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Zamboni_Rodeo posted:Definitely worth clicking that link, but since I'm bored and got naught else to do, here's the post you requested: fwiw, elise is very definitely a medical worker (confirmed) and if this didn't really happen the details are very accurate to how that would go down. basically the craziest part is that dude wasn't ultra-dead by the time he was in the hospital, and it sounds like he was just barely clinging to life. i mean, the cannibalism part is nuts, but keep in mind that even without alzheimers, she literally couldn't move, and desperation makes people do bonkers poo poo.
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Apr 2, 2018 01:58
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Zamboni_Rodeo posted:As my dad likes to say, "Any story worth telling is worth improving on." "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend."
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Apr 2, 2018 02:04
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On the subject of actual unfortunate names, I worked at a video store in a college town for years, so I saw lots of students not from the US. There was this nice African dude that was a regular, and his first name was "Mangina". I also regularly saw a Vietnamese young woman named Pornpen. I'm sure in both cases the names weren't weird in their home countries.
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Apr 2, 2018 02:41
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The other day I saw an obituary for a woman named Candida.
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Apr 2, 2018 02:49
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someone really oughta make a thread for weird names in pyf yes i know
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Apr 2, 2018 02:56
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Choco1980 posted:On the subject of actual unfortunate names, I worked at a video store in a college town for years, so I saw lots of students not from the US. There was this nice African dude that was a regular, and his first name was "Mangina". I also regularly saw a Vietnamese young woman named Pornpen. I'm sure in both cases the names weren't weird in their home countries. Working at a call center I once robodialed some guy named Moon Poo Lew. Fortunately he did not answer.
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Apr 2, 2018 02:58
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Choco1980 posted:On the subject of actual unfortunate names, I worked at a video store in a college town for years, so I saw lots of students not from the US. There was this nice African dude that was a regular, and his first name was "Mangina". I also regularly saw a Vietnamese young woman named Pornpen. I'm sure in both cases the names weren't weird in their home countries. I've known three different people named Jihad. Only one of them I've known well enough to ask how that went during the 9/11 poo poo. It did not go well. He's gone by "Jerry" since he was a kid though.
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Apr 2, 2018 03:17
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Choco1980 posted:I also regularly saw a Vietnamese young woman named Pornpen. I'm sure in both cases the names weren't weird in their home countries. To my understanding, Porn is a pretty common short form of some totally mundane name there, like Jerry would be here. As a result, you see signs labeled Porn Cafe, Porn Laundry, and it's unintentionally hilarious to foreigners.
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Apr 2, 2018 03:27
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There’s a popular series of books in Thailand written by a Dr. Pornthip. Going the other way, if your name is “Jim” then in Thailand you’re named vagina lol
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Apr 2, 2018 03:32
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A former coworker of Thai descent was named Supaporn
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Apr 2, 2018 03:40
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My wife claims to have met someone named “Deuce Mangine” and I thought that was pretty good.
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Apr 2, 2018 03:46
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trapped mouse posted:someone really oughta make a thread for weird names in pyf Just for you, buddy. quote:Cody God bless you wayne gretzky, wherever you are.
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Apr 2, 2018 03:49
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Pirate Radar posted:There’s a popular series of books in Thailand written by a Dr. Pornthip. This fact that the road goes both ways is the best part of this whole derail to me.
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Apr 2, 2018 04:18
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There was a Greek dude named Vaggelis in my dorm in undergrad. Oh and Gary is (roughly) Japanese for "diarrhea."
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Apr 2, 2018 04:35
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chernobyl kinsman posted:just dont read it idiot Use commas and capitalization, dickshit.
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Apr 2, 2018 04:40
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mind the walrus posted:What did you read 100+ words on accident? No, but I was surfing the forums trying to chill out after an anxiety attack and it didn't help. Also, there is a  tag for this reason.
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Apr 2, 2018 04:43
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Paging wayne gretsky to the quotes thread E:fb Yestermoment posted:Just for you, buddy.
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Apr 2, 2018 04:48
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Solice Kirsk posted:I've known three different people named Jihad. Only one of them I've known well enough to ask how that went during the 9/11 poo poo. It did not go well. He's gone by "Jerry" since he was a kid though. Feller at work is named Jihad, still goes by it. Possibly the most laid back human being I've ever encountered, though. I did know a Barbie back in school, and man if ever there was a self-fulfilling prophecy
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Apr 2, 2018 04:57
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elise the great posted:I mean I don’t like that story either but it’s not even the grossest or worst thing I’ve seen, and I’m a relatively young nurse with a narrow band of experience, having worked ICU only, and only for seven years or so. You see worse poo poo than that in the ED, I’m sure. This is probably about the sixth or seventh time I’ve seen this story get linked on the forums and one thing I’ve always wondered is what happens to the pets in stories like this? Do they just keep trucking on like nothing happened, do they get put down because they’ve developed a taste for human flesh? It’s a weird detail to get hung up on, but I feel like every other element, as grotesque as it is, gets a pretty clear resolution, also it helps me stop thinking about cannibal grandma.
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Apr 2, 2018 05:07
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Sex Hobbit posted:There was a Greek dude named Vaggelis in my dorm in undergrad. Only if you go out of your way to pronounce it wrong, I'm afraid. Βαγγελις is pronounced "Vangelis", like the "Chariots of Fire" composer. e: 
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Apr 2, 2018 05:16
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Choco1980 posted:This fact that the road goes both ways is the best part of this whole derail to me. There are just as many times when English poo poo sounds weird or dirty in other languages as there is the other way, yeah. Here in Taiwan a student told me a joke once. There’s a man with two sons. The older one is named GG and the younger one is named Earth. One day GG is missing, so he calls the police. “My GG is missing!” He says. “Oh no! What does he look like?” The policeman asks. “Well, he’s bigger than Earth.” This becomes understandable as a joke that a little boy would make (and think hilarious) because GG sounds like the Taiwanese Mandarin word for dick.
