The Isolated Blurt Thread IV: A New Hope

[Fata Morgana]

My neck is a bit sore and tender. After several hours of interweb diagnoses, the problem seems to be a swollen retroauricular lymph node.


These sound like lymph nodes or glands. The particular glands you are referring to are known as the retro-auricular lymph glands. These glands enlarge in response to infection in the region that they drain, which includes the external ear and a portion of the side of the head. It is possible that you may recently have had a minor scratch on your scalp or perhaps you had an episode of infection in the outer part of your ear. The glands often enlarge in response to infestation of the scalp so it may be worthwhile having your scalp inspected to exclude that possibility. Several times I have observed such glandular enlargement in the case of people with pierced ears, especially piercing that extends along the rim of the ear. Sometimes the glands enlarge as part of a generalised lymph node enlargement throughout the body in response to a viral infection. The usual pattern is for the glands to remain enlarged for a couple of weeks and then reduce in size. Persistent painless enlargement of lymph glands that is not readily explainable warrants medical assessment.


Great. Now I need someone to inspect my scalp.

I'll come round and prod your swellings for a bit. Put the kettle on.

 

[JohnnySavage]

I'll come round and prod your swellings for a bit. Put the kettle on.

Why do I have to cook if I'm the sick one?

You need a smidge more compassion in your bedside manner.

 

[girlsmiley]

http://www.whylol.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/84e92d1df4_funny-little-dog-sleep-pajama.jpg

 

[Fata Morgana]

Why do I have to cook if I'm the sick one?

You need a smidge more compassion in your bedside manner.

You don't have to cook. It's polite to offer me a cup of tea after I've traveled approximately 12 hours to prod your swellings.

But if you can't be bothered I shall revoke my offer Mr Savage.

 

[Byron In Exile]

You're talking about Roman months.

And they were a fixed number of days.

They didn't just look out a window and see daffodils and say, "Oh! It's Spring! It's Martius, now!"

And those numbers, I have to tell you, were pretty much wrong.

That's why those months kept shifting wildly in relation to the actual seasons.

 

[Noor]

YO Squirrel!

 

[JohnnySavage]

You don't have to cook. It's polite to offer me a cup of tea after I've traveled approximately 12 hours to prod your swellings.

But if you can't be bothered I shall revoke my offer Mr Savage.

I suppose I need to go out and get some tea as well. I expect just plain hot water wouldn't do for a classy broad like you.

 

[Fata Morgana]

I suppose I need to go out and get some tea as well. I expect just plain hot water wouldn't do for a classy broad like you.

Decent tea, not yank shit. In fact I shall bring my own, Yorkshire Tea. Might as well try and educate your palate after I'm done prodding and poking.

 

[JohnnySavage]

Decent tea, not yank shit. In fact I shall bring my own, Yorkshire Tea. Might as well try and educate your palate after I'm done prodding and poking.

Pfffffft... real men don't drink tea. Unless it's chilled and sweetened and you are in the deep South.

 

[butters]

Hehe.

Hello there!



You can have him if you want. I can find another av easy.

nono but thankyou! it suits your irrepressible nature! it's a keeper

 

[Byron In Exile]

I suppose I need to go out and get some tea as well. I expect just plain hot water wouldn't do for a classy broad like you.

Plain hot water wouldn't do for a common whore you met down by the railroad tracks.

Good call.

 

[Byron In Exile]

Pfffffft... real men don't drink tea. Unless it's chilled and sweetened and you are in the deep South.

Oh, bloody hell.

 

[girlsmiley]

We should! I hate summer.

Autumn *shudder*

It's that time of year when all the single people realise they need to quickly find themselves a warm body for winter. I was a little afraid of word spreading around town of my happy, magical vagina, but then my missus said I'd be fine and that she would be honored to defend my vagina to the death. Phew!



Time to go to work. Have a great weekend.

 

[Lorilei]

Daffs are pure Spring for sure. They were my Dad's favourite flower. He died Jan 6th and I had his wreath made with mini daffodils. It looked lovely.

They're my favorite, too. They bring back some wonderful childhood memories.

 

[trysail]

My god, it is amazing.


17½ years ago, I invested a grand total of $5,389 in 200 shares of company "A."


It spit out a Swiss-based property and casualty insurance company that had the effect of reducing the tax cost (i.e., basis) of the original investment to a grand total of $1,886. (the Swiss company shares are now worth $2,712.)


After having paid a rising dividend of roughly 5+% in every year since that 1996 acquisition, the yield on my cost basis is now ~50%.


Those Company "A" shares now sell for $21,524.


Back in 1996, if I'd known the shares were going to do that, I'd have bought more (A LOT MORE).

