In closing, I work in mining and the company I work for is probably the most proactive in the world in the fight against discrimination and treatment of HIV/AIDS. In the time I worked in one particular country I lost many good employees to this disease and other like malaria and TB.

If you want to nit-pick my statements and search the web for articles to justify your position then be my guest but you're wasting both our times. My 'fair idea' is relatively well educated, thank you.

Nit picking?? Whatever. My last link was to the blood rule literature... not trying to justify anything, just putting it there as that is the stance taken by the sporting bodies which was developed for the Australian National Council on AIDS, Hepatitis C and Related Diseases, by the Australian Institute for Primary Care.

the accepted method for HIV treatment in Africa is to sleep with a virgin

That's like saying the accepted method for enforcing the law in Australia is to spear someone in the leg.

That's like saying the accepted method for enforcing the law in Australia is to spear someone in the leg.

of course it is chook, don't you understand irony?

of course it is chook, don't you understand irony?

Of course I do. I don't think that was irony.

Of course I do. I don't think that was irony.

didn't think you understood

The essential feature of

irony

is the indirect presentation of a

contradiction

between an action or expression and the context in which it occurs.

didn't think you understood

But you said that was the accepted method for Africa. It isn't, therefore it's not ironic. For something to be ironic it has to be truthful. If you had said "the accepted accepted method for HIV treatment in some parts of Africa is to sleep with a virgin," then it would be ironic.

It's like me saying "the correct treatment for a broken leg is to jump up and down on it." If that were true, my statement would be ironic. Since it's not true, it's just moronic.

But you said that was the accepted method for Africa. It isn't, therefore it's not ironic. For something to be ironic it has to be truthful. If you had said "the accepted accepted method for HIV treatment in some parts of Africa is to sleep with a virgin," then it would be ironic.

It's like me saying "the correct treatment for a broken leg is to jump up and down on it." If that were true, my statement would be ironic. Since it's not true, it's just moronic.

now you are being overly semantic, it was obviously meant in an ironic fashion. last comment.

now you are being overly semantic, it was obviously meant in an ironic fashion. last comment.

I'm only explaining why I didn't think it was ironic. I almost posted at the end of my last comment that "you might think this is just a semantic difference." Clearly you do and I don't blame you for that. Irony is a tricky thing to pin down. Perhaps your definition of irony is better than mine. Perhaps it's not. I don't suppose it matters either way.