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TheRat
Aug 30, 2006

jabby posted:

tramadol, which is also a weak opioid

Is it really? I was given tramadol once when I had a rather bad burn from a gas explosion and it knocked me the gently caress out for like 20 hours

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A Buttery Pastry
Sep 4, 2011

Delicious and Informative!
:3:

Gonzo McFee posted:

https://twitter.com/richardbranson/status/1193840819091976193?s=19

Can't help but feel no PR people got to see this photo before it was published.
It’s 100% minority-focused charity.

Pistol_Pete
Sep 15, 2007

Oven Wrangler

Ms Adequate posted:

So basically someone was like "You know, the Hitlerjugend was fine, just needed a bit more discipline and brutality"? And then our country was like "... yeah okay, sounds good, set up a school on those exact principles!"?

She saw the Pink Floyd video and decided to make a real-life version of the school. "Poetry?!? Absolute rubbish, laddie. Now get on with yer work."

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

jabby posted:

Yeah, I know about the differences in codeine metabolism. They mention it at med school, don't know how many doctors pay attention though.

To be honest if you tell me codeine doesn't really work for you it probably comes across less drug-seeky than telling me you're allergic to codeine. Especially if you can't answer the follow up question of 'what happens when you take it?' convincingly.

Either way my next offer is going to be tramadol, which is also a weak opioid so I'll give out just as happily as codeine. If you have a reason you can't take codeine AND tramadol then it definitely raises the suspicions, but it honestly takes more than that to come across as drug-seeking. It's actually fairly easy to tell who's genuinely in pain and who isn't.

Isn't it that there's a risk of serotonin syndrome with tramadol if you're on SSRIs though? I could see a scenario where both issues apply.

(That's an actual question, I'm not lecturing the doctor lol)

Also to the guy whose dad said 'yes the tories are horrifically incompetent but labour would be even worse - that's exactly the situation 'ok boomer' was designed for.

Sorry this is going back a bit, catching up

stev
Jan 22, 2013

Please be excited.



Pistol_Pete posted:

She saw the Pink Floyd video and decided to make a real-life version of the school. "Poetry?!? Absolute rubbish, laddie. Now get on with yer work."

"If you don't eat yer meat, you can't have any pudding. How can you have any pudding if you don't eat yer meat?"

Nice piece of fish
Jan 29, 2008

Ultra Carp

Rarity posted:

Hello nite crew. I've only had 4 hours sleep cause my tooth hurts too much. I'm now wistfully remembering the time I was on codeine after I broke my wrist. Ah, the good old days.

Sorry :/ That'll happen if you stay up until 2:30

Purple Prince
Aug 20, 2011

Apraxin posted:

https://twitter.com/Miss_Snuffy/status/1193987690754117633
she genuinely seems to believe that anyone under the age of 18 is an Elemental Mischief Demon who must be forcibly held down and vigorously hammered into the shape of a Proper Responsible Adult, lest they destroy civilized society

so of course she's a nationally respected education thought leader, what could be more natural

This reminds me of Zizek's essay on Supernanny , except Supernanny was never this cruel.

Everyone needs a strong and authoritarian mother figure to make them do what's in their best interest rather than what they want to do. (Problems arise when you are just a Tory and worship pain)

E: It's Fisher, not Zizek.

Purple Prince fucked around with this message at 08:33 on Nov 12, 2019

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)
Hey Jabby sorry to bother you and feel free to ignore this but are tablets that don't have a score in them suitable for splitting? I know it'll never be the case that it's an exact 50% split in distribution (probably not even in scored tablets now that I come to think of it) but is it likely to be close enough?

Sorry this is getting off topic

Edit sympathy to no-sleep goon Rarity. Get thee to a doctor, I'd say.

I keep waking up at half three no matter when I go to bed then can't sleep for hours, the clock change really messes with me. Luckily my alarm was set to 5 anyway but I really could've used that extra hour

Barry Foster fucked around with this message at 08:29 on Nov 12, 2019

justcola
May 22, 2004

La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo

Swilling warm salt water round your gob can help with hosed teeth sometimes. I've cracked a tooth but can't afford to go to the dentist and I'm not eligible for any benefits because my partner works full-time, wee!

I've found tramadol/codeine/whatever to be a little addictive after taking regularly, luckily I was able to nip it in the bud before getting too itchy and sweaty but I was also lucky enough what I had the painkillers for had dissipated enough I didn't need painkillers. Only time I had morphine I don't think it worked properly as I could still feel things, in that instance, having a nurse push a hernia back into my body. Got a bit videodrome that night.

DesperateDan
Dec 10, 2005

Where's my cow?

Is that my cow?

