Getting older...

That's a bonus though, see. That means that you have to live longer,
just to maintain the average.

 

I was chatting about this with one of our Consultants the other day.
She reckons the Shipman legacy has a few years to run yet, and in the
meantime her colleagues simply don't dare prescribe what they'd like
to prescribe.

 

I'd have liked to have Shipman as my GP; none of this wishy-washy
emotional life-preserving bollocks, just convince the bugger you've left
him a wedge when you're ready to go and job done.

 

Bit late for that now, innit?

 

*Snort*

Sounds like Tony Blair.

 

It sounds like a great deal of the anodyne but ultimately meaningless
thinking that populates any of the mainstream political parties.

Book you may find interesting:
"What's the Matter with America" Thomas Frank
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0099492938/qid=1148281157/sr=8-1/
ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl/026-3089134-6500464

Interesting parallels can be drawn here too

 

Um, you've lost me here, I'm afraid. Guy Fawkes is the character who
leads this fantasy life in which he claims to have fettled CB750s at
the age of nine, or something, right? And Burnt has caused no end of
amusement in tying him up about it....

So no, I don't. What's your point?

I wouldn't disagree or agree, because I know absolutely nothing about
her specialist area, so probably wisest not to express an opinion on it
at all.

 

TOG@toil, ,
wrote:

NAHAY?

 

Ah, right. Slow morning today, I'm afraid.

Well, my main point was it just reminded me of this bloody silly New
Labour campaign - oh, see Sweller's posting, as his political antennae
picked up the point.

I tend to respect most people's postings on certain points: generally,
something they really, really know a lot about, or when they make an
incisive and relevant point, even if I don't agree with them.

Actually Sweller is a classic case in point. I don't agree with (some
of) his political points but by Christ, I'm not going to get in an
argument over them, because he'd tie me in knots. (Sorry to deprive you
of sport, there, Sweller.....)

And I definitely don't respect people who tell barefaced porkies here
and do everything they can to avoid admitting that they did, Guy Fawkes
being a classic case.

Fair enough, again. Well, actually, I hadn't noticed the 'hormonal' etc
tone, no.

 

I can do that.

 

A couple of years ago my sister died of cancer. When the end came she
was lucky enough to be admitted to a specialist unit. She went from
being well enough to go to a concert, to so ill we were told she could
not be transferred to a hospice in just a few days. She was given some
kind of IV device on which the dose could be dialled up as the pain
became unbearable. At the very end she was moved in to a room of her
own and (so far as I could tell) drifted away free of pain and obvious
distress.

As I said, she was lucky, this is the standard of care we should all be
entitled to if we desire it.

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That's pretty much my conclusion too.

 

No, but sometimes it's a reet bugger, eh?

 

Remind me, what are you studying?

 

**** this introverted doom and gloom. Live each and every day as
though it is your last, and die with no regrets.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Verdigris

I think it's fair to say that if I lived as if it were my last day on
Earth, I'd lie in until at least the afternoon on the following day.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - Podium Placed Ducati Race Engineer

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha GTS1000

 

Well, it takes all sorts to make a world. I had in mind a "no excuses,
no procrastination" attitude, I wouldn't use imminent death as a "get
out of this world free" excuse. If it's worth doing, do it. If not
forget it and move on.