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andrew smash: Jun 26, 2006; smooth soul

Dazerbeams posted:

I�m sorry, is this not a comedy forum?

You have to be funny for this excuse to work

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Sunswipe: Feb 5, 2016; by Fluffdaddy

# ? Aug 19, 2019 15:29

Dazerbeams: Jul 8, 2009

Beautiful.

# ? Aug 19, 2019 15:32

Sunswipe: Feb 5, 2016; by Fluffdaddy

I don't even know what you two are arguing about, just wanted to make that.

# ? Aug 19, 2019 15:38

chitoryu12: Apr 24, 2014

Fight Man seems to be a being of pure loss.

Doctor said that I am in the danger zone of being too underweight today. What do I do?

quote:

Hi,

I am a 20 year old male and I am 5�10 basically almost 5�11 I think the doctor said 5�10 and three quarters or something. And I�ve reached a new low weight of 102 pounds today. The doctor told me that it is getting very dangerous and detrimental to my health at this point and that I need to start eating. They think I have some kind of eating disorder but I don�t.

I literally lay on my couch all day and eat a ton of junk food, healthy food, any food I can get my hands on. I always eat. I do nothing physical other than go for a walk every morning early in the morning but not a long enough walk to the point where I�d be burning crazy calories. During my walk I�m also almost always drinking a coffee filled with sugar and cream or a soda or energy drink or something. I then come home and stuff my face afterwards. Sometimes before too. I don�t work at the moment so it�s nothing I�m doing at work that makes me lose. What the hell do I do? How can I gain weight when I�m literally eating all day.

(I take in about 3,200 calories on the average daily sometimes more sometimes less and I was told to eat more so in the past few days I�ve been hitting 3,600-3,700 a day and all I�ve done was loose a couple pounds) what can I do or eat to gain?

# ? Aug 19, 2019 15:53

Ghost Leviathan: Mar 2, 2017; Exploration is ill-advised.

Sunswipe posted:

I don't even know what you two are arguing about, just wanted to make that.

You're going to get a lot of use out of it, I'm certain.

# ? Aug 19, 2019 15:57

Sunswipe: Feb 5, 2016; by Fluffdaddy

chitoryu12 posted:

Fight Man seems to be a being of pure loss.

Doctor said that I am in the danger zone of being too underweight today. What do I do?

Getting the poo poo kicked out of you regularly is the ultimate weight loss technique.

# ? Aug 19, 2019 15:57

Pirate Radar: Apr 18, 2008; You're not my Ruthie!
You're not my Debbie!
You're not my Sherry!

It's going to turn out that the whole time Fight Man had a parasite in him that hates junk food, so it's taking all his calories and then radiating psychic waves of anger that are loving up his psyche

# ? Aug 19, 2019 16:09

Marchofthepenguins: Jun 1, 2016; Mental hygiene should be practiced after every meal

My 20F Girlfriend Found Nudes of My Best Friends Girlfriend on My PC. Context Within, Advice Greatly Appreciated.

quote:

Back in June i met somebody very special to me. I am a 24M, she is a 20F. At first i thought my initial, deep, emotional connection to her was perhaps the honeymoon phase, something new and exciting in my life. You see, i have been more of a voluntary celibate, id rather just get my degree before focusing on my love life, and because of this my last relationship was in 2016. I could see any attractive girl and just say, "no, it's not worth the risk and eventual pain" (I have a pessimistic view because of my past relationships, but it helps preserve my emotional and mental health!) Basically, this girl is very special to me because she was able to break through my wall that i put up.

Rewind to April of this year, my best friend was going through a breakup with his girlfriend of many years. He was not too happy about it, and posted nudes of her in a group discord chat between me and two other very close friends. He implored us to save them to spite her. Because he was my friend and was in grief, i did. I never had any fantasy or fetish for this girl, in fact i always try to distance myself from her, because me and her never really got along. I did as he asked, i never liked this girl, because of this girl i never got to see or hangout with my best friend, and now i could!

