OT Pasted wrong link NHS:- USA

[harry]

Ooops!

[polygonum]

clicking on.

[harry]

Why is it racist? I have witnessed similar things myself. They seem to work on many occasions. You are just a fathead, ignorant, PC socialist/liberal that likes to ignore facts. I thought you would surface with your drivel.

[polygonum]

The actual events portrayed are not in themselves racist, and I am in no position to evaluate their effectiveness. But as you are well aware the title given translates immediately to the USA and a deeply racist faction.

[Tim Streater]

But we are not in the USA, dope. I don't give a toss how the septics interpret a phrase or expression.

[polygonum]

I am so glad you realise that most of us are not in the USA. Congratulations.

To be perfectly honest, I don't give a toss whether you do, or do not, care how septics interpret a phrase or expression.

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

[harry]

I just thought people would be interested in this traditional African? remedy.

[polygonum]

You are a disingenuous liar.

[ARW]

I thought it was an 1990s advert for Tango.

[Bill Wright]

ARW wrote:

What's interesting is that there is no film of Europeans doing this sort of thing. Of course the reason is that European thought and civilisation left this sort of primitive nonsense behind about 500 years ago, long before cinematography was invented. This reveals a basic truth about sub-Saharan Africa, which is the people there remained primitive savages until Europeans came along and attempted to civilise them. This wasn't entirely successful of course. The British Empire withdrew long before the Africans could be expected to manage their own affairs. This explains why Africa now has so many dictatorships and so much corruption, and why the people are still living in starvation conditions. There was just no tradition or culture of democracy and fair play. You couldn't expect anything else really. The absurd thing is that we are now expected to pretend that these savages are our equals. But of course a few of their ilk are. These are the ones that have escaped from their environment and have adopted western standards. Many of these individuals have arrived in western countries as well-trained professionals, and (maybe because they have a good perspective on the values of civilisation) tend to be more civilised than the indigenous people of their adopted countries. Is it just me or are African doctors kinder and more perceptive than British ones? Of course, these thoughts are strictly infra-dig. No-one would be allowed say what I've just said on the BBC! Ha! Perish the thought! As far as the BBC is concerned cannibals munching the freshly boiled corpse of a random Israeli and dancing round waving his bones would be (a) politically correct (b) deeply satisfying (c) maybe a new idea for 'Strikly' (as they pronounce it) (d) maybe a new food idea for 'Saturday Kitchen'.

Bill

[Tim+]

Well not exactly the same thing but we have our own quack remedies. Homeopathy, crystal therapy, colonic irrigation etc. etc. We just dress ours up in pseudoscience but essentially it's no different.

tim