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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: ippy on December 12, 2015, 02:32:21 PM

Title: Got to be worth a few exchanges
Post by: ippy on December 12, 2015, 02:32:21 PM
http://www.secularism.org.uk/news/2015/07/religious-chaplaincy-costs-nhs-gbp235-million-a-year

ippy.
Title: Re: Got to be worth a few exchanges
Post by: Free Willy on December 12, 2015, 02:39:19 PM
http://www.secularism.org.uk/news/2015/07/religious-chaplaincy-costs-nhs-gbp235-million-a-year

ippy.
It's 23.5 million not 235 million.............More NSS hyperbole.
Title: Re: Got to be worth a few exchanges
Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on December 12, 2015, 03:40:43 PM
We did this one a while ago.

At that time I made a sensible contribution regarding an unpaid Hindu chaplain whom I know.

I will not repeat myself, so here is an old non pc joke.

A Jewish bloke walks across a road, and is struck by a lorry. He is obviously dying. An RC Priest walks over, kneels next to him and asks "Do you believe in the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost"?

The Jewish bloke replies "What? I'm lying here dying, and you ask me riddles?"
Title: Re: Got to be worth a few exchanges
Post by: Aruntraveller on December 13, 2015, 01:02:06 PM
It's 23.5 million not 235 million.............More NSS hyperbole.

Don't think so - as the article linked to states 23.5 million. Isn't it more likely that the link was just mistyped somewhere along the line - and that a . was missed out.

A miniscule amount in NHS budget terms though.
Title: Re: Got to be worth a few exchanges
Post by: Bubbles on December 13, 2015, 01:14:18 PM
A minuscule amount that brings some patients a lot of comfort when they are afraid.

Title: Re: Got to be worth a few exchanges
Post by: Aruntraveller on December 13, 2015, 01:17:10 PM
A minuscule amount that brings some patients a lot of comfort when they are afraid.

Indeed, that was what I was thinking, if not managing to imply it.
Title: Re: Got to be worth a few exchanges
Post by: cyberman on December 14, 2015, 12:18:53 AM
Well that fell on its arse didn't it, Ippy?
Title: Re: Got to be worth a few exchanges
Post by: Shaker on December 14, 2015, 01:01:55 AM
Well that fell on its arse didn't it, Ippy?
Did it?

Why?