I have a horrible cold. The cold medicine got me through last nights lovely dinner with (e:pmt). I would have loved some sushi, but my palate has gone to hell with this cold. If we had gone to Korean House I am sure some pickled fish heads would have been able to penetrate the phlegm barrier.
fellyconnelly - 01/21/08 09:46 you definetely look like a billboard sign for some type cold and cough medicine.
james - 01/21/08 08:58 jbeatty: You are my gastronomic hero.
Paul: Yesterday the damn burst and all this phlegm started pouring out. Thankfully that was after we hung out with you cats.
paul - 01/21/08 03:01 That is a great picture of you - I had no idea you were eve sick.
jbeatty - 01/21/08 00:24 You say this in jest, but fish heads are really delicious.
01/15/2008 18:40 #42894
Stupid Fucking Doctor Category: health
There have been a lot of 'ZOMG my fucking doctor is the lamest lulz' posts over the past couple of months. You would think there are no competent doctors in Buffalo from reading it. So, when I do have a positive experience with a doctor I will let you all know.
But in the meantime...
what a fucking idiot doctor. I spent all of seven minutes with the guy. He walks in, checks my heartbeat and the sound of my lungs, asks if I need any scripts refilled and leaves to write them up.
I didn't have the opportunity to say something like "oh, and while you are here can you please check this giant infected gash oozing pussy slime" or "oh, I got stabbed last night and I stitched it myself, care to take a look?". Just wham, bam, that will be $20 for your copay ma'am.
He doesn't ask me about my diet but proceeds to tell me not to eat things I haven't had in years, like white bread or pasta. This would be like telling a vegetarian to cut red meat out of their diet.
But he pulled out a real show stopper at the end. Apparently, I am too fat and need to lose some weight. Yup, he looks at my height, looks at my weight, walks over to a BMI chart on the wall and declares me over-weight. He is using a useless metric that would declare the beefiest of body builders as obese as the chunkiest opera tenor. (Muscle = fat) = stupid metric used by stupid doctors.
This is the Keleida health place on Hertel. The last time I was there I got a lecture about the use of condoms. When I told the doctor I was monogamously coupled she said I should still use condoms. Because, you know, all gay guys sleep around.
grumph
chico - 01/23/08 23:32 That Body Mass Index is stupid (for the reason you identified) but many doctors and insurance underwriters treat it as if it were gospel truth. Why? Because it's easier to match up two parameters (height and weight) on a one-size-fits-all (forgive the pun) table than it is to make a reasoned judgement about whether a patient/client is overweight for his/her frame and specific situation (hmmm, that might actually require spending time talking with the patient/client. Blasphemy!).
james - 01/16/08 10:48 Felly: At least go to get blood work done. If they are just looking at numbers it is less liekly they will say something stupid.... right?
Zombar: *giggle snort*
Dragonglady: they start with fad diets and move on up to land speculation. It is all a horrid pyramid marketing scheme.
Jenks: I was going to use pustular, but your word is more subtle.
jenks - 01/16/08 10:31 @z- haha. Yes that is a trick we play on unsuspecting med students. Ask them to write out the word that means pus-filled. They do, and then turn bright red. haha.
(and fyi, the way to get around that is to say purulent, but that's not nearly as much fun.)
dragonlady7 - 01/16/08 09:35 For a second I thought this was the same doctor that did the same thing to me, but it was the Univera place on Sheridan instead.
I ranted about it on here, I know I did, last spring.
I went because my knees were bothering me. She listened to what I said about my exercise routine-- working as a waitress 40 hours a week, then another 10+ hours a week of roller skating-- and said oh yes, you are exercising too much.
Then she examined me, etc, did the normal thing, pretty cursory but there it was.
Then she looked at my chart, frowned, and asked me how tall I was. I told her. She looked at the chart taped to the cabinet, and said, "You're dangerously obese. You need to exercise more."
"But... but... you just said I was over-exercising..."
"Oh yes. Eat less."
