*Sigh* Astoundingly busy Valentine’s day weekend, including sorting out travel plans for the end of the year and catching up with family. Just by scheduling everything it’s kind of squeezed out getting stuff online -- so, distract yourself with the new Homologous Legs blog post: Carnival of the Godless, No. 135 -- Darwintine’s Day Edition!
You should also be reading Digital Cuttlefish’s blog for a great Valentine’s day poem, if you’re not a subscriber already -- here’s a fave for the season:
Blame It On The Vaccines
My right hand twitches, my left hand itches,
My knees won’t stay in the legs of my britches,
The man on TV says it’s probably witches,
My dad says it’s all in my genes.
My vision is hazy, and one eye is lazy,
The ache in my hip makes me thnk it’s dysplasia,
People are looking at me like I’m crazy,
I’m blaming it all on vaccines.
My nerves are fraying, my hair is graying,
When the moon is full, I can’t help baying,
My voice gives out in the middle of praying,
I’m growing allergic to beans.
My ears feel funny, my nose is runny,
My skin turns green when the weather’s sunny,
My piss runs clear, but it tastes like honey,
I’m blaming it all on vaccines.
My feet are stinky, my phlegm is inky,
There’s parasite worms in the joints of my pinky,
My corpus callosum is shriveled and dinky,
I’m really not sure what it means.
My liver’s aching, my spleen is shaking,
The bones of my spine are all cracking and breaking,
But rather than coyly admit that I’m faking,
I’m blaming it all on vaccines.
And just between us? There was absolutely no indication whatsover in that woman’s voice that she was being ‘Australian’. I have no idea why people are saying that… sounds more like East Coast USA-somewhere. :/
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I would have to agree that the logic of avoiding a vaccine for some conspiratorial reason is absurd. The problem I see is not one of the utility of the method in the short term, but the consequence in the long term. It is a risk evaluation which exceeds the capability of computation when it comes to life. That does not mean that it is wrong , it simply means that my opinion is that the final effect of any method to modify the progression of life is rather sketchy in its foundation and it is my opinion that human understanding has not proceeded far enough to make it possible to predict the outcome of changes to patterns as complex as the biosphere. I don’t see vaccine as a any immediate threat or for that matter, any objective long term gain. The greatest gain would be to understand how it actually operates and not fiddling with it, using a limited set of experiments. Blood letting was once considered a form of cure and I am not placing vaccines in that category, but in perspective it is my opinion that when the entire process is modeled, it would be better to choose infection and symbiosis with an organism that fights at the level of the disease itself.
I do understand that scientific arguments are lost on most people, and that nah nah nah is about as effective an inducer as any.
I still have not figured out what BWAH means.
It is a puzzle that has many aspects and perhaps choosing nothing is the worst of the choices in the short term. IDK
I suppose you could tell people who fear it, that is a placebo, when it is not, and then they would have the positive placebo effect and the real effect. Now I am confusing myself.
Sorry Kylie. It’s an Oz accent. I happen to know: I do an EXPERT fake Australian accent (ask Des), yet I still manage to be a thousand times less-offensive than most who claim to do it (hint: I refuse to say “Crikey!”, “Oy!”, “G’day!”, or “Wallaby-dingo!”).
Although to be fair, this is clearly an un-Australian accent, since it’s peppered with odd particles of a fake cockney accent (of the charming “Chim’ney sweep” variety).
Argh, it’s awful!!!
The accent is all over the place. I’m hearing Southern US, a little New England in a couple of words, and some slight Australian that morphs into a couple of different English accents. They mostly sound like someone faking an accent, except for the Southern; having lived in the US South that does sound like the natural accent (at least, one of the Southern accents – there are a few).
And I don’t mean to imply that she is faking the accents. It could be a manifestation of the (more likely) psychogenic illness, the stereotypical accents being the reference for the manifestation.
Hey, if we have to take this stereotype, then you can take Jennings’ unique….cosmopolitan accent
Oh dear!
And as for ‘cosmopolitan’ – probably only if she drunk a few first… :/
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