If thou gazest long into the Pit, the Pit will also gaze into thee

Gary Fettke is one example. He’s an orthopaedic surgeon in Tasmania who got sick of amputations of T2D feet. He stated criticising carb heavy diet recommendations and crap UPF Meals in his hospitals. He was targeted by the Dieticians association and from them the local medical board. He had to figh...

But no immediate call for statins on a T-chol of 329 / 8.5? Not from me: I like to see the risk score and go by that, being an old and wily dinosaur who doesn't object to independent thought.The Framingham score makes it easy to tell someone what their risk of a heart attack is in the next ten year...

Brive, how about you look at the Framingham risk score and stop there? Were I your doc I'd be congratulating you and telling you to carry on. Of course, you're going to die anyway, but in the meantime you can force down all the same old diet and know that you'll last a month or two longer. Keep it u...

Reminds me a joke from the USSR: Two policemen were walking along the road. One turns to the other and says: "What do you think of the government". The other policeman thinks quickly and responds: "The same as you, comrade!" The first policemen replies, "I'm sorry, I have to arrest you for sedition...

Sitting here, I realise just how bad raccoons smell. I never did, but now I understand what my front deck smells of. It's completely illegal to do anything to a raccoon here, they are fur-bearers which can only be harvested by license holders who have paid large fees to the province for training and...

But really, right now I feel okay. I need to red pill myself once in a while to refresh. Well, I hope you do! The whole point of your life, in this regard, is that you feel your position is correct. I think most of us would agree; you are in the right. If your daughter's best reply is a 'fuck you' ...

I see Andrew Sullivan was allowed by his minders to write a column this week, and he doesn't fail to excoriate the new orthodoxy. But having read it, make sure to visit the comments and weep for what humanity has become.

My favourite way of washing hands:

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Andrew Doyle/Titania McGrath has a great piece critical of Black Lives Matter detailing "the tidal wave of woke sentiment, unleashed in the name of anti-racism." "We are right to be nervous about race-based collective guilt, and quasi-religious mass displays of supplication and conformity. [...] We...

Fuck it. I decided to just ignore my daughter's letter. Fuck it. My wife said I should email her and tell her that I love her, but I can't do it. I told my wife she could tell her she loves her if she wants. I am so done with this shit. She will take silence as guilt, which justifies and proves her...

Cringeworthy stuff, as minor white celebrities try to make BLM all about them:

Seattle Commune's demands. They are a hoot: https://medium.com/@seattleblmanon3/the-demands-of-the-collective-black-voices-at-free-capitol-hill-to-the-government-of-seattle-ddaee51d3e47 Screen Shot 2020-06-10 at 6.04.30 PM.jpg Presumably, if you are all equal, white patients may demand white doctor...

John, Psychostimulants like Adderall and Vyvanse don't necessarily make people nicer; often quite the opposite. But I'm guessing it would be wrong to excuse her as simply suffering from a side-effect. I'd be inclined to perform one last important duty as a parent before sending her on her way into t...

Thanks, Screwy! Another retrograde operation I learned about recently was retrograde ejaculation. Got told about it when I went to see my urologist about my prostate, and he suggested the old steam treatment... Any kind of prostatectomy (TURP with hot wire, laser, cryo or thermal, or open retropubi...

Screwtape - is there a nuanced difference between micturation and urination, or are the both just pissing? Oh, so many answers spring to mind. I'll be serious. Micturition (nb spelling) and urination are the same thing to the medical profession. Etymologically, one can argue that micturition is the...

The waters shall turn red as blood, and firstborns will all die. Yeah, I managed to keep a beard for three months because of platelets that are on strike, but the call of the straight razors was too strong and now the waters do turn red as blood each day. As for firstborns - seems a bit rough on my...

Crazy day... My daughter messaged me and wanted my comment about Trump's tweet regarding "looters and shooters" and did I think he was racist. I said I didn't think he is particularly racist and that he is an ass and a blow hard. She told me that my comment has finally convinced her that I am a rac...

... they have the wimpiest call for a bird of that magnificence. Yes, for some reason it became conventional wisdom that bald eagles have this magnificently penetrating shriek, like in the Mount Doom rescue scene in Return of the King. But that's actually the call of a red-tailed hawk. Bald eagles ...