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Apr 2, 2018 05:23
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fruit on the bottom posted:This is probably about the sixth or seventh time I’ve seen this story get linked on the forums and one thing I’ve always wondered is what happens to the pets in stories like this? Do they just keep trucking on like nothing happened, do they get put down because they’ve developed a taste for human flesh? Animals don’t really get a taste for human flesh— they get a taste for easy food sources. Tigers who learn to hunt humans, for instance, figure we’re easier to catch than anything hat can really run, and super visible to boot. You’d have to be easier to eat than a bowl of catfood to really tempt Raz. I think in this case animal control got involved, no idea after that, but the cats wouldn’t be treated any differently from any other rescues, I suspect. I don’t even know how many there were total, I’m just going off the presence of orange and black cat hair, and if there were a bunch it’s not like you’d even know whether they all chowed down, or just a couple of em, and which ones. I did have a pt a while back who went on a bender, passed out in a pile of vodka bottles on his bed, and had a third of his foot eaten by his bichon frise. He had uncontrolled diabetes, neuropathy with numbness, and foot sores, and best we can tell after he passed out the dog just started licking his booboos to make them better... and then licking them a lot.... and then chewing a little... anyway, he had lovely blood flow and was super susceptible to infection from the diabetes, and ended up losing his whole leg one partial amputation at a time.The dog got pancreatitis from eating so much human fat. The pt’s mom rescued the dog and took it to the vet. The pt kept showing us pictures of the dog on his cell phone and hoping aloud that his mom wouldn’t “steal” the dog, while we stood around changing his dressings and feeling the distinctive wet-cereal squish-crunch of bone going rotten— time for another round of surgery. We nicknamed him Alpo.
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Apr 2, 2018 05:50
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Yyyep, nnnope, I'm good, I'm gonna leave those spoilers right where they are.
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Apr 2, 2018 06:17
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I tapped, read a sentence, tapped them again and now I'm going to go feed my dog
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Apr 2, 2018 06:38
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I get a grim chuckle out of stories like that, but I might need a day or two to get my head back into a place where I can keep looking for a puppy for our family. Oh dog.
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Apr 2, 2018 06:46
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Everything else aside, how did paralyzed grandpa survive for 10+ days without water?
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Apr 2, 2018 06:48
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About 5-6 days, and I’m assuming refrigeration helped
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Apr 2, 2018 07:07
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When I get like that, either kill me or put me in a stillsuit.
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Apr 2, 2018 07:15
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When I die I want my cats and/or loved ones to eat me. And the only reason I'm waiting that long is because I have a few things I want to take care of before I become a delicious meal.
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Apr 2, 2018 07:35
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it's ok, I think lowtax will forgive you if you don't make it to 100,000 terrible posts
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Apr 2, 2018 07:45
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Doc Hawkins posted:Everything else aside, how did paralyzed grandpa survive for 10+ days without water? It's one of those moments of "it depends." Your body can survive for water for longer or shorter periods of time depending on conditions as well as just the natural make up of the body. Physical activity, hot temperatures, and exposure to sunlight make the body use up more water. If you're sedentary (as a paralyzed grandpa would be assumed to be) and in cool surroundings you're going to use less of it which means your stores last longer. Ten days is a bit of a stretch for basically anybody but not possible. Of course he would have been in terrible condition and not likely to survive much beyond that but 10 days isn't impossible. People have managed to survive absolutely baffling things that really, really should have killed them. Plus... elise the great posted:About 5-6 days, and I’m assuming refrigeration helped anything less than a week is a much more reasonable time frame.
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Apr 2, 2018 09:11
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Apr 2, 2018 09:19
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On the (off-)topic of weird names, I once met a person named Yugoslava. 
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Apr 2, 2018 09:50
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burexas.irom posted:On the (off-)topic of weird names, I once met a person named Yugoslava. Did she break up with you?
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Apr 2, 2018 13:25
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elise the great posted:I did have a pt a while back who went on a bender, passed out in a pile of vodka bottles on his bed, and  lmao the nickname hahahaha holy gently caress that story is amazing. All y'all can get upset with this poo poo but it's kind-of comforting to know that my dog will take care of herself even if I can't, and at my own expense if necessary.
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Apr 2, 2018 13:43
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GrossMurpel posted:I'm looking forward to how job interviews will work in a few years when you can google an applicant's name and pull up the youtube comments they made under their real name when they were 12 Radio Free Kobold posted:or worse, pornhub comments made two weeks ago The Cheshire Cat posted:I mean, in this case having someone else get the job might actually be what they want anyway.
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Apr 2, 2018 13:45
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Solice Kirsk posted:Maybe heart attack shower drownings are super common, but I doubt it. They're good gross stories, but just like prison stories you have to take them with a grain of salt and understand that it probably didn't happen to who is telling it and has morphed over time like an urban legend. More people die in a year from getting tangled in their bedsheets than have died from terrorist attacks since 2002. I think a lot of people underestimate both how lovely the lives of many people are and the sheer scope of how many people die. Most people aren't going to die comfortably in their beds. People get into accidents and their health fails them in any number of situations. Many people die from heart attacks while shoveling their driveways. Many people die from heart attacks while taking a poo poo. And there are only a few occupations that have to deal with any of that. They'll see some poo poo, sooner or later
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Apr 2, 2018 13:52
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Oh I know. I love nurse and doctor stories. Nurses always seem to have the better stories too.
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Doctors have the biggest show-stoppers. Nurses have the best long reads.
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