[Tsundoku]

http://www.news.com....v-1227510322219



Children deserve to be safe, and loved.

This post has been edited by Tsundoku: 03 September 2015 - 02:58 AM

[Andorion]

King Briar, on 03 September 2015 - 01:19 AM, said:

Nooooo! Love Bugs are starting to fly around.

Is is that time of the year again? Hang on I though you said most bug problems were in the spring?

[Slow Ben]

I got stung on the nose by a wasp.

It's quite unpleasant.

[Andorion]

King Briar, on 03 September 2015 - 03:21 AM, said:

Andorion, on 03 September 2015 - 02:59 AM, said:

King Briar, on 03 September 2015 - 01:19 AM, said:

Nooooo! Love Bugs are starting to fly around.

Is is that time of the year again? Hang on I though you said most bug problems were in the spring?

I've posted a link here before about these fuckers. They swarm and fuck non stop twice a yr and make the worst acid smell in the air. Nothing eats them so they just fly and fuck(hence the name). I ll link again soon.

Ed: https://en.m.wikiped...rg/wiki/Lovebug

Yeesh I just looked at that link and all I can say is I am glad we don't have them here. You have my sympathies BK!

[Una]

King Briar, on 03 September 2015 - 03:25 AM, said:

Tsundoku, on 03 September 2015 - 02:55 AM, said:

http://www.news.com....v-1227510322219



Children deserve to be safe, and loved.

This so much. I saw this on CNN today and broke into tears. Anything involving kids usually do but this was horrible to see on TV

I can't take this anymore. I get mad every headline I see talking about "migrants". As if they were wandering vagrants hopping from country to country for the hell of it. They're refugees, or I don't know what else they are. If freaking ISIS was taking over the town next to yours, would you stay and watch your children be killed or would you pick everything up and run? What else are they supposed to do? This is life or death and all us comfortable Westerners can talk about is "strain on economy/infrastructure". As if any of us are actually in danger of starving to death if we take in some refugees. People are dying on those boats.

I dunno. I mean, maybe I'm just some bleeding heart. Or maybe I have a certain perspective because of where my family came from. I'm Chinese and almost everyone I know in my Chinese circle of friends, including myself, has some story about how their family ended up in Canada, and it usually involves running away from the Japanese during WW2. There's the rare person who had a great-great grandfather who worked the railroad, but mostly, it's running from the Japanese, who, coincidentally, were also pretty famous for torturing, butchering, and enslaving people wherever they went. I have some friends whose families were unfortunate enough to run to Vietnam, then have to run again when war broke out there the next generation. They're as Canadian as anybody else and I will punch anybody who says differently. So many of the people I went to school with, various ethnic backgrounds, left some really crappy situations in the old country, and more often than not, a war. Or some ongoing situation where you just never really know if the house next door is going to get blown up by terrorists or the police/government are so corrupt you never know if they are going to murder you in your sleep or "disappeared", so there might as well be a war. I don't buy the argument that these people come from too alien a culture and will never be able to integrate. People integrate to the extent that they feel accepted. If we're as superior as we like to imply that we are, then we're big enough to do something. Personally, I think we're not superior, just lucky. I'm lucky my grandparents got out alive. Somehow, I feel the need to pay it forward?

And what else is messing with me today? Got a young mother in the office. Her 4 year old just told her that a family member has been touching her inappropriately. I spent the better part of the afternoon on the phone back and forth with Child Protective Services. I felt slightly bad for any other patients I had booked for that day, because honestly, I was just doing the bare minimum to get them helped and kick them out of the office so I could get back to dealing with this. Then 5pm rolled around and I couldn't get in touch with the referral services I wanted. I'm going to have to go back and try again tomorrow. I was told that a local social worker is going to be following up with us in the next day or so. Need to get some exams arranged and paperwork organized and then get the police involved. I've actually never done this before. Fortunately, child abuse of this kind isn't something I see much of. I do see survivors, as adults, but I don't get it much when it is actually happening. I'm so glad I'm not a social worker. I don't think I could deal with this day in and day out.

I can't do anything about the children dying in war and I wish I could. I feel so helpless. But maybe I can help this little girl right now. It's awful that this has happened to her, but I'm trying to take some comfort in the idea that THIS STOPS NOW. CPS is on the case. I'm going to get her in with the pediatricians and child psychologists who know how to deal with this stuff. Gonna get the RCMP involved and we are all going to make sure she's safe from here on in.

[Lost Marine]

Coco with marshmallows, on 02 September 2015 - 08:59 PM, said:

Lost Marine, on 02 September 2015 - 06:07 PM, said:

Abyss, on 02 September 2015 - 02:07 PM, said:

Maark, on 02 September 2015 - 06:48 AM, said:

Abyss, on 01 September 2015 - 07:33 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 28 August 2015 - 04:04 PM, said:

Abyss, on 28 August 2015 - 03:56 PM, said:

Attn: Department of Canadian Genetic Purity of Canada
Plan A failed.
Initiate Plan B.

Uh, Moose meat?

Yes, Moose meat.

Beaver actually.

