"Get any metal parts out of it? If so, you can apply for aspecial pass tp skip through airport security- they just do the wand bit."
More importantly, you'd get to call yourself a cyborg.
Naaah. Being a Cyborg would mean having a cybernetic connection to whatever parts got added- I guess only people with a coclear implan or that woman with the camera eye get to really hold that title. Everyone else is just a sap with manaquin parts. For now, anyway.
On the plus side (sorta) the wars in Iraq and afghanistan have led to a real technology boom in prosthesis and acceptance of people with them. A thin fucking silver lining on a very black cloud, but it's something....kinda like telling survivors of the Blitz that rocket technology will one day get us to the Moon and make satelites and GPS and all that crap.
Still...as someone that once seriously looked at a prosthestic leg as an inevitibility, I'm still appaled at how low-tech and inhuman looking they still are.
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Wow Liam's married too. I last met up with Joe/Monty about ten years ago; it did go quiet after that as our active posting on here tailed off, and as work took over.
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I still have a photo of that night. I'll try and dig it out.
(I'm not sure whether to be pleased or insulted that people are shocked by me being married by the age of 33. My parents still can't believe that it's to a girl.)
-------------------- Yes, you're despicable, and... and picable... and... and you're definitely, definitely despicable. How a person can get so despicable in one lifetime is beyond me. It isn't as though I haven't met a lot of people. Goodness knows it isn't that. It isn't just that... it isn't... it's... it's despicable.
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Not shocked; just that it was news to me.
Relatives of mine were shocked when they heard I was engaged to be married; a cousin phoned to ask whether it was my brother who was to marry rather than me.
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