Let me do a "LOTR" style prehistory... about 6 weeks ago I went to our local walk-in clinic with a lump under my left armpit and a weird feeling in my left arm. Now of course being 6'2 and 390 pounds my first thought was that this wasn't going to be good. A trip on to WebMD didn't help my thought processes when all it kept coming up with was lymphoma. So I see the doctor who tells me it is an abscess and its pinching a nerve in my arm. An injection followed by a prescription of antibiotics and in two weeks it was gone.
Then there's this last two weeks....the ones where everything is due, my boss is in the Carribean for a cruise and I'm taking up the load for another project manager who has been off after three successive back surgeries for the last 13 months. To say that I have been stressed is a gross understatement.
Then my arm started getting this numb feeling again, a tingle, and feeling like you just need to shake it out or pop it. This coupled with a tightness in my chest and sharp shooting pains in my left side did not brighten my view. So I go to a walk-in clinic. I tell them how I'm feeling.
They immediately do an EKG.
Then they tell me to go to the Emergency Room NOW and that they are calling ahead to get me in ASAP. AND they tell my wife that she has to drive. Considering that her father died three weeks ago of a heart attack out of the blue you can imagine how she was doing.
So we get to the hospital and I sit in the waiting room for an hour. They finally put me in a room and start whipping up the tests. They do an EKG of their own, then come back because two of the leads were hooked up wrong. They take blood and check for cardial enzymes. They take Xrays. They do a CT scan.
SIX Hours I'm in the ER.
Then they come back and tell me that ALL my tests are PERFECTLY baseline. My Heart, Lungs, Head and all are FINE. The walk-in clinic had hooked up my EKG WRONG to begin with which caused a false reading. I more than likely have something torn in my chest wall that was causing the radiating pains around my heart area and there is pinched nerves that are causing the arm problem. So the good news is that I am perfectly healthy except the weight which my wife has now informed me will be coming off whether I like it or not. She of course would like a few minutes alone with the people of the walk-in clinic. So now I'm taking my anti-imflamatory meds and traveling to the land of Vicodinia. This was a horrible day....and yet it was also a very GOOD day. It was a roller coaster ride of emotions and fortunately for me it didn't mean an end of the "Big Ride" of life.
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
Well, let that be a lesson to you - don't go to walk-in clinics Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
Congrats on living!
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
Nothing like a scare.
My own attempts at defattification aren't going so great, but fortunately I'm unemployed, having to severely conserve funds, & cut back on eating, so there's always that. But my motivational point comes from a former Flare member, actually.
Siegfried hasn't been around in...forever, but his life's been progressing in some interesting ways. In August of 2006, he decided to start losing weight after going to the doctor & getting a high blood pressure scare. Many of you will remember that he was always a large guy for most of his life (& was all remember the Jedi picture). Anyway, he decided to start taking long walks ever night after work & during lunch breaks, as well as changing his diet. This picture is of him at the end of August 2006; in his own words, "it was taken about a month into my diet but before I started my regular evening walks. I weigh around 325 pounds, I think. "
Along the way he started really getting into it & someone at work hooked him up with one of those "5 free sessions with a personal trainer" at a gym thing. He was reluctant, but went with it. And he found it really helped, that the people were nice & willing to work with him, & he stuck with it, so much so that he's now widely recognized by the staff there.
This picture is him as of mid-December 2007. As he said, "The picture on the right is how I look as of a couple hours ago. It's been about seventeen months since I started my diet, and it's been about eight months since I started at the gym. I weigh approximately 200 pounds." He's looking to get down to I think 180 or so. But godDAMN. If he can do it, I can do it. And so can you.
Posted by Peregrinus (Member # 504) on :
"Don't you ever worry about your weight?" "Only keeping it up." "I hate you."