Took us ages to install the microwave generator in the tail.

Soviets with their squid, Allies with their dolphins, and now THIS.

God damn.

Just wait til you see the polar bears with laser guided penguin drones.

I'm training sea otters to ride the backs of sea turtles. I figure no one can stand a charge of otters with tiny cutlasses.

Well they'd be too busy going "awwww, look, the cute little otter's have SWORDS!"

Also, hi LM! - Been a while, how the devil have you been man?

I take it you've never had a shin slash from an excited otter Coco.

I've been doing alright, putting my life back together after what happened last year. Just focusing on work and taking care of my son. He's a year and a half old now, hard to believe. Luckily he's a happy little guy so I must be doing things right. I figured I'd pop back in here for some humor and erudite discussion.

How have you been?

[Coco with marshmallows]

Lost Marine, on 03 September 2015 - 01:06 PM, said:

I take it you've never had a shin slash from an excited otter Coco.

Nope, can't say i have.

Lost Marine, on 03 September 2015 - 01:06 PM, said:

I've been doing alright, putting my life back together after what happened last year. Just focusing on work and taking care of my son. He's a year and a half old now, hard to believe. Luckily he's a happy little guy so I must be doing things right. I figured I'd pop back in here for some humor and erudite discussion.

How have you been?

Humour we can do (note spelling, oh filthy colonial) erudite discussion...... nah, we still usually degenerate into dick jokes.

I'm decent, thanks.

[worry]

That's murder!

[amphibian]

King Briar, on 04 September 2015 - 04:18 AM, said:

Awe I feel bad. I went to shut my front door and it wasn't closing all the way so I kept trying. I figured it was cause of the wire I just put up to light some blue lights outside. After the 4 th try I got down to wiggle the wire and I felt wetness... A frog came inside right as I was closing. Yall can imagine the state I found it in after 4 tries. Poor guy

YOU SON OF A FINE WOMAN I WILL NOT INSULT BY TELLING HER OF YOU DISAPPOINTING US ALL!

MURDERING MY FELLOWS IS NOT ON.

[Solidsnape]

King Briar, on 04 September 2015 - 04:18 AM, said:

Awe I feel bad. I went to shut my front door and it wasn't closing all the way so I kept trying. I figured it was cause of the wire I just put up to light some blue lights outside. After the 4 th try I got down to wiggle the wire and I felt wetness... A frog came inside right as I was closing. Yall can imagine the state I found it in after 4 tries. Poor guy

This clip seems appropriate.

http://youtu.be/sVlkaYZTegY

[Lost Marine]

Coco with marshmallows, on 03 September 2015 - 09:14 PM, said:

Lost Marine, on 03 September 2015 - 01:06 PM, said:

I take it you've never had a shin slash from an excited otter Coco.

Nope, can't say i have.

Lost Marine, on 03 September 2015 - 01:06 PM, said:

I've been doing alright, putting my life back together after what happened last year. Just focusing on work and taking care of my son. He's a year and a half old now, hard to believe. Luckily he's a happy little guy so I must be doing things right. I figured I'd pop back in here for some humor and erudite discussion.

How have you been?

Humour we can do (note spelling, oh filthy colonial) erudite discussion...... nah, we still usually degenerate into dick jokes.

I'm decent, thanks.

Hmmmmmm, an unnecessary U, seems like a lot of work. Good thing we kicked ya'll out. We wouldn't have time to eat so much Mcdonalds if we had to use all those extra letters.

Dick jokes can be erudite or entertaining anyway.

Glad you're doing well.

[Andorion]

I am going to post something that has been bugging me a lot recently. Its an old problem, one I thought I had escaped but apparently not.

Does anybody know anything about dislocated kneecaps?

I have this problem with my kneecaps. Both of them.

It happened for the first time when I was 15. I was playing cricket. I stepped sideways to catch a ball. I wasn't running. The ball was coming to me. The second I put my right foot down I felt my right kneecap leave its position, slide sideways and then immediately return to its position. I collapsed. My knee hurt badly. It was a sharp pain. But it got better and I was able to walk of the field. The pain went away in two days.

The second time it happened I was 19. This time it was indoors, in our living room. I just took a step, a tiny normal step over ground I had crossed a billion times. My left kneecap left its position. I collapsed. By the time I had finished falling it was back. This time my knee swelled. The pain was intense. I had to take three days off from my college classes. It got better by a week.

The third time was when I was 22. I was outdoors with my friends. Again it was a normal step. My right kneecap slipped out. I collapsed. This time it didn't come back immediately. I actually felt it at the side of my knee. I could make out the shape clearly through my jeans with my fingers. The pain was excruciating. Then after around a minute, when I cursed constantly and my panicked friends wondered if I had broken something (they had no idea what had happened) the kneecap slid back. I felt it come back. I heard a soft click when it reset. This time it was really bad. My knee swelled upt o twice its size. I couldn't walk for a week. The pain remained for more than a month.

The first two times nobody believed me when I told them what happened. I was told that it was impossible to just walk away from a knee dislocation. I told them my kneecap came back by itself. I was told that was impossible too. The third time I saw a doctor. He confirmed what had happened but wasn't too concerned. He told me to do knee clenching and releasing exercises regularly and prescribed painfillers.

