Allow me a rant

[Architect]

Allow me a rant on the medical system.

I went into a simple Dermatology appointment to get the moles checked. For background, the medical system is knife-happy. Rather than risk litigation they'd prefer to just 'take it off the table', whether it's a mole, appendix, prostate or uterus. If it looks at them funny they want to cut it out (and collect a hefty fee on their way to the next patient).

So they want to cut off a mole which has happily coexisted with me these many decades. A simple procedure, but its going to unfortunately break my streak of never having had surgery or stitches. At any rate its nicely bleeding (my herbal supplementation program includes blood thinners for cardiovascular health, but they screwed up and didn't send me the pre-operative instructions in time, so I didn't know to go off them). Anyhow they have a nice Medieval cauterizing machine to contain that which proceeded to give me what felt exactly like a house voltage shock in my right arm.

It jerked off the table and practically decked the surgeon, I think I secretly wanted to. Later I examined the specs on the machine and found that yes, it uses 480V P-P 120Hz current to cauterize. Nice design, except you can't let the fucking patient be grounded. The goddamn operating table was grounded all over, and it took me an hour of explaining basic electricity to the medical drones what that meant. Fortunately the arm was on the same side, if it was the opposite side the current would have gone through the heart which can stop it.

I'm a cool person, I just wanted to make sure it wouldn't happen to anybody else and wasn't interested in litigating. But I got the run around trying to talk to the manager, she was 'busy'. And they sent in the loudest Se dominant nurse in for 'patient management'. Eventually I find out "oh, well that happens sometimes".

God damn fucking whore licking dick weeds who wouldn't know a wound from a hole in the ground. I used to teach medical students basic physics, I forgot how stupid these people are.

 

[TimeAsylums]

> First reaction:

WTF O_O

> second

LMAO.


The system failed
Someone fucked up
The specialists fucked up



Hmm...it appears the patient is ... angry, it seems he'll need brain surgery



Oh, and if you did/do indeed have a reason to litigate, you better lol

 

[Jennywocky]

Administrators and button-mashers playing doctor. Thrilling stuff.

Actually (to hit on one thing you mentioned), they tend to avoid prostate surgery unless you're young and have something like cancer. There's too many nerves running through there and they're in more danger of messing something up; if you're old, they'll figure you'll die of old age before a prostate issue will kill you.

(My ex-FIL got his out because he was young when he got cancer, and it was a pretty delicate operation.)

But yes, things seem to be about risk-managing... except for stupidity involved in not understanding how the machines work.

 

[EditorOne]

:-)

I had what turned out to be a wart on my forearm cauterized the same way. The doc fooled and fooled with the tool. "They got me a new one, said the old one was too old. Nobody showed me how to use it yet. OH!! There it goes! OK!"

I've been stitched up and had surgery quite a bit for various dings, nicks and defective joints, so I took it all in stride; after they use a redhot paper clip to poke a hole in your fingernail to relieve the pressure of a blood blister with nowhere to expand, you kind of realize sometimes they're McGyvering. But: I'm glad I didn't know what you just wrote before he started shaking the cauterizer to make it work. :-)

 

[Architect]

please continue the thread with your rants, I'd like this to be a place for people to vent their unsavory biles.

"Allow me to rant about ..."

 

[Call Me Fishmael]

Why do people get drunk? I don't understand. Not only does alcohol taste and smell bad for the most part, but it stops you from being in control of yourself. Do people have that much to run from? Learn to speak your mind without substances and you'll be in a much better place. Fuck drinking. And smoking. What the shit are people doing to themselves? Putting poison in your body so you can "have fun." Why? Jesus fuck.

 

[TheTryHard]

Why do people get drunk? I don't understand. Not only does alcohol taste and smell bad for the most part, but it stops you from being in control of yourself. Do people have that much to run from? Learn to speak your mind without substances and you'll be in a much better place. Fuck drinking. And smoking. What the shit are people doing to themselves? Putting poison in your body so you can "have fun." Why? Jesus fuck.

You do that instead of drugs if you're stupid. Kidding. On a serious note though, multiple illegal drugs have more pleasurable effects and are less of a health risk, which brings me to my rant.

