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Nope, genuinely happened.  I know it sounds like one but she was actually in the room.

 

And as Patrick has pointed out, just about anyone who's ever worked at a trauma centre or A&E can tell you dozens of stories.  She has others that aren't nearly as gross but involve similar things.  Mostly, as in his example, of men shoving things up their bum and then getting them stuck.  One lad had the business end of a set of salad tongs up there, there were loads of stories of bottles and the like.  Most docs are pretty professional about it in front of the patient but the X-rays get passed around when they're gone.

 

She actually has a lot of good stories not involving crazy attempts to wank from her time there as well.  My favourite was the obese woman who came in complaining of stomach pain.  They didn't know what was wrong with her so put her into a hospital gown and on a bed.  Wife went in to help her get on the stretcher to go upstairs for more tests, when she sat up to roll over onto the stretcher a baby fell out onto the floor!  She was pregnant and so fat she never noticed!

I know a couple of radiographers and can confirm. Best I heard was a Jack Daniels bottle up the brown star - square end first.

So, is anyone going to post anything that Nawaz or Ali actually said, in context, or just other peoples' commentary on them?

Narwaz talks a lot of sense, as you said his experience is pretty hard to ignore. Although he's been called a 'porch monkey' by Glen Grenwalds crew.

Yeah, it's shocking when you see the way him and the likes of Ayaan Hirsi Ali are treated when they speak out about extremism.

I've just finished reading "Islam and the future of tolerance" by Sam Harris and Maajid Nawaz.

Harris is the famous 'new atheist' neuroscientist and philosopher, and Nawaz is a former Islamic radical who has also been a Lib Dem candidate.

The two of them were thrown together in debate, found common ground and became friends.

It's a pretty short book, 125 pages presented as a dialogue and suitable for reading in a single sitting.

I particularly found it helpful in defining a distinction - which I hadn't fully appreciated - between Islam, Islamism and Jihadism.

Very readable and I recommend.

Probably been done before (cba to check whole thread):

 

 

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That might be so but humans are humans, they want security, peace and happiness, it takes something monumental to shake them out of that comfort zone and make them fight, die and top themselves.

 

People are talking as though Muslims the world over are reading a book which is telling them to go batshit and start killing non believers, they're not, oddballs are being manipulated by powerful interests.

 

Bin Laden was backed by the US against the Soviets then turned against them because of their backing for the Saudis.

 

Isis were born out of the Iraqi military following the invasion when we sacked them.

 

These people draw people to their cause the way cult leaders do, but their reasons are less religious than they are political and financial.

 

The masses are always pawns. The German people were pawns, the Soviet people were pawns, the jarheads who get recruited from poverty stricken cities like Detroit and Philadelphia and sent to Iraq are pawns.

 

Saudi princes don't get their hands dirty, Stalin didn't get his hands dirty, Donald rumsfeld didn't get his hands dirty. It's the same old shit, round and round it goes.

Im happy to agree that Western foreign policy leaves a lot to be desired, but I don't agree with the likes of Chomsky who think that it's responsible for all the Islamic terrorism we've seen in recent years. People are always going to be manipulated to varying degrees, but it's obvious that many people truly believe the words they read in their holy books, and make choices accordingly.

It's pretty clear from reading the relevant portions of the Islamic holy books - not just the Quran, but also the Hadith, the Shari'ah and the biography of Muhammad - that there is a central doctrine of jihad which isn't represented in other religions. The initial idea of jihad (while Muhammad was still in Mecca) was quite peaceful and could be fairly translated more as "striving" than "holy war" (hence the "Islam is a religion of peace" parroted by the likes of Obama). However, it was revised three times during his lifetime, each revision superseding the previous, to the final version, which is an offensive war in pursuit of either victory or martyrdom. This version of jihad is explicitly stated as being greater than other service, and of the highest rank in the sight of Allah. Islam is a total ideology, striving in pursuit of world sovereignty.

It's a shame that so many commentators, speaking from the comfort of secular, liberal societies, choose to ignore this in favour of the "Muh! Racist!" retort that accompanies such a reading of the facts.

Great show, Veep

Whenever someone on Brookside was watching the telly that was on.

 

Edit - just looked it up and the Brookside producers invented it so the characters had something on their telly. Those cunts must've had some decent acid.

 

*goes off to look for a clip online

Yeah, it' was a kids show but all the adults seemed to love it.

The Magic Rabbits.

I was never able to massively drink; I'd be puking after seven or eight pints and I reckon I've only every been in double figures once or twice.

These days I just have a few and then switch to spirits and take it easy. I'm plenty pissed enough at that.

I found out the hard way that too much beer made me quite miserable and aggressive, while spirits lifted me back up.

Wherever I'm going - even if it's for a meal where I'll be drinking wine - I always start off with a pint or two. I love the thought of that first pint. And if I'm in a group it takes me 1-2 drinks to take the edge of the social awkwardness so I can relax and enjoy myself.

Some girls mothers are bigger than other girls mothers.

Yeerss.

Double yeerss and yeerss again.

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This.

To be fair as better replacement deal brokers go Harry has just come off the market. Dave Hester is committed to Storage Wars, and that fat wigged cunt who buys and sells cars on telly is a walking coronary. Is Peter Ridsdale still alive ?

You forgot this dude.

Think he's an Arsenal fan but maybe he could do a job for us.

My negging finger is getting twitchy here, with all this use of the shitty portmanteau word "chugger".

 

I'm lucky, I suppose, in that I have never been mugged. I have, however, been approached on several occasions by some student with a clipboard, desperately trying to present a cheery disposition, despite being on the 5th hour of an 8-hour shift in the pissy cold climate of some godforsaken shithole of a clone town, in order to barely make minimum wage. Do you know what, I suspect that giving a brief "no thanks" to an on-street fundraiser is probably less traumatic that being forced to hand over your money/phone/keys, whatever, by threats or acts of violence.

 

People have to earn a living one way or another. On-street fundraising is not the most immoral or anti-social way of doing that.

Repped for the use of the word "portmanteau".

 

I'm all for portmanteau repping; or, as I like to call it, portepping.

Interesting.

I'm old enough to remember when the idea of different types of computer communicating via modem seemed unthinkable.

We'll cunt them in the bastard.

 

St Patrick's Day massacre.

Was listening to Lee "Scratch" Perry yesterday, inspired by this thread.

Bugs Bunny never made it to Pismo Beach.

London clubs pioneered everything that's wrong with British football, from Harry Redknapp's brown envelope chicanery, to drogba's diving and Wimbledon's and Palace's alehouse yarddog tactics. I wipe my arse with any attempts to steal the moral high ground from these loudmouthed, embarrass you in Spain, flat beer drinking unaffordable housing cunts.

Top rant.

Shite? Or wank?

 

Which word best sums up that first half?

Shwank.

Both tough calls, razor.

Repped.

Ha, I saw Snow Patrol supporting a band called Magoo once back before they'd released anything. They were a bit punk in those days. Probably around about the same sort of time I last saw Half Man Half Biscuit.

My most recent one is probably Tame Impala supporting Eddie Current Suppression Ring a few years back. They're quite popular these days I believe.

Shows how out of touch I am with music these days...I had to google both of these to see if they were real band names.

I genuinely thought you'd used some sort of random word generator.