So i made a folder for these two nudes he sent. And i later went through my Snapchat for nudes to post as some sort of reciprocation because he had posted nudes. I was not the only one who felt this way in our close group chat, as our mutual friend posted a nude picture and told us the story behind it. I found a couple nudes on Snapchat with my phone and uploaded them to this newly made folder to share with my boys. I thought it was all in good fun. We were all just genuinely curious of each others sexual exploits at the time and the stories behind the nudes. One of my friends posted a nude of a mother and her daughter in the group chat and told us about the threesome he had with both of them. Off the record here, is this weird or unusual behavior between a a group of close male friends who are all single? Because i don't think it is.

This folder was on my desktop labelled as something completely nonchalant. I totally forgot about it. I made it initially to save the pictures of my best friends ex to comply to his wishes during his bleak breakup. HOWEVER, they both got back together in June, around the time i met this girl. I was completely shell-shocked by this girl, i didn't think to go through my computer and cleanse anything from my long time being single (mainly just this newly made folder from April) because my mind just wanted to be with her 24/7, and life was good when i was with her, shes all i thought about.

Long story short, she spent the night at my house and when i was in the shower the following morning, she clicked on this folder and found all the pictures. I had talked about my best friend and his girlfriend to her before, she knows both their names, and i also had the 2 pictures in that folder labelled with her name, so she knew it was nudes from my best friends girl friend. We had a date for the entire day, hiked 8 miles and saw beautiful sights, had a great time together, but on the way back she started acting distant and then brought it up to me, she hid the fact she knew about these pictures all day and waited until after to bring it up. Now she thinks i'm some sort of crazy pervert who fantasizes about his best friends girl, but I downloaded them in a supportive way (if you could say that? He wanted to spite her at the time of the breakup). I then later added the other nudes in that file from my Snapchat, only to share with my friends in this grand nude exchange. All the files say they were created in April. I should not have ever saved the photos of my best friends ex, but i did at his request at the time. If i had remember they existed as well as all the other much older photos i saved from Snapchat onto this file to share, i would have deleted them no hesitation, because i genuinely can't get turned on by any of them (especially the ones of my best friends ex, that's just weird to me!) She says it is normal and okay for a guy to have nudes on his computer of girls he used to mess around with and that it is normal, especially when we have only been dating for 2 months, and she would get over that. However she doesn't believe me when i say my best friend requested i save them to spite her, i guess he wanted to spread her nudes like a disease to spite her. I didn't think anything of it at the time, because hell, ive been single for over 3 years. But now its coming back to bite me in my rear end with the first girl i have considered special in 3 years. She refused to let me drive her home and is reading my texts but not replying. i feel devastated, lost, and ashamed. Advice?

TL;DR : Title, but my best friend got back together with her, and i didn't think to delete them because i was so captivated by this woman. She doesn't believe me when i don't care for these photos of her, and that i did it out of respect of my best friends post-breakup sad boy wishes at the time.

Boys will be boys apparently

# ? Aug 19, 2019 16:10

Leon Einstein: Feb 6, 2012; I must win every thread in GBS. I don't care how much banal semantic quibbling and shitty posts it takes.

Whole lot of words trying to defend his creepy behavior. How is saving the nudes spiting a woman that has no idea you when have them?

# ? Aug 19, 2019 16:13

the holy poopacy: May 16, 2009; hey! check this out; Fun Shoe

Marchofthepenguins posted:

My 20F Girlfriend Found Nudes of My Best Friends Girlfriend on My PC. Context Within, Advice Greatly Appreciated.

quote:

You see, i have been more of a voluntary celibate, id rather just get my degree before focusing on my love life, and because of this my last relationship was in 2016.

You see, I voluntarily chose not to eat those grapes, I'd rather just eat food that is less sour before looking for grapes.

# ? Aug 19, 2019 16:13

Motronic: Nov 6, 2009

Ahhh rare spotting of the volcel.