Fuck this democracy. I hate the fact that stupid people have the deciding effect on everything. War on drugs. Schooling system that failed to significantly improve over the last century. Manipulative advertising and products of some companies. Nuclear reactors being an amazing source of energy being replaced by coal plants because the average idiot thinks they're dangerous. People who will have trouble changing disorder containing DNA from their baby when the technology allows it because some fucking moron thinks that's unethical. Medical research is being slowed down for decades and potentially millions of people are dying because the local useless retard feels bad about the fact that a few monkeys or volunteer humans have to be used as test subjects for research, so the useless fuck that he is, he makes sure that the researchers that change the world and get no credit not only have to drop their carriers but also hide from civilization . This is just off the top of my head, there are countless things that could be radically changed for the better of the same people who are preventing those changes. Presidential campaigns and all other voting ordeals are a competition of who is the best shitter, who can spit out the best bullshit that is appealing to the majority. The best shitter gets chosen and he can only run from radical changes like it's the devil itself because narrow minded majority believes in the way it is, and politicians have to kiss the ass of the mass. It's their only true job. If they for a second try to tell the ignorant idiots that represent a little over 50% what is better for them they get replaced by another ass kissing shitter before they can say "fuck this system". No one in the world has the power to do anything that resembles necessary evil, anything that doesn't seem good to an imbecile. Average people know nothing about war, medicine, psychology etc. yet they get to influence decisions the most.

Sorry for the language, there is no other way to express how I feel about the system.

I have no idea what could replace the current state of democracy. I guess that human nature prevents any system from being perfect. You would have to convince ignorant people to lower the power of their vote for their own good. Good luck accomplishing that. I'm looking forward for some of your ideas though!

 

[Cheeseumpuffs]

God damn fucking whore licking dick weeds

I found this sentence oddly refreshing.

Why do people get drunk?

Because they enjoy the feeling, presumably.

Not only does alcohol taste and smell bad for the most part,

I wholeheartedly agree.

but it stops you from being in control of yourself.

I wholeheartedly disagree. It's not about control, at least not in my experience. I've known people who act out of control while on it but I think that's more them using alcohol as an excuse to be a bad person than it is alcohol causing them to lose control.

Fuck drinking. And smoking. What the shit are people doing to themselves? Putting poison in your body so you can "have fun." Why? Jesus fuck.

Why not? I'd say "poison" is a strong word (though not entirely incorrect) and I'd also say "having fun" is a bit oversimplified as far as motivation goes (although again it's not entirely incorrect).

 

[DrGregoryHouse]

Administrators and button-mashers playing doctor. Thrilling stuff.

...

This. Don't forget to add the lawyers, insurance companies, and international stock exchange pharmaceutical companies to this list.

Too many morons, self serving and otherwise, entrenched in what ought to be high places (and where most of us rather honest simple folk assume there are...NOT!).

I left medical school voluntarily for this reason.

Couldn't stand the levels of douchebaggery.

Health Care isn't as much about the science anymore. The truth is there is so much more money to be made through other aspects of manipulating folks in need of medical care.

 

[Architect]

Follow up, one of the moles turned out to be a pencil lead I got stuck with in the fourth grade. Archeology ...

 

[TheScornedReflex]

Imma rant about THD's banning!!! Hado you fucker! Imma cut you in ways you didn't think possible!!! Not deep enough to kill but you will feel every slice. Begging for me to stop it. Then for me to hurry up and kill you, but I won't. I'll let you suffer. I'll rub salt in the wounds. I'll, I'll..

Okay, I'm done now >>

 

[Alias]

Oooh, not good. Now I wonder about the mole removing process. Seems more like a kid playing with electrical circuits than a doctor. Such a shame, the medical field would be so much cooler with nice, smart doctors.

 

[DrGregoryHouse]

Follow up, one of the moles turned out to be a pencil lead I got stuck with in the fourth grade. Archeology!

Lead or graphite? Lead could be almost worse than melanoma over the course of so many years...depending on the depth.

If it was lead...doubt you are THAT old...it doesn't seem to have affected your cognitive abilities...though if it was lead you'd be that much smarter which, for humanities sake is scary as f*&%.

 

[Architect]

Lead or graphite? Lead could be almost worse than melanoma over the course of so many years...depending on the depth.

Don't know. I worried as a kid then forgot about it. The lab just noted it was a yellowish-brown foreign object, and then I remembered the pencil stab that ended up looking like a mole.

If it was lead...doubt you are THAT old...it doesn't seem to have affected your cognitive abilities...though if it was lead you'd be that much smarter which, for humanities sake is scary as f*&%.

