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Post by htmb on Aug 24, 2024 18:51:58 GMT
I agree.
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Post by questaredux on Aug 26, 2024 13:40:00 GMT
some parts of an elderly organ donor can be used as a stop gap measure while the hospital awaits a suitable long term transplant. Kids waiting liver matching organs may use more than one before a match is made. Also an adult liver can be dissected into 3 child-size sections and 3 kids get to live. The amount of tissues that can be used now is amazing. Recently we had a patient who had most of his face blown off...the muscle, bone, skin and eyes were rebuilt from donated tissues.
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Post by lugg on Aug 26, 2024 19:27:19 GMT
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Post by onlyMark on Aug 26, 2024 21:31:52 GMT
It seems December 14th and for the few days after that, this year, will be the deciding date for if the earth is flat or not. Flat earthers and those 'globists' have agreed there is one way to see if the earth is flat or not. That is to be in Antarctica. If the earth is a globe they agree the sun will shine for 24 hours each day. Never set. But if flat, it will set. "The final experiment" it is called and currently both sides will have representatives there - but I can guarantee the flat earthers will come up with some excuses as to why they've been tricked or whatever. The first thing was them saying, how will we know we are really in Antarctica? The answer was, you will be but does it matter where you are for the proof as long as the sun doesn't set.
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Post by onlyMark on Aug 28, 2024 6:02:30 GMT
I saw the photo released to promote the new Oasis tour. The one on the left promotes nothing in me other than wanting to slap him.
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Post by whatagain on Aug 28, 2024 6:42:27 GMT
My wife says I have bad taste.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Aug 28, 2024 16:30:20 GMT
Good grief. Your wife has a point...but carry on by all means dearie
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Aug 28, 2024 18:32:30 GMT
I saw the photo released to promote the new Oasis tour. The one on the left promotes nothing in me other than wanting to slap him. I didn't like Oasis. One or two of their songs are ok I suppose but nothing earth shattering. I remember Paul Weller (The Jam) saying that Noel Gallagher was a brilliant guitarist...er...(nowhere near as good as Paul Weller!).
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Post by bjd on Aug 29, 2024 5:54:38 GMT
I don't understand why British news is so full of the future Oasis tour. It's hardly newsworthy information.
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Post by onlyMark on Aug 29, 2024 6:24:07 GMT
Me neither. It must be very important to some.
"Telegram boss and founder Pavel Durov" - being investigated by France - I keep seeing the same photo of him dressed in a high collared black top like an evil genius. That style never goes down well with me being brought up with Donald Pleasence and Blofeld.
A man not widely known but has won medals at five Olympic Games in sailing (Sir Ben Ainslie) - was robbed at knifepoint in Barcelona and had his €20,000 Rolex taken off him. I've never understood why you need a watch that expensive but mainly why would you wear it walking around a major city on a Saturday night.
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Post by whatagain on Aug 29, 2024 6:28:26 GMT
My new boss is British. Either English or welsh. Can’t wait to tell him they are all retarded on his island 🤪
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Post by onlyMark on Aug 29, 2024 10:53:11 GMT
Excellent joke that is. You need to use it at every available opportunity to the British. Pubs in industrial areas on a Friday night would go down a treat. You'd be the life and soul of the party. I'd suggest to the Welsh to say, "Rydych yn retarded." - get you kudos points for using their own language.
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Post by whatagain on Aug 29, 2024 10:58:30 GMT
Will do.
Up to now every guy I said it to laughed. Up to now every guy who read it whined.
Absolutely perfect score.
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Post by mickthecactus on Aug 29, 2024 11:00:01 GMT
My new boss is British. Either English or welsh. Can’t wait to tell him they are all retarded on his island 🤪 Whilst I know you find the word retarded hilariously funny, have you ever looked at the dictionary definition? Once upon a time it was used to describe Downs Syndrome children and others. The dictionaries now say the word is no longer in use because it is offensive. Think on.
