My friends and I used to do this thing where we’d dress up on a theme and go do something totally normal.
We dressed up as pirates and went bowling.
We dressed as vikings and went to the grocery store. The security guard told us we had to move our longship because it was illegally parked.
We dressed as Romans and went to Blockbuster. The staff chanted, “toga! Toga! Toga!” at us.
We dressed up all steampunk and went to the museum. Tourists kept taking our picture.
I used to do historical reenactment when I was at University. I would go to class before session as a Norman knight, and when the session was over me and some of my buddies I did it with would get the bus home in the same kit. Stop at the Tesco’s in full armour for beer and supper and ice cream, then get together at Irish’s place for a LAN party.
It’s enrichment for all involved.
I remember being told I was 900 years late for the battle, and asking the bus driver where the horses were.
Just a random thing; one of my many favorite Futurama jokes is when they go to a planet that is obviously very Egyptian and the aliens even look like the gods themselves and someone is like ‘oh did you guys come to earth and build the pyramids?’ And the alien is like ‘nah-we went to earth and fell in love with the local architecture that we integrated it into our own. they actually taught us so much.’
Acetaminophen/paracetamol has a hard stop upper dose limit, above which it becomes extremely toxic.
That limit is 4g (8 “extra strength” (500mg) tablets) in 24 hours (about 2 tablets every 6 hours).
A single dose of 22 extra strength tablets can kill you.
Taking 12 or more tablets per day for more than a week can also kill you (this is about 3 tablets every 6 hours).
Symptoms of overdose take up to 24 hours to manifest, and are fairly difficult to distinguish from other problems. They include abdominal pain (especially right upper quadrant), nausea, malaise, and confusion.
The antidote (n-acetylcystine) must be given within 8hours of ingestion in order to be useful.
After 10 hours the only thing that will work is a liver transplant.
You might think “why would I ever accidentally take so much?”
Well, acetaminophen is in almost everything in the cold/flu/pain aisle. Migraine combos like Excedrin, cold and flu combos like NyQuil, basically anything that says “non-aspirin pain relief”, and anything that’s branded as a fever reducer. It’s all probably acetaminophen/paracetamol.
So the goal of this post is to get you to read the labels on your medications. Because taking taking Tylenol and NyQuil together for a week (like you might if you had the flu) could kill you.
Please don’t forget this shit, after it happened to a family member, he died 8 years later because of the continuing health complications even though he survived the initial overdose
Acetaminophen/paracetamol has a hard stop upper dose limit, above which it becomes extremely toxic.
That limit is 4g (8 “extra strength” (500mg) tablets) in 24 hours (about 2 tablets every 6 hours).
A single dose of 22 extra strength tablets can kill you.
Taking 12 or more tablets per day for more than a week can also kill you (this is about 3 tablets every 6 hours).
Symptoms of overdose take up to 24 hours to manifest, and are fairly difficult to distinguish from other problems. They include abdominal pain (especially right upper quadrant), nausea, malaise, and confusion.
The antidote (n-acetylcystine) must be given within 8hours of ingestion in order to be useful.
After 10 hours the only thing that will work is a liver transplant.
You might think “why would I ever accidentally take so much?”
Well, acetaminophen is in almost everything in the cold/flu/pain aisle. Migraine combos like Excedrin, cold and flu combos like NyQuil, basically anything that says “non-aspirin pain relief”, and anything that’s branded as a fever reducer. It’s all probably acetaminophen/paracetamol.
So the goal of this post is to get you to read the labels on your medications. Because taking taking Tylenol and NyQuil together for a week (like you might if you had the flu) could kill you.
Please don’t forget this shit, after it happened to a family member, he died 8 years later because of the continuing health complications even though he survived the initial overdose
coworker asks if i like harry potter and i have to make a disco elysium skill check to come up with a response
CIS COWORKER — Hey you seem really into wizards and stuff, I bet you love Harry Potter :)
EMPATHY — He’s just trying to be polite and make conversation. He doesn’t know about JK Rowling’s opinions on trans people. Let’s politely change the subject.
This little boy, look at the joy on his face when we were able to provide some food through your donation to the campaign I hope you continue to support and share my campaign link with your friends on all your sites. On social media 🙏For your information, I am new here and I hope you welcome me💔
We’re still in the process of having me diagnosed with whatever is causing my serious physical illness, and I’m still in the process of being declared unfit for work. And this won’t be done till late October at the earliest.
