tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post570754570769420448..comments2023-11-03T11:32:01.540+00:00Comments on Thought Experiments : The Blog: The Dance of DeathBryan Appleyardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08276787058430388582noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-11393882678999700832007-08-14T00:09:00.000+00:002007-08-14T00:09:00.000+00:00Wow.Wow.Oroboroushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01710250012500728430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-69677598417862331692007-08-13T20:22:00.000+00:002007-08-13T20:22:00.000+00:00thank you, Susan, glad to encounter someone as war...thank you, Susan, glad to encounter someone as wary of the Scots as myself. Perhaps it was going to uni at Durham, a fort built to defend against their red-haired incursions. <BR/><BR/>i'm not actually making the LSD thing up, or the 'you'd be locked up' remark - my father also helped a policeman resolve a hostage situation by injecting a gunman with something from his bag of tricks; he was also Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-81683687964504231022007-08-13T03:29:00.000+00:002007-08-13T03:29:00.000+00:00Oh, Elberry! You are confecting, I believe, but yo...Oh, Elberry! You are confecting, I believe, but you are pretty funny. Do read the Cavendish chapters of David Mitchell's "Cloud Atlas" and I think you will be laughing VERY hard.<BR/><BR/>Also, on the post a few days back about British TV & Yorkshire, I added a post to tell you a joke I think you will enjoy. It involves sheep and Scotsmen.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-2088307285106150472007-08-13T00:19:00.000+00:002007-08-13T00:19:00.000+00:00We treat our old people like shit. You slave your ...We treat our old people like shit. You slave your guts out bringing up kids, providing for them, worrying about their welfare and the minute you hit 70 they repay you by flinging you into what is effectively a prison with wallpaper and carpets. And nurses frankly are worse than prison guards.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-46009062316094483722007-08-12T21:10:00.000+00:002007-08-12T21:10:00.000+00:00My father, who was insane, evil, and a good GP, on...My father, who was insane, evil, and a good GP, once explained that he'd never referred me to a psychiatrist because i'd be instantly banged up in the loony bin. He expanded, with his usual remorselessness: "Wellll, egh, once you go in, you never come out! Don't get better, eghh! Only worse! Heh heh heh!"<BR/><BR/>Despite having no psychiatric qualifications, he had run a psychiatric ward in the Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-54494332463733405122007-08-12T20:29:00.000+00:002007-08-12T20:29:00.000+00:00death and taxes - the rich will evade them both.death and taxes - the rich will evade them both.Ian russellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11106519805045337505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-92166891023864562242007-08-12T20:22:00.000+00:002007-08-12T20:22:00.000+00:00For the same reason, one should never, ever, have ...For the same reason, one should never, ever, have one's washing machine fixed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-74643586506091424292007-08-12T16:02:00.000+00:002007-08-12T16:02:00.000+00:00This post reminds me of the summers I spent as a v...This post reminds me of the summers I spent as a volunteer in nursing homes in Miami, Florida, as a teenager. I worked in two, one private and one public. The private one was more attractive and reeked somewhat less of urine and Pinesol, but it still followed the inexorable script of the poorer public one: Old people came in compos mentis and apprehensive, but within weeks they lost their minds Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-54071130193396392572007-08-12T14:19:00.000+00:002007-08-12T14:19:00.000+00:00I think it was Robert Lowell who said that if all ...I think it was Robert Lowell who said that if all of us had a dial on our wrist that we could turn at any time and be instantly, painlessly dead, virtually all of us would use it, and sooner rather than later. <BR/>As for the sheep-braindead question (a no-brainer? arf arf), isn't it simply that, being human, we are bound to regard ourselves as having a special, i.e. human quality and all Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-89968210246589050292007-08-12T14:00:00.000+00:002007-08-12T14:00:00.000+00:00i remember walking down a street with a friend 20 ...i remember walking down a street with a friend 20 years older than me; we were accosted by an old woman in a doorway, whose friend had fallen, and couldn't get up. We went into the house, which reeked & had piles of newspapers everywhere, & helped this infirm old lady up, and then went on our way. We were silent for a while, then i said, quite seriously, "do you want me to kill you if you end up Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-60665778976561729732007-08-12T10:34:00.000+00:002007-08-12T10:34:00.000+00:00Never mind the Arctic Monkeys, Brit. Just yesterd...Never mind the Arctic Monkeys, Brit. Just yesterday I was trying to imagine what the next couple of generations are likely to make of Grannie's tattoos.<BR/><BR/>Just for the sake of argument, let's assume all those excited proponents of extended life can pull it off and that the wonders of science will give us all many more years of relative good physical and mental health. Apart from some Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-33613862860126012692007-08-12T10:30:00.000+00:002007-08-12T10:30:00.000+00:00Great Sunday morning piece. Thinking of slinking o...Great Sunday morning piece. Thinking of slinking off to slit my wrists to save your 'brilliant' young doctor any bother, God bless him.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-78387800433818428252007-08-12T08:23:00.000+00:002007-08-12T08:23:00.000+00:00And also because our whole lives so so defined by ...And also because our whole lives so so defined by the particular youth culture of our generation. Today's young will, of course, embarrass their children and grandchildren (and, ever more frequently, great-grandchildren) with their red-faced bopping to the Arctic Monkeys and whatnot.<BR/><BR/>The other evening, in the depths of the high-numbered cable TV channels, I happened upon a re-run of 80sBrithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00390560583798960760noreply@blogger.com