I'd post pictures of how I looked in th ehospital right after they finally got me turned around, when I weiged 115lbs. and looked like an Auschwitz survivor. I couldn't eat for the ten months following because they didn't want to risk aggrivating the fistula, and IV nutrition can only do so much, I got up to about 150 and then couldn't get much higher. After I started eating again following my first surgery, prednisone munchies got me up to anout 200. And since I got off the steroids, it's tapered off to a comfortable ~185. Now I just need to tone that, especially the core that I haven't been able to work much during this whole thing.
I've had several scares during this whole thing. When I was initially getting diagnosed back in '96, I was relieved again and again to learn it wasn't cancer, or HIV, or Hepatitis, or many, many other things. Getting the Crohn's diagnosis, though, was traumatic enough, and I spent the next decade(ish) depressed and in denial and not really managing it.
Which led me to the second scare. All the water I was retaining and all the muscle mass I was losing... It was mysitfying and scary, and when I started having trouble breathing. It took me a month of trying to explain that I wasn't having touble breathing because of panic attacks -- I was panicking because I couldn't breathe. Not rocket science. After I almost drowned from the inside, they got it. Nothing like slowly starving for Oxygen and gradually blacking out and wondering if you'll ever wake up again to make you appreciate life.
Hopefully that's the last health scare I have personally.
--Jonah
Posted by Mars Needs Women (Member # 1505) on :
Well yesterday I learned that a nice old lady who used to take care of me when I was a wee lad passed away from essentially a heart attack. Even though she was not overweight, her death has got me worrying about my health since I'm overwight. Sometimes I'll eat something so fattening afterwards I'll feel like I'm living on borrowed time, which is bad cause I'm only 19. So if someone 300+ can do it, damnit so can I. More so since I'm lucky that I haven't gained more weight overtime. That is to say that the amount of pounds I need to lose has been pretty constant throughout my teen years. Plus I also want to get laid. Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
My own financial troubles have me down to two meals a day, and I can't lose a damn pound. I've had the same tubby belly and chest and perfectly thin everything-else since I was 14 or so...bloody mystifying.
Posted by B.J. (Member # 858) on :
I was pretty much a twig my whole life until I got married (120-130 through college). I seem to have leveled off around 175 now, but I really want to get rid of this belly I now have. I need to if I'm going to enter an upcoming 5k/10k race in the spring.
Yes, I know, you all hate me. Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
I'm not saying i am the thinest for my age, infact far from it. But over the summer, i decided to get off my ass, and get in shape. I lost damn-near 15 pounds, but then my ass of a neurologist put me on anti-deppressants for my condition on the FIRST VISIT!! Aside from the fact that 16 year-olds shouldn't take anti-deppressants in the first place, they helped my gain all the weight i had lost back. He then decided to put me on Keppra, a medicine for epilepsey, which the idiot knows i do not have, and then after a month of emotional sideffects, he decided to put me on Lamictal, another epilepsey drug that is also a mood enhancer. Because of those pills of joy, i lost the weght again (which may have had something to do with not eating), and have continued to fluctuate back and forth between 175, and 190 seemingly at random. this coupled with normal teen-aged crap has made for an oh so fun year.
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
You know, that's funny..."around 14 or so" is when I started on SSRIs (type of anti-depressant and anti-anxiety medications - been on a few different flavors). (Proud to say I'm off them now - I sorely oppose things like that long-term. I believe they should be short-term stopgap measures to allow therapy to work more effectively.) Soooo...given me something to think about, and ask a doctor about.
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
The strange thing was how easily he was willing to give them to me. I was not depressed or anything. At least not untill he put me on them. And anti depressants only treat Tic Disorder in a small amount of people. i am not one of them. In fact, all of the medications that can be prescribed for it have equally didmal sideffects. Most of them screw with the reproductive system, most have emotional sideffects, and Lamictal, which i recently stopped taking because i cant swallow it anymore( it is an uncoated chalk like pill the size of a penny) has the pleasant side effect of a fatal skin rash if you stop taking it and then restart with out going through the month long dose-up. The Keppra is the only one that has helped, but only slightly, and the sideffects are almost unbearable. I am overly tired, have no energy, no immune system, very little apetite, very little uh... Attraction to the opposit sex... if you get what i mean, constipation AND diharea at the same time, headaches, jitters, muscle pain, and emotional numbness. I want to kill this guy. He had me up to the maximum dose of keppra ( 4 250 mg pills twice a day) within 3 weeks. You're actually suposed to wait 2 months before going that high, and then only if your body is not expirencing sideffects. Even better, he started these pills o' fun right at the beginning of the school year, which is why i have missed nearly 30 days of school to date.
