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Non-Fiction TV: I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own

This thread is for non-fiction TV, including but not limited to reality television (So You Think You Can Dance, Top Chef: Masters, Project Runway), documentaries (The History Channel, The Discovery Channel), and sundry (Expedition Africa, Mythbusters), et al. [NAFDA]


megan walker - Nov 03, 2008 7:05:09 am PST #7130 of 23273
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Also, a question that came up watching 30 Days.

How many times have you been to the emergency room? That is, for yourself, not kids or partners. In the original pilot, on living on minimum wage, both Spurlock and his fiancé ended up there. I thought that was unusual, but then my housemate said he had been to the ER at least 20 times in his life. Basically, he's gone about once a year as an adult. I could only come up with 5 visits total (3 as a small child, and twice the same year in Brooklyn). Is that just really unusual?


Jessica - Nov 03, 2008 7:07:23 am PST #7131 of 23273
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

The last time I was in the ER was in college when I had my appendix out. Before that I hadn't been since I was about 8 (and wound up having abdominal surgery for my kidneys).


le nubian - Nov 03, 2008 7:10:37 am PST #7132 of 23273
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

if you have good health insurance, it is unusual to go to the er a lot.

are you counting urgent care AND er? If it is both, I've been five times in my adult life.

er: I've only been twice, for the same ailment. Now that organ is removed, so I won't be going back! So my first trip to the er as an adult was about 2 years ago...


lisah - Nov 03, 2008 7:10:47 am PST #7133 of 23273
Punishingly Intricate

Once as a toddler and twice as an adult (knock wood) and was admitted to the hospital as a result of one of those adult trips. But I've been lucky in that I don't have any chronic illnesses and have only broken one bone ever.


megan walker - Nov 03, 2008 7:18:08 am PST #7134 of 23273
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

are you counting urgent care AND er? If it is both, I've been five times in my adult life.

I meant urgent care. 3 of mine were stitches, that may have been in urgent care, I don't remember the ones when I was a kid. I only went to the ER for the "bagel incident" because I didn't have a regular doctor and the ER was only a couple of blocks away, so it made more sense.


Amy - Nov 03, 2008 7:19:56 am PST #7135 of 23273
Because books.

I've been, as an adult, twice for asthma, once for falling down a flight of stairs, and once for a dental abscess. I think that's it, though.

As a kid, my brother went a bunch of times, but I don't remember ever going as a kid. He was always falling out of trees and taking headers over his handlebars, though.


le nubian - Nov 03, 2008 7:20:11 am PST #7136 of 23273
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

every time I went to urgent care, I shouldn't have gone. There were issues that I thought were emergencies that would have resolved on their own if I knew how to treat them properly OTC. the ER trips were non-negotiable.


Jesse - Nov 03, 2008 7:20:36 am PST #7137 of 23273
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Yes, the Speed Bump is by far the best NEL twist they've come up with.

Yeah, I like it a lot.

(Why you would ask a driver who got you hideously lost and clearly is totally unfamiliar with the part of the city you're in is a different question, of course.)

SERIOUSLY. That guy was the worst driver ever!

How many times have you been to the emergency room?

Once, as far as I know, and it was mostly a mistake (I didn't realize there was a walk-in clinic next door, or I would have gone there).


Vortex - Nov 03, 2008 7:23:20 am PST #7138 of 23273
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

I've only been once for me. And that was when I broke my leg.


Kathy A - Nov 03, 2008 7:24:39 am PST #7139 of 23273
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

I've had two ER visits (once at age three for stitches in my head and once at 14 for a sprained ankle), plus one walk-in clinic visit last year for sinus infection (I was in between doctors, otherwise I would have gone to the doctor's office).