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Stones of granite wrote:Adding the word "stable" makes a bad situation sound so much better.

Bollocks!

I am hardly convinced that Mary and Joe would have felt much better when Mordechai told them he hadn't a bed but they could go and kip in his stable!

SerjeantWildgoose wrote:

Stones of granite wrote:Adding the word "stable" makes a bad situation sound so much better.

Bollocks!

I am hardly convinced that Mary and Joe would have felt much better when Mordechai told them he hadn't a bed but they could go and kip in his stable!

Just imagine how much worse they would have felt if auld Mordechai had told them that the lodging situation was critical!

... but not thought to be life-threatening!

I have to say, before we divert too far from the A&E, that I have a problem with the use of 'serious' in relation to injury.

I once dislocated my pinkie playing 7s in Medicine Hat. It was fucking sore and I defy anyone to convince me it wasn't serious!!!

Stones of granite wrote:In its non-medical uses, critical is used to denote something on the point of change, whereas stable means that it is unlikely to change. If that were mapped on to medicine it would translate that someone is close to dying (critical), but not in danger of dying (stable).

No, it doesn't.
Critical means "on the point of crisis" not "change" not all change is crisis, and not all crisis is change, These are different things, in the medical field or otherwise.
It's perfectly possible to be close to death (critical), but unchanging (stable); it's also perfectly possible to be ever-changing (unstable) but not close to death (critical).

You may dislike it, but it's nothing to do with acceptable use, so muich as the very meaning of the words - medical or otherwise.

Which Tyler wrote:

Stones of granite wrote:In its non-medical uses, critical is used to denote something on the point of change, whereas stable means that it is unlikely to change. If that were mapped on to medicine it would translate that someone is close to dying (critical), but not in danger of dying (stable).

No, it doesn't.
Critical means "on the point of crisis" not "change" not all change is crisis, and not all crisis is change, These are different things, in the medical field or otherwise.
It's perfectly possible to be close to death (critical), but unchanging (stable); it's also perfectly possible to be ever-changing (unstable) but not close to death (critical).

You may dislike it, but it's nothing to do with acceptable use, so muich as the very meaning of the words - medical or otherwise.

In the field of Physics, for example, "critical" means on the point of a change in state. The concept of "crisis" does not exist.

Only in medicine is the contradiction between being on the point of change not contradict with stability.

Now that is what this bitchy little Fred is for.

morepork wrote:Now that is what this bitchy little Fred is for.

Don't get me started on the deliberate misspelling of words.....

Their is no need to get upset.

I asked for that.

rowan wrote:3 most cringe-worthy accents:

1 Scouser
2 Cockney
3 Provincial NZ

Others??

Brum,
Weege,
Belfast Spide
Essex,
Oz,
So-called mid-Atlantic
Anywhere in the USA south of Mason Dixon and north of Mason Dixon
Canadian (Except French-Canadian)
French-Canadian

I like Welsh accents on women and male voice choirs and surprisingly, any of those accents listed above on a porn actress adds to her appeal.

Posh Geordie, as in Durham, bangs my gongs but even something that looks like Cheryl-what's-her-bake might as well have a dog turd on the end of her nose as soon as she starts to yap!

morepork wrote:Their is no need to get upset.

Pathetic!

They're is know knead two get upset.

SerjeantWildgoose wrote:

rowan wrote:3 most cringe-worthy accents:

1 Scouser
2 Cockney
3 Provincial NZ

Others??

Brum,
Weege,
Belfast Spide
Essex,
Oz,
So-called mid-Atlantic
Anywhere in the USA south of Mason Dixon and north of Mason Dixon
Canadian (Except French-Canadian)
French-Canadian

I like Welsh accents on women and male voice choirs and surprisingly, any of those accents listed above on a porn actress adds to her appeal.

Posh Geordie, as in Durham, bangs my gongs but even something that looks like Cheryl-what's-her-bake might as well have a dog turd on the end of her nose as soon as she starts to yap!

