A sad, constant bid for attention

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by patentparanyc
You spelled "gage" wrong. sniff.

Lesser error than the one-time poster Phineas Gauge.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I'd pay $1000 to avoid having those issues.

2. I believe Pony will confirm the truism that one is better off never having cause to be a plaintiff in a PI case.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
class actions are never "worth it." My 2 kids and I get 2K Canadian, my wife 3K. The only physical injury was my daughter had a small cut on her finger.

No. Not worth it. Hopefully your children were too young to remember, as it sounds like a traumatic experience. C$9,000 and knowledge of where to sit on a train doesn't sound like such a great payoff for that kind of experience.

On an unrelated note, are you sure your daughter's finger was the only thing that was injured? Maybe you bumped your head and forgot?

TM

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
No. Not worth it. Hopefully your children were too young to remember, as it sounds like a traumatic experience. C$9,000 and knowledge of where to sit on a train doesn't sound like such a great payoff for that kind of experience.

On an unrelated note, are you sure your daughter's finger was the only thing that was injured? Maybe you bumped your head and forgot?

TM

Hank has whiplash.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
No. Not worth it. Hopefully your children were too young to remember, as it sounds like a traumatic experience. C$9,000 and knowledge of where to sit on a train doesn't sound like such a great payoff for that kind of experience.

TM

He should have chosen to be in a train crash in a more favorable jurisdiction.

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
He should have chosen to be in a train crash in a more favorable jurisdiction.

or a more favorable exchange rate?

[patentparanyc]

The NY Times has an article, linked below on former addcits who train rigorously for Iron Man and other similar triathalons. No mention is made of the endorphins released when you run but that has to be a factor, is it not? I know the whole "runner's high" thing is not a fallacy.....

The discipline alone cannot be a draw for recovery.


http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/12/fa...pc&oref=slogin

[nononono]

Originally posted by patentparanyc
The NY Times has an article, linked below on former addcits who train rigorously for Iron Man and other similar triathalons. No mention is made of the endorphins released when you run but that has to be a factor, is it not? I know the whole "runner's high" thing is not a fallacy.....

The discipline alone cannot be a draw for recovery.


http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/12/fa...pc&oref=slogin

A lot of addicts are high-intensity people, needing greater-than-average physical and other stimulation. I would guess that the running meets at least some of these needs, allowing an opportunity to channel excess energy, focus on a goal that is incompatible with substance abuse, experience the psychological reward of having done something demanding, reorienting the mind to taking care of the body and experiencing how that feels, having a sufficiently intense experience to want to avoid doing other things and to focus on this (both the physical exertion itself and the natural chemical release), and just something both to fill time and to care about instead. Someone in recovery from addiction deals with it as a lifelong proposition, so having proper outlets is key.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Flinty_McFlint
That was some meeting. My goodness.

I think she was speaking rhetorically.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by patentparanyc
Hank, darling far be it for me to whiff here but my IQ is 147. i'm not exactly a dum dum.

You can slam me on my attractiveness or lack thereof but I'm not a dumb person. Perhaps incoherent with a mean streak but even so I'm not that bad.

One would think that with an IQ so high, you would have mastered elemental sentence structure. We are judged by what we do. Or by looks, if we're foolish enough to ask. But generally by what we do.

[nononono]

Originally posted by taxwonk
One would think that with an IQ so high, you would have mastered elemental sentence structure. We are judged by what we do. Or by looks, if we're foolish enough to ask. But generally by what we do.

Sort of a tree falling in the forest thing, isn't it?

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by nononono
A lot of addicts are high-intensity people, needing greater-than-average physical and other stimulation. I would guess that the running meets at least some of these needs, allowing an opportunity to channel excess energy, focus on a goal that is incompatible with substance abuse, experience the psychological reward of having done something demanding, reorienting the mind to taking care of the body and experiencing how that feels, having a sufficiently intense experience to want to avoid doing other things and to focus on this (both the physical exertion itself and the natural chemical release), and just something both to fill time and to care about instead. Someone in recovery from addiction deals with it as a lifelong proposition, so having proper outlets is key.

Addictive personalities tend not to change. That's why AA and NA meetings are always characterized as being fueled by coffee and cigarettes. An addiction to running is certainly better than a two pack a day habit.

[nononono]

Originally posted by taxwonk
Addictive personalities tend not to change. That's why AA and NA meetings are always characterized as being fueled by coffee and cigarettes. An addiction to running is certainly better than a two pack a day habit.

Yep, though that's really not always true (had the pleasure of attending some a ways back with a friend in need). But a funny point about certain immutabilities in personalities - another friend of mine who's been sober/straight 15 years was telling me how he loves when the Al-Anon people have a meeting nearby or after his now-occasional AA meetings, because they always clean up everyone's mess. He was only sort of joking.

[pony_trekker]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
2. I believe Pony will confirm the truism that one is better off never having cause to be a plaintiff in a PI case.

A good case, anyway.

To get any real money these days you have to be really, really fucked up or dead at a very productive point in your career.

And you never get dollar for dollar what you have actually lost. And trust me, when we get a $14m P&S award it's for someone who suffered a horrible agonizing, protracted (2 years) death it gets knocked down to 80 bucks.

Class actions, on the other hand, are like finding a $20 in a coat pocket, if you're the claimant and like finding $20m in a coat pocket, if you're the lawyer.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

I had a Bacon, Egg & Cheese Biscuit from McDonald's this morning. It was very tasty. Much better than the Egg McMuffin.