The NHS rap- warning mild swearing
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If you live in the UK you may be one of the quarter of a million who have already seen a version of this rap on You Tube. It is a rap against Andrew lansley, the health secretary and his re
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The NHS rap- warning mild swearing
posted at 5/4/2011 11:59 AM BST
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If you live in the UK you may be one of the quarter of a million who have already seen a version of this rap on You Tube. It is a rap against Andrew lansley, the health secretary and his reforms for the NHS. As Lansley himself admitted, it's amazing to be able to get commisisoning into rap lyrics. |
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Faeces happen
posted at 5/4/2011 10:16 PM BST
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I also have been reprimanded on this site for using the odd swear word; none in my opinion that a primary school child would not use here and certainly not the f word. We now live is a society where just about anything and everything is tolerated and we still have these quaint notions about "swear words" which have nothing to do with swearing oaths (once regarded as blasphemous) but to do with eroded social conventions. It is interesting to me how fragile we are when it comes to using the odd swear word when we can talk about all sorts of objectionable topics e.g breast milk ice cream with not a wince. I know this is an international site but tolerance goes both ways. Where I have to be tolerant of ways which to me seem intolerable, in a medical forum talking amongst doctors who spend their lives doing pretty grubby things ( e.g poking their fingers in patients' private parts) we must not transgress very shaky social norms and use words which are in the Macquarie Dictionary (Australian). The repertoire of such words in English is so limited as to be laughable. As we are talking about cultural norms, in my culture we use such expressions freely in every day speech just like girls wear bikinis on the beach and who would be labelled as shameless hoars by some more puritanical societies which by the way are mostly tyrannies. Moderators are at liberty to blot out naughty words (what makes them naughty is another question). Go to it, Moderators with your red pencils. On the other hand, the editor recently put up a blog on his gayness, a subject to many which would be regarded a re-run of Sodom and Gomorrah. I apologise therefore to those whom I have offended as I made the mistake of thinking I was writing to like-minded doctors who are also adults with liberal attitudes. I was clearly wrong. it makes this site less appealing and my less prone to participate. I am not an international diplomat and don't pander to puritans or bullies. Sometimes in writing a word which has "shock" value can be used to good effect. As we say in my country, "Faeces happen". It surely does as we have recently seen around the world. I note that in English faeces is plural and I am not sure if we have a singular so the expression "faeces happen does not quite have the same ring to it as the original. Too bad if you just do a singular which I suppose could be erroneously labelled as a Number 1 rather than a Number 2. |
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