http://www.amateurbrainsurgery.com Sussex Amateur Brain Surgery Club Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:13:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 that hospital staff played.  Did the Government neglect, bully and starve all those poor, poor people? ... http://www.amateurbrainsurgery.com/stafford-hospital-scandal-blame-the-staff/639/ Plenty of countries, the UK and US included, have massive stocks of nuclear weapons. OK, we're not supposed to be building new ones and there's a non-proliferation agreement in place. But - she has said it before and she'll say it again - The Nurse still thinks it's naive to expect Iran to abstain from nuclear weapons altogether. It'd be ... http://www.amateurbrainsurgery.com/give-iraq-their-very-own-nuclear-bombs/632/ 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 ... http://www.amateurbrainsurgery.com/homeopathic-nonsense-homeopathy-defies-the-laws-of-physics/620/ It's been a while since I last posted any details of my ongoing battle with my (previously) expanding waist line and lots has happened. The first thing to report is that I have managed to shed around 10lbs since I embarked on my new weight-loss campaign back in September 2009. Before ... http://www.amateurbrainsurgery.com/hypnotism-helps-battle-of-the-bulge/616/ As forecasters predict snow for the UK are we any better prepared than we were back in February? You may recall that earlier this year we experienced around five weeks of proper winter weather with many people prevented from getting to work, the biggest issue being the hazardous driving conditions. But the ... http://www.amateurbrainsurgery.com/are-you-ready-for-the-snow/608/ If The Nurse was freed from prison, she could walk into any chemist and pick up a plethora of health testing kits.  For a few quid she could examine her cholesterol level, blood pressure and blood sugar, test for allergies and find out whether she'd caught any number of lurid STDs. For a few quid more she could ... http://www.amateurbrainsurgery.com/are-diy-health-testing-kits-really-a-good-idea/603/ 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 ... http://www.amateurbrainsurgery.com/ginger-freckly-and-black-dare-bnp-take-genetic-ancestry-tests/598/ 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 ... http://www.amateurbrainsurgery.com/six-reasons-to-enjoy-getting-older/588/ The Nurse despises foxhunting. While she is deeply suspicious of banning things - censorship being the thin edge of a very nasty wedge - cruelty is never acceptable. So she was interested to see, during a recent edition of the BBC's Country File, a hunt spokesman confirm that if the Conservative Party won the next election they'd seek ... http://www.amateurbrainsurgery.com/will-the-uk-conservative-party-bring-back-foxhunting/543/ The Nurse has been watching a lot of telly recently. And she's been amazed by the sheer choice of products available for consumers to choose from. She's wondering whether there's a connection between all this choice and climate change? Here are two off the cuff examples. Do we really need: hundreds of different kinds of shampoos, conditioners and hair ... http://www.amateurbrainsurgery.com/products-do-we-have-too-much-choice/540/