Friday Ephemera (723)
She would make love to them, selflessly. || Solemn oath, precious memories. || Cower in FEAR – the LASER is here, 1962. || Incoming. || She makes it work. || Incriminating stains. || Suspense. || Secret revealed. || Dating in Sardinia, 1964. || Blushing bride not blushing enough. || Some clenching of the buttocks. || Hey, it’s better than your cheap-ass robot horse. || Heroic rescue attempted. || Tidy is good. Alternatively. || “Yeet the mammary meat,” they cheered. || It’s his lemon dress. || Locals displeased by nude cyclists, altercation ensues. || Terry’s Chocolate Apple. || The thrill of pigeons. || The progressive retail experience, parts 551, 552, and 553. || “I’m parking right now.” || Parenting test, level 10. || Guatemalan action figure. || Retro-futurism. || And finally, no, after you.
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I meant these peanuts. You haven’t defiled..well…never mind…
Just going to leave this here in case anyone needs it.
Trailer hitches are new fangled?
No, the electric closing rear hatch on the smartarse car that started the whole thing.
For those who missed it, Mr Fry has been mentioned here before:
To concentrate exclusively on the assumed triviality of the third strike, rather than the seriousness of the first two, is quite the manoeuvre. As if the refusal to be law-abiding, after repeated warnings – and what might be deduced from that – weren’t useful information.
As noted at the time,
And,
I don’t think I can add much to that.
Well, bully for you. But stop assuming your pain threshold on this procedure is everyone’s. I happen to have what is called a ‘tortuous colon’. Which I found out about after a successful colonoscopy. At my first failed one, the mild sedation didn’t work on me at all, even with a second jab and they tried to proceed anyway.
I was having none of it as the pain was unacceptable.
So it was wait 30 days and try again, this time being knocked out with propofol. Success!
BTW, I’ve birthed 4 daughters (all in the 8 lb range, the last 8 lb 14 oz) and did them all without any drugs. Painful? Yes, but a very different pain for me than either the failed colonoscopy or when I herniated a disc between L4&L5 which put me in the hospital for a week (which I also needed pain meds). Different events, different pain experiences.
Cower in FEAR – the LASER is here
What’s interesting about this is that it demonstrates Gibson’s “the street finds its own uses for things” philosophy. In 1962 everyone was thinking “death rays”, not “orders of magnitude increases in data storage”.
Alternatively
I’ve been the sysadmin in charge of that rack.
I need you to swap the cables for ports 4/8 and 16/12
Well, yes, that’s how it happens. Because the $3000 Cisco switches were bought by someone who doesn’t know how VLANs work. I’m not exaggerating. It’s a ubiquitous problem.
The thrill of pigeons
Hang on, that’s the marrrrsupials guy! When did he sell out??
What IS that accent?
It sounds like the Mid-Atlantic Accent, which was still popular at the time.
her misplaced compassion
Toxic femininity.
Face off
Tell me you weren’t thinking “Yep yepyepyepyepyep. Uh-huhh. Uh-huhh.”
I happen to have what is called a ‘tortuous colon’
…it repeatedly files vexatious lawsuits?
I wrote the help files on how to operate a layer-3 HP modular switch. VLANs were the fundament of the security setup.
I guess some people don’t think ahead about how things will play out in the future. They connect a half-dozen cables, then half-dozen more, and pretty soon it’s a mare’s nest.
Then they’re laid off, and the next poor schlub has to figure it out from scratch.
LOL. That. It’s exactly why ‘QI’ went downhill.
i have had the benefit of living a lot of my life in two very different countries and cultures, with different virtues and flaws.
But, in either case, you don’t find a systemic issue with large numbers of people who can be described by that line.
That’s a very typical problem with this one specific culture. And we are not allowed to mention it or expect them to fix it.
Edited to add:
David’s posts from 2.06pm and 2.08pm.
It’s behaviour that would be considered horrible in most cultures, even more so in typical “third world” countries.
But here it’s racist to notice the pattern.
If you must have a colonoscopy, you really do not need the sedation
Ah, but the absolutely delicious nap that propofol offers . . .
My only regret after the colonoscopies I have had is that they never gave me the video. I wanted to edit it to Wagner’s “Ride of the Valkyries” and post it on social media to amuse my friends.
