St Theo 2021 Schedule

 

It is now only a few days until June the 1st which is the feast of St Theobald of Ruggerio, the patron saint of hospital porters. Like last year, we are still in coronavirus lockdown, see: http://hpanwo-hpwa.blogspot.com/2020/06/happy-st-theos-day-2020.html. The "two weeks to flatten the curve" has expanded into the best part of eighteen months. We do now have access to public houses and restaurants, but this is still subject to strict infection control regulations that put a distinct dampener on the experience, see here for details: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2021/04/the-great-reopening.html. Therefore, after consultation with other porters, I am postponing the St Theo's party until such time as porters can enjoy pubs without restriction. However I will be making two new publications, a HPANWO TV livestream and the first ever live episode of The Gas Spanner on St Theo's Day itself. Keep watching the HPANWO TV and HPANWO Radio blogs for further notices, see the links column.
See here for The Gas Spanner St Theo 2021: https://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-gas-spanner-programme-13.html.
See here for the HPANWO TV St Theo 2021 livestream: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2021/06/st-theos-day-2021-livestream.html.

Paul Farrell Jailed

 

See here for essential background: https://hpanwo-hpwa.blogspot.com/2020/11/gosh-porter-admits-child-abuse.html.
Paul Farrell, the Great Ormond Street Hospital porter who admitted numerous counts of child sexual abuse has been jailed. He's been sentenced to eighteen years in prison, not as long as I would like. My only hope is that the other inmates will make those eighteen years feel like eighteen hundred. Even though he did not target patients as victims, Farrell abused his position to pretend to be friends with patients' parents to the point when they would let him act as their babysitter, leaving the children helpless in his clutches. This "grooming" of an entire family by an abuser is something I have personal experience of, see: http://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2009/01/eyes-of-centaur.html. I can only reiterate what I said in the background article above. Most hospital porters, in fact almost all of them apart from Farrell, are decent, honourable and noble professionals. Unfortunately the modern NHS does seem to attract many people with, shall we say, "alarming personalities", but statistics show that the vast majority of hospital crimes, and the most severe of them, are committed by civilians. Remember, Dr Harold Shipman and Beverley Allitt were not porters.
See here for more information: https://hpanwo-hpwa.blogspot.com/2015/05/killer-nurses.html.
And: https://hpanwo-hpwa.blogspot.com/2015/12/nhs-nurses-destroy-patients-doll.html.

Dating Advice for HP's

 

I'd like to provide some advice for hospital porters new to the profession on a rather touchy personal subject; dating. Hospital portering is an unusual experience because portering in the UK is male dominated. About 95% of porters are men; however in the NHS as a whole 46% of its servicepeople are female. This average varies depending on the professions and unit. Nursing is still female dominated. A hospital might appear to be the perfect place for a porter to meet a new partner, but unfortunately it is not (Assuming you are a male heterosexual like me; I can't speak for the alternatives). The NHS is very hierarchical; in fact its society is not unlike the caste system of India. Porters are on the very lowest level of that pecking order and nurses very rarely "date down". The old cliché of a nurse's ambition to marry a doctor is completely real. Of those who do not marry doctors or have relationships with them, they tend to choose very conventional men who are of an equal or higher status to themselves. I did manage to go on romantic nights out with nurses on three occasions during my twenty-three years of service. None of these instances progressed to a full relationship. All three women lost interest in me for the same reason; it was after they "popped the question", see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt9VC005Ds0 and: https://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-gas-spanner-programme-7.html. Of course there were porters who went out with nurses, but all of them were of two varieties; either they were manifestly not wedded to hospital portering or they were able to put on a good act, pretend to be an alpha, see the background links below for details. Obviously both of those options are out of the question for me. Of course not all nurses are the same; they are individuals just like the rest of us, but I never encountered any such individual in my entire career. Or to be precise, it is likely that I did, but peer pressure prevented them from expressing their uniqueness, Conformity is such a prevalent factor in the NHS. nevertheless, you still have a good chance of meeting somebody right for you. There are many women in other PAM's such as domestic, admin, estates and catering, where the taboo against going out with porters is lessened or even absent. You might also meet somebody exceptional in your new life; a courageous woman who battles against peer pressure. Just because I never did it doesn't necessarily prevent you from doing so. It's important not to become cynical and descend into the negative, bitter and heartbreaking world of MGTOW, see background links. I am against creating a persona too. Just be yourself. There's no point finding a girlfriend if they only way you can do so is hiding your real personality beneath a fake facade. It's not a sellers' market out there for a porter, but be positive, be friendly and be confident. There are never guarantees, but you might meet somebody who will be a genuine companion and will make you truly happy. good luck!
See here for background: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2019/10/am-i-mgtow.html.
And: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2016/12/why-do-women-never-date-nice-guys.html.
And: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2017/11/nice-guys-update.html.
And: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2020/11/nice-guys-reply-to-stefan-molyneux.html.