The point is mostly to contain the inevitable griping to some degree.
If there’s a c/ where complaining about reddit is the default, then it’s easier to channel such things to that c/ rather than dealing with it constantly in other communities. Can’t say how effective it actually is, but that would be the point imo
Pretty much, yeah, though it doesn’t have to be low, iirc. It can come from higher in the throat, and thus sound higher pitched as well.
Isn’t that a version of fry?
Yeah, it’ll be a while yet
Mostly only instrumentals. I suck at singing, but it brings me joy, So I do it anyway.
That being said, there’s a few I can’t really sing along to most of. If we were vampires, by Jason isbell is one. There’s parts I can follow, but most of the song, my voice just breaks on, so I more just hum along with, or mouth the lyrics.
Fuck, I don’t even know for sure.
I think it was for a patient back in the early to mid nineties. I’m dubious on which patient, and whether or not that was the first time or just the first I remember.
If it’s the one I think, the guy had a stroke, and I knew pretty much right away what was going on, so I was dialing before I got to him (this was pre-cell phone ubiquity, so it was a cordless phone via landline). It’s kinda muddy in memory now, what with about two decades of other patients in similar situations, but I recall thinking “fuck, fuck, fuck” a lot while I was moving to him, and my heart pounding with the adrenaline of it.
Dude survived, and even partially recovered before another took him out.
However, it’s possible he wasn’t the first, and I’m mixing things up. But I’m mostly confident that I had never needed to use the service until I was working home health. Those early years blur really hard nowadays. I used to remember most of the patient’s names, stories they told, etc, but there’s rarely been opportunity to call on those memories, so they’ve faded.
Until I started having health issues of my own in my late thirties, I had never called 911 for anyone but a patient that I can recall. Even when I would witness something like a car wreck, someone else was already calling by the time I’d have been able to.
Generally though, since it was on the job, I was mostly focused on giving clear, concise information to expedite a fast and appropriate response. You default to training and let things go on autopilot so you can handle both the call and whatever help you’re providing. Like, you can’t think through CPR while also giving info to a dispatcher, monitoring the patient, and stuffing the emotional side of things down. There’s no room for thinking in any appreciable way.
I did have the fucking Beegees running through my head at one point though lol. Caught myself almost singing underneath the panting I was doing while trying to keep the pace up because all the instructors back then would use “staying alive” as the perfect rhythm for chest compressions.
That was still better than the first time I ever had to do CPR, but that’s a different subject.
Anyway, yeah, that’s what it was like that time, and I think it was the first.
I also remember the dispatcher having to ask me to repeat things because CPR is hard fucking exercise lol.
Thing is, most of the times i had to call 911 on the job were kinda dull? Heart attacks, falls, strokes, when you’re following procedures and are providing the kind of care you trained for, it doesn’t hit the same as when something is outside your training. Something like a plane crash, I’d have no clue what to do, so I expect I’d be wound up like a stolen watch. But basic first aid, CPR, that kind of thing, there’s not usually a reason to get worked up. It’s one of those things where the knowledge and familiarity really do make something that’s a major event on one hand just another day at work. You do the job, you do CPR and get EMS on the way, and then you go home.
There’s stuff that happened on the job that I never even mentioned when I’d get home because why would I? It was “just” another bad thing that got handled and was over. My best friend, it was only a few weeks ago that I mentioned having had human flesh fly in my mouth and get swallowed. You’d think I’d have had a story to tell when I got home, but nope. It happened, it was over, and I just wanted to chill and watch some tv, or play some d&d.
It’s fucking weird how my brain compartmentalized/s stuff like that. There’s this section that got labeled “weird work shit” that would only get pulled out when story time happened, and that wasn’t very common by that point.
It took really heavy shit for me to get home and want to talk about it. And by the time I was doing home health I had burnt out once or twice already in the nursing homes, so my threshold for heavy had shifted. You see enough death and misery, you don’t really get het up over a heart attack or stroke. So I don’t have many clear recollections of the 911 calls on the job.
Now, some of the other ones? Like when my parents had their heart attacks, or when I thought I was, those hit different. Mind you, I still compartmentalized the fuck out of it during the event, but I broke down hard once things were out of my hands. The 911 calls though, I was icy as fuck.
Tangential, but in the ER when a nurse was taking me back to my dad, she said that I seemed to be handling it really well because I cracked a joke of some kind. I didn’t even think, and said I was faking it until I could fall apart, which was the truth. I had crammed all the fear and worry down into a box in the corner so I could handle shit. And handle shit I did.
Then I went home and fell apart lol.
Human stupidty and arrogance.
Even when I share the purported beliefs of someone, the vast majority of people are so fucking smug and insistent on being right, that discussing politics ain’t likely with me.