# ? Aug 19, 2019 16:14

Pinecone Sample: Oct 12, 2010; THIS ACCOUNT HAS BEEN SEIZED
by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation in accordance with a seizure warrant issued pursuant to 69 U.S.C Sec. 420

I (25/F) got my boyfriend (30/M) an awesome present for his birthday and he went to a strip club the night of my birthday.

quote:

Our birthdays are pretty close together and we planned on celebrating them together this year. I ended up getting him a Wallor smart wallet that lets you track your wallet through an app. I had no idea what he was going to get me for my birthday about a week later.

My birthday was last Saturday night and we had made plans to go to dinner and head to the fair. Friday night, he goes out with some of his friends and gets back pretty late, still telling me we are going to dinner/fair the next day. Saturday afternoon, I went to lunch with my parents, get back to his apartment and he's not there. I texted him, didn't hear a thing. I called him around 7pm since it was getting late, still nothing.

2:30 am Sunday morning he comes in sort of drunk. He tells me he and a few friends went to a strip club. I don't necessarily care that he went to a strip club and I didn't expect a lot for my birthday, but he literally ditched me on my birthday to go to a strip club.

I'm really not sure this relationship is worth it anymore. Is this kind of a warning sign that I shouldn't be dating him?

This a yellow flag or something?

# ? Aug 19, 2019 16:14

dudeness: Mar 5, 2010; Cat Army; Fallen Rib

Honey please, these aren't masturbating nudes, these are hate nudes, I'm merely a being of hate.

# ? Aug 19, 2019 16:15

therobit: Aug 19, 2008; I've been tryin' to speak with you for a long time

Weight loss husband is garbage and probably abusive. She should block his calls.

# ? Aug 19, 2019 16:16

PetraCore: Jul 20, 2017; 👁️🔥👁️👁️👁️BE NOT👄AFRAID👁️👁️👁️🔥👁️

Smirking_Serpent posted:

AITA for insisting my brother talk about what happened to him when he was deployed?

My brother Stephen was deployed in 2008. He disappeared 5 months into his deployment. He was MIA for 4 months along with another solider.

He was found and I can�t talk about what exactly happened to him during those 4 months because he has never ever talked about it with any of his family.

He had a one year old son at the time and was married. We all presumed he was dead and had to deal with him coming home after we had all grieved.

He came back different person.

We all tried helping him but he wouldn�t talk about what happened to him. I was only 15 at the time. He started drinking a lot and him and his wife almost divorced. Around 2011 he got sober and started going to therapy.

He became more like his old self, but PTSD is complicated and there would still be times where he would disappear and we would find him having a breakdown.

Now, 11 years later, he�s more stable, my nephew is 12, almost 13, and they have a pretty solid marriage and he�s still sober.

Him and I were with our family at a family gathering this weekend and I made a comment that it was the anniversary of his return. He got emotional and apologized for �everything that he put us through�. I told him he didn�t need to apologize but that the fact that he has never told me what happened to him over there has hurt our relationship.

He got super upset with me and said that I was �hindering his progress by saying that.� I told him that it�s been 11 years and I�m his little brother and he has never told me anything about what happened.

He just got up and left after this but not before telling me that I have �no right� to bring this up after all this time.

He straight up just left the party and left his wife and my nephew there. When she came up to me to ask me if I had seen him I told her that he had left. When she asked why I told her the truth, that I had asked him about what happened. She too then got upset with me and blamed me for �antagonizing him�.

She got a call from him super late last night, drunk in a motel room. She went and picked him up and he spent most of today sleeping it off I think.

My sister in law and most of my family thinks I stepped out of line as they are all okay with not knowing what happened to him as long as Stephen acts normal and �okay.� I personally am not okay with that, considering all the work we put into helping him. Especially considering how long it�s been. This isn�t the first time I have tried to talk to him about it.

So AITA? Did I really step out of line?

What's important is that Stephan is talking about it to a therapist or a trained professional when appropriate, not that OP knows all the gory details of how his older brother got tortured. Dude seems to have worked very hard at rebuilding a stable life but still gets flashbacks that send him into breakdowns, and OP publicly asks him to talk about it?

I don't think OP is coming from a place of malice but he needs to apologize to his brother, drop it, and look into more appropriate ways to sort through his feelings about what happened and his brother not talking to him about it. Like he seems to think his brother hasn't talked to him about it because of... a lack of caring about him or trusting him or w/e?

