Spammers

I've been getting an awful lot of spam comments lately. The format is always the same. A gushing compliment on the blog or specific post, often in mangled English and not in any way relevant to the post subject, followed by a link to the commenter's own web site.

Until recently my spam filter caught most of these but they are now creeping through, and the subject matter of their links is getting increasingly undesirable. I've just deleted one possibly connecting to an under age porn site.

Comments moderation is all I can do about this. Don't be put off if you wish to make a genuine comment. Those are (almost) invariably welcome.

Professional courtesy

Thanks to JD for the information that Dr Dan Poulter of my last post was once a gynaecologist, before he became a politician. I am reminded of a comment made by an anaesthetic colleage of mine. He was anaesthetising a lady for a gynaecology colleague of whom he was not particularly fond. The gynaecologist had just inserted a Cusco into the oblivious lady.

“Look at that” said my colleague. “ A bent piece of steel with a cunt at each end!”

Another man with his head up his arse.

Health minister Dr Dan Poulter said: 

“Today is a momentous day - as doctors in the UK become the first in the world to have regular assessments to ensure that their training and expertise are up to date and that they remain fit to carry out their important role of providing high quality care for patients.

Translation

“The UK is now the only country in the world to hobble it’s medical profession in a a supremely stupid attempt at control and emasculation which will deprofessionalise and demotivate every doctor in the land at great expense for no discernible benefit.”

DZ is prepared to stand corrected but, contrary to the implication in Dr Poulter’s statement, he is not aware that any other country in the world feels it a good idea to emulate the UK in it’s intention to fuck over it’s medical profession in this act of supreme and ignorant folly. 

Armageddon

Well it's now less than a month till the supposed end of the world and I'm going to repeat a suggestion that could just enable you to make a lot of money, though it would take a certain level of cold hard heartedness. Find yourself a deluded gullible fool who really believes that the world is ending next month. Offer him £5000 for his house, and everything he owns, the deal being that you pay today but he does not have to relinquish all his worldly goods till the day after the end. What has he got to lose?

Old Soldiers

Relief!

“Four years ago it was a feeling of joy. This time the main feeling was relief that we don't have to wake up tomorrow in Romney's America.”

Salman Rushdie

A sentiment that I wholeheartedly agree with!

Trainees

Peggy Clancy