New 'Blog' offends epileptic community, cowboys
A newly established blog titled 'Gelastic Hat' has enraged the medical fraternity by making light of the term gelastic. The site, which is styled alarmingly similar to this very newservice, opened today to a record number of hits, but has been inundated with complaints from sufferers and their carers.Online reference site Wikipedia states "Gelastic is a term used to refer to a certain type of epilepsy or epileptic seizure. The seizures of gelastic epilepsy are characterized by spells of involuntary laughter. The laughter has been described as "creepy" (Chong, 2003) and "without true mirth" (Fisch, 1991).Gelastic epilepsy often results from a developmental abnormality of the brain known as hypothalamic hamartoma.
But Gelastic Hat has also offended the world's cowboy community by associating their ubiquitous hats with epilepsy. Author of the site, one E. Powney, has refused to comment on her blog, or apologise to both communities for making light of their jargon.
posted by S. Elliott @ 6:30 pm
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