Hot Swedish nurses in charity calendar rumpus

Staff at Stockholm's Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital have landed themselves in hot water after stripping off at work for a charity 2016 calendar, The Local reports. "It is clearly inappropriate and a sign of very poor judgment," lamented hospital big cheese Svante Norgren, after he was tipped off to the outrage by …

[Anonymous Coward]

Cool icon.

[VinceH]

"I clicked on the story to look for typos..."

Is that the latest euphemism the kids are using for 5318008 these days?

[Anonymous Coward]

Goddamit! That's entrapment that is! Or something..

[Shane McCarrick]

Or for those who aren't generously endowed- 55378008

[Pompous Git]

...and for those who are very well endowed, and have ten-digit calculators:

that doesn't work real well if you've lost a finger, or two...

[chivo243]

@1980s_coder

I came for the comments, always do... Typos... good one.

[wolfetone]

*sees headline - "Hot Swedish Nurses"*

*clicks link*

*closes window in dissapointment*

[Anonymous Coward]

"*closes window in dissapointment*"

YMMV

[Anonymous Coward]

well MMDV

[BinkyTheMagicPaperclip]

They should get a sense of humour

I'd consider buying it as is, especially if it has more pictures of inappropriate medical equipment usage

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: They should get a sense of humour

They have a machine that goes 'ping'

[Simon Harris]

Raising funds for...

Boss-Eyed Awareness?

The IT (crowd) Angle.

[0laf]

Once you've seen it you can't unsee it

"My eyes!"

Pass the brain bleach please.

[Anonymous Coward]

>It is clearly inappropriate...

I hate it when people use this kind of expression.

Nothing is ever necessarily "clearly" inappropriate.

What they really mean is that "I think it is inappropriate and I expect everyone else to agree."

Personally, apart from the eye bleach that I now require, I'm not sure what they think is inappropriate about it. It seems to me that it's all a bit of fun. Some people just don't have a sense of humour.

[DropBear]

But it _is_ clearly inappropriate use - nobody seems to be tied up in those pics, no cattle prod or neon wand to be seen anywhere, not even a sounding kit or wartenberg wheel...

[Anonymous Coward]

Why is this a story?

Did they raise some money?

Were they consenting adults?

Then good on them.

Maybe the hospital administrators should get a sense of humour.

[captain veg]

Strange

The second of those two pictures appears to be me.

Odd that I don't remember it.

-A.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Strange

They probably stabbed you in the neck beforehand with a syringeful of a Flunitrazepam-Scopolamine-SodiumThiopental-Mescaline preparation, to help you with your inhibitions. They're a hospital, remember.

[Pompous Git]

Re: Strange

"Flunitrazepam-Scopolamine-SodiumThiopental-Mescaline" sounds more like something the local drug dealers are selling...

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Strange

Live in Sidney Git?

[captain veg]

Re: Strange

Well, I certainly look like I'm off my face. And chest and forearms, weirdly.

-A.

[Anonymous Coward]

Are the photos stills from Hostel 4?

As if Hospitals weren't scary enough!

[Anonymous Coward]

That second guy needs to pass up the hospital cafeteria occasionally....

Thank God it's Friday. I'm going to need a few an extra-long therapy session at the local bar after seeing that.

[Alister]

I really, really hope he never uses the defibrillator like that for real, or there'll be two dead people on the trolley.

[Old Handle]

Yeah, that's the first thing I thought. He's got the patient's shirt pulled up but still using the paddles where it covers. Makes no sense. Not to mention you probably don't want that much body contact with someone you're zapping.

[Alister]

@Old Handle

Yep, you should use the paddles at arm's length, and make damn sure no part of the patient can possibly touch you even if they move when you shock them.

I've had a partial shock once, whilst attempting to cardiovert someone on wet grass when I was kneeling next to them, It bloody hurts!

[Albert Hall]

Well, at least they were thinking of the children...

[Efros]

Humourless gits

Sometimes you just have to have a larf!

[elDog]

Wow, the first de Register article section with nary a down-vote

Until now.

Everybody seems to be having a good time. What's not to like?

[allthecoolshortnamesweretaken]

Well played El Reg, well played...

[The First Dave]

Just to be clear though - is the pixelation part of the calendar, or carried out later on to hide the guilty?

[Wade Burchette]

My eyes! The goggles do nothing!

(Too bad we can't embed img tags.)

[DocJames]

I think it's inappropriate from the hospital's point of view. They want their staff to be professional and to have impeccably boring professional lives. Given that the pics are clearly taken inside the hospital, I think they have some say in the matter.

Doesn't mean that said administrators are not humourless gits though. And it demonstrates how work infiltrates into life more generally: what are the boundaries beyond which work should butt out? Particularly pertinent for me currently as I am on call... this opinion may, therefore, be construed as one my employer holds (it isn't, AFAIK).

And finally, has nobody here seen a naked middle aged man before?

[Rol]

Not even naked!

Far less clad gentlemen can be seen at your local swimming pool.

And we have got to remember, those in the medical profession do not find the human form so mysterious and beguiling that they must fervently cover it up for modesty's sake.

Personally, I believe anything that makes it more difficult for the ulta-religious to mix amongst us normal people is a God send, as I little doubt, many of those expressing deep concern about the images had to break off from abusing someone else to voice their opinions.

[Lusty]

"Personally, I believe anything that makes it more difficult for the ulta-religious to mix amongst us normal people is a God send"

Irony aside this could be a very good strategy. Fill the world with pornography, swearing, and blasphemy and the god botherers might stop coming outside telling us all how inappropriate we all are. You sir/madam, are a very clever boy and/or girl.

[Anonymous Coward]

So when do we get to see data centre techs and the latest kit?

You know, a few blades, a couple of tasty fibre cables. Maybe even an Infiniband switch?

[mikeyd]

^^ This. As a sad old geek I'd pay for an IT calendar with some racy hardware pics.

Cray XMP (old geek remember) flashing all it's got anyone?

Any other suggestions for hot kit pix?

[I ain't Spartacus]

Some red hot dongle on socket action perhaps?

Who can forget the old ritual of scrubbing your mouse balls.

Old monitors could work. I haven't seen a decent 14 incher in ages. Although mine's now 23 inches, it's also flat.

Obviously nobody wants to see any floppies...

[CrazyOldCatMan]

> Old monitors could work. I haven't seen a decent 14 incher in ages

I've got a Galileo-branded 14" VGA monitor stuck in the back of my garage if that's any help. Just don't ask me to get it out - it's stuck behind several rolls of hall carpet that I put in the garage racking when I was younger and fitter..

I do, however, have access to a 15" Sun-branded Trinitron monitor. Or the 17" Sun monitor cabled up to my KVM switch upstairs.

I've probably got some bally mice in the garage too. But not the squeaking type (the posting name is not ironic. I really am old, crazy and own 6 cats..)