Posts by Bart Janssen
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Speaker: Medical Journal, Chapter V, in reply to Paul Campbell,
would perform better if we threatened to chop off their balls?
Why threaten? Seems to me too many of them think with something other than their heads while batting so maybe a drop in testosterone levels might improve their shot selection.
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Speaker: Medical Journal, Chapter V, in reply to Emma Hart,
Can't we just go to the cricket and talk about field placements?
Um, yeah, what would you like to discuss?
So I think McCullum stands too deep and the spacing between him and Taylor is too big. I know McCullum can make some spectacular catches diving to his right but that's not really the point, as Rodney Marsh pointed out it's not how many catches you take that makes you great, it's how many you drop and too many drop short and to the left of Taylor for my liking.
See that's the real problem with men's retreats, most of the time I want to talk about stuff with my female friends too so why would I want to hang out with only half of my friends?
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Speaker: Medical Journal, Chapter V, in reply to Danielle,
beat each other meaningfully with small handfuls of aromatic twigs
Can't we just go to the cricket and talk about field placements?
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Speaker: Medical Journal, Chapter V, in reply to Hilary Stace,
Without meaning to get too serious this is exactly the same as racist or sexist jokes. Offensive is in the eye of the beholder, end of story.
Same here for medical issues. If a guy is phobic about bending over and having his GP stick a finger up his butt then that's real for that guy. Arguing that women have it worse does not make it any less traumatic for that guy.
It's like me saying mammograms are trivial because nobody cuts you and my knee surgery was much worse ... it has no relevance. I'm pretty sure I could find women who think mammograms are no big deal but that doesn't make it less of a deal for those who do find it a big deal. I'm certain I could find men who think mammograms aren't a big deal and that wouldn't have any relevance either.
My vasectomy was easy and a simple decision for me. No big deal for me (apart from the smell). It's good to hear about the experiences of others. And it's interesting that this is really not a topic often discussed. Yes many men have issues about it ... but my feeling is that minimizing their issues by making comparisons isn't going to help.
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Speaker: Medical Journal, Chapter V, in reply to Russell Brown,
the top end of that sucker was worse than childbirth
Yup heard the same. The key thing is that was one person comparing pain of two things that happened to them.
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.
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Speaker: Medical Journal, Chapter V, in reply to recordari,
sideways at the meat pie
At least it wasn't macaroni salad
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Electric shaver - just sayin
They didn't remove the bit of macaroni for mine just made the (tiny) cut and sealed the ends with a laser. Which turned out to be the worst part of the whole thing because you really really don't want to smell your own bits burning.
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I’m not an artist. In fact I’m pretty sure I have the exact opposite gene set from those that are genuinely creative. So my thoughts about it are from the outside.
It has always seemed to me that art is a crap shoot. It’s a statistical game. If you pay 100 artists to create, then you get 20 pieces of crap, 60 pieces of average, 19 pieces of good art and 1, possibly, great work. The only guarantee is that is you have no artists you get nothing.
So why pay for any art? Because I have no doubt, and nor do most reasonable people, that art (even the average art) contributes to the health of society. There are studies showing exactly that. It’s the reason there is art in hospitals.
But when the government pays for art there is a problem. It is simply that the pieces of art that are crap always make for a better story than the average, good, or great works. “this piece of shit (art) cost us three hip replacements”.
But we need to pay for artists to create to ensure we create the art that makes our society a better place to be. We need to pay. And the best way to do that is to pay tax and use that tax to pay artists to create. PACE sounds like it was a very good scheme for doing that. A way of recognising that “artist” is a valid career that contributes to society as much as laying fibre optic cables.
And we just have to relax and accept that some of the art, and artists, we get for our money won’t be all that ... creative.
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Speaker: What PACE actually does, in reply to Islander,
I really can cook fish
And that can become an art form as well. Heston Blumenthal did a series called in search of perfection one episode of which was his search for the perfect fish and chips. The fascination for me was watching someone so talented and dedicated focussing so intently on doing one thing.
But yes if you have the ability and desire to create (written) works of art then please do so again as they contribute to society in a way that most of us (certainly not me) cannot. But if you get more pleasure out of cooking the perfect fish, well there is real value in that too.
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Speaker: What PACE actually does, in reply to Russell Brown,
without anything like the level of accountability demanded by PACE
More accountability employs more people to do the accounting. Sadly it usually results in fewer people doing the work as well.