No it isn't, but it still tramples my bloody lavender.
If you need to split pills then get one of the little pill cutter things, they work in a very satisfying and precise manner


Codeine is the only thing that lets me sleep at the moment but then it wears off and so the longest I have slept in the last 5 months since mystery hell illness started up is about 3 or 4 hours

Tramadol makes me confused and angry in all the wrong ways like I took daily mail pills- it's scary stuff.

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

DesperateDan posted:

If you need to split pills then get one of the little pill cutter things, they work in a very satisfying and precise manner


Codeine is the only thing that lets me sleep at the moment but then it wears off and so the longest I have slept in the last 5 months since mystery hell illness started up is about 3 or 4 hours

Tramadol makes me confused and angry in all the wrong ways like I took daily mail pills- it's scary stuff.

Oh yeah got one of those, just wondering if it's actually a valid way of splitting doses.

Same with tramadol. Horrible.

Edit also commiserations on the sleep issues. Sleep deprivation wrecks every other part of your life, it's the pits

Barry Foster fucked around with this message at 09:41 on Nov 12, 2019

Braggart
Nov 10, 2011

always thank the rock hider

Hey meow! What's wrong with this fuckin door? Hey you! Meow!

Jaeluni Asjil
Apr 18, 2018

Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!
Don't smuggle tramadol into Egypt in paracetamol boxes for your Egyptian "orfi" husband.
It's illegal, he knows it, you know it (else why disguise it) and you will go to jail.
But being a Brit, the Sun will have your back.

Doccykins
Feb 21, 2006

graun also covered it at the time
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/26/boris-johnson-security-evgeny-lebedev-perugia-party

e: the lib dem n bomber has also been flushed out https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/nov/11/lib-dem-candidate-kevin-mcnamara-quits-over-racist-and-homophobic-tweets

Doccykins fucked around with this message at 09:43 on Nov 12, 2019

kanonvandekempen
Mar 14, 2009
https://twitter.com/AyoCaesar/status/1194171743981707264?s=20

I had no idea pre-paid electricity meters were a thing, what the hell.

CoolCab
Apr 17, 2005

glem

kanonvandekempen posted:

https://twitter.com/AyoCaesar/status/1194171743981707264?s=20

I had no idea pre-paid electricity meters were a thing, what the hell.

and landlords will make it difficult as they don’t want you bailing and leaving them with a bill. every stage of the process it costs more and assumes worse of you.

Sanford
Jun 30, 2007

...and rarely post!


kanonvandekempen posted:

https://twitter.com/AyoCaesar/status/1194171743981707264?s=20

I had no idea pre-paid electricity meters were a thing, what the hell.

A few years ago when our village shop was being refurbished I must have given a dozen lifts over to the next village to "get some electric". I think most people had cards that they needed to load up, but I'm sure some were getting little ticket things that had to be fed into the meter.

Josef bugman
Nov 17, 2011

Pictured: Poster prepares to celebrate Holy Communion (probablY)

This avatar made possible by a gift from the Religionthread Posters Relief Fund
I used to have one of those in the first house I moved into in London. The head tenant was supposed to keep it topped up (because they took care of bills) but she was only head tenant so that she didn't have to pay rent by skimming off everyone else's rent payments.

So I ended up giving myself food poisoning when I ate refrozen loving spaghetti bolognaise because the freezer had run out of electricty for over 8 hours and then been topped up. I really should have sued her and/or the landlord but I was much younger/dumber back then.

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal

OwlFancier posted:

He actually used his time machine to travel to south africa and also 1991.
He heard he could get a free Nelson Mandela.

kanonvandekempen posted:

I had no idea pre-paid electricity meters were a thing, what the hell.
They've been a thing for a long time, used to be magnetic tokens from the newsagent (that he'd let you buy using a postdated cheque as long as you had a cheque guarantee card) before the USB stick looking things. And before that meters with a straight up cash box that you'd put pounds (or tokens in some places) in and twist a thing on the front like a gumball machine.

Sometimes it made sense before the days of mass credit and bank account ownership, in the same way that having a Co-op Christmas Club book made more sense than a savings account. It's just a mass scam on the poorest now though.

Also pre-payment water meters are a thing, and should not be, and my policy wrt prepaid water meters and the people that fit them is

crispix posted:

You can enjoy your arse with sensibly sized objects and have no ill effects. Certain people will just always take things too far

Borrovan
Aug 15, 2013

IT IS ME.
🧑‍💼
I AM THERESA MAY


Sanford posted:

A few years ago when our village shop was being refurbished I must have given a dozen lifts over to the next village to "get some electric". I think most people had cards that they needed to load up, but I'm sure some were getting little ticket things that had to be fed into the meter.
I've had both, the cards & keys suck hard, but the tickets are great (because they are physical objects & therefore can be stolen)

Off topic, I'm in a bit of a bind & don't know what to do. I basically can't do my job atm because of my depression (like, seriously, I can just about turn up & make appropriate sounds come out of my mouth, nothing much else is happening). Luckily, nobody particularly knows what I do with my time as long as I turn up a few times a week & my teaching continues to get done. If I had any job security I'd talk to my line manager (who is cool btw but also overworked & dropping any poo poo on her would be a bad move politically even if she'd be chill with it, as she's a very useful ally & sees me as completely dependable), see occy health, take some time to get back on track. But, I've got a fixed term contract & am on probation, so lol if anyone thinks employment rights or equality legislation means a drat. I'm thinking I just half arse the rest of the term hoping nobody notices & then take all my holiday leave to get better, is this smart or dumb? Genuinely can't judge.

