"Temporary" Venting Thread - Page 25

Tamuril Sirfalas · 12-07-2005, 01:14 PM

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Originally Posted by The last sane person

Hehe, do it! And then bring the cookies to class and share.

i was thinking of that and i did take the baby back but i found out its a year or two old so i put it back lol

***Rían*** · 12-10-2005, 11:33 PM

VENT - when troublemakers who usually are at the source of the trouble complain about trouble ...

Ah, life! Ah, people!

durinsbane2244 · 12-10-2005, 11:39 PM

older sister...say n'more...

***Rían*** · 12-10-2005, 11:45 PM

ah, siblings!

The last sane person · 12-11-2005, 03:12 AM

****. Just saw an old woman die today, few hours ago actually. At a really bad place too, it was at a really happy time, and she was watching her grandchild graduate from college, adn it was her little comencment (sp?) thing. Poor woman, didnt even live long enough to see her grandchild get to the podium, her last question was "where is she?"

Despite all my training, i couldnt help her. and what kills me is that no one cared, her family acted like it was no big deal until she was dead. I immediatly noticed the woman was having a stroke and offered my help, begged them to at least use my phone to call 911. They said they had it under control, "it was just a little stroke" ****ing herll, there is no little stroke, you nitwits! just look at the woman! it was HUGE stroke. I called anyways, then two minutes later they called.

they said that they had it under control, they ****ing sat in the stands with all the noise of bagpipers, cheering and la de da, and just god damn waited there. then two minutes later they called the ambulance on a different persons phone, and i got them to start asking the woman questions. in the mean time, both she and i were putting up valient but failing efforts to keep her with us. her lst words were "where was she" and that was in regards to her grandchild in line for her degree.

THen she lost all physical control and collapsed. That was what got her two children, i think it was her son actually and his wife, to be a little more responsive, i got them to move her out of the stadium and waited for the ambulence that was taking its sweet time in comming.

I asked the parents where their daughter was sitting, and she was fetched by her father to come out to see to her grandmother. By the looks of it, she was the only one to really be affected. Grandmother was already dead by the time she got there. Never even got to see her granddaughters graduation, and the grand daughter was bawling.

The abulence showed up, gave her the cursory look over then loaded the body aboard and cleaned up the mess after. The parents seemed stunned, the man was visibly in shock, i had him sit down and same with the girl. She didnt look that much older than me. I went and got one of the masters of ceremony and brought him to the grandchild who was supposed to get her degree on the stage, and she had composed herself enough to say she wasnt going up and that if there was a way to get it after.

I am shocked and appalled at the attitudes i saw, the total apathy and lack of respect shown for this poor old woman and just the general lack of repsect for the elderly. I am rather stung too, because the parents looked at me with this...i dont recal the word now, i think well it was like they looked at me as though i was a roach offering assitance.

I felt so wronged. and ashamed. I feel like i failed, rally, to save this woman's life, if i had immediately called an ambulence the moment i knew what was up, rather than consulting her family first, i might have been able to get the ambulence sooner. I dont know, right now i feel like a sack of so much ****. These are the kinda days that make me wish i had never woken up.

trolls' bane · 12-11-2005, 03:24 AM

People are so ignorant! This is a class .7 Civilization we live in here. Learn something, for heaven's sake! I bet you that half of the people I know would act exactly the same as the family you mentioned, sad but true. (Please note that I said "I know" and not "I like" or "I'm friends with...")
I just don't get how people could be so stupid, though. It fails my understanding, as open minded as I am. What BS, saying it's a small stroke. Any medical problem that is akin to something more severe is severe! I almost watched my Mom die just this last summer, but hadn't it been for a mysterious unknown, unidentified nurse promptly sounding the alarm, they would never had known she had stopped breathing at the end of that first week. Yeah, anything that looks like a minor case of Bacterial Pneumonia IS STILL Bacterial Pneumonia, and should be treated as such.

Elanor · 12-11-2005, 06:21 AM

Sorry you had to see that happen, Shah. That kind of thing puts you into emotional shock, doesn't it?

Hope you feel better soon! Don't believe it was your fault in any way; we never know when we or anyone around us might die.

