Tag Archives: Health

Lard

If you’re looking for inspiration as we stretch 23 days away from your New Year’s Resolution to cut down the amount of noxious swill inexplicably forcing its way down your wobbling gullet, try reading Kevin Smith on his decision to improve. Choice quote: I don’t have a weight problem. There are people who can work [...]

Cures

I have a bad knee, following a dramatic accident a couple of months ago – I was walking sedately up some stairs when, shockingly, my knee gave way under me and hurt somewhat. I know, it’s a disturbing story, I should have warned you in advance. Anyway, after visiting the doctor a month ago to [...]

Hospital

Add on about 17 years, and attach dangling weights to the boy’s legs, and this could have been me down to the last detail. Except for the detail about running marathons afterwards. And tennis, I suck at tennis. And I only stayed in for 12 months (plus another month when I was 12). And I [...]

Smoking

There is a section of the religious community that believes that contraception using the pill is abortion, because it hasn’t yet been proven that it is impossible for the pill to block implantation of a fertilized egg. These people want the pill to be banned, therefore, along with all other abortion techniques. Now it looks [...]