Szimano’s Blog

I was accused yesterday for being too politically correct.

I thought about it - and YES. I am.

Few days ago National Health Service in Scotland have sent this “Fair For All - The Wider Challenge” paper to every hospital in Scotland stating that nurses and other health care professionals should avoid using words “Mum” and “Dad” as they are too “homophobic”. Right word for describing them now are ‘governor’, ‘parent’ or ‘carer’. Also they should post posters in hospitals that would stop this ridiculous model of Male+Female+Kids family. Unfortunately my guardians are both heterosexuals so I had worse start and I’m really ashamed of that. As recompense I’m calling my wife “Madzik” for a long time… and it’s masculine. Thanks God !

To go further I asked my wife to change our relationship to a nice triangle to make it at least half-homosexual, but she wouldn’t allow me :-(. She’s so homophobic !

As an addition perfect family poster (It’s licensed LGPL so you can use it in Your hospital now !)

Some links:

Mentioned document

We had this party… theme was “literature characters”. Surprisingly almost everyone dressed up.

Here’s the Dream Team

I’m Jankiel, Adam is Braveheart and Jacek is Last Samurai (?). Yeah… we look ridiculous. But it was fun !

Anyway… there’s something to say about Poles… lately there’s this big scandal about antisemitism in Maciej Giertych’s brochure. He wrote something about Jews asking themselves for holocaust by making Ghettos and such crap. Yeah - he’s a moron.

But what is important there’s still something wrong about Polish thinking about Jews - even among my closest friends. The thing was - under my hat i had Kippah. What’s a big deal ? Almost *everyone* asked me “where did you get it ? Your inlaw ? Where did he get it from ?”. But this wasn’t just a question. This was kind of question with this big fear to hear too much. Or to know too much about my family. It’s sick.

Shalom guys !

Hello guys,

This is my first blog post. Yeah… finally managed to create one. And it’s on Ash Wednesday :).

That also means the end of carnival. I’ll show you some pics soon.

Cheerio guys,

Tomek