Posts by Bart Janssen
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I don't have any pictures of my coat.
Screenshot or it didn't happen :P
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If you added together all the aesthetic praise I've received for my cat, my games cabinet and my breasts, it still wouldn't come close
No of course I wasn't looking at your bre...oh look at your cat isn't she cu....You PLAY Puerto Rico!
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my new purple iPod Touch
Evil deceitful girl - they still only come in black and white and you know it! But I had to go the site and check in case the beautiful purple of the nano had been given to the touch or phone - it hadn't :(.
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As is usual when reading one of Emma's posts I had to google several things - including having to find out who John Barrowman was. Before you take away my geekdom I know who the character is in Dr Who and Torchwood I just can't ever remember actors names.
Anyway I was very amused, given the obvious excitement over him from certain posters here to find the top google hit was from The Guardian asking "Should Torchwood star John Barrowman be stripped?
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Don't get me wrong I'm not calling Russell or Gio's wife gullible
Gio n=1. Your wife got better and you and she attribute that to some exercises, you may be right but that does not constitute proof. Not that either of you care the only important thing is she is better which we are all happy about. It is the difficulty of proof in medicine that drives folks crazy.
Both of you argue that Osteopaths should be recognised and my issue is that if they should be recognised then they should be recognised as specialists and only see patients that are referred by someone who has done a thorough diagnosis. The point being someone with kidney stones should not be being treated by an osteopath.
Russell's point is that his GP missed it and the osteopath diagnosed it correctly. Which is the second huge problem with discussing any of this and that is both the GP and osteopath are both human and you find people who are really awesome with or without a medical degree. Not criticising Russell's GP specifically just noting that with the best will people will misdiagnose.
Personally my physio is awesome and I'll take his treatment first, after I've seen my GP, who is also pretty neat.
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My sympathy goes to you Russell, it sounds like an awful experience and yet you've turned it into a source of learning and writing.
There really aren't all that many conventional options for resolving chronic back pain
As someone who has suffered (lying on the ground screaming and crying) acute and chronic back pain I can seriously recommend yoga. Sadly it isn't a 2 week miracle cure but over 2 years I gained strength in my back and flexibility that I never had before. BUT you have to find an instructor that doesn't drive you crazy they are all very very different in style (singing and ringing chimes didn't do it for me :)) and never ever do something that hurts just because someone else makes it look easy.
Regarding Osteopaths: I'm a skeptic. If your GP suggests an osteopath might help, fine. Where I have issues is where people choose to ignore the GPs first and go straight to the osteopath. GPs get training and experience in diagnosis that can identify things an osteo (or a physio) shouldn't touch. However, in the end it's your dime and if it makes you feel better fine.
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Actually, would donate real money to get and edit button.
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thought ---> though
Must. Get. Edit. Button. Soon.
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I'm willing to sign an affidavit to the effect that Bob is not the result of a cloning experiment on my part.
Well duh! It's not as thought you are a molecular biologist. Notice folks he didn't say Bob wasn't the result of amazing science, just that David didn't do the benchwork himself!
Seriously, as always a wonderful piece of writing and you are so lucky to have a parent even willing to relate let alone write those stories.
My parents grew up through WWII, my mother in Indonesia where she spent her teenage years in a Japanese internment camp and my father had just joined the dutch army when the Germans invaded. For both of them the experiences of those years are so heavily loaded with horror that I barely know any of what happened. My father died a few years ago leaving my brother and I with only a few conversations that allow us to guess at how much dad did as part of the dutch resistance. My mother is still alive but she also finds it hard to relive those experiences and I hope she will commit some of her memories to the computer.
I guess it's a sign of the age some of us are getting to that these memories of our parents are becoming important to us. As if connecting deeper to our past can make us understand and accept our future easier.
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And the irony is that many Aucklanders would too, if anyone actually asked. Instead we get dithering then panic from our "leaders".
So a mayor that put a nice bit of grass on the waterfront and a tree back on One tree hill would get re-elected?