"As it is, I only eat when I'm hungry."
"Then try not eating carbs."
That was it. My doctor told me to starve myself with a fad diet because the number of my weight compared to the number of my height was too large, completely regardless of the fact that she had just palpated my legs and determined they were pretty much solid muscle.
... I guess I'm glad to know they don't just do this to women?
fellyconnelly - 01/16/08 07:09 yup... i keep thinkin about how i need a trip to the doctor now that i finally have health insurance. Now i'm thinkin i'd be better off not going....
Peter: It is better to be safe than sorry. I was just irked because she wouldn't offer the same advice to hetero couples, just the fags. But you have some good advice for sure.
Jenks: It must be frustrating for you to read this site sometimes, what with the rash of horrendously stupid doctors.
Libertad: I really truly want to go see a doctor too instead of these beef brisket brained idiot doctors.
And yes, I showed him my ring during the rectal exam.
libertad - 01/15/08 21:27 I really truly want to go see a doctor, but don't know where to go.
metalpeter - 01/15/08 19:42 See that last comment sounds funny to me (I'm not saying it is) because that doctor doesn't get it. See all guys sleep around. I'm not saying that you are being cheated on at all. But I do think that in terms of sexual health (depending on the act of course) that people who only see each other should all ways use condoms. People don't mean to cheat but sometimes it does happen once and never again so why take a chance at your health.
paul - 01/15/08 18:46 I am seriously having the most terrible feeling about doctors right now.
01/10/2008 23:09 #42829
I Bring Shame to my Snobbery Category: film
I love snobby movies.
I just finished a film noir kick and still can't get the zither music from The Third Man out of my head. A bunch of Hitchcock is due from Netflix soon, but I have my sites on something much different and somehow much more exciting.
so next time someone calls me a snob for hating Transformers, Pirates of the Caribbean, and every Rambo movie ever, I will just remind them that Neil Patrick Harris riding on a unicorn is way better than the words 'rosebud' whispered over a snow globe.
mrdeadlier - 01/11/08 11:04 Is that Feathers that Doogie is riding?
jason - 01/11/08 08:20 His character in Harold and Kumar was a riot.
01/08/2008 23:14 #42798
New Hampshire let down Category: politics
Politics is my favorite sport.
Sadly, the New Hampshire primary did not go as I hoped it would have. Very sadly in fact. I started off well enough with a celebratory glass of wine. Then the numbers started coming in. So it went to glasses of gin, gritting my teeth as I drank. The polls disappointed me again.
It takes me back to November of 2004. When I assured all my friends that after months of reading polls America would choose cottage cheese John Kerry over insipid pepper jack Bush.
So I spent that evening at a bar, filled with drag queens and their admirers. Watching the numbers come back in ways they shouldn't have but somehow did.
I hate drag queens. I hate George Bush. And most of all I hate being wrong.
cheers
edit*
No, I wont let this set back discourage me. For, while I do not want to spend yet another election night drunk and surrounding by drag queens there is a shining glimmer of hope.
For Bill Clinton lost both Iowa and New Hampshire and still came out on top!
And there is but one drag queen who still bestills my heart with her grace and talent.
This is the most banal question of the campaign. It is also the most over asked question of the campaign.
Why wouldn't be ready? Because there are some drooling yokels who think the darkies should go back to Africa and women make babies, not decisions?
For months we heard people question the authenticity of Obama's blackness. Perhaps because he was raised by his white mother and Indonesian step-father. Maybe it was because his father was Kenyan, not African-American. His bio-father left when Barack was 2 and didn't play much a roll in his life, if I understand the story. This means he isn't black enough. The black man in public life is either a preacher, a pop/rap musician, or what ever the fuck Allen Keyes is. Since Barack does not fit in any of these characters he is not black enough. Um.. what? It is a non-issue.
Hillary is criticized for being too butch. She is cold and stony. For years people have called her a lesbian because her belly isn't perpetually full of babies or has spells of the vapors. She is too manly, accused of being a megalomaniac and authoritarian. It is classic Freud. Male anxiety fearing castration by vagina-dentata.