Spock · 12-11-2005, 12:21 PM

We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.... The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.
--Omar Bradley

trolls' bane · 12-11-2005, 01:35 PM

[Redneck voice]Yiiip![/voice]

***Rían*** · 12-11-2005, 08:05 PM

Oh Shah ... I'm so sorry, that must have been horrible. You did everything right - don't let their crummy attitudes get you down! You went beyond what most people would have done, and I'm proud of you. I'm sorry you're feeling so bad, but that shows that you have a heart, at least, unlike some of the others there. *Moothugs*

Elanor · 12-12-2005, 07:23 PM

I'm sad because my brother just broke up with his girlfriend, who is a friend of mine.

They're both great and really good for each other, but they say their personalities are too different. I understand this, but if I had as good a relationship as theirs was, I wouldn't give it up so easily.

Lotesse · 12-12-2005, 07:26 PM

I could swear I wrote something in this thread yesterday. Did someone delete my post? May I just ask politely here, to all mods & admins, if you must delete a post of mine, out of courtesy to me can you at least let me know in a PM or something, explaining to me why and whatnot? Just arbitrarily deleting other people's posts without any kind of explanation or notification at all seems terrifically rude to me.

***Tessar*** · 12-12-2005, 07:41 PM

I'm very sorry Lotesse--yes I did delete a post of yours for language, and because I had a complaint about it. I was in a major rush at the moment so I didn't bother to PM you right away. I do generally try to do that, as you know, but it slipped my mind when I got back on the next morning

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Lotesse · 12-12-2005, 07:46 PM

O.K., just as long as I get some sort of private answer or admonishment or whatever. I WAS a bit angry, that story made me sad & angry that people could be so awful about their grandma dying like that and no one doing anything about it except for Shah, who was only trying to save her life...

The last sane person · 12-12-2005, 07:51 PM

No worries Lotesse, I read it before it got deleted. I'm just glad ym post didnt get deleted...sheesh..:rollseyes: I still am angry adn sad over it...never mind, not even going there.

Thanks Rian, Spock, Lotesse all you guys.

***Tessar*** · 12-12-2005, 07:51 PM

I know--it's sad how horrible people can be some times, and then they don't even realize it because they're either too stupid, or too mean to understand

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***Tessar*** · 12-12-2005, 07:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The last sane person

I'm just glad ym post didnt get deleted...sheesh..:rollseyes:

I try to be lenient where swearing is concerned, and I didn't get any complaints about your post, which is why I didn't delete/edit it.

I'm also very sorry about what happened, and I hope you feel better soon. *moot hugs*

The last sane person · 12-12-2005, 07:55 PM

well thats good, if it had been deleted fromt he moot, i would have been very angry and hurt some more and probably leave. I've had that happen before.

Thanks for the moothugs.

Nerdanel · 12-12-2005, 11:27 PM

i'm crazy.. lost self control.

BeardofPants · 12-13-2005, 02:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lotesse

I could swear I wrote something in this thread yesterday. Did someone delete my post? May I just ask politely here, to all mods & admins, if you must delete a post of mine, out of courtesy to me can you at least let me know in a PM or something, explaining to me why and whatnot? Just arbitrarily deleting other people's posts without any kind of explanation or notification at all seems terrifically rude to me.

I'd like to second this. It is frustrating when posts are deleted, and nobody even bothers to tell you about it, or even why it was deleted. What happened to just editing out the offending dialogue?

12-10-2005, 11:33 PM	#482
*Rían* Half-Elven Princess of Rabbit Trails and Harp-Wielding Administrator (beware the Rubber Chicken of Doom!) Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Not where I want to be ... Posts: 15,254	VENT - when troublemakers who usually are at the source of the trouble complain about trouble ... Ah, life! Ah, people! __________________ . I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ñá ë?* óú éä ïöü Öñ É Þ ð ß ® ç å ™ æ ♪ ?* "How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva!

12-10-2005, 11:39 PM	#483
durinsbane2244 Dreamweaver Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: The Misty Mountains, where the spirits go... Posts: 3,560	older sister...say n'more... __________________ Lord, what fools these mortals be! ---------------- We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams; World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams: Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world for ever, it seems. ---------------- Shanti, shanti, shantih...