Then, you run into the fact that people tend to treat it like an identity and just mouth what they think they’re supposed to believe without ever actually thinking about it. It isn’t even just the people that are raised in one party/bloc/whatever and stick with it. Even the ones that change allegiance tend to treat it as some kind of granfaloon, but not the harmless kind. Shit, that’s that case with unaffiliated people too, it isn’t limited to party members.
Like, yeah, we all think we’re right, but when that turns into smug self aggrandizement, fuck that.
That’s the shit that bothers me about politics, that people can’t just fucking chill and vote their conscience, they gotta be right, and feel superior about it.
That may not seem to be the kind of thing you’re asking about, but it’s one of the sessions those abysmal laws happen.
So it goes
That’s difficult, and the answer would change over time because picking a “favorite” is as much a product of what the mind is like at the time of asking as it is from an objective internal perception of favorite.
That being said, narrowing it down some helps.
First, ima wipe out anything generated by a streaming service. That narrows the field a lot, and it’s no more arbitrary than any other criteria to do so.
Then, ima wipe out any serial shows that didn’t get a finish of a reasonable kind as part of the original run. That’s because I can’t genuinely highly rate a show that isn’t over. The story is “pending” for me, and that always makes a show a disappointment. It does, unfortunately, eliminate firefly since its “ending” wasn’t aired. By aired, I mean shown on a network of some kind, be it cable or actual broadcast over the air. I also exclude anything not yet finished because how a show ends matters.
This eliminates thousands of shows, so I can maybe process things.
As contenders, there’s wide range. Winnowing those, I have to factor in repeatability. If the show suffers over repeated viewings for me, that’s a major loss. Something like Bones as an example, that I liked well enough when it was being aired, but has killed almost all enjoyment of it when watched one episode after another over a few weeks.
So, I have to decide if I want to include or exclude shows that aren’t serial. Now, I can automatically eliminate sitcoms because even the ones that are properly serial can’t hold up for me. But there’s sketch comedy ala snl and madtv. There’s stuff like the Twilight zone as well. Because of the quality of sketch shows and anthologies, I gotta leave them in. But they’re usually prone to more full on bad episodes than other types, so it leaves gaps.
All of which, nobody but me really cares about, but I’m bored and wanting to think this through in writing.
It does lead me to a few finalists though. Buffy has to be in there, though its ending was barely an ending, but counts enough. Monty Python has to be as well; even the weakest episodes still make me laugh. Trek has to be a possibility, but which iteration? Then there’s quantum leap that manages to be nostalgic without feeling super dated (unlike a show like knight rider that’s still fun, but really feels less enjoyable than it did in its era).
Since narrowing Trek down is nigh impossible for me, I think that disqualifies any individual series from making the grade. Tos and tng are just too closely tied to pick one.
Quantum leap though, damn. I’ve seen it front to back a dozen plus times and still enjoy it, even with the era’s proclivity towards cheese.
However, Buffy manages to be cheesy and it not (for me) trigger the rueful chuckle, so I guess that bumps leap down a notch.
That essentially leaves me picking between Buffy and Python.
Which one I’d cue up first isn’t certain on any given day. That being said, I think the fact that I could always just shrug and default to Python if I didn’t know what I was in the mood for bumps it into favorite status for me.
Yeah, that’s as good an answer as any other.
I will say that some shows, like the walking dead as a perfect example, could push those down if the overall series hadn’t been mismanaged.
Then there’s shows like Dr Who that I’ve spent more years and hours watching, but suffer from a ton of bad sections that make it hard to weed out; I’d have to pick a favorite doctor to be honest with myself about the show’s overall enjoyment factor. Like, Tom Baker era, or the Tennant/Smith era, they top Buffy for sure, but those are small segments of the show as a whole. Plus, the show technically hasn’t ended only individual eras have.
Loooota caveats in there though lol
I see no difference
Op is a bot, so I suspect that it generates titles based on the origin article in some way
Have you seen the postage rates for air mail in middle earth?
Our neighbor has said similar, and we don’t even have many
I mean, is it really a good idea to call a movie about a bunch of girls holes?
It’s just asking for horrible jokes
Aha! I just figured out the trans agenda!
It’s all a plot to drive up the price point of penises!
The one about the time the thing happened
Der flietermaus
This may be my favorite science based meme ever
Fuck it, I’m going to refresh my BASIC skills and revolutionize the internet
Nah, as long as it isn’t significantly different, all that matters is that it isn’t going to irritate and rub.
Mind you, the more of a difference there is, the less comfortable it’s going to be in shoes, no matter what material it is.
You might run into the patch job wearing the surrounding fabric out faster if there’s a decent difference as well, but it isn’t like something that thin is going to last very long once a hole appears anyway.