I don’t have a large income. Especially not one to take care of all the traveling on top of everything to go to doctors.
I also have a ko fi if yyou want to give us a bit to work of off for the day to day life.
Also because it apparently is needed to mention.
WE ARE NOT PALESTINIANS
if you want to help out the Palestine, we’re not who to donate to. We of course appreciate any help, but we don’t want it to be at the cost of someone else
We have GOT to pick a better name for our galaxy than the Milky Way, if aliens ever come from the Andromeda Galaxy they’re gonna think it’s a horny thing
sorry but you’re gonna have to rename the entire concept of a galaxy if u wanna fix this problem
>discover humans
>they classify gravitational wells with a large number of stars as milk
>they call their own region of space a particularly milky milk place
>when they’re born they need milk or milk substitutes to survive
>name their whole taxonomic class of animals after glands that produce milk
>whole entire industries dedicated to the production of milk
One time I tried to say “take care” after ringing up a customer. I opened my mouth and for some reason I was unable to make a noise except for a very small “t-eh” sound initially and by the time I remembered how to make words I had to shout across the store for them to hear me. What I ended up saying was “Take over!!!” after which they glanced back at me uncomfortably and left without another word.
I am haunted by that interaction to this day.
I worked at a bilingual call centre and once tried to end a conversation by saying either “salut” or “au revoir” but I combined them into “savoir!!” So i just said “to know!!” To the customer and hung up
I feel like ai art would be fun if we were all still just typing random prompts into it like mushroom giving a ted talk and going lol this looks stupid wasn’t that fun but instead people are like trying to replace jobs with it
I had fun going like “computer, show me cat with long tail” and then the cat looks twisted and distorted and wrong and I clap my hands and go hahaha very good computer but then it turns out the computer is using up a lot of electricity and stealing things and that other people think that by telling the computer to make cat with long tail that makes them an artist for some reason?
There’s nothing like inherently wrong with wanting to make this type of technology I think. The problem is that instead of going “wow, cool.” a bunch of people went oh finally I can stop paying my employees
I feel like ai art would be fun if we were all still just typing random prompts into it like mushroom giving a ted talk and going lol this looks stupid wasn’t that fun but instead people are like trying to replace jobs with it
I had fun going like “computer, show me cat with long tail” and then the cat looks twisted and distorted and wrong and I clap my hands and go hahaha very good computer but then it turns out the computer is using up a lot of electricity and stealing things and that other people think that by telling the computer to make cat with long tail that makes them an artist for some reason?
There’s nothing like inherently wrong with wanting to make this type of technology I think. The problem is that instead of going “wow, cool.” a bunch of people went oh finally I can stop paying my employees
Passed by a sign that said “bong recreation area” and immediately googled it and it became ten times better
just ripping fat doinks at Dick Bong State Park in Kansasville USA which is totally a Real City and not a completely fictional place from a Marvel comic
Ever since I learnt to use a drop spindle and I was shown a spinning wheel, I had the question that probably all handspinners have:
how the fuck did the Sleeping Beauty managed to get punctured by this?
Now, there are theories, very interesting about all that, but what people rarely think is how the consequence of Sleeping Beauty’s curse was her parents burning all spinning related things so that she would never meet her fate.
This effectively means that in this kingdom they have to import most types of fabric and clothing. Or maybe they only import the thread, if they had a flourishing loom industry, but still. They probably can only work with leather and felted wool. Also a problem for ropes of all kinds, now that I think of it.
So the kingdom of Sleeping Beauty was known for about 18 years as (first of all) the kingdom with the terrible policy about spinning, and secondly as the best artisans of leather and felt.
But then, there is also the whole “I am too poor to care, I can just spin with a stick but I do not have any means to acquire thread or clothes in any other way”. A whole black market of home-made spinned thread, a whole way of spinning in creative ways so that you can easily hide what you are doing. A sinking spinning wheel industry but a blooming “just a stick” industry.
And then, she met her fate and so people were like “so I guess I can use a spinning wheel again, or is it too soon?” Regions closer to the castle took longer but nobody really enforced the law after like 6 months anymore.
