The New Isolated Blurt BDSM Thread

[Netzach]

That ended with my daddy and me having to take my mother to the emergency room early this morning. She's better now--still weak, but sleeping. Now I'm deathly afraid I'll end up with the stuff, too, and I don't have insurance to pay for an ER visit.

Please, please, please, let me not get this shit. PLEASE.

ER means you'll get seen. ER also means "ok, here's 20 bucks a month till I'm 55, eat it." And that's usually ok. If you have to go you have to go and if you have to owe, they're a lot less bad than owing anyone else. My broke ER-fu is legend. Don't NOT go, that's the bottom line. They don't want to keep you without any reason either, you may get fluids till 3 am and let out.

 

[BiBunny]

Ugh, I'm so sorry to hear that. I'm sending all kinds of well wishes and good thoughts your way!
I have no experience with the no insurance thing but I do have some experience with way too far from reliable medical care.
So, not medical advice but better than nothing:

This will help with dehydration if you can keep it down at all:
1 liter water, boiled to be on the safe side
6 teaspoons sugar
1/2 -1 teaspoon salt

Coca Cola gone flat and mashed banana often works too.

ER means you'll get seen. ER also means "ok, here's 20 bucks a month till I'm 55, eat it." And that's usually ok. If you have to go you have to go and if you have to owe, they're a lot less bad than owing anyone else. My broke ER-fu is legend. Don't NOT go, that's the bottom line. They don't want to keep you without any reason either, you may get fluids till 3 am and let out.

Thanks, y'all!

Still keeping my fingers crossed that I'm worrying for nothing, though.

 

[bhndblueyes88]

Ugh, I'm so sorry to hear that. I'm sending all kinds of well wishes and good thoughts your way!
I have no experience with the no insurance thing but I do have some experience with way too far from reliable medical care.
So, not medical advice but better than nothing:

This will help with dehydration if you can keep it down at all:
1 liter water, boiled to be on the safe side
6 teaspoons sugar
1/2 -1 teaspoon salt

Coca Cola gone flat and mashed banana often works too.

Another idea would be to go get some Gatorade mix, Airbourne or something similar to have on hand NOW so that if you need electrolyte replacement, it's available! water+sugar+salt is great, but misses out on potassium. Not having enough potassium will cause worse problems, and is harder to replace than sodium (mmtablesalt). The extra vitamins can't really hurt either!

But yah, it can't hurt to stock up on "GI-sick necessities" now... bland chicken, chamomile tea, OJ/AJ....whatever you know heps you >_> It's not like you can't use it anyway if you DON'T get sick xD

And if you get sick, please go to the doctor. Or we will worry most fretfully. *guilt trip*

 

[LallyH]

Whoops...wrong thread . I get careless when I laugh..

 

[BiBunny]

Another idea would be to go get some Gatorade mix, Airbourne or something similar to have on hand NOW so that if you need electrolyte replacement, it's available! water+sugar+salt is great, but misses out on potassium. Not having enough potassium will cause worse problems, and is harder to replace than sodium (mmtablesalt). The extra vitamins can't really hurt either!

But yah, it can't hurt to stock up on "GI-sick necessities" now... bland chicken, chamomile tea, OJ/AJ....whatever you know heps you >_> It's not like you can't use it anyway if you DON'T get sick xD

And if you get sick, please go to the doctor. Or we will worry most fretfully. *guilt trip*

Thank you for being concerned!

My insides are still cooperating so far. I'm afraid to say more for fear of jinixing it, at least until I'm able to get out of this house and back to my non-contaminated one.

I always have Gatorade or Powerade on hand, though. It's a habit I picked up when I played softball half a lifetime ago, and I still haven't been able to drop it yet.

 

[Stella_Omega]

IIRC, I once made the mistake of trying to clarify the differences between the POVs and expression of same between Stella and DVS, two posters for whom I normally have great regard, and wound up between Scylla and Charybdis. Despite the fact that I think both have valid feelings/opinions on an issue, I'm not going to make that mistake again.

Well, his opinion is that he's a qualified teacher of diplomacy and that I must have been at fault for the thing that made me angry.

Mine is that I'm not the person who was once fired because his absolute lack of diplomatic skills made him look like a racist, and that he doesn't know jack shit about what happened outside of the "what pissed you off" thread.

That's the fundamental disagreement right there.

 

[bhndblueyes88]

Odd things I have contemplatd recently:

• Whether chicken wings are standardized for eating contests. If so, how? Frozen Chicken wings are all about the same size too. Obviously the same breed/age of chicken is going to have fairly standard wing sizes to begin with, but who's job is it to quality control chicken wings?
• What was the first piece of "clothing" invented? My bet: the hat.
• What herbs shall I plant in my future herb garden? If I plant catnip, will I end up feeding all the stray cats in a 2km radius?
• At what point do people develop preferences for food? How does a baby's brain decide whether something tastes good or not? It can't merely be instinctual, as you would imagine a certain degree of consistency between people/babies, and you don't necessarily see that. So what determines why some people love chocolate, and some people hate it? Why do some people hate the taste of meat, and others demand it? WHYYYYYyyyy?

