Useless Conversation

[Samwise]

I have this weird twitch in my neck.  I think my body might be getting ready to overthrow my brain so it can get more donuts.

[stray]

Possible fractured foot. Need an X-Ray. Anyone ever have a pain on top of their foot, beneath the toe bones before (mines under my pinky toe)? It's weird.. It doesn't hurt when it's suspended, but there are certain angles when I'm standing or walking where I get a little jolt of pain and need lift the pressure.

[Merusk]

Possible fractured foot. Need an X-Ray. Anyone ever have a pain on top of their foot, beneath the toe bones before (mines under my pinky toe)? It's weird.. It doesn't hurt when it's suspended, but there are certain angles when I'm standing or walking where I get a little jolt of pain and need lift the pressure.

That's what it felt like when I broke one of my metatarsals. If you don't have insurance and don't think there's bone splinters don't bother with the cost of the doctor and the x-ray.  There's no way to splint those so they just tell you to keep your weight off it until it heals and sorry about your luck.

[Endie]

Possible fractured foot. Need an X-Ray. Anyone ever have a pain on top of their foot, beneath the toe bones before (mines under my pinky toe)? It's weird.. It doesn't hurt when it's suspended, but there are certain angles when I'm standing or walking where I get a little jolt of pain and need lift the pressure.

IANAD, but I have broken my foot often enough in rugby to have been told the spiel by doctors often enough to have it off by heart.  Apart from the bone splinter thing (which, from experience, you will know about from the terrifying again when knocked) you want to watch out for any displacement.  Oh, and arthritis is now a good chance, but hey: medical science will fix that shit before it's a problem.

[rattran]

Possible fractured foot. Need an X-Ray. Anyone ever have a pain on top of their foot, beneath the toe bones before (mines under my pinky toe)? It's weird.. It doesn't hurt when it's suspended, but there are certain angles when I'm standing or walking where I get a little jolt of pain and need lift the pressure.

Yeah, I had the same thing when I broke a metatarsal (along with several other bones). Still twinges sometimes when my foot hits a certain angle. Go see a doctor.

[stray]

Fuck. Sounds serious. 

[Lantyssa]

When I broke my little toe they usually said they just tape it up and tell people to keep it taped to the toe next to it because there is nothing they can do.  I wasn't so lucky.  Have any free or cheap clinics nearby you can get it looked at?

[Yegolev]

[edit] Also, money pisses me off.

That's just the money you could be saving with GEICO.

[stray]

When I broke my little toe they usually said they just tape it up and tell people to keep it taped to the toe next to it because there is nothing they can do.  I wasn't so lucky.  Have any free or cheap clinics nearby you can get it looked at?

I'm doing well as far as insurance goes. Now it's just a matter of me mustering up the nerve to take advantage of it. I hate going to the doctor. 

[Lantyssa]

If it does need attention and you wait, you're likely to do additional damage or cause permanent injury.  The subsequent doctors' visits will be less pleasant.

Think of it as going to hang out with a bunch of chicks in scrubs and you'll be all nonchalant and relaxed.

[Merusk]

I just think "fuck, I'm spending $400 a month on this, I'm going because otherwise I may as well not pay all that cash."

[Hindenburg]

So, yesterday I hit this at..about 90 kph:


The result:

Never had to cross one of those before, nor was I ever taught to. Was using my seatbelt and climbed out through the passenger's door completely unharmed, at which point ran to the submerged section and started taking pictures like mad. The vehicle's cage, and all of it's windows, held. Go go Toyota SUV. 

[Nebu]

Glad to hear you weren't hurt. 

[Engels]

Glad you weren't hurt.

[Signe]

You actually went through that deep part of the water at 90 kph?  (or tried to)  Yikes!  It looks deep enough to drown in!  Happy you're okay, too.

[Hindenburg]

Could be slower. 90 is already 20 bellow max speed in that section. Police officers said that if I were speeding the car would have pirouetted quite a bit more, so, no fine. State's department of roads responsibility for not keeping the drainage ditch cleaned. Glad I took loads of pictures of the flooded section.