# ? Aug 19, 2019 16:19

sephiRoth IRA: Jun 13, 2007; "Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality."

-Carl Sagan

Pinecone Sample posted:

I (25/F) got my boyfriend (30/M) an awesome present for his birthday and he went to a strip club the night of my birthday.

This a yellow flag or something?

I mean yeah, go ahead and break up if you want, but maybe he already thought you were sort of broken up based on your dumb idea of a birthday gift

# ? Aug 19, 2019 16:20

Fitzy Fitz: May 14, 2005

I like that he tried to pass off the obviously bullshit "I downloaded the nudes in a supportive way" to a neutral third party (reddit), as if making them believe would somehow make it more true

Fitzy Fitz fucked around with this message at 16:30 on Aug 19, 2019

# ? Aug 19, 2019 16:21

Marchofthepenguins: Jun 1, 2016; Mental hygiene should be practiced after every meal

"Supportive nude downloading" is the worst new euphemism for "revenge porn"

# ? Aug 19, 2019 16:24

Olanphonia: Jul 27, 2006; I'm open to suggestions~

Pinecone Sample posted:

I (25/F) got my boyfriend (30/M) an awesome present for his birthday and he went to a strip club the night of my birthday.

This a yellow flag or something?

That is an all-time bad way to miss a birthday, wow.

# ? Aug 19, 2019 16:28

LadyPictureShow: Nov 18, 2005; Success!

Today in Incompatibility Theater...

I (25F) want to adopt rather than have my own, boyfriend (24M) isn't fond of the idea

quote:

We've been together for over 4 years, but a few months into the relationship we already knew it's going to be serious. We had ups and downs, big arguments but never went through breaking-up-going-back-together-level stuff. Usually if there is any big issue we are able to discuss it and come to an agreement.

But this one thing had been bothering me since the beginning. I'm not super into the idea of having kids, and even if I do I prefer to imagine myself teaching and conversing with an older child, not "raising" or "caring for" them. I'm not a caretaker type. He is traditional in that sense, grew up in a somewhat big family (3 kids) and surrounded by other big families (3-10 kids everywhere) and he cannot see what could be wrong with that.

The first obvious reason for this, I'm not a big fan of the idea of pregnancy and birth. But I might even do it if I could be a surrogate or something and just throw the baby away to be raised by someone else, but the thing I want to do the least is pregnancy+birth+caretaking for an annoying baby when the only thing I want to do is rest and recover. I kinda wish I could give birth, give the baby away then get them back 6 years later lol. But since that isn't possible, I'm more fond of the idea of adopting an older kid. I would love to teach and support a bigger kid, I can see myself with an older child but I totally wanna skip the first few years when it's just an annoying toddler who only needs me as a life-support machine and not a mentor of sorts.

He just doesn't get it and thinks adoption isn't a "real" kid. He said he hates the idea of raising "someone else's kid", which I frankly find quite offensive, why do you think your stuff is better quality than someone else's? I don't see the difference, I'm not interested in passing my genetics to someone, I want to give them education and emotional support.
He says he MAYBE be okay with adopting one day if we had enough kids of our own and have the resources, but for him that means 3+ of our own and THEN 1-2 adopted. And still just "maybe".

No way I'm having 5 kids. No way I'm giving birth to 3 of those just to be "allowed" to adopt more. I wanna MAYBE give birth once, but preferably ZERO times, and instead favour adoption and MAYBE if I still have resources after adopting, then have my own. It's not even safe for me to have more than one with him because of blood type incompatibility! I know I would be a good parent, we would be good parents together, but I just don't want to parent my own.

We had 4 wonderful years so far but I know that we are at the point when these big life changes are approaching and I just don't want to live like this. Any advice for a healthy middle ground? Or should this be a dealbreaker?

