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#17121 Andorion

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Posted 19 April 2015 - 01:11 PM

Sombra, on 19 April 2015 - 08:37 AM, said:

Mum is going in for hip replacement surgery tomorrow. She held off telling me about until it was too late for me to get leave to be there with her. "Didn't want to be a burden" or some crap. Doesn't want me visiting her in hospital during the first week of convalescence either because she's afraid she'll be whacked out of her brain on painkillers and "doesn't want me to see her like that".

Luckily after being discharged she is staying for the next few weeks with her sister who lives virtually around the corner from the hospital.

I know this sort of shit is routine these days, and by all accounts the hospital and her doctor are well-regarded, but she's 72 and she's my Mum and I'm worried.

Also, work is being a complete turd these days.

My grandmother got a knee replacement, and yes, these days the surgery is pretty routine. But the key to a succesful recovery we found was post-operative care that is physiotherapy and exercise.

#17122 worry

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Posted 19 April 2015 - 07:52 PM

I wonder if that "didn't want to be a burden" thing is a virus you automatically become susceptible to at age 50.

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#17123 QuickTidal

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Posted 19 April 2015 - 09:10 PM

Reading a non-fic book about a guy trying to find the lost white city in the Honduran jungle...and they described the worst pit viper on the planet.

Something called a fer-de-lance ...and fuck that snake. No seriously, whatever hell it is that wasps and brown recluse spiders are in...the goddamned fer-de-lance can go there too.

Something about stopping your blood from clotting and you bleed out through your goddamned pores!

Jeebus hell

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#17124 Tsundoku

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Posted 20 April 2015 - 12:38 PM

worry, on 19 April 2015 - 07:52 PM, said:

I wonder if that "didn't want to be a burden" thing is a virus you automatically become susceptible to at age 50.

Dunno, not sure how widespread it is. Would make a hell of a twist on a zombie flick for sure. George A Romero's 'Day of the Geriatrics'.

QuickTidal, on 19 April 2015 - 09:10 PM, said:

Reading a non-fic book about a guy trying to find the lost white city in the Honduran jungle...and they described the worst pit viper on the planet. Something called a fer-de-lance ...and fuck that snake. No seriously, whatever hell it is that wasps and brown recluse spiders are in...the goddamned fer-de-lance can go there too.Something about stopping your blood from clotting and you bleed out through your goddamned pores!Jeebus hell

Ever heard of the Brown Snake? Eastern or King? Either are nasty bastards. A bunch of Eastern Browns have been caught all over my workplace recently. A bunch of babies from a recent clutch apparently. They're not so cute when you find out that the toxin of the baby snake is nastier than the adult due to their inability yet to control the dosage. Brrrrrrr!

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#17125 QuickTidal

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Posted 20 April 2015 - 01:34 PM

Sombra, on 20 April 2015 - 12:38 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 19 April 2015 - 09:10 PM, said:

Reading a non-fic book about a guy trying to find the lost white city in the Honduran jungle...and they described the worst pit viper on the planet. Something called a fer-de-lance ...and fuck that snake. No seriously, whatever hell it is that wasps and brown recluse spiders are in...the goddamned fer-de-lance can go there too.Something about stopping your blood from clotting and you bleed out through your goddamned pores!Jeebus hell

Oh great. Thanks Sombra, I was already fearing one snake...LOL. Now I gotta fear more.

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#17126 Abyss

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Posted 20 April 2015 - 02:13 PM

QuickTidal, on 20 April 2015 - 01:34 PM, said:

Sombra, on 20 April 2015 - 12:38 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 19 April 2015 - 09:10 PM, said:

Reading a non-fic book about a guy trying to find the lost white city in the Honduran jungle...and they described the worst pit viper on the planet. Something called a fer-de-lance ...and fuck that snake. No seriously, whatever hell it is that wasps and brown recluse spiders are in...the goddamned fer-de-lance can go there too.Something about stopping your blood from clotting and you bleed out through your goddamned pores!Jeebus hell

Oh great. Thanks Sombra, I was already fearing one snake...LOL. Now I gotta fear more.

do NOT go to Australia.
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#17127 QuickTidal

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Posted 20 April 2015 - 02:49 PM

Abyss, on 20 April 2015 - 02:13 PM, said:

do NOT go to Australia.
Ever.

I'm trying to sort out why anyone would CHOOSE t live there. My cousins and my uncle all do, and I ask them why they would choose a place that actively tries to injure and/or kill you...even with PLANTLIFE!

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#17128 Maark Abbott

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Posted 20 April 2015 - 04:40 PM

QuickTidal, on 20 April 2015 - 02:49 PM, said:

Abyss, on 20 April 2015 - 02:13 PM, said:

do NOT go to Australia.
Ever.

