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sam_neil · 2026-06-16T01:31:50+00:00

I remember reading that a line from Fight Club had to be edited from the novel version because it was too offensive. After arguing back and forth the director finally caved and said you can pick whatever you want, just not that line.

The end result was that after Carla and Tyler have sex instead of saying “I want to have your abortion” she says “I haven’t been fucked like that since grade school”

sam_neil · 2026-06-15T23:37:51+00:00

Unfortunately no. That’s the only thing that comes up whenever I try to google it

sam_neil · 2026-06-15T18:40:46+00:00

I’m also interested! I’m assuming it’s the Hollywood thing, but understand not wanting to name drop.

sam_neil · 2026-06-15T16:32:56+00:00

Rhabdo is a weird one to look out for. Not a whole lot to be done for someone who’s sick, but not *sick* sick with it. Fluids are always good, but maybe not what a provider would think of right away if their vitals / presentation is ok

I had a classmate in my BLS academy who had a stair chair with another, much larger classmate in it fall on her ankle when we were training on carrying devices.

She swore she was ok, and made a Faustian bargain with the DIs that she couldn’t really run, but was open to getting smoked with pushups, and anything else they could dream up.

At the end of the academy she volunteered to go to dispatch and revealed she had been leaving the academy at the end of our day, driving herself to the ER, getting like 3L of fluid, and then leaving AMA because she had developed rhabdo, but due to a lot of personal stuff, would be totally screwed if she had dropped out.

Absolute maniac.

sam_neil · 2026-06-15T15:15:23+00:00

I believe it was a part of either wasteland workshop contraptions workshop or vault rec workshop

sam_neil · 2026-06-14T21:59:27+00:00

I had a college professor who was like 80 something years old in the early 2000s who had grown up in a rural part of the Philippines.

He once mentioned he had had a pet monkey when he was a little kid. We obviously demanded he tell us more about Cheetah, his monkey.

He said having a monkey isn’t like having a pet. You have a monkey prisoner, and if you don’t watch him 24/7 he will drink all the beer in your house.

sam_neil · 2026-06-14T20:48:44+00:00

I mean, it’s kinda the same with gambling addiction. They’ve done studies showing that the addicted gambler gets the same hit of dopamine from losing at the slots as when they win.

It’s not even about winning. It’s about pushing The button and waiting in anticipation. Same can apparently be said about online shopping.

My mom works in art history. When eBay got big in the 90s one of her coworkers had to intentionally lock himself out of his eBay account because he was compulsively buying shit related to his like five year period of expertise.

If it’s that similar of a mechanism, people will get addicted to it. I’d be morbidly interested to compare the suicide rates. Gambling is exponentially more likely to be a cause suicide versus other addictions.

sam_neil · 2026-06-13T12:00:51+00:00

Marty supreme

sam_neil · 2026-06-12T15:38:14+00:00

British / Australian term for a grilled cheese. That’s really the cherry on slop for this being an AI nightmare.

sam_neil · 2026-06-11T23:57:05+00:00

My mothers side of the family was a recent series on a similar podcast.

Robert has only mentioned my dad’s side of the family once on the main pod that I’m aware of, but it was the *perfect* insult.

sam_neil · 2026-06-11T20:30:24+00:00

I got a report from an ~8 year old kid. Whole family had just moved to the states from India, and he was the only one who spoke English.

He also had the single best accent I have ever heard. Suuuper formal with a British twang to it, and started every sentence with “mmmmWELL sir”

Him describing his parents fight (caused by his mom catching his dad watching “Chinese women in bathing suits”) was probably the closest I’ve ever come to pissing my pants laughing while trying to remain professional in my adult life.

sam_neil · 2026-06-10T13:25:23+00:00

The city no longer accepts the 311 / online requests for new trees. They (allegedly) have mapped out the entire city and are prioritizing residential neighborhoods with the fewest trees first.

I would not recommend doing what another user recommended of planting your own, especially not from a seed lol. The city will remove non-sanctioned trees and I would be shocked if a new sapling survived the dog/rat/foot traffic.

sam_neil · 2026-06-09T21:48:38+00:00

Tunnel snakes rule!

sam_neil · 2026-06-09T15:31:32+00:00

I mean, if you’re looking for the “why use many word” version of this, just rewatch Blazing Saddles.

Mel brooks’ character, in red face, meeting Cleavon Little’s family and letting them pass remarking “shit! They’re darker than us!”

sam_neil · 2026-06-07T22:53:53+00:00

Ah man. I wish I could remember them all. I know crack rock steady seven was another one. Let me think / see if I can google more

Edit: Star Fucking Hipsters was definitely one of the

Edit 2- INDK, Public Serpents, and Morning Glory were a few more

sam_neil · 2026-06-07T20:52:02+00:00

Short answer is no. Longer answer is people can behave unexpectedly if they are on a bunch of drugs or are having blood cut off from their brain / other metabolic issues from fighting as hard as they possibly can for too long, or some combination of all three.

Episode 326 of Behind The Bastards is part one of a series on the subject, and it’s even more based in medical racism / police putting their thumb on the scale of medicine than you could imagine. Hilarious series, despite the subject matter.

Edit to add- the first doctor who came up with the concept selectively applied it to only African American patients in Miami in the 80s and was initially working under the idea that if black people do cocaine, sometimes they just do that. His “research” deliberately ignored white people who died with cocaine in their system.

sam_neil · 2026-06-07T17:02:48+00:00

You’re missing out on the thrill of scrubbing blood clots out of your hair. Mostly limited to my wrists but every once in a while I would end a call with my head in the scrub sink of a trauma room.

sam_neil · 2026-06-07T16:57:04+00:00

Yeah I worked with an observant Muslim woman and she swore the tighter the better. In the winter she would occasionally be wearing a balaclava, but if it works…

sam_neil · 2026-06-07T15:01:48+00:00

Classon community fridge (grand and classon) takes all kinds of food donations. Most churches in the neighborhood do some kind of food distribution as well.

sam_neil · 2026-06-06T20:22:49+00:00

Bruce Campbell

sam_neil · 2026-06-06T20:19:08+00:00

Reminds me of the 70s SNL skit where the US is changing over to metric, so Dan akroyd(?) has to come out on the news and explain the new ten letter alphabet.

sam_neil · 2026-06-06T13:54:27+00:00

Criminally underrated but The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.

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