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“more like your friend induced your gag reflex” well he did want to gently caress me tbf. he was married. an old friend from church. I think he briefly hosed my wife but that memory is hazy. aaahh that weird hosed up last year of my marriage 😒
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i turn 40 this year and the last two years have been pretty loving bad pro-tip: don't get old
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Aug 27, 2019 19:39
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Cold on a Cob posted:pro-tip: don't get old beats the alternative
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Aug 27, 2019 19:43
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how many quake boomers itt
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Cold on a Cob posted:i turn 40 this year and the last two years have been pretty loving bad i didnt have much in the way of medical issues and like not even a week after turning 40 i was in pain because of gallstones (it took three painful crises and hospital visits before they could confirm it by seeing the things on an echography because they were always gone by the time the overbooked emergency services would get to me) also as a last "gently caress you" one of them managed to stay inside and to painfully get out after i got my gallblader removed
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one day i woke up in blinding pain and couldn't move my left shoulder. When I went to the doctor the fuckshit told me i had "Parsonage Turner Syndrome" and would likely never be able to move my arm again. Got a second opinion and the guys like "probably a slipped disc, lets get an mri" and it was a pretty bad slipped disc and they were like "we should do surgery, we'll have to go in through the front of your throat" Got a third opinion and the dude was like "just chill for a while and see if it gets better." It eventually got better. When I asked the doctor what might have caused it he said "how many pillows do you sleep on?" and i said "two?" and he said "maybe just one from here on out."
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Aug 27, 2019 20:56
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Aug 27, 2019 21:08
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a repo mans life is always intense
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yeah sometimes poo poo just gets better on it's own the net result is the science behind physiotherapy and surgeries is actually pretty loving lacking sometimes too though it's neat af that they do fake surgeries on people to do double-blind studies of surgical procedures
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Aug 27, 2019 21:18
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also sometimes pain is just "in your head" and i don't mean that in a dismissive, patronizing way. the pain is real, but the underlying cause might just be an oversensitized nervous system. but there's no test to really confirm this is the case, it's the absence of a physical cause that tends to suggest it so then sometimes you'll think that was the issue and go through a million doctors and specialists and one day someone finds a benign tumour pressing on a nerve and cuts it out and bam, pain gone all of these issues increase in likelihood as you age 
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Aug 27, 2019 21:26
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Cold on a Cob posted:though it's neat af that they do fake surgeries on people to do double-blind studies of surgical procedures do abx testing where one person gets the regular surgery, one gets no surgery and one gets a random organ removed.
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edit: spoilered this coz it’s depressing and whiny, don’t feel compelled to read it rotor posted:beats the alternative mate idk as good as the good parts are, idk if it’s worth the bad parts, and it’s not like i’m gonna regret anything from the afterlife, the only real reason to stay alive is things like children and family and some unhelpful internal desire to avoid death 🤷♂️ I read some thread of people discussing how suicide of those close to them affected them and it’s like gently caress I can’t do that to people I love I’ve kinda worked out that lamenting the reality that I have to carry on makes me miserable, so it’s probably better to move onto those thought patterns onto something forward thinking 🙄  lamethere is a silver lining here tho, being a diabetic etc means I’ll probably have a (hopefully fatal) major cardiac event during my working life so I won’t have to enter into some bleak retirement where I can only afford the cheapest toast and marmalade it’s possible I guess that enough things change that I wake up pleased to be alive. it would possibly be prudent to strive for that or at least strive for a changed attitude oh well just arrived at work to spend next 9 hours with only one person, a depressing person who makes me hate coming here echinopsis fucked around with this message at 21:30 on Aug 27, 2019 |
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Aug 27, 2019 21:27
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Cold on a Cob posted:also sometimes pain is just "in your head" and i don't mean that in a dismissive, patronizing way. the pain is real, but the underlying cause might just be an oversensitized nervous system.n likelihood as you age yeah meditation can shed interesting light on this
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echinopsis posted:yeah meditation can shed interesting light on this yep, along with a bunch of other techniques i'm still learning about also for some people with sensitization just reading about how pain works can reduce their pain levels 
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Aug 27, 2019 21:30
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echinopsis posted:
part of the thing about having kids is that you have to be a better person, if only for their sake. If that's the only reason you have, well that sucks pretty bad, but its still enough of a reason.
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Aug 27, 2019 21:35
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rotor posted:part of the thing about having kids is that you have to be a better person, if only for their sake. If that's the only reason you have, well that sucks pretty bad, but its still enough of a reason.