12-10-2005, 11:45 PM	#484
*Rían* Half-Elven Princess of Rabbit Trails and Harp-Wielding Administrator (beware the Rubber Chicken of Doom!) Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Not where I want to be ... Posts: 15,254	ah, siblings! __________________ . I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ñá ë?* óú éä ïöü Öñ É Þ ð ß ® ç å ™ æ ♪ ?* "How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva!

12-11-2005, 03:12 AM	#485
The last sane person The Black Númenórean Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 6,773	**. Just saw an old woman die today, few hours ago actually. At a really bad place too, it was at a really happy time, and she was watching her grandchild graduate from college, adn it was her little comencment (sp?) thing. Poor woman, didnt even live long enough to see her grandchild get to the podium, her last question was "where is she?" Despite all my training, i couldnt help her. and what kills me is that no one cared, her family acted like it was no big deal until she was dead. I immediatly noticed the woman was having a stroke and offered my help, begged them to at least use my phone to call 911. They said they had it under control, "it was just a little stroke" ing herll, there is no little stroke, you nitwits! just look at the woman! it was HUGE stroke. I called anyways, then two minutes later they called. they said that they had it under control, they ing sat in the stands with all the noise of bagpipers, cheering and la de da, and just god damn waited there. then two minutes later they called the ambulance on a different persons phone, and i got them to start asking the woman questions. in the mean time, both she and i were putting up valient but failing efforts to keep her with us. her lst words were "where was she" and that was in regards to her grandchild in line for her degree. THen she lost all physical control and collapsed. That was what got her two children, i think it was her son actually and his wife, to be a little more responsive, i got them to move her out of the stadium and waited for the ambulence that was taking its sweet time in comming. I asked the parents where their daughter was sitting, and she was fetched by her father to come out to see to her grandmother. By the looks of it, she was the only one to really be affected. Grandmother was already dead by the time she got there. Never even got to see her granddaughters graduation, and the grand daughter was bawling. The abulence showed up, gave her the cursory look over then loaded the body aboard and cleaned up the mess after. The parents seemed stunned, the man was visibly in shock, i had him sit down and same with the girl. She didnt look that much older than me. I went and got one of the masters of ceremony and brought him to the grandchild who was supposed to get her degree on the stage, and she had composed herself enough to say she wasnt going up and that if there was a way to get it after. I am shocked and appalled at the attitudes i saw, the total apathy and lack of respect shown for this poor old woman and just the general lack of repsect for the elderly. I am rather stung too, because the parents looked at me with this...i dont recal the word now, i think well it was like they looked at me as though i was a roach offering assitance. I felt so wronged. and ashamed. I feel like i failed, rally, to save this woman's life, if i had immediately called an ambulence the moment i knew what was up, rather than consulting her family first, i might have been able to get the ambulence sooner. I dont know, right now i feel like a sack of so much **. These are the kinda days that make me wish i had never woken up. __________________ Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

12-11-2005, 03:24 AM	#486
trolls' bane Entmoot Secretary of the Treasury Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Campsite-by-Giraffe Posts: 5,408	People are so ignorant! This is a class .7 Civilization we live in here. Learn something, for heaven's sake! I bet you that half of the people I know would act exactly the same as the family you mentioned, sad but true. (Please note that I said "I know" and not "I like" or "I'm friends with...") I just don't get how people could be so stupid, though. It fails my understanding, as open minded as I am. What BS, saying it's a small stroke. Any medical problem that is akin to something more severe is severe! I almost watched my Mom die just this last summer, but hadn't it been for a mysterious unknown, unidentified nurse promptly sounding the alarm, they would never had known she had stopped breathing at the end of that first week. Yeah, anything that looks like a minor case of Bacterial Pneumonia IS STILL Bacterial Pneumonia, and should be treated as such. __________________ KI6PFA Amateur Radio Operator

12-11-2005, 06:21 AM	#487
Elanor Hobbit in the Music Join Date: Nov 1999 Location: Westmarch Posts: 1,111	Sorry you had to see that happen, Shah. That kind of thing puts you into emotional shock, doesn't it? Hope you feel better soon! Don't believe it was your fault in any way; we never know when we or anyone around us might die. __________________ Middle Earth Crossword Puzzle on the Tolkien Site of DOOM Segovia Mazes

