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twoday: May 4, 2005; C-SPAM Times best-selling author

What�s wrong with ��youse guys�

# ? Apr 3, 2020 07:29

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# ? Jun 1, 2024 03:13

twoday: May 4, 2005; C-SPAM Times best-selling author

https://twitter.com/FinancialTimes/status/1245954277836636161?s=20

# ? Apr 3, 2020 07:30

Xaris: Jul 25, 2006; Lucky there's a family guy
Lucky there's a man who positively can do
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Shipon posted:

also you're in loving new york, you don't get to use "y'all"

folks, i'm sorry ya'll but yes we do. this is the internet, it's very important that i have a bluecheckmark and can pretend to be below my PMC stature by opening my tweets with "ya'll are acting cray cray today. folks calm down but vote blue no matter who, orange man bad must go. bident isn't my first choice but he's our choice" as i'm ashamed of being an advertising-marketing sales engineer living in a williamsburg flat as a way to self-identify below my class so i don't get guillotined and performatively pretend to be a down to earth southerner whose seen Real poo poo.

ya'll is fine, get over it.

# ? Apr 3, 2020 07:31

ProperCauldron: Oct 11, 2004; nah chill

Shipon posted:

also you're in loving new york, you don't get to use "y'all"

Go to Harlem and say this.

Nah jk, your first point is real good. Our hellscape government and society compels us to blame each other and punch downward. It's not a north vs south, or city vs rural issue. It's haves vs have-nots, and we proles need to stand together. We've been set up to fail, always have been.

# ? Apr 3, 2020 07:31

Farm Frenzy: Jan 3, 2007

jesus Christ its the loving yall debate again

# ? Apr 3, 2020 07:32

spaceblancmange: Apr 19, 2018; #essereFerrari

https://twitter.com/stevesilberman/status/860595784424620034

# ? Apr 3, 2020 07:33

Xaris: Jul 25, 2006; Lucky there's a family guy
Lucky there's a man who positively can do
All the things that make us
Laugh and cry

Farm Frenzy posted:

jesus Christ its the loving yall debate again

trite crew thyme

# ? Apr 3, 2020 07:34

Solarin: Nov 15, 2007

twoday posted:

What�s wrong with ��youse guys�

nm what's wrong with youse?

# ? Apr 3, 2020 07:34

twoday: May 4, 2005; C-SPAM Times best-selling author

https://twitter.com/TheEconomist/status/1245960438690480128?s=20

# ? Apr 3, 2020 07:34

Mantis42: Jul 26, 2010

Ayyye im chokin' here! I'm dyin' of roni heeere!! Ayyye fuggedabboutit

# ? Apr 3, 2020 07:34

Inceltown: Aug 6, 2019

Red lentils really seem to get short changed in beanlife. They're tasty as gently caress and cook super fast, like rice fast, so you can whip up a meal easily.

Sure there are many different bean types and locations that specialise in the ones that have been more traditionally available but that doesn't mean that those little pink nipples should be overlooked.

# ? Apr 3, 2020 07:35

RadiRoot: Feb 3, 2007

Inceltown posted:

Speaking of beans, it's time we moved to Persia and tried some Iranian red lentils.

DAL ADAS دال عدس

Get some of that poo poo into you for a hearty legume feast.

lol, forgot the link

been a a while since I used it but red lentils rule since they cook a lot quicker.

# ? Apr 3, 2020 07:36

twoday: May 4, 2005; C-SPAM Times best-selling author

how the gently caress is a swab shortage even real hahaha just glue some cotton to a stick hahaha just use q-tips haha

# ? Apr 3, 2020 07:36

KIM JONG TRILL: Nov 29, 2006; GIN AND JUCHE

Xaris posted:

folks, i'm sorry ya'll but yes we do. this is the internet, it's very important that i have a bluecheckmark and can pretend to be below my PMC stature by opening my tweets with "ya'll are acting cray cray today. folks calm down but vote blue no matter who, orange man bad must go. bident isn't my first choice but he's our choice" as i'm ashamed of being an advertising-marketing sales engineer living in a williamsburg flat as a way to self-identify below my class so i don't get guillotined and performatively pretend to be a down to earth southerner whose seen Real poo poo.

ya'll is fine, get over it.

i'm from texas and don't give a single gently caress if some yankee is using it but jesus christ it's "y'all" not "ya'll"

# ? Apr 3, 2020 07:37

Delthalaz: Mar 5, 2003; Slippery Tilde

Some people say y�all. Some people don�t. Who can say why? Nobody knows! All i know is �you guys� is a totally perfect gender neutral way to do plural-you and if you got a problem with that? Fuhgetaboutit!

