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Sorry to bump a dead topic, but it came up in the suggested links at the bottom of some other topic and I just need to vent. So, of course, To CE!

One of my jobs is working as a contact tracer. Today, after more than five attempts over more than two weeks, I spoke to a person on the phone who had a stroke while their spouse was in hospice. The spouse's dedicated hospice worker had asymptomatic COVID and was diagnosed; the spouse developed COVID exactly in step with the infection period from having gotten it from the case worker. So even though he was dying, this killed him that much faster.

Spouse died sometime after, but immediately adjacent to, Christmas. My case's stroke has been worsened by the inability to get enough oxygen with COVID (though currently doing better, O2-wise). I couldn't contact the case during the normal period to do the "what to do with COVID" lecture, but the case called me back and left a teary message apologizing for not having been answering the phone because of arranging an entire funeral alone --- physically and mentally --- during a pandemic.

It was just so fucking sad. I have nothing to say in summation. I'm just sad for her and for everyone who's hurting.

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Please, call me Vanai.
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I'd perhaps concede to a middle name, at most. A daughter and (ex or living) wife shouldn't be occupying the type of same place in your heart, anyhow.

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Please, call me Vanai.
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Her autobiography was really good. It's gentle and interesting, plus pretty funny. It's under 100 pages long, so it's a fantastic weekend read. Someone gave it to me for Christmas about three years ago and I really recommend it.

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Please, call me Vanai.
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Open carry is preposterou. How would the "good guys" know who to shoot in the rush of an actual panic situation if tens of people all whip out a gun and start firing? If a "bad guy" walks in and sees someone with a gun, that person is going to be the very first target, so it scarcely even makes sense as a personal protection argument, to say nothing of a 'safe society' one.

Concealed carry has more dignity, but is also mostly a Rambo fantasy that shouldn't be coddled.

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Please, call me Vanai.
CE's official linguist, War-tor-le and Charizard

"Criminal Afraid of Criminal Consequences"

Damn, how come more people don't try that airtight defense?

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Please, call me Vanai.
CE's official linguist, War-tor-le and Charizard

I wish Mega had my number for girlie pics. :(

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Please, call me Vanai.
CE's official linguist, War-tor-le and Charizard

So...the Mr. Boop sequel is taking an interesting and personal turn.

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Please, call me Vanai.
CE's official linguist, War-tor-le and Charizard

*cri evry tiem*

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Please, call me Vanai.
CE's official linguist, War-tor-le and Charizard

Being willing to try novel things multiple times and still coming up not liking them is one thing.

Having had something once when you were seven and insisting you're too delicate to ever make any adventurous attempts again is pathetic.

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Please, call me Vanai.
CE's official linguist, War-tor-le and Charizard

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Please, call me Vanai.
CE's official linguist, War-tor-le and Charizard

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Please, call me Vanai.
CE's official linguist, War-tor-le and Charizard

Really hoping this gets posted as a bonus on January 4th.



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Please, call me Vanai.
CE's official linguist, War-tor-le and Charizard

Do you pee in a bucket?

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Please, call me Vanai.
CE's official linguist, War-tor-le and Charizard

"You're/He's/They're all I've got."

"You're gonna have to trust me on this."

"THERE'S NO TIME TO EXPLAIN!!!"

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Please, call me Vanai.
CE's official linguist, War-tor-le and Charizard

The Trent posted...

i got you fam

Well, I love this! <3 Super.

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Please, call me Vanai.
CE's official linguist, War-tor-le and Charizard

I'd hate to be jockeyed around like that during an emotional time. Like, I'm just getting my bearings and seeing with increased clarity and yet I know there are thousands of people watching my every move and I'm being hectored with "CAN U SEE?!?!?!?!?!!"

I don't like "giving my foster kid signed adoption papers for Christmas" or "color-blind groom given corrective glasses on wedding day is chased around with questions about green and pink" videos either, even though I love the humanity they capture.

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Please, call me Vanai.
CE's official linguist, War-tor-le and Charizard

I smoke clowns like you on the b-ball court.

I, too, am cool beans years old.

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Please, call me Vanai.
CE's official linguist, War-tor-le and Charizard

He's just baiting us into filling out a new column of his spreadsheet.

