and for supposedly making all our lives better, who despite all their education can't string two joined-up thoughts together and seem to live in an information vacuum, unaware of the consequences of their actions. Then at times like this, they literally kill people.

Re: Heh

Don't worry. The number will reduce at Carousel.

Re: Struck off?

Why do Big Pharma insist on adding these colours, which add nothing to the efficacy of the drug, but increase the cost?

They do it for people who would otherwise be more likely to confuse which drugs they should take and when. It's a real bugger for you, obviously, but the practice is going to benefit more people than it harms.

I used to help my mum sort out her medication for the week ahead into the little compartment trays that are marked by day of the week and by time of day (well, by meal and waking/retiring), so that she was all set up for the times when no-one was there to help her. If it wasn't for all the different colours and shapes and sizes of the pills and capsules, I would have had to really concentrate to get it right. No-one could have asked that of my mum, given the age she was, her occasional lapses of concentration, the limited fine motor control she had and the pain she was sometimes in. It's not like she wasn't aware of the necessity of getting her medication right -- she'd been a nurse for 40 years.

Re: Struck off?

Acupuncture has very good numbers.

Acupuncture is a placebo for those who don't mind bizarre interventions applied to subjective non-specific problems such as pain relief. You can get 'good numbers' by wearing a white lab coat rather than a black t-shirt when telling a patient to take aspirin twice a day. You can get 'good numbers' by packaging an analgesic in a box marked with green stripes rather than blue stripes.

Acupuncture is nothing but a placebo. The pre-scientific justification that needles divert qi flow in the body is utter shite; acupuncture interventions using false needles which don't pierce the skin, or using needles in places other than a particular set of recognised qi points in the body, all produce the same placebo result. It should be telling that different schools of traditional medicine recognise different systems of qi points -- they can't even agree on their superstition because no-one is able to show that qi even exists let alone detect where it supposedly flows.

Re: The tribunal option

Sorry, that was meant as a reply to Rich 2 above.

Re: Struck off?

the flu vaccine can cause meningitis

I think you may have meant to say that the flu vaccine can cause Guillan-Barre Syndrome, which is possible because the flu virus itself (like many other infections) is capable of causing Guillan-Barre Syndrome. Since the annual vaccine is almost always made from an attenuated (ie drastically weakened rather than completely inert) flu virus, there is still a very small chance that the immune response which the vaccine triggers might also lead to a mild form of Guillan-Barre. It's not something you'd want to contract, but you're far more likely to contract it if you leave yourself open to a full-force flu infection, especially if you are elderly (fuck, I'm now in that category!), have a weakened immune system or a pre-existing respiratory condition.

No medical intervention is absolutely guaranteed to be 100% safe. People have died from an allergic reaction to sticking plasters, but far more people have died from leaving a wound open to the risk of infection.

Re: Theoretically...

Admittedly, I am laying a lot of blame at NHS Digital's door here, when really there's no doubt in my mind that the Secretary of State doesn't have his fingers in this particular pie somewhere.

Are you suggesting that perhaps he's got a mate down the pub who's first in line to buy data access on the cheap? Perish the thought! And I definitely can't see someone as successful and as honourable as our lovely Secretary of State for Health and Social Care being fired as a scapegoat anytime soon, then desperately needing a well-paid non-exec directorship or three to help pay the defence costs in any civil suit which might subsequently be brought against him.

Re: Small guage chicken wire?

It was either that or serve the pigeon an ASBO.

Presumably that's an Anti-Social Bird Order.