# ? Apr 3, 2020 07:37

Stairmaster: Jun 8, 2012

We're so hosed...

# ? Apr 3, 2020 07:38

ProperCauldron: Oct 11, 2004; nah chill

twoday posted:

https://twitter.com/TheEconomist/status/1245960438690480128?s=20

I'm sure The Economist is loyal to factual science and isnt just trying to boost a cratering economy.

The powers that be are still in the Protect The Store Windows At All Costs stage.

# ? Apr 3, 2020 07:39

Xaris: Jul 25, 2006; Lucky there's a family guy
Lucky there's a man who positively can do
All the things that make us
Laugh and cry

KIM JONG TRILL posted:

i'm from texas and don't give a single gently caress if some yankee is using it but jesus christ it's "y'all" not "ya'll"

wow this sounds like some ivory coast elitism gatekeeping here. as someone from indiana, i

# ? Apr 3, 2020 07:39

MoaM: Dec 1, 2009; Joyous.

blatman posted:

chuck's tp and beans

# ? Apr 3, 2020 07:42

twoday: May 4, 2005; C-SPAM Times best-selling author

https://twitter.com/BBCSteveR/status/1245963300799746048?s=20

# ? Apr 3, 2020 07:42

Rectal Death Adept: Jun 20, 2018; by Fluffdaddy

Stairmaster posted:

We're so hosed...

I saw in the GBS thread that the sentient turd governor of Mississippi called for a statewide shutdown. That's pretty much the final "oh gently caress" signal since he has been angrily trying to cancel his cities' quarantine orders up until literally 04/02

# ? Apr 3, 2020 07:42

twoday: May 4, 2005; C-SPAM Times best-selling author

ProperCoochie posted:

I'm sure The Economist is loyal to factual science and isnt just trying to boost a cratering economy.

The powers that be are still in the Protect The Store Windows At All Costs stage.

fwiw The Dutch health Minister said something about a serology test for antibodies being developed and an announcement next week

# ? Apr 3, 2020 07:43

Homeless Friend: Jul 16, 2007

Stairmaster posted:

We're so hosed...

Oui Oui

# ? Apr 3, 2020 07:43

MoaM: Dec 1, 2009; Joyous.

Stairmaster posted:

We're so hosed...

no loving; social distancing!

:negative:

# ? Apr 3, 2020 07:44

Tei: Feb 19, 2011

MadJackal posted:

Day 12

�I will continue using military metaphors. We are at war with this virus.�

The greetings this morning were grim.

�Stay safe� has become the aloha of intra-Resident conversations. I heard that twice before reaching the front doors of the hospital just after sunrise.

�How was the night?� is the standard greeting to the two Residents just finishing their 12 hour Night Float shift. These are the two young MDs left to put out fires across half the hospital�s two hundred or so beds.

�We had the longest Code ever. Took an hour. We went through maybe 20 epi�s.�

Epinephrine is only given to people with either pulseless electrical activity or those who are asystolic � flatliners. (Once again, Hollywood has lied to you. You don�t put the paddles on anyone with a monitor next to them going BEEEEEEEEEEEEEP.) The ACLS guidelines say you push those every 3-5 minutes.

The Ok, We Tried alarm should have gone off about 3-4 epi�s in. Not 20.

�Was it a young guy?� �No, It was James.�

I curse a little louder than I mean to. I walk out of the room and wash my hands even though I�m sure I hadn�t touched anything.

James is- was a nurse at my hospital. He was maybe in his early 50s. Every Resident loved him because he was tough and always fought for his patients. He was a nice guy and a pleasure to work with. But he was fierce. He�d seek us out during Rounds, stare us down and make sure we put in orders for his patients ASAP. We all respected him.

I knew he was on a vent as of the night before with settings that looked, well, dire, but it�s still a shock.

