Advice invariably found in the literature handed out by purveyors of so-called "alternative" or "complementary" medicine, in which customers intending to buy quackery are advised to check with their GPs first to find what "mainstream medicine" has to say.
The venomous diatribes against real medicine, and science and rationality in general, behind the closed doors of the "alternative" movement should tell you all you need to know about the sincerity of the quack-my-ass clause. On the face of it, it sounds obvious, egalitiarian and big-hearted. However, the real intention of the advice is to ensure that if anyone dies or is incapacitated by taking the quack's advice or products (or by swearing off real medicine, which may not be advised on the packaging but is a stock in trade in the "alternative" industry), if the matter comes to court the quack's lawyer can claim that the product or the service was misused; obviously, they didn't check with their GP, how unfortunate, it's not our fault.
Besides, the quack knows perfectly well their client is unlikely to see their GP or specialist about whatever the problem is, or if they do they won't pay much attention to their advice. If they did, they wouldn't be coming to the quack in the first place.
The venomous diatribes against real medicine, and science and rationality in general, behind the closed doors of the "alternative" movement should tell you all you need to know about the sincerity of the quack-my-ass clause. On the face of it, it sounds obvious, egalitiarian and big-hearted. However, the real intention of the advice is to ensure that if anyone dies or is incapacitated by taking the quack's advice or products (or by swearing off real medicine, which may not be advised on the packaging but is a stock in trade in the "alternative" industry), if the matter comes to court the quack's lawyer can claim that the product or the service was misused; obviously, they didn't check with their GP, how unfortunate, it's not our fault.
Besides, the quack knows perfectly well their client is unlikely to see their GP or specialist about whatever the problem is, or if they do they won't pay much attention to their advice. If they did, they wouldn't be coming to the quack in the first place.
Ah, here's the booklet; 123 symptoms this product may be able to cure, 256 further lists of types of people the product may be able to help, 25 more natural products from the same factory that might be able to balance your energies and so on, and, oh yes, the quack-my-ass clause.
by Fearman September 02, 2007
Grouping of authors regarded as dark and depraved and explicitly or implicitly worthy of a painful execution because they refused to write books as clean and wholesome as the Bible or Koran. Well, that's what the True Believers would have us think, anyway. At last count included Salman Rushdie, Jo Rowling and Philip Pullman. May be abbreviated to ALE, or AxLE.
Like any true servant of democracy, I find time to support the Axis of Literary Evil whenever I can.
by Fearman January 25, 2008
"Moral" argument against gay or lesbian sex on the grounds that "the parts don't fit", as though bodies were supposed to be parts of a jigsaw.
Rome and Topeka have chimed in again with their discussion on how the seam line doesn't match up. More jigsaw morality.
Oops ... I just realised, our parts don't fit, umm, let's call it off. Hey, hold on, I know ... wanna go bowling?
Oops ... I just realised, our parts don't fit, umm, let's call it off. Hey, hold on, I know ... wanna go bowling?
by Fearman January 11, 2008
1. Form of government supposedly originating in classical Athens. The term is derived from the Greek words demos (people) and kratein (rule). Even in ancient Athens the "people" excluded women and slaves.
2. Government "of the people, by the people and for the people", to quote Abraham Lincoln.
3. In the present world, whatever suits those controlling the United States military.
2. Government "of the people, by the people and for the people", to quote Abraham Lincoln.
3. In the present world, whatever suits those controlling the United States military.
Sometimes, son, it's unfortunately necessary to liquidate a coupla million gooks to bring them democracy, McDonald's and all that stuff. Praise the Lord and pass the ammo.
by Fearman November 21, 2007
Environmentalist loony, literally a green fundamentalist. More concerned with appearing in the papers and on TV, and perhaps cocking a snook at Daddy, than actually protecting the environment. Doesn't worry about putting forth anything scientifically valid, in fact prefers to portray scientists as rapists of the Earth, or some such. A goon.
by Fearman September 20, 2007
1. A really sexy looking, easy going hippie chick. Free loving, Earth Momma type. A hot altie.
2. Mould growing on food, often from a combination of lack of preservatives due to Luddite fears and either a tendency to forget the food is there, or an inability to use it up fast enough, on the part of the slightly addled individual who bought it.
2. Mould growing on food, often from a combination of lack of preservatives due to Luddite fears and either a tendency to forget the food is there, or an inability to use it up fast enough, on the part of the slightly addled individual who bought it.
Ginny's walking out topless with her bump again. She's a real bit of hippie pepper, all right.
Guess what? There's hippie pepper all over the great BIG bag of garlic again.
Guess what? There's hippie pepper all over the great BIG bag of garlic again.
by Fearman January 06, 2008
What you say when your car breaks down for the ninth time in a week, and/or when your wife elopes with the postman.
by Fearman August 03, 2007