Atta girl.
Somewhat related.
Yeah. That. Coming from non-medical people I get it. NBD. But having medical people using that as a selling point also creeped me out. My faith in the medical profession has dropped to nearly zero. I want as little to do with them and their methods as possible. I have even spoken with nurses and at least one doctor who, some reluctantly, agree with this assessment. Heh, even my mother-in-law who was a nurse and who passed last year at 92 refused to see doctors or take (blood pressure) medication.
Again, your mileage may vary but I found the discomfort quite manageable. My personal attitude towards these sorts of things is that I can tolerate 15-30 minutes of anything. Especially if I know it’s only going to be 15-30 minutes. Hell, even Journey albums run longer than that. I keeeed, I keeed.
After my last two of these procedures** I sensed a mental fog lingering a bit longer than advertised. I have become a bit suspicious that something may be getting glossed over with these sorts of drugs. Especially given the selling point on how wonderful the propofol high is.
**Speaking of which, previous doctor insisted that I needed to be on the three year plan but this new doctor, after for the first time (for me) needing to remove three small polyps said I could probably go five years.
[ Resists temptation to go into rant about the supposed “superiority” of women’s ability to tolerate pain relative to men based on…childbirth. ]
[ Reads comments, leaves tube of soothing ointment on bar. ]
[ Scratches off expiry date. ]
Interesting. Never got any high from it. It was kind of ‘light switch off, light switch on’ with no mental fog that I saw from my husband as he came out of the standard sedation (never remembers the first 15 or so minutes of conversation with me and attending nurse).
On the other hand, Demerol …
Not to beat a dead horse…no really…but this is why we should talk about these things…I posted this similar colonoscopy info on facebook and it was useful to a high school classmate and my brother-in-law. They have both had colonoscopy’s waved off by the anesthesiologist because their cardiologists would not clear them for propofol. My brother-in-law was most concerned because he needs a colonoscopy due to complications from an airboat accident he and my sister were in. I’m guessing they might become the owners of the city of Pompano Beach soon but I digress…
I also learned that a middle school classmate waved off the propofol for a heart cauterization. He said were astonished that he didn’t want sedation. They kept asking him throughout the procedure. Except for a burning of one of the medications they give and the initial stick, he felt nothing except for a tickling in his chest as they moved the wire around. The more you know…*
I’m finding this colonoscopy talk fascinating, so thank you all for sharing.
I’ve had two or three so far, and I’m due for a new one. They gave me Michael Jackson’s “mothers milk” each time, and they never discussed the option of going without. No problems with the procedure for me, and they found three precancerous polyps last time which is why I’m on the three-year plan now.
Nothing to add, except more and more I have less faith in medical science. But, then, I’m very healthy for my age (early 60s), am exercising and walking every day, and take a lot of vitamins, plus CQ10. I’m working with an eye to reaching 70, but unless Something Happens, I could last longer. Knock wood.
Doh! Too late to edit/correct but (obviously?) that should say “heart catheterization” not “cauterization”. Heh. Imagine…
Had to look that up. Propofol. “Milk of Amnesia”. LOL.
In retrospect that annoys me a little. Although I’ve never had an adverse reaction to general anesthesia. Not sure what they gave me last time, and don’t trust my memory in the first half hour after waking up.
Same for me.
Likewise. They required me to stay for an hour under observation in case there were adverse effects, but I felt pretty good shortly after waking up and even felt physically capable of driving. (Although I didn’t, respecting doctors’ warnings about possible impaired judgement of one’s post-procedure capabilities.)
A lot of us here seem to be in that range. Now where’s my cane…
What?
And I cross the line into my 7th decade next week. (!!!!!) Good genes and [fairly] healthy living, plus my exercise has gone up quite a bit since getting a GSD puppy last year (she turned 1 on 5/23). Heh. Mom still with us, mentally alert and doing fairly well at 92. So there’s hope. 🙂
1.3 gallons?
Seriously?
Congratulations in anticipation.
[ Peers over spectacles, eyes clientele. ]
Bit late for that.