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
Unfortunately I think that's representative of the current trend in psychiatry - Medicate, Medicate, Medicate. One biology course which only touched on biochemistry was enough to convince me that the complexity they're dealing with in shoving this or that chemical into our bodies is *insane* and that they have very little idea what they're doing. I don't think medicine or psychiatry is a science; they try to be, but it's all just too complex as yet to allow us to really be scientific and systematic about it. It's more a lot of philosophy and guesswork in my quite humble and unqualified opinion.
That sounds like a load of hell. My sympathies. I can really sympathize on a few of those points, since I have a sleep disorder, possibly a second, a gastrointestinal disorder (and have even had my appendix *and* gallbladder removed), and a whole buffet of possible mental illnesses to choose from given my genetics and symptoms. If there's anything I can tell you, it's that you should try and come off the meds as much as possible and see a therapist - even if nothing is wrong with your head. My therapist worked wonders with most of my physical problems; you'd be surprised how much of the severity of medical problems can come from being stressed or upset, either about other factors or even about the medical problems themselves (vicious cycle and all that). If you do consider it, try to get one who believes in Rational Behavior Therapy (or Cognitive Behavior Therapy).
As for Wiz, something occurred to me - have you been checked out for carpal tunnel syndrome? The way you describe the feelings in your hands reminds me strongly of how it feels to have CTS.
Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :
I keep meaning to get checked out for CTS... I have instances now and again of my arm going numb and tingly... even more instances of just my hand going numb, tingly AND cold...
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
Actually, I am thinking of dumping the neuro altogtther. I have an appointment lined up with a therapist woh does CBT, and even better, he is friends with my psycologist. the school nurse and i have theorized that my tics are caused by stress (which i attract alot of) and we bothagree that my doc is an ass. she recommended the doctor i am going to see now, doctor bon jovi, bon jiovini, or bon giovonni, but i cant remember which it is. But even better is the name of another doctor she suggested. Dr Waxmonkey. Apparently, that is an old synonym for masturbation as my dad so kindly pointed out. Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
My theory is that I will die when I die, and hopefully not a moment sooner. But I have bad luck usually.
I have quit the drinking, 6 pack of 40 ouncers six nights a week that I used to wash down a pint. The seventh night was a fifth of run to wash down the pint. I quit cold turkey in Sept of 99 and had one relapse in 2004, and not a drop since.
Now, if I can convince myself to quit smoking I would be doing okay. It took 20 years to quit drinking..... I quit once a year for a bit, one time it will take.
Then I can be healthier and pay taxes for more years. Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
I would like to live at least long enough to see grey hair. unfortunately, most men in my family start going grey in their late 20's so I'm screwed.
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
I agree with you about dying when I die, but the point I like to bring up is *how* precisely I'm going to die...in humiliating agony like my aunt who died of lung cancer, or peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather?
Course, I should talk...I've smoked since I was 16. Never managed to quit for more than 3 months straight.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
My mother probably had cancer, but died quickly in an auto accident. Long ago.
There are so many ways to day these days that the expected life expectancy is just a number.
My new line of work gives me ample opportunities to piss of drug dealers, which they don't seem to calculate when giving out those numbers.
Even as a smoker, according to an article in the paper today, I still have a whopping 25% chance to reach 100. Based on not pissing off too many drug dealers, and, based on the current rate of pissing I will deduct 20%.....
