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2·3 days agoNo, he wasn’t quite that awesome.
He was definitely awesome. He did a bit of an anatomy lesson while she was cut open.
In the US, some doctors are afraid of being sued, some aren’t.
When my wife was pregnant with our third child, during one of her obgyn visits, I complained that they wouldn’t let me watch during the emergency c-section for number two. He not only told me I could watch, he said I could bring a camera.
Exactly.
Trickle-down economics doesn’t work, and everyone who isn’t an idiot knows it whether they say it works or not.
Trickle-up economics would work, because if money gets into the hands of the people at the very bottom, they buy the things they need to live.
7·4 days agoYeah, even if you’re not a minority, if you’re one of the peasants, you’re gonna catch hell for murder.
If you’re rich, you can probably get away with it.
However, I was referring to corporations. If you’re a corporation, you can murder as much as you want, and when it comes time to pay for your crimes, well, you’re not really a person.
We mostly don’t treat murder like murder.
The other reality of being a parent is that regret comes with the job.
You try to do the best you can do, and you deal with your mistakes as best you can. None of us is perfect.
I was talking to a work colleague about how I was agonizing over mistakes I made. He said if I’m concerned about my mistakes, then I’m doing ok. He said his parents never thought they made any mistakes or they didn’t care if they did. His attitude was if you’re trying, you’re a good parent.
Of course, I didn’t stop agonizing over my mistakes. After all, what does he know? He had shitty parents!
It doesn’t.
Parents who perform unnecessary surgery on their children because society says they should are bad parents.
That might seem harsh, but it’s true. You have a responsibility to make the right choices for your kids, and “society” doesn’t get a vote.
I faced the same question, but found it to be a no-brainer. You don’t perform unnecessary surgery on a baby.
The reason it is performed in the US is to stop boys from masturbating.
Ignore any excuses for doing it that people have come up with since. That’s the only reason the US started doing it, and every other reason is just people trying to rationalize why they keep doing it.
The “reasons” people come up with to explain it now are based on extremely unlikely events. All the serious issues that come up are avoided with proper hygiene. Unless they still have a stupid masturbation hangup, it all comes down to this:
Parents feel icky about having to explain to their child how to wash their penis.
If you can’t handle that, I’ll tell you right now that you’re going to have a hell of a lot tougher conversations.
What I told them was to imagine they were wearing a hoodie in the shower. You’d need to pull the hood back before shampooing your hair. Same thing goes for the little head, but don’t use shampoo, that might burn.
Not circumcising my kids only caused me one problem:
My mom reacted like it was a direct personal attack on her, because I was circumcised. She saw it as me saying she was wrong. I found it difficult to convince her that I was not judging her. She didn’t have the same information available to her as I did. When I was born, she didn’t really have a choice.
I like to find a balance between being worried about bacteria and trusting my immune system to deal with anything that comes along. However, my immune system tends to over-react to things that aren’t a threat (allergies to cherries, peaches, cats, dogs, kangaroos, pollen, dust, etc.) so I’d be pretty pissed if it couldn’t handle some bacteria.
I’ll cut the bad parts off an old pepper and still put the good parts on my omelette in the morning. I’ll cut the moldy bit off a piece of cheese and use the rest. Bread…nope. I can handle it being a bit stale, but moldy is too much. I’m not afraid of bread mold, but I don’t like the taste.
Last year I tossed the Thanksgiving turkey out the next day because my wife and I forgot to deal with it and left it sitting on the kitchen table next to the radiator. That seemed to me like it would be a bit too much of a challenge to my immune system.
Franco’s fascism died with him. Trump won’t live another 36 years.
That’s a good one.
I’d say drunk driving because it’s more common and results in more deaths.
I’m reminded of a conversation I had with my wife about her uncle, who has also had multiple divorces.
I said that if anything happened and I was no longer married to her, I would never seek out another long term relationship. It’s too much work. I said I can’t imagine putting all the time and effort into a relationship only to have it fail, and then doing it again, and again, and again.
My wife pointed out that her uncle isn’t putting any effort into the relationships. That’s why they fail, and that’s why he can just jump into the next one.
Edit: also, “never cheated” is like the absolute minimum effort required. It’s like saying, “I feed my kids.”
That may not be as uplifting as you thought.
Franco was the first one I thought of. However, his fascism didn’t outlive him, and President Pedophile doesn’t have 36 years to go.
So, if you’re sore, eat a banana. If your surgery scar from an appendectomy when you were twelve opens up, eat an orange.
Mid 50’s. I haven’t noticed any increase in recovery time from injuries or illness so far.
I went through a period in my 30’s when I’d get sick with a cold in October/November and stay sick until March. I think more than anything else it was just catching every bug the kids brought home from school, and just going through a series of overlapping illnesses every year. It stopped when I hit 40.
One thing I’d point out is that we never really recover from an injury. Our bodies are just in a perpetual state of trying to hold everything together.
Lack of vitamin C will result in Scurvy. One of the effects of scurvy is that scars from injuries and surgeries just open up again. I interpret that as your body not being able to fake it anymore.
If you’re having trouble healing, maybe eat an orange ;-)
Yes, the third was scheduled, second was an emergency (prospect cord).
I’m not sure if the doctor even noticed me for the second. It was the nurses who kept bugging me to sit down.
They brought a stool over, and I said I didn’t need it. They kept bugging me to sit down, but I was better off standing. I’m a bit too big for most furniture, and the stool they brought over was tiny.
To their credit, they stopped bugging me about it before my wife had to tell them to piss off.
Edit: It wasn’t about me watching what they were doing. They were all expecting me to pass out. The only way I would have passed out is if I sat on that stool and then tried to stand up again.