Wash: Well, I wash my hands of it. It's a hopeless case. I'll read a nice poem at the funeral. Something with imagery. Zoe: You could lock the door and keep the power-hungry maniac at bay. Wash: Oh, no, I'm starting to like this poetry idea now. Here lies my beloved Zoe, my autumn flower, somewhat less attractive now she's all corpsified and gross...

'Shindig'


Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This  

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.


Dana - Aug 01, 2013 7:26:29 am PDT #968 of 30000
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

My worst pain was probably when I had my cast off after ankle surgery, and they had to bend the ankle for the first time to start to restore mobility.

Or dry socket from wisdom tooth removal.


Laura - Aug 01, 2013 7:29:25 am PDT #969 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.

I am a big ole baby and have zip for pain tolerance. The pain after foot surgery was bad, but not like labor. The only reason I did childbirth natural a couple times is that I am more afraid of needles than pain. With zero pain tolerance.

I am extraordinarily grateful that I have no chronic pain at all and rarely have any kind of pain other than stubbing a toe. The distribution of pain among the humans clearly isn't even at all.

Watching loved ones in pain and the helplessness associated is horrible.

ita !, may there be real and effective remediation options soon. Permanent options would be the best.


Strix - Aug 01, 2013 7:53:05 am PDT #970 of 30000
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Nice, shrift!!!

Yeah, the broken arm was about a 5/6. And I have never screamed, although I have moaned and cried. I have a high pain tolerance, but I don't LIKE pain.

ita !, I wish so much there was a magic spell I could offer you to make this all go away. I feel for you so much.


§ ita § - Aug 01, 2013 7:55:45 am PDT #971 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Bon, your arm break was that long ago? Christ, how slowly are we watching SuperWire? Uh, don't answer. But we might need to do that again sometime, you know, this year.

Teeth pain has never been my worst pain problem. Not sure why. It takes a lot to make me numb (my pain medication tolerance is a good 30 odd years old), but when I gave up on being numb I sat through a few fillings. However, I've never had much long term dental pain, and I think that's an important component of headaches--you can't see out of them (well, I can't). Whereas a filling has boundaries--if I needed a root canal and didn't even have a dentist's appointment yet, that psychological component would be back in play.

Watching loved ones in pain and the helplessness associated is horrible

I sent my mother a random "thank dog you don't have cancer anymore!" email yesterday because I was feeling so sorry for myself. Good christ.

Whoever was in the room next to me had their first needles ever. It wasn't until the dilaudid kicked in that I started to wonder if they had been vaccinated then. They were accompanied by a pregnant woman who walked a few rooms over during the portable X-Rays and I was wondering "is that your mum? Is the bun in her oven not going to be vaccinated either?"

I love hypothesising on no evidence.

I got a Web Sheriff email today asking me to remove barefoot Rafael Verga from provocateuse. That is my first takedown request, and I still have more "put me up" requests than "take me down" but as soon as I realised it wasn't spam, boom, he's gone. I don't have a leg to stand on, so to not actually pun.

I wonder if I can tumblr him, though. Do you think rights protectors mind that, or is it probably the presence of google ads that means they need to lock rights down? I'd guess the former is exposure, the latter is siphoning.


le nubian - Aug 01, 2013 7:59:32 am PDT #972 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

I have a colleague here who refuses to use pain meds during dentistry. I looked at her like she said she was in the Church of Scientology. She saw the look on my face and just mentioned that she has a dentist who understands and works VERY CAREFULLY in her mouth.

I'm sorry, but give me fucking pain meds. I would take pain meds for annual gyno exam if they offered. But dentistry? Oh hell yes.


Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 01, 2013 8:00:28 am PDT #973 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

I got a Web Sheriff email today asking me to remove barefoot Rafael Verga from provocateuse. That is my first takedown request, and I still have more "put me up" requests than "take me down" but as soon as I realised it wasn't spam, boom, he's gone. I don't have a leg to stand on, so to not actually pun.

Is he still modeling? I haven't seen anything new featuring him in a long time. (A shame, he may have been the hottest male model out there in the 2000s.)

I have a colleague here who refuses to use pain meds during dentistry.

My experience convinced me to go the opposite route. If I ever need to have more oral surgery comparable to the quadruple wisdom tooth removal, I want them to put me under so deep that I see that kid who was stalking Kiefer Sutherland in Flatliners.


Amy - Aug 01, 2013 8:02:57 am PDT #974 of 30000
Because books.

For a while, I thought labor was the worst. But really bad tooth pain definitely is my "can't deal" level of pain.


Steph L. - Aug 01, 2013 8:08:55 am PDT #975 of 30000
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated

Nothing trumps my back pain in my own pain calibration. I hit a 10 at least twice (literally screaming and sobbing in the ER, being told by a nurse to "quiet down"; I would have punched her if I had been mobile), and prior to the surgery it was basically an 8-9 full time.

However, yeah, bad dental pain is fucking evil. My cracked tooth that was eventually pulled -- that pain was a damn 9, but only for 10-15 minutes at a time, and then it would settle down to a 2 or 3. It was weird.


le nubian - Aug 01, 2013 8:11:33 am PDT #976 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

If I ever need to have more oral surgery comparable to the quadruple wisdom tooth removal, I want them to put me under so deep that I see that kid who was stalking Kiefer Sutherland in Flatliners.

this has cracked my shit up and down and all the way around.


Maria - Aug 01, 2013 8:11:52 am PDT #977 of 30000
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift

Oh, ita !, it's so inadequate, but I'm sorry you have to deal with this.

My tattoos were probably the worst physcial pain I've gone through lately--on my sides, partially on my ribs, and both done the same day--and I'd put that as a 6ish. I once had a sunburn that was a 7, but that was almost 15 years ago. Let's not talk about emotional pain; I can even quantify how much it hurt when Rob died.

le n, I never take Novocaine for basic fillings. If there's anything more advanced, my dentist and I will discuss, but nothing for a cleaning and fillings. Hate the needle more than the discomfort.