It has been 4.5 years since that last time. Today, on the street I tripped. I hit my left leg sideways at an awkward angle on the sidewalk and I felt my kneecap start to slide out. But it almost immediately slid back in. I got one sharp stab of pain, and several twinges later, but I didn't collapse. I just clutched my knee for some time making sure it was in one piece.

I had thought I had left it behind me, what with the exercises and the long gap, but the problem is clearly still here. I am a bit freaked out. I move about a lot more now than I did before. I can't afford to have this happen to me on the street. If i collapsed on the street while crossing, or getting on or off a bus I could be killed. I haven't told anyone as my family doesn't take it seriously and my girlfriend would panic. She was seriosuly traumatised last time it happened.

What should I do? Is this sort of thing common? Or am I some sort of freak?

I am kind of hoping to get some good advice here. I did do a Google search but the internet seems to think this only happens to female athletes. I am neither.

[Coco with marshmallows]

Do you still do the exercises?

I ask as i had a shoulder dislocated a couple years ago by an over enthusiastic student i was teaching a kimura lock....

It never went fully back in and i've now got a permanent impingement on that shoulder - the physio gave me a series of exercises to do for it and even now, nearly 2 years after, if i don't do said exercises regularly i occasionally feel the shoulder start to 'slip' out again.

As long as i keep doing the exercises, it's never an issue.

[Abyss]

Andorion, on 04 September 2015 - 04:40 PM, said:

.... The third time I saw a doctor. He confirmed what had happened but wasn't too concerned. He told me to do knee clenching and releasing exercises regularly ...

And do you?
Regularly, as in every day?

[amphibian]

Andorion, on 04 September 2015 - 04:40 PM, said:

What should I do? Is this sort of thing common? Or am I some sort of freak?

I am kind of hoping to get some good advice here. I did do a Google search but the internet seems to think this only happens to female athletes. I am neither.

I am not a doctor, but I know a male someone with this specific issue (and a frequently dislocated right shoulder as well). What you have is called "recurrent patellar dislocation" or "patellar instability". You should get yourself to an orthopedic doctor or to a sports medicine doctor because most general practicioners do not deal with stuff like this.

For my friend, it's a genetic thing. A few of his joints and that patella just slip in and out due to a bad combination of anatomy. He does regular and specific exercises to strengthen the areas around them because it's not so bad that it requires surgery to affix things (the last resort usually).

You may benefit considerably from starting regular exercises (carefully!) in the line of weight-lifting to strengthen everything around the knees and make it so that it takes "more" to dislocate your kneecaps than a normal step. This probably isn't going to be curative in the sense of it never happening again, but it will most likely cut down on the incidents. Again, really work with the orthopedist or sports medicine doctor to get a program that is tailored to you.

This post has been edited by amphibian: 04 September 2015 - 06:31 PM

[Puck]

@Andorion:

I've heard of this before, and it's certainly not just a female athlete problem. I think it's called recurrent patellar dislocation or somesuch, and apparently once it's happened once the chances of repeat performances are higher. I had a classmate back at school with this problem, but it's been years and memory's fuzzy, but it's definitely a thing and you should make your family take that seriously. Also, do your exercises. And maybe consult a doctor again, and insist that it's a problem. I've had some run-ins with doctors ignoring my health concerns the past couple of years (my suspicion ended up being right on all counts), so one thing I can tell you and that's be persistent. This happening to you in the middle of crossing a street can end really badly, as you already know.

Edit: ninja'd by amph.

This post has been edited by Puckstein: 04 September 2015 - 06:27 PM

[Andorion]

Thanks guys! Being able to put a name to it helps. I clearly need to get an orthopaedic into this then. My family knows a couple of good ones. Now comes the uphill task of actually convincing them. I don't know why, but they have a blind spot as regards this. Anything else in the way of sickness and my father is usually extremely concerned.

I stopped doing the knee-clenches in the last year. In hindsight that was an idiotic thing to do. I have also gained some weight. Is this a contributing factor? Recently I have started working out on a cross trainer to try and lose weight. But it seems that a couple of years of sitting around in libraries and archives and having only walking as exercise has ruined my fitness totally. I was way fitter when I was in my teens

Another issue is something I have mentioned before. I am really tall by Indian standards, so I have to jam my legs into the seats in public transport. Usually this ends up giving me severe pain in my knees and everything below that at the end of the day. Is this a contributing factor?

[amphibian]

Dunno. Go see the orthopedic specialist.

[worry]

Pretty sure it's a genetic condition called Wacky Bones and the only treatment is dewackener injections in both legs.

[Abyss]

Andorion, on 05 September 2015 - 01:10 AM, said:

I stopped doing the knee-clenches in the last year. In hindsight that was an idiotic thing to do. I have also gained some weight ...

I'm not a doctor, nor do I play one on TV, but I have some experience with the general field and personal experience with a knee injury, and I would bet a fair glob of dollars this is the reason and answer to your problem.