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Just a moment
Posted Colin Byrne on February 29th, 2008 | Filed under Celebrities, Current Affairs, The Media
Media insight of the day – The Guardian paying an unlikely tribute to The Daily Mail over its “ban the bags” campaign: “Love it or loathe it, no rival newspaper knows the power of a short, sharp consumer campaign better than (the Mail). It has been the unerring ability of (editor, Paul) Dacre and his team to identify those touch points that prick the conscience of their middle England readership.”
Statistic of the day – 700,000 British women are expected to propose marriage today.
Old buffer outburst of the day – Conservative peer Lord Mancroft branding nurses as grubby, drunken and promiscuous. I ran this by my friend Noreena Hertz who ran the ‘Mayday for Nurses’ campaign last year. “He sounds like he hasn’t moved on from the Barbara Windsor/’Carry on Doctor’ stereotype of a nurse. Hard working, underpaid, educated, is what I would say about them and with whoever or whenever they have sex is none of his business.” Quite. Perhaps he was in hospital for a feverish imagination.
Curry in front of the telly moment of the day – Goldfrapp on Jonathon Ross Show tonight.
February 29th, 2008 at 7:02 pm
I was a junior doctor for many years and had, like most young male medics on the wards in those days, the benefit of carnal comfort from many nurses. These young girls were generous in their desire to please and made no unreasonable demands for an ongoing relationship (Junior were commited to their vocation then and unlike today on call rotas were hard). These receptacles for our affections were by night sweet smelling, tender, loving and witty things and a fair proportion of them were also intelligent. By day they were crisply starched, surgically clean, radiantly white, exuded respect for us, and generally knew there place on the wards, where they were as eager to do our bidding, as they had been in our beds.
How times have changed. The Nurse of today is more likely to be fat,of questionable gender, a feminist or possibly even lesbian, a chain smoker, a consumer of Prozac, unwashed,grimy, malodourous, and wouldn’t know a clothes iron from a putting iron. They are a resentful, poorly motivated and belligerent bunch,often from lowly backgrounds, their unhappy and not so pretty heads being filled with nonsense about their status (’equality’) in the work place. I blame 10 years of Labour government for this depressing situation. Certainly the Junior Medic of today would entertain no intimate truck with this new speices. The moral and physical decline of our once great nation is mirrored exactly by todays nurse.