Grey's Anatomy

[JimG]

I guess it’s kind of like the old analogy of slowly heating up a frog in water to the boiling point, but he never jumps out because the change was so gradual.

Having grown up in the days of black & white TV and innocuous programming, I can look back and notice that the water has reached a boiling point. All I know is that if what’s on now had been on the day my Dad brought home our first TV set, the TV would have been in the trash the next day.

 

[LynnieLew]

JimG:

I guess it’s kind of like the old analogy of slowly heating up a frog in water to the boiling point, but he never jumps out because the change was so gradual.

Having grown up in the days of black & white TV and innocuous programming, I can look back and notice that the water has reached a boiling point. All I know is that if what’s on now had been on the day my Dad brought home our first TV set, the TV would have been in the trash the next day.

Careful aobut what analogy you choose.

The one about the frog actually isn’t true:

The legend is entirely incorrect! The ‘critical thermal maxima’ of many species of frogs have been determined by several investigators. In this procedure, the water in which a frog is submerged is heated gradually at about 2 degrees Fahrenheit per minute. As the temperature of the water is gradually increased, the frog will eventually become more and more active in attempts to escape the heated water. If the container size and opening allow the frog to jump out, it will do so.

 

[JimG]

LynnieLew:

Careful aobut what analogy you choose.
The one about the frog actually isn’t true

Thanks for that information. OK, I’m not going to try to boil any more frogs alive, no matter how gradually. Maybe I’ll just make them watch TV. (Have there been any studies to determine whether there is any limiting factor which will actually cause a couch potato to jump off the couch?)

 

[LynnieLew]

JimG:

Thanks for that information. OK, I’m not going to try to boil any more frogs alive, no matter how gradually. Maybe I’ll just make them watch TV. (Have there been any studies to determine whether there is any limiting factor which will actually cause a couch potato to jump off the couch?)

I’m not sure about the couch potato.
Your frog reference was understood, even though it is technically a legend.
I just thought it was funny.

 

[JimG]

Come to think of it, I’ve never really never known anyone to actually try that with the frog and the hot water. But apparently, somebody did.

Speaking as a couch potato, it takes a lot of prodding to get me off the couch in front of the TV, no matter how gradually the quality deteriorates. . .

 

[Steven87]

JimG:

Thanks for that information. OK, I’m not going to try to boil any more frogs alive, no matter how gradually. Maybe I’ll just make them watch TV. (Have there been any studies to determine whether there is any limiting factor which will actually cause a couch potato to jump off the couch?)

HAHAHAHA… Thanks for the laugh… I needed that

 

[DaveBj]

leaner:

I sure thought it was interesting that they had an actual DOCTOR – and a good one, not the town joker – say “an epidural increases the liklihood of a c-section!” as she refused one…I almost fell off the couch!!! I like the show – it’s pretty mild by today’s low standards (which admitedly, are pretty darn low) but I think it’s doing a good job of fixing my “ER” wants since I don’t want to even bother watchign that anymore

There was a letter-to-the-editor from an anesthesiologist in today’s Birmingham *News * stating that the claim of a connection between epidurals and c-sections was completely made up by the scriptwriters.

DaveBj