Random thing you loathe right now.

Teneman wrote:

No, no, it wasn't Oily. This is the loathe thread, remember? ;)

Lol, good to hear.
/goes unpacks guns from car

Dr_Awkward wrote:

Happy twelve thousandth post, Thread of Loathing!
Man that's a lot of vitriol.

Thankfully, there's a whole lot of sympathy and well-wishing mixed in there. IIRC, better than half the thread was good vibes at one point.

m0nk3yboy wrote:
Yoreel wrote:

Oversleeping. Had a big discussion last night about me getting up at 6:30 to give my wife an extra hand with the baby, and I totally dropped the ball and overslept. So disappointed my wife, on Valentine's day, she is rightfully angry at me, and I'm still tired. No one to blame but myself, but still loathe that I'm an idiot.

Grab the date page from today's calendar, stick it on the fridge tonight before you go to bed, and do what you were going to do today, tomorrow. Do the same thing on Thursday, and Friday, then make a picnic lunch or breakfast, and have that on Saturday. It's tough with a baby, so keep it small. Even if you do the 'crazy' of setting out the picnic rug in your lounge room, and having your picnic indoors at home. Different enough, but still close to all things needed if the wee one needs some attention.

Hang in there. It's tough being the Dad too sometimes, it's just never worse than being the Mum, so we kind of have to triage the venting.

There are vast amounts of truth in this.

Tigerbill wrote:
Teneman wrote:

No, no, it wasn't Oily. This is the loathe thread, remember? ;)

Lol, good to hear.
/goes unpacks guns from car

Heh.

Well, thanks for the support, Bill.

Leave him alone, though, his wife and kids probably care about him and they're pretty nice.

oilypenguin wrote:
Tigerbill wrote:
Teneman wrote:

No, no, it wasn't Oily. This is the loathe thread, remember? ;)

Lol, good to hear.
/goes unpacks guns from car

Heh.

Well, thanks for the support, Bill.

Leave him alone, though, his wife and kids probably care about him and they're pretty nice.

Ouch, hurtful! See if you get anything from the bottle I set out to bring tomorrow.

Although if we're lucky, we won't have another day like today where we need it for awhile.

To continue with UPS:

Their web interface has the absolute worst "file a claim" system I can imagine.

You, as the recipient of the package, need to create an account with them and then fill out page after page of crap. I needed to know the complete address for the shipper (fortunately the company posts that, but many company have a different "contact us" address from their actual shipping warehouse, and the web interface does check for garbage because I tried to put garbage in the zip code and phone for the sender), and some other info. Also, when the process was done, the website told me that since I'm just the recipient, they may not take any action at all. Awesome, fellas.

Listen.

The package is on the truck.

Say it with me, UPS.

The package is on the truck.

It is small and it has simply become lost by your driver. There is apparently no accountability system for, "Jeez, Bob, we scanned this package onto your truck like, 5 days ago and you haven't delivered it yet, WTF?" Find the package, bring it to my house, and put it on the doorstep. Since it's UPS, bonus points for not ringing the doorbell and still making enough noise to make the dog wake me up an hour after I got to sleep.

Finding out that we need to take my 7-year old in for a full body MRI because the ultrasound they did on her stomach when they were diagnosing a UTI last week showed a cyst on her pancreas. (As a bonus on top of that, my wife's grandfather, who died in december, died of pancreatic cancer...)

Holy sh*t Mudbunny. Hoping for good news from the MRI for you.

0_0

Damn. Hoping for the best for your daughter, MB.

I don't loathe, but am dissapoint that beautiful things are expensive.

Damn mud, may she be well. Hopefully it was just her awesomeness throwing off the ultrasound equipment.

Ugh, that's awful.

mudbunny wrote:

Finding out that we need to take my 7-year old in for a full body MRI because the ultrasound they did on her stomach when they were diagnosing a UTI last week showed a cyst on her pancreas. (As a bonus on top of that, my wife's grandfather, who died in december, died of pancreatic cancer...)

Jeez dude, that's awful. Give my best to your family, I hope she's OK.

EA, and their way of throwing s**t (metaphorical term for DLC) in our faces.

Whichever unfortunate soul at work saw fit to leave his literally-sh*t-filled underpants on the bathroom floor.

Jonman wrote:

Whichever unfortunate soul at work saw fit to leave his literally-sh*t-filled underpants on the bathroom floor.

What a jerk move. I don't care how crappy your day is, you just don't do that.

Yoreel wrote:
Jonman wrote:

Whichever unfortunate soul at work saw fit to leave his literally-sh*t-filled underpants on the bathroom floor.

What a jerk move. I don't care how crappy your day is, you just don't do that.

Pretty crappy, I'd say.

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Yoreel wrote:
Jonman wrote:

Whichever unfortunate soul at work saw fit to leave his literally-sh*t-filled underpants on the bathroom floor.

What a jerk move. I don't care how crappy your day is, you just don't do that.

I know, right? There's spare garbage bags in every garbage bin in the building. Captain Crappypants could have returned to the scene of the crime with one to clean up, but no, that would be too difficult.

Jonman wrote:

Whichever unfortunate soul at work saw fit to leave his literally-sh*t-filled underpants on the bathroom floor.