What accent does Steph McGovern have? Middlesborough? Feckin horrible that is. Ball gag territory.

Ah yes Teesside - where I was flung up.

Maybe its something about conditioning during early puberty or perhaps something to do with the high probability of slag-like promiscuity on the part of Teesside tarts, but the 'Boro/Redcuh accent always invokes a Pavlovian response in my boxers (I suppose the discharge might also be connected to Teesside women!)

Yardage!!!

That pug-faced cunt Yaayan Evans started it and now they're all using it.

He made YARDS!!!

Feckers.

I really hope I'm there the day Stones is wheeled into A&E in a coma only to suddenly sit up, conscious and lucid as f**k when the consultant declares him to be critical but stable.

Mellsblue wrote:I really hope I'm there the day Stones is wheeled into A&E in a coma only to suddenly sit up, conscious and lucid as f**k when the consultant declares him to be critical but stable.

Especially when she does it in a Middlesborough accent!

Stones of granite wrote:In the field of Physics, for example, "critical" means on the point of a change in state. The concept of "crisis" does not exist.

Only in medicine is the contradiction between being on the point of change not contradict with stability.

Sounds to me like it's the field of Physics that's abusing the English language then.

Pimped-up mobility scooters - especially when the blob in carriage is exceptionally large.

Stones of granite wrote:

Which Tyler wrote:

Stones of granite wrote:In its non-medical uses, critical is used to denote something on the point of change, whereas stable means that it is unlikely to change. If that were mapped on to medicine it would translate that someone is close to dying (critical), but not in danger of dying (stable).

No, it doesn't.
Critical means "on the point of crisis" not "change" not all change is crisis, and not all crisis is change, These are different things, in the medical field or otherwise.
It's perfectly possible to be close to death (critical), but unchanging (stable); it's also perfectly possible to be ever-changing (unstable) but not close to death (critical).

You may dislike it, but it's nothing to do with acceptable use, so muich as the very meaning of the words - medical or otherwise.

In the field of Physics, for example, "critical" means on the point of a change in state. The concept of "crisis" does not exist.

Only in medicine is the contradiction between being on the point of change not contradict with stability.

If you ever are in a critical condition, make sure you get a top physicist in to fix you up you maaaaaasive beatch.

morepork wrote:

Stones of granite wrote:

Which Tyler wrote: No, it doesn't.
Critical means "on the point of crisis" not "change" not all change is crisis, and not all crisis is change, These are different things, in the medical field or otherwise.
It's perfectly possible to be close to death (critical), but unchanging (stable); it's also perfectly possible to be ever-changing (unstable) but not close to death (critical).

You may dislike it, but it's nothing to do with acceptable use, so muich as the very meaning of the words - medical or otherwise.

In the field of Physics, for example, "critical" means on the point of a change in state. The concept of "crisis" does not exist.

Only in medicine is the contradiction between being on the point of change not contradict with stability.

If you ever are in a critical condition, make sure you get a top physicist in to fix you up you maaaaaasive beatch.

Thundercunt....

That is the most critical level of stability of them all. "The patient is on the cusp of Thundercunt, but ostensibly stable at the current time, until they aren't."

morepork wrote:That is the most critical level of stability of them all. "The patient is on the cusp of Thundercunt, but ostensibly stable at the current time, until they aren't."

I think we've reached a critical point in this thread. It will, however, remain stable.

Stones of granite wrote:

morepork wrote:. It will, however, remain stable.

'Stable' is a relative term applicable against a backdrop of fluctuation...this assertion needs to be qualified somewhat.
As the hovering Commander used to say at the opening of each Stingray episode ..

Galfon wrote:

Stones of granite wrote:

morepork wrote:. It will, however, remain stable.

'Stable' is a relative term applicable against a backdrop of fluctuation...this assertion needs to be qualified somewhat.
As the hovering Commander used to say at the opening of each Stingray episode ..

Are you sure that wasn't your psychologist that said "stable" is relative term?