Fun fact: Bulletstorm is actually set in a realistic version of Australia.

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#17129 Grief

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Posted 20 April 2015 - 06:30 PM

Getting absolutely battered by deadlines. I've got one tomorrow, then one on Thursday that I can't even think about working on just yet, except for it to contribute to my stress because I know I'm going to struggle with it. And if I screw up and miss it, it bites into time I need for another deadline shortly after that. The worst part is that I could've mitigated it somewhat if I'd just got my act together more in advance but I screwed that up. I constantly underestimate how long work will take me. Every time something like this happens I tell myself I'll do better next time but I just seem to be getting worse for it.

Cougar said:

Grief, FFS will you do something with your sig, it's bloody awful

worry said:

Grief is right (until we abolish capitalism).

#17130 Nicodimas

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Posted 20 April 2015 - 06:44 PM

QuickTidal, on 19 April 2015 - 09:10 PM, said:

Had..to go look at pics..

/gross

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#17131 worry

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Posted 20 April 2015 - 09:49 PM

You should read about the boomslang: http://blogs.scienti...-until-you-die/

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#17132 Jakovasaurus

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Posted 21 April 2015 - 12:02 AM

Well, on the plus side it was a clothed executive producer. Just imagine if it was one of the naked participants and imagine if that participant got bit on his dinky! Posted Image

#17133 Gnaw

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Posted 21 April 2015 - 12:42 AM

Grief, on 20 April 2015 - 06:30 PM, said:

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#17134 Grief

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Posted 21 April 2015 - 02:44 AM

Yeah, I've more or less done the thing I needed to do for tomorrow. Hopefully it's up to scratch.

Then I'll have tomorrow afternoon and the day after to research and write a paper, when all I'll want to do is take a break. And the paper is going to be really hard to get anything going with...

Cougar said:

Grief, FFS will you do something with your sig, it's bloody awful

worry said:

Grief is right (until we abolish capitalism).

#17135 Gnaw

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Posted 21 April 2015 - 04:13 AM

Grief, on 21 April 2015 - 02:44 AM, said:

I am a world-class procrastinator. One of the best papers I ever wrote I started typing 45 minutes before it was due. I wrote myself into a corner on page 5 (I'm a fast typist) when my use of Hannah Arendt's theories presented in "On Violence" resulted in the conclusion that Arafat wasn't in control of the 2nd Intifada. Which was ridiculous because he was on TV every day telling the world that he was. I got a B on it with the comment "...but, but, you stopped".

I started paying a whole lot more attention to my reading of Arendt a few weeks later when the Mitchell report implied that Arafat was the tail the dog was wagging.

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#17136 HiddenOne

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Posted 21 April 2015 - 04:14 PM

I'm composing a letter/response to an insurance company that could either save some jobs (maybe even mine) or have no effect. We've run afoul of an administrator that may be trying to lay the shaft to us all. Hints of accusations of dishonesty, that type of thing. It's all because I caught them trying to cheat us out of $500 and protested. Bah.

HiddenOne. You son of a bitch. You slimy, skulking, low-posting scumbag. You knew it would come to this. Roundabout, maybe. Tortuous, certainly. But here we are, you and me again. I started the train on you so many many hours ago, and now I'm going to finish it. Die HO. Die. This is for last time, and this is for this game too. This is for all the people who died to your backstabbing, treacherous, "I sure don't know what's going on around here" filthy lying, deceitful ways. You son of a bitch. Whatever happens, this is justice. For me, this is justice. Vote HiddenOne Finally, I am at peace.

#17137 Loki

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Posted 22 April 2015 - 02:01 AM

Nice, friendly strangers who want to talk to me whilst I am at the park with my son.

Sure, I'm polite and I smile and make small talk but really I DON'T WANT TO TALK TO YOU!

There's just no polite why to say 'I don't want to talk to you' when you have no excuse other than the fact that you're just not a social person.

On a scale of 1 to 10 this only rates a 2 but I wanted to contribute to the woe thread.

Wry, on 29 February 2012 - 10:50 AM, said:

And you're not complaining, you're criticizing. It's a side-effect of being better than everyone else, I get it sometimes too.

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#17138 Dadding

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Posted 22 April 2015 - 02:05 AM

Loki, on 22 April 2015 - 02:01 AM, said:

One of my roommate's friends was staying at our place a while ago, and I was in the middle of a skype call with some friends, playing some video games, as you do. This guy comes into my room to ask me a question or something, so I say BRB to my friends, take off my headphones - skype is still up on the screen so it's clearly visible, and this guy just keeps on talking to me. It went on for about 15 minutes before I could politely extricate myself from the situation.

I know that feel. It sucks.