Yet, when she merely choked up yesterday the media and John Edwards jumped on her for being too weak and feminine. We dislike her for being to masculine and then deride her for being famine.
America is and has been ready for a black or woman president. But the media is still dragging its knuckles on the ground, asking stupid questions for stupid people.
Is America ready for intelligent media?
fellyconnelly - 01/08/08 22:02 intelligent media? hahaha silly james. that is the craziest thing i ever did hear!
brit - 01/08/08 20:38 looks like Hillary may have the edge! 40% at the last count
james - 01/08/08 19:41 Mr.Mike: we confuse too easily about what? I forgot what we were talking about. ^_^
Jason: Yahoo does post only relevant news, so it must be important then. And you are right, there is plenty to hate Hillary for without going into the fact she has a vulva.
Joshua: that was your answer to the last question, right?
Peter: Oh ya, I wouldn't want just any old black man or woman elected any more than I would want any old white person elected. Which is why this whole talk of race and gender is silly.
metalpeter - 01/08/08 19:20 Are you saying No to both or to what question there where two of them.
President wise I think that the country would vote for someone black and or a women but it would have to be the right one. I think that before all the trouble Colin Powell would have had a chance. He looks black but is still light skined, he was well educated and a miltary general he would have at least been a good VP. The first two people I will mention aren't in politics but a lot of whites who hate blacks still like them Oprah and Bill Cosby (granted not like when he was on his show but still). If we in this country had presidents who are like the ones on TV and in the movies who have a spine and don't do favors for the people who got them elected then our country would be much better. Lets assume that we could get someone like that though with our flawed system. Then lets say there was a real David Palmer (from 24) he would win just like he did on the show.
I think America has been ready for intelligent media and Media used to be that way. The thing is that now news programs and written news is all about the profit. I'm not saying profit shouldn't be important but it shouldn't be a factor in the news. So many things are sound bites or they aren't in depth because that requires time and if someone isn't interested in that thing then they will flip the channel (or at least that is how it is precieved). The news is about statements and sound bites and if you don't agree you are an idiot . I know the news is just supposed to facts and then there are editorals and those two are seperate and then some places people can comment with there thoughts about what was said also. But those bias should be left out of how the news is reported or the story should be told twice by two different people. An easy example of this is sports. Most stations show the highlights that they think are important that tell the story. But often in hockey they don't show the big saves. Or in football they don't show the drive that is about to win the game for the other team where the gust of wind makes the ball fall stright to the ground and the field goal is missed. If you where watching the game the big time saves are sometimes a bigger story and most exciting part of the game and during the field goal you are praying to the whom ever you prey to that the ball hooks to the left. Now if they are leaving that stuff out of sports imagine what get left out of the stories we hear and don't hear about.
jason - 01/08/08 16:39 And, I should also say, calling Hillary "butch" or "too feminine" really is not necessary, let alone calling someone a lesbo as a pejorative. Yuck.
Of course, the things that people already know about her, well....there ain't much scrubbing it. Attack her for those things, not because of a wrinkled face or because she shed some tears one day.
jason - 01/08/08 16:32 Ironic how I just read your question after surfing past Yahoo, where on the front page they tell us Victoria Beckham is on Mr. Blackwell's worst dressed list. Ouch!
Seriously, well said. One of the folks I work with insists on listening to Bauerle, who seriously wouldn't shut the fuck up about the fact that the schedule, the sleeplessness of campaign got to her briefly. I'm sure all the manly men collapse like lawn furniture as well.
you definetely look like a billboard sign for some type cold and cough medicine.
jbeatty: You are my gastronomic hero.
Paul: Yesterday the damn burst and all this phlegm started pouring out. Thankfully that was after we hung out with you cats.
That is a great picture of you - I had no idea you were eve sick.
You say this in jest, but fish heads are really delicious.