Super-Twat

[CAMRAMan]

David Warner. A cheating thug masquerading as a cricketer.

[rogerzilla]

He was good in The Omen, though.

[spesh]

Rick Santorum - he's saying that US school pupils should learn CPR instead of agitating for gun control.

[hellymedic]

Rick Santorum - he's saying that US school pupils should learn CPR instead of agitating for gun control.

...and the mortality for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest from gunshot wound is??? I suspect >98% but will check...

[Kim]

Rick Santorum - he's saying that US school pupils should learn CPR instead of agitating for gun control.

...and the mortality for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest from gunshot wound is??? I suspect >98% but will check...

Isn't the mortality rate horrendous for pretty much everything except things like cold-water drowning and electric shock, where the heart stops in an otherwise functional body?

[hellymedic]

Rick Santorum - he's saying that US school pupils should learn CPR instead of agitating for gun control.

...and the mortality for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest from gunshot wound is??? I suspect >98% but will check...

Isn't the mortality rate horrendous for pretty much everything except things like cold-water drowning and electric shock, where the heart stops in an otherwise functional body?

Yes. Looking for scholarly references, I see there was a strong 'don't bother' meme until recently.

[Quisling]

Rick Santorum - he's saying that US school pupils should learn CPR instead of agitating for gun control.

...and the mortality for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest from gunshot wound is??? I suspect >98% but will check...

What, the Rick Santorum who didn't come off so well from his anti-gay views either? (warning, probably NSFW link!)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_for_the_neologism_%22santorum%22
 

[madcow]

Rick Santorum - he's saying that US school pupils should learn CPR instead of agitating for gun control.

...and the mortality for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest from gunshot wound is??? I suspect >98% but will check...

Isn't the mortality rate horrendous for pretty much everything except things like cold-water drowning and electric shock, where the heart stops in an otherwise functional body?

Yes. Looking for scholarly references, I see there was a strong 'don't bother' meme until recently.

I have just gone through our company H+S induction programme( big plant handling phenols and chlorine gas). One of the stories told was how the  site first aiders actually saved a guy who had a full cardiac arrest in the middle of the factory area , even though he was “dead” on several occasions . He is now able to talk about it but will probably never work again.
So it is possible but quite rare, hence the push for more defibrillators out in the community.

[hellymedic]

Rick Santorum - he's saying that US school pupils should learn CPR instead of agitating for gun control.

...and the mortality for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest from gunshot wound is??? I suspect >98% but will check...

Isn't the mortality rate horrendous for pretty much everything except things like cold-water drowning and electric shock, where the heart stops in an otherwise functional body?

Yes. Looking for scholarly references, I see there was a strong 'don't bother' meme until recently.

I have just gone through our company H+S induction programme( big plant handling phenols and chlorine gas). One of the stories told was how the  site first aiders actually saved a guy who had a full cardiac arrest in the middle of the factory area , even though he was “dead” on several occasions . He is now able to talk about it but will probably never work again.
So it is possible but quite rare, hence the push for more defibrillators out in the community.

Well done all of you! Various chemicals can precipitate VF in an otherwise intact and salvageable body.
CPR has rather less chance of success if the victim has bled out and/or has catastrophic damage from a bullet...

[Steph]

I am reminded of an American definition of 'waste of time'---like a Band-Aid on a sucking chest wound.

[mrcharly-YHT]

There are times when it is really worthwhile. People who have gone into very cold water. Snakebite/blue-ring-octopus bite victims. People who have had electric shocks.

[hellymedic]

There are times when it is really worthwhile. People who have gone into very cold water. Snakebite/blue-ring-octopus bite victims. People who have had electric shocks.

Indeed. None of these are smashed to smithereens. A high-velocity bullet causes a blast wave and cavitation way beyond the missile's track. Cardiac arrest from such catastrophic damage is much less likely to be reversible.

[andrewc]

Super twat = Boris Johnson


Super not a twat = John Bercow (at least on this occasion. 


https://twitter.com/twitter/statuses/978594893030412288

[Kim]

Say what you want about Bercow, but he does dispense a good bollocking.

[Mrs Pingu]

Yes. Good on JB. I see the S-T did his usual apology-notapology though 

[Jaded]

Chris Grayling

Amazingly, fuel from a service station in the middle of nowhere for 24 hours a day, 365 days a year is more expensive than fuel bought from a loss-leading exercise attached to a supermarket.

[Canardly]

Is there an election in the offing?

[hatler]

The Tory government, all of the fuckers.

£3m to sort out the homeless problem.

Greg Beales, campaigns director at homelessness charity Shelter, said that while the new measures would make "a genuine difference", most people become homeless because they cannot afford anywhere to live - "a situation made far worse by welfare cuts".

The government's strategy should include "building more social homes to rent, and making sure housing benefit is fit for purpose," he added."

This was echoed by shadow housing secretary John Healey, who said: "You can't help the homeless if you won't provide the homes, and the money announced here is less than 1% of the Conservatives' annual cut to funding for new low-cost housing."

[Polar Bear]

Chris Grayling

Amazingly, fuel from a service station in the middle of nowhere for 24 hours a day, 365 days a year is more expensive than fuel bought from a loss-leading exercise attached to a supermarket.

The cost of capitalism and the free market.

The Tory government, all of the fuckers.

£3m to sort out the homeless problem.

Greg Beales, campaigns director at homelessness charity Shelter, said that while the new measures would make "a genuine difference", most people become homeless because they cannot afford anywhere to live - "a situation made far worse by welfare cuts".

The government's strategy should include "building more social homes to rent, and making sure housing benefit is fit for purpose," he added."

This was echoed by shadow housing secretary John Healey, who said: "You can't help the homeless if you won't provide the homes, and the money announced here is less than 1% of the Conservatives' annual cut to funding for new low-cost housing.""

Why house them when it's cheaper to let somebody else find them a bed?

It's simply the tory PR machine trying to change their nasty image.

[Canardly]

That is £30m thinks but still woefully inadequate. The government appears to be trying to demonstrate additional spending power arising from a Brexit 'dividend'. However the reality is another £100+ billion of borrowing. You may remember we were supposed to be in surplus from 2020 (Osborne) hence Austerity hence rapidly rising homelessness. Additional taxes here we come.

http://citywire.co.uk/money/obr-pins-59bn-of-ballooning-borrowing-on-brexit/a973318

http://obr.uk/

[TigaSefi]

All the councillors in this article! https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/03/29/tour-de-france-has-led-copycat-cyclists-struggling-country-roads/

[Beardy]

All the councillors in this article! https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/03/29/tour-de-france-has-led-copycat-cyclists-struggling-country-roads/

so the article is about North Yorkshire’s poor provisos for increased cyclist numbers but the accompanying picture is of the peloton failing to struggle up the cobbled high street of the famous
West Yorkshire village of Haworth. The level of journalism doesn’t improve does it?

[Polar Bear]

Alan Sugar.  Vile little shit imo.

[Polar Bear]

Nadine Dorries.  Seems like she can only dish it out.

[Mr Larrington]

Here's one I prepared earlier by Mr Larrington, on Flickr