Archive for November, 2011
The Nurse’s top 20 old fashioned expletives
Sadly the C word is common currency these days. It doesn’t have much shock value left. The Nurse, sneaking along the edge of a muddy field twenty miles north of Cambridge, likes to shock. So she’s amusing herself by creating a top 20 list of old fashioned expletives to liven up the boring bad [...]
Public sector pensions strike bollocks
The Nurse has spent all day lumbering along in the pouring rain, still heading steadily south, ranting about tomorrow’s strikes. How she despises the Unions. At a time when everyone is faced with poorer pensions, a longer working life and bigger pension contributions, they’re throwing their toys gleefully out of the pram. And their members [...]
The dinosaur death pose experiment – Foul!
The Nurse adores scientists. They’re so creative. This week’s science news includes an experiment to find out why so many dinosaur fossils display the same strange, curved death pose. first the scientists ‘placed plucked chickens on a bed of sand for three months to see if dessication would lead to muscle contractions‘. Apparently the chickens decayed [...]
The Nurse gets downright cross about C-sections on demand
It’s funny how life works out. Trapped in a wood for three days (or was it four?) in an ancient man-trap with cast iron jaws, The Nurse narrowly avoided being caught by the pigs. That’s the po-lice for our US readers. If she’d been free to move, she’d have been caught. As it is, with [...]