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Aug 27, 2019 21:36
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your children will also face the inevitable decay of their bodies and their ultimate demise every story ends the same way
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Aug 27, 2019 22:15
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:your children will also face the inevitable decay of their bodies and their ultimate demise I mean unless you drink that bulletproof coffee stuff
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Aug 27, 2019 22:29
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rotor posted:I mean unless you drink that bulletproof coffee stuff i put a stick of butter in my coffee every day, now my arteries are armored against intruders
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Aug 27, 2019 22:35
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the butter makes you oily so that when Death tries to grab you it's like "squippp!" and you run away laughing
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rotor posted:part of the thing about having kids is that you have to be a better person, if only for their sake. If that's the only reason you have, well that sucks pretty bad, but its still enough of a reason. hmm yes indeed. especially now as I support myself entirely, I have to make it work. gently caress life sucks if you’re not wealthy but, have to keep plowing away to keep my kids growing up in a safe loving environment so they don’t start adult life wth an already damaged brain, teach them all the things I wasn’t etc I clearly need to grow rodtronics to the point that it provides enough of an income for me to not work full time. lmao tho at that dream
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Aug 27, 2019 23:20
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Life can suck regardless of wealth, some of the most miserable people i knew were immensely wealthy. Suffering is basically invariant across a wide cross-section of humans.
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Aug 27, 2019 23:42
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rotor posted:Life can suck regardless of wealth, some of the most miserable people i knew were immensely wealthy. Suffering is basically invariant across a wide cross-section of humans.
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Aug 27, 2019 23:48
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people should specify what diabetes they're talking about when talking about issues, there's quite a few variants..
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Aug 27, 2019 23:49
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i have the second edition
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Aug 27, 2019 23:55
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rotor posted:Life can suck regardless of wealth, some of the most miserable people i knew were immensely wealthy. Suffering is basically invariant across a wide cross-section of humans. hmm maybe but I’d like to find that out for myself. lol. it’s easy to imagine that if I took out the largest source of suffering and regret from my life, my job, that I could enjoy the things in life I actually do enjoy, time with kids and enough time to pursue my interests. 🤷♂️ maybe one day LOL chin up echi. still got some years yet. turn that frown upside down
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so a while back I was doing a thing for the USMC and I had to become a SME on Marine marksmanship so I spent some time on-base doing my thing. Most of the enlisted men were too busy cleaning latrines or whatever enlisted men do all drat day so I ended up having dinner with one of the captains in charge of some ... idk, whatever, it was a long time ago. AAAAnnnnyway he was pretty interesting and apparently one of those weird overachievers like the Miss America winners who are also Biochemistry PhD candidates at Stanford or whatever and was like 25 or something and already a Captain somehow and very earnest about everything. At some point he mentioned he got an interesting section of recruits from very wealthy families who thought the Marines would be a great step into management and the World Of Business because of some Harvard Business School thing from decades ago. I kind of made a joke about how it must be hard to get them to do all that basic training poo poo and he got thoughtful for a minute and said "if there's one thing this job has taught me it's that the hardest thing you've ever done is the hardest thing you've ever done, whether that's mowing a lawn or burying your mother" and that's really stuck with me for a long time.
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other takeaways: if you're gonna take a marksmanship test, do it really tired, like stay up til 3am the night before
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rotor posted:other takeaways: if you're gonna take a marksmanship test, do it really tired, like stay up til 3am the night before so that you're more tired and less high-strung/stressed?
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rotor posted:other takeaways: if you're gonna take a marksmanship test, do it really tired, like stay up til 3am the night before You shot JFK, didn't you?
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rotor posted:other takeaways: if you're gonna take a marksmanship test, do it really tired, like stay up til 3am the night before or smoke a small weed beforehand don't actually do this even though it would help a bit lol
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Please do not operate any machinery with the potential to cause significant harm to self or others while under the influence of intoxicants, though?
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prefect posted:so that you're more tired and less high-strung/stressed? yeah that was the advice i got and it seemed to work so Schadenboner posted:You shot JFK, didn't you? oh like i'd just blurt it out and tell you Cold on a Cob posted:or smoke a small weed beforehand don't actually do this even though it would help a bit lol Normally id say yeah but maybe don't get baked and shoot guns on a range with hundreds of other people
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i swear i read somewhere that some biathlon competitor got their medal taken away because they competed under the influence of thc but i can't find it now
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maybe it was a different drug and i'm conflating it with ross rebagliati
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Cold on a Cob posted:i swear i read somewhere that some biathlon competitor got their medal taken away because they competed under the influence of thc but i can't find it now yeah but those guys just shootin tiny mousefart .22s
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rotor posted:yeah but those guys just shootin tiny mousefart .22s yeah, true hm poo poo someone call the ioc i think we've just stumbled on a way to get viewership up on the witner olympics
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Cold on a Cob posted:yeah, true "Klas Lestander from Sweden became the world's first Olympic champion in Biathlon at the 1960 Olympics. Biathletes at that time used high-power centerfire rifles, normally in caliber 7.62 mm. Soldiers in the U.S. Army 5th Infantry Regiment during a fullbore biathlon competition in Alaska December 2014. From 1958 to 1965, only highpower centerfire cartridges (such as the .30-06 and 7.62 NATO) were used in international biathlon competitions." now THIS is what i'm talkin about
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rotor posted:I kind of made a joke about how it must be hard to get them to do all that basic training poo poo and he got thoughtful for a minute and said "if there's one thing this job has taught me it's that the hardest thing you've ever done is the hardest thing you've ever done, whether that's mowing a lawn or burying your mother" and that's really stuck with me for a long time.
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is it food for thought? it sounds trite
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