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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2016 9:28:05 GMT -5
19 disabled folks were murdered in Japan last week, with an additional 26 grievously wounded, in the worst mass murder in that nation's history and the media silence is deafening. Sure, having a disablility or having a disabled child is considered shameful in Japanese culture but right wing politicians in this country have made statements about us similar to the killer's. I've experienced discrimination, disgust, and outright hatred from certain elements in our society my entire life. Hell, I've had total strangers tell me I have no right to live, that I'm sucking up valuable resources that could be going to "real people" (a variation on the asshat who once tried to pick up my then-girlfriend right in front of me by telling her she deserved a "real man"). And you want to know why the prospect of President Trump terrifies me?? Cei-U! Too pissed to summon anything! I'm disabled myself - I have very poor hearing totally deaf in my left ear and hard of hearing in my right, my balance and vertigo isn't all that cracked up to be and I watched the news this morning and heard this I was deeply sadden by this senseless violence that's beyond description of a man that killed 19 people in a residential care home with additional 26 very seriously injured is senseless and I'm so angry about. Right now, I'm afraid to watch the news anymore ...
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Aug 3, 2016 10:50:12 GMT -5
19 disabled folks were murdered in Japan last week, with an additional 26 grievously wounded, in the worst mass murder in that nation since the end of World War II and the media silence is deafening. Sure, having a disability or having a disabled child is considered shameful in Japanese culture but right wing politicians in this country have made statements about us similar to the killer's. I've experienced discrimination, disgust, and outright hatred from certain elements in our society my entire life. Hell, I've had total strangers tell me I have no right to live, that I'm sucking up valuable resources that could be going to "real people" (a variation on the asshat who once tried to pick up my then-girlfriend right in front of me by telling her she deserved a "real man"). Holy &%$# !!! People who say that deserve to suffer what they're preaching. Mind you, I'd say they're disabled themselves... only it's not their body that's malfunctioning, it's their mind and soul. I'd like to ask those turds in human shape how many of them it would take to be worth one Stephen Hawking, one Franklin D. Roosevelt or one Martin Deschamps?
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Post by DE Sinclair on Aug 3, 2016 15:23:12 GMT -5
19 disabled folks were murdered in Japan last week, with an additional 26 grievously wounded, in the worst mass murder in that nation since the end of World War II and the media silence is deafening. Sure, having a disability or having a disabled child is considered shameful in Japanese culture but right wing politicians in this country have made statements about us similar to the killer's. I've experienced discrimination, disgust, and outright hatred from certain elements in our society my entire life. Hell, I've had total strangers tell me I have no right to live, that I'm sucking up valuable resources that could be going to "real people" (a variation on the asshat who once tried to pick up my then-girlfriend right in front of me by telling her she deserved a "real man"). Holy &%$# !!! People who say that deserve to suffer what they're preaching. Mind you, I'd say they're disabled themselves... only it's not their body that's malfunctioning, it's their mind and soul. I'd like to ask those turds in human shape how many of them it would take to be worth one Stephen Hawking, one Franklin D. Roosevelt or one Martin Deschamps? More and more people go out of their way to show how much people suck. It's beyond understanding how someone could do such a thing, much less society condone it. As far as "real people" go, I'd argue that people with this sort of attitude aren't "real people" because if they were they wouldn't act that way. A real person has some empathy and compassion for their fellow people.
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Post by Prince Hal on Aug 3, 2016 16:08:02 GMT -5
Holy &%$# !!! People who say that deserve to suffer what they're preaching. Mind you, I'd say they're disabled themselves... only it's not their body that's malfunctioning, it's their mind and soul. I'd like to ask those turds in human shape how many of them it would take to be worth one Stephen Hawking, one Franklin D. Roosevelt or one Martin Deschamps? More and more people go out of their way to show how much people suck. It's beyond understanding how someone could do such a thing, much less society condone it. As far as "real people" go, I'd argue that people with this sort of attitude aren't "real people" because if they were they wouldn't act that way. A real person has some empathy and compassion for their fellow people. Check out the New York Times facebook site for a video compiled of Trump audiences. To call it vulgar and crass is to gild a putrid lily. What Trump had done is take us all up into the vermin-infested attic where America has been storing its very own picture of a misogynistic, racist, foul-mouthed, violent, fascistic Dorian Gray. And I'm still underselling what you'll see. You know, years ago, when people used to say, "I can't believe the Germans could ever have followed Hitler," with just that nigh imperceptible tinge of self-righteousness. I always answered, "I can." Exhibit One: www.nytimes.com/2016/08/04/us/politics/donald-trump-supporters.html
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Aug 3, 2016 17:20:50 GMT -5
More and more people go out of their way to show how much people suck. It's beyond understanding how someone could do such a thing, much less society condone it. As far as "real people" go, I'd argue that people with this sort of attitude aren't "real people" because if they were they wouldn't act that way. A real person has some empathy and compassion for their fellow people. Check out the New York Times facebook site for a video compiled of Trump audiences. To call it vulgar and crass is to gild a putrid lily. What Trump had done is take us all up into the vermin-infested attic where America has been storing its very own picture of a misogynistic, racist, foul-mouthed, violent, fascistic Dorian Gray. And I'm still underselling what you'll see. You know, years ago, when people used to say, "I can't believe the Germans could ever have followed Hitler," with just that nigh imperceptible tinge of self-righteousness. I always answered, "I can." Exhibit One: www.nytimes.com/2016/08/04/us/politics/donald-trump-supporters.htmlThis is one instance where Godwin's law does not apply. I hope aliens never come upon that when trying to decide whether they should wipe us out or not!
