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Post by Smithee on Nov 15, 2009 22:36:01 GMT -5
I just don't want to get it, not because it might give me autism (which it obviously won't), but I know I've had future problems from new medication before, and I'd rather avoid that.
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Post by susanismyalias on Nov 15, 2009 22:52:25 GMT -5
I must rant again about things that are inconvenient for me while walking around town. The cars that drive around my neighborhood will not use their blinkers. Thus, I cannot tell when they want to turn. This makes me stand on the corner of the sidewalk for several minutes, looking like a total dork, while the car is waiting for me to cross. I get waved along, then the car turns exactly where I was crossing, which is what I was waiting for him to do in the first place. I understand that pedestrians have the right of way, but sometimes I don't feel comfortable making the driver of a 4,000 pound SUV sit at an intersection while I walk across the street. You live in the Portland area yeah? Just driving there makes me chainsmoke, and I almost NEVER smoke, unless I have been drinking. |
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Post by muteKi on Nov 15, 2009 22:55:12 GMT -5
/me has been showing Atma all kinds of examples of this. Still, one need only look at husband/wife duo of Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey as a prime example of the crazies that are out there promoting such a strange way of thinking. It degrades autistic children, too (consider McCarthy parading her autistic child around as a prop, saying, "THIS is my science!").
In any case, it's highly recommended. Ever heard of herd immunity?
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Post by Haz on Nov 16, 2009 10:54:43 GMT -5
Yeah, up here everyone's getting the treatment (lining up around blocks for miles and stuff like that) and I've heard few bad things happening from it.
Another thing that pisses me off is when my college professors tell me that Wikipedia is not a credible source. Yeah... because it EXISTS to be vandalized, and not used for information like it actually is. Fuck 'em.
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Post by muteKi on Nov 16, 2009 12:37:26 GMT -5
Hahaha, my professors use Wikipedia as a source more often than I do. Still, its main use to me is a starting point for other useful sources. It has plenty of excellent external links.
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Post by Jave on Nov 16, 2009 19:50:23 GMT -5
I think the term I used at work today, which got a few laughs, was "The boy who cried outbreak."
And I think it's really hit that point. I'm actually a bit of a germophobe myself, and it's really hit the point where I've been freaked out of my wits so many times that I just can't take it seriously anymore. I remember back in (I think) June when the story first broke (I had sinusitis that week, and several people asked me if I'd been to Mexico) and my first though upon hearing it was "Oh boy, here we go again!"
I wonder if the cable news execs were read bedtime stories as children. It doesn't take rocket science to figure out that, one day, something really threatening will be on the horizon, and everyone will have been so burned out from fake threats and molehills that they won't pay the slightest attention.
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Post by Feynman on Nov 17, 2009 1:43:57 GMT -5
I must rant again about things that are inconvenient for me while walking around town. The cars that drive around my neighborhood will not use their blinkers. Thus, I cannot tell when they want to turn. This makes me stand on the corner of the sidewalk for several minutes, looking like a total dork, while the car is waiting for me to cross. I get waved along, then the car turns exactly where I was crossing, which is what I was waiting for him to do in the first place. I understand that pedestrians have the right of way, but sometimes I don't feel comfortable making the driver of a 4,000 pound SUV sit at an intersection while I walk across the street. You live in the Portland area yeah? Just driving there makes me chainsmoke, and I almost NEVER smoke, unless I have been drinking. Ugh. I live not too far from Portland, and driving through Portland is like trying to find your way through a fucking labyrinth. Between all the one way streets, the winding, curving roads, and bridge system designed by the Marquis de Sade, I don't understand how anybody can live there without going completely mad. Just trying to find my way to Powell's Books was like searching for the holy grail. |
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Post by camanchi on Nov 17, 2009 13:45:17 GMT -5
LOL I'm not going to bother getting the vaccine either. I never get flu shots or anything and I'm rarely sick. |
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Post by Haz on Nov 18, 2009 17:56:44 GMT -5
Losing cash. =/
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Post by camanchi on Nov 19, 2009 15:14:31 GMT -5
Having a manager get pissed at you because she doesn't believe you got in a car accident and found out about having an fairly serious illness in the same week. lol
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Post by America Young Fusion on Nov 20, 2009 21:20:57 GMT -5
Sucking at new school Resident Evil games.
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Post by Smithee on Nov 21, 2009 9:30:33 GMT -5
Getting the shot to day according to the mother.
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Post by zogbog on Nov 21, 2009 15:51:15 GMT -5
being asked to be artistic.
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Post by Jave on Nov 21, 2009 16:21:42 GMT -5
being asked to be artistic. Tell me about it. I knew a guy who used to go on and on about "the emotional impact" of certain types of music, which sounds pretty good in a forum, until you try to define "emotional impact" and quickly realize that it's just an catch-all phrase he was using to simply dismiss anything he didn't like and still have it sound like he had an authoritative reason. Actually, that might be something else. What kind of people bug you about being artistic? |
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Post by America Young Fusion on Nov 22, 2009 21:17:48 GMT -5
I've just discovered that video walkthroughs for games where the person who made the video talks piss me the living fuck off. People really really really really need to stop doing that.
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