There's apparently a prize here for best company for interns... Called the Monica Lewinsky award. :haha:
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There's apparently a prize here for best company for interns... Called the Monica Lewinsky award. :haha:
Someone updated a dead friend's facebook status. He's been gone a few months now. At least it was probably his family, and they left a kind note.
Got a call from a recruitment agent yesterday, called Harry Agent. :headbang:
Question for parents here; how likely would you think it is that a child goes from totally ok to life threathening ill within - let's say - 30 minutes without you noticing anything untill the child needs to be rushed of to a hospital? The child is in your arms all the time during this transition.
Not a parent, but I wouldn't rule it out. There's some stuff out there which can build up fast.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hazir
However, with that dearth of information, one can't really say anything about that particular instance.
Depending upon levels of exhaustion, it could happen...or say there have been a few time where The Boy has fallen asleep right on us, and we let hem sleep until out cold...so we could carry him up to bed, something could transpire medically, I guess.
Ok, so there is some possibility these parents were not totally irresponsable but were caught totally by surprise.
2 days ago a flight I was on was diverted to Berlin in order to get a small child (under one year old) to a hospital. The problems were brought to the notice of one of the attendants with in 10 to 15 minutes after the plane had taken off from Amsterdam. The fight time to Istanbul would have been 3.5 hours, which was deemed too long for the infant to be without proper care.
As such I had no problem with the decision of a diversion being taken, but I still can't help but think the parents were incredibly irresponsable getting on that plane.
Yes, Hazir, such determinations can be easily done while not knowing
a) the health history of the child,
b) what it actually suffered from and
c) the symptoms it displayed beforehand.
And let's not forget that toddlers are not exactly the world's greatest conversationalists :rolleyes:
What, you've never gone from completely fine to "in medical distress" in under 15 minutes? How lucky for you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hazir
And what with infants being the whiny shit-factories they are, how are you supposed to tell that this particular time the crying means something serious and not "I'm hungry" or "I shat myself" or "I'm tired" or "I don't like air travel" (etc)?
No, I haven't. And you just gave the best argument ever against babies on planes; you never know why they are crying, they might be dying; so don't fly with babies.Quote:
Originally Posted by CitizenCain
What kind of moronic suggestion is that supposed to be?Quote:
Originally Posted by Hazir
So, for example, you've got a new job in another country (for shits and giggles: This other country is on the other side of the globe) which entails you and your family moving to this new country.
How exactly do you do that without flying? And don't even suggest a ship - in terms of medical response times, that's even worse.
Good evening, I'm Hazir, I don't have the slightest clue about what actually happened but I'm against it on sheer principle because I was slightly inconvenienced.
I guess stuff like "allergic reaction" does not exist in his world.Quote:
Originally Posted by CitizenCain
I would hazard a guess Hazir was implying that babies should be banned from planes, a suggestion I wholeheartedly endorse. :oQuote:
Originally Posted by Khendraja'aro
Right. And the alternative would be...?Quote:
Originally Posted by Timbuk2
Plenty can onset suddenly in 10-15 minutes especially on a plane. When I was 17 I flew to a wedding, within 5 minutes of take-off I was in complete agony. From normal to full of pain and feeling my head was going to explode in minutes. Turned out later that I had Sinusitis - I didn't even know at the time that I had it or was unwell. However the change in altitude caused by the flight, which I was already more than used to as a frequent flyer so could normally easily "pop" was causing an imbalance of pressure inside my head that due to the Sinusitis it couldn't equalise. Unfortunately I had then 4 flights in the space of 2 days and spent the next week in a lot of pain and nearly collapsed at the wedding. Had I not flown I'd have been fine.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hazir
More recently when I was just on holiday, we had 2 weeks at a resort and in the first week became friends with a couple our age who were on their honeymoon. They left after a week and spent the morning of the day of the flight before checkout perfectly normal by the pool, we played some water volleyball etc as we had been doing before saying goodbye. Next day I was shocked to see her in the lift of the hotel looking upset - they'd been unable to fly out as he'd been rushed to hospital. What had happened was they'd gotten through to the airport, through security etc when he fell over and started vomitting blood. Perfectly normal and healthy young man to vomitting blood in an instant. He didn't know but he'd had some stomach ulcers and two of them had suddenly burst. Had it happened an hour later they'd have been over the Atlantic on a 10 hour flight.
Tried to have a look at SWToR. There's a waiting queue on their website!
Which kind of moron thought that to be a good idea?
Probably the same kind of moron who's had his trilogy remastered more times than I can recall. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Khendraja'aro
Quote:
DALLAS - “It's very frustrating," Lorene Turner said.
She has spent hours on Facebook trying to find her granddaughter, Jakadrien.
"Once I get home I am up until 3 or 4 in the morning searching and looking," Turner said. "It's all I can think about. Finding my baby."
Turner has been searching for Jakadrien since the fall of 2010, when she ran away from home. She was 14 years old and distraught over the loss of her grandfather and her parents’ divorce.