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Post by mickthecactus on Aug 29, 2024 11:11:11 GMT
Will do. Up to now every guy I said it to laughed. Up to now every guy who read it whined. Absolutely perfect score. I’m sure if you told Mark he was retarded he’d laugh like a drain. Or punch you in the nose. Which do you reckon?
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 29, 2024 11:23:29 GMT
Gee, you guys take the bait every single time!
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Post by mickthecactus on Aug 29, 2024 11:26:30 GMT
Gee, you guys take the bait every single time! Silly old us eh! Dear oh dear... Fancy us not understanding Gallic humour!
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 29, 2024 12:07:30 GMT
If you wanted to be nasty, you would have called it Flemish humour.
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Post by whatagain on Aug 29, 2024 12:39:49 GMT
If you wanted to be nasty, you would have called it Flemish humour. 👍😂😂😂
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Post by onlyMark on Aug 29, 2024 12:43:13 GMT
My new boss is British. Either English or welsh. Can’t wait to tell him they are all retarded on his island 🤪 No doubt he'll be from Manchester like the twice before you've said you've said it. You must have misread my post. I'm all in favour of you using it. I'm not, as you put it, whining. I think the use of an extremely offensive term in mockery of vulnerable people about sums up your character. It's your version of a 'party trick', a 'go to' joke and I use the term joke in it's broadest sense considering the only people who would truly find it funny are those of your ilk. "Up to now every guy I said it to laughed." - If/when you so say it to the British they will invariably be polite to your face and give the appearance of being amused. That's why you think so. Also because you are not astute enough to perceive the different levels and just see the surface reaction. When you turn away though you will never be a party to what they really think about you saying they are such a thing. You are not, and never will be part of their group. Nor will you be accepted as an equal. That's why I suggest you go to a pub late on a Friday night in an industrial area. You may find the people there, male and female, react differently and in a more honest way. But, coward that you are, you know it isn't funny and is just a wind up, so it's a moot point. You never will. It's your own personal joke on those you (supposedly) say it to. You are laughing at them. I'm doing you a favour in enlightening you to the nuances of British humour and nobody, absolutely nobody will will accept being called retarded as being just funny without any further thought. Reactions may differ and vary but if you want to be thought well of and accepted for anything other than being a boor, keep that comment in your mind rather than on your tongue. My words may come back to you the day you get a pint glass smashed in your face. Yes, seriously. It has been done for far less than a comment like that. I'm trying to protect that pretty face of yours. You seem to have dropped the racist comments and I suggest you be a good boy and drop this "joke" as well. But every time you do bring it up, I will point out the error of your ways in the vain attempt to move you away from your boor status on this subject. You do not give the impression of of being "salt of the earth", a "man's man" and "one of the boys" to others with this, just a sad lonely figure wanting, nay craving, to be accepted and striving for the validation of others. Question - do you address this to women that they are retarded, or is it just men?
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 29, 2024 13:13:37 GMT
Actually, when I was young "you retard!" was a gently insulting term of endearment. 21st century people have become so incredibly fragile. Or maybe just English speaking people, because in French, variations on that term are still very common among friends -- crétin, taré, imbécile... Married couples use them quite a bit to each other. We have not received the Downton Abbey phrasebook.
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Post by onlyMark on Aug 29, 2024 13:14:43 GMT
Gee, you guys take the bait every single time! So we should just let it pass? Like you and your anti-British sentiments? Let pass so many times it becomes acceptable? I liken you both to how if a child does something wrong it should be mentioned to them, otherwise they consider it acceptable behaviour.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 29, 2024 13:18:00 GMT
I don't think I will ever understand why you are so invariably mean spirited, Mark. Mick is at least civilised when he opposes something.
WTF? Or should I be polite and say "goodness gracious" ?
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Post by onlyMark on Aug 29, 2024 13:23:45 GMT
"Mean spirited"? How did that come about from objecting to the retard reference? I'm mean spirited to throw water over what someone thinks is funny?
"WTF?" Are you disputing your anti-British comments? You never said anything as such?
