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Vivian Evans's avatar

What the fluff are 'Asian Welsh' and 'Black Welsh' - and why are there no 'Asian Scots' and 'Black Scots'?

Do the people who make these stats/label their findings have totally lost any connection to reality, never mind common sense?

As for donating blood in the USA ... heh, I could tell a story about that! Mind you, that took place in the 1960s, so it's now ancient history.

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Frederick Edward's avatar

I'm not sure. I imagine the stats were just what came out of the magic number machine when some lowly analyst pressed the big red 'generate statistics' button.

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Vivian Evans's avatar

Indeed - or they simply recalled Humza Yousef's outcry about practically everybody in Scotland being white ...

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Stuffysays's avatar

According to my husband (so it must be true!), non-white people are scared of needles. All of them. It's nothing to do with not being part of the community, not having a sense of the "greater good", not being altruistic. Just needles.

As for Asian and/or Black Welsh - aren't they identifiable by their lack of a Welsh accent and a fondness for knives?

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Andrew Marsh's avatar

Well, another gentle but potent article from Theee Last Bastion of Sanity.

I note Junior Doct-ors (soon to be renamed as Short Doct-ors) are not well paid.

It seems the BMA plan yet more strikes to serve the self-regarding Short Doct-ors with yet more cash.

As to the coffee, I am sure many of Gary G's song lyrics can be adapted to uplifting corporate 'tunes'.

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Peregrinus's avatar

To quote the guy from Spiked (Tom Slater?): Ask not what the NHS can do for you, but what you can do for the NHS.

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Frederick Edward's avatar

Dulce et decorum est pro NHS mori.

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Christian's avatar

I have heard that in counties like Oz for example, you donate to the Red Cross who in turn sell to CSL .... who in turn refine and process it into megabucks. ...

One of the US’s biggest exports is blood products

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Frederick Edward's avatar

You mean they get more than a Penguin bar and a glass of orange squash..?

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Sam's avatar

Way back when I lived in London, we waited for our table having given a false name, and the seater shouted "Baath party" (It was 1991). Nobody got the joke

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Dougie 4's avatar

Perhaps it was your misspelling of Savile that confused the coffee shop punters.

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Frederick Edward's avatar

Yawn.

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