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Post by Spike-X on Aug 4, 2016 4:58:27 GMT -5
Dooo eeeeet! I can help ya, or at least give you a few tips, if you want to do it as a podcast. Worth considering! Thank you. First I'd probably need to assemble a list of questions from the community. I'll sleep on it tonight. Ask him if he got paid by the word when he was lettering Claremont's Uncanny X-Men?
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Post by Pharozonk on Aug 4, 2016 14:19:54 GMT -5
I got my wisdom teeth removed this morning and while the pain is tolerable, I'm hoping I can bring myself to go to work tomorrow. When I told my boss that I would try to come to work the next day, he said "I don't care if I smell scotch and whisky on your breath as long as you get your job done!"
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2016 8:49:27 GMT -5
I got my wisdom teeth removed this morning and while the pain is tolerable, I'm hoping I can bring myself to go to work tomorrow. When I told my boss that I would try to come to work the next day, he said "I don't care if I smell scotch and whisky on your breath as long as you get your job done!" I've had, I believe, two extracted, though the first one wasn't till I was in my mid-40s if memory serves. For the longest time I'd hoped I didn't have any, as was apparently the case with my mother. I used to play basketball for a couple of hours every Sunday with a group made up mainly of co-workers, & one of my friends played a couple of days after having all 4 wisdom teeth removed. I ... don't think I'd have done that. (Of course, at least one other friend was known to play with a hangover from Saturday night festivities. Having had only one of those in my life, back on a snowy day in early 1985 at age 25, I can't even imagine.) As it happens, a couple of days ago I was talking with my departmental supervisor, a retired Air Force officer, who noted that aspiring pilots at the Air Force Academy (& no doubt elsewhere) were required to have theirs removed, apparently because gas can build up under them, or something like that. When he was recovering from the anesthesia afterward, he was talking with the dental surgeon after noticing that one place in the back of his mouth was particularly sore, unlike the other extraction sites. Turned out he'd had only 3 wisdom teeth, but the surgeon assumed the 4th was just hard to find, so kept digging for it ... *OUCH*
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2016 8:52:31 GMT -5
Holy &%$# !!! People who say that deserve to suffer what they're preaching. Mind you, I'd say they're disabled themselves... only it's not their body that's malfunctioning, it's their mind and soul. I'd like to ask those turds in human shape how many of them it would take to be worth one Stephen Hawking, one Franklin D. Roosevelt or one Martin Deschamps? More and more people go out of their way to show how much people suck. It's beyond understanding how someone could do such a thing, much less society condone it. As far as "real people" go, I'd argue that people with this sort of attitude aren't "real people" because if they were they wouldn't act that way. A real person has some empathy and compassion for their fellow people. All too true. As some of you know, my sister (younger than me by 4 years & 3 months) is Down syndrome. I still bridle whenever people use "retarded" as a slur, but of course certain so-called libertarians & other conservatives of my online acquaintance (not here, I hasten to add) love to do so as a means of flouting "political correctness" or some such garbage. Playground crap is what that is.
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Post by lobsterjohnson on Aug 5, 2016 10:29:27 GMT -5
I got my wisdom teeth removed this morning and while the pain is tolerable, I'm hoping I can bring myself to go to work tomorrow. When I told my boss that I would try to come to work the next day, he said "I don't care if I smell scotch and whisky on your breath as long as you get your job done!" I've had, I believe, two extracted, though the first one wasn't till I was in my mid-40s if memory serves. For the longest time I'd hoped I didn't have any, as was apparently the case with my mother. I used to play basketball for a couple of hours every Sunday with a group made up mainly of co-workers, & one of my friends played a couple of days after having all 4 wisdom teeth removed. I ... don't think I'd have done that. (Of course, at least one other friend was known to play with a hangover from Saturday night festivities. Having had only one of those in my life, back on a snowy day in early 1985 at age 25, I can't even imagine.) As it happens, a couple of days ago I was talking with my departmental supervisor, a retired Air Force officer, who noted that aspiring pilots at the Air Force Academy (& no doubt elsewhere) were required to have theirs removed, apparently because gas can build up under them, or something like that. When he was recovering from the anesthesia afterward, he was talking with the dental surgeon after noticing that one place in the back of his mouth was particularly sore, unlike the other extraction sites. Turned out he'd had only 3 wisdom teeth, but the surgeon assumed the 4th was just hard to find, so kept digging for it ... *OUCH* That... does not sound very fun.
