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Tuesday, September 05, 2006
Hysteria
Interesting article on hysteria. (This illustrates one of the reasons why I never read newspapers.)
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Those Portsmouth protesters who carried placards saying "hanging's too good for them" and burned people out of their homes condemn anyone who has criticized them, and anyone who dares to question their actions is frequently painted in some way as a defender of pedophiles. People who reacted hysterically don't like it when they get satirized? How odd... Who would have ever suspected?
"You can joke about everything, just not with everybody." -- French humorist Pierre Desproges.
I myself can enjoy occasionally some of the utterly stupid antics of the Jackass team... in a twisted, horrified way. Like this guy who set his scrotum on fire with alcohol... even though he had already lost one testicle in a snowboarding accident, while playing idiot in front of the camera! Next best/worst thing after the Darwin Awards.
For those who will read the Wikipedia article I linked to, here's one precision: urine is a natural solution of concentrated chemical ions, therefore it conducts electricity far better than water itself. Since, when urinating, one usually has his/her feet grounded, "making sparks" with your privates in that manner is highly unadvizable and hazardous. At best, you coud end up with severe burns to the mucosa inside of the urinary tract, which is far worse than the notoriously super-painful passing of a kidney stone. This was the medical minute of the day, thank you dear viewers. Now, take care of yourselves... and each other.
The thing that cracked me up about the episodes in the article on hysteria, was the way that the supposed hysterical mobs confused "pedophile" with "pediatrician."
A politician in Florida accused her opponent of having once been a "thespian" and she did indeed get elected. On the strength of the accusation? Who's to say ...
And a guy in (I think?) Washington, a few years back, had to resign for (accurately, correctly) using an objectionable word at his workplace. The word was "niggardly."
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Those Portsmouth protesters who carried placards saying "hanging's too good for them" and burned people out of their homes condemn anyone who has criticized them, and anyone who dares to question their actions is frequently painted in some way as a defender of pedophiles.
People who reacted hysterically don't like it when they get satirized? How odd... Who would have ever suspected?
"You can joke about everything, just not with everybody." -- French humorist Pierre Desproges.
I myself can enjoy occasionally some of the utterly stupid antics of the Jackass team... in a twisted, horrified way. Like this guy who set his scrotum on fire with alcohol... even though he had already lost one testicle in a snowboarding accident, while playing idiot in front of the camera! Next best/worst thing after the Darwin Awards.
For those who will read the Wikipedia article I linked to, here's one precision: urine is a natural solution of concentrated chemical ions, therefore it conducts electricity far better than water itself. Since, when urinating, one usually has his/her feet grounded, "making sparks" with your privates in that manner is highly unadvizable and hazardous. At best, you coud end up with severe burns to the mucosa inside of the urinary tract, which is far worse than the notoriously super-painful passing of a kidney stone.
This was the medical minute of the day, thank you dear viewers. Now, take care of yourselves... and each other.
Friggin *ouch*!!
The thing that cracked me up about the episodes in the article on hysteria, was the way that the supposed hysterical mobs confused "pedophile" with "pediatrician."
A politician in Florida accused her opponent of having once been a "thespian" and she did indeed get elected. On the strength of the accusation? Who's to say ...
And a guy in (I think?) Washington, a few years back, had to resign for (accurately, correctly) using an objectionable word at his workplace. The word was "niggardly."
What next?
"What next? "
I have a suggestion : using the term "Freedom Fries" in order not to risk offending our French friends. ;-P
After all, "potato" is an insult in French. Means clumsy dummy...
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