Posts by BenWilson
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No one ever thinks of the candlestick maker.
He was never a very bright fellow.
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So it's a 30 second walk from anywhere, but a 30 minute queue for the toilet?
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I'm considering hiring myself out as a bodyguard to protect women from other women.
I'd never before considered that as part of the reason women head to the private rooms in teams.
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I think it would have been much more of a move if I'd just dropped my pants, as she had requested. But yes, perhaps pointing out that I was naked under my clothes could have been seen as a hint that I was uncomfortable, and she was just sparing me.
Either way, I didn't get my legs examined, which I thought was the unprofessional bit. OK, perhaps I should have gone out and purchased some underwear just for the occasion, but I really wasn't anticipating it being a problem.
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Surely if you choose to move in next to a long established live venue it's incumbent upon you or the developer to soundproof the housing, rather than the venue to keep your peace?
I'd think so, but I did think that people living next to the Speedway in Grey Lynn had a point, as did Russell, IIRC. Mind you, I could hear the lions at the Zoo and rock concerts far more clearly than I could ever hear the Speedway, from 2 suburbs away.
Furthermore, there's live music and *fucking loud* music. One is a pleasant local attraction, the other just rides roughshod over people's rights.
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She used an example where she had had a breast exam from a colleague at her hospital, who she then ran into the next day. After a minute or so of chatting away happily, she realised this colleague didn't have a clue who she was.
It's a funny business. In any other business forgetting colleagues and customers is considered extremely rude and unprofessional. In medicine, it's the least you can do.
Thanks for sharing. Does anyone have a wire brush suitable for my mind's eye?
I can almost see what you're thinking. I just find it odd, particularly in someone who takes a professional interest in conditions of the skin (which covers the entire body) that any region of a patient's body would be considered "too early in the morning".
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Compromise is certainly vital in communal decision making. But as for the wisdom of absolutism vs relativism vs skepticism, it's not really clear what's best. Skepticism, where you pretty much take no stance at all, means you won't be wrong, but you also won't actually achieve anything more than that. Relativism, where you take the line that all of the viewpoints have validity, suffers of course from the problem that contradictory viewpoints can hardly logically be both correct. So you end up with a point of view that is also not really achieving much either. Hence the popularity of absolutism, with the only real problem that most absolutist positions are false.
I was most surprised when I studied the philosophy of science to find that almost all of the actual "scientists", by which I mean Science faculty students, were actually absolutists. Studying an Arts faculty subject like philosophy of science was allowed for them, and they made the mistake of thinking it was a soft option. Almost all of them were "realists" in the sense that they strongly believed that science was a pursuit of the truth, and that the theories they were studying were mostly true. In an absolute sense - not as some convenient human fiction. It made almost no impression on them that the history of science was completely full of total revolutions, in which the scientific view of the entire nature of the universe had changed dramatically a number of times. To them, it was like there was something highly special about NOW, that made it different to all the other times. I personally considered that naive, but I do also wonder whether such naivete is actually necessary if you wish to break ground in the understanding of the universe.
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But mainly it's because of the Judgeypants thing. I think I need to harden up.
If you are soft, it's pretty understandable. Previous girlfriends have complained that female gym/pool changing rooms are full of judgment, often quite nasty. "You've got a lot of work to do", "How hard IS it to shave?", "When's the baby coming?" etc. Guys don't seem to get so much of that, and if they do, it's usually laughed off rather than taken to heart. Even if you are "hard" and have managed to successfully tell the snipey little biatches where to stick their observations, it can still ruin what is meant to be a pleasant and uplifting occasion - a nice swim or workout.
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I was rather disappointed in my female dermatologist, who refused to examine my legs after I told her I'd gone commando that day. "It's a bit early in the morning for that!" she said. None of the males have ever been the least bit weird about it.
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Swim regularly, and pretty soon you've seen thousands of bodies in the changing room.
I don't even look. I've never gone so far as some people do, who like to strike up conversations with strangers whilst stark naked in a shower, at the same time as soaping up their balls, but everyone's got their level I guess. I did recently have to point out to a young boy that standing and staring and laughing whilst I changed my son's dirty swimming nappy was not polite.
I find it hard to understand how people are hung up on things.
Well, I guess it's similar to how hung up people would be if I wandered into the women's changing room to strip off. Nudity is contextual - actors are at least working together, and they have to dress a lot, and fast, so there's really no room for too much modesty.
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