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Post by Pharozonk on Aug 5, 2016 15:02:15 GMT -5
I got my wisdom teeth removed this morning and while the pain is tolerable, I'm hoping I can bring myself to go to work tomorrow. When I told my boss that I would try to come to work the next day, he said "I don't care if I smell scotch and whisky on your breath as long as you get your job done!" I've had, I believe, two extracted, though the first one wasn't till I was in my mid-40s if memory serves. For the longest time I'd hoped I didn't have any, as was apparently the case with my mother. I used to play basketball for a couple of hours every Sunday with a group made up mainly of co-workers, & one of my friends played a couple of days after having all 4 wisdom teeth removed. I ... don't think I'd have done that. (Of course, at least one other friend was known to play with a hangover from Saturday night festivities. Having had only one of those in my life, back on a snowy day in early 1985 at age 25, I can't even imagine.) As it happens, a couple of days ago I was talking with my departmental supervisor, a retired Air Force officer, who noted that aspiring pilots at the Air Force Academy (& no doubt elsewhere) were required to have theirs removed, apparently because gas can build up under them, or something like that. When he was recovering from the anesthesia afterward, he was talking with the dental surgeon after noticing that one place in the back of his mouth was particularly sore, unlike the other extraction sites. Turned out he'd had only 3 wisdom teeth, but the surgeon assumed the 4th was just hard to find, so kept digging for it ... *OUCH* One of my bosses, who worked in CIA security back in the 70's, told me that when he was in the Navy, they would yank out all four teeth, give you a shot of whisky, and send you back to your job.
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Post by DE Sinclair on Aug 5, 2016 15:15:09 GMT -5
I've had, I believe, two extracted, though the first one wasn't till I was in my mid-40s if memory serves. For the longest time I'd hoped I didn't have any, as was apparently the case with my mother. I used to play basketball for a couple of hours every Sunday with a group made up mainly of co-workers, & one of my friends played a couple of days after having all 4 wisdom teeth removed. I ... don't think I'd have done that. (Of course, at least one other friend was known to play with a hangover from Saturday night festivities. Having had only one of those in my life, back on a snowy day in early 1985 at age 25, I can't even imagine.) As it happens, a couple of days ago I was talking with my departmental supervisor, a retired Air Force officer, who noted that aspiring pilots at the Air Force Academy (& no doubt elsewhere) were required to have theirs removed, apparently because gas can build up under them, or something like that. When he was recovering from the anesthesia afterward, he was talking with the dental surgeon after noticing that one place in the back of his mouth was particularly sore, unlike the other extraction sites. Turned out he'd had only 3 wisdom teeth, but the surgeon assumed the 4th was just hard to find, so kept digging for it ... *OUCH* One of my bosses, who worked in CIA security back in the 70's, told me that when he was in the Navy, they would yank out all four teeth, give you a shot of whisky, and send you back to your job. Obviously I don't know for sure, but I'd be willing to bet that was what we called a "sea story". I went into the Navy in 1980, and even in bootcamp a couple of guys had their wisdom teeth removed and were given heavy-duty pain killers and a day or two off training. I'm pretty sure things didn't change that much from the 70's to 1980, so I think he was pulling your leg a bit.
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Post by Phil Maurice on Aug 6, 2016 18:45:53 GMT -5
So, a few years ago a friend gave us a cutting from a desert plant. It's called a night-blooming cereus, and we had "cereus" misgivings about its chances of survival here in North Georgia. We've managed to keep it alive and it has actually grown quite large, but it's not a particularly pretty or even healthy looking specimen: In three years, it's produced zero blossoms. But now we've had a solid 60 days of 90+ degree temperatures and that seems to have provoked a flowering. Five blossoms appeared and a day or two later, they began to bloom. Right around dusk, they would begin to open, and then the real magic began at mid-night! As ugly as the plant is, its flowers are beautiful, about the size of a softball and sweetly fragrant like a gardenia. Being a desert plant, it makes sense that they bloom at night, as that's the time most critters are active in that environment. We had five flowers bloom over four nights. They were in full bloom by 1:00 A.M. and were wilting by sunrise. Here's a shot of a flower underneath a blossom that would open the following night:
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Post by Mormel on Aug 8, 2016 9:34:14 GMT -5
I played tourist-in-my-homeland and went down south to Maastricht this weekend. Just chilled out, didn't do much special, mostly stayed in city centre. It's a gorgeous city, I'm going to visit more often.
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Post by thwhtguardian on Aug 10, 2016 11:45:12 GMT -5
I wish the commentary for the Olympics was this awesome for real(warning some slight nsfw language)
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