The comparison videos on the blog are really great.
Angel: Will you just shut up for once?! Illyria: What? Angel: My God, the speechifying. Has it ever occurred to you that now might not be the best time for when-we-were-muck stories?
'Time Bomb'
Natter 58: Let's call Venezuela!
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Kat - Apr 28, 2008 5:43:26 pm PDT #3929 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Hil R. - Apr 28, 2008 5:44:17 pm PDT #3930 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
When I took CPR training (I really need to get recertified -- it was about ten years ago), they were selling these mask things so that you could give CPR without actual lip-to-lip contact. One of the kinds folded up pretty tiny, so that you could keep it in a purse or briefcase just in case.
sarameg - Apr 28, 2008 5:59:05 pm PDT #3931 of 10001
I guess the DV thing means I might act. It was just so freaky. Some guy busted the window of a minivan with a club and someone I knew as a neighbor by sight was freaking out. She'd called 911, I gave her my name and number because I was a witness. No one ever talked to me. Months later, after I'd forgotten about it, I got the subpoena. I felt bad I couldn't remember the faces involved, but jeez, no one told me I'd be called.
I've been "talked to" by the cops on several occasions. Never once in those cases have I been asked my name. Which seems kinda wrong, but they do know my address, I guess.
Vortex - Apr 28, 2008 6:08:34 pm PDT #3932 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Anyone heard from Big Duluth? he's in SW VA, and there were tornados.
beekaytee - Apr 28, 2008 6:16:17 pm PDT #3933 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
I'm the one who always stops at wrecks on the highway (and need to get recertified pronto) and have always had good experiences...except one...
In Clarendon (outside Hardtimes Cafe, for localistas), a car ran through an intersection and hit a light pole at about 40mph. I ran through traffic and yanked the door open to find a semi-conscious guy with steering wheel marks in his forehead. I got his name and tried to keep him conscious. It took 4 or 5 shouts to get anyone to call 911.
Once the cops showed up, they grilled me for details and when they discovered that the fellow had a bottle of cologne between his legs (which I assumed had caused him to lose control of the car), they decided that he was trying to kill himself and stopped trying to help him. Seriously. I'm screaming that they couldn't make assumptions like that and they are shuffling me out of the scene, telling me to go home and forget it.
I won't ever forget that feeling of helplessness and the certainty that the guy was dying. I called all the hospitals later that night but couldn't get any information.
That poor fellow was written off because he was young and Hispanic. Seriously, I heard one of the cops something about 'he had a lover's quarrel' as he walked away from a badly injured man.
God. I guess I'm still pretty bitter.
Ginger - Apr 28, 2008 6:23:57 pm PDT #3934 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
That would be the test--would I give a complete stranger mouth to mouth without any tools?The American Heart Association now recommends compression-only CPR [link] That's only for heart attacks, but it's something.
§ ita § - Apr 28, 2008 6:24:37 pm PDT #3935 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
In a complete shift of tone Pink, feeding my girlcrush. Damn, she's hot. Link ganked from smonster on LJ.
§ ita § - Apr 28, 2008 6:28:26 pm PDT #3936 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Ginger, that's very good to know. Thanks for the link.
Trudy Booth - Apr 28, 2008 6:28:58 pm PDT #3937 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I do have CPR training, but it's rusty. That would be the test--would I give a complete stranger mouth to mouth without any tools? I'd do chest compressions and clearing the airway as much as I could remember, but the bit with the spit--I'd need to be in the moment to know how that would come out.
Compressions Only is the hot new thing in CPR.
beekaytee - Apr 28, 2008 6:37:10 pm PDT #3938 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
Wow. Compression only is quite a shift.
Odd though, I've never read any stories of people suing for ventilation but I HAVE read stories of cracked ribs.
While I would never advocate for someone who didn't feel compelled to, endangering their own lives, the movement to compression only feels like the happy, slappy...hey, no risk here!approach to life saving.
Is it that people are so afraid that they'd do NOTHING if spit were involved? Or is it that people just do the breathing so badly that it doesn't help anyway?
BTW, it probably isn't but the VO artist on that CPR video sounds a lot like Christopher Lee. That would be funny.