1. Ever wondered what medical staff say about you when you’re under the knife?
A man in Virginia has just found out and it wasn’t pretty.
The man was [reportedly]((http://news.yahoo.com/jury-awards-patient-500k-anesthesiologist-mocked-him-150312748.html)
booked in for a colonoscopy and he somehow managed to record the whole thing on his iPhone.
He has now been awarded $US500,000 after being mocked and insulted by an anesthesiologist and others in the surgical team.
One doctor was recorded saying: “After five minutes of talking to you in pre-op, I wanted to punch you in the face and man you up a little bit.”
When a medical assistant noted the man had a rash, the anesthesiologist warned her not to touch it, saying she might get “some syphilis on your arm or something.’
One of the jurors, Farid Khairzada, has been quoted saying that “there was not much defense, because everything was on tape.”
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2. Did you know that when a girl gets her period in India, she can’t touch the pickle jar in the kitchen because the pickles will go mucky?
It’s such an old, offensive idea, grounded in ancient superstitions designed to subjugate women, and now an ad designed to smash that taboo has won the Grand Prix Glass Lion at the Cannes advertising festival.
The Glass Lion is a new category, part-sponsored by Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg, designed to showcase ads that address issues of gender equality.
The ad called ‘Touch the Pickle’ shows an Indian girl daring not only to touch the pickle jar but to do whatever she pleased while menstruating. The ad is for Proctor & Gamble’s feminine hygiene products.
Other winners in the category include the #likeagirl campaign by Leo Burnett, which tackled the negativity in the phrase ‘like a girl.’
The campaign showed girls under the age of ten being asked to ‘run like a girl.’ They go flat out. But when women – and men – are asked to ‘run like a girl’ they go all floppy and silly.
Likewise, If you tell a girl child to fight like a girl, she will put her fists up in a confident way, but when you tell an adult woman to fight like a girl, she will go all hand-slappy on you.
The idea behind the ad is that something happens to women as they pass through puberty: they lose a lot of the self-confidence they had ascgirls.
The #LikeAGirl ad campaign by Leo Burnett focused on turning the phrase “like a girl” from an insult into an empowering idea. The ad reached 58 million people online.
Watch the winning ad here:
3. The Queen may have to move out of Buckingham Place for renovations.
News reports say the palace has not been substantially redecorated since Queen Elizabeth II took the throne in 1952.
As with any renovation, the costs are eye-watering: $237 million is the figure that has been put on replacing old plumbing and wiring and removing asbestos.
The Queen would not be left homeless, of course.
Her Majesty has a place in Scotland that she quite likes, too.
The cost of the planned renovation was included in royal accounts released earlier this week, which say that the Royal Family cost about 56 pence per person, per year. That includes travel, and wages.
The accounts also showed that the Queen, who is 89 and apparently cutting back on her workload, still attended 196 public engagements last year.
Her Majesty is currently in Berlin.
4. The ABC will conduct an investigation into how a suspected terrorist who spent time in prison for threatening to kill ASIO officers was encouraged to front cameras on the QandA program.
Zaky Mallah turned up on the show on Monday.
The host, Tony Jones referred to Mallah as having “pleaded guilty (to making) death threats to Commonwealth officials.”
The ABC’s director of television Richard Finlayson has apologized for giving Mallah a platform but the Abbott government is outraged.
5. How did the two violent prisoners who escaped from a New York prison two weeks ago get their hands on hacksaw blades?
They hid them in raw meat.
According to reports on CNN the two inmates, Richard Matt and David Sweat, who are dangerous and possibly injured, cut and tunneled their way out of the Clinton Correctional Facility, apparently with the help of a guard.
The blades were reportedly smuggled into the prison in mass bags of uncooked hamburger meat that was not passed through a metal detector.
The prisoners have been on the run since June 6. So far, only their soiled underwear has been found.
6. Don’t you love it when those TV morning show pranks go wrong?
A Fox network presenter who was asked to throw a sharp axe at a target managed to hit a drummer standing right behind the target instead.
Video of the incident appeared on CNN shows the host hurling the axe right over the target and hitting drummer
Jeff Prosperie.
Jeff’s hands were hit, but he kept hold of them. Now, on his Facebook page, he’s saying he’s grateful to God that the injuries weren’t worse.
He is focused on his emotional recovery and believes there was “obvious negligence.” Which sounds like: lawsuit.
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