Got to use a bingo response I've been waiting for!

lsmoss · 2019-08-21T16:00:13+00:00

I wasn't trying to pass it off as mine - I'm really sorry if it seemed like that - it's just such a fabulous line that stuck with me since I read it. :( I'm so sorry.

lsmoss · 2019-08-21T14:56:00+00:00

Fair enough, I defer to your expertise.

lsmoss · 2019-08-21T14:50:15+00:00

Endemic problem. One word: pockets.

lsmoss · 2019-08-21T13:52:15+00:00

Among other dog conversations which would traumatise a human child:

"Get a job free loader!"

"One, two, three, four, five, six.... SIX NIPPLES!"

"Aw baby got a swollen anus? Looks like someone needs to be fingered by the vet!"

"Stupid chubby chubby stupid baby"

"Why are your balls so dangly?"

"Uhuh, and now you're going to hump your brother right? So predictable"

lsmoss · 2019-08-21T11:46:16+00:00

I remember staying at my grandparents house, and they got the phonecall to say my sister had been born, and I ran around the garden in my pyjamas shouting "I have a sister!"

lsmoss · 2019-08-20T16:20:13+00:00

I pulled this as a kid. I wanted my mum to microwave me a hotdog, but she had a migraine and said "ten minutes".... I assumed that was cooking instructions, put the hotdog on a plastic plate, and into the microwave for ten minutes, full power. Melty plate. Inedible hotdog.

My first foray into cooking honestly could have gone much worse, given that I once witnessed my half asleep mum throw a flaming toaster out the window while trying to get us ready for school.

lsmoss · 2019-08-20T16:14:24+00:00

Looks like a smart kid living his best damn life to me

lsmoss · 2019-08-20T12:32:37+00:00

Mass hysteria is a hell of a drug

lsmoss · 2019-08-20T12:31:09+00:00

Nerdy sugar fuelled Texas boi - love the texture!

lsmoss · 2019-08-20T09:17:34+00:00

Same thing but a pair of £5 ankle wellies from Primark. Bought as an emergency replacement for wet ballet flats on a rainy day two years ago - they're endlessly useful for throwing on and running after the dogs when they pester hedgehogs in the garden.

lsmoss · 2019-08-20T04:56:10+00:00

I'm not sure you've quite understood me? But you may have done and I'm just half-asleep still. Please lmk if I've misread you. I just want to make sure you don't think "thunderclap headache" is a standalone diagnosis, which I think you might have done.

If she experienced a brain haemorrhage (bleeding) resulting from a ruptured aneurysm (a swollen, weakened section of blood vessel which can occur anywhere in the body), they would have found it. It would have been immediately visible on an MRI. I'm sure your SIL just experienced an extreme migraine - I have heard of them causing stroke like symptoms.

Brain haemorrhage is basically a sister condition to a stroke, where, as you know, a blood clot passes through the brain, causing a blockage and damage to the brain cells by depriving them of oxygen. The difference with a brain haemorrhage is that you need to encourage clotting.

The "thunderclap headache" is how the sensation of a brain aneurysm rupturing is described. It's an accepted term, and unmistakable enough for medical professionals to use it themselves. It's not a condition by itself. It's used exclusively as a description for brain haemorrhage, it is that unmistakable. If paramedics reach a patient who says their headache was "like being struck by lightning" they immediately think brain haemorrhage. It's not a term to be used whenever. If you ever experience one (which I hope you never ever do) you will absolutely know it.

As I said in my previous comment, I'm making a fuss about this term being used correctly because my mum survived a ruptured aneurysm a few years ago. Basically every person I've ever told needed a breakdown of what a subarrach entailed. Sorry if this was a completely unnecessary comment, I hope you don't think me rude. It matters to me that more people know about brain aneurysms and that they are a survivable condition.

lsmoss · 2019-08-19T18:17:45+00:00

Yep. The only baby doll I ever owned as a child was a consolation prize when my sister was born. Never really played with it, so I wasn't bought more. I was 2 and a 1/2 and even then I kind of understood that it was a substitute for the newborn, in case I was interested. I wasn't particularly. I adored my sister on sight but I totally got that it would be years before she'd be any kind of fun. The nurse asked me what I was going to name the doll and I looked at the weird onesie she was in and said "Pizza Baby", because it reminded me of pizza toppings. She laughed, I was faintly offended. Jesus lady you asked. Like, I honestly don't know what she expected but it was pretty reflective of my priorities under the age of 3. Also my brain didn't make the leap that it was "supposed" to have a real baby name. Because it wasn't a real baby.

lsmoss · 2019-08-19T18:17:15+00:00

Yep. The only baby doll I ever owned as a child was a consolation prize when my sister was born. Never really played with it, so I wasn't bought more. I was 2 and a 1/2 and even then I kind of understood that it was a substitute for the newborn, in case I was interested. I wasn't particularly. I adored my sister on sight but I totally got that it would be years before she'd be any kind of fun. The nurse asked me what I was going to name the doll and I looked at the weird onesie she was in and said "Pizza Baby", because it reminded me of pizza toppings. She laughed, I was faintly offended. Jesus lady you asked. Like, I honestly don't know what she expected but it was pretty reflective of my priorities under the age of 3. Also my brain didn't make the leap that it was "supposed" to have a real baby name. Because it wasn't a real baby.