TLDR; I favour the idea of adoption over giving birth to my own. He wants his own and has aversions to adoption

# ? Aug 19, 2019 16:30

MagusofStars: Mar 31, 2012

Pinecone Sample posted:

I (25/F) got my boyfriend (30/M) an awesome present for his birthday and he went to a strip club the night of my birthday.
I ended up getting him a Wallor smart wallet that lets you track your wallet through an app.

Can someone more tech savvy than me explain what the gently caress the point of this is? Like, is it intended to track the stuff in your wallet? If so, why not just open the wallet itself?

Or does it track the location of your wallet under the (wrong) theory that you can track it down and get it back if you ask nicely?

# ? Aug 19, 2019 16:31

Leon Einstein: Feb 6, 2012; I must win every thread in GBS. I don't care how much banal semantic quibbling and shitty posts it takes.

MagusofStars posted:

Can someone more tech savvy than me explain what the gently caress the point of this is? Like, is it intended to track the stuff in your wallet? If so, why not just open the wallet itself?

Or does it track the location of your wallet under the (wrong) theory that you can track it down and get it back if you ask nicely?

It's a way for the girlfriend to track her boyfriend while maintaining plausible deniability.

# ? Aug 19, 2019 16:32

Dazerbeams: Jul 8, 2009

LadyPictureShow posted:

Today in Incompatibility Theater...

I (25F) want to adopt rather than have my own, boyfriend (24M) isn't fond of the idea

Better get married and try to convince each other to come around.

# ? Aug 19, 2019 16:35

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

Smirking_Serpent posted:

AITA for refusing to use my trans brothers name?

The other kind of dead naming.

# ? Aug 19, 2019 16:37

sephiRoth IRA: Jun 13, 2007; "Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality."

-Carl Sagan

Dazerbeams posted:

Better get married and try to convince each other to come around.

�I got you this adopted kid!�

�But I went off my birth control!�

Gift of the Magi, 2019

# ? Aug 19, 2019 16:38

sephiRoth IRA: Jun 13, 2007; "Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality."

-Carl Sagan

AITA for working from home on my partners vacation day?
u/MaxDeAnadin

quote:

I have had an infection since Friday and cannot take more than 10 minutes from needing the bathroom, so I was off work on Friday after visiting doc for some good old drugs. I'm still needing to go a lot but it's improving but genuinely I am wiped out and even declined a note from my doc for Monday just hoping I would be well enough

Today (Monday) at my work we have a vendor on site visit in work and I am the only admin on the system meaning I have to be there or none of the configurations will happen.

I wanted nothing more than to call in sick but I asked if I could do the whole day (9-530) call (with a break from 1-3) on the phone from home and it was agreed as a compromise. I work from home a lot so it's not difficult for me to do. I was crying in bed this morning over this stress and was so happy to finally get an OK that I could do this.

My bf has a days leave from work today and slept until 12. When he got up I was still on the phone and muted and said hi but then went back to the call. He started giving me such looks and was really off with me but went about making breakfast and asked if I would like any but incredibly short and in a bit of a tone which I was struggling to understand.

At 1 I came off the call and asked him what was wrong, he said he's pissed off at the situation that I should either go in or be off sick and that it is ruining his day off. I got upset and said you know why and said I would do the last 2 hours in our bedroom so he can have the sitting room. Although a compromise not one I think I should cos I need to see the screen..

I genuinely don't know what I'm supposed to do here and don't know if it's me not caring about his day off and Im the rear end hole here or should he be considerate knowing why I'm working although I didn't want to.. He doesn't get much leave so I can understand why these days are important but I wouldn't have stayed here if I could have helped it. I know he cannot listen to music or talk to people in games and he's curtailed for a couple of hours so I appreciate why he's annoyed but I don't feel like I am doing something wrong and he is not being considerate of why I'm doing this and the fact it ends at a set time regardless.

Am I the rear end in a top hat for continuing to work while sick and he's on leave?

Edit: I compromised and stayed inside for 1.5 of the afternoon and 1 hour at the pc and him with headphones on for me

# ? Aug 19, 2019 16:54

PetraCore: Jul 20, 2017; 👁️🔥👁️👁️👁️BE NOT👄AFRAID👁️👁️👁️🔥👁️

LadyPictureShow posted:

Today in Incompatibility Theater...

