Archive for August, 2010
Best word in the world, stam (Hebrew; סתם)
Just had a great dinner with my Israeli buddy Ms S and she told me of a word in Hebrew that she claimed was truly untranslatable: STAM, spelt סתם in Hebrew.
My initial reaction was “bullshit, I bet you it’s just another of of these slightly nuanced terms like Lagom in Swedish.
It wasn’t, check out this madness of a definition:“STAM: Adverb. Just, only, merely; mere; undefined, casual; simple, not special”
Whilst some of these at first glance seem related, some are positively contradictory or totally unrelated. This word kicks ass, it’s one of those that’ll make even an experienced foreign speaker cry in confusion for hours – thus I have decided to learn Hebrew.
Pharmacology is the Special Ed of Medical School
Ralph Wiggum has decided to become a pharmacist
So after producing copious amounts of documentation, including a “Methrotrexate Log Book”, I proceded to wait for about 2 hours.
This is the result – they couldn’t even be arsed to put chemotherapy drugs in a box. No, they just put them in a paper bag that might look like sweeties to some dumb 4 year old.
Now I’m not one of these safety nuts (I regularly do 120 MPH on the M6 or whatever) and enjoy my share of drinking and clubbing.
But this is just retarded.