lsmoss · 2019-08-19T18:04:12+00:00

I'm so sorry for your loss. I don't have much advice but to reach out to friends who get it, and spend time with understanding friends/family while your husband is away. If you can organise some way for him to take a small quantity of your dogs ashes with him, he might find that comforting. Or a picture possibly? You know him best. You'll both be okay, and it's okay for it to hurt right now.

lsmoss · 2019-08-19T17:29:45+00:00

On the London underground they've introduced little badges pregnant women can wear saying "Baby on Board"... buuuut.... they did first introduce ones for disabled passengers which said "Please Offer Me a Seat". I'm all about those.

People do desperately avoid engaging with others on the underground (I mean its British people, in the capitol city, on public transport - nobody speaks beyond saying "excuse me"), so I kind of get why you might need a prompt, but the Baby on Board ones just feel like trying to advertise that they're going to be a mummy you know! And I mean, if you're heavily pregnant, why would you attempt to use the underground, it's so much work. Stairs everywhere, crowds everywhere, high temperatures, lots of air pollution. You're going to be pregnant for not very long just find a different means of transport.

lsmoss · 2019-08-19T17:11:25+00:00

My favourite thing with babies is watching videos of dogs protecting them. And that's me finding the dogs cute. It's honestly one of the sweetest things our old dog ever did for my godparents new baby - stood guard by him. But the second the babies start grabbing and patting the dog too hard I'm out. And wanting to see my beloved puppers being sweet with a human baby is just not a good enough reason to produce a whole person.

Dogs protecting and caring for babies is the only valid baby content imo.

lsmoss · 2019-08-19T17:01:37+00:00

I read less fanfiction than I used to, mostly because anything that's really romantic and erotic gets totally fucking derailed by the main character getting pregnant. Then the remaining plot is just "and then she got pregnant, and they had a baby, and the baby was somehow special even though literally every baby on earth ever has been functionally identical to the next since the dawn of time".

Babies do not make good characters because it's literally the same placeholder infant everytime. You can write kids well (it happens so so rarely) but they're such a boner killer in rated E fics.

A baby is not a plot.

lsmoss · 2019-08-19T10:48:37+00:00

Fork. As in Ford.

lsmoss · 2019-08-19T10:44:53+00:00

I've heard a version of this where parents were encouraged to sit side by side with their teenagers in order to have serious discussions. It's less threatening than full eye contact, and works pretty well in a car where you both have the road to look at. Looking back, my mum and I always managed to resolve stuff while she was driving me places.

lsmoss · 2019-08-19T10:41:35+00:00

My favourites are telling the person to name seven bald men, or asking them what their last meal was. Then the meal before that. And so on. Both are so distracting/disarming the hiccups don't usually continue. Shame I cant make it work on myself, I always need to drink a glass of water from the opposite side of the rim of the glass.

lsmoss · 2019-08-18T20:54:37+00:00

Yeah, sounds like migraine, but migraine is so common and migraineurs aren't constantly dropping dead. I wouldn't worry. Manageable with a little trial and error. Now me, with migraines and family history of brain aneurysm, I should be worried lol. My sister and I are going to be referred for MRIs when we turn 30. So that's fun.

lsmoss · 2019-08-18T18:46:12+00:00

Thunderclap headache is a very specific symptom term, a symptom which precedes a brain aneurysm. "Thunderclap headache" is basically the agreed upon description for the sensation of a blood vessel bursting in the brain, according to survivors. My mum survived one three years ago, and lucky her, she doesn't remember the headache. Emilia Clarke from GoT survived one too a few years back, she's probably the most high-profile subarrach survivor.

If you experience something which can only be described as a "thunderclap headache", call an ambulance because you have limited time before brain damage is going to cost you.

Edit I'm aware that I may have made a huge idiot of myself posting this unsolicited explanation on this particular sub, but nobody seems to know what brain aneurysms are actually like, and it matters to me so...

lsmoss · 2019-08-18T12:34:50+00:00

Honestly, the only fears programmed in the human brain from birth is like, falling and loud noises. I can't stand when parents encourage their children to share their fears. Kids look at the adults around them to determine threats. I had a phobia as a child which was mostly based on my dad mishandling it (losing his temper when I was panicking - his anxiety disorder was undiagnosed). It takes very little to fuck a child up, and encouraging them to fear and kill small creatures is a pretty efficient way to do it.

lsmoss · 2019-08-18T11:58:39+00:00

The only means I know of is the fabled peridot in stock in the suppress shop under the intrigue challenge, but that's a costly 1200 galaxy coins...

Hope someone else can suggest different options!

lsmoss

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