I (25F) want to adopt rather than have my own, boyfriend (24M) isn't fond of the idea

The kicker of all this is they can't even safely have more than one kid together because of blood type incompatibility and yet he still wants her to pop out 3+ of his babies, because nothing is more blessed than a lot of horrific miscarriages as the mother's body kills the fetus repeatedly.

Also like her phrasing of 'babies and toddlers are annoying and basically only need you as a life support machine' is cold and not strictly true (in that even babies need proper stimulation and emotional contact to not die, altho I guess you could consider that another form of life support) but if she doesn't want to deal with infants that's 100% her choice and it's good she's mature enough to recognize she'd be a bad parent for too small of a child. How many people just end up having kids anyway and then turn out to be super bad with them because sleep deprivation doesn't magically make you think babies are less annoying than you did before?

# ? Aug 19, 2019 16:59

Leon Einstein: Feb 6, 2012; I must win every thread in GBS. I don't care how much banal semantic quibbling and shitty posts it takes.

All kids need the kind of care she's not interested in giving. She thinks that 6 year olds are independent or something?

# ? Aug 19, 2019 17:00

PetraCore: Jul 20, 2017; 👁️🔥👁️👁️👁️BE NOT👄AFRAID👁️👁️👁️🔥👁️

Leon Einstein posted:

All kids need the kind of care she's not interested in giving.

Right like it seems like she's assuming that she can just Talk Logically to a 6 year old and be like a teacher for them but all kids need the emotional nurturing part of parenting. But, again, if she's not interested in nurturing than she shouldn't have kids and it seems like she's realized that.

Also iirc if you adopt an older kid it's pretty likely they've experienced some Rough Stuff already and will need more emotional caretaking, not less. Like there's a reason you can't just drop off a baby and come back in 6 years and pick them up again.

# ? Aug 19, 2019 17:03

welcome to hell: Jun 9, 2006

My girlfriend ate rear end before I asked her to be my girlfriend.

quote:

The toxicity of male culture was engraved into my upbringing which was unbeknownst to adolescent me. There was no caveat, I wish I would�ve been informed sooner. I feel grossed out knowing she ate another dudes rear end and I know she has a high body count but I that doesn�t effect me as the fact that she ate another guys rear end willing. It was her ex but still the thought of her eating another guys rear end grosses me out I told her I no longer want to kiss her on the mouth for the time being I will get over it eventually. My mind is always racing I have undiagnosed ADD my mind bounces from one though to another and it�ll always be in the back of my mind. My question to this subreddit is how can I get over it? How can I stop being a misogynistic insecure douche? I�ve come a long way and I didn�t get into this relationship until I knew I was ready for one but then I get hit with this curve ball and I don�t know how to handle it. Recently got into a fight over it because she thought I was joking when I told her I wasn�t going to kiss her anymore. She wants to eat my rear end too but I�m not into that kind of stuff not that I�m vanilla it�s just not my cup of tea. Please help with any advice and please save your �breakup� advice I�ve invested far too much with her and I don�t want to break up with her I want to grow with her. When you give up you just end up back down where you began, wishing you were where you once were.

# ? Aug 19, 2019 17:05

andrew smash: Jun 26, 2006; smooth soul

She's misinformed about the blood type thing. It can be a real problem but it can also be managed with medication to prevent the mother from sensitizing against blood type antigens the fetus has but she does not. Unless she's a weirdo anti-medicine type anyway.

# ? Aug 19, 2019 17:07

MasBrillante: Dec 3, 2005; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Marchofthepenguins posted:

My 20F Girlfriend Found Nudes of My Best Friends Girlfriend on My PC. Context Within, Advice Greatly Appreciated.

off the record

I can�t get over this.

Also: You don�t understand; we just have a revenge porn club and I�m just backing up our collateral is a wild defense - especially since apparently the deflection has worked.