If relevant: my bosses are aware that I am considered disabled due to mental health issues. Top level boss is very clear that I just need to let them know what's going on & if there's any problems. Advice from senior colleagues is to never, ever do that, or she will poo poo on me, just don't be ill basically. & top level boss is a much better lawyer than me so my rights don't mean a drat. Also my local Union branch are useless cowards and the acting secretary is literally good friends with my boss

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal
:glomp:
Could you take a couple days off immediately just to get yourself in a place where you can figure out what would be the best thing to do?

Unrelated:

feedmegin
Jul 30, 2008

Bundy posted:

For toothache, or at all? I'm 39 and this is the first time I've heard this instruction, is "headache, 2 ibuprofen, better later" pure placebo?

For what it's worth, when my foot was swelling up, I took one ibuprofen and it knocked it off within about 4 hours. poo poo was like magic. But yeah, ear a sammich when you take it or something.

Green Wing
Oct 28, 2013

It's the only word they know, but it's such a big word for a tiny creature

Guavanaut posted:


They've been a thing for a long time, used to be magnetic tokens from the newsagent (that he'd let you buy using a postdated cheque as long as you had a cheque guarantee card) before the USB stick looking things. And before that meters with a straight up cash box that you'd put pounds (or tokens in some places) in and twist a thing on the front like a gumball machine.



I had a stick-pounds-in-it box as recently as 2015 in a horrible little basement studio flat in Brighton. It was also rapidly falling into the sea and at one point the floor gave way to my foot and opened into a hole to apparently nowhere.

£700 a month.

Jables88
Jul 26, 2010
Tortured By Flan
Still lolling at SKILLS WALLETS. It's such a poo poo name and such a poo poo idea. So little money, spread so far apart, amounting to a person being able to purchase one year of university standard eduction spread across a 40 year period.

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


Jables88 posted:

Still lolling at SKILLS WALLETS. It's such a poo poo name and such a poo poo idea. So little money, spread so far apart, amounting to a person being able to purchase one year of university standard eduction spread across a 40 year period.

Um actually it's a very good policy now that they've increased it from the lolworthy sum of £9k to a majestic £10k

#Jomentum

Borrovan
Aug 15, 2013

IT IS ME.
🧑‍💼
I AM THERESA MAY


Guavanaut posted:

:glomp:
Could you take a couple days off immediately just to get yourself in a place where you can figure out what would be the best thing to do?
Not really an option, that'd involve dropping a steaming turd on like 3 people's desks. Just got to go through the motions I think.

Thanks though.

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


Borrovan posted:

Not really an option, that'd involve dropping a steaming turd on like 3 people's desks. Just got to go through the motions I think.

Thanks though.

Don't be a martyr, you need to look after yourself so that you can look after other people later when they need it.

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

Borrovan posted:

Not really an option, that'd involve dropping a steaming turd on like 3 people's desks. Just got to go through the motions I think.

Thanks though.

I'm being a huge hypocrite but stuff like this rarely gets better and usually gets worse if you don't do something - the earlier the better. If you wait until it's a full blown crisis the consequences are worse and recovery becomes even more lengthy and difficult. Prevention is better than cure

Kill All Cops
Apr 11, 2007


Pacheco de Chocobo



Hell Gem

sebzilla posted:

Um actually it's a very good policy now that they've increased it from the lolworthy sum of £9k to a majestic £10k

#Jomentum

It's good to see the Lib Dems make amends for implementing 9k tuition fees

Ratjaculation
Aug 3, 2007

:parrot::parrot::parrot:



-Adult Training Bursaries?
-Skills wallets.
-Workplace skills scheme?
-S k i l l s w a l l e t s
-Adult development fund
-SKILLS WALLETS

Looking forward to every workplace implementing compulsory in-house training before you can start work that costs... hmm... lets say £10,000.

Sanitary Naptime
May 29, 2006

MIWK!


Borrovan, id speak to a union rep about it in confidentiality, they should be able to give sound advice around the political situation and how much they think you’ll be able to get away with.

Xeno
Sep 16, 2005

MAD TYTE DUBZ, YO.
10 hours driving today, first ever Praxis Podcast (13) consumed. Great stuff.

