Category: Fourre-tout

A little bit of everything

Beaux discours et ronds de jambe

Après avoir passé plus de 40 ans dans les tranchées de la Grande Guerre du Travail, je suis maintenant béatement au vert.
Je ne travaille plus et du haut de ma tour d’ivoire je peux observer a loisir les fourmis ouvrières qui se hâtent mélancoliquement vers leurs travaux.

Je me lève généralement à l’aube, prépare mon petit-déjeuner et prend ensuite le pouls du monde sur mon ordinateur.
Je lis d’abord les nouvelles locales en anglais et après cela je jette un coup d’œil sur les informations françaises.
Le Parisien, Le Monde, Le Point, Le Figaro, Libération, tout le monde y va de son édito.

En France, j’ai l’impression que l’on fait beaucoup de beaux discours mais que  peu de choses (à part les grèves évidemment) se produisent; les parlementaires ont dû faire des voyages d’études aux Etats-Unis où le sénat est depuis longtemps immobilisé dans une impasse fratricide.

Mais en France cependant, il y a plus de partis politiques qu’aux Etats-Unis et évidemment plus de porte-paroles et plus d’opinions.
Sur 60 millions de français, il doit y avoir au moins 30 millions d’opinions différentes et les gens ne se gênent pas pour les exprimer.
En France on s’indigne beaucoup et souvent, mais concrètement il ne se passe pas grand-chose.
Un peu comme en 1936 ou les français s’indignaient beaucoup au sujet de la guerre d’Espagne pendant que les Allemands s’indignaient peu et réarmaient a outrance.

En France, on parle beaucoup du chômage et de l’insécurité (qui vont d’ailleurs main dans la main) mais personne n’a le courage d’instaurer des mesures énergiques pour résoudre ces gros problèmes.
Les Français se veulent intellectuels et au lieu d’agir ils préfèrent palabrer.

GulliverL’industrie française me fait penser à Gulliver. Un géant maintenu a terre, entravé par une multitude de liens et de règles déraisonnables.
J’ai vu récemment à la télé François Bayrou comparant le code du travail français au code du travail suisse.

Code du travail Suisse : environ une centaine de pages.
Code du travail Français : 2691 pages.
Chômage en suisse : inférieur a 3%
Chômage en France : environ 11%

Comment voulez-vous abaisser le cout du travail (et réduire le chômage) quand les industriels français sont astreints a des règles absurdes (non valables dans d’autres pays)?

L’insécurité ?
Evidemment, les prisons étant pleines on n’arrête plus personne.
Solution ? Construire de nouvelles prisons avec les profits d’une économie nouvellement dynamique et enfermer immédiatement tous les voyous (quels qu’ils soient) qui commettent la moindre infraction.
Le chômage maitrisé et les voyous sous les verrous, la sécurité reviendra.

CQFD !

Alain

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Prevention

In today’s medicine the leitmotiv is “prevention”.
The term is much bandied about in health care organizations and officials are keen on scrutinizing every part of your body as often as possible.

In order to prevent or at least stave off diseases, your health care provider wants you to go through (and charge you for it of course) a series of regular medical exams.
Some exams are benign but some can be invasive and rather uncomfortable.

Many lab technicians by the way seem to be cold-blooded creatures lacking compassion and sensitivity.
They don’t seem to be aware (or care much) about your discomfort and will sometimes repeat the same procedure a few times to “make sure” that they didn’t miss anything.

To me, those soulless people are strangely akin to bounty hunters. They seem to be bent on finding something wrong within your body and I sometimes wonder if they are not rewarded for coming up with something necessitating a (costly) medical procedure.

Since  five years ago an unnecessary medical procedure left me incapacitated for about 3 months, I have become quite leery of hospitals and their procedures.

Those procedures sometimes weirdly remind of Josef Mengele and his ilk.
Mengele (the Angel of Death) was a German SS officer and a physician in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz.
He was infamous for performing cruel, grotesque and painful medical experiments on camp inmates, including children. When he was done with them, and if they survived, he callously sent them to the gas chambers.

My doctor wants me to have a yearly eye exam to make sure that nothing is going wrong with my sight. I am not against it, but I wish that this procedure was streamlined and more efficiently performed.

During my last exam, I went through 3 different technicians who submitted me to various forms of torture.
My eyes were repeatedly submitted to blinding flashes of light that left me half blind for about half an hour.
And they kept repeating this uncomfortable procedure until I finally balked.

But it is for your own good they said.

I don’t care. If procedure there must be, it should be done properly the first time and patients should not be “mengelized” at will.

Lab technicians seem to have a tendency to treat patients like guinea pigs who have to submit unquestioningly to all their whims.
Not so I say. A patient has the right and duty to object to any lengthy uncomfortable procedure.
Most patients are too timid to do so, but they ought to.

You are the master of your own domain and you should not let anybody mistreat you.
If you get uncomfortable with a procedure, say so. Loudly!

We are after all paying all those people’s salaries and they should not forget it!

Alain

 

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Brazilian Wax

This column is not afraid to tackle hairy subjects, and that’s why today I will speak about hair, all kinds of hairs, wherever they are.

I have read again and again on the Internet and in some magazines that young women are now favoring the so-called “bikini wax” look, the epilation of all pubic hair in and around the pubic area.

To this, I will politely say “what’s wrong with you half-witted broads?”
Is it another case of “monkey sees, monkey does” so common today among teenagers and young “adults”?
I think it is.

I have read that the total removal of pubic hair, such as a full Brazilian Wax (very painful) is considered by some men to be erotic and glamorous.
Poppycock!
A natural untrimmed pubic area is definitely more visually appealing and stimulating than a bare crotch.

If you want true eroticism, just have a look at a painting called “L’origine du monde”, by Realist French painter Gustave Courbet. Musée d’Orsay.
By comparison, a bare crotch looks as erotic as a plucked chicken.

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Hairs are where they are for a good reason and messing with Mother Nature is never a good idea.

I understand that some men are jumping on the bandwagon and also going for the bare look. It is probably the same kind of men who are sticking rings and safety pins in the most unlikely areas of their body.
You could expect this from men like Anthony Weiner, the creepy sexting New York mayoral candidate (who would be more than happy by the way to send a picture of his crotch), but not from real men.

Real men are staunchly against GMO (Genetically Modified Organisms) and prefer their food and women “au naturel”.

In spite of what Hollywood rags and porn sites are telling you, stop fooling with Mother Nature and stick to what she wisely gave you.

Alain