 

[BiBunny]

As soon as I get off work--which should be in a few minutes--and load all my shit up, I'm going home. I informed my mother of this, and she was like, "Don't you want to stay here another night in case you get sick? You'll be up there by yourself."

When I pointed out that I was more likely to get sick by staying here in the house where the germs are, she said, "I don't think so," thus proving once and for all that people have no idea how viruses work.

*Headdesk*

 

[bhndblueyes88]

Like any brain chemistry thing it's very complex. In this case it starts in the womb, and yeah, you could simplify your explanation by calling it pure instinct, which is itself a much more complex matter than laypeople give it credit. Suffice to say it's a non-cognitive, lower brain thing. Even reptiles develop preferential tastes.

I've forgotten too much about brain anatomy & chemistry to give you a fair explanation, but physical psychology (which includes a lot of chemistry) was my favorite subject in that year of college, and it was covered again for 4 months in massage school. I've pretty much let my brain go to mush in the intervening decade.

Blood type plays into it too, I don't recall how or why, but you'll find o negative people are more often those that demand meat/ high protein.

I figured that was mostly the case, but it was still interesting to consider specifically why/how on tastes. I reached no conclusions and was just brain storming but it was fun. My theory is that taste preferences are affected by our genetic ethnic heritage. For example, what's the point in preferring fresh vegetables when you live on the Arctic Tundra? Or disliking seafood when your genetics were adapted to a small island country? It's just one of those things I think would be FASCINATING to know more about (and I'd love to steal any resources you could suggest)

 

[Loverskitten]

I figured that was mostly the case, but it was still interesting to consider specifically why/how on tastes. I reached no conclusions and was just brain storming but it was fun. My theory is that taste preferences are affected by our genetic ethnic heritage. For example, what's the point in preferring fresh vegetables when you live on the Arctic Tundra? Or disliking seafood when your genetics were adapted to a small island country? It's just one of those things I think would be FASCINATING to know more about (and I'd love to steal any resources you could suggest)

Not exactly what you're looking for but, our taste buds are genetic.
My niece did her elementary science project on taste buds. There are strips you can buy that to some people taste very bitter, but to others the strip tastes like nothing. She tested a big family and traced certain taste bud genes. I found her experiment very interesting.
Just the fact that something actually tastes completely different to me than it does to someone else seems weird to me.

 

[bhndblueyes88]

Not exactly what you're looking for but, our taste buds are genetic.
My niece did her elementary science project on taste buds. There are strips you can buy that to some people taste very bitter, but to others the strip tastes like nothing. She tested a big family and traced certain taste bud genes. I found her experiment very interesting.
Just the fact that something actually tastes completely different to me than it does to someone else seems weird to me.

There's plenty of environmental factors too. I loved oysters the first few times I had them, until I developed an allergy and now I can't even stand the smell of them. People who start out being super picky eaters change their preferences about food if exposed properly.

Interestingly, we see similar behavior in cats. If you only feed a kitten/cat one food for long enough, they will often refuse to eat ANYTHING ELSE AT ALL. It's not even purely a taste thing. A company will change the shape of a food (and we're talking a company like Hills changing a Prescription Diet, so the actual formulation is NOT different) and cats will suddenly stop eating it. Like in people, cats will show MASSIVE preference for textures as well. Just like I refuse to eat quiche because of the texture, some cats will refuse to eat moist food. Luckily, colour doesn't seem to be an issue...yet!!

Clearly there's more to it than tastebuds alone, although it'd be fascinating to know what/howmany genes have been isolated that pertain solely to tastebuds!! The mental firings in the brain have got to be INSANE, though...particularly when you consider the wide variety of foods available to humans.

Dammit, now I'm thinking about all the delicious things...it's bed time, dammit!!

 

[Curious_in_Cali]

Does flu have a safe word?

:/

 

[bhndblueyes88]

Does flu have a safe word?

:/

lol. man, can you imagine if that's how disease really worked and we were on the wrong track all along? It wasn't about TAKING antibiotics...it was about SAYING antibiotics.


PENICILLIN! PENICILLIN!! Oh, staphylococcus, you vicious master you...

 

[Curious_in_Cali]

lol. man, can you imagine if that's how disease really worked and we were on the wrong track all along? It wasn't about TAKING antibiotics...it was about SAYING antibiotics.


PENICILLIN! PENICILLIN!! Oh, staphylococcus, you vicious master you...

Yeah, that is definitely kinky.