[ Rethinks offering skateboard as prize in raffle. ]
One minor annoyance I had with it was passing through a conscious inebriated-like state that was far beyond any level of inebriation that (as an adult) even I would be comfortable with. An amusing moment while I was waiting in recovery, the same-age-probably-older lady in the next bed/over the curtain was rambling on about how as a teenager they would drive drunk on purpose. “Let’s go get drunk and drive!” Stories of gallons of beer in the trunk with a line running up to the front seat. I have a funny feeling that she would never tell such a story to strangers, even drunk.
It may help if you smear a little vaseline on the lenses, like in Star Trek TOS.
No matter how many time I see it, my first read is “Star Trek Terms of Service”. Which itself might make a decent album name were it not for copyright issues. BTW, is copyleft still a thing?
Things I did not know: The St Brice’s Day Massacre
Fry tutting about 3 strikes: even if we were to grant, for the sake of argument, that a third strike for stealing cookies is a bit much (though i believe it needs to be a felony), in the US in places like NYC, you have people convicted 22 times still out on the street–evidently having served little time for any of the 22.
This seems apropos for some reason: Hypernormalization. (Via Second City Bureaucrat.)
The BBC usually isn’t so honest about the actual workings of their preferred mode of governance.
hired professional rioters and liberal rich kids LARPing as revolutionaries
The arts again. Literary people. Why do successful writers feel the need to commit murder?
And yet this was never ever the standard in California. One of the reasons I couldn’t help feel a little schadenfreude when Erwin Chemerinsky got a little taste of leftism he has groomed students into for decades. A leftism that has had him campaigning against 3 strikes for years.
Every strike had to be approved (even a strike-able conviction could be disallowed at the court’s discretion) and, usually, the 3rd offense isn’t really #3 but number #30 or more because 3-strikes was designed to get career criminals off the streets. People who obviously never learned their lesson all the previous times they were caught.
There’s the case of the guy who was (according to the media) sentenced 25 to life for “stealing a single slice of pizza”. What the apologists conveniently leave out was that the perp not only had an extensive rap sheet full of things like robbery menaced the kids he stole the pizza from. His record in total showed he was unable to function in normal society.
Remove him (and those like him). Rehabilitation is nice, but our priority should always be the protection of regular citizens from two-legged predators.
Anesthesia: some people react with mental fuzziness for days weeks or even months. I had one colonoscopy without –no big deal. No pain. But the other 2 they knocked me out.
Ah, but the absolutely delicious nap that propofol offers . . .
Be careful, its one of the key ingredients used in the Canadian MAiD (medical assistance in dying) program.
The previous post – this one here – has been updated again.
And while we’re at it, those bike riding assholes again.
Given that the show’s whole reason for being is smart people enlightening the public (while being entertainingly witty) it’s reasonable to to expect and demand that the participants actually take the time to get their facts right before they opine, and to honestly present those facts when onstage.
from the link:
British correspondent and friend of H. L. Mencken, Alistair Cooke was famous for that accent. Supposedly Americans thought he was (rightly) British and Brits thought he was American. Supposedly.
“It’s almost as though Nature were telling us something here.”
“Asian mating rituals”
David’s links to earlier posts took me down a rabbit hole to this:
Graphs of intelligence and other aptitudes tend to look like bell curves. The curves for two demographic groups can mostly overlap, so that most members of those groups are similarly qualified, and yet the small difference in average aptitude can mean a very large difference at the tail end where the most qualified candidates are found. And for jobs like aviator the requirements are justifiably stringent. But our bien pensant “progressive” academics and pundits will insist that only racism and sexism and other prejudices can explain the differences.
I’ll take Things I Have Been Trying To Tell “Educated” People For Thirty Years, Alex. I generally got left twisting in the raaaaaaycist wind, but at least I tried.
Do not ask for whom the bell curve tolls. It tolls for thee.
You called?
Well, there’s a very good reason they’re not listening. They’re angling for the No Bell Prize.
Remember the Gong Show? These people should get the gong and be ejected from the game, metaphorically speaking. Bong! Thanks for playing. Now get the fuck out.
Pilots and bell curve: I have been around a lot of academics and engineers in my life. I’m pretty smart. I have met people waaaaay smarter than me. They have been white, jewish, Chinese, Indian, Iranian. Not a single one has been any other ethnic group. They tail matters for many jobs. If you lower the standards people die, organizations fail.
100 years later, the New Republic is still a cheerleader for fascism.