12-11-2005, 12:21 PM	#488
Spock An enigma in a conundrum Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 6,476	We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.... The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. --Omar Bradley

12-11-2005, 01:35 PM	#489
trolls' bane Entmoot Secretary of the Treasury Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Campsite-by-Giraffe Posts: 5,408	[Redneck voice]Yiiip![/voice] __________________ KI6PFA Amateur Radio Operator

12-11-2005, 08:05 PM	#490
*Rían* Half-Elven Princess of Rabbit Trails and Harp-Wielding Administrator (beware the Rubber Chicken of Doom!) Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Not where I want to be ... Posts: 15,254	Oh Shah ... I'm so sorry, that must have been horrible. You did everything right - don't let their crummy attitudes get you down! You went beyond what most people would have done, and I'm proud of you. I'm sorry you're feeling so bad, but that shows that you have a heart, at least, unlike some of the others there. Moothugs __________________ . I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ñá ë?* óú éä ïöü Öñ É Þ ð ß ® ç å ™ æ ♪ ?* "How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva!

12-12-2005, 07:23 PM	#491
Elanor Hobbit in the Music Join Date: Nov 1999 Location: Westmarch Posts: 1,111	I'm sad because my brother just broke up with his girlfriend, who is a friend of mine. They're both great and really good for each other, but they say their personalities are too different. I understand this, but if I had as good a relationship as theirs was, I wouldn't give it up so easily. __________________ Middle Earth Crossword Puzzle on the Tolkien Site of DOOM Segovia Mazes

12-12-2005, 07:26 PM	#492
Lotesse of the House of Fëanor Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 6,150	I could swear I wrote something in this thread yesterday. Did someone delete my post? May I just ask politely here, to all mods & admins, if you must delete a post of mine, out of courtesy to me can you at least let me know in a PM or something, explaining to me why and whatnot? Just arbitrarily deleting other people's posts without any kind of explanation or notification at all seems terrifically rude to me. __________________ Few people have the imagination for reality. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

12-12-2005, 07:41 PM	#493
*Tessar* Master and Wielder of the Cardboard Harp of Gondor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: IM IN UR POSTZ, EDITIN' UR WURDZ Posts: 6,433	I'm very sorry Lotesse--yes I did delete a post of yours for language, and because I had a complaint about it. I was in a major rush at the moment so I didn't bother to PM you right away. I do generally try to do that, as you know, but it slipped my mind when I got back on the next morning .

12-12-2005, 07:46 PM	#494
Lotesse of the House of Fëanor Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 6,150	O.K., just as long as I get some sort of private answer or admonishment or whatever. I WAS a bit angry, that story made me sad & angry that people could be so awful about their grandma dying like that and no one doing anything about it except for Shah, who was only trying to save her life... __________________ Few people have the imagination for reality. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

12-12-2005, 07:51 PM	#495
The last sane person The Black Númenórean Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 6,773	No worries Lotesse, I read it before it got deleted. I'm just glad ym post didnt get deleted...sheesh..:rollseyes: I still am angry adn sad over it...never mind, not even going there. Thanks Rian, Spock, Lotesse all you guys. __________________ Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

12-12-2005, 07:51 PM	#496
*Tessar* Master and Wielder of the Cardboard Harp of Gondor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: IM IN UR POSTZ, EDITIN' UR WURDZ Posts: 6,433	I know--it's sad how horrible people can be some times, and then they don't even realize it because they're either too stupid, or too mean to understand .

12-12-2005, 07:55 PM	#498
The last sane person The Black Númenórean Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 6,773	well thats good, if it had been deleted fromt he moot, i would have been very angry and hurt some more and probably leave. I've had that happen before. Thanks for the moothugs. __________________ Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

12-12-2005, 11:27 PM	#499
Nerdanel Spammer of the Happy Thread Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Helsinki, Finland Posts: 3,512	i'm crazy.. lost self control. __________________ "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. " - C. Sagan My (photography) website My Flickr page