I dunno what the hell happened to everyone, but this front page seems empty as hell, so here is an open thread.
For whatever reason, I am just exhausted tonight and might be in bed before midnight. Hospitals just suck the life out of me.
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I dunno what the hell happened to everyone, but this front page seems empty as hell, so here is an open thread.
For whatever reason, I am just exhausted tonight and might be in bed before midnight. Hospitals just suck the life out of me.
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Zzyzx
Phish’s guitarist has been webcasting a live 2-3 hour show for free every Friday night and I’ve been appreciating the hell out of that as it gives me something to do while the endless Corona evenings slowly roll by.
cain
@Zzyzx:
nice, that’s interesting to know!
JaySinWA
Your pinned post is sucking up all the oxygen.
Yutsano
So… Balloon Juice Among Us game?
Zzyzx
@cain:
It’s at an empty (except for the band) Beacon Theatre. It’s to raise funds for a rehab clinic he’s trying to build in Vermont.
Alas it only goes on for 2 more weeks.
lahke
Well, hospitals are full of germs, duh.
Kicked in a few bucks via Venmo. Which autofill wants to call Venom. Peter Thiel’s blood, no doubt.
Goku (Amerikan Baka)
@Yutsano:
I say Omnes is the imposter ; )
JaySinWA
Stonekettle on Franko past and Trump future. Siesta
I believed that Trump would be memory holed, but perhaps he will be the new lost cause.
Jeffro
@JaySinWA: yup
did anyone catch the Scavino farewell videos via trumpov’s Twitter feed? Oh my. Carry on, MAGAts!!
dmsilev
Comedy futures are up:
Zzyzx
@Jeffro: I tried to watch them and failed. Is there a point to them?
Mike in NC
I saw one of my doctors last week and he showed me my lab results. At the bottom of the form he wrote, “Completely Normal”. Showed it to my wife and she said “That can’t possibly be right”.
Goku (Amerikan Baka)
@Mike in NC:
LOL. Glad to hear you’re doing all right
MisterForkbeard
@Yutsano: That might actually encourage me to buy the thing.
MisterForkbeard
@Mike in NC: Your wife appears to be good people.
SFAW
@dmsilev:
Oh my. [Said in a George Takei voice]
J R in WV
@Mike in NC:
Doesn’t sound like MY doctor, either!
Glad you are as normal as however you are, tho…
I usually get a phone call from a nurse a week after I visit Doc Bill, and sometimes they want to read a bunch of number that don’t mean much to me, other times she will say “everything looks OK” which is all I want to hear.
West of the Rockies
@Zzyzx:
I was befuddled by the Scavino vids, too. Faux-stirring music and stupid imagery. The point was not clear.
Alison Rose
Congratulate me, folks, I made it through another week without cursing at a customer.
(I’m a CSR for a mail-order company and while most of the people we talk to are fine, some of them……………………………are NOT. And deserve curse words. Which I rattle off as soon as I hang up the phone. But HOW MANY TIMES did I ALMOST say them on the call? Many.)
Emma from FL
@Alison Rose: The one job I would never, ever do except in the most extreme case. You must end up with teeth tracks on your tongue. I am impressed by your fortitude.
FlyingToaster
@Jeffro: I can, alas, kinda decode them.
Dolchstoßlegende
There really isn’t anything else there. Creepy AF, though.
Alison Rose
@Emma from FL: It’s difficult, trust me! Especially because a lot of our customers are, oh say, 117 years old and they’re cranky and super slow and speak like they have marbles in their mouths. And then just in general, people are so entitled and whiny, and especially this year, I’m like BITCH STOP. Like, you’re mad that an item on backorder was supposed to come in on this day and now it won’t be here for another week or so? Did you happen to notice the fucking pandemic we’re in? Yeah, maybe your beeswax crayons* are not exactly the highest priority for shipping companies right now.
I promise I’m generally very good at being fake nice :P
(*We sell supplies and materials for Montessori schools, as well as items for the home in line with those ideals, including a lot of art products. Beeswax crayons are actually pretty neat.)
caring & sensitive
RIP Paul Hornung.