I was tested for lead contamination some years ago which came up nil, also have a mild ongoing chelation program as part of my regime.

 

[dark+matters]

please continue the thread with your rants, I'd like this to be a place for people to vent their unsavory biles.

"Allow me to rant about ..."

*dances and claps* This is pretty much perfect... because DAYUM I'm cranky.

*goes behind sound-proof wall and begins gesturing wildly at the people inside her mind*

You've spent your entire life completely focused on your own feelings. And you know what? You're self-absorbed to the point that you can't comprehend it. It's got nothing to do with book smarts or street smarts... the fact that you think I care about either points to your impulsivity- your desire to leap to a quick fix... to a stereotype... to a cliche... to the quickest, easiest thing, like your fucking artwork and rehearsal style shows. The kind of understanding I'm saying that you lack has got to do with knowing yourself and being able to put yourself in someone else's shoes. And you're so absorbed in your own feelings, that you aren't capable of empathizing with others anymore. You and the others like you all set yourselves on a path which will make you not just useless to society, but a minor irritation. You're freeloaders- you're civic freeloaders... give me, give me, give me... now, now... It has nothing to do with money, you idiots. It has to do with how captivated you are with the shiny someone twirls in front of you. But you are training to become more animal than human, after all. If it hasn't happened yet, it will. Oh, it will- to all but the most SP of you.

You know why the first thing your mind went to was narcissism when you decided to bully me? Because it's on your mind. You think about this a lot. You obviously read a self help book about it and Googled it when you were getting a divorce or when you did your first couple of shows and they sucked... the people sucked and you wanted to make it right, but you couldn't, so you grabbed the quick fix and put it onto others... perhaps rightly so. But now... you're aware of this in yourself and others. A moralizer moralizes about himself, and that is evident in the things you say when you spew up your passive aggressive thought vomit. I knew you for how many days?!?! Irresponsible!

Why are you so fat? I don't care, not one bit- probably unlike a lot of the people in your life. You aren't aware of all the people I've cared about who are even larger. But it does point to a need to self-soothe, and to appear on the up and up- no drugs or anything. The fact that you think I would care about something as inane as the minor differences in appearance of billions of nearly identical people only highlights your shallowness, your ignorance, your misunderstanding, your trite dependence on adult fairy tales and your emotional self-absorbpton. I won't even go where I could on an anonymous rant. Because alllll that other stuff is beside the point.

This is the level of self-absorption we're dealing with here, and it's in the rest of you people too. You're training in order spend the rest of it on your own damned pointless feelings. You aren't capable of even looking outside of yourselves anymore. Everything that happens in this world only matters if it has somehow invoked your feelings. Is it any wonder that you've become bullies? I would say it was inevitable. When you deliberately stop thinking, train to act on impulse and to use your emotions as the basis for your ethics, you fit the criteria for antisocial personality disorder. The choices you made for the training you received turned you into a modern day witches. Theater should not be taught in college.

You fucking bureaucracy. You argue everything from authority. You social climbing, conceptual copying-pasting, predictably desperate to save-face, unthinking, unquestioning idiots. You aren't half the English scholars you know who is and he teaches children- I mean ones in elementary school! How in fuck's name do you have twice the pedigree and half the competence as someone who teaches elementary school?! I have read your shit, and it does not contribute much to the canon of English literature!!! Jesus!!!!

Don't answer that last question. File it away with the bureaucracy. That's your emotional self-absorption... that's your self-soothing... your drug. Your papers and your offices and your Fe-manipulations behind closed doors.

You know what you're training these people to do? You're training them to become sociopaths. You're taking the public's money and training little gossips... little people who throw their emotions around in order to get whatever it is they want, when they want it, without thinking about the bigger picture... I don't think they were born that way, but they're going to stay that way after you're done with them. Why are you doing it?

You're doing it for money. You're not doing these naive teenagers any favors. You're dooming them to lifetimes of customer service, if not debt too.

Money. Power. Secrets. Praise. Don't think about any of it... don't do it. Just look from side to side at your coworkers doing the same thing day in and day out and let that comfort you.

And that's another thing... you self-loathing, racist, violent-fantasizing, uncouth little thug. I couldn't have phrased it better than you did yourself! You have low self-esteem and that's why you threaten and demean other people! How are you so ignorant that you don't know that at age 20?! I don't understand how it's possible to base your world view on comic books!!!! Why would anyone want to do that?! And I love comic books!!!