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Post by onlyMark on Aug 29, 2024 13:32:49 GMT
Actually, when I was young "you retard!" was a gently insulting term of endearment. 21st century people have become so incredibly fragile. Or maybe just English speaking people, because in French, variations on that term are still very common among friends -- crétin, taré, imbécile... Married couples use them quite a bit to each other. We have not received the Downton Abbey phrasebook. As in Britain, a retard all those decades ago was acceptable. Like "spass" or "spastic". Being a cretin or imbecile was also acceptable and often still are today. They do not have the emphasis of being called a retard. Or Mongol. "We have not received the Downton Abbey phrasebook." That's one of the points, what you find acceptable in one country is fine, but if it is not acceptable in another country then don't use it in that country - whilst saying but in my country it is fine. What's all the fuss!? It's funny!
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Post by tod2 on Aug 29, 2024 13:34:12 GMT
I dont know what to make of this to & fro -ing ! Let me tell you about our "retard". We have a young man working as a guard. He patrols our carpark and makes sure nobody gets their car stolen. He is extremely bright. Knows everything that is going on around him , and most of other peoples business as he keeps his ears and eyes open 24/7. He cannot cope with a job that needs calculations, fore-thought and preparation. You see Douglas (named after the town of Douglas on the Isle of Man where his uncle won a TT race) was born with a problem. He is "slow" but naturally he does not perceive himself as such. In a lot of minds he may be considered a "retard" and we accept he is retarded in some way, but dear Douglas is as sharp as a blade, and willing to do anything asked of him.
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Post by onlyMark on Aug 29, 2024 13:47:40 GMT
Tod...and do you call someone a retard as a joke?
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 29, 2024 15:33:42 GMT
As in Britain, a retard all those decades ago was acceptable. Like "spass" or "spastic". Being a cretin or imbecile was also acceptable and often still are today. They do not have the emphasis of being called a retard. Or Mongol. I always wonder why so many people have accepted that words are suddenly unacceptable. Which ruling authority has decreed these things? Black people in America suddenly becoming African American and nothing else, or "oriental" becoming an offensive term for people from East Asia. (This I find particularly amusing since in French "oriental" basically means Arab all the way from North Africa to the Persian Gulf, but of course that is just a language difference, except for the fact that in French we have not received decrees about what words should be exchanged for other words.) I grew up with the word "queer" being offensive but now it seems to be a badge of honour in that community, just like "nigga" among African Americans. At the same time, people from other communities are not supposed to use those words (although queer now seems to be back in the mainstream, at least when referring to cultural things like movies or music). ..and do you call someone a retard as a joke? I called myself a retard once on a website after having written something really stupid, and I was flamed by the American moderator who said he worked with handicapped people and that the word had been permanently cancelled from modern culture. Of course I could have called myself an idiot or an imbecile, but we are probably very close to the time when those terms will be forbidden as well. So Mark, we can all conform to what other people tell us to say, and I guess the world will be perfect.
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Post by onlyMark on Aug 29, 2024 16:01:33 GMT
So Mark, we can all conform to what other people tell us to say, and I guess the world will be perfect. A dismissive generalisation. How about not using a word/telling a joke that is offensive out of respect to a vulnerable section of the community who can rarely defend or speak up for themselves? Mean nothing to you? If someone wants to diss the black community, or gays, or trans or anyone, group, section who can strike back in a literate manner then be my guest. When your oppo persistently uses a slur which cannot be defended against by that group, you must have lost your humanity when you object (and not for the first time) to me challenging it rather than objecting to the instigator, more than once, for finding it amusing. I can only believe you must condone it and for that I think lesser of you. You engage the objector rather than the offensive psuedo-joker. And, yes, I will engage with anything as many times as necessary to avoid the normalisation of this kind of thing when that would be the result if nobody does and it becomes the "norm" and acceptable.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 29, 2024 16:02:23 GMT
I confess that I am very slow to adopt newspeak even if George Orwell invented it back in 1948. Maybe I am retarded, but I find it alarming how quickly some of the new terms are picked up to remain up to date on Instagram or X. Especially when I see how quickly some of these things are discarded just as quickly.
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