Hair, I remember having that stuff on my head.
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
Yeah, well, I have asthma, and think alcohol tastes like sugarless cough syrup, so i'm covered there.
Posted by HopefulNebula (Member # 1933) on :
quote:Originally posted by Sean: Yeah, well, I ... think alcohol tastes like sugarless cough syrup, so i'm covered there.
Wow, I'm not the only one?
Marry me. We can have ten or twelve little nonalcoholic kids together.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
With ten or tweleve kids you wouldn't have time to drink anyway. Or eat, or bath (yourselves), or much of anything else either.
The sad thing is that I lurked here for a couple of years, then had to be sober for a year before I joined. If people thought I was terrible and sick while sober....
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
Much of alcohol is a rather acquired taste...I thought beer tasted like shit for a lot of years, too, and now I quite like it. Most of the hard stuff I don't like, unless it's mixed with coke or something...
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
You just like the little umbrellas that come with your drinks.....
If you drink the stuff you do not like quickly enough your tongue will go numb and you will not taste the rest. Then you need to drink enough so when you get sick you don't taste that either.
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
"Wow, I'm not the only one?
Marry me. We can have ten or twelve little nonalcoholic kids together."
It's a date. I need something to shake life up a bit. Tonight is the town Fiddle Fest. Which means that i get to tune up the violins of about 100 snot-nosed fourth and fifth graders while fending off accusations that I am a flaming homosexual, and trying to remember why I decided to become a musician in the first place. Yay me.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
So, not a flaming one anyway.
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
Strangely enough, that's what my friend said before she nailed me in the bullocks with stiletto heels. I actually dont know why people say im gay. May be the fact that i am afraid of almost every woman I meet.....,or that i have like a dozen phobias, or that I play the violin and speak french (not at the same time). Could be any of the above.
Posted by WizArtist II (Member # 1425) on :
So you're really "Larry the Cable Guy: the Musical Version". Only you speak French rather than Amaircun.
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
And i have more than one shirt, and dont have a corny southern accent ( he actually does not have an accent in real life. And his name is dan whitney.)et oui, je parle francais et aussi englais tres bon, je pense. Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :
Tres bien! Merde. Les jeunes aujourd'hui...
Posted by WizArtist II (Member # 1425) on :
Sprechens Zie Irish?
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
Nine, Sprechens Zie Einglish ?????
I have to learn German some day. My school used to have it, but cut it in favor of latin. Mon prof de Francais est tres sympa. Elle ne donne pas les devoirs!
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
Again, a pox on Flare for not having Chinese text support.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
While I reject the idea that Latin should be ignored as a "dead" language, I have to object to the idea of dropping German in favor of it. Evidently they teach French. And you couldn't get away with not teaching Spanish these days. So, that's three languages that are Latin or Latin-derived. Do they have anything that's not?
(And, as an aside, there's no such thing as not having an accent. Unless you just don't speak a language at all.)
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
Ok, let me rephrase that. dan whitney puts on a fake SOUTHERN accent in order to play larry the cable guy. I think he is actually from nebraska, so he has a very midwestern accent.
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
Speaking of German, there is a kid in my English class from Austria who actually speaks better English than most people i know. I would love to meet a russian exchange student. "Excuse me, can you tell me where the nuclear wessels are?"
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
My Spanish teacher in high school angered me by not knowing how to use an apostrophe properly in English. It's not that complicated ffs. And his accent wasn't very good, and he taught me bad vocabulary that I'm *still* un-learning on occasion.
And in case anyone cares, it's spelled "Sprechen Sie englisch?" or in the informal "Sprichst du englisch?" Note the lowercase on "englisch" and the capital on "Sie." Posted by B.J. (Member # 858) on :
ACHTUNG! ALLES LOOKENSPEEPERS! Das computermachine ist nicht fuer gefingerpoken und mittengrabben. Ist easy schnappen der springenwerk, blowenfusen und poppencorken mit spitzensparken. Ist nicht fuer gewerken bei das dumpkopfen. Das rubbernecken sichtseeren keepen das cotten-pickenen hans in das pockets muss; relaxen und watchen das blinkenlichten.