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Please, call me Vanai.
CE's official linguist, War-tor-le and Charizard

pinky0926 posted...

no characters
no numbers

You're supposed to get in by vibing?

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Please, call me Vanai.
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Questionmarktarius posted...

Hold on, is Liz as delusional as Alec?
...or just stockholm syndromed?

I'm pretty sure Liz has been gone a long time and this has been a delusion of Alec's since her first several complaints.

Betty asking these questions is Alec's own self doubt.

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Please, call me Vanai.
CE's official linguist, War-tor-le and Charizard

If I'm in a position to date her, or am already dating her, I already am into her hot girl shit.

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Please, call me Vanai.
CE's official linguist, War-tor-le and Charizard

If you're quitting now, your two weeks will coincide with the holidays and they'll be extremely unlikely to approve the request.

If you're planning to leave later and this is just planning, there's nothing against it, but it is gauche and they don't have any reason to give a shit about honoring your time-off request. They also might use it against you in future times when you call on them to be references. If you're a right-to-work state, they can basically axe you immediately if they catch wind of it, with only flimsy retaliation laws to protect you.

You're putting the scheduling person into a weird position, too, because they're definitely going to be asked about it when you put your notice in.

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Please, call me Vanai.
CE's official linguist, War-tor-le and Charizard

The best ending would be for nothing to change because everything is wonderful and his life is perfect the end. Completely subvert our expectations.

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Please, call me Vanai.
CE's official linguist, War-tor-le and Charizard

That's an awful position to be in. I'm sorry, TC.

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Please, call me Vanai.
CE's official linguist, War-tor-le and Charizard

uwnim posted...

How did one of these purge during the week?

KStateKing17 posted...

We lost the other one? I swear someone posted in it yesterday.

Betty Boop's father, Mr. Boop, the President of Cartoons, is forcing the mods to delete and cancel these topics to keep Alec and Betty apart!!!!!!!! >:o

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Please, call me Vanai.
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I was traveling in January and February, got home a few days before the state of emergency. Most of the places I went didn't have any Corona restrictions or concern until the very end, but it was weird hearing global news about places after leaving them.

The pandemic's felt like the weirdest, worst, longest vacation comedown ever. But also, the whole year has been a blur.

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Please, call me Vanai.
CE's official linguist, War-tor-le and Charizard

Would I fart more than usual?

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Please, call me Vanai.
CE's official linguist, War-tor-le and Charizard

R1masher posted...

Are you skinny fat?

It means that you're skinny/low weight, but you have very little muscle, so you're a highier percentage body fat than is healthy. So 'skinny fat' has no definition, maybe a little belly, flabbiness around various parts of the body, but would still be considered 'thin' from a distance and can wear small-sized clothing.

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Please, call me Vanai.
CE's official linguist, War-tor-le and Charizard

Twist ending: Everything is f'ing awesome and nothing at all changes from now to the end of the comic because this is his real life and it's perfect. Him and his hot wife, Betty Boop, will never have anything to worry about and the President of Cartoons will never darken their door again.

And they finally do a threeway with Sonic.

Or oh shiiiiiet! What if the REAL Betty Boop comes back and wants to fight-and-three-way with the fake real-world ElizaBetty who took her man?!?!?!?!?!

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Please, call me Vanai.
CE's official linguist, War-tor-le and Charizard

You may also like the mouthfeel of the word 'irrumatio.'

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Please, call me Vanai.
CE's official linguist, War-tor-le and Charizard

I wash it after each major use (e.g. one full day of errands; maybe switch out halfway through the day). My mom is a seamstress, so right at the beginning, she made everyone in the family half a dozen of them with all the scrap fabric she had lying around.

When I go to the gym, I only work out if there are three or fewer other people. I wear a mask during exercise, then switch to a clean, dry one to leave after my shower.

If I leave one in-person job or visit for another, I'll switch between those.

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Please, call me Vanai.
CE's official linguist, War-tor-le and Charizard

Whether you believe in Santa or not, you definitely get coal if you respond to a scenario topic with "I wouldn't even BE in the scenario~!"

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I'd tell off the guy and get the kid home. Probably level with them in an hour or two when they've calmed down; do some sort of "Santa is a metaphor in our hearts and a fun game of make-believe" heart to heart with them.

