' Wrote:And you claim to be have been to medical school?
Obviously he's not a native English speaking person, which means he's trying to translate terms he understands his native language into English.
Technical terms are sometimes really tough to translate, anyway. We have a broad international culture here due to the college, and there's not a week goes by that we don't have some Asian student (mostly Chinese) come into our electronics store looking for some part that I have no clue what the heck he's saying. Seriously - try asking for an NPN MOSFET in a language you speak horribly.
Also, it's one of those things that people who work regularly with the less pleasant portions of human kind have to develop some sort of defense mechanism simply to avoid going crazy. Whether that's calling the ward of the care facility full of brain dead the 'vegetable garden' or whatever (since all you can do is feed 'em, clean 'em, and turn them twice a day) or whatever .... That's human nature. We have to laugh at what's possibly the worst thing known to man.
Go read the original 'Stranger in a Strange Land' for an examination of humanity.
(11-21-2013, 12:53 PM)Jihadjoe Wrote: Oh god... The end of days... Agmen agreed with me.