You don’t need to be a brain surgeon
Posted on Thursday, November 9, 2006You know, I wonder about people who say things like this.
You don’t have to be a brain surgeon to unblock a sewer.
That’s right, you condescending fuck. You have to be a sewer-unblocker. What makes you think a brain surgeon would be any better at it than you?
A brain surgeon? Come on - why do people consider a brain surgeon to be at the pinnacle of competence? Why doesn’t anyone say, oh, you wouldn’t need to be a tight-rope walker to do that ? I think tight-rope walking is far harder than brain surgery because everybody can see if you fuck up, unlike brain surgery where all you need to do when you make a bollix of it is to say, Jesus, Mrs Murphy, poor ould Jimmy was in an awful fuckin state and I’d say you should shove him into the nearest nursing home cos he’ll be an onion all his life. Or a courgette. Or a Jerusalem artichoke, or some fuckin vegetable anyway, here’s my enormous bill, pay it now and fuck off.
On the other hand, the thing I like about tight-rope walkers is that they don’t ask you for any more money after you get into the tent. They don’t say, well, you spoke to me so here’s a fuckin bill for consultation, and you looked at me too, so here’s another fuckin bill, now fuck off. No. They just walk tight-ropes, like the rest of us. And sometimes they fall off and land on their heads, as we were hoping, and we’re all delighted because that’s what we paid in to see, or at least hoped to see. I’d love to see a brain surgeon being forced to walk a tight-rope, and just when he’s in the middle of it, I’d love to see somebody slicing the rope in half so that he falls to a hard and sudden concrete-impacting stop. Sustaining serious brain damage. And then I’d like to run up to him and say
You need to be a tight-rope walker to do that.
I think something else needs to be pointed out about brain surgeons. What they do isn’t rocket science.
Stumble it!
November 10th, 2006
give me something from the stuff you smoke or inject!
November 10th, 2006
Hiya, koslovsky. Funny enough, I actually don’t do that. Maybe you just put your finger on the problem.