February 2012
42 posts
Doctor Avoidance
… last week, I put off calling to get a doctor’s appointment despite chest tightness and needing to use my albuterol inhaler multiple times a day, after having had a cough and sinus stuffiness for a month. Why? Because I didn’t feel able to deal with medical practitioners when I was tired and sick. I feared the stress of dealing with “You’re fat and therefore you don’t deserve to be...
clientsfromhell:
Client: Can you update my Adobe?
Me: Sure. Which program are you using?
Client: You need to listen to me when I speak! ADOBE
Me: Yes, I got that part. Adobe is the publisher, they make quite a-
Client: Adobe! I want my Adobe updated. I have no idea what you’re talk about…
Me: Adobe makes lots of programs. Like, you wouldn’t say, “I just updated my Microsoft - “
...
If Common Sense Was Used in Government and the...
Citizen: I don't believe in abortion.
Government: Then don't get one.
Citizen: I don't believe in birth control.
Government: You don't have to use it.
Citizen: I think gay marriage is a sin.
Government: Don't marry the same sex then.
Citizen: I want my kids to learn about creationism.
Government: Take them to church.
clientsfromhell:
Client: Our page isn’t updated.
Me: We haven’t been given any content to update it with.
Client: We thought we’d save time and space by not sending the attachments.
Me: You’re saving time and space by not sending the content we need to update with?
Client: The emails sent faster, didn’t they!?
Maya Pinions: Healthcare Abroad: Bloated... →
mayapinions:
I’d like to look at a couple of related myths, as summed up by TR Reid in his book The Healing of America. The first of these has it that the universal healthcare systems of other wealthy countries are run by bloated bureaucracies. This is simply not true. Every other system Reid cited turned out to be less wasteful than the American alternative. This is true whether they are...
“Bourdain’s books are full of tales of the many gargantuan meals in which he...”
– Paul Campos, “No Proof Paula Deen’s High-Fat Southern Cooking Caused her Diabetes” (via adrowningwoman)
Tony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential is screamingly funny. But yes, he assumes that everyone who is fat must eat much more than he (because everyone’s alike!!)
“Consider a list of traits associated with fatness – lazy, stupid, undisciplined,...”
– Big Belly Laughs - “Why is it okay to laugh at fat people?” (via redefiningbodyimage)
Worth thinking about.
clientsfromhell:
Me: Can you send me that on DVD?
Client: Well, it is 4.15 GB file so I’ll have to use two of them.
Me: DVD should hold 4.7 GB - I think one’ll be enough.
Client: Are you listening to me? It is 4.15 GB. 15 is more than 7. Idiot…
“It’s all about choice. See, by only providing content through locked down, time...”
– Comment by an Anonymous Coward at Techdirt: Yet Another (Yes Another!) Study Suggests Hollywood’s Problem Is Dumb Release Windows That Cost It Money (via wilwheaton)
See, all those DRM options are to give you more choice. Really! *headdesk*
clientsfromhell:
Hi,
I’ve just printed out the website and it didn’t work too well. The graphics are all over the place and the links don’t work.
Can you look into it, please?
Thanks, A Client From Hell
What are other people thinking?
My mother was always on the alert in public. She was fat, after all. People could see her. She was braced for their reactions.
At Denny’s, nodding at a stylish woman on the other side of the restaurant: “See how that one’s looking superior? She’s watching me.”
At Safeway: “No, we’re not buying Pop Tarts!” (sotto voce) “Everyone’s looking in the basket.”
At my aunt’s at Christmas, she’d...
Planned Parenthood Saved Me: Planned Parenthood... →
plannedparenthoodsavedme:
When I was in college, and without insurance, I began to have extremely heavy periods. I was bleeding for 10 days straight, such heavy bleeding that even the heaviest pads would last only a couple of hours, and the cramps I had for the first two days were debilitating. I began to have dizzy spells, and had trouble concentrating during those times. Then I started to...
Planned Parenthood Saved Me: Cyst-prevention, or... →
plannedparenthoodsavedme:
It was freshman year in college, and just after winter break I started to have awful stomach pains. I couldn’t keep food down, yet my pants were a little tight. I thought maybe the freshman 15, but I played a sport and didn’t drink, so what was the deal?
I finally felt so sick and weak that a friend brought me to the ER. I had a pelvic scan and they found a huge cyst...
“Make good stuff, then make it easy for people to buy it. There’s your...”
– Jonathan Coulton is wise.
http://www.jonathancoulton.com/2012/01/21/megaupload/
(via neil-gaiman)
oh my god
bilt2tumble:
chubbybychoice:
tattooeddicks:
ladamania:
this should constantly be on my dash just every few days
“Wait I just…I can’t…fuck”…. I died.
Hahahaha I love you all.
Yeah this is, and always shall be, pretty Epic
“I fight fat-phobia because it’s ugly and mean and I need to save myself from it....”
– Linda Bacon, “Thin Privilege” (via fatandtheivy)
Esoterica: nevernotbroken asked: Have you heard... →
garpusstuff:
eshusplayground:
svnoyi:
They cant stay hidden forever, and we NEED their resources!They arent even using them all!
I’m studying European death and burial customs in anthropology, but it’s hard to get a first-hand understanding of it because Europeans won’t let us…
“You have the right to eat, because you are a human being.
You also need to...”
– Michelle, aka The Fat Nutritionist, “How to eat, in a nutshell”
Go read the whole thing. *shoos*
(via drst)
The Fat Nutritionist was the first person I read who laid out the (in retrospect totally logical) argument that all this talk about how sugar or fat or carbs are “addicting” and all this...
“[tw : rape] “Let’s talk about rape for a moment. Rape is not what George...”
– Jeffrey Rowland (via joyousfeminism)
“Republicans don’t even acknowledge that racism exists. There were a couple of...”
– Bill Maher (via barbiehighheels)
“I feel like such a fatty, no offense.”
– My friend to me. (via microaggressions)
NY Times: Pregnant & Pushed Out of A Job →
amaditalks:
It’s illegal to fire a person from their job because they are pregnant. That’s a federal law. But in 43 states, it isn’t illegal to fire a person who needs accommodations to continue working during their pregnancy. Isn’t that a great hairsplitting?
“We aren’t firing you because you are pregnant, we are firing you because you go to the bathroom too often.”
“It’s not our policy to...
January 2012
53 posts
