Can we leave all the “psychiatric medication is bad, evil and unnecessary” discourse in 2017 where it belongs and fucking accept that the brain is an organ that can get sick and need treatment just like any other part of the body?
Yeah I reblogged this 3x in a row. It was on purpose. Fight me.
anyway Sherlock Holmes is public domain so catch me writing a story in which Holmes’ seemingly timeless nature is explained in canon as Holmes being a restless preternatural entity discovered (summoned?) by the original Dr. Watson, who acted as its companion/custodian as it careened around doing the only thing that could preoccupy its wildly inhuman mind, ie, getting all up in people’s business and freaking them out with how much shit it knows.
the Holmes entity can die, but always reappears within a generation and without fail seeking out the latest in the Watson line. the Watsons, grown savvy over time, now devote much of their time to a.) preparing the younger members of the family for Holmes’ inevitable return or b.) desperately trying to get the hell out of dodge and live a normal life before it can happen to them as well.
just uuuuh. like a very knowing story about the inevitability of the Holmes and Watson story, centered a creepily inhuman Holmes and the long-suffering family who have spent more than a century documenting it.
OP, please, please, please write this. I will buy and read the shit out of this.
Wait are you telling me retail workers can’t SIT in the US!?
Yes people are usually allowed to sit instead of standing up for no purpose, even in third-world countries like mine, I’m so sorry american retail workers…
Like, do you have seats at your station or????
Yes, I’m pretty sure that’s how it works in most countries, if not every country other than the US. I’m sorry.
Standing is healthier
@nate2247 No. Standing for many hours in a row is usually healthier than sitting many hours in a row without being allowed to get up, but in places where cashiers are allowed to sit they can also stand, and often do to pack stuff and such.
The human body isn’t prepared to stand up for long periods of time without moving. It results in a massive venous pressure raise at the lower body, specially legs and feet, which induces swelling, development of varicose veins and such. It affects your entire blood circulation negatively and forces your heart to work harder than it should making you more likely to develop heart disorders too. Not to mention there are several disorders, specially back pain related to pressure over nerve roots, where standing up for so long can result in awful pain later. Even ignoring all that, it’s very uncomfortable.
Either way, the most fucked up thing about this is that there isn’t any practical reason to stand up here like in some other jobs. It’s just a big “fuck you” to retail workers and it’s sad most americans don’t seem to know this is not how cashiers work in most countries.
Can we leave all the “psychiatric medication is bad, evil and unnecessary” discourse in 2017 where it belongs and fucking accept that the brain is an organ that can get sick and need treatment just like any other part of the body?
Yeah I reblogged this 3x in a row. It was on purpose. Fight me.
….and that is why being separated from our food’s origins and not knowing anything about botany is what is wrong with the world today goddamnit.
I bet some people would eat castor beans too. Or yew. Or just fuckin’ snack on some hemlock because it’s natural, man.
Fucking incredible.
LIKE IT TAKES SOME FUCKING EFFORT TO GET A CHERRY PIT OPEN FUCKING W H Y
Question: Is it the same with plums? I used to do that occasionally when I ate dried and seasoned Asian plums as a kid.
Yes.
Plum pits do not contain as much as cherry, but they do.
Do not eat stone fruit pits, people. Or bitter almonds.
They all have cyanide in them.
Oh boy, apricot kernels. The amount of people I see lauding those as a “cure for cancer” is… demoralizing. I can’t find it right now but I believe there was a mother in the past few years who was taken to court for child endangerment/neglect for feeding those to her very young child as a cancer treatment.
I saw this horror last year, and yelled for an entire hour.
To be fair, I bet if you die of cyanide poisoning the cancer won’t kill you.
I have been wanting to use these photos for months.
The recommendation is to only eat 3 in one hour. because that is just the most filling snack and of course they will stop at three.
Just because it’s natural doesn’t mean it’s good for you.
Just because it’s food for another creature doesn’t mean it’s fine for you.
Best case scenario it’s like grass which is basically neutral- it’s generally not going to kill you but there’s no nutrition for humans in it, and enough will probably make you sick.
Worst case scenario it’s something like belladonna berries which taste sweet but will kill you stone cold dead.
Same for the wrong kind of mushrooms, other berries, leaves and barks. Before consuming, CHECK. If you can’t check, don’t put it in your mouth.
Just because it’s natural doesn’t mean it’s good for you.
Just because it’s natural doesn’t mean it’s good for you.
Just because it’s natural doesn’t mean it’s good for you.
I’ve been saying this for so long, oh my gosh.
^^As a toxicologist, I approve this message.
Friendly reminder that the laws on supplement labeling in the US are super lax and haven’t been updated since 1994. That’s nearly 25 years ago!
Oh hey, forgot to mention I tweeted @ apricotpower on twitter about how their product is poison and they blocked me. You should all tweet at them too.
