'Phenomena' Category
The happiness experiment
The Nurse enjoys researching stuff. Her fellow inmates mostly enjoy it too, although they’re naturally wary when forced to take part in her more bizarre experiments. Many of which are downright dangerous, if not lethal.
So everyone was relieved to find her latest proposition wasn’t particularly dodgy, just a simple experiment to find out more about the nature of happiness.
The Nurse’s happiness experiment
Splitting the inmate [...]Homeopathic nonsense: If it works, homeopathy defies the laws of physics
Do you believe in Homeopathy? The Nurse isn’t convinced. Why? Because to work, it’d have to defy the laws of physics.
Even if you wouldn’t know a law of physics if it punched you on the nose, you probably realise that it is 100% impossible to defy them.
Fact: the only way homeopathy could work is if it managed to defy those [...]Ginger, freckly and… black! Dare BNP members take genetic ancestry tests?
The Nurse is delighted to discover that, from a genetic perspective, she’s 50% black.
The Nurse has a little Brother. He’s had his DNA analysed by Oxford Ancestors to find out the family’s genetic origins.
The test establishes where your great, great, great, great (etc) granny and grandad originated. It traces your rellies back through the millennia, as far back as they can [...]Six reasons to enjoy getting older
The Nurse is getting on a bit. She’s long in the tooth. Her intimate bits are heading south fast and she automatically lets out a wheezy old lady groan whenever she sits down.
But is she finding the ageing process terrible? Not particularly. There are loads of advantages to getting older. Here are The Nurse’s top six reasons for relaxing and enjoying [...]Hot New Fashion Tip: False Teeth?
If false teeth were hot stuff The Nurse would have her gnashers whipped out without a second thought.
As the UK’s population ages, will false teeth ever become stylish?
The Nurse, brought up in the ’60s and ’70s, has crap teeth. Her 1970s childhood dentist was spectacularly bad as well as really scary. So when she left home she [...]Cosmetics, anti-ageing and ‘beauty’ products ‘hit and miss’ science
The Nurse wonders how many women realise that the claims made by skincare manufacturers are utter bollocks.
Cosmetics companies have always relied on subjective assessments of the improvements their products make to women’s skin. Why? Because until very recently there’s been no scientifically valid way to test their claims.
So skincare advertising is all pretty words with no substance. Or - as The Nurse’s Mum would [...]Women… stop picking on men!
Just because women were treated like idiots for centuries doesn’t give us the right to take revenge on men.
The Nurse remembers when very few women had decent jobs, if they worked at all.
The telly showed us climbing all over hunky blokes wearing ‘Denim’ aftershave, breasts heaving.
Or flitting around the living room in a frilly pinny dusting the skirting boards. As secretaries, fair [...]Global warming is nothing…
…compared to what the next big solar storm will do!
The Nurse is glad she wasn’t around for the biggest ever recorded solar storm , 1859’s so-called ‘Carrington Event’.
She’s even more pleased she was locked up safely here in the UK when, in March ‘89, a solar storm hit Quebec leaving six million Canadians freezing their jibblies off for [...]New religion proposed for atheists
The Nurse proposes a sensible, fulfilling, fun spiritual framework for atheists and sceptics
The Nurse has been an atheist since early childhood. But, when bored last week, she invented a spiritual framework. If yuo can’t beat them…
It’s just a shame that – owing to past indiscretions and lapses of judgement – she’ll never be taken seriously as a [...]Who’s the daddy, religion or science?
The Nurse marvels at the universe and wonders why people need gods.
Just because she has misbehaved in the past doesn’t mean The Nurse is spiritually bereft. Her feelings still soar at the sight of a glorious sunset, even though she can only glimpse a slim slice of sky between the grim buildings, through the thick bars of her cell. And [...]