MasBrillante fucked around with this message at 17:14 on Aug 19, 2019

# ? Aug 19, 2019 17:12

Sagebrush: Feb 26, 2012

Dazerbeams posted:

Rabies isn’t fatal until symptoms show up, but it’s too late by then. Those shots are super intense though and are undoubtedly super expensive too. That’s not a death I’d wish on just any clueless idiot.

Rabies treatment today (well, after-exposure prophylactic vaccination -- as you note there is no cure once you start to show symptoms) is no big deal. I got bitten by a feral cat in China and had to get rabies shots and when I asked the doctor if they were going to be giant needles into your stomach, as is the popular perception, he laughed and said "not since the 1960s." It was 6 separate small injections into the upper arm, like any other minor vaccination, on a schedule that lasted a month. I don't remember them costing any more than a normal travel vaccination either. I did feel pretty lethargic for about six weeks, but it didn't stop me from continuing to work and go out and stuff.

In conclusion, that woman's doctors failed her here if they told her that it was going to be an awful experience and also didn't give her the proper fear of rabies. When I got bitten, the doctor said cats weren't a major carrier of rabies in the first place, but if there is any question whatsoever you just do the full course of treatment because it's not worth the risk. Bats, on the other hand, are the number one carrier and the main source of rabies cases in humans, and because they fly and tend to bite you on the head after getting tangled up in your hair, the cases are much more commonly fatal (the further the bite is from your head, the better the chance of the vaccinations kicking in before the virus crawls its way along your nerves into your brain).

Big yikes overall

# ? Aug 19, 2019 17:17

tactlessbastard: Feb 4, 2001; Godspeed, post; Fun Shoe

sephiRoth IRA posted:

“I got you this adopted kid!”

“But I went off my birth control!”

Gift of the Magi, 2019

Lmbo

# ? Aug 19, 2019 17:21

Chocobo: Oct 15, 2012; Here comes a new challenger!; Oven Wrangler

Dazerbeams posted:

I�m sorry, is this not a comedy forum?

No, this is a dead gay comedy forum.

# ? Aug 19, 2019 17:24

Dazerbeams: Jul 8, 2009

Sagebrush posted:

Rabies treatment today (well, after-exposure prophylactic vaccination -- as you note there is no cure once you start to show symptoms) is no big deal. I got bitten by a feral cat in China and had to get rabies shots and when I asked the doctor if they were going to be giant needles into your stomach, as is the popular perception, he laughed and said "not since the 1960s." It was 6 separate small injections into the upper arm, like any other minor vaccination, on a schedule that lasted a month. I don't remember them costing any more than a normal travel vaccination either. I did feel pretty lethargic for about six weeks, but it didn't stop me from continuing to work and go out and stuff.

In conclusion, that woman's doctors failed her here if they told her that it was going to be an awful experience and also didn't give her the proper fear of rabies. When I got bitten, the doctor said cats weren't a major carrier of rabies in the first place, but if there is any question whatsoever you just do the full course of treatment because it's not worth the risk. Bats, on the other hand, are the number one carrier and the main source of rabies cases in humans, and because they fly and tend to bite you on the head after getting tangled up in your hair, the cases are much more commonly fatal (the further the bite is from your head, the better the chance of the vaccinations kicking in before the virus crawls its way along your nerves into your brain).

Big yikes overall

That's good to know that the gut injections are no longer standard. But google is telling me the cost for the post-exposure regimen is usually over $3,000 in the greatest country in the world so there's still that.

# ? Aug 19, 2019 17:24

Sagebrush: Feb 26, 2012

Well, all the more reason to get the shots in Mexico. I got bitten 10 years ago so I don't remember exactly but I think each shot in China was like $20-30 maybe, entirely out of pocket at a relatively "fancy" clinic with a western doctor.

# ? Aug 19, 2019 17:28

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sebmojo posted:

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Sagebrush posted:

Well, all the more reason to get the shots in Mexico. I got bitten 10 years ago so I don't remember exactly but I think each shot in China was like $20-30 maybe, entirely out of pocket at a relatively "fancy" clinic with a western doctor.

Yeah right, like I want Mexican autism :rolleyes:

# ? Aug 19, 2019 17:34

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