Omnes Omnibus
@Alison Rose: At the time of Katrina, my ex worked for a company that did catering for private aviation. There were people flying out of NOLA and Baton Rouge just in front the storm who complained that the champagne on the fight wasn’t what they had ordered. She had to restrain herself from shouting at them that there were people dying a few miles from them and the least they could do as they flew away in their private plane was shut the fuck up about their fucking champagne.
Omnes Omnibus
@caring & sensitive: Fuck 2020.
FlyingToaster
@Alison Rose: I feel for you.
As a customer, I’ve (only via e-mail) had to send, “okay, this was supposed to arrive yesterday/last week, you can’t seem to tell me where it is, can you give me a revised delivery date, please”.
A month ago it was an exploded gallon of detergent. Ugh. Right now it’s a missing desk (which I think someone entered the ARR date in wrong, it shoulda been next Friday). Last week it was a custom thang that is only 7 weeks late, but seems to have sat in a port for 5 weeks.
FSM bless you for not screaming at the huddled masses.
Another Scott
Decompressing after a long night at work. Have the TV on, the Tennis Channel.
A promo for an upcoming tournament in “London, Great Britain”.
:-/
Cheers,
Scott.
(“Posting from NoVA, North America…”)
caring & sensitive
@Omnes Omnibus: I expected you were a fan so I thought about specifically referencing you in my post
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Alison Rose:
Working with the public sucks, believe me I know. My workplace today updated it’s mask policy, probably in response to Mike DeWimp’s threats to shut down businesses for 24 hours who don’t enforce the mask mandate. All customers will be (politely) refused service that don’t wear masks. There were already some meltdowns over it.
My boss actually confronted the guy before I could. Told the guy, who was waiting in my line, that I wouldn’t process his order until he put on a mask. Guy said he wouldn’t put a mask on. My boss left to get a surgical mask for him. When the customer came up to the register, he tried pulling his shirt up around his face, looking ridiculous. My boss, mask in hand, quips the guy could’ve just put the mask on instead. Guy flips out,“I know, I know, I know! Get the fuck away from me!”
All of this over a piece of fucking fabric you have to wear for a short time. Most of them had this reaction. They’re being so put upon dontcha know! We’re the annoying ones!
I’m legitimately afraid for my coworkers. I’ve seen the videos and read the articles where nut-jobs pulled guns on people just for the horrendous crime of asking them to wear a mask during a pandemic
Alison Rose
@Omnes Omnibus: OMFG I don’t think I would be able to restrain myself in that case. What trash people >:(
Alison Rose
@FlyingToaster: I mean, I totally get being frustrated about things being late, I’ve been there! But what is tough for me is people acting like it’s our fault, and when I tell them the new date, they get so pissy. I’m like, yeah we’re mad too, LOL.
Tim C.
@Yutsano: Why do I sense that would end with sirens wailing in the distance.
Alison Rose
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): UGHHHHHHHHH i hate so many people. I’ve been working from home since March, and in normal times, we have a showroom where people can come in to shop. I’m so glad we’re not in the office and allowing shoppers now, because even here in our uber-blue area, I can bet we’d get plenty of anti-maskers being dicks about it.
Bill Arnold
@FlyingToaster:
The audio for the helicopter one is a reading of
“If—” by Rudyard Kipling, set to music. It’s not bad, without the video.
It is addressing a hypothetical somebody who Donald J. Trump.is not capable of being, in this universe or in any universe in this multiverse,
NotMax
Not that anyone cares but Friday the 13th turned out to be lucky as somehow managed to get 8 – count ’em, 8 – hours uninterrupted snoozing.
Granted, that occurred from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. but I’ll take it whenever it comes and am stoked about it as the entire rest of the week had been two hours here, three hours there.
sfinny
My office is moving so I went in to pack up my desk and tag the computer set-ups so I could put them back together easily on Monday. It actually went really well as I got some things done and packed up by 3 pm. Crossing my fingers for Monday when I set up the computers in the new office.
I used to get so anxious about things like this, and I still worry, but am amazed at how much calmer I am.
