[Loki]

My friend is waiting to hear from the UK about his mum. She had a stroke on Thursday and is in a really bad way. Plus, the scans are showing multiple formations in the brain which they need to take a closer look at.

He lives here in Australia and can't afford to fly back (plus, he isn't allowed to leave before his visa is finalised or something. That would require getting the okay from immigration first or risking having to restart the whole process) so he is pretty distressed and with the weekend there's been little done so he has spent the whole thing thinking worst case scenarios.

Also, I fucking hate my friend's employer. When it first happened, he called his work to tell them that he couldn't work and they told him he had to, so he called the nine closest stores to see if anyone could cover and everyone said no, his own manager said no as it would mean a double shift (despite my friend covering double shifts for them frequently for reasons such as going to a concert the previous night and 'I'm still on the coast'. So, he ended up going to work. He can't afford to get fired as it will cause issues with his visa and so he is always being taken advantage of. Plus, he has an overblown sense of responsibility so it's easy to make him pitch in if noone else will. I mean, it's a fucking game store, not a doctors surgery. Gah!


Seems everyone is getting sick at the moment. It sucks.

This post has been edited by Loki: 25 May 2015 - 07:00 AM

[TheRetiredBridgeburner]

Sorry to hear that Loki, best wishes for his mum's recovery.

[melonhead]

Although I love it when it rains, and stormy weather is my favourite, its really starting to piss me off. Especially since I cant afford fuel to drive to uni so ive gotta walk there and back getting soaked.

[Maark Abbott]

Andorion, on 25 May 2015 - 01:15 AM, said:

Briar King, on 24 May 2015 - 09:55 PM, said:

I loathe wet heat. Ok do I remember this right...every 3 F = 1 C?

The equation is C/5=F-32/9. So if C is 40, then: 40/5=8 multiplied by 9 = 72 + 32 = 104 F.

Or alternatively most smartphones nowadays will automatically convert it for you.

Maths messes with my groove severely. That just looks like a jumble of numbers to me.

Also MWMG: 180 mile drive tomorrow daytime (plus an extra ten/fifteen in the evening) to get to Missenden for my fiancee's granddad's funeral. We (hopefully) get my aunt's post mortem today as well so it's likely to be two funerals in two weeks.

[Andorion]

Briar King, on 26 May 2015 - 07:13 AM, said:

Ando do you live in Mumbai ?

No. Kolkata, in the state of West Bengal. Its diagonally across the country from Mumbai, on the East Coast

[Ashes]

A mosquito bit my bottom lip and now I have this weird looking swollen bump on the middle of my bottom lip. Seriously,I have waded through countless marshes, camped out in everglades..And never had a mosquito bite my lip..not pleasant...Teach me to go pull the trash cans back to the house..

This post has been edited by Ashes: 26 May 2015 - 06:28 PM

[QuickTidal]

Briar King, on 26 May 2015 - 07:15 PM, said:

Ah. I saw a bit on CNN last night on heat and that was the location they were interviewing people.

I have a friend who's hubby's family is from Mumbai and she's now been there three times and all three times she said the heat will MELT you.

As an aside, someone I knew who taught in Japan said that the summer humidity there is literally inescapable. Like you just accept that you are going to walk around 24/7 coated in a thin sheen of sweat for a few months.

I complain about the cold winter in Canada...but man the heat and humidity would do me in so much more I think.

[amphibian]

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolkata

Kolkata is the real name of the city that the British called Calcutta. Almost fifteen years ago, the name went back to Kolkata because it's more accurate and reemphasizes a local identity rather than what the British decreed.

[Tiste Simeon]

Bally colonials, always moaning about "identity" and "ffreedom" and whatnot...

In seriousness though I hope you & your family are OK, Ando.

[Andorion]

Yes Kolkata is Calcutta. The renaming was part of a larger movement to change Anglicized names to those rooted in local languages. Not everyone supported this as there were worries about global recognition and branding.

Thin sheen of sweat is actually pleasant to what we have now which is cascades and waterfalls of sweat.

None of us are very healthy at the moment, but the worst victims are the farmers. They have to work in the fields, or they won't have a harvest, and it's killing them. I believe the death toll is around 600+ now.

[EmperorMagus]

Andorion, on 27 May 2015 - 06:25 AM, said:

Yes Kolkata is Calcutta. The renaming was part of a larger movement to change Anglicized names to those rooted in local languages. Not everyone supported this as there were worries about global recognition and branding.

Thin sheen of sweat is actually pleasant to what we have now which is cascades and waterfalls of sweat.

None of us are very healthy at the moment, but the worst victims are the farmers. They have to work in the fields, or they won't have a harvest, and it's killing them. I believe the death toll is around 600+ now.

That's so horrible.
Are the deaths happening because the farmers don't have enough information about how to survive the heat/enough equipment or is it simply because you CAN'T farm in that kind of weather?
I hope this is not something that happens every year.

[Andorion]

Almost all the local governments are circulating safety information. But farmers are in a fix. Firstly most farming in India is mostly not mechanized. This is due to both economic factors as well as the fact that most holdings are small, fragmented and non-contiguous. So when I say working in the fields I mean digging with spades or shovels, or working the crops with shears or sickles.

At the same time they have to work. If they don't they will starve. Meanwhile temperatures in the worst areas are 48 c and above. So it's not really feasible to work. But they have to. And thus they are dying.

[Solidsnape]

^ This.
It's fuckin horrendous.
And we complain about weather in this country....

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

A friend of about 20 years died. We didn't talk much anymore, moving across country plus his mental illness plus his heroin addiction didn't make it easy to stay close. Still sucks though, I'm friends with his entire family, his brother is actually my best friend. I hate my home town sometimes, people who don't get out die early.

[Andorion]

Yes, as of today. This is getting totally out if hand. It's usually nowhere near this bad

[QuickTidal]

Good gods, that's horrible. I had no idea.

[worry]

Just saw some images of the roads actually melting.

[King Lear]

Stuff is broken at work and I have nothing to do except email people who can't log on to tell them to come back in an hour

At least our roads aren't melting though?

[worry]

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

[QuickTidal]

My best friends mother (a wonderful woman I've known for about 15 years) passed away on the weekend from cancer after taking an abrupt and unexpected turn for the worse last week. She was only 62.

Fuck cancer.