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
D'you know there's a German version of that with faux English?
ATTENTION
This room is fullfilled mit special electronische equippment. Fingergrabbing and pressing the cnoeppkes from the computers is allowed for die experts only! So all the �lefthanders� stay away and do not disturben the brainstorming von here working intelligencies. Otherwise you will be out thrown and kicked anderswhere! Also: please keep still and only watchen astaunished the blinkenlights.
And came across this while looking for the above text, updated for the Internet age:
ACHTUNG! ALLES LOOKENSPEEPERS!
Das Internet is nicht fuer gefingerclicken und giffengrabben. Ist easy droppenpacket der routers und overloaden der backbone mit der spammen und der me-tooen. Ist nicht fuer gewerken bei das dumpkopfen. Das mausklicken sichtseeren keepen das bandwit-spewin hans in das pockets muss; relaxen und watchen das cursorblinken.
Posted by WizArtist II (Member # 1425) on :
Vo ist ein herrtoiletten?
and of course from Die Hard....
"Nicht schiessen! Nicht schiessen!"
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
Ticketen, mein herr.
Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :
Someone mind translating those things? I = teh confused.
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
Sorry, I only Speak french, canadian, and english, and very little "english" english.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
You say canadian, eh?
Sarnia provides such a nice chemical added hue to the sunrises.
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
Yeah, I can fit in with the canadians when I go to canadia. I fit in more up there than I do down here in where ever the hell i am.
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
What's going on with the world? Jay died, Frank got hunky, Siggy got thin, Charles shaved. . . And Omey may soon be playing Hide Mr. Sausage!
<Sinclair>Nothing's the same anymore!</Sinclair>
I could probably stand to lose a pound or two. I don't eat a lot, but I work at a computer all day in a really boring business park in the middle of nowhere, going for a walk at lunchtime soon gets really tedious. I lost a fair bit of weight just running up and down the hill between the car park and the hospital when my wife had her surgery. I may just have to see if it's viable for me to cycle to work (it's doable, only a couple of miles, but the fact that I have to drop off & pick up my daughter from the childminder would be a problem; maybe if I got a child-seat for my bike, but I'd be scared of all the traffic with her onboard).
Not heard much from Aban recently. Or how Jeff R's doing with his weight issues.
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
Fabrux: "Where is a men's room?" (although it's actually "Wo ist eine Herrentoilette?" - men's room is a feminine noun, btw, I dunno why that's amusing to me); "Don't shoot, don't shoot!"; and "Ticket, sir." (However, the word's just Ticket, not Ticketen...is it from something, a show or something?)
Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :
No, I mean the "faux German" crap.
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
I just watched Au Revoir Les Enfants in French class the past week. Even though there were subtitles, I dont think I looked at them at all. I even understood the dirty jokes, and my my, those 10 and 12 year old french boys have dirty minds. It takes place in WWII France, but surprisingly, all the germans spoke franch to. Oh well, still a good movie.
Posted by B.J. (Member # 858) on :
quote:Originally posted by Fabrux: No, I mean the "faux German" crap.
You're kidding, right? It's not supposed to be translated, just read it out loud, you'll get it.
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
Hogan's Heroes?
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
quote:Originally posted by Daniel Butler: (However, the word's just Ticket, not Ticketen...is it from something, a show or something?)
NO TICKET!
Posted by Zefram (Member # 1568) on :
"No ticket!", what a great scene.
It's a shame the final edit of "The Last Crusade" didn't include Indy's fight with the very large gentleman shown accompanying the German officer onto the zeppelin. The man was played by the same actor who played the German chopped up by the flying wing's propeller in "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and the thug crushed to death in "The Temple of Doom".