You guys have problems with that type of foolishness too, eh? You'd think offices full of highly-educated professionals wouldn't have major issues with people who can't aim, can't flush, can't get things in the bowl, etc.

Jonman wrote:
Yoreel wrote:
Jonman wrote:

Whichever unfortunate soul at work saw fit to leave his literally-sh*t-filled underpants on the bathroom floor.

What a jerk move. I don't care how crappy your day is, you just don't do that.

I know, right? There's spare garbage bags in every garbage bin in the building. Captain Crappypants could have returned to the scene of the crime with one to clean up, but no, that would be too difficult.

You should have placed them in a communal area in a makeshift 'lost and found' box.

Kraint wrote:
Jonman wrote:

Whichever unfortunate soul at work saw fit to leave his literally-sh*t-filled underpants on the bathroom floor.

You guys have problems with that type of foolishness too, eh? You'd think offices full of highly-educated professionals wouldn't have major issues with people who can't aim, can't flush, can't get things in the bowl, etc.

Public bathroom etiquette (or lack thereof) blows my mind.

Kraint wrote:
Jonman wrote:

Whichever unfortunate soul at work saw fit to leave his literally-sh*t-filled underpants on the bathroom floor.

You guys have problems with that type of foolishness too, eh? You'd think offices full of highly-educated professionals wouldn't have major issues with people who can't aim, can't flush, can't get things in the bowl, etc.

Thanks to DG Radio, I can't read stories like these without hearing the Poo Crimes theme in my head.

Low-life, scum-sucking, crystal-healing, chakra-balancing, cupping, needling motherf*cking quacks.

Yeah, I'm talking to you, you acupuncturist piece of sh*t.

Remember the pretty young woman who came to see you a few months ago because her stomach was feeling more full and tense? The one you told had an imbalance in her kidney chi due to toxins? The one you merrily strung along with expensive sessions of useless needling for months on end while her belly got bigger and bigger? THE ONE YOU SHOULD HAVE TOLD TO SEE A DOCTOR IMMEDIATELY?

I saw her today. I ultrasounded her today. I saw her CT today.

I was there when she found out about the giant cyst filling her abdomen from the ovarian cancer she didn't know she had.

The cancer that will likely kill her now.

The cancer we might have saved her from a couple of months ago.

But no. You "natural doctors" with your f*cking made-up credentials and complete lack of any accountability to any agency were there to make sure that didn't happen.

If an actual physician had screwed up like this, he'd be held to account. There would be a case-report given in a morbidity-and-mortality conference, so we could figure out how such a horrible mistake could happen. But then, a real physician wouldn't have let her get to this point without a workup.

But you? No accountability. You've carefully ensured that what you do is "entertainment" and the pseudo-medications that you give out are "food-supplements", so that you can't get sued for malpractice no matter how badly you f*ck things up.

So keep sneering about "Western medicine" and keep announcing the superiority of powdered tiger's testicles for asthma/cancer/diabetes. Keep entertaining the people with more money than sense. The ones who would rather use an "ancient remedy" than get some sleep, eat a reasonable diet, and exercise once in a damned while to stay healthy. Meanwhile, we'll do what we can for the latest of your victims. We'll do our best to save this one, although you've already taken away almost all her hope.

She's not even thirty yet. I'm not sure she'll get there now.

f*ck you. I can't say that strongly enough.

f*ck you.

Your words make me angry at those people too.

Coldstream wrote:

Low-life, scum-sucking, crystal-healing, chakra-balancing, cupping, needling motherf*cking quacks.

Write this out by hand, sign it, and send it to the quack in question (maybe skip the first two lines).

It's not accountability, but it's about as good as you're going to get. Maybe, just maybe, it'll mean the next time this happens, he/she'll think twice.

Coldstream wrote:

If an actual physician had screwed up like this, he'd be held to account. There would be a case-report given in a morbidity-and-mortality conference, so we could figure out how such a horrible mistake could happen. But then, a real physician wouldn't have let her get to this point without a workup.

But you? No accountability. You've carefully ensured that what you do is "entertainment" and the pseudo-medications that you give out are "food-supplements", so that you can't get sued for malpractice no matter how badly you f*ck things up.

Is this something that can be taken to the media? I know it isn't new news, but it's something that the public obviously needs to be reminded about (despite the annual segments on the news, I still have co-workers who don't feel they need the (free, provided at our workplace, takes 10 min of their day) flu vaccine). Having a human face put to it (if, for example, your pt was willing) could maybe shock some people and then the quacks can at least be made accountable to public opinion, if not regulation or legislation.

And people still ask "What's the harm?" when discussing psuedoscience. I cannot agree with you strongly enough, Coldstream, and I'm sorry that you had to deal with this. Given how it makes me want to punch someone in the face repeatedly, I can only imagine how you're feeling.

=(

Jonman wrote:

Whichever unfortunate soul at work saw fit to leave his literally-sh*t-filled underpants on the bathroom floor.

You need to write into DGRadio with this poo crime.

Coldstream wrote:

She's not even thirty yet. I'm not sure she'll get there now.

f*ck you. I can't say that strongly enough.

f*ck you.

I'm going to get my pitchfork.