Spotted on the BBC News website today, the following headline: ‘My Bionic Foot - so advanced even amputee soldiers may go back into battle’. I can just picture the scene in the military hospital...
‘Private, do you want to lie in bed all day feeling sorry for yourself or do you want to walk again like a goddamn man?’
‘Sir, I want to walk again sir!’
‘Well Private, in that case I’ve got some good news for you - we’re gonna fit you up with a bionic foot to replace the one you lost in Iraq. This thing’s so damn good, we’ll be able to send you back into battle with it on.’
‘Sir, you mean to say you would send me back to Basra? In that case, request permission to stay in bed feeling sorry for myself sir!’
‘Private, do you want to lie in bed all day feeling sorry for yourself or do you want to walk again like a goddamn man?’
‘Sir, I want to walk again sir!’
‘Well Private, in that case I’ve got some good news for you - we’re gonna fit you up with a bionic foot to replace the one you lost in Iraq. This thing’s so damn good, we’ll be able to send you back into battle with it on.’
‘Sir, you mean to say you would send me back to Basra? In that case, request permission to stay in bed feeling sorry for myself sir!’
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