Random Rants 80: Computer Says No

[AdamCrock]

I'm not entirely sure where to put this, but I had a very unsettling dream. In the dream, my boyfriend was killed in a car crash, and I felt overpowered by grief and other negative emotions to where I was completely useless sack of sadness for about a month of dream time. I also don't mean "a month went by" in the narrator/narrative sense, I mean time passed like normal in the dream world; I experienced this for a very, very long time. I'm not doing it justice in my description here... I felt such overwhelmingly strong negative emotion in this dream, stronger than anything I have ever felt in real life. That's the unsettling bit. Plus the time compression thing. And the death. :\

I have felt that kind of sadness when my mom was in my dream and I was 100% sure she's alive and well and then the realization came (also in a dream) that she is actually dead and I will never see her again. The moment I realized that she's dead she was strangely and suddenly gone from a dream except for the empty room and a few of her things. It is very hard to describe such overwhelming sadness but I've felt it like on maximum overload. Except for the time compression thing I can imagine how You feel ...

This might be not much of a help but have a virtual hug , least I can do. I do believe You'll shake it off soon . In my case - despite the power of the emotions, they were gone in a few hours after the dream .

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I read somewhere that if you stay quit long enough, you get most of your pre-smoking health back.

It didn't work that way for my dad.

Alcohol can be made pretty easily, i think. And out of a lot of things. Meanwhile, tobacco needs to be grown.

Fruit can ferment naturally. Just take a look at any squirrels, deer, and moose behaving oddly in the fall, and chances are that they've been feasting on fermented crabapples. There's a photo somewhere online that shows a deer that got drunk on fermented fruit... it got its antlers tangled up in the tree branches and the wildlife officers had to free it.

Just six months of not smoking is enough to clear your lungs and bloodstream.

So there's some other reason why my dad spent the last couple of years of his life on oxygen after being diagnosed with COPD, over a decade after quitting smoking?

You have a faith/religion section in your newspaper?

Most Canadian newspapers do, even if it's just a couple of regular columns on a weekly basis. More likely it's a whole page, with articles and church advertisements.

 

[Broken_Erika]

I'm not entirely sure where to put this, but I had a very unsettling dream. In the dream, my boyfriend was killed in a car crash, and I felt overpowered by grief and other negative emotions to where I was completely useless sack of sadness for about a month of dream time. I also don't mean "a month went by" in the narrator/narrative sense, I mean time passed like normal in the dream world; I experienced this for a very, very long time. I'm not doing it justice in my description here... I felt such overwhelmingly strong negative emotion in this dream, stronger than anything I have ever felt in real life. That's the unsettling bit. Plus the time compression thing. And the death. :\

I hate those kind of dreams.

 

[Takhisis]

Important notice: if you want to get the game for actually free you have to go to the giveaway page and then click on the lime-green ‘get the game free’ button. Otherwise you'll find yourself having to avert ‘accidentally’ paying ten dollars (which I do have but there is this problem called ‘newly-reinstated currency controls.’ which also makes collecting on customers a very complicated situation)

It is seriously vexing to live in a country in which politicians keep their money abroad but will make receiving or paying 50 dollars through PayPal an operation worthy of Ethan Hunt.

 

[Arakhor]

So there's some other reason why my dad spent the last couple of years of his life on oxygen after being diagnosed with COPD, over a decade after quitting smoking?

I was talking about nicotine. If he had a health condition, that's obviously going to be different.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I was talking about nicotine. If he had a health condition, that's obviously going to be different.

You do realize that people diagnosed with COPD get it mainly from being heavy smokers? Leonard Nimoy died from COPD.

My grandfather stopped smoking the year I was born. He lived another 23 years, and in his last year he was put on oxygen, after the ventolin pills weren't enough. The official cause of death was pneumonia, but he was more susceptible to that due to his lungs not having recovered from the damage done by decades of smoking.

I'm not sure what the official cause of death was for my dad. But he stopped smoking 12 years before he died. He was diagnosed with COPD after that, and eventually ended up on oxygen.

Since nicotine is what both of them were addicted to... I don't see how you can say we're talking about two different things. Stopping smoking confers some health benefits that are noticeable immediately, but you don't get magically healthy after 6 months. Some of the damage will be with you forever.

 

[Arakhor]

I'm aware of that. I never used the phrase "magically healthy" or anything similar, just that your body is free of the self-imposed toxins after six months.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I'm aware of that. I never used the phrase "magically healthy" or anything similar, just that your body is free of the self-imposed toxins after six months.

I've just given you two examples where that is simply not true. If it were true, these smokers wouldn't be afflicted with these diseases after their 6 months of being ex-smokers were up.

 

[Arakhor]

At this point, we're arguing semantics. Someone with COPD clearly does not have properly functioning lungs and general health advice is never a universal law.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

"Free of toxins" is not synonymous with "all damage repaired."

 

[JohannaK]

I'm sure he meant there's no nicotine left after 6 months, not that the damage goes away, but the way it was phrase lent itself very well to the second interpretation.

 

[Traitorfish]

In my professional capacity as a human punching bag- ah, I'm sorry, "customer resolutions agent", I speak to people from all up and down this fair land, and have found something to dislike about all of them. But far away the worst are people from Essex. For entitlement, for condescension, for aimless belligerence, they are head and shoulders above the rest.

And it occurs to me that Essex is the only region of Britain whose modern culture identity is almost entirely a product of white flight. I can't believe that is coincidental.

 

[Kyriakos]

In my professional capacity as a human punching bag- ah, I'm sorry, "customer resolutions agent", I speak to people from all up and down this fair land, and have found something to dislike about all of them. But far away the worst are people from Essex. For entitlement, for condescension, for aimless belligerence, they are head and shoulders above the rest.

And it occurs to me that Essex is the only region of Britain whose modern culture identity is almost entirely a product of white flight. I can't believe that is coincidental.

I once lived in the actual uni dorm, for three months. Then spent the rest of my uni years living in London ^_^

 

[Kyriakos]

Hm, only in Athens would you have the temple of Hephaestus next to some god-awful third world buildings :/
Had the displeasure to visit the Thesion area today.

 

[Arakhor]

Not Hephaistos? You've been Romanised, good chap!

The Thesion area? Is that also known as Thission? The link makes it seem quite interesting (if you like that sort of thing).

 

[Kyriakos]

Not Hephaistos? You've been Romanised, good chap!

The Thesion area? Is that also known as Thission? The link makes it seem quite interesting (if you like that sort of thing).

Not so curiously they happened to have sort of "missed" the area 5 meters past those old houses. Cause that is something out of Nigeria.

 

[Arakhor]

A travel guide accentuating the positive and minimising the negative? Never!

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Rant: I bought some Ritz crackers with cheese on sale at a store. I opened up the box. There was so much air inside the bag that the box may as well have been half the size.

 

[Broken_Erika]

Rant: I bought some Ritz crackers with cheese on sale at a store. I opened up the box. There was so much air inside the bag that the box may as well have been half the size.

That sounds about right.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I swear there used to be more in there.