A Little Mistake?

[XFool]

Covid: Man offered vaccine after error lists him as 6.2cm tall

BBC News

A man in his 30s with no underlying health conditions was offered a Covid vaccine after an NHS error mistakenly listed him as just 6.2cm in height.

"Liam Thorp was told he qualified for the jab because his measurements gave him a body mass index of 28,000."

[UncleEbenezer]

A man can laugh off being misrecorded as 6.2cm instead of feet.

But measure his manhood as 6.2cm instead of inches ...

[AsleepInYorkshire]

A man can laugh off being misrecorded as 6.2cm instead of feet.

But measure his manhood as 6.2cm instead of inches ...

Diameter or circumference

AiY

[UncleEbenezer]

A man can laugh off being misrecorded as 6.2cm instead of feet.

But measure his manhood as 6.2cm instead of inches ...

Diameter or circumference

AiY

Have you been on the pi again?

[AsleepInYorkshire]

A man can laugh off being misrecorded as 6.2cm instead of feet.

But measure his manhood as 6.2cm instead of inches ...

Diameter or circumference

AiY

Have you been on the pi again?

Nope

AiY

[stevensfo]

A man can laugh off being misrecorded as 6.2cm instead of feet.

But measure his manhood as 6.2cm instead of inches ...

Diameter or circumference

AiY

I think it all depends on who's measuring. Nurse Barbara Windsor or Matron Hattie Jacques!

Whatever happened to the old very naughty seaside postcards that were sooo funny, but went completely over the heads of kids?

Terrified man in pyjamas being chased by nurse holding pot of boiling water.
Matron looking on, shouting "No nurse, I said to prick his boil!"
Hunstanton c. 1975

Steve

[bungeejumper]

Whatever happened to the old very naughty seaside postcards that were sooo funny, but went completely over the heads of kids?

Try googling for Donald McGill images. Also worth reading George Orwell's thoughts on the subject. (https://www.orwell.ru/library/reviews/M ... h/e_mcgill)

Terrified man in pyjamas being chased by nurse holding pot of boiling water.
Matron looking on, shouting "No nurse, I said to prick his boil!"

Or, overheard in the operating theatre: "No no, nurse, I said remove his spectacles".

BJ

[stevensfo]

Whatever happened to the old very naughty seaside postcards that were sooo funny, but went completely over the heads of kids?

Try googling for Donald McGill images. Also worth reading George Orwell's thoughts on the subject. (https://www.orwell.ru/library/reviews/M ... h/e_mcgill)

Terrified man in pyjamas being chased by nurse holding pot of boiling water.
Matron looking on, shouting "No nurse, I said to prick his boil!"

Or, overheard in the operating theatre: "No no, nurse, I said remove his spectacles".

BJ

Thanks so much for that. I am saving that essay by George Orwell to read tonight. He is without doubt, one of the most important authors of the 20th century, and if I were to choose two books to make obligatory reading, I would choose his '1984' and 'Animal Farm', books that with the passage of time seem to become even more relevant and terrifying than ever. I read almost every one of his books in my twenties and, being a nostalgic person, there are some, such as 'Coming up for Air' that I don't think I could read again. He had a way of showing how absurd behaviour could be and how pressures from society dictate how people react to what should be simple matters. I can't remember the book, but one novel has a school mistress sacked after trying to answer an innocent question from her girls about the 'birds and the bees'. Of course, the parents complained, oblivious to the teenage pregnancies and girls placed into asylums.

OB joke:
-- Mummy, when I came in last night, why were you sitting on Daddy, bouncing up and down?
"Oh darling, Daddy is a bit fat and I wanted his tummy to go down a bit. That's all."
-- Uhu, but it won't do any good!
" Why not, darling?"
--- Cos when you go to work, the au-pair comes and blows him up again!