Guys, seriously, be really , really careful when it comes to natural “cures.”
The do-it-yourself-murder-bag above is a blatant example, but even for things where the base material isn’t directly considered poisonous, there’s no regulation. You don’t know what amount of the active ingredient is, so it may be mostly empty plant fiber, or an effective dose, or a concentration that is potentially dangerous. And it can all change from pill to pill, manufacturer by manufacturer. And that assumes an active ingredient that works.
For example, green tea is good for you. Green tea pills, however, can be concentrated enough to cause damage to the liver. If you want the benefits of green tea you’ll want to just drink the green tea.
And so many alternative cures are just flat-out poisons. If you’re looking into alternative treatments, make sure you’re not ignoring science-based medicine in favor of something “natural” and check what the mean old debunkers say about them. Some of these quacks will try and get you to drink bleach (MMS) or necrotize your own tissues (black salve) . It’s worth taking seriously.
Can we leave all the “psychiatric medication is bad, evil and unnecessary” discourse in 2017 where it belongs and fucking accept that the brain is an organ that can get sick and need treatment just like any other part of the body?
Yeah I reblogged this 3x in a row. It was on purpose. Fight me.
“A British bookshop chain held a vote to find the country’s favourite book. It was The Lord of the Rings. Another one not long afterwards, held this time to find the favourite author, came up with J.R.R. Tolkien. The critics carped, which was expected but nevertheless strange. After all, the bookshops were merely using the word favourite. That’s a very personal word. No one ever said it was a synonym for best. But a critic’s chorus hailed the results as a terrible indictment of the taste of the British public, who’d been given the precious gift of democracy and were wasting it on quite unsuitable choices. There were hints of a conspiracy amongst the furry-footed fans. But there was another message, too. It ran: ‘Look, we’ve been trying to tell you for years which books are good! And you just don’t listen! You’re not listening now! You’re just going out there and buying this damn book! And the worst part is that we can’t stop you! We can tell you it’s rubbish, it’s not relevant, it’s the worst kind of escapism, it was written by an author who never came to our parties and didn’t care what we thought, but unfortunately the law allows you to go on not listening! You are stupid, stupid, stupid!’ And once again, no one listened. Instead, a couple of years later, a national newspaper’s Millennium Masterworks poll produced five works of what could loosely be called ‘narrative fiction’ among the top fifty ‘masterworks’ of the last thousand years, and, yes, there was The Lord of the Rings again.”
I stumbled on an article last night where some douche was ranting about how mad he was that, in the wake of Terry’s death, people were mourning and calling him a great writer when they should have been reading something sublime like Bukowski.
In the first paragraph he said he’d never read anything by Pratchett and never intended to, which is pretty typical of that kind of angry elitism.
As someone who has been deeply impacted by Terry’s ideas about character and storytelling, that article made me so mad. Livid. Terry Pratchett levels of righteous fury.
Can I tell you how happy and unsurprised I am that Terry himself wrote such a lovely takedown of that snobbish, splainy mentality.
A thing being popular doesn’t automatically make it bad, and fantastic elements don’t make a work of literature into not-literature.
it’s frustrating that every time someone famous dies the inevitable discourse of whether or not you’re allowed to miss them comes out with receipts on how good or bad they were
how about this: every time someone famous dies, there is someone out there who admired them, who looked up to them, who will miss them
there is someone out there who feels all of these things and has no idea about the good or bad things this person has done
this doesn’t mean the fan is good or bad. it doesn’t mean they’re wilfully ignorant or tragically sheltered. sometimes, someone admires a celebrity because of what they happened to have seen and connected with, and nothing else
no matter what horrible or incredible things the celebrity has done in their lifetime, no matter how justifiable or not their actions were, not matter how fucking woke or bigoted their media interviews and appearances were, someone, somewhere, is feeling their loss, because of no other reason than they liked this person, they looked up to this person, this person, in some way, affected their lives and they are feeling the loss of that person in their world. maybe not your world, but in theirs. and you have no idea how small or personal or delicate that world is.
so, how about, when a famous person dies and people start mourning, don’t go hunting for the stories and the quotes. don’t start competing to see who can be the most up to date and contemporary about how problematic the deceased was. unless they’re on such levels as Hitler or Trump, unless they are such unapologetic, irredeemable assholes that no one should relate to them on even a minimal level, please just give everyone a chance to mourn. Just let fans mourn.
They are hurting. They are trying to move on, because they’re already being told by people around them that it’s not a big deal, that it doesn’t make a big difference, but they are hurting and they need to be able to grieve somewhere. And maybe their favourite celebrity said something, or did something, that was wrong, that was perhaps unforgivable, but that doesn’t automatically guarantee that all of their fans knew about it, or understood it. Just give everyone some freaking time, please, before you go at them, because some people need to adjust, and if you don’t allow them that, you are hurting them.
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