Best raptor call I have lived with would be the buzzards in west Wales. At the same time as we enjoyed the call, we had to hate them for their actions in lambing season. I rather wish the bird on the county arms of Witshire - the Great Bustard - hadn't gone extinct before I arrived. Though at least ...

The only remarkable thing about this photo is that I took it standing right in the middle of my living room! The eagle was sitting in a tree behind the house checking out a raccoon carcass.

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Some eagle trivia that some might find surprising. They will attack and kill prey that are substantially larger than them, and they are good swimmers. I have seen them swimming to shore from hundreds of yards out. I did see an eagle attack a medium large dog that was swimming just off the beach onc...

Aristotle's definition of Tragedy was 'pity & fear'. Pity at the wretch whose troubles are worse than our own/ fear that the same could befall us. Mania is the really scary kind of psychosis, and by far the most damaging and dangerous. I worked as a resident at the psychiatry wing of a general hosp...

One of the better anti-SJW think pieces I've read recently, in the form of a review of a 2016 book called Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America which won a National Book Award for non-fiction. The Social Justice Endgame A very good and amusing review. I presu...

Bugger. Didn't realise we had started a new page. Replying to FT.

Indeed I do. An old hand at squicking and felching.

I acquired a Québeçois Snickers bar today. Somehow, it reminds me of an alt.tasteless 'grogan':

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Meanwhile in Terra Australis Incognita, the Not-Quite-Perfect Diet has been invented:

Now we know what caused the bushfires; silly galah probably farted near a flame.

If you are going to breastfeed you can't wait a few days and then try, you have to start immediately. I think the issue is when do you acknowledge that it isn't working and switch to formula. Don't the formula makers give free samples to new mothers? If you start with that then you are stuck with t...

Since the FT popped up (so to speak) - is anyone worried about the malign influence of 'Big Tittie' on society? Starting at 22 min for the curious... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbHUKg4tJ00 You might enjoy taking a look at http://www.skepticalob.com/ where a retired obstetrician rants and raves...

Fuck. There’s strong evidence emerging that all countries were already ‘around the curve’ for infections prior to gong into lock down. Good podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-fat-emperor-podcast/id1453181214?i=1000474373435 https://twitter.com/brive1987/status/1260783907496013824?s=2...

Frankly, the most encouraging thing about you Americans is that some small subset of you is discussing on one weird internet forum whether it is justified for an ordinary citizen of one skin colour to shoot and kill another ordinary citizen of a different skin colour. Evidently, skin colour is a con...

https://twitter.com/skynewsaust/status/1260025481593794560?s=21 It's past time we all told China to fuck off. Thought what that will mean for our underclasses that survive on their shitty hourly rates only by buying diabetogenic food from dollar stores and everything else from Walmart (ie the lowes...

In an unwitting metaphor for what the site has turned into, Slate runs a detailed analysis into the perpetrator and nature of the Supreme Court toilet flush. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/05/toilet-flush-supreme-court-livestream.html TL;DR It was Breyer and it was poo. Perhaps that is ho...

200 Cuban doctors were brought in to help with the pandemic to great fanfare. There are a great many more white and Indian doctors than that who qualified overseas because they weren't black enough to get into med school and have been denied certification because of some bogus road block thrown in ...

Trudeau bans blasters!

Stormtrooper attracts the wrong kind of force as Star Wars promotion takes a turn

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The 2 week supply has 92 servings (2 people can eat three times a day and have six servings left over), whilst the 4 week supply has 282 servings, which means those two people can eat three times a day, and have 198 servings left over....I'm guessing a "serving" is not a meal. And looking at what's ...

MarcusAu wrote: ↑ I still may ask you sometime about my feet though...

Pes planus, based on your avatar.

So as a doctor - you would question the coherence of their prescription. Doctor be damned. I'm questioning the validity of someone charging a hefty fee to teach you the secrets that will give you insights and thus power over others. It's 'X-Ray glasses' and Charles Atlas' Dynamic Tension and Scient...

Without wanting to put myself between two scrapping dogs, I can't imagine anyone takes 'content analysis' very seriously. It's reading between the lines, and the problem with that is that you make up what is written between them. It can seem clever and insightful, and maybe give sometimes a hint, bu...

