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Post by tory on Jul 28, 2020 15:12:04 GMT
Had booked a fortnight in Majorca last year and was clinging to the hope that we would be able to go until the quarantine was announced on Saturday. I'm not too fussed, as it was always going to be a bit of a strange trip anyway, but trying to book anywhere half decent in Britain now is pretty much impossible.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2020 11:24:29 GMT
After 4, coming on 5 months, i think i'm finally getting cabin fever.
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Post by sloopjohnc on Jul 29, 2020 21:23:08 GMT
I'm a member of a State and National Park Facebook group and a member wrote that they had been at a park for two days and hadn't seen any bears and wanted some tips.
I wanted to write, "Go to the supermarket, buy a salmon, tie it to your neck with some fishing line and I'll bet you'll find some."
But I didn't.
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Post by ~ / % ? * on Jul 31, 2020 22:07:41 GMT
WSJ:
World War II bomber pilot Roman Tritz, the last known survivor of a U.S. government program to lobotomize mentally ill combat veterans, died Friday at the age of 97. Roman Tritz, Last Surviving Veteran Lobotomized by the U.S., Dies at 97 World War II B-17 pilot showed psychiatric symptoms after combat missions
Mr. Tritz flew a B-17 Flying Fortress on 34 air raids over Germany and Nazi-occupied Europe in the final year of the war. Soon after he returned to his native Wisconsin, he began to exhibit symptoms of mental illness that frightened his family. With his father’s consent, in 1953 a Veterans Administration surgeon cut holes on the sides of his head and severed neural fibers thought to control excessive emotions.
Mr. Tritz fought the orderlies who came to collect him for the operation, and for decades afterward recalled the pain of the surgery and the confused anger he felt toward the VA. “They just wanted to ruin my head, it seemed to me,” he told The Wall Street Journal in 2013. “Somebody wanted to.”
The Journal featured Mr. Tritz in a series of Page One articles and a video documentary based on long-forgotten records, unearthed from the National Archives, showing VA doctors performed the controversial brain surgery on at least 1,930 WWII veterans in the 1940s and early 1950s.
“Looking back at it, it was a terrible thing that came out of the psychiatric medical field at the time,” he said. “But it did allow for control of hospital patients—aggressive, combative patients—without having to hurt them.”
In 1947, the VA issued a 37-point guide for relatives of lobotomized vets, in essence warning that the procedure caused surgically induced childhood.
“He may say anything that ‘pops into his head,’ thus embarrassing you,” the pamphlet said. “Like a young child he may say, ‘I won’t’ to everything you suggest.”
“When will he be well?” the VA asked. “We cannot answer that question.”
Some VA doctors refused to allow lobotomies at their hospitals because the surgery left patients scrubbed of personality and independence. “Much more careful research will have to be done on many fundamental aspects of this problem before we would be justified in using it very much,” Dr. Francis Gerty, chair of the lobotomy committee at the VA hospital in Hines, Ill., reported to headquarters in 1950.
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Post by rayge on Jul 31, 2020 23:11:12 GMT
...who threw potato salad at CCNY lecturers on Dadaism and subsequently presented themselves on the granite steps of the madhouse with shaven heads and harlequin speech of suicide, demanding instantaneous lobotomy, and who were given instead the concrete void of insulin Metrazol electricity hydrotherapy psychotherapy occupational therapy pingpong & amnesia, who in humorless protest overturned only one symbolic pingpong table, resting briefly in catatonia, returning years later truly bald except for a wig of blood, and tears and fingers, to the visible madman doom of the wards of the madtowns of the East...
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Post by Charlie O. on Aug 1, 2020 0:50:42 GMT
From memory, Ray?
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Post by rayge on Aug 1, 2020 20:01:14 GMT
From memory, Ray? I looked it up to check the punctuation
I always think of AG when lobotomies are mentioned. His moother was lobotomised, I remember - there's probably a reference in Kaddish, too. It was definitely a cutting-edge (if you'll pardon the expression) treatment in the ’40s and ’50s, along with ECT. Savagery, really.
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Post by Charlie O. on Aug 1, 2020 20:30:15 GMT
I always think of AG when lobotomies are mentioned. His moother was lobotomised, I remember - there's probably a reference in Kaddish, too. It was definitely a cutting-edge (if you'll pardon the expression) treatment in the ’40s and ’50s, along with ECT. Savagery, really. I was trying to remember if she was lobotomized. Actor/director Charles Nelson Reilly told a story of a favorite aunt who was always complaining about chronic hip pain. One day her doctor said "There's a brand new procedure, it's a fairly simple operation, and if you have it your hip pains will never bother you any more" and she went for it. It was a lobotomy, and she was (to put it mildly) never the same again. If I remember right, it didn't even cure her hip pain. Ah, the good old days.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2020 18:45:17 GMT
Splashdown about 4 mins from now if anyone's interested/about www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-l6f4wcv2I*I take it back - although it was in my Twitter feed broadcast (fucking piss-poor editing/video direction) by NASA, it's a private firm, Spacex - owned by Elon Musk. Meh. (I see that Egypt just told Musk that the pyramids weren't built by aliens www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-53627888. Nerdy bloke presenter, bubbly (teary) blonde female presenter, music out of a motion picture. I won't be watching any more of them. Ladies and gentlemen, this is the future of space travel. Puke.
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Post by sloopjohnc on Aug 2, 2020 22:12:12 GMT
My son and I were taking a walk in the park behind my apartment and he broke off on another path to take a longer walk. He just called me to tell me he just saw two coyotes.
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Post by oh oooh on Aug 6, 2020 12:33:13 GMT
Having my first sit-in McDonald's for a long time.
Yes, it's a big deal.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2020 12:47:41 GMT
Hehehehe, we're on page 69, hehehehe. You know the sex position, hehehehe.
Grow up folks!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by sloopjohnc on Aug 6, 2020 12:52:43 GMT
Having my first sit-in McDonald's for a long time. Yes, it's a big deal.
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Post by sloopjohnc on Aug 6, 2020 12:57:02 GMT
I decided to take tomorrow off for no other reason than I wanted to. My big projects for the day are making some chili and playing guitar.
On Saturday, I'm going to a friend's house so he can give me a ton of homegrown pot he grew. I'm meeting another friend after, who will be at his parents' old home (his dad just died) so I can give it to him. I might save some for my daughter.
I don't smoke much pot at all these days. I also find, that when I do, I enjoy it a little too much and it becomes a habit pretty quickly.
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Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on Aug 6, 2020 13:21:19 GMT
I don't smoke much pot at all these days. I also find, that when I do, I enjoy it a little too much and it becomes a habit pretty quickly. I've come to the conclusion that I mainly smoke weed as a replacement for cigarettes, which I gave up 15 years ago. Sometimes I just want to smoke something, y'know?
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