Aarocolonoscopy
Aaro seems to be tweeting his colonoscopy. (I'm not sure we want to Watch.) We wish him well.
AaroWatch: for a polyp-free Aaro.
AaroWatch: for a polyp-free Aaro.
posted by The Couscous Kid at 2/14/2011 01:04:00 PM
Monday, February 14, 2011
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28 Comments:
I think most of the AW readership will agree with me when I wish Dave well, and send my sincere hope that he doesn't suffer any further problems with his Aarse.
i had one once, it was a horrible experience.
I was fortunate enough to have mine removed exactly three weeks before the start of the 1988/9 football season, with a three-week period off work required by the doctors.
I still wear the dressing-gown I bought for the hospital stay.
I second the Kid and FR, although I learned from Marko that "Aaronovitch and Cohen very sensibly ignore [Daniel - and by extension this blog]".
If Marko reads this, and I doubt he will, while I offered to delete the comments which offended him, it was actually the Cous Cous Kid who did so.
Aaro does not ignore Daniel: he engages in Twitter conversations with him.
His doppelganger Phil D'Bap (rather unfortunately named in the circs) does of course show up here, too, or used to when he (DA) was still the main focus of the site.
Oh yes, I know that Aaro doesn't ignore Daniel. He doesn't ignore me either. But I wasn't going to let facts spoil a good rant.
Phil was Aaro? Is that true, and if so, was I alone in failing to realise this?
I, too, didn't "realise" this. Don't believe it, either.
Yes, I took you to be being at least a bit ironic, but thought I may as well point it out.
I didn't actually say that P D'B was DA, but I will confess I did actually think they were one and the same, without having any real evidence and without being willing to rely on that (purported) fact in any way.
But if that is not believed by others, then I may reconsider, if and when I can ever be bothered to inspect the collected pronoucnements of P D'B, run them through style analysis software, subpoena various IP records etc.
But you never see them in a room together, do you.
(when I say 'real' evidence, I mean concrete, firm, clear etc.)
I'd assumed that everyone was just repsecting his pseudonymity. Oh, I getcha, yes, of course - I now see I was wrong and the two are obviously distinct...
I'm pretty sure Phil D'Bap was called a troll here, so we can rule him out as a pseudonym for Michael Ezra. That just leaves us with 6 billion odd suspects.
For what it's worth (not much), I also tended to assume that PD'B was Aaro (again, without any strong evidence to back up the identification). Not that it matters much.
Woah, hold up, you mean Phil D'Bab was a pseudonym?
Pretty good one, too, I reckon.
I thought Phil D'Bap was Brownie from Harry's Place. I can't recollect why now.
(Though I was surprised by the quality of the pseudonym.)
If it's any consolation, I never thought Phil D'Bap was Aaro; I always thought it was Brownie.
If Phil D'Bap was Aaro my respect for him plummetted another notch -- not so much for visiting here under a pseudonym, but for the quality of Phil's contributions.
None of which means I don't share the general wish for Aaronovitch being polyp free...
Well I certainly thought (and would still think, in the unreliable sense suggested above, had I not been corrected, nudge, wink) that I was addressing DA here, while being punctilious in observing a distinction between 'DA' and 'D'B' (geddit?).
(Also only just stopped short of accusing D'B, and thus by tacit implication DA, of going completely anonymous or enlisting a proxy, and if the former, lying about it.)
(Q: does protecting anonymity, in circs where failure to answer will be tantamount to confirmation, provide an actual, or anyway likely-to-be adopted, justification for lying, as protecting privacy wrt spent convictions does in similar circumstances?)
But of course I now realise (single slow nod/wink/open jaw while keeping lips closed so as to elongate face in mock seriousness) that D'B is not in fact DA, but someone else who only ever turns up to defend DA, appears to have at his (for it is surely a he) fingertips an encyclopaedic knowledge of things-concerning-DA, and writes just like DA does on Twitter (terms like 'gittishly' sound quite DA-ish, for example).
Eh? Eh? Say no more, Eric Idle etc
(And may I take this opportunity to register with the gods my vote for the 'things will be better, ceteris paribus, to the extent that DA is spared suffering, upset etc.' party?)
Is innuendo the Italian for colonoscopy?
Is this the only way to stop Aaro talking out of it?
Enough questions - a colonoscopy is for wimps, real men (like me) have an gastroscopy. Look it up, you can't read a book or watch TV while you're having one.
I've had two colonoscopies & was blessedly unconscious through both of them. I think it's possible to remain conscious, but really not advised. Coventrian may be thinking of sigmoidoscopies, which are altogether less invasive (in every sense of the word).
Coventrian: O,VG.
(How do you do a gastroscopy? Look it up. How do you do a colonoscopy? Look up it. You can have that one.)
Also, FlyingRodent's 'Aarse'.
I've never had a colonoscopy but it can now join the swelling list of things I live in mortal fear of.
If you're ever advised to have a colonoscopy, Ben, it won't be the colonoscopy you're mortally afraid of. (Fine, thanks for asking.)
A good point. (And glad to hear it!)
If you want to probe your squemishness, try cytoscopy. Be glad things have moved on since Al Swearengen's day.
Tried it. Many times. Better than the alternative, though. Fine now, thanks for asking.
Chris Williams
I know that Matthew Norman gets under Aaro's skin - but this is ridiculous,
From
http://twitter.com/DAaronovitch
Re 'scopy, forgot to say that, even further up my colon than the polyp, was another growth. Biopsied, it turned out to be Matthew Norman.
7:19 PM Feb 14th via web
Of course I was Phil D'Bap. Absolutely bang to rights. And as for Aarse! That nearly made the 'oscopy worthwhile.
Aaro
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