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Joe Rogan talks about street fighting, and he knows a lot about martial arts. He said something like he can't believe how willing some untrained guys are to get into a fight and how confident they seem. He's been doing martial arts all his life and a street fight scares the shit out of him.

Also former UFC middleweight champ Frank Shamrock, an all time great, was interviewed ages back. Apparently when he was champ a guy confronted him in the street. The interviewer asked what happened, he said because he was in training he was really fit so he ran off on the guy, this is the right move.
 

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I've seen a hypnotist live and was in stitches the whole time. Not sure if it was because of being in the live audience rather than on TV or because I knew all the people who went under. Haven't seen the show so can't really compare.
 

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This is something that I just don't get, that still hasn't been explained to me.

I saw an ad for something once where you could donate a condom to people in Africa to prevent HIV/AIDS.

If you wanted to stop the chance of getting an STI, couldn't you just not have sex? Am I missing something here?
 

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Joe Rogan talks about street fighting, and he knows a lot about martial arts. He said something like he can't believe how willing some untrained guys are to get into a fight and how confident they seem. He's been doing martial arts all his life and a street fight scares the shit out of him.

Also former UFC middleweight champ Frank Shamrock, an all time great, was interviewed ages back. Apparently when he was champ a guy confronted him in the street. The interviewer asked what happened, he said because he was in training he was really fit so he ran off on the guy, this is the right move.
This is the right thing to do. Threatening to fight someone IRL is gutless
 

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Telling people not to have sex doesn't really work. You're not going to get millions of people to simply abstain.
Said no Catholic priest ever.

STIs are prevalent in Australia where everyone has access to contraception and we are supposedly educated about the risks.

What chance do poor Africans have?
 

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When my cousins were booted off their farm in the late 90s, they reckoned two thirds of the workers who lived there were HIV positive. The situation hasn't been helped by pharmaceutical companies not licensing generic versions of retroviral medicine.
 

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There is a morbid school of thought that HIV/AIDS is the solution to overpopulation.

The world would still be in deep poop if every person in Africa died tomorrow, though.
 

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This is something that I just don't get, that still hasn't been explained to me.

I saw an ad for something once where you could donate a condom to people in Africa to prevent HIV/AIDS.

If you wanted to stop the chance of getting an STI, couldn't you just not have sex? Am I missing something here?
the only real way of stopping the virus mutating the disease so the person dies within hours of contracting the virus. Its cruel but so to is living with the disease and spreading it.
 

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Dallas Buyers Club was such a great movie on the topic of HIV.


I just had an appointment at a local GP and he was running late, I mean no surprise there, it happens. This lady had her child there (was a right brat) and must have been waiting what I assume was 30 minutes longer than her scheduled appointment (I was after her and had been waiting about 40 minutes) and had a go at the medical receptionist, telling her that if they want to improve her service they should let people know if the Dr is running late etc etc. Then her husband arrived and told them they should also take down the "no appointment necessary" sign. This was a bulk billing GP and not my normal GP (who charges a consultation fee), obviously stereotyping here but I wonder if there is a strong correlation between different socio economic groups and manners.

On the topic, my usual GP is a middle eastern GP as are 95% of the patients. I find that the Dr-Patient relationship is vastly different to that I experience from previous times where my GP has been Anglo/Indian/Asian. I can't discount the consultation fee as a possible cause in this difference but I find it very interesting.
Be interested to know if people have had similar experiences.
 
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On the topic, my usual GP is a middle eastern GP as are 95% of the patients. I find that the Dr-Patient relationship is vastly different to that I experience from previous times where my GP has been Anglo/Indian/Asian. I can't discount the consultation fee as a possible cause in this difference but I find it very interesting.
Be interested to know if people have had similar experiences.
There's a fair bit of research on this actually, especially in psychological settings (I touched on it as part of my honours thesis). The relationship is absolutely very different, right down to how things are communicated and understood by both parties. Treatment can and does change as a result too, which obviously isn't ideal.
 

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You ever met someone living with HIV?
unfortunately yes

my sister's house mate (a young gay guy in his early 20s) in Adelaide some 30 years ago. It was hard on all of us when he was tested positive as it was a death sentence back then and the demise was long and cruel.

its hard to think about it even now as he was a great guy.
 

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There's a fair bit of research on this actually, especially in psychological settings (I touched on it as part of my honours thesis). The relationship is absolutely very different, right down to how things are communicated and understood by both parties. Treatment can and does change as a result too, which obviously isn't ideal.
I've touched briefly on similar things in my social science degree but nothing involved with research, unfortunately I'm stuck doing pointless units like media & communcations and the like which don't leave much room for reading journals.

What was your thesis on?
 
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Dallas Buyers Club was such a great movie on the topic of HIV.


I just had an appointment at a local GP and he was running late, I mean no surprise there, it happens. This lady had her child there (was a right brat) and must have been waiting what I assume was 30 minutes longer than her scheduled appointment (I was after her and had been waiting about 40 minutes) and had a go at the medical receptionist, telling her that if they want to improve her service they should let people know if the Dr is running late etc etc. Then her husband arrived and told them they should also take down the "no appointment necessary" sign. This was a bulk billing GP and not my normal GP (who charges a consultation fee), obviously stereotyping here but I wonder if there is a strong correlation between different socio economic groups and manners.

On the topic, my usual GP is a middle eastern GP as are 95% of the patients. I find that the Dr-Patient relationship is vastly different to that I experience from previous times where my GP has been Anglo/Indian/Asian. I can't discount the consultation fee as a possible cause in this difference but I find it very interesting.
Be interested to know if people have had similar experiences.
Whats different?
 
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