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What on earth are we going to be compared to next? I don't mind Naviaux comparing me to a nematode worm but I won't have Mark Edwards and his mates getting cheeky.

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/diamond-geezer

Diamond geezer.

Extremely sinister.

Will that be a Wessely-Whopper or a Whitey-Double-Whopper? Pork pie with that?

I love the way the unit of measurement is a Big Mac. Perhaps we should adopt our own unit of measurement, for example "Results in this study were inflated by a Wessely". Which leads to the question - which is bigger, a Wessely or a Crawley? Perhaps we need a sliding scale.

1. The subject of this thread and the OP is an article about gender inequality in university professorships / the under-representation of women in science. This is an acceptable subject to raise in the "Health News and Research unrelated to ME/CFS" forum. 2. From post 2 onwards the discussion...

I appreciate that. I was just a little crestfallen and needed to talk about it.

I'd like to see the evidence for this. We are often accused of wasting doctors' time, when the reality may well be that many of us are in hiding from the health service and engage as little as possible. When I read the thread title I actually thought it might be a sympathetic paper on the...

A reminder of rule 5, purely for information purposes (ie I'm not saying that anyone's breached it or needs warning about it, just that it's a bit of information that fits into the current exchange):

There have been a couple of reports to moderation about this thread, which has very little to do with ME. It will be locked for further comments pending moderation.

Swallowing a dictionary doesn't make it any cleverer. Thank you.

Brilliant writing.

The BPS brigade do have an army of gremlins that can be called upon at short notice.

Learning how to look a little perkier is something that has been on my to-do list for a while now, so if you've already mastered the art I'd be very grateful if you have any tips to share.

Earwig is the literal translation of Ohrwurm, ie the little animal. If you want to say Ohrwurm in the sense of a catchy tune you can't get out of your head once you've heard it, you can say "earworm" in English now, a word which is only used in that context and was probably pinched from the...

My mother unfortunately had a fall and broke both legs last summer. A couple of weeks ago she went to her doctor to discuss the continuing pain. The doctor explained to her how strange it is that the brain can influence how much we perceive pain. My mother agreed that her brain was behaving very...

I'm not sure if I should resign from Fatigatio after all, because I think it would upset the friends I have made at my local group meetings. I only meet the other members every 2 months at the fatigatio meetings, and if I stopped going I wouldn't see them at all (it's quite a drive, none of them...

Fair enough.

That was a rant after my own heart. Rantastic :thumbup:.