And you... you didn't stop it. You're a coward shirking your duty. And you've got some blinders on if you're saying that behind my back when you've got kids. Allllllllll fake...

Okay, I'm tired now. I bet I'll have more later though.

 

[redbaron]

Just open a Tumblr account already.

 

[dark+matters]

Just open a Tumblr account already.

Who? Moi? I have a blog already. I wouldn't want to waste anyone's time with something as pointless as pure hatred on there. I thought we were ranting on this thread so that we could live vicariously through each others' anger while we're feeling cranky.

 

[EditorOne]

Ha! I get a Cliff Clavin moment!

Lead pencils were never made of lead. The term apparently got started when graphite, you know, well, was mistaken for lead when it was discovered in, ahhhh, pure form in the 1400s. Yeah, they called it plumbago ore and, ahhh, "lead pencil," well, it's also, little known fact, ahhh, like, the world's longest-running uncorrected word usage error.

Cliff Clavin's theories on beer:
https://youtu.be/k6GTZrcoWEM?list=PLayd-NZlF4gx3dR2uVOT7kJGsrFebMr4f

 

[Jennywocky]

Follow up, one of the moles turned out to be a pencil lead I got stuck with in the fourth grade. Archeology ...

I still have one stuck in my right knee from second grade (I remember the boy who did it, I can't remember whether I managed to stick him back but I think he was left-handed -- supported by which knee he managed to get), and another from middle school in the palm of my right hand.

But at least Cliff, err, Editor, has offered some reassuring info...

Sadly, I've outlived the kid who stabbed me; later in life, he was embroiled in a physics experiment evaluating how much energy a human body could absorb when traveling at a high rate of speed...

... oh wait, Rant thread -- WHY AREN'T NEWSPAPER ARTICLES AND OBITS WRITTEN WITH SCIENCE IN MIND?? No, we get stories about car crashes and apartment fires, but they would be far more interesting couched in language explaining the rules of natural law. We're being short-changed as a culture.

Spoiler

 

[Architect]

Lead pencils were never made of lead.

Shit like that makes me happy. Lead is used in paint (only marine and military now) because it is composed of little flat plates that form a tough interlocking protective layer as the paint dries. I assumed it was used as a dopant in graphite pencils for similar reasons.

 

[DrGregoryHouse]

...later in life, he was embroiled in a physics experiment evaluating how much energy a human body could absorb when traveling at a high rate of speed...

... oh wait, Rant thread -- WHY AREN'T NEWSPAPER ARTICLES AND OBITS WRITTEN WITH SCIENCE IN MIND?? No, we get stories about car crashes and apartment fires, but they would be far more interesting couched in language explaining the rules of natural law. We're being short-changed as a culture.

Spoiler

YES

'mericu would just show up all of a sudden and squish that MFing bunny with a tank in the next frame, machine gun down all the birds in the sky, bulldoze a highway stright and flat through the center of that mountain, redirect that stream to a nuclear plant 100 miles away, chainsaw every last tree, install insta-suburbia asphalt sprawl everywhere the eye can see complete with Taco Bells and Wal Marts every 100 yards, and for final good measure 'mericu would send a 100 Centillion megaton Hydrogen Bomb into the center of the sun to dim it permanently for good measure.

(I guess this sort of morphed into my rant for the day)

Spoiler

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX5ZRE26YWM

 

[not]

I miss the R.E.A.L. Architect. Parker Lewis can't lose. The new and improved Architect sounds like a whiner from the Bronx, 17 years old at best. I miss those blonde locks you have. Meeting the real you in person mattered to me. The black man that stole your account tries to impersonate you but really comes across bland.

 

[Pyropyro]

Follow up, one of the moles turned out to be a pencil lead I got stuck with in the fourth grade. Archeology ...

Hmm...

*prepares expedition for Archie's skin*

Wonder if I can get diamonds there. o_0

 

[Alias]

I miss the R.E.A.L. Architect. Parker Lewis can't lose. The new and improved Architect sounds like a whiner from the Bronx, 17 years old at best. I miss those blonde locks you have. Meeting the real you in person mattered to me. The black man that stole your account tries to impersonate you but really comes across bland.

Wait, what did I miss? Architect had or has fancy blonde hair?

But Architect's black now? And his posts are somehow declining in quality? Man, I'm backwards.