NHS spunks £7.5k on porn room Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust has incurred the wrath of the Sun by spunking £7,500 on a "special room" kitted out to help chaps deliver vital supplies of man oysters. The trust's fertility centre shared the cost of "computer equipment worth £4,625, flat screen TVs costing £2,225 - plus £500 of blue movies" with …
Obviously, me and my missus have gone with the wrong IVF clinic!
(On the NHS for a previous attempt, I found it hilarious that there was a drawer marked 'magazines' in the little room that they provide. Not a stinking karzi in sight though as per previous poster, so can't complain...)
Anonymous, obviously, and Paris... oh, never mind.
Are they affected by the "assisting material" having to meet British legal requirements.
I wonder how the figures stack up.
Is British production smaller than say for example Denmark or Germany (where I hear) their stuff has greater potency?
I wonder what nations with stricter laws do...
"The Sun notes that other fertility centres "provide a similar service by spending less than £100 a year on magazines to stimulate patients". "
Yes, and, if like me you have the good fortune to be in Hammersmith Hospital fertility/embryology dept's sperm production room, you'll note the magazines have a certain disconcerting 'thumbed' quality.
No doubt in the 'Big Society', such wastefulness will be obviated by the millions of volunteers standing by to wank off cancer patients...
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That a little assistance from the prospective mother ought to be all that is required, no need for videos or magazines... I'm never likely to be in the situation, but I think I'd find the thought of producing one's future offspring jacking off to some bit of random porn to be rather sordid and demeaning: wouldn't be it be more in the spirit of the event if the partner were to, well, lend a helping hand?
... when I looked at the title on the homepage, I KNEW Lester wrote it!!
But, surely the internet Xh*mster would be a better bet. With a new mouse for each customer, natch - Don't want the nurses to have to clean 3 balls, after all that jazz....
Lester - give the playmobil a miss on this one. Ta muchly.
never heard of you, but it sounds like you are advocating copyright theft here -
"Most people would think all a fertility clinic needs these days is an internet connection"
I can supply many things with only an internet connection, but not so many legally without stumping up some HARD earned ;D
At least bankers aren't the only wankers the taxpayers stumping up for, although I do find it odd that Liverpool males need so much kit to facilitate a simple hand job. Are they a bit thin on imagination, perhaps? I would have thought a CCTV feed from the nurses changing rooms should do it.
NHS organisations receive their internet connection through a private national network called 'N3'. This is filtered and monitored at both a national and local level, and runs over dedicated lines into the buildings.
In order to provide internet access to the websites needed for such a venture would require installing a seperate, local connection with the associated costs of running cables from the local exchange into the building, through 'clean' parts of the hospital to the required area.
The cost of doing this would be far more than £7,500.
As to why they need an expensive 'wank suite' compared to a pile of suspiciously crispy jazz mags? I can only assume cleanliness, and wanting to attract more doners are the reasoning.
Specs, for the geek response ;)
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