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Especially since pensioners get heavily subsidised public transport.
My mum got her bus pass a few years back in the UK and was delighted at the prospect of free bus rides. What she didn't figure was terms that included no free travel after 10 pm. Having spent a Friday evening in the manner that any licensee would be famiuliar with, she tottered on to the bus with barefly enough money to get home. Apparently pensioners aren't supposed to be out that late at night........
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I suppose it would be impolite for me to suggest here at this stage that perhaps people with ASD just need to exercise more and then they'll be cured?
No more impolite I suspect than suggesting that exercise can cure being a cowardly cat.
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In the next DSM all aspies and auties will be considered along the same spectrum. This is controversial but I can see why they might approach the matter in this way.
I would like to talk more on this but probably won't be able to until much later.
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43 – But then you are talking to the guy who has never been to a great blend and has posted under a pseudonym for the last three years. I might add, most of my posts are either hit or miss.
I guess this is a good time to make my public apology to Simon Pound – Some two or more years ago my charming, beautiful wife and I did attend an early edition of media7. Simon spotted my quite heavily pregnant wife and offered to get her a drink. I of course ordered one too. It took me some months to decode the look of bemusement on Simon’s face at the time. After some 30 years I still get defeated by the simplest of social acts. Sorry Simon, I now understand what was going on. How rude of me.
I do work in a University.
My colleagues have learned to value my strengths and shelter me from my weaknesses. I owe them a great deal. At a recent departmental function I stayed in the room for a whole hour. My colleagues were impressed, even a little incredulous. “how did you do it ?” “someone asked me a question that I could lecture to….”
When my wife cannot sleep she will ask me a question like “how does a microprocessor work ?”. I have a colleague at work who regards asking me tech questions as a legitimate sport. I still fix his PC though.
You know it’s bad however when you can’t watch certain types of TV; House (yes), Ugly Betty (no – I have to hide or at least cover my ears and not look when it gets really embarrassing).
I stopped doing IT support some 10 years ago, but I can still remember staff logins and passwords. Some of them do still work.
On the matter of names, my intern made me laugh today. While trying to remember a good looking young man’s name she asked for his phone number and then asked him to spell his name…T…O…M was the reply.
Facebook – A Skinner box for the emotionally weak <wink>
And as for Macs…Dancing ? sheeeeit the rhythm, the harmonics, me dancing in a room full of really tough black fellas, they must have loved the floorshow.
Training is working behind a bar.
They could even smoke in an English accent.
Bit of a wheeze I’d say…….
Simon Grigg…Music…I’m listening……..
I Feeeeeeel Youuuuuuuu
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I looked up a couple of Italian sites and there's no mention of auto-transfusions being dangerous.
I spoke to some colleagues about this and the following points were made.
There are basic risks to be associated with any form of blood transfusion, even under medical supervision. As the 1991 PDM affair illustrated, the employment of intravenous techniques is not without significant risk regardless of whether the materials induced are legal or otherwise. It seems entirely feasible that there have been a number of individual instances of things like this going wrong which have gone unreported for obvious reasons.
Recently, access to “smart centrifuges” has got easier and attention has returned to homologous transfusions as a means of increasing the volume of metabolites available in the bloodstream during post performance recovery. This process if pursued to the extreme would lead a net blood thickening and consequent risk of associated health problems.
Speaking personally, I might accept that this is a reasonable risk for professional sports people. The difficulty clearly arises where individuals have fewer resources and attempt the same thing. By this I’m referring specifically to amateurs or neo professionals trying to dope with cheaper equipment and little or no supervision. In this context it seems to me that allowing professionals to engage in this behaviour provides endorsement and expectation that will do nothing to discourage this behaviour elsewhere in sport. There is every reason to suspect that doping takes place amongst amateur ranks in Ironman Triathlon for example, which would parallel the growth in recreational steroid use in gyms throughout the world. Natural or not, there is clearly a risk management issue to address here.
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Are you trying to say you wouldn't like a beautifully presented application in which to read Karl Du Fresne's and Deborah Hill Cone's musings? Come on..
Pig with lipstick on is still a ...........
Can anyone direct me to something that explains why a pay per page plug-in system wouldn't work ?
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I've said this before, but who the heck puts drunks on a shipping wharf anyway - your average drunk Englishman (or Welshman to that) does not float well and struggles to swim.
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I reckon he'd be a laugh on E.
Which immediately instantiated an image of JK quivering with indecision over what to hug first........
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For all that I think Puttnam should go back to movies these comments in the guardian sound rather familiar.
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<chuckle> I never saw the issue in that way - I worry about ads and zombie viewing. Perhaps I am becoming more right wing in my old age.