 

[seela]

The apartment next to ours has been listed on airbnb for some time now. Most of the guests there have been ok, but the last three groups have been horrible!

Right now there's a group of pretty young Korean guys there and they're being mighty loud day in day out. I don't even know why they're in the apartment all the time, they say they're here as tourists for 10 days, but they sure don't seem to go anywhere.

 

[graceanne]

lol. man, can you imagine if that's how disease really worked and we were on the wrong track all along? It wasn't about TAKING antibiotics...it was about SAYING antibiotics.


PENICILLIN! PENICILLIN!! Oh, staphylococcus, you vicious master you...

I nearly spewed. It was a close call.

 

[LallyH]

Me, to son: why doesn't your girlfriend come round here very often?
Son: because you're scary
Me (shocked): no, I'm not
Daughter: you kind of are...
Me: I'm not - I'm a pussycat
Daughter: yes, a pussycat - with long sharp claws to rip people's faces off...

Marvellous....

 

[midwestyankee]

Me, to son: why doesn't your girlfriend come round here very often?
Son: because you're scary
Me (shocked): no, I'm not
Daughter: you kind of are...
Me: I'm not - I'm a pussycat
Daughter: yes, a pussycat - with long sharp claws to rip people's faces off...

Marvellous....

I was quite surprised a few years ago when my daughter said something similar. I'm sure it's just coincidental that the boyfriends who reacted this way were the ones I'd asked to summarize Kant's Critique of Pure Reason before being allowed to date her.

 

[midwestyankee]

Wondering about the performance-art potential of leaving my post count at precisely 25,000 when it gets there.

 

[BiBunny]

It's January 4th, and already I have written more non-work things than I did in the entirety of 2013. (Ok, yes, it's one chapter of a weird experimental blog/novel thing I'm doing and one hastily dashed-off poem, but still--more than I did last year.)

I hope I can keep it up.

 

[seela]

Is there a way to ignore only certain av's? I remember there being a link to a specific nuke like that on Stella's sig, but alas, it's there no more.

 

[kayte]

lol. man, can you imagine if that's how disease really worked and we were on the wrong track all along? It wasn't about TAKING antibiotics...it was about SAYING antibiotics.


PENICILLIN! PENICILLIN!! Oh, staphylococcus, you vicious master you...

Like saying 'Mellon' friend in elvish to open the gates...

 

[lissa808]

Fucking why!?

When I meet someone I enjoy chatting with, are they always in the most distant time zone possible....just fucking once!

 

[Stella_Omega]

My aged mother is such a monster! She is the walking human embodiment of the "Little Dog syndrome;" Never stops barking at the leaves that fall into her yard, metaphorically speaking. She's a control freak about the most trivial things, but can't assert herself on large issues, and resents it when her husband or myself ask her what she wants, because we should know by osmosis, and we just don't care about her. She won't leave the house, won't speak to her friends, and blames them all for having stopped trying. She (and my father) say; "We don't need friends."

At the same time she never considers compromise-- never thinks about letting people do their chores in their own schedule. Compromise is a filthy word in her language. She gets so much honest joy out of telling people "no" when they ask for favors... like, "Is the house warm enough, (at 84 degrees fareheit,) can we shut off the heater for a little while?" I watched her consider the question, and then her eyes flash with pure adorable glee because SHE CAN SAY NO! and everyone has to acquiesce, because she had a triple bypass!!!!! (ten years ago, but she's going to milk that cow dry. )

People, I was raised by wolves. Chihuahua-sized, on my dam's side.

 

[bhndblueyes88]

My aged mother is such a monster! She is the walking human embodiment of the "Little Dog syndrome;" Never stops barking at the leaves that fall into her yard, metaphorically speaking. She's a control freak about the most trivial things, but can't assert herself on large issues, and resents it when her husband or myself ask her what she wants, because we should know by osmosis, and we just don't care about her. She won't leave the house, won't speak to her friends, and blames them all for having stopped trying. She (and my father) say; "We don't need friends."

At the same time she never considers compromise-- never thinks about letting people do their chores in their own schedule. Compromise is a filthy word in her language. She gets so much honest joy out of telling people "no" when they ask for favors... like, "Is the house warm enough, (at 84 degrees fareheit,) can we shut off the heater for a little while?" I watched her consider the question, and then her eyes flash with pure adorable glee because SHE CAN SAY NO! and everyone has to acquiesce, because she had a triple bypass!!!!! (ten years ago, but she's going to milk that cow dry. )

People, I was raised by wolves. Chihuahua-sized, on my dam's side.

This explains so much! ;P

Blurt: how to know you are experiencing a depressive episode. Arguing with people on the internet has negative appeal and you actually are avoiding talking to people or informing people of your day/mood. Luckily, a mild degree of alcohol abuse is practically part of my job description... Hey, red wine is good for me, right?