[Puck]

TheRetiredBridgeburner, on 27 June 2015 - 09:48 AM, said:

Social media re the American ruling on gay marriage. So many responses to people expressing their happiness along the lines of "Some of us don't need the moral validation of posting about it."

When did it become cool to be this cynical and see the worst in everything? Why not leave people alone to be happy and express their happiness?

This pretty much. It's quite annoying to watch. And also the whole 'Everyone who celebrates now is a hypocrite who's patting themselves on the back despite all the issues still in place!!11'. Well, yes. It certainly is wrong to think that now the goal is reached, the issue dealt with and everyone can go off doing whatever. Still, allow people a bit of cheering.


That aside, it was such a great week, weather-wise. Lots of rain, not too hot. Now that so-called good weather's back and I have not slept more than one hour at once last night. The joys of hayfever.

This post has been edited by Puckstein: 27 June 2015 - 11:58 AM

[Maark Abbott]

Briar King, on 27 June 2015 - 03:17 AM, said:

Yep but it's wet heat. Nasty stuff

...giggity

[Andorion]

Being colorblind is really messing with my groove. I can't go shopping for myself or anyone else alone. If I do its usually an epic disaster

[Andorion]

Briar King, on 28 June 2015 - 04:06 AM, said:

What color can't you see? I can't grasp the concept of that disorder. Are people born with it or does it develope in the wake of an illness?

According to what my doctor told me its inborn. I lack certain types of cells in my retina and there is no cure, either by pills, therapy or surgery. I just lack that part of my retina.

Thankfully I don't have the severe form of colourblindness. I don't see everything in black and white. I usually confuse deep green and brown. In fact I can't properly see either shade. They are just this amorphous anonymous colour that could be anything.

I often confuse deep red and maroon. Yellow and light green. Actually most shade variations in green are meaningless to me. I sometimes confuse light pink and light blue. Cream and light yellow. Violet and purple often merge together. They are practically identical with deep rich pink.

I am usually good with medium to the deepest shades of blue and most red. And orange, though there are certain parts of orange I again confuse with brown.

This is why a lot of my clothing is predominantly mixtures and patterns of blue, black and white. I am comfortable with those colours.

Its a bit of a problem guessing when the trafficlight is yellow. I often think the yellow is red for some reason until the actual red comes on. I don't drive or won a car but it can still be risky

[worry]

Eating sherbet must be hell for you.

[Andorion]

Its a pattern recognition thing. They give you this sheet of coloured dots of varying sizes. Ig you can see a pattern, or picture, or number or letter, then you are fine. I looked at 5 sheets and just saw dots.

My schoolife was a bit of a nightmare especially drawing and handicraft class. To this day I have never coloured a tree properly. I always got the leaves right, but I coloured the trunk anything from deep green to brown to maroon.
My confused teachers kept on telling me to look out the window at the tree and colour it like that. I couldn't make them understand that what I saw had no real correspondence with my crayons. Thankfully I was diagnosed by the time I was 12. Before that they thought I was being stubborn on purpose

[worry]

Here's a test: http://enchroma.com/test/instructions/

[Andorion]

I haven't taken that test online. This is what I got

Moderate protans (“pro-tans”) have a moderate form of red-green color blindness caused by an anomaly in the L-cone photopigment gene sequence.

[Loki]

A six year old has died of diphtheria, DIPHTHERIA! in Spain.


It's Spain's first case of diphtheria in 29 years.


It's just so horrible on so many different levels.

[Tiste Simeon]

Is that an anti-vax thing? So much anger against that movement...

[Una]

Oh no!

I heard about the child. And yes, it was an anti vax thing. It's horrible. The child's parents trusted all those alternative practitioners and friends who told them not to vaccinate and now their child is dead and never coming back. And it was totally preventable. And those people who directly caused this aren't the ones suffering.

I fire any patients who won't vaccinate. I have too many sick people, pregnant patients, and infants in my practice to allow that. I've had colleagues who have had actual measles in their waiting rooms and had to track down all the kids who were in the same room that day. I want none of that nonsense. I'm just fortunate that most of my patients are first or second generations immigrants who sort of know that if you don't get your shots, bad things will happen. Everyone's got an uncle somewhere who has a bad leg from polio or their greataunt lost a child to something that they have shots for now and isn't modern medicine a wonderful thing it's too bad they didn't have that back then. It's the third generation ones who have gotten too comfortable who seem to think they can just blow these things off.

[melonhead]

Andorion, on 28 June 2015 - 08:26 AM, said:

I haven't taken that test online. This is what I got

Moderate protans ("pro-tans") have a moderate form of red-green color blindness caused by an anomaly in the L-cone photopigment gene sequence.

yooo I have the same thing! It can be a serious hassle sometimes right??

[Gorefest]

melonhead, on 29 June 2015 - 09:15 AM, said:

Andorion, on 28 June 2015 - 08:26 AM, said:

I haven't taken that test online. This is what I got

Moderate protans ("pro-tans") have a moderate form of red-green color blindness caused by an anomaly in the L-cone photopigment gene sequence.

yooo I have the same thing! It can be a serious hassle sometimes right??

