Willow ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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.
The BRQG quote:
Bronto Smackdown
Nutty: Cutest typo in a Literary thread ever. I'm sitting here imagining Jane Eyre as a giant, long-necked dinosaur bashing in the skulls of other dinosaurs to proclaim herself Queen! Queen of the primordial swamp!!
Jessica: Reader, I trampled him.
Minoxidil helps with thinning hair on the crown, but it stops working when you stop using it.
signed, Struggling with alopecia
Go, sister of Sox!
Bravo Sox!Sister! I wish I'd known in advance. To be fair, it's been hard to cheer for Oracle, because Ellison is a jerk and nobody likes him. But I would happily cheer for the team...
TBH I was cheering for OMG crazy space-age pirate airfoil boats DID I MENTION PIRATES!! and trying really hard to ignore the Larry factor altogether.
Um. Not that Sox!Sister is an actual pirate. But if you have a freakin' 50mph super-stealth frickin' sailboat, I say you owe it to the universe to ram and board your enemies at least once for my amusement. Yes?
Just because I didn't like the thread count: "Hiiiii!" /Peanut
Does anyone here choose their doctors looking for a name they prefer? Do you base it on "Bill" is a better doctor for me than "Fluffy"?
I don't even know the first names of many of my doctors--I have a recurring appointment with one whose surname I can't remember either.
"If you can't imagine seeing a doctor with that first name, don't give it to your kid." "Right. Sometimes that's all you have to decide between doctors, and Bill Smith is a better choice than Fluffy Watson."
I think I'd be too embarrassed to say that out loud, much less defend it.
Does anyone here choose their doctors looking for a name they prefer?
When we were still in LA and I was choosing my OB tha would deliver Em, I based it on the most Anglo-sounding name possible because I have a hard time understanding heavier accents and I get super embarrassed when I don't understand and won't ask for clarification. I figured that giving birth was one of those times when I needed to really be able to understand what my doctor was telling me. So I figured, you can't get much more Anglo than Pearson.
He was from Dublin. So, yeah. I don't so that anymore. Heh.
I have a hard time understanding heavier accents and I get super embarrassed when I don't understand and won't ask for clarification.
Hey, Aims is me!
I'm a giant bigot and avoid anyone with an Italian/Spanish sounding name, because I've found that I can end up with a GP who is geared towards Spanish speaking populations and isn't so hot on actual American English. And of course, once I get to the office, I only ever interact with the bitchy subdoctor who makes me want to never go in for a cold (like now) because she focuses on all the other shit I'm ignoring that's wrong with me. (this is a terrible thing to be bitching about, but, if I go in for a cold, I want to be treated for a cold, not whatever else you find that I'm happy to ignore for now).