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"Pioneering" medicine is, almost by definition, vain.

It may that this chap was the best candidate because of the way he lost his face, as opposed to it being a degenerative bone or tissue condition (or enraged chimp attack).

As NJC says though - there's bound to be trickle down benefits for all forms of reconstructive surgery.

Both of you are probably right... i think i'm just a bit grumpy today.

^ Whilst I agree that science is amazing, it annoys me that the money (it has been dubbed the most expensive medical procedure in history) was used for someone who "shot himself in the face by accident". He has no life threatening conditions etc.

All that money could have been used to aid people in the US without insurance who have curable diseases or need immediate medical care.

It's just a bit vain.

It's pioneering work (with specific funding), and this guy was suitable. You're saying that they shouldn't make medical history because in your eyes the patient doesn't deserve it?

"Doctor we've found a patient who's has the most localised damage to the memory centre on his brain we've ever seen. This is the best chance we have of implementing the memory restoration surgical procedure we've been developing for 15 years!"
"How did it happen?"
"He fell over a caution wet floor sign"
"Fuck him, find someone else"

^ yup, that about covers it... thank fuck i'm not in the medical profession, eh?

All of that for a new face, and the surgeons are too lazy to get rid of his double chin!

Anti-cyclist ranting on LBC now..

Also:

I can't be the only person to spot the similarity.

and im the villain

"The British National party is fielding Carlos Cortiglia."

Guardian London Mayoral election coverage.

Thoroughbred.

some of his great work:
"Killing Drug Traffickers will help save the planet by reducing pollution"

google it

copy and paste the details don't link to the facists site it will only give them more hits / advertising moneys
i'm gonna have to scrub my eyeballs and my computer screen now to get rid of the dirty feel

Did anyone see the ten o'clock show last night?

Did you see Eddie and Eddie going for a bag of sausage rolls?

Did you, like me, wish for the ground to swallow you up in embarrassment for them?

Fucking hell, Jimmy Carr couldn't bear to watch, it was that awful.

All Labour really had to do was to sit back and let the Tories take all the flack, but no. They had to make a prize bunch of tittering tits of themselves by going into Greggs as if it was something they did every day.
How did they make buying eight sausage rolls look so agonisingly clumsy?? They were buying baked goods, for fuck's sake, not dildos! They honestly looked like they'd hustled in there, blurted out an order for a bag of assorted dildos and then scuttled off, blushing and giggling.

reminds me of this

har har poor food har i hope fido is hungry har

Jesus...

Where?

He's with you brother

Trying to work out who is gaining if sales of petrol leap 500% in the last few days of the financial year. Tax revenue to the Treasury? Garage owners?

men of the people shopping at Greggs

so how come their fucking expense bills are so high ?

men of the people shopping at gregs

You mean Greggs. It's even written in big capital letters in the picture!

Trying to work out who is gaining if sales of petrol leap 500% in the last few days of the financial year. Tax revenue to the Treasury? Garage owners?

ha!

It'll make the stocktake easy at least

Everyone apart from the consumer.

Trying to work out who is gaining if sales of petrol leap 500% in the last few days of the financial year. Tax revenue to the Treasury? Garage owners?

It is all pointless, the union now has the right to strike, but has to give 7 days notice to the public and therefore the strike cannot be held until Thursday next week, AT THE VERY EARLIEST. By this time all the fat, weezy, potential heart attack victims who cannot envisage their life without a car to ferry them around will have probably run out of the tank of petrol that they have queued to panic buy (probably with the engine running so the car does not get hot). It is also likely that by the time they run out of petrol there will be a shortage as it will take time to resupply the garages. The union is still in negotiation and IMO is the only party connected to this clusterfuck to have acted responsibly.