Especially during twilight and night time, when contrast gets lost. OR playing board games where they decide that all the different playing pieces should be similar shades of brown and green.

[Andorion]

melonhead, on 29 June 2015 - 09:15 AM, said:

Andorion, on 28 June 2015 - 08:26 AM, said:

I haven't taken that test online. This is what I got

Moderate protans ("pro-tans") have a moderate form of red-green color blindness caused by an anomaly in the L-cone photopigment gene sequence.

yooo I have the same thing! It can be a serious hassle sometimes right??

Gorefest, on 29 June 2015 - 09:33 AM, said:

melonhead, on 29 June 2015 - 09:15 AM, said:

Andorion, on 28 June 2015 - 08:26 AM, said:

I haven't taken that test online. This is what I got

Moderate protans ("pro-tans") have a moderate form of red-green color blindness caused by an anomaly in the L-cone photopigment gene sequence.

yooo I have the same thing! It can be a serious hassle sometimes right??

Especially during twilight and night time, when contrast gets lost. OR playing board games where they decide that all the different playing pieces should be similar shades of brown and green.

I had geography till before college. Imagine trying to read a topgraphical map.

The worst hassle in my life at the moment is shopping. Last time I was trying to get something I pointed at a shelf and told the shopkeeper to show me the maroon roll. He just looked at me blankly followed my finger, brought out something he called deep brown and looked at me like I was crazy.

This post has been edited by Andorion: 29 June 2015 - 05:24 PM

[melonhead]

Andorion, on 29 June 2015 - 05:23 PM, said:

melonhead, on 29 June 2015 - 09:15 AM, said:

Andorion, on 28 June 2015 - 08:26 AM, said:

I haven't taken that test online. This is what I got

Moderate protans ("pro-tans") have a moderate form of red-green color blindness caused by an anomaly in the L-cone photopigment gene sequence.

yooo I have the same thing! It can be a serious hassle sometimes right??

Gorefest, on 29 June 2015 - 09:33 AM, said:

melonhead, on 29 June 2015 - 09:15 AM, said:

Andorion, on 28 June 2015 - 08:26 AM, said:

I haven't taken that test online. This is what I got

Moderate protans ("pro-tans") have a moderate form of red-green color blindness caused by an anomaly in the L-cone photopigment gene sequence.

yooo I have the same thing! It can be a serious hassle sometimes right??

Especially during twilight and night time, when contrast gets lost. OR playing board games where they decide that all the different playing pieces should be similar shades of brown and green.

I had geography till before college. Imagine trying to read a topgraphical map.

The worst hassle in my life at the moment is shopping. Last time I was trying to get something I pointed at a shelf and told the shopkeeper to show me the maroon roll. He just looked at me blankly followed my finger, brought out something he called deep brown and looked at me like I was crazy.

I had geography as well, those maps were a god damn nightmare. I have the most trouble with my clothes. Just the other day I was trying to find my "red" jacket that I had misplaced around the house and I asked my flatmate if she had seen it around. She helped me look for it but of course she was looking for a red one, but the one I wanted looked brown to her. I finally found it and she said "I knew where that one was! It's not red though!" stupid eyes.

[Andorion]

Briar King, on 30 June 2015 - 01:57 AM, said:

That's crazy. I thought of yall earlier when I was playing Destiny. There's a colorblind tab in the menu.

Don't even get me started on RTS games and faction colours.

[Nicodimas]

This is to my dad..He died.. a decade ago.. Just missed him something fierce when the family was all together.

Family is what matters. your job may pay you well...but if your stress kills... money is not that big of a deal.

This post has been edited by Nicodimas: 30 June 2015 - 01:22 PM

[Maark Abbott]

Andorion, on 30 June 2015 - 02:04 AM, said:

Briar King, on 30 June 2015 - 01:57 AM, said:

That's crazy. I thought of yall earlier when I was playing Destiny. There's a colorblind tab in the menu.

Don't even get me started on RTS games and faction colours.

"Die, NOD scum!"
*actually is Mutants*

[Maark Abbott]

Going over the bridge in Sheffield station. A shirtless yob, let's call him Ben Scrounger, jumps up the stairs from platform 3 into the path of me, replete with my gym bag. Starts getting angry and mouthing off. I turn and say over my shoulder "well watch where you're going then, fella."

Oh good lord, Ben didn't like that. As Gerald might say, I think he was about to attempt to 'click my shank'? Almost wish he'd tried.

I just walked on. Couldn't be bothered to listen to his incoherent U FOOKY FOOKS, especially with that I had Ashe O'Hara's voice coming out of my headphones just then.

Also, went over another Nail of Maternal Fornication in the car. Jack isn't hefty enough to lift the front end enough to get the new wheel on, and as such, I had to limp her down to the garage today. Oh dear.

[Ulrik]

On protest against immigrants, refugees, muslims and dont know what else (probably whole world) in Prague had some blokes real gibbets. Like REAL gibbets for "immigrants and traitors". OK, this is seriously Fubar.