moisturizing scorched grooves is *always* a good idea. Slapplication method to be negotiated between the groove owner and the moisturizerer.
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Wow Jim. What a thing to go through. Sorry for your loss, I hope your family finds peace soon.
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So sorry to hear of your loss. You were there for him, did everything you could ... a last gift. Thank you for sharing something so important.
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Shoot, Jim, only just read that.
Since Grandad died I have wished I could read more accounts of people present when relatives stopped living. I'm so glad I was there when Grandad died. Because he would have died anyway and I just feel better that I was at his side. In fact I told him to "Go home" because of his strong Catholic faith, and Mum and my sister (also Catholic) found this really comforting. He died about 15 minutes after that. I doubt he'd really heard any of us for at least 12 hours, but if it helped Mum & Law... It helps me to process my own ambivilant feelings when I read about other people present at death when it was both expected and yet the loss was felt. Thanks for sharing. |
Damn, I'd intended to post about this when I was back at my comp (I was reading on iphone) then totally forgot.
Jim, honey, what a thing to go through. I really appreciate you sharing your experience. I've been present at one death, my Dad, but it was entirely expected, with us around his bed, expected right then and there. I've also seen a colleague have a massive heart attack and fall down to the floor, never to regain consciousness, and died in the ambulance. He was midway through speaking to me at the moment his expression changed. Looking right at me. Neither of those experiences are entirely like yours, but I feel like I can make the mental leap to what that might have been like because of them. *hugs* We don't talk enough about dying in western culture. I mean, we talk about fear of dying, we talk about rates of death and we talk about disease trajectories, but we don't as a culture talk about death and dying very much at all until something hits us between the eyes. I think it's a good thing that these experiences are shared. |
My groove is scorched by Rush Limbaugh, Mitt Romney, et all.
Listening to the lies fall from their lips makes me sick and angry. I'm all for free speech, yup, even lying. But I believe it's wrong to try to persuade by being so... enthusiastically and hyperbolically misleading. From Rush today: "... the biggest tax increase in the history of the world! .... (moments later) .... and the tax will be paid to insurance companies!" It's not a tax increase. And if it is a tax increase, taxes are not paid to private companies. I have heard a couple hours of this kind of fearmongering and lying. The maddening part is that lots of people are moved by this shit. A couple more examples: "The Supreme Court has affirmed the limitless power of the federal government today." "Obamacare is not about improving heathcare, it's about the limitless expansion of the federal government and the behavioral control of the American people." "The American people know they're not going to be able to keep their doctor. It won't be long until the only place you can go for health care is the government." "The court has now said it is constitutional for a tax on more than one child." "Many more than 20 million people will lose their healthcare." I can't stand this shit. Mitt Romney's no better. I listened to his response to he made regarding the decision from the Supreme Court. In this case I have the transcript and I take issue with many of the things he said. Quote:
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Romney makes a standard pitch "you have a choice, this or that. Him or me". I have two problems with this kind of appeal. One, misrepresenting the position of one's opponent is an almost inescapable peril. Second, I can't remember any of these hypothetical propositions that was truly this OR that, exclusively. It produces the opposite of the desired effect in me, it makes this kind of appeal sound like a lie. Romney does it here like this: Quote:
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Fucking stoopid fucking Wimbledon fucking tennis.
There were only two programmes I wanted to watch tonight: the final part of a 3 part docu series (The Men Who Made Us Fat) and regular panel show, Mock the Week. Both on BBC2. Turned tv on for TMWMUF and the tennis still playing. Checked the radiotimes website and the listing is there, checked my tv's menu listings and suddenly my docu has vanished, and it's wimbers til 10. Just tried again for Mock the Week and it's still bastard tennis. And MTW has now vanished from the tv menu and its wimbers til 10:30, just in time for 'Coast' a show about the British coastline I don't watch. If indeed that goes out at all. Fucking hate Wimbledon. Bad enough it takes over BBC 2 for most of it, but the overruns and ever-lasting matches mean even the stuff that's still scheduled ends up being pulled. Dont even like tennis. Bleh. Given they're turning off the analogue signal in most areas, and everyone's moving over to freeview digital I really hope next year if the match is overrunning they can shunt the coverage over to one of the dormant bbc channels and leave the scheduled telly alone. |
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One of the big lessons we have to drill into Minifob right now is that sometimes other people are wrong, and that's okay. You just have to let them be wrong. I probably say this to him at least 2-3 times a week.
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Ahh, the false belief thing. Has Minfob told any lies yet?
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Oh yeah, all the fucking time. He has major problems with losing. Typical of his age, but he will claim in front of 15 witnesses that the ball which hit him square in the chest simply did not do so.
But those pass quickly, he does know in his heart that he's wrong, he's just covering embarrassment. It's the times when he is right that cause the most problems. He gets really irritated if someone is doing or saying something incorrectly and they won't listen to him tell them why they're wrong. I do know exactly where he gets it. :) |
Sort of like your dad telling you your eyes aren't green?
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Hey, there you go! It's my dad's fault.
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THIS is really scorching my groove today. yesterday too. i was going to go watch lurker and sometimes poster dr. froth play in his band. if i'd of gone? i'd of gone to jail. cops + me = jail. read it. the way that the fucking cops are these days...they suck. (sarge excluded of course.)
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The ONLY thing to do when police ask you to remain/detain is to say: a) Am I free to leave? (If so, leave at once.) b) Am I under arrest? On what charges? c) I am exercising my right to remain silent pending legal counsel. (It sounds ridiculous to SAY "I am exercising my right to remain silent", but apparently you have to explicitly say that, as otherwise a judge may decide you didn't exercise this right and were just obstructive.)
Unfortunate second-hand experience. Not trying to trump anyone with first-hand experience. But after reading the linked article I wonder what would've happened if every patron in the bar had refused to give up their ID and wait for it to be returned? Because this was definitely a breach of the 4th amendment. That said, I know the 4th amendment means squat in a given bar, on a given night. :mad2: |
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