Posted by WizArtist II (Member # 1425) on :
The "Don't Shoot! Don't Shoot!" is from Die Hard 3 which was of course promptly followed by McClane putting three rounds into the guy.
the "Ticket, sir" I believe is from the 1963 movie "The Great Escape" where Allied POWs attempt to escape a German camp....some of whom go by train.
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
Zef got it, Wiz.
Ahh, Pat Roach. Such a shame he's not in the new one.
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
I saw that propeller-chopping scene at some theme-park stage show...sans the chopping cuz it was kid-friendly...it escapes my mind exactly where.
Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :
Universal? I vaguely remember seeing that when I was there a while back...
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
Yeah, that was it! It's kinda vague for me too, I don't remember much.
Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :
I seem to remember the actor playing Indy wasn't easy to see. Probably for being ashamed at not being Harrison Ford.
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
I never really liked Indiana Jones. They were great movies, sure, and I think WWII and sci-fi are great things....just not when mixed. One of the worst examples of this was Ent Stormfront pts 1&2.
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
Blasphemer.
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
Okay, maybe the voyager episode with the Hirogen and the holodeck was a wee bit worse.
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
I meant about not liking Indy.
Posted by WizArtist II (Member # 1425) on :
Sean needs an encounter with Mola-Ram.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
quote:Originally posted by Sean: I never really liked Indiana Jones.
Just when I thought you were catching on. Dan, you may beat him.
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
Oh, I may? Er, maybe later, I've got rather a large chocolate bar that wants my attention.
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
Well, It just never made much sense to me. The films themselves are fine, you know, great acting, great fx, and stuff, but I never really liked the whole premise of them.
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
OK, y'know what? Just..Go. Seriously. Just...out of my room right now.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
Shik, you forgot to add, 'Don't just go away, go away mad!'
Posted by B.J. (Member # 858) on :
Someone want to modify his status line to read "Kick me" or something? He certainly can't change it yet.
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
That'd be okay. Ive had worse things pasted on my back.
Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :
*tee hee*
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
I once walked around school one day with an impressionist interpretation of a penis stickied to my back with out knowing it. And these are people who have known me our whole lives. Can't wait to get to college. Yeah * performs sarcastic cheer*
Posted by Charles Capps (Member # 9) on :
I wonder how long it'll take.
/fingerwag
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
What, to get to college? Hopefully 2.5 years.
Posted by Charles Capps (Member # 9) on :
No, I meant... oh, wait, you asked for it, nevermind.
Posted by WizArtist II (Member # 1425) on :
Somehow the term "Short Bus" seems to be appropriate.
Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :
quote:Originally posted by Charles Capps: I wonder how long it'll take.
/fingerwag
I promise to be good.... *puppy eyes*
Posted by B.J. (Member # 858) on :
quote:Originally posted by Fabrux: *tee hee*
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
Oh, I just saw that. Keep it, I like it. Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
I like this place, every topic always on course, never a smart ass remark, or gesture, just so nice..............
It only took 12 hours too, impressive.
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
Well, I was in bed most of the 12 hours. Mostly sleeping. I like to take advantage of school vacations to sleep and catch up on things. Actually, I think he changed it last night before i signed off. I just didn't notice it. But I will continue to learn from your greatness Master Ritten. Posted by WizArtist II (Member # 1425) on :
quote:Originally posted by Sean: Well, I was in bed most of the 12 hours. Mostly sleeping.
OK....PLEASE DO NOT ELABORATE on the portions you were NOT "Sleeping". None of us need that mental image.
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
Eeewwww! Some sick people here folks. If you must know, I was watching the audio commentary to Jeff Dunham's Arguing With Myself, while killing many innocent people in Grand Theft Auto. * Shudders violently*
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
SOME?
The others I am sure resent being left out!
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
You were included in that statement. And I'm sure some people here arent completely off of their rocker. What about L.O.A.? or ...no, she's really the only one that I know of. I have to meet more people though.
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
I haven't seen HopefulNebula in a while, but she seems fairly sane.
