Timelies all!
I'm so sorry, bonny.
Heading to Florida tomorrow, so I need to pack.
Dreg: Glory, Your Most Fresh-And-Cleanness. It's only a matter of time-- Glory: Ugh, everything always takes time! What about my time? Does anyone appreciate I'm on a schedule here?! Tick tock, Dreg! Tick freakin' tock!
'Sleeper'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Sheryl - Dec 22, 2011 1:09:34 pm PST #12657 of 30001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
§ ita § - Dec 22, 2011 1:12:38 pm PST #12658 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
So I'm reading up on how Big Pharma has cured cancer in the 70s but won't release it because there's more money in chemo, and Big Pharma doesn't do cures. Are the same people that believe that the same people that believe vaccinations cause autism?
However, on the same site, is a fascinating page about the death of Paul McCartney. This is not a rumour I'd ever heard of, not having paid much attention to the Beatles ever. It's fascinating watching the same community (not sure if same people) that are believing in psychics and Big Pharma conspiracies believing in something else that *to me* looks to be completely unrelated. But I guess if you're credulous and a conspiracy nut, it's all more of the same.
I love how their forum allows you to thank a post, and then posts how many thanks you've given and received next to your name. What? Social capital? I don't believe it exists.
smonster - Dec 22, 2011 1:24:04 pm PST #12659 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Jack, Sally, Zero, Santa and the huge moon and curly hill.
So awesome.
tommyrot - Dec 22, 2011 1:25:39 pm PST #12660 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Paul Mccartney was killed by big pharma
should be a question, which opera mini won't do...
Allyson - Dec 22, 2011 1:42:18 pm PST #12661 of 30001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
So I'm reading up on how Big Pharma has cured cancer in the 70s but won't release it because there's more money in chemo, and Big Pharma doesn't do cures. Are the same people that believe that the same people that believe vaccinations cause autism?
They sometimes overlap. They also don't seem to mind Big Alterna.
askye - Dec 22, 2011 1:49:03 pm PST #12662 of 30001
Thrive to spite them
They don't see it as Big Alterna though. That's the thing I don't get. I mean companies and individuals are raking in big bucks because the treatments cost hundreds or thousands of dollars per treatment/dose. In some cases it costs more than conventional medicine, and yet it's not considered money grabbing or greedy where anything with "Big Pharma" is.
Steph L. - Dec 22, 2011 1:49:40 pm PST #12663 of 30001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Wowwww. They really are trying to kill my sinus infection with fire. I just had a mild freakout over the dosage + length of time I'm on this course of meds, because I (of course) had to google standard dosage. Someone tell me my dr. knows what he's doing?
Sox, what are you taking (drug & dosage)? You can e-mail me if you don't fill like spilling your pharmaceutical guts for the world.
hippocampus - Dec 22, 2011 1:54:53 pm PST #12664 of 30001
not your mom's socks.
Steph, insent. And thanks.
Ginger - Dec 22, 2011 2:01:28 pm PST #12665 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Ginger, how long were you on anti-bs once they figured it out? If that's not too personal.
I took fairly large doses of clindamycin and Bactrim for about a month. I also put an antibiotic cream in my nose. I got a sheet of instructions for killing staph around the house. My intestines rebelled a little, but it wasn't bad. I don't know what they do if you're allergic to sulfa drugs.
javachik - Dec 22, 2011 2:04:39 pm PST #12666 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
Yeah, a few weeks back someone I otherwise think is credible got into a twitter "discussion" with me over the cancer thing. It's kind of rude to people like me and my friends who work at Genentech (and other companies) and are doing everything they can to conquer that fucking nightmare disease.
I am not disinterested, obviously, because I work at a biotech, but I'd be all for universal healthcare too. It's not just about being greedy. It's about wanting to cure diseases and have everyone have access to the cures.