After some searching I finally found the full list of newly banned "assault-style" weapons. It turns out to be nine models and all their variants (most of which are different coloured stocks etc), plus anything of 20mm calibre or larger (you can keep your 10 gauge goose gun), anything with a muzzle ...

Oh, and since no one has said it yet, I'll repeat the excellent advice given by the wise in 1914 and 1939, and probably just as accurately:
It will all be over by Christmas!

So there.

If we would even want to debate whether China has been as upfront and honest as we would like then I would introduce some suspicious indicators that they feel they might be open to criticism. They stopped the EU from including criticism of their lack of transparency in a report: China 'sought to blo...

All this internalised bleach takes me back:

The Parents Who Give Their Children Bleach Enemas to 'Cure' Them of Autism

Maybe some of Trump's numerous flirtations with the anti-vaxxers have left him with a taste for Miracle Mineral Solution.

FTR, out of a population of 100,000, we've had 36 confirmed cases so far, and a single death -- and that was a snowbird who'd recently traveled abroad and had preexisting health issues. Sounds like a prime population for a new virus seeking to make friends and maybe more... The general public's und...

She, he or it may be a bot, and unprogrammed for puns. Your anti-AI prejudice borders on the offensive. I found the Mrs to be amusing, felt some sympathy for the Mr, but Violet Elizabeth was definitely a bit too much to take. I don't mind if you drop your aitches, but don't drop a T for goodness' s...

I this thread is >10,000 posts long. Previously threads that long caused all sorts of instability. The hydrocodone-fuelled upgrade must be doing something good.

free thoughtpolice wrote: ↑ I wonder if cariee gets the basket of links joke?
Ze may not be familiar with the Atheist + forum.

cariee appears to be a spammer here only to shove her video site in our faces. She, he or it may be a bot, and unprogrammed for puns.

NS now has seven dead of Covid-19, and 13 dead today at the hands of a crazed denturist.

I've never met a denturist who was entirely right in the head, FWIW.

Can Jack Black sing? We know he can't dance from his quarantine dance:

It's become increasingly clear that the CCP knows very well how this happened, and with ruthless alacrity suppressed the evidence. They also know that cries of 'racism' could enlist knee-jerk SJWs in the West in their propaganda and disinformation campaign. So get yourself a little red star to wear...

RIP Mort Drucker of Mad Magazine.

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Of course, screwtape has fond memories of wormwood...

Sargon discusses the meltdowns certain trannies are having over being isolated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orNCoubNHt8 It brings home the fact that for a proportion of them, probably the trans trenders, this all about attention. We create a society where the cheap and easy route to power is by ...

I see Cardinal Pell has been acquitted of all charges by the unanimous judgement of an Australian appeal court, after spending a year in solitary confinement at a maximum security prison.

It looked like the whole thing was dodgy after reading this Qillette article.

Bhurzum wrote: ↑ RIP Honor Blackman :(

I'd like to die aged 94. Though you might ask me again when I'm 93.

Yes, picking locks is fun and much easier than you'd think. But if there is a need for speed and no inclination to be calm and careful with your paperclip, I'd recommend an angle grinder. Non-destructive? Cut the hole on the back and replace the filing cabinet against a wall. No one need ever know.

Very interesting unpublished photo essay on the personal experience of a Waffen SS officer from childhood to Russia ‘41. Wiking Division. https://www.germanhelmetsinc.com/hartmann.htm Fascinating. I read Sajer's The Forgotten Soldier recently, then Antony Beevor's Stalingrad . One has the feeling t...

Bhurz: The hardest part of parenting is to watch children undergo the vital and necessary process of making their own mistakes. You watch the slow-motion car crashes and know that you could help the kids avoid them, and know too that without those experiences they learn nothing for themselves. The b...

Tonight, I've been tracking another global pandemic. One which will require the indefinite closing of the world's most beautiful scenic mountains, cliffs, rivers, coasts, wild animal preserves... all celebratory social gatherings.... and definitely definitely all RAILWAYS. In fact-- only a universa...

Fuck that shit, SD - trying to do ANYTHING on Dilaudid is a fucking AWESOME idea! Trust me... The first time I had shingles, round my waist, I was given sublingual buprenorphine to play with. Very pleasant, like being wrapped in warm cotton wool as you drift off to sleep. The second time, on my per...

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