Telling kids Santa exists is a weird tradition, but as far as potential 'traumas' a kid can go through, I don't think that cultural fib does any harm.

Pet Peeve: Christmas movies about people who don't believe in Santa when Santa clearly exists in-world. I am willing to suspend so much disbelief (and three times more at Christmastime!) but that premise virtually always contradicts itself on its own terms.

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Please, call me Vanai.
CE's official linguist, War-tor-le and Charizard

RIP Man Coke

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Please, call me Vanai.
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That sucks. Belt or suspenders?

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Please, call me Vanai.
CE's official linguist, War-tor-le and Charizard

These password datamining quizlets are getting advanced, dang. :P j/k, TC

I just accidentally typed about 250 words about how my pets got their names. Whoops.
Dog: Named after a pace probe
Cat: Reflexively said the name when I almost hit it as a stray kitten
Cat: Political joke + Came named



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Please, call me Vanai.
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MaddenDude-- posted...

yea thats not true at all. if you take a new medication and develop pain or swelling, it'll be taken pretty seriously.

It's not just about the drugs; it's about all of the things in that list. Doctors and PSAs and medical pamphlets and awareness orgs always make a big splash about seeing a doctor about minor-but-persistent-and-unsettling symptoms. But if you go to a doctor and say "I have the symptoms of colon cancer like bloating, irregular bowel movements, and my appetite's a little weird would you check me out for it?" they would definitely not say "Sure, that's a reasonable, proactive and mature outlook."

You'd be told to take an antacid, eat more vegetables and relax. That killed my friend at 30. Like I wrote above, I have a documented history of hospitalizations for ovarian cysts and every new physician I see consistently second-guesses and doubts me. The suggest sleeping wrong, constipation, stress, bad diet, scar tissue --- anything but the actual medical condition I'm complaining of. And when presented with the medical documentation, they shrug and say "Cysts usually resolve themselves." Despite the fact that cysts that don't, or that reoccur, have been shown to be correlated with developing ovarian cancer. Despite the fact that the issue has been an issue for 17 years.

I'm not "anti medical establishment, maaaaan," but general practitioners are lousy diagnostic techs; they only have 15 minutes to even be in the same room with you; and are disincentivized to take people seriously because of billing codes and WebMD. You can't pretend they'd get all Good Doctor and House on every person who complains of seemingly minor ailments.

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Please, call me Vanai.
CE's official linguist, War-tor-le and Charizard

Boop bump



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I found this in my mom's sewing table drawer. >:( Which CEman is recruiting?

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Please, call me Vanai.
CE's official linguist, War-tor-le and Charizard

Parappa09 posted...

theres so many other states

Which ones do you want to see most? Besides Maryland, the best state, of course.

Vermont is basically whatever to me, but I love snow, so that's what I'd want to do. A week or so in NYC would be wild too, in a blizzard or most other weather.

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Please, call me Vanai.
CE's official linguist, War-tor-le and Charizard

I think it's probably that they're discouraged from entering complex billing codes by the insurance companies (US., anyway); only have 15 minutes to spend with you anyway; and a bit of the 'cop' mentality that encourages adversarial "the citizens want to trick or harm us --- gotta be on my toes" thinking.

I've been hospitalized twice for cysts twice, been on numerous prescriptions for them over several years and have a documented history of complaints. Every time I move and need to see a new doctor, either specialist or a general practitioner, even if I forward my medical records, I am treated with deep suspicion about whether I *really* have them and if maaaybe I don't just need to go poo-poo? It's so fucking insulting. I've stopped pursuing prescriptions or even diagnostic follow-up because they didn't work and the insult isn't worth whatever divulgence they could give me.

I see red whenever I hear doctor/disease/drug commercials that say shit like "If you experience pain, discomfort, swelling or just feel off, talk to your doctor right away, as these could be signs of a serious condition." Can you IMAGINE going to a doctor and saying "I have some swelling; would you check me for [serious condition]?" You'd be laughed out the damn room.

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Please, call me Vanai.
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FF_Redux posted...

people with dementia diseases

Smackems posted...

Care giver

Those jobs are rough. Props.

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Please, call me Vanai.
CE's official linguist, War-tor-le and Charizard