Fashionistas you have arrived 3-25-03 - 10-3-03

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by bridge of love
I pulled a chest muscle using a cheap rowing machine, then forgot. I thought the pain the next day was angina. With stress over the next week from a tight briefing schedule I had adrenilin turn the pain and stress into increasing angina. At the emergency room I learned that most nights, in most ER's there are 2 or 3 professionals in their 30's having fake heart attacks.

I've had a few fake heart attacks. A lot of them were brought on from esophageal reflux, some by partying too much and some by a combination of the two.

The best way out of these (if you don't have xanax handy) is to take your pulse. If its drug induced, don't take your pulse - you'll just get more freaked out. If you're wired, drink three or four pulls of whatever hard booze is available quickly and then lots of water (you're probably dehydrated and need a fast downer). If you have reflux, take pepcid or zantac religiously before eating spicy food or drinking. And DON'T SMOKE. Cigarettes are hell on heartburn and you'll think they're calming you down but they'll only make things worse. If its reflux or pulled-muscle oriented pain, take your pulse. You'll see that its low and that will calm you down. Also, wherever you are, get to someplace nice and cool, preferably outside or in fron of an AC unit. The colder you are, the quicker you'll feel calm (don't know exactly why this works - maybe its the same principle behind the reason they ice live crabs at the market).

And those cheap erg machines are shit - they'll fucking kill your shoulders. I used to be able to do 20 min pieces on the ergs in college with no sweat, but the cheap ergs in my gym make my shoulders feel like they're being torn from the sockets. You really have to oil those things all the time to make sure they're safe.

[bridge of love]

Originally posted by Connect_the_Dots
Although I have no medical training whatsoever, the symptons sound like SARS, or possibly a tumor. I would get that checked out if I were you.

i had an anatomy class in high school, so perhaps i can help, some of those symptons are not inconsistant with acute fecal bacteria poisoning

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
And those cheap erg machines are shit - they'll fucking kill your shoulders. I used to be able to do 20 min pieces on the ergs in college with no sweat, but the cheap ergs in my gym make my shoulders feel like they're being torn from the sockets. You really have to oil those things all the time to make sure they're safe.

A good rowing machine works your legs. A shitty one works your arms.

That business about Verizon is a little disturbing, but can you imagine how much computing power it would take to track and store the movements of Verizon's customers, and then to figure out what businesses, etc., are at those locations? I'm sure it could be done, but I'm not sure Verizon could raise the money to do it.

[evenodds]

Originally posted by bridge of love
i had an anatomy class in high school, so perhaps i can help, some of those symptons are not inconsistant with acute fecal bacteria poisoning

The symptoms are completely consistent with being full of shit.

Happy Friday!

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by W.W.L.D.
NarcFromHere must have called the cops on these dangerous, irresponsible, anti-social assholes for committing criminal property damage.

What is the world coming to?

Funny, is that the lame excuse that IBM used when they vandalized the sidewalks with their stoopid penguin logo?

Vandalism is vandalism bucko.

Oh, and tell your sock buddy Watchtower that the next time one of his "people" try to stick "reading material" in my face while I'm running for the train, someone's going to lose an arm.

[idle acts]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
I could lock him in the basement with the smurfs.

That's too cruel even for a cat.

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by Connect_the_Dots
Although I have no medical training whatsoever, the symptons sound like SARS, or possibly a tumor. I would get that checked out if I were you.

Having gone to veterinary school in Bolivia, I did some research on this. The APDR* says this..."chest pains followed by mild freaking out and thoughts of SARS and tumors indicates presence of canine urine poisoning."

*Animal Physicians Desk Reference.

[idle acts]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
(I'm beating this one to death in the hope of ensuring idle acts fully understands the depo thing). . . girl-on-girl depo . . .

:doh3:

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by ThrashersFan
I guess you gotta prove it.
Funny how every guy who wants you to swallow isn't interested in kissing you right after. How can you say "it's not because I am afraid it will taste bad and then I will have to stop pestering you to guzzle it but rather because it is weird to eat your own bodily fluids" when most men have, at one time or another, eaten, among other things, their own boogers and/or scabs?

True enough. And c'mon people. Who among us knows a man who has not engaged in the occasional feces smearing and ingestion or who has not occasionally sucked the puss out of his own infected wounds? And it's not like every man out there (whether they admit it or not) has not downed the occasional glass of urine mixed with thick chunky menstrual blood. This whole "refusal to ingest body fluids" thing is straight up hypocrisy.

What is going on with the PMS? My box says I have twenty but only ten show up. It says I have one unread but no unread ones show. I keep getting the gray prompt box for having a new PM every time I click on but then I dont except that one unread one I cant get to. This is driving me nuts. I think I need to go back to just getting emailed.

[ThrashersFan]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
What is going on with the PMS? My box says I have twenty but only ten show up. It says I have one unread but no unread ones show. I keep getting the gray prompt box for having a new PM every time I click on but then I dont except that one unread one I cant get to. This is driving me nuts. I think I need to go back to just getting emailed.

My guess is that you had messages and read them and they are still listed as new because you have not logged out. I have had this happen before -- if I log out and then back in it says 0 new messages. YMMV

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
True enough. And c'mon people. Who among us knows a man who has not engaged in the occasional feces smearing and ingestion or who has not occasionally sucked the puss out of his own infected wounds? And it's not like every man out there (whether they admit it or not) has not downed the occasional glass of urine mixed with thick chunky menstrual blood. This whole "refusal to ingest body fluids" thing is straight up hypocrisy.

Who are you, what have you done with PLF, and how did you get him to give up his password?

[str8outavannuys]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I've had a few fake heart attacks. A lot of them were brought on from esophageal reflux, some by partying too much and some by a combination of the two.

The best way out of these (if you don't have xanax handy) is to take your pulse. If its drug induced, don't take your pulse - you'll just get more freaked out. If you're wired, drink three or four pulls of whatever hard booze is available quickly and then lots of water (you're probably dehydrated and need a fast downer). If you have reflux, take pepcid or zantac religiously before eating spicy food or drinking. And DON'T SMOKE. Cigarettes are hell on heartburn and you'll think they're calming you down but they'll only make things worse. If its reflux or pulled-muscle oriented pain, take your pulse. You'll see that its low and that will calm you down. Also, wherever you are, get to someplace nice and cool, preferably outside or in fron of an AC unit. The colder you are, the quicker you'll feel calm (don't know exactly why this works - maybe its the same principle behind the reason they ice live crabs at the market).

And those cheap erg machines are shit - they'll fucking kill your shoulders. I used to be able to do 20 min pieces on the ergs in college with no sweat, but the cheap ergs in my gym make my shoulders feel like they're being torn from the sockets. You really have to oil those things all the time to make sure they're safe.

What's a good personal-best to have for a 5K erg? I was never on a crew team, but I'm pretty proud of my 18:20 (accomplished as a summer associate at the downtown YMCA in LA). Any other hardcore ergers here?

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
What is going on with the PMS? My box says I have twenty but only ten show up.

If your box is set to showing only those messages from the last 2 days (or last 5 days, etc.), then that's all it will show. The other ten messages are still there. If you change your box to show messages from the last week ( or month, etc.), then all messages should show up. You have to adjust your box to fit everything in...

[idle acts]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
You have to adjust your box to fit everything in...

Truer words were never spoken.