'Nutters' Category
Say No to Knobs on Bikes
It’s been a while since I last posted here on the ABS blog, partly due to site hosting issues, but mainly due to downright laziness. But I’m back; motivated to write this post by our most recent club meeting at which one of my colleagues made a most disagreeable suggestion.
It was proposed that members of [...]Stafford Hospital Scandal – Blame the Staff!
The Nurse, not usually shockable, is shocked speechless by today’s revelations about the goings on at Stafford hospital.
Everyone’s busy blaming the Government, the healthcare Trust, the NHS’s regulatory bodies, bureaucracy, budgets… but nobody has mentioned the role hospital staff played.
Did the Government neglect, bully and starve all those poor, poor people? Nope. The nurses and hospital staff did. And [...]Nick Griffin and the BNP Deserve the Oxygen of Publicity
The Nurse thinks it is a good idea to give Nick Griffin and his spiritually bereft BNP henchmen the oxygen of publicity at every opportunity.
Why? Because every time the man opens his nasty mouth he makes himself look even more of a wanker.
We can’t go round banning schools of thought, theories, attitudes or political parties. That makes us just as fascist [...]Director Quits Over Creationist Comments
So Michael Reiss, the Royal Societies director of education, has now resigned after having caused much anger after suggesting that science teachers should teach creationist beliefs “not as a misconception but as a world view“.
His views were accurately described as outrageous by Nobel Prize Winner, Sir Richard Roberts. It was felt that Michael Reiss’s [...]Listed buildings eco-scandal: English Heritage ‘a disgrace’
Do you live in a listed building?
The Nurse does. But her home is no picture postcard… she often wonders, in her more cynical moments, who on earth dreamed up the idea of listing a prison. But then again, maybe it isn’t that much of a surprise. The UK’s listed buildings regulations contravene common sense and logic in many [...]Intelligent design gets a plain language pasting!
The Nurse has always thought the concept of god was a bit silly. As a small child in the ’70s she was sent home from junior school with a note saying that a girl who didn’t believe in god shouldn’t come to the christmas party. But she stuck to her guns.
So, a lifelong atheist, The Nurse has followed the US’s acrimonious intelligent design [...]I Know of a Pig Named Mohammed
I felt prompted to write this post in response to the arrest of British schoolteacher Gillian Gibbons in Sudan. My Amateur Brain Surgery Club colleague (The Nurse) also appears to have been spurred into responding to this incident by changing her name to ‘The Blessed Virgin Mary’ and changing the name of the prison cat [...]
