My mother's on coumadin (aka warfarin ... aka rat poison). Doctor's prescription. She's 86 and looks set for a while longer.
yay poison?
Wesley: All right. I'm going to let you all in on something you may have trouble comprehending. I assure you however-- Gunn: Vampires are real. Wesley: I was telling!
'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
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.
Toddson - Aug 29, 2011 12:08:10 pm PDT #22849 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Allyson - Aug 29, 2011 12:08:47 pm PDT #22850 of 30001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Botox is a poison I can totally get behind.
JenP - Aug 29, 2011 12:09:42 pm PDT #22851 of 30001
Oh, my god, Amy, I can't even imagine.
Allyson - Aug 29, 2011 12:10:08 pm PDT #22852 of 30001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Also, I found out today that my crow's feet are the product of genuine smiling and not fake smiling.
I do not understand this. I should be less wrinkly.
The moral of the story is that misery is beauty.
Polter-Cow - Aug 29, 2011 12:11:35 pm PDT #22853 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Have we all seen the video of two Cleverbots having a conversation? If this isn't the best thing on the internet today, I don't know what is:
Oh my God, that is amazing.
Amy - Aug 29, 2011 12:11:44 pm PDT #22854 of 30001
Because books.
Oh, my god, Amy, I can't even imagine.
Right? I can see not wanting to spend the time left arguing, and I'm sure he would have wanted her to undergo treatment, but wow.
§ ita § - Aug 29, 2011 12:12:41 pm PDT #22855 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I just went up the ten flights of stairs to punish myself for not having gone down them on my way out for lunch.
FUCK THAT NOISE. I'm so not ready for that. I may never be.
JZ - Aug 29, 2011 12:13:27 pm PDT #22856 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Oh my God, Amy, the pain and rage he must be going through. That poor man. And I'm sure his wife had managed to convince herself that this was the best way, for whatever completely unreasonable reason.
But there's something odd about forgoing medicine for "natural" remedies.
Even my super-evangelical aunt doesn't kid herself for a second about how she survived her bout with cancer (non-Hodgkin's, stage 4) -- she's convinced it was a God-sent miracle, but she's also pretty damn convinced that the cancer team at Stanford and all their expertise and science and fancy poisons (and even stem cells) were a seriously huge part of the miracle, and she would go very squinty-eyed at anyone who suggested otherwise.
sumi - Aug 29, 2011 12:15:08 pm PDT #22857 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
Somebody's Haunted Dollhouse - well, a dollhouse whose theme is Haunted House. Don't know that it is actually haunted.
ETA - links there are bad but you can see the pictures here.
askye - Aug 29, 2011 12:15:38 pm PDT #22858 of 30001
Thrive to spite them
then there are the people who hate "BigPharma" because they are only about profit and money and then turn around and spend tons of money on fake treatments.