Moral of the story:
It's easy (in hindsight).
​

​

 

[SkAoUt]

Hubby this, hubby that. Fuuuuck! Hate that word. If I ever get hitched I'm going to request I get described my the moniker "my old man".

 

[crazychemgirl]

Feels like Friday, but it's not.

 

[Wings]

This woman must think she can make the bus move faster by pseudo-muttering "come onnnn" every 15 seconds.

 

[dolf]

he started a conversation with me! sure, it only lasted three lines. but still, for such a shy guy, this is a big deal.

 

[Mr Noone]

Fuck the calendar; spring begins when the daffodils bloom.

Daffs are pure Spring for sure. They were my Dad's favourite flower. He died Jan 6th and I had his wreath made with mini daffodils. It looked lovely.

They're my favorite, too. They bring back some wonderful childhood memories.

And 1 March is St David's Day, patron of Wales and namesake of the daffodil. So yeah: beginning of spring.

This woman must think she can make the bus move faster by pseudo-muttering "come onnnn" every 15 seconds.

Heh. I think she has some relatives on my line.

 

[Noor]

I generally remember way back when when it became law that employers had to verify and document legal residence status of everyone in their employ and everyone they intended to employ, and then forward that documentation to the national government...

...and then tonight I'm reading a piece about the Obama administration cutting employers slack on the fines they should be imposing for those employers intentionally hiring undocumented persons (can they be called anything kinder?), and I come across the "I9" form, which is the national government-issued form to document one's legal status in this country in relation to employment.

Funny thing, then...

...even though I was born in California to two parents who were born in Missouri, and even though I've worked my entire adult life without any issue arising about my citizenship at all, after reading about the "I9" form and the law which enables it, I find that I am they: even though I'm a natural born citizen, I am unable to be legally employed in the United Socialist State of America today.

I know, I know...

...it's all my fault. The only pieces of identification I have are a US Passport, an embossed, certified copy of my original birth certificate, my original SS card, and a diploma. I have absolutely no other forms of ID (intentionally).

Now, those first three pieces of ID are enough to satisfy I9 requirements...

...if my Passport hadn't expired in 2008 (the law states it had to be "unexpired" until April 2009).

So, without that "A" piece of required identification, those other two "B" pieces are not enough to appease USSA law that I'm legally able to be employed within the borders under its dictate.

Which is cool with me, in the statist way it considers me, I guess...

...for I planned the start day of my exile from the USSA in 2008 to correspond to the last day in that year on which my last remaining, substantial legitimate pieces of ID expired, and my dear intention was to try and last the rest of my life without ever again being voluntarily documented into the grid of the national government.

Getting close to 6 years in exile now, and I evidently haven't worked for anyone who cared any more than I for the USSA's, Stasi-like show me your papers command.

It's just that directly coming across again tonight how legally illegally I am now in my own country kinda brings it all back home and makes me feel sad...

...for a few seconds or so, and then to realize the literal meaning of rebel once more makes me very happy to be a they.

Do you have any documentation on the above? All I can find is this:
http://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/files/form/i-9.pdf

and it does not agree with you.

 

[eyer]

Do you have any documentation on the above? All I can find is this:
http://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/files/form/i-9.pdf

and it does not agree with you.

Q. May I accept an expired document?

A. No. Expired documents are no longer acceptable for Form I-9.However, you may accept Employment Authorization Documents (Forms I-766) and Permanent Resident Cards (Forms I-551) that appear to be expired on their face, but have been extended by USCIS.

http://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/i-9-central-questions-answers/document-acceptable

As the I9 requirements from page 9 (the last page) of the link you provided command...

"Employees may present one selection from List A or a combination of one selection from List B and one selection from List C

(emphasis mine)

My US Passport is not an acceptable List A document because it's expired...

...thus I do not qualify under the first option.

My SS card and birth certificate are both allowed only under List C, and I have no List B qualifying document...

...so, obviously, I do not meet the "a combination of one selection from List B and one selection from List C" requirement, either.

 

[Noor]

As the I9 requirements from page 9 (the last page) of the link you provided command...



(emphasis mine)

My US Passport is not an acceptable List A document because it's expired...

...thus I do not qualify under the first option.

My SS card and birth certificate are both allowed only under List C, and I have no List B qualifying document...

...so, obviously, I do not meet the "a combination of one selection from List B and one selection from List C" requirement, either.

Thanks, I guess I need to renew my passport or something.

 

[Aphro]

Fuck the calendar; spring begins when the daffodils bloom.

Around here, that's about the end of June...

 

[Noor]

I wish all would be murdering arsonists would be as competent as this guy.
http://www.twincities.com/crime/ci_25242173/st-paul-man-tried-torch-home-4-kids