Omnes Omnibus
@Alison Rose: That and when the Romanian government gave some palaces back to the old Romanian royal family are the only two times she ever went Mme Defarge.
Jinchi
A niece of mine posted to Facebook “I just voted without a mask and you can too!”. I thought to myself, I did too – it’s called a mail-in ballot. But you know she’s fighting for freedom and all that. Wearing a mask is literally the least she can do to keep her neighbors safe, but it’s simply too much to ask.
piratedan
@Mike in NC: the key to reading lab results is pretty simple…. look at the numbers… if there are no asterisks, then there are no problems. Just about any reporting system for laboratory results analysis includes a normal range factor of some kind, be it numeric or alpha (negative/positive/abnormal). The reason its constructed this way is that a good many physicians don’t have a clue as to what constitutes a normal result, so the flags are there to tell them what’s what (because those ranges can vary based on age, sex and even in rare cases, race). While most of them have a basic understanding of chemistries and cell counts, that crutch is there to aid them in what types of things could be wrong… The more esoteric the result, the lesser the familiarity.. (and believe me, that’s not a knock on docs and nurses, they have a buttload of shit to keep track of, so any kind of shortcut you can give them is an absolute bonus)
sfinny
@Jinchi: I get complacent that certain areas of my life have pretty much everyone wearing a mask. The I go to my office in CT (work from home mostly) and there are people in the office with their masks down all over the place. They apologize but jeez, just wear your mask.
JoyceH
It is! I checked several times today, saw the fundraiser, and thought, darn, no new posts. But it occurred to me to scroll, and found new posts under the fundraiser. Pinned posts need to be marked in all caps, so people know to scroll down.
NotMax
@Alison Rose
Fortuitous conjunction of Prime Days and some wiggle room in the monthly budget (for a change) allowed me to give in to temptation and order a reduced price Kindle on October 13th. Here it is November 13th and not only has it not arrived, it has not even been shipped yet.
Am I frustrated? Nah. Am I angry? Nope. There are much more important things upon which to vent my spleen.
It’ll get here when it gets here or else I’ll receive a refund and wait until the next big sale.
;)
Ruckus
Some days, and this is one of those days, I don’t care if every conservative dies of, well anything.
They literally don’t seem to give a damn if they die or are killing other people, so why should I care?
I don’t like feeling like this, but the reality is that some days, I just can’t find it in me to give a fuck about willfully stupid people who want me and you and anyone who isn’t a full blown fucking racist to die.
Rant over.
Another Scott
The man’s a psychopath. Who knows what he’ll do next.
Grr…
Here’s hoping Doug Jones has a good position in the Biden administration if he wants it.
Cheers,
Scott.
JanieM
@FlyingToaster: Maybe this is a dumb question, but if it’s the stab in the back motif, which Wikipedia tells me is coded anti-semitism, is he veiledly going after, let’s say, Stephen Miller and Jared? Or am I assuming too much actual logic?
MomSense
I was so tired after work and then going to the store that I fell asleep early. Now I’m wide awake.
PaulWartenberg
Just watched the latest episode of The Mandalorian.
I swear the Doug Chiang artwork they show at the end of each episode makes me wanna buy the whole portfolio of art and get it all framed to hang at my house. If I even have any wall space left…
sfinny
@MomSense: I am somewhat awake and not able to sleep, and the thing that is completely occupying my attention is that I need to design and build a box that will cover my files, and yet allow my cat to sit atop them and sleep. Because if they are not covered, she constantly plays with them and pushes them to the floor.
Winston
Someone posted the other night some music by Edith Piaf. I remembered hearing her in a movie I believed to be Saving Private Ryan. So I rented it. Fucking great movie. Scenes so real they make you want to cry. The soldiers were playing Edit Piaf records on a gramophone just as they heard the German tanks off in the distance arriving in the town they were going to do or die defending this bridge and they did.
Yep, back to Edith Piaf. So I youtubed, googled and wikied and listened to her most of the evening. Voice. Anyway I wanted to thank the jackal who posted that tip for a pleasant evening of song and war.