Turner searched for months for a clue.
"God just kept leading me," she said. "I wake up in the middle of the night and do whatever God told me to do, and I found her."
Turner said with the help of Dallas Police, she found her granddaughter in the most unexpected place - Colombia...
...News 8 has learned ICE took the girl's fingerprints, but somehow didn't confirm her identity and deported her to Colombia, where the Colombian government gave her a work card and released her...
http://www.wfaa.com/news/texas-news/...136626533.html
The weather is crazy: Very windy the whole day and now heavy snow together with thunder and lightning.
Why would anyone think this was a good idea?Quote:
ATLANTA (CNN/WSB) – Some Georgia parents are outraged after they say an elementary school used examples of slavery and beatings to teach their children about math.
The problems in question appeared on a third grader's math assignment.
One problem said, ‘Each tree had 56 oranges. If 8 slaves pick them equally, then how much would each slave work?'
But the questions didn't stop there.
‘If Frederick got two beatings per day, how many beatings did he get in 1 week?'
Terrance Barnett was outraged when he read his son's third grade homework assignment.
"I'm having to explain to my 8-year-old why slavery or slaves or beatings are in a math problem, that hurts," he said.
Another father, Christopher Braxton, had a similar reaction.
"It kind of blew me away," said Braxton, "If Frederick, if anyone got any beatings you don't put that into the homework of any sort."
Both fathers contacted the principal at Beaver Ridge Elementary School in Norcross, and then they called the local media because they wanted to know how these questions could end up on a child's homework.
The Gwinnett school district spokesperson, Sloan Roach, said the third grade teachers were attempting to cross curriculums by adding some social studies lessons into the math problems. But the problem with these questions was the lack of historical context.
"We understand that there are concerns about these questions and we agree that these questions were not appropriate," said Roach.
"Whoever put together this paperwork and everything else, the schools and everything else shouldn't teach it this way," said Braxton.
The school acknowledged its mistake and shredded the assignment.
What the hell is up with the Smart car brand?
They introduced a new concept today, and by concept I mean a remodel of one of Suzuki's worst selling models ever.
The Smart For Us
http://strumors.automobilemag.com/fi...er-623x467.jpg
The Suzuki X90
Why the hell do people even buy SmartCars? Whenever I see one I have the urge to tip it over. They look like deathtraps.
One of my clients is a Smart car fanboy and insisted I take a spin with him in his sports model Smart car so I did just that. I wasn't impressed by any aspect really, the car was too small for practical needs (the boot was about the size of my Falcon's glove compartment) it was sporty looking but lacked the power and handling of a sports car and it was a very noisy ride.
I felt like I should be wearing a helmet, as I do when go-karting which is a close approximation of the Smart car experience.
And Catgrrl I know what you mean by the deathtrap comment, it seemed as if we could be "run over" by just about any normal size vehicle and not even be noticed...
...as for tipping them over, I have seen one picked up and rotated sideways in a parking bay of a busy train station after the driver had cut in on someone else's spot. I would have loved to see the guys face when he returned to find his car at right-angles to cars around it. :D
Why?Quote:
Originally Posted by Catgrrl
Smart Cars are great city cars. They get excellent mileage and are great for parking in small spaces where other cars couldn't necessarily fit. Because they're so tiny but have good engines in (they're actually Mercedes Benz) they get good acceleration and power that you wouldn't expect in such a small car. Its fun to drive, like a Go-Kart :D
I rather have the Suzuki Swift. That car just looks fun to drive. (never drove it, using the force here)
For their weight and horsepower they don't get good gas mileage at all. You get better gas mileage out of regular sized compacts, econo boxes, and regular 5 door family cars.Quote:
Originally Posted by RandBlade
Their small engines used to be tied to a horrible manual/automatic transmission setup that provided a horrible riding experience (not sure if they dropped that yet). Benz engines (actually, the entire car) used to be highly unreliable, now they are simply on par with everyone else. This has been a growing problem for the dealerships since they were accustomed to most of their income coming from increased servicing.
Their small wheel base handles and rides nothing like a go-kart :bulb: (not to mention the complete waste of it being RWD).
The only positive thing is the small size in tight spaces, if it wasn't so dangerous to park like that.
:up:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ziggy Stardust
To be fair, I had my 1984 Toyota Corolla rotated in a parking space too so I know exactly the look that would be on a Smart Car owner's face. :haha:
I suppose if I lived in an area where I only had to drive a few miles in low speeds, it would be okay to drive. But, I'm 5'8" and it looks like it would be damn uncomfortable. And not interstate-worthy.
There are LAWS
against BLASPHEMY
in, like, Ireland
:bulb:
Drove one down the Great Ocean in Australia, it was really fun. Probably even more fun with a manual, but I was afraid to shift gears with my left hand, I had enough problems already having the indicators on the other side.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ziggy Stardust
The small wheels make it act a little bit unstable if you push them to the edge. But on the other hand, they didn't made to car to drive it like I did probably.