The night team leaves. I start mindlessly updating the cheat sheet summary of our 16 patients. I�m on autopilot at this point. 13 are COVID cases. COVID cases are, unfortunately, very easy to manage. You put in orders for medications that you�re pretty sure don�t work, you note how bad their oxygen saturation is on nasal cannula (NC) or nonrebreather (NRB), and you gown up and see the worst cases / people you think might need to be intubated in the near future.

The first Rapid Response comes at 7:40AM. I reach the door (of course it�s a COVID room, that�s all we have left) and realize I left my N95 at home. I�m not entering that room. I flippantly tell the interns to access the situation and head to pick up a new mask at the Command Center.

The nice nursing admin lady hands me a paper bag with a new N95. She tells me to sign for it in the binder just outside the door. Despite my autopilot brain, I joke, �Oh we�re on the honor system? You know I�m just going to sign �John Smith� in the binder right?� She laughs and says it�s ok I left my N95 at home.

I pick up my mask and sign John Smith in the binder.

Just because I�m in shock doesn�t mean I can pass up a joke like that.

I head back up to the Rapid. I get a debrief that this was narrow complex ventricular tachycardia in the 200s. They pushed metoprolol (wrong decision) and adenosine (right decision). I go talk to the very bright and hardworking intern on my team. I explain that in situations like this where the patient is otherwise hemodynamically stable, metoprolol isn�t going to do enough to slow the heart rate. You�ve got to reset the circuit breaker. I asked who the attending was in the room.

There was no attending. The intern had to make the call.

I left my interns to the wolves when I walked off in a huff to go get a new mask.

My autopilot brain goes over how lovely I am of a senior Resident. When YOU were an intern, at least your seniors never walked away from a Rapid.

As I walk back to the call room to barricade myself behind a door for an hour or so, I come upon a nurse meeting where the news of James� passing was being announced. I honestly don�t remember a single word of it. I do remember the occasional sobs coming from these amazing nurses.

Then there�s a Rapid and a COVID is intubated.

Table Rounds.

Then there�s a Rapid and a COVID is intubated.

I�m getting good at assessing whether or not a hypoxic COVID patient will get tubed and if we have time to get them upstairs before they crash.

Go me.

�

�The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.�

I don�t think my fellow Residents or I will break in the near-future. Maybe, maybe not. A few of us are close though, including myself. Feels like it�s just over the horizon.

It�s what follows that quote which worries me.

�But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.�

James never broke. He was good, and gentle and brave and he was killed.

gently caress this world and the stupid people that got us in this poo poo

# ? Apr 3, 2020 07:45

Inceltown: Aug 6, 2019

MoaM posted:

no loving; social distancing!

# ? Apr 3, 2020 07:45

Spime Wrangler: Feb 23, 2003; Because we can.

Farm Frenzy posted:

jesus Christ its the loving yall debate again

honestly the sequels weren�t that bad

# ? Apr 3, 2020 07:46

twoday: May 4, 2005; C-SPAM Times best-selling author

https://twitter.com/RubyTue25696092/status/1245965227910402053?s=20

# ? Apr 3, 2020 07:48

Inceltown: Aug 6, 2019

Spime Wrangler posted:

honestly the sequels weren�t that bad

So many people haven't seen them though. Kids showing that you can shorten it down way past "y'all" into "yo" just isn't being recognised because it's "urban youth".

# ? Apr 3, 2020 07:48

Admiral Ray: May 17, 2014; Proud Musk and Dogecoin fanboy

Farm Frenzy posted:

jesus Christ its the loving yall debate again

Y'all're holler Fer a dollar

# ? Apr 3, 2020 07:49

Tei: Feb 19, 2011

In Ecuador, they leave the corpses of their families in the street. Waiting for the governement to pick them. Some has been there for 4 days.

# ? Apr 3, 2020 07:50

twoday: May 4, 2005; C-SPAM Times best-selling author

https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1245966474516344834?s=20

# ? Apr 3, 2020 07:50

My Gimmick Name: Sep 11, 2004

SirPablo posted:

I don't believe that for a second. Every other country's death toll growth has generally leveled off from 30% down toward 5%. We just need to follow the same safety proce-... Oh god

# ? Apr 3, 2020 07:50