A doctor stopped me in the street recently to thank me for making videos that make sense of a world that doesn’t. I get messages like that all the time. And I want to say this clearly: you are not going mad. The world around you is.
A doctor stopped me in the street recently to thank me for making videos that make sense of a world that doesn’t. I get messages like that all the time. And I want to say this clearly: you are not going mad. The world around you is.
A doctor who has seen his videos wanting to discuss madness with him?
That part of it I can believe.
Yeah, they probably tried to get him in the padded van but he ran away.
They should have used a bigger net.
Might the doctor have been his wife?
She at least might be able to recognise him….
To be recognisable from his weejio by someone who didn’t know he lived in Ely, Murphy must have been wearing his signature Chinese uncle black polo shirt. In the street. During a week of cool drippy weather here. It’s so funny.
Maybe he was a witchdoctor. Or Dr Who.
Witch doctor? I meant which doctor!
Isn’t Mrs LHTD a doctor? Maybe it was more like “Let me just stop you there, dear!”
The exact words were “Richard I thought you had rabies but now it’s all starting to make sense.”
Dunno. Vaguely possible. Doctors are core fruit-loops of the Stateist fraternity. As is anyone in the NHS.
Though GPs are self-employed…
Except their final salary pension, of course; that’s firmly a public sector liability.
I’ve just thought; since nearly all a typical GP’s income comes from the State, does that make them disguised employees under IR35?
Everyone in the sainted NHS is exempted from normal rules.
Do doctors wear their stethoscopes around their necks on the streets of Ely?
It’s one of those amusing touches that it was important to mention “doctor” as if it lends weight to.it Given it’s all imaginary he could have aimed higher.
Well it could have been a few guys in white coats trying to get him into an ambulance by stealth. You’re so right, professor, now if you’d just come with us…
It makes a change from the usual journalist, whether or not doctors as higher on the social ladder than journalists I’ll leave to you, but Boddicker indirectly makes a good case for journalists below.
The man who wrote “The Great Irish Potato Famine and My Part In It” has just dropped a video an unbelievable six minutes something long titled “What 50 years studying economics has taught me.” Forty-nine years three hundred and sixty four days eleven hours fifty five minutes of that was spent learning how to write on a postage stamp in one inch high block capitals.
I know he’s long-winded, but how long does it take him to say “nothing”?
And he spent 11 hours 59 minutes writing it
Despite taking six years to get qualified, most doctors I know are remarkably stupid politically so while I agree this is unlikely, their politics would normally be as ridiculous as his are. Additionally like him, they act entirely in their own, rather than their customers interests. I do believe people’s hatred of them is likely to increase, at least in the private sector when they get a carve out from the cap on pension contributions.
As a group, Doctors are the most entitled, money grabbing leaches on the public payroll. They think a medical degree gives them sainthood and they should be paid accordingly regardless of outcomes. If doctor shipman had been paid privately then his boss would’ve noticed his outcomes – Harold, you’re losing us customers, you’re fired.
The potato is a self appointed saint and thinks he should also enjoy the riches and respect his sainthood deserves.
I intend to spend an afternoon in Ely and wait to cross the street to speak to him and see if he reports the conversation
Careful Boddicker, parts of that describe my late father very well 🙂 . Being Oz, mixed public/private sector but by all accounts a great doctor. The pretention to sainthood part is pretty true. He did slog his guts out though and we got a good start in life.
As a businessman, he sucked. I loved him and miss him, but damn he left a huge mess behind. One of my better decisions was demanding to be cut out of the family trust at a young age when I moved out. Which meant my house was unencumbered by his debts when the bill came due.
Good God, does that mean that Queensland Law lets debts move down a generation? Say it ain’t so: my grandfather died in Queensland. I really don’t want ….
Not Qld, Victoria. It wasn’t so much that the debts moved down but that unwinding the arrangements was a chore. My mother (they had divorced many years before) couldn’t get the pension for months because she was a titular director of a bunch of entities. If my place had been tied up with it, or if I’d had a continuing financial interest there might have been an issue with it being an asset.
I doubt you’ve got anything to worry about unless you’ve signed something you shouldn’t have.
Phew! Thanks.
Feynman:
Mistakenly thought he was Alfred Hitchcock?
I’ve just seen this bunch of arse on YouTube. He’s no more qualified to tell people they’re not going mad than he is qualified to tell them about economics. And of course, it’s all down to his favourite rant ‘the world is dominated by neoliberal thinking’:
China: Run by aggressive state-directed capitalism, where the government owns the biggest banks and dictates industry. Very neoliberal!
Saudi Arabia: The state controls the economy through massive sovereign wealth funds, completely steering national development. Very neoliberal!
Scandinavia: Thriving social democracies built on heavy taxation, massive welfare safety nets and powerful trade unions. Very neoliberal!
India: Heavily reliant on state-driven economic nationalism, massive public infrastructure spending, and protective tariffs to shield local businesses. Very neoliberal!
Russia: A heavily sanctioned, state-dominated wartime economy where the Kremlin controls the major industrial and energy sectors. Very neoliberal!
South America: A massive resurgence in state intervention and aggressive industrial policy (countries are nationalising or tightly controlling lithium and green resources). Very neoliberal!
Africa: The African Union is pushing heavily for regional protectionism and state-led development to stop wealth being stripped by Western markets. Very neoliberal!
And the US and Europe have abandoned the pure free-market playbook to hand out hundreds of billions in state subsidies for microchips and green tech, furlough and all the rest of it. Very neoliberal!
As you can see from the examples I’ve given, the ENTIRE world is completely dominated by neoliberalism.
It’s neoliberalism gone mad!
Mad mad mad.
Mad mad mad mad mad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m not mad! I’m not mad, I tell you – it’s everyone else that’s mad … [babbles noisily to himself]
Did Spud also refuse the Crown?