Posts by B Jones
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This has reminded me of an episode of That's Incredible where they showed how a team in China had developed an experimental technique which used small explosive charges to shatter kidney stones inside the body. The resulting fragments would then be passed out through the urethra.
I also remember seeing something like that on That's Incredible - I wonder if this is what they were talking about.
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At least, I think it was oxygen. I wouldn't have blamed them if they'd given me nitrous to shut me up.
I've just done a tour of the delivery suite at Wellington Regional. They have a blend of oxygen and nitrous on tap called Entonox - one of the women on the tour said she'd had it for a broken arm before it got set, and it only takes the edge off. Stories abound of expectant fathers having a go on it while the expectant mothers aren't using it and the medical professionals are elsewhere.
I've also heard that kidney stones are worse than labour. Given the mechanics of both processes, I can see why.
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They've been compiling 'victim parents' for adverts during the referendum. No doubt we'll find out all sorts of interesting things about them as well.
Only if someone does the dastardly deed of splashing their name (as opposed to a selectively edited version of their deeds) over the newspapers and internet.
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This would be what's behind that warning.
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Looks like we're up for another round of victim-blaming/provocation:
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There have been so very few CIRs that an unusually low turnout or high informal votes would be hard to assess. There's a good article which includes a list of all attempted and successful CIRs here.
This does appear to be one of the stupidest questions, even worse than the victim support/hard labour one. A lot of the ones in the 90s were doomed to failure for various reasons, but at least they were mostly straightforward questions.
Perhaps there could be a notification process, whereby if someone opposes a petition, they could ask the Clerk to reword it, and have the question resolved to one which both parties can live with.
Putting the financial costs on the petitioners would only mean that only petitioners with significant financial backing could generate a CIR. You'd add astroturfing to all the other problems with CIRs.
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the Lower Manhattan mole people who were using alien technology stolen from crypts in Giza to develop mind-control drugs disguised as cancer vaccines
You forgot the reverse vampires.
Sean Plunket was practically advocating swine flu parties this morning before the public health spokeswoman managed to ram it through his brain that there was a big social cost to everyone getting it all at once.
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Fair enough. In those circumstances I can see the value in being sent home early with a (gloved) pat on the back, a voucher for internet-delivered groceries and a roving midwife's pager number.
I should never have read The Stand.
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I'd rather catch the flu now and hope
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What I'm quietly wigging out about is what a pandemic will do to hospital services for those who will otherwise be wanting to make use of them. I'm having a baby in August or September, and I really don't want to have to choose between a drug-free home birth or delivering a newborn in a hospital full of hacking infectious flu victims. I'd rather catch the flu now and hope that we both get the antibodies when our immune systems part company.
And it will be way worse for people undergoing chemo or radiotherapy and are immune compromised without having the plan B I'll have.