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| Ian_2007 |
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/sweari...
One of those rare bits of science which is both amusing and fascinating. If they only mentioned research like this in school, this country might have less of a skills crisis 
One question which immediately popped into my mind was: we all have to endure those people who devalue oaths by peppering each and every sentence with two or three obscenities. Do you think such people suffer an impairment of the beneficial effect of cussing, because the words are no longer special for them? It would be no more than poetic justice....
| 20 Apr 11, 9:41 AM bohnanza UK(FK), 12 yrs  |
This isn't news, or even new research. The pain and swearing thing has been around for years. There is an article on the BBC website about it from two years ago, and funnily enough it involved the same researchers. What we have here is a University PR department desperate to justify the fees students will be charged mixed with journalists who don't check their facts and print any old crap they are sent. A better story would be "The only research Keele University does is through their archives". Rohypnol means never having to say "Would you like another coffee?". |
