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Ding! Ding! Ding! Loonies v1,000,000.
The epicentre here is Raglan, a haven for hippies, lifestyle block socialists and other people with a loose grasp on reality.
The activist here is a midwife of 25 years' experience who is currently "on leave" from the vocation. Sure, she made her own decision to be "on leave".
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11873050
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Midwifery has a decent amount of these sort of loons within it unfortunately, North and South did a story a couple of years back about the avoidable deaths and bad advice midwives had been responsible for and the Midwives council filed a complaint about it. Not because there was anything inaccurate in the article-but because the way the baby was held on the cover was not recommended. I think the midwives council is part of the problem, they go into bat for the loons when the babies health should be their number one concern.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=11507845
http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/parenting/68674972/discredited-vaccine-advice-endangers-babies -
Ours was great but yup there's plenty of loony ones out there.
Have to watch your back with the odd one too..Health and Disability Commission describes midwife's actions "as a severe breach of trust".
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/92124354/A-midwife-has-been-censured-for-having-an-affair-with-clients-husband?cid=app-iPhone -
@Virgil when I heard about that the first thing I thought of was the time I went to a joinery factory looking for the boss , one of the guys there told me he was at his lawyer because he was getting divorced. Turned out she'd been cheating on him and he found out, she told him it was because he was always at work and never there for her so they went to relationship councilling.
He caught her rooting the councillor , when I picked my jaw up off the floor I said he must have been gutted, according to his worker the boss was stoked to find out he's all good and she's just a lying trollop . -
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John Oliver did something useful for a change and pointed out the idiocy of the pro disease nutters and the halfwits that still believe Wakefield .
He's always taken shots at that crowd.
I'm sure if you went through all his shows and weighed up his topics you'd find yourself agreeing with more than what you'd disagree with - despite your political leanings.
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John Oliver did something useful for a change and pointed out the idiocy of the pro disease nutters and the halfwits that still believe Wakefield .
He's always taken shots at that crowd.
I'm sure if you went through all his shows and weighed up his topics you'd find yourself agreeing with more than what you'd disagree with - despite your political leanings.
For sure, the shows he does about the justice system are usually good.
Interestingly Curia polled NZ about medicinal marijuana and the results were quite surprising.
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@jegga Damn, I feel into your devious plan to add more clicks to Kiwiblog by not reading the link and just reading your post and clicking.
I haven't actually read kiwiblog for a while but saw that today and thought it was worth posting . When my mother was having chemo and radiation therapy last year she dropped hints about wherher weed would help with the nausea and lack of appetite my first thought was a flashback to all those lectures I got as a teenager and it was a trap then the realisation I probably don't know anyone I could score off which made me feel much older and more uncool than usual.
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I cannot agree with this article more
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=11894335
People's invented allergies are a complete pain in the arse and they need to educate themselves and stop making their own issues someone elses. If you don't want to eat the food as described on the menu then don't go in there, try and find somewhere that will pander to your demands or be a miserable git and stay at home.
Chefs are more than happy to provide vegetarian or vegan options within their style, many are even happy to mark their menus with whether a dish contains certain 'problem' ingredients. You aren't paying enough for them to be your personal chef though and tailor everything to your fussiness.I have just had my sister in law and niece staying with us and both have convinced themselves that most food is poison. It is complete bullshit though. 'I can't eat gluten but I can eat sourdough bread', 'I won't eat meat but I do eat a bit of chicken' somehow also means they don't even care if the chicken is factory farmed because they won't pay for free range /good quality.
Don't even start me on how embarrassing it is to go out with them. The poor restaurants just get endless questions about everything and then they order next nothing with everything disassembled so they can pick through it and just want free water. We end up trying to compensate at the end with a tip to cover the fact that the place just lost two seats to someone unwilling to actually buy anything and I usually slip aside to apologise to the kitchen. -
@Crucial Following this I'm going to start taking peanuts everywhere, including flights because fuck you if you're allergic to them. Pandering to this has made the issue worse.
Should peanuts be banned on planes? Mid-air emergency sparks debate
A mother-of-two backs a call to ban peanuts on planes from the parents of a young boy who suffered a dangerous allergic reaction onboard a Singapore Airlines flight, saying she had a similar experience with the airline.
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@antipodean I was feeling some sympathy and could kind of understand the issue, until I read this bit:
"I had two upset children because they were looking at their mummy who was a bit of a mess, and she knew the reason and just opened another packet [of peanuts] and started eating."
Baaaahahahaha
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@antipodean said in Woo:
@Crucial Following this I'm going to start taking peanuts everywhere, including flights because fuck you if you're allergic to them. Pandering to this has made the issue worse.
Should peanuts be banned on planes? Mid-air emergency sparks debate
A mother-of-two backs a call to ban peanuts on planes from the parents of a young boy who suffered a dangerous allergic reaction onboard a Singapore Airlines flight, saying she had a similar experience with the airline.
"spoke out after travelling home from a holiday in Thailand with their son Marcus, 3, who suffers from anaphylaxis."
Anaphylaxis is not a disease. The kid has an allergy that triggers an anaphylaxic response from his body.
Everyone in his path is meant to now change their own choices because of that? Sorry, but if you want to go out in public you take the risk. Don't want the risk? Stay at home.
My wife will go into anaphylatic shock from a bee sting. Doesn't stop her taking calculated risks outside (she gardens, tramps, picnics etc) just doesn't do things like walking barefoot through flowering clover."They had asked for a nut-free meal for Marcus, but they had not expected other passengers to be served peanuts as a snack."
Peanuts ARE a snack! The vast majority of people think so and will request them. Dumb shits.
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@antipodean said in Woo:
@Crucial Following this I'm going to start taking peanuts everywhere, including flights because fuck you if you're allergic to them. Pandering to this has made the issue worse.
Should peanuts be banned on planes? Mid-air emergency sparks debate
A mother-of-two backs a call to ban peanuts on planes from the parents of a young boy who suffered a dangerous allergic reaction onboard a Singapore Airlines flight, saying she had a similar experience with the airline.
What surprised me about this is that I thought they stopped serving peanuts on flights 30 years ago. For exactly the reason stated. Part of me wonders whether this is a "fake news" story based on an historic happening reported as something that happened recently picked up without proper checking. Happens regularly.
I digress slightly ... back in the day (25 years ago ) I was working for an upholsterer from the footy club who did a job for a bloke who worked for Continental Airlines. Bloke gave the boss these BIIIIGGG bags of individual serves of peanuts as they didn't serve them in flight anymore. Kept me in beer nibblies for months!
I've always been cynical about the greater prevalence of allergies in recent times. I've always wondered if helicopter mums over worrying about "what ifs" and avoiding nuts create an issue by avoiding substances that cause potential allergies meaning that kids bodies don't get used to them. But that is my own personal woo and not based on any science.
Now, having said all that, one of Ms boo jr's friends was (well still is but they moved away) severely allergic to nuts. Carried an epipen everywhere and had to be be really really careful about what she ate. So too her mum. So have sympathy for those with genuine allergies.
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