CarrionCrow: Bonus points to you for not responding to the laser scalpel question with, "Because this isn't Star Trek, you fucking retard." =)
ddickinson: I really wanted to respond with something like that (minus the cursing, because I'm too polite for that :-)), and if it had been on our farm I might have done. But I just stared in disbelief and then tried to correct him. Eventually I just ignored him and carried on.
adaliabooks: Laser scalpels... LASER scalpels.
Wow.
So, presumably he thinks he's going to be some kind of fucking jedi knight? Carving into his patients with a light saber?
He does realise that a laser would instantly cauterize any wound, making it useless as a cutting implement... probably not.
I particularly like the "Mummy and Daddy aren't paying for me to be thought out of date methods", I can practically hear the upper class tosser now...
Thanks, that's cheered me up a bit :)
ddickinson: A Jedi vet, that's probably a new thing in the upcoming movies. As for cauterising the wounds, I really don't think this kid would even know what that meant, even from overhearing other stuff he mentioned to his friends, he sounded so uneducated. I get the feeling his parents will probably just bribe someone eventually to get him his job as a vet.
Or possibly, his parents will find that it's cheaper just to have their steaming lump of stupidity-spewing disappointment killed.
Then, ironically, he can be fed to pigs, Snatch-style. ;)