The many questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread XIX

[Flying Pig]

But you don't get sunburn, which is the primary purpose. Frankly, everything seems to give you cancer nowadays, and it seems the ones who least deserve it are the ones who end up with it.

 

[say1988]

To me it are all rectangles.
Fonts?

Your computer/browser is just unable to display the characters. If you want to be able to see a particular language, there are downloads to fix it. Otherwise just ignore it.

 

[ELITEOFWARMAN8]

Are doctors overpaid?

 

[Quintillus]

Are doctors overpaid?

In what country?

I'm going to guess based on your location that you mean in the U.S. There, it's debatable. On the one hand, over the course of their careers, doctors are going go make a lot of money and become fairly wealthy. On the other hand, if you cut the salary significantly, how would they ever pay off their student loans if their parents weren't millionaires? You have to make a lot of money to recover from U.S. med school costs before retirement.

Also, you probably could well make a thread out of this question...

 

[salty mud]

Also, you probably could well make a thread out of this question...

But it would almost certainly devolve into a "doctors are the bastion of right-wing oppression against the working left class!" manure that most debates on this forum tend to end up as. So I would vote against this motion.

 

[Traitorfish]

Were you bitten by a radioactive copy of the Daily Mail or something?

 

[salty mud]

I could ask the same thing to you but replace Daily Mail with The Guardian.

 

[Borachio]

Touché!

Or do I mean Tuoché?

 

[Traitorfish]

I could ask the same thing to you but replace Daily Mail with The Guardian.

Aw, c'mon, you could at least have said Class War or something. Gimme some credit.

 

[Quackers]

I think TF is more of a Morning Star man then a Guardian one

Yup, well it believes in surrender:

On Northern Ireland the paper takes a pro-Irish nationalism line. News reports from Northern Ireland are described as "By Our Foreign Desk".

 

[Borachio]

I used to read the Morning Star in my teens. Some of it seemed to be in a kind of code that I couldn't figure out.

 

[Traitorfish]

It's one of these papers that still communicates largely in Third International jargon. The Trot party-papers (Socialist Worker, Militant, etc.) are just as bad, and they don't even have the excuse of having a staff with the average age of 62.

 

[Borachio]

Jargon I could have handled. But there was, specifically, a strip cartoon in it which, rumour had it, was some kind of message sending arrangement for Cold War spies. This was in the '60's. I never did learn the truth. But it was an extremely baffling cartoon featuring a talking crocodile, IIRC.

 

[Quackers]

Or TF is a news line man.

For a time during the 1980s, the WRP split into two rival factions, and for a short time there were two versions of The News Line being produced every day, one by each faction.

doesn't that sum up quite a lot of far-left political history?

 

[Borachio]

I rely on this:


Link to video.

Never failed me yet.

 

[Traitorfish]

doesn't that sum up quite a lot of far-left political history?

It has to be admitted that far-left sects and evangelical Protestant churches have more in common than either would like to admit.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Would a Cuba Libre be a suitable first drink for someone who has never drunk alcohol before?

 

[Cutlass]

Start with beer.....

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

That sounds boring.

 

[Traitorfish]

Don't drink a boring beer, then.