Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.
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Oh, if you're chronically hyperkalemic, a few bananas a week won't cut it. Start gnawing on potatoes and guac.
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@Auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
I should probably just start taking a potassium supplement. Every ER visit, surgery, hospital stay....has involved them fussing over how low my potassium is.
Might want to have a doctor look at your thyroid.
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@Ganymede said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@Auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
I should probably just start taking a potassium supplement. Every ER visit, surgery, hospital stay....has involved them fussing over how low my potassium is.
Might want to have a doctor look at your thyroid.
I'm already on thyroid meds. Have been since I was 18.
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@Auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
I'm already on thyroid meds. Have been since I was 18.
Have them check those levels again, or get someone else to. My partner trusted her endocrinologist a little too much, and a short stomach virus put her in the hospital for four days.
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I have found that drinking pickle juice helps when I'm depleted and having a lot of calf cramps. It doesn't happen too often these days. And I really think it's gross except during that time, in which case I crave it like whoa and I can chug it like lemonade. However, there ARE potassium supplements!
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@mietze said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
I have found that drinking pickle juice helps when I'm depleted and having a lot of calf cramps. It doesn't happen too often these days. And I really think it's gross except during that time, in which case I crave it like whoa and I can chug it like lemonade. However, there ARE potassium supplements!
Cravings are so weird like that.
I go through cycles of absolutely craving peanut butter. I think it's a low-iron thing since I haven't been able to afford meat in a while (and I do eat iron-rich veggies, but... gotta balance how I eat 'em since iron + thyroid med = possible conflict). I'll have evenings where I just snack on a few spoonfuls of it.
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The only thing that ever worked for me when I had growing pains as a kid was Vitamin E gelcaps. An inexpensive option that has many other uses if it doesn't help with the cramps.
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New X-Men character announced.
She "Rasputin" has:
- Colossus' skin
- Magik's sword
- Shadowcat's phasing
- Unus the Untouchable's force field
- Quentin Quire's telepathy
I dont know what her first name is, but if it isn't yet defined, I have a few suggestions...
"Mary Sue MU-OC a.k.a. a concept made by the one major problem player in Ghost's RL TT group" Rasputin. (1)
"Mary Sue Everything Bagel" Rasputin.
"Hope 2.0 But Isn't a Summers, is a..." Rasputin.
(1) True fact. I once had a player who wanted to make the son of Magick and Nightcralwer. When their Mutants and Masterminds sheet was done they presented me with a teleporting, kinetic energy-throwing, soul-sword wielding Lord of Limbo who, by proxy of being Lord of Limbo, was immortal.
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@Ghost You know, I'd be cool with two of these. Colossus' skin and Magik's sword? OK, make her a sister of the two and she inherited the sword from Magik.
Hell, I'd also take 3:
Daughter of Colossus and Shadowcat, inherited auntie Magik's blade.But the last two (force field & telepathy) bring it into the realm of 'how many people are gonna scramble to play her on comic games just to have that power set'
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Hrm.
My company doesn't understand a few basic concepts.
One year we had an egg-tossing competition during a food drive for needy people. The parking lot was covered in broken eggs. Each was a potential meal for a hungry person.
Soon? A water drive. When it's 115 outside water is important and plenty of people die each year from lack of water or shaded places to hide.
So after a "food tossing game to drive in food for hungry people", I'm sure you can guess what kind of event we are having for a "water drive"...
...ice bucket challenge.
I swear to fuckin god one year we're going to have a cupcale eating contest to raise money for diabetes research.
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@Ghost said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
I swear to fuckin god one year we're going to have a cupcale eating contest to raise money for diabetes research.
cupcale
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Cup o' KaleTHERE YA GO.
Companies are sort of terrible, in general, at 'what's gonna be fun for our employees and show awareness?!'
Company I used to work for tried to get people to go, on their day off, to pick up trash in a park. That was their big team building / bonding thing that month. They went the opposite direction of your company.
it's like........ why not allow them an hour off during the workday to go? Or make it a family picnic also? C'moooon.
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@Auspice Yeah, I 100% do not partake in company charity events, save for the occasional "company talent show" where ticket sales go to charity or "popcorn and watch movie at work".
I view it as a conflict of interest to assist them in lowering their tax rate, especially in ways where they get the donation for my time put into charitable causes.
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Oh, sorry, I got something wrong.
It's not an "ice bucket challenge" while driving to raise bottled water for homeless people.
It's an "Ice Bucket Challenge" AAAAAAND a water balloon fight.
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@Ghost said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Oh, sorry, I got something wrong.
It's not an "ice bucket challenge" while driving to raise bottled water for homeless people.
It's an "Ice Bucket Challenge" AAAAAAND a water balloon fight.
I was expecting the water balloon fight more than the ice bucket tbh.
But yes, companies that have special 'PTO' for volunteer work? That's how it should be done.
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@Auspice My company has that.
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@Alamias said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@Auspice My company has that.
If I were an employee and not a contractor, I'd have it. But alas.
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@Ghost said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Yeah, I 100% do not partake in company charity events, save for the occasional "company talent show" where ticket sales go to charity or "popcorn and watch movie at work".
Our charity is a combination of Office Cat and local animal shelters.
I always give, of course, but I wuv all da kitties.
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Okay, body? If I'm swallowing, it goes into the stomach not my airways. Okay? Okay. Good talk.
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@Tinuviel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Okay, body? If I'm swallowing, it goes into the stomach not my airways. Okay? Okay. Good talk.
Here I'd have pegged you as a pro at swallowing.
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@Auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Here I'd have pegged you as a pro at swallowing.