Did anyone hear who won the election? ?
CaseyL
@Winston:
Four Seasons Landscaping
Winston
@dmsilev: One gets tired of laughing at Guiliani with his hand in his pants. Not!
FlyingToaster
@JanieM: Dolchstoßlegende was retconned by Hitler et.al. to blame the “other”, Jews, Gypsies, Communists, Gays, Slavs, what-have-you. Those traitors caused the loss of WWI.
It was orignally blaming the socialist politicians who agreed to the Treaty of Versailles. Since the German Empire didn’t lose in battle, but collapsed in the stalemate, they didn’t akchually lose WWI.
The reparations required by the Treaty of Versailles destroyed the Weimar Republic. You’ll notice that we didn’t make that mistake again with WWII.
So, no, it’s not about blaming Jared and S.Miller. It’s about blaming the “other”, who are all not only Democrats, but all untermenschen of various flavors. Trump wuz robbed! Robbed, I tell you!
Ivan X
@Alison Rose: congratulations!
I always try to make a point of being as pleasant and human as I am able when on the phone with a CSR because it seems like a it could be, well, difficult work sometimes. I hope to try to offset some of the dickheads. Plus, when I am nice to people, they are nice to me, imagine that.
Sorry you sometimes get shitheads on the other end of the line. I don’t know what to do about people.
Bill Arnold
@JanieM:
Well, if we want to get as conspiratorial as DJT is (for amusement purposes only), “stab in the back” could also mean that the DJT campaign thought that they had things … arranged so that they would cruise to a surprise win, but that they were stabbed in the back. Remember Trump’s 2:30 AM Nvo 4 statement where he says “We were winning everything and all of the sudden it was just called off.”.
(The rest of the conspiracy theory (tree; there are many here) left as an exercise for the reader.:-)
frosty
@Alison Rose: When you hang up do you ever think “Oh shit, did I say that out loud on the phone? I can’t remember!”
frosty
@JoyceH: ALL CAPS!!! Yeah, recommend that to Cole. I suggest an email with ALL CAPS./
Old joke but whatthehell we gets our funnies where we can.
frosty
@Winston: Yes, Saving Private Ryan was a damn good movie. The only flaw was that the plane that hit the tank at the end was a P-51 Mustang. I know they did ground attack too but it really should have been a P-47 Thunderbolt.
/WWII aircraft pedant out
frosty
Perfect! I bet all their competitors are gritting their teeth right now!
ETA: Once again, responding to a dead thread late at night. Well, I liked my pithy comments, even if no one else reads them!
Alison Rose
@frosty: I have absolutely had a few times where I thought the phone wasn’t hung up all the way and went OH FUCK. :P
Kattails
@Ruckus: You might enjoy this video by Meidas Touch; a former Marine pretty much saying that the current Republican Party is scum and need to be held accountable for the last four years. He’s urging working on getting Ossoff and Warnock into the Senate. Good ad.
Ruckus
@Kattails:
I wrote the other day that I watched an episode of the West Wing, it is one of my favs. I watched another tonight. This was the one where a Korean War vet died of exposure, sleeping on a park bench and he had Toby Ziegler’s card in the jacket he got at Good Will. It ends with a Marine Corp burial at Arlington. Even though it’s just a TV show, it is one that absolutely shows the difference between actual real human beings and the absolute dreck that calls itself the republican party. I realize that I’ve been ashamed to be an American for the last 4 yrs. Serving in the military at a time when we were in a totally bullshit war wasn’t enough, we had to actually have a president who struggles to be more than a totally spoiled 4 yr old fucking brat to make the most of my time on this rock. And his struggles always end in failure because while he acts like that spoiled fucking brat, he’s physically 70 yrs older than that spoiled fucking brat and should have figured out how to act at least like a spoiled 6 yr old fucking brat by now. So I guess I really don’t feel better about those assholes who voted for shitforbrains than I did this morning.
SFBayAreaGal
@PaulWartenberg: Me too. I want to buy all the artwork from the Mandalorian show
evodevo
@Alison Rose: I quite understand….I’m a mail carrier lol