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[quinnr]

Friend invited me to their birthday party.
They are also friends with the one person in this school who hates me with the burning passion of a thousand bonfires.

This may get awkward.

[Loud Whispers]

Friend invited me to their birthday party.
They are also friends with the one person in this school who hates me with the burning passion of a thousand bonfires.

This may get awkward.

I see opportunity.

Be overfriendly.

You either piss them off.

Or you become friends.

Win win.

[Lysabild]

I guess no livestreaming, anyone got any good suggestions for stuff to do before I start head butting the wall?

[RedKing]

Friend invited me to their birthday party.
They are also friends with the one person in this school who hates me with the burning passion of a thousand bonfires.

This may get awkward.

It's still winter....I say see if you can use their rage as a space heater. If anyone protests, insist that you are trying to save the planet by using "green" rage-heat as an alternative energy source.

[Truean]

I really hate putting people in nursing homes/extended care. At some point you just have to more or less ignore them. Yeah, I know .... They don't wanna be there.... That's not really their choice. There really isn't a whole lot to be done once you're at the point of being committed. Same thing with them not being able to drive. Hell no, I'm not going to spend all damn day with them or even a significant part of the day (or rather they wouldn't pay me for that). Calling me 5 times a day isn't going to fix crap; neither would calling me 5000 times a day. Yes, you've lost your freedom to do whatever the hell you feel like; no, sorry, there's jack shit to be done about it.

With medicaid getting involved it's even worse, because the old people are of the false opinion that the government is stealing "their money" when a "spend down" happens. Fact is, nursing home care costs like $6K-$8K per month. They just don't have that, period. The government will pay your nursing home bills which can easily total several hundred thousand dollars and perhaps a million in the long run. They do require you to exhaust your assets in many cases first. Tell people this and they act like you're trying to skin them alive.... I didn't write the rules. I just have to play by them.

I'm actually exceedingly nice about all this, but wow is it exhausting. There's no solution in this problem that is acceptable to them, and that isn't my fault at all. Frankly, your medical cost has absolutely improvised you long past the practical point of bankruptcy and the nursing home won't operate for free. All those nurses, doctors, orderlies, the medical supplies, it all adds up and frankly ya can't afford it, but if you don't have it, then you'll die.... Rather than let that happen, the government will pay for it once you're out of any (exempt) assets.

[sigh]

It's kinda nuts. What do you do with these people? Shoving them somewhere and keeping them alive doesn't solve the problem of them having nothing but time on their hands and that they are probably bored out of their minds.

[Xotano]

nothing :O nothing ever makes me sad.

[RedKing]

Yeah, I saw that situation with my wife's grandmother. My wife still says (without a trace of irony or guilt) that she stayed alive out of spite, just long enough to finish burning through all her money to make sure there was nothing left as an inheritance. It sounds incredibly bitter, but then you'd have to have known this woman...it's an entirely plausible theory.

We have an awkward societal situation where we have the technology to prolong someone's life by decades, but lack the maturity to recognize that in many cases we probably shouldn't. 

[Darvi]

nothing :O nothing ever makes me sad.

You can do it like me and post stuff that made you mildly miffed instead.

[Truean]

Yeah, I saw that situation with my wife's grandmother. My wife still says (without a trace of irony or guilt) that she stayed alive out of spite, just long enough to finish burning through all her money to make sure there was nothing left as an inheritance. It sounds incredibly bitter, but then you'd have to have known this woman...it's an entirely plausible theory.

We have an awkward societal situation where we have the technology to prolong someone's life by decades, but lack the maturity to recognize that in many cases we probably shouldn't. 

At some point when I'm about 78, or perhaps when old and I feel myself going mentally, I fully intend to give a bullet a tour of my brain. This is my personal plan only.

[JoshuaFH]

Friend invited me to their birthday party.
They are also friends with the one person in this school who hates me with the burning passion of a thousand bonfires.

This may get awkward.

I'd say you're exaggerating. Kids even in highschool and college don't know what real anger, or what real hatred feels like. It is the cesspool of superficial emotion.

You're fine, go to the party.

[Darvi]

Kids even in highschool and college don't know what real anger, or what real hatred feels like.

Orly.

[JoshuaFH]

Kids even in highschool and college don't know what real anger, or what real hatred feels like.

Orly.

I'm just waiting for someone to point at a corner case, where I can then promptly backpedal to say NORMAL people.

[Darvi]

Nevermind then.

[Loud Whispers]

I'm just waiting for someone to point at a corner case, where I can then promptly backpedal to say NORMAL people.

Well if people made out of pure hate are not normal people, how the hell do you get normal people who hate? D:

[JoshuaFH]

Sorry, I was just kind've flashing back to my days back in school, and how insignificant everything was, and how any friendship or enemy dissipated so easily.

Just ignore me.