Quote Originally Posted by donsdaft View Post
Had a couple of interesting conversations this weekend.

Yesterday I was speaking to a doctor who ( as head of some medical committee) told me he had a meeting with Sturgeon 10 years ago.
He warned her in no uncertain terms that the NHS had about 10 years left in it unless there were some major changes.
Suffice to say she completely ignored his advice.

Today I was speaking to a lecturer in medicine at Aberdeen University.
I said I'd been seeing the university getting some real bad press with their warnings to students about absolute sh*te like dancers " dying" on stage during a ballet and of course the Peter Pan nonsense.

He said although the press have been making the most of it, things were actually worse on a day to day basis.

A lecture can now never be a relaxed event as it's impossible to crack a joke, it's also impossible to ad lib your way through anything because the students report you if they think you've used the wrong word etc.

The worst offence is showing any image of a dead body or surgery without giving them all a specific warning first.
This is a medicine course mind.

If you're thinking of being run over anytime soon you better give the next generation of medics a written warning a few days in advance.
We wouldn't want to upset the wee angels with anything unforeseen now would we?


This is Mason's world folks

You choose.
I had an interesting experience today. I went to the timber yard for a couple of new floor boards. The woman who was doing the wood cutting service had clearly been a man until recently. She was happy as Larry and, despite my not so great grasp of German, having a good bit of banter with her colleagues in the yard.

Made me think how good it was to see people, in what you would assume to be a stereotypically environment of toxic masculinity, could actually accept their friend and colleague for how she wanted to live her life and continue to have a good laugh with her.

Also made me think, if donsdaft was there with me, would he have gone through with his online bravado and stood there and openly "laugh(ed) and point(ed) at the weirdo". Or would he be a fearty like the gobby pathetic playground bully he is and have a rant once at a safe distance from her yardy colleagues.