I once woke up after a refreshing nap in class to scattered giggles (even from the teacher) and immediately knew Something Was Wrong...but nobody would tell me what it was...not even my friends...after enough queer looks and laughter in the hall, I went to the bathroom to look in the mirror, upon which I discovered that my face had been colored turquoise with a highlighting marker.
Posted by WizArtist II (Member # 1425) on :
Assault by Highlighter. Sounds like grounds for Educator Abuse to me.
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
Now that is funny. Nebula is pretty sane i guess. She was here recently. She offered to have 10 or 12 non-alcoholic kids with me, upon discovering our mutual dislike of alcohol. Last wednesday i believe.
We did some sort of communications game in 6th grade. Each person got a piece of colored tape on their backs, and we had to go around and ask descripitive questions about it, without blatantly asking what color it was. Someone thought it would be fun to draw an immage of two people copulating on my tape during a study hall. Boy, that was fun.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
The teacher probably did it.
I had an English teacher that shared an interest with my. All the pretty girls in class. The worst part is, I think he saw more action from them than I did.....
Posted by WizArtist II (Member # 1425) on :
A cherry a day for the Teacher instead of the ol' apple?
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
No, it wasn't the teacher, I think it was may best friend. Strange, I am still buds with him. And remember, a virgin a day keeps impotence away Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
My driver's ed instructor was fired for getting a little too friendly with his female students. Except in case it wasn't, you know, appreciated...wasn't a stud, or ... well, anything. Just a middle-aged guy with an unhealthy interest in young girls.
A kid fell asleep in my freshman bio class (freshman in highschool) and the teacher had us all verrrrry quietly sneak out of the room into the hall, then changed the time on the clock to ten minutes past the start of next period, and woke the guy up, telling him look what time it is, you're late for your next class! The guy freaked out and was still pretty groggy when he charged into the hall at full speed (leaving his books behind) to everybody's laughter. Good clean fun.
Posted by B.J. (Member # 858) on :
Waaaaaay back in high school, there was a guy in my government class that kept falling asleep with his head propped up on his arm. The government teacher was too nice, so she asked the coach next door to do something about it. All he did was knock the guy's elbow out from under him. He woke up right as his forehead made a resounding *WHAM* on the desk. It was pretty funny, and I don't think he ever fell asleep in there again!
Posted by WizArtist II (Member # 1425) on :
Wow, I think this is a record for a post I started....7 pages.
All of course on the original topic!
(like that ever happens on Flare)
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
It doesn't even happen at the mirror Flare.
My English teacher wasn't much either, middle aged guy with a bad comb over and a hell of a paunch. The A grades seemed to be worth it for the young things.
Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :
Nooo! Not the younglings! They're impressionable!
Posted by WizArtist II (Member # 1425) on :
bad bad bad Star Wars reference! You receive 3 demerits and are now on Double Secret Probation.
You will have to attend Detention with Ritten's English teacher....and dressed as Sailor Moon.
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
I used to love sailor moon!
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
I bet that old bastard still does.....
Poor Nim.
Sad thing is he and his wife also ran a foster type home taking in young girls on a temp basis. A friend of mine stayed with him for a bit, she's the one that finally complained.
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
*shivers* Once, in a home-ec class I took, someone took one of those babies you practice child care with, and put it in a cooking lab oven @ 350 F. The teacher didn't notice it for about an hour & a half. It made the whole hall smell of burnt plastic and rubber. The teacher was somewhat weird. She was like 60 and single, owned 10 dogs, and had a dog cfarrier cage built into the back of her van. Creepy woman.
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
That same bio teacher had another kid fall asleep; he took a big 2-by-4 (or as we in the Midwest tend to pronounce it, a tubafor - what's a 2x4? Playing band music, fool!) and slammed it on the lab table right next to her head with great force. I thought it was kind of mean.
That chick ended up moving in with my nephew and having a kid with him...damn small towns...
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