Braggart
Nov 10, 2011

always thank the rock hider
So I woke up to a discussion that I would like to weigh in on. I think using 'cuck' as a metaphor propagates a particularly toxic element of toxic masculinity. It frames relationships as a competition between men for women, with women having no agency because their vacuous little heads can easily be turned by a man who is better at the sexing. And sex your woman well you must, because there is always another man waiting for the opportunity to sex her better. You must jealously guard your prize, and be suspicious of any male friends she has. In fact, it might be better to just insist that she has no male friends at all. Is your penis big enough? Are you muscular enough? Are you good enough at the sexing? Probably not, because there will always be someone out there who is better. It's a jungle out there, and it's full of black men who want to take your woman.

And there of course we come to the racial element, which does not have to be there but almost always loving is. I think it's tied to otherising black people as animalistic animals who are dangerous to civilised people on multiple levels. It seems to be a consistent theme among racists to cast minorities as mindlessly untrustworthy threats to civilised society. Or if they are East Asian, as mindlessly untrustworthy drones for the state (the wrong state!). Racists never seem to stereotype minorities as human beings with thoughts, dreams and agency, for some reason.

Note also that this entire bizarre obsession completely ignores the existence of non-heterosexual relationships, except sometimes as frivolous lesbian relationships for a man to intrude on. Oh, also sometimes the cuck gets hosed because he's basically a woman at this point. Which is its own can of sexist worms. Oh, also black men want white women because black women aren't attractive. Which I completely disagree with, but is a foundation of western ideals of beauty and the many industries that feed off them, such as the foundation and other makeup industry.

I feel similarly about the virgin/Chad memes, although British Virgin Chad was quite funny.

Ms Adequate posted:

e; and of course racists ruin everything. i just want cuck porn but finding it WITHOUT a racial element is nigh impossible :sigh:

:(:hf::whatup::hf::shlick:

I do of course believe that if cuckoldry of any flavour is your fetish, that's completely okay. We do not get to choose our kinks, and we should not mock anyone for theirs. We should also not force our kinks on others even in conversation if they do not want us to. Consent is key, in all ways and at all times. (That's not aimed at you, Ms Adequate, you're awesome and you're making a relevant point! :glomp: )

Should I admit that it's a fetish for me? Will that gross people out or will it help support my argument? Or both? Oh well, it's out there now, at the mercy of the so-called Tolerant Left :D

"I may find your kinks weird and gross, but I will defend to the death your right to do them."

Saith
Oct 10, 2010

Asahina...
Regular Penguins look just the same!
That school looks like the perfect place for a nonce to work, right? Like, the headmistress said she'd always believe the teacher over a student. I dunno I think we should expect some poo poo to come out in the next ~8 years

Pesmerga
Aug 1, 2005

So nice to eat you

Borrovan posted:

Not really an option, that'd involve dropping a steaming turd on like 3 people's desks. Just got to go through the motions I think.

Thanks though.

Sent you a DM

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

~*4 LIFE*~
Not sure why we'd expect cuck porn to not be racist when we're still waiting for porn to not be sexist. And I say this as an avid porn devotée.

Jippa
Feb 13, 2009

OwlFancier posted:

I'm not... sure cuckoldry is racist as much as it's the weird 4chan people are already racist and it manifests in them being terrified that black men are going to seduce their girlfriends that they don't actually have and also that'd be really hot but also terrible yeah definitely terrible don't ask why I have all these pictures of it.

4chan people must have extremely confused boners.

I love the chapos but they have definitely gone through the looking glass with "extremely online" irony poisoning using these terms.

Rarity posted:

Not sure why we'd expect cuck porn to not be racist when we're still waiting for porn to not be sexist. And I say this as an avid porn devotée.


I remember someone posted one of those porn website search terms maps and it seems to originate from the southern US states where they still have a really weird relationship with race/slavery etc.

Jippa fucked around with this message at 11:28 on Nov 12, 2019

Gum
Mar 9, 2008

oho, a rapist
time to try this puppy out
https://twitter.com/BBCBreaking/status/1194196575758823425?s=19

Puntification
Nov 4, 2009

Black Orthodontromancy
The most British Magic

Fun Shoe

Apraxin posted:

Well yes, that's because the child is infected with Original Sin, obviously :rolleyes:.
https://twitter.com/Miss_Snuffy/status/1193576793867005952

gently caress me this is demented. Abolishing private schools can't happen swiftly enough.

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forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


My kink is feeling horrifically embarrassed about sex and attraction and all that. I just have horrible flashbacks to being 15 and someone talking about "phwoar, ain't she a looker?" and wanting the earth to swallow me whole rather than admit to objectifying a woman. Very healthy.

That's your "too much information" post about me.

Though I doubt 15 year old said phwoar. It was 2 years ago.

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