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The Old Hack
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*grumblemuttergrumble* It's my bloody birthday and still it is that bollocking mathematical formula that gets all the well wishes. Weren't some lawmakers trying to change it into 4 for ease of use anyway?
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Please tell me that you are keeping a careful eye on Gomer Pyle. If he steers the hovercraft into the negative polarity they will need to build additional pylons again, all just so he can escape through a crack in the event horizon.
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The Moderator: This is getting pretty deep into political territory and I am worried about where it is going. Could you please resolve the rest of the discussion in private messages? ~tOH.
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I guess that means I was way off base when I offered, "Eight if they are skinny, four if they are fat." *scratches head*
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Show me round your fruit cakes 'Cause I will be your honey bee Open up your fruit cakes Where the fruit is as sweet as can be...
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It is possible Zeus is a good dancer. At least he seems very eager to go to parties, so maybe he likes to dance?
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Les XXIIIes Jeux olympiques d'hiver
The Old Hack replied to Pharaoh RutinTutin's topic in Off Topic Discussion
When all you have is an orbital strike cannon, every problem looks like a target zone. -
I have a question for the next Q&A. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could and would chuck wood?
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Due to my own condition not being very well understood I was misdiagnosed at first. I spent seven years on an antipsychotic that did nothing for me save slowing me down and making me gain weight. I finally rebelled against my doctors and stopped using it, which immensely improved my quality of life -- relatively speaking. Unfortunately it also undermined my trust in medical professionals so I refused to take any medication at all after that. It took my wife-to-be four years to persuade me to try again with an antidepressant this time. Doctors are not perfect and patients are not always reasonable. Nonetheless we have to work with what we have. Superstitions about how mental illnesses affect their sufferers and how medication acts do not make this easier, unfortunately.
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My mother suffered from clinical depression as well. No medication was available for her. She dealt with it through alcohol and eventually drank enough to ruin four lives. My paternal grandfather was somewhat more fortunate. He suffered from bipolar disorder. While his marriage still fell apart, he eventually (in 1960) was fortunate enough that a working medication for his illness was invented. He lived out the remainder of his life far more stable and content. Still earlier, of course, people with such problems were merely assumed to be malingerers or possibly suffering from lunacy. If they gave trouble enough they tended to be locked up, driven out or simply left to die. I would suggest you look up early asylums or medieval bedlams, but do so only if you feel confident in the strength of your stomach.
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I've tried to find it. It was posted in the forums, quoted from Facebook or possibly Tumblr, not sure which. I haven't been able to yet; I am still looking.
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This has been true of medicine as long as it has existed. The opinions of those directly involved don't count. I remember reading about how Dr. Semmelweiss became the laughingstock of medical professionals in Austria because he recommended that you start washing your hands before assisting with births. He had learned this from observing midwives deliver babies, noticed that the fatality rate in births they oversaw was much lower and determined that it was the hand washing and clean environment that made the difference. This was clearly ridiculous because he had learned it from women and after all, what do women know about giving birth?
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Story, Monday March 12, 2018
The Old Hack replied to Servant of Tara Gilesbie's topic in Comic Discussion
Christine was exactly what I had in mind. Of course, it might also just have been a Ford Pinto. -
Actually... no. Dan himself stated that Sirleck avoided it due to being on another plane while possessing Ellen. When between possessions Sirleck enters the physical plane and becomes visible as well as vulnerable to effects on that plane. He is safe from such effects as long as he is possessing someone.
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If they can do that where you live, then your laws are criminally lax. In Denmark the only way to buy antidepressants is with a doctor's prescription. And ordinary doctors in Denmark will decline to write prescriptions for this kind of drug if there hasn't been a psychiatrist involved initially and judged the use of such medication necessary. And superstitions are all well and good (or bad) but I entirely fail to see what they have to do with the level of happiness anywhere, save possibly indirectly.
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Story, Monday March 12, 2018
The Old Hack replied to Servant of Tara Gilesbie's topic in Comic Discussion
Maybe the car was actually an Aberration and got destroyed when Pandora cast her last big spell. -
Story, Monday March 12, 2018
The Old Hack replied to Servant of Tara Gilesbie's topic in Comic Discussion
The Moderator: Please. No political comments. They serve no purpose in the discussion thread and all they achieve is baiting flame wars. ~tOH. -
Story, Monday March 12, 2018
The Old Hack replied to Servant of Tara Gilesbie's topic in Comic Discussion
I believe the expression goes "Situation normal, all effed up." -
That was also the joke in our playing group. We envisioned Torm 'stealthily' entering Zhentil Keep and imagined Fzoul Chembryl, Lord Manshoon and all their guards and henchmen going, "Oh crap, there's Torm again. Everybody, pretend you don't notice him!"
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Oh, we can go still further back.
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And a bit further back, too.
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That happened to me once when I was reading a densely printed D&D rulebook. I managed to skip a line with the following result. The book was describing one of the paladin-god Torm's avatar shapes. Twelve feet tall, surrounded by divine light, causing awe and fear in all of evil alignment who beholds him and wielding a great flaming sword. I then went on to read, "It is this form he uses when he intends to be discreet." I did a rather large double take, then noticed the line I had skipped. It covered a more reasonable six feet tall form in traveler's clothes who looked like a weatherbeaten mercenary. That made a bit more sense.
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Ah yes. Kitsune.
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Exceptions do exist, mind.
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Foxes can be surprisingly gnomic. I know of one nearby who communicates entirely in Zen koans.
