Posts by Russell Brown
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Speaker: Medical Journal, Chapter V, in reply to Jackie Clark,
I have to admit I think that all us wimmins should be quiet and let the men talk about men things.
Nah, you don't have to be quiet, but you probably need to stop fretting about us. I remember in Emma's penis thread you were all "oh, the men aren't acknowledging their feelings", when we were really just talking the way we felt like talking. We're fine, honest. Got any good willy jokes?
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Speaker: Medical Journal, Chapter V, in reply to Che Tibby,
My Dad had the big cut in the early seventies
Mine too!
But I didn't know about it until about two decades later. Back then, it was a hospital admission, and you didn't talk about it, at least not in Greymouth. My folks even invented a cover story about him going in to have something done for his bad back.
Hard to believe, really.
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Speaker: Medical Journal, Chapter V, in reply to recordari,
No really, that wouldn’t be nearly as much fun. Confessionals are much better when wimmins are involved.
What did I just say
The truth, brother. The alternative is ... the men's group. Sweet Jesus, no.
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Speaker: Medical Journal, Chapter V, in reply to Bart Janssen,
As for comparing between people, please can we just say whatever it is simply caused pain. Pissing contests over whose pain is the greater seem so pointless.
Quite right.
But I bet my kidney stone was bigger than Gio's.
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Speaker: Medical Journal, Chapter V, in reply to Morgan Nichol,
Yes yes, I’m sure he was inconvenienced by all that but, you know, child birth. Haven’t you heard nothing can ever possibly compare?
Oddly enough, I've had a fellow (female) gout sufferer insist to me that the top end of that sucker was worse than childbirth. Not that I'm going anywhere near that argument ...
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Speaker: Medical Journal, Chapter V, in reply to Jackie Clark,
Shall I go on? No, I thought not. They call it perspective, chappies! What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger and all that bollocks.
Oh, it wasn’t like the tube actually hurt much. The kidney stone emergency that preceded it, on the other hand … fark.
I like the way they don’t fuck about and just give you more morphine for as long as you can keep asking for it though.
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From The Guardian’s liveblog:
11.45pm GMT: The protests in Egypt have sparked an appetite for news among American TV viewers, with the evening news programmes getting their biggest viewing audiences for years.
The latest TV ratings from Nielsen reveals that NBC’s Nightly News had its biggest weekly average audience in six years last week. NBC’s news anchor Brian Williams presented the programme from Cairo for NBC’s top-rated newscast. ABC and CBS also reported the best news ratings for a number of years.
From Pew:
Last week’s turmoil in the Middle East registered as the biggest international story in the past four years- – surpassing any coverage of the Iraq war, the Haiti earthquake and the conflict in Afghanistan.
From Jan. 31-Feb. 6, the Middle East saga, driven by televised images of the protests and power struggle in Egypt, filled 56% of the newshole studied by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism. Not only was that easily the biggest overseas story in a single week since PEJ began its News Coverage Index in January 2007. It registered as the fourth-biggest story of any kind – trailing only two weeks in the 2008 presidential campaign and the aftermath of the Jan. 8, 2011 Tucson shooting spree.
The events in the Middle East have accounted for more than half of all US news coverage.
And the US networks have been all over this, brief, extraordinary interview with the freed Google staffer Wael Ghonim:
These are bloody interesting times for the news business.
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Speaker: Medical Journal, Chapter V, in reply to Che Tibby,
i learned that not all things crotch-related are erotic.
You’re talking to someone who once woke in hospital and was surprised – nay, alarmed – to find that a plastic tube has been inserted in his penis. I am hearing you.
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so I had the pleasure of being spaced out while a nun shaved my balls. Fantastic.
I submit that you hallucinated that. Surely.
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Speaker: Medical Journal, Chapter V, in reply to Robyn Gallagher,
You know how our Prime Minister’s recent comments on the hotness of Liz Hurley made it into the “weird news” sections of international newspapers? Well, the previous thing he said that also became overseas news was his too-much-information confession to having had a vasectomy,
And you know why Paul can't be here with us right now?
Because he has a meeting this morning with the Prime Minister.
Spooky.