Ideas That You Feel Are Ready For Retirement

[Laszlo]

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Rolling/24hr news.

Needs to fucking go.

[Pedro Sánchez]

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Rolling/24hr news.

Needs to fucking go.

But then the Sky News helicopter pilot would be out of a job.

[Forum]

Except for deadline day on sky sports news, that can stay

[TheIntrospectionist]

I've hardly watched any football at all this season but I still get excited when transfer deadline day comes around.

[nowaysj]

ask him how Gareth
(I just can't)

& yes noway, I can't see why a triage nurse can't simultaneously evaluate an injury and whether the injured deserves treatment
in fact, I'm sure many of them would love the opportunity
particularly the ones kicked & spat on by tweakers & drunks on Friday nights.

Someone was just telling me, was it on here? that they were an EMT and they picked up the same guy 3 times in the same night. Take him in the ambulance to the ER, get treated, released, more drugs, ambulance, er, more drugs, ambulance, er... probably cost 50k for the night.

The level of drugs should have killed any human.

So how would you get these patients out of the hospital?

You could show them into the elevator, the nurse presses a button, and a trap door opens up, and they drop into a pit underneath the hospital. Just a pit full of tweakerz and dudes that got drunk and fell off balconies.

Here we go:

I was celebrating my 11th birthday in a high rise apartment building. Two of my uncles show up. I'm not used to seeing both of them at the same time. They are like fissile material. They need to be kept separate. So they show up, have a fairly normal kids family birthday party, "learn your fucking times tables, kid," my uncles are drinking heavy though. It gets late, I get sent to bed. My uncles are full on into the wind. So I'm in my bedroom, just listening to the stories through the wall: Cocaine deals on remote Colorado air strips, cocaine deals gone bad on remote Colorado air strips, crazy 70's comic book hero type shit.

So, they get to dick measuring, as they always do, which is why they need to be kept separate. I hear, "I bet you won't climb down this fucking building right now!" "Fuck you, I'll do it!" A chorus of the women, "NOOOO! Don't do it!" I go to my window cause I've got to see this: the first uncle, the challenger is out on the balcony, stripping off his clothes and just pops over the edge, scrambles down the outside of the building on the balconies like some drunk iron working irish-english polish-russian spider. Lights are coming on as he climbs down. Some lady a few floors down is screaming. Our party, of course, is half cheering/half lamenting.

He makes it to the ground, doesn't know where to go, runs naked into the bushes. So second uncle, fully clothed, pops over the edge, and starts climbing down the balconies, about halfway down the building's security guard comes out and spotlights my uncle with his flashlight. My uncle continues to climb down, sirens are crescendoing in the distance. The security guard gets to my uncle as he reaches the ground. The guard is like, "What are you doing?!" My uncle, a sharp whit, "I was with my brother on the balcony, and he fell over!" The security guard shouts "Oh my god!" and turns around to look for the dead guy. My uncle dashes off into the bushes. We're yelling at the guard. The sirens are at full blast, blue beams of light coming from the side of the building. The women gather up the clothes, and go down and actually manage to sneak them back into the building. No arrests are made (that night).

But my only point, other than my uncles are fairly kick ass, it is obviously a mental disease that lead those idiots over the building's edge that night. A disease that mitigates their moral culpability, at least form harms they cause themselves. In my eyes.

But I feel you. I do see the end of personal responsibility as necessary for the rise of what is rising.

[kay]

Leaving children aside for the moment, it seems rather sexist in this day and age that women take precedence over men. Women and children first? Pshaw! EVERYONE FOR THEMSELVES, SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST.

I am very, very late to this thread, but I had to ask, is that a Howard Dean reference?

Errmmm...nope, no idea who Howard Dean is.

[titchbit]

yeah, looking back it doesn't really sound like a pshaw it's more of a 'yiiiaaaaaaaahhhhhhh'

[wysockisauce]

http://www.comedycentral.com/video-clip ... oward-dean

Best version of biyaaaah.

[nousd]

@ noway: good story mate
my nieces have uncles like that
not so much drunk & nude...more like crusty surfer boofheads
but deffo influential in them not hooking up with Aussie blokes...
Czech, Pom, Yank...anything but skip booner.

Now there's an idea worth retiring:

that all us skip booners are unsuitable partners.
We're actually quite sensitive loving beings
beyond our inability to take shit from fuckwits,
(including uppity skanks).

[nowaysj]

We're actually quite sensitive loving beings
beyond our inability to take shit from fuckwits

I may be an honorary skip booner.

[nousd]

you just might very well be
*sends certificate astrally*

[titchbit]

skip boner.

[hubb]

non hologram condoms

[nowaysj]

Get married.

[DiegoSapiens]

Hahaha why did you get married nowaysj?

[nowaysj]

Can't stand condoms!




















I'm only paper married like... 8 years, but spirit married 18. I just love my wife, what can I say?

[hubb]

[hubb]

333= christian

[TheIntrospectionist]

I'm not ready to give up on free will yet

I see free will as an illusion but I'm not entirely convinced we should completely do away with it. That being said, I'm prepared to have my mind changed on either point given the evidence etc. This matter has recently been kicking off between Dan Dennett and Sam Harris. Dennett recently published a scathing review of Harris' 'Free Will' which is a pretty short but, imo, very well written book on the topic which I've recently read. Dennett refers to the book as a "veritable museum of mistakes" and, in my current view, makes some decent and well justified criticisms. Harris submitted his response to the review yesterday which I'm currently reading. I have yet to read Dennett's 'Freedom Evolves' but it may well change my mind. It's been really interesting to see a couple of my favorite science writers go at it. I feel these lectures give a pretty good overview of the case each is making in their books:





Dan Dennett's review of 'Free Will' can be read here: http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/refl ... -free-will
Sam Harris' response: http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/the- ... tes-lament

[nousd]

^ I like the concept of freedom from choice
because then I can choose to do whatever is happening and be happy that my choice was apposite

but I want to retire helicopter traffic reports on the wireless (sic)
cos anybody in a car hearing about an accident shouldn't get the opportunity to avoid the accumulation of their own pollution
but should ignorantly proceed into the stink of their own making