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Author Topic: Things that made you sad today thread.  (Read 9698838 times)

Lord Shonus

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #103215 on: March 21, 2016, 08:19:17 pm »

As for the social side, the Chicken Pox virus causes a form of Herpes too (H. Zoster), and are similarly never "gone" once you've been infected. I'm guessing the reason there's no stigma there too is because we don't associate Chicken Pox with sex and intimacy. Hell, some parents (like mine 9_9) intentionally infected their kids with Chicken Pox at Pox Parties, due to mistakenly thinking they were protecting them from getting Shingles later in life.


It wasn't mistakenly preventing shingles that was the reason for Pox Parties before the vaccine was developed. It was because if you don't get chicken pox as a child and are exposed as an adult, it can kill you.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #103216 on: March 21, 2016, 08:22:29 pm »

I watched a video involving one of those overly sensitive people. The kind that want to set up 'safe spaces' because any opposing opinion is oppression.

I feel confused, upset and infuriated.
Sounds like you need a safe space away from that kind of person.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #103217 on: March 21, 2016, 08:24:04 pm »

Surely a jail cell is a safe place in which to exercise one's opinions?
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« Reply #103218 on: March 21, 2016, 08:24:51 pm »

Herpes is not a retrovirus
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #103219 on: March 21, 2016, 08:26:32 pm »

Surely a jail cell is a safe place in which to exercise one's opinions?
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« Reply #103220 on: March 21, 2016, 08:36:29 pm »

As for the social side, the Chicken Pox virus causes a form of Herpes too (H. Zoster), and are similarly never "gone" once you've been infected. I'm guessing the reason there's no stigma there too is because we don't associate Chicken Pox with sex and intimacy. Hell, some parents (like mine 9_9) intentionally infected their kids with Chicken Pox at Pox Parties, due to mistakenly thinking they were protecting them from getting Shingles later in life.

It wasn't mistakenly preventing shingles that was the reason for Pox Parties before the vaccine was developed. It was because if you don't get chicken pox as a child and are exposed as an adult, it can kill you.

Actually, I'm pretty sure that was the part that was mistaken. To my knowledge, it can potentially kill the elderly, or those with compromised immune systems, but it's no more severe in adults than in children. Googling briefly turned this up, for whatever you trust Time Magazine as a source:
Can chicken pox be more severe in adults?
Most people get chicken pox when they are young, but the symptoms can be more severe among people who catch the infection in an older age. They include loss of appetite, fever, headache, tiredness and rashes, all of which can be more taxing on the health of elderly adults.


Herpes is not a retrovirus

Source? Assuming you're referring to Herpes Simplex, I believe it is. "Herpes" is a blanket term for recurrent lesions caused by several different viruses, all of which (to my knowledge) are retroviruses rather than DNA viruses. This comes from a professor who was mistaken about the whole "blood is blue inside you" thing, though, so I'm going to check now too.

EDIT: Nope, you're right. Looks like it is a DNA virus. Thanks for the catch! That means they don't hide in your genes then. Looks like they stay dormant in nerve cells that don't get screened for infection, and come out to play when the immune system is weak.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #103221 on: March 21, 2016, 09:32:36 pm »

Reasons to not steal a car and go flying off the nearest bridge at a high rate of speed:
1. Effect on others
2. I have people I want to take with me
3. A never-ending sense of guilt over the fact that I messed up and it took me a month to realize it but I'm still too much of a coward to do anything about it
4. Stealing cars is illegal and I might not die at the bottom
5. More people go to a suicide funeral, and I don't want people standing near/on my grave

Besides 3 I think I can fix the rest. Still not sure why three is there, or what to do about it though.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #103222 on: March 21, 2016, 09:48:59 pm »

6. Your life is your most valuable possession. Do not throw it away.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #103223 on: March 21, 2016, 09:49:46 pm »


 :(

Please don't.

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« Reply #103224 on: March 21, 2016, 09:50:14 pm »

Eh, that's easy to say when you're not suicidal. When you are, it tends to become much harder.

3. A never-ending sense of guilt over the fact that I messed up and it took me a month to realize it but I'm still too much of a coward to do anything about it
Messed up in what way, if you don't mind me asking?

(If you don't want to answer in public, do PM me - I love to hear about other people's problems ;) )
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« Reply #103225 on: March 21, 2016, 09:54:02 pm »

Eh, that's easy to say when you're not suicidal. When you are, it tends to become much harder.
To be fair, the biggest thing that stopped me from going through with it was a fanatical obsession with sanctity of life.
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« Reply #103226 on: March 21, 2016, 09:55:45 pm »

Argh I don't know what to say and I'm not even sure if I'm helping or hurting and I...

I don't want to fail at helping...

But I don't know what to do to help...
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« Reply #103227 on: March 21, 2016, 09:59:58 pm »

Welcome to my life, fish. Welcome to my life. Isn't it fun?

Eh, that's easy to say when you're not suicidal. When you are, it tends to become much harder.

3. A never-ending sense of guilt over the fact that I messed up and it took me a month to realize it but I'm still too much of a coward to do anything about it
Messed up in what way, if you don't mind me asking?

(If you don't want to answer in public, do PM me - I love to hear about other people's problems ;) )

I don't mind, honestly it's difficult to talk about outside of here anyway.

Basically, remember my gf from a while back? It only took me until this morning to realize that I basically cheated on her with her cousin, and that's only because someone else spelled it out for me. So now I want to apologize, but I'm to damn afraid that I'm going to mess everything up even more, which is pretty much impossible, since we don't even acknowledge each other's existence.
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« Reply #103228 on: March 21, 2016, 10:03:42 pm »

Both me and my dad had been repairing some extremely old furniture and we found a hidden compartment under some rather heavy pieces of wood.
Inside that cavity there was a huge 1870s gasser revolver along with a folded Austrian-Hungarian flag.
It belonged to my dad maternal grandfather who had served in ww1.
Man we both suddenly felt a strange type of sadness.
And it's impossible to find ammo for it.
Guess we will keep it hidden,cleaned and oiled on a hidden safe we have.don't want some uncultured assholen stealing it or some uncultured ignorant government asshole destroying such relic.
It's like gutting and destroying a piece of art.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #103229 on: March 21, 2016, 10:04:42 pm »

@chaotic:...

*applies hugs*

I'm officially out of my depth.

Nevertheless, if you need anything I can help you with, let me know.
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