So here's a video i slapped together of how a lot of invasions ended after a couple of hours worth of bloodshed.
They actually lived in Unga bungalows
Pick a celebrity and a product line they would create.
Keanu Reeves has a new t-shirt line, it’s called Keanu Sleaves
Pop goes the weasel
I’m and ICU doctor and run my own unit. Yesterday, I had a gentleman come in with all the classic symptoms: cough, fever, shortness of breath, and of course profound hypoxia. His CXR showed the classic diffuse bilateral infiltrate we’ve all come to immediately recognize as COVID. I told him he likely has COVID and we’re waiting for the PCR results to come back, but in the meantime we’ll start him on oxygen and medical therapy.
Well, he did not like that. He immediately went to “COVID isn’t real” and “you’re trying to kill me”. Of course he wasn’t vaccinated. He wanted to leave the hospital right away. Considering he could barely get a sentence out without needing to catch his breath I convinced him to at least spent the night.
Fast forward to this morning. Lo and behold: he’s COVID positive. Well he absolutely flipped his shit. Accused us all of all sorts of things. He immediately asked to leave the hospital again. At this point he was on 100% oxygen on a hi-flow nasal cannula, essentially one step away from being intubated, which he was adamantly against. He kept pulling his oxygen off and I kept watching his oxygen saturation dip into the high 70s.
I went into the room to talk to him. He understood he was sick. He understood his oxygen levels were low. He understood he needed treatment. He understood leaving before we had a chance to treat him would increase his chance of dying.
At every step he demonstrated capacity to make medical decisions. Besides his baseline delusion about the reality of COVID, he was totally cogent and coherent. My hands were tied, it’s a hospital not a prison and I let him sign himself out. I called the Department of Health to let them know.
He got his clothes and belongings and huffed his way out of the hospital. Apparently he made it half way to the road when he collapsed. A code was called overhead and I figured it just have been that same guy. I went down to the ER to confirm my suspicion and saw the ER doc getting ready to intubate. I called out and told him the story, that this guy doesn’t want intubation, or really any medical treatment.
So, he died. One fewer patient in my full unit.
So I'm reading Discworld for the first time (yes I know, quite late to the party on this), enjoying it so far, but one particular passage stood out to me because it so expertly called out the unfortunate tendency of fantasy authors to overly sexualize female characters using some very clever wit and humor. I thought I'd share it here because it shows that this kind of thing has been prevalent in fantasy (and to be fair, many other kinds of) literature for a long time now.
From The Light Fantastic (I don't think this counts as a spoiler since it doesn't give away any of the plot, mods please let me know if I'm wrong):
> ...this particular hero was a heroine. A redheaded one.
> Now, there is a tendency at a point like this to look over one's shoulder at the cover artist and start going on at length about leather, thighboots and naked blades.
> Words like "full," "round" and even "pert" creep into the narrative, until the writer has to go and have a cold shower and a lie down.
> Which is all rather silly, because any woman setting out to make a living by the sword isn't about to go around looking like something off the cover of the more advanced kind of lingerie catalogue for the specialized buyer.
And then Pratchett does communicate that this character is attractive, but he does so almost grudgingly, as though it's some kind of concession to the reader:
> Oh well, all right. The point that must be made is that although Herrena the Henna-Haired Harridan would look quite stunning after a good bath, a heavy-duty manicure, and the pick of the leather racks in Woo Hun Ling's Oriental Exotica and Martial Aids on Heroes Street, she was currently quite sensibly dressed in light chainmail, soft boots and a short sword.
> All right, maybe the boots were leather. But not black.
This book was published in 1986, so this was an interesting (and funny) glimpse into the fact that the hyper-sexualization of female characters in fantasy (which still persists today) has been around for a long time.
Going to be quick and concise about this, cuddling is the worst. It’s boring, it’s too warm, it’s incredibly physically uncomfortable 99% of the time due to them being on your arm or you being twisted in a weird way. All you can do is either talk to the person, sleep, or try to have sex with them which sex being the only good part of the entire thing. And did I mention it’s so boring just laying there holding someone, playing with their hair or rubbing them or doing whatever. Cuddling is up there in terms of top 5 worst parts of a relationship easily.
*Edit: wow this got a lot more attention than I was expecting: first of all sex is not the only important thing in a relationship to me at all, it was 4am when I typed this out and I was not thinking straight. Second of all I do 100% cuddle my current gf cause I know she loves it and it makes her happy. Third of all I don’t think I need therapy just because I can’t sit still for more than 10 minutes. I see the appeal of cuddling it is just so not for me and I can’t handle how god damn boring it is.
Then comment your fav song under other peoples choices.
No flaming and try not to duplicate, upvote instead
A mocha
The Eastern part is in Missouri.
For example; if someone comments Taylor Swift, reply to that comment with your favourite song of hers.
Try not to have any duplicate answers, so if someone already replied with your favourite, simply upvote the comment and/or comment with your second favourite!
Edit: Thanks for the awards and all the comments! It’s awesome to see such a diversified music taste!