[Murgos]

So, yesterday I hit this at..about 90 kph:

Yeah, as some one who grew up driving on flooded Florida back roads that was a bad idea.  You want to slow down and take stuff like that at a walk.  Even a little to fast and water will shoot up into the engine and stall you out, a lot to fast and you see what you get.

Now, if you had been driving a VW bug you would have been fine.  They float and you would have just skimmed along the top and floated to the other side.  A friend and I used to do it all the time in his bug.   

[Sky]

Never had to cross one of those before, nor was I ever taught to. Was using my seatbelt and climbed out through the passenger's door completely unharmed, at which point ran to the submerged section and started taking pictures like mad. The vehicle's cage, and all of it's windows, held. Go go Toyota SUV. 

Behold the power of hydroplaning. Go go 5-star crash rating on Toyota SUVs. Glad you're ok, great job taking pics, some people forget to do so after an accident.

I remember an old steel deck bridge I use to slide across in my VW rabbit, scary as hell. I'm like Murgos, I go slow as hell through any water. I don't really understand people who jet through, but I see it all the time around this time of year if there's a rain, we just had one last week and sure enough, people were raising huge sheets of water flying through flooded sections. Then I remember how easy it is to get licensed.

[Nevermore]

Glad your ok!

I was about to post about hydroplaning as well (a big problem in Florida) but I see Sky just beat me to it.

[Merusk]

Scary, man. Glad you had a good car.

I'd just like to say that even some of us northerners know about hydroplaning. Storms that drop enough water to make you hydroplane on highways teach this to us of the non-swamp states.

[Oban]

Holy shit you are stupid, what the fuck were you doing driving a truck with only three wheels through standing water?

[Sky]

I'd just like to say that even some of us northerners know about hydroplaning. Storms that drop enough water to make you hydroplane on highways teach this to us of the non-swamp states.

Yar, for sure. Some flooding a couple years back while we were over near VT made us detour a hundred miles just to find passage up this one side of a valley. First thing I thought when I bought the FJ was....I bet I could've forded over the bridge in this! (I wouldn't have, current was way too strong, river was two feet over the bridge).

[Lantyssa]

Geez.  Glad to hear you're fine, Itto.

Like the Floridians we have to be careful all along the Gulf coast.  Hydroplaning always freaks me out.  Too many people think they can drive in wet weather like they can on a dry surface, too.

[stray]

Only people in Oregon and Washington seem to have that skill.

[Ironwood]

Holy shit you are stupid, what the fuck were you doing driving a truck with only three wheels through standing water?

 

[voodoolily]

All I could look at were the crops and soils. Those are some serious oxisolls down there - so red! And is that sugar cane?

Glad you only ate a little shit there.

[Engels]

Only people in Oregon and Washington seem to have that skill.

FIFY. I don't know about Oregon, but the words 'Washington' and 'driving skill' will never go together.

[stray]

You say that because you're there - but I bet if one transported any of you crazy-speeding-in-the-rain-on-a-steep-mountain-road-motherfuckers elsewhere, then you'd be hailed as the epitome of good driving.

[Engels]

Well, in all fairness, I should limit my condescention to Seattle drivers. For all I know seasoned eastern washington folks can drive through tornados.

[Righ]

This doesn't happen in the PA/NJ/DE area, because when it begins to rain, everybody slows down to 5 MPH. I might be exaggerating, but not much.

[Hindenburg]

All I could look at were the crops and soils. Those are some serious oxisolls down there - so red! And is that sugar cane?

Glad you only ate a little shit there.

A-yup. Sugar cane. That's terra roxa, originally called terra rossa by those filthy italians, translates to red land, absurdly nutrient rich, which is why it can grow more than two six crops of that shit before having to cycle.

I ate no shit at all. What are you talking about?
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Oban: i told u i was hardcore.

[voodoolily]

Only people in Oregon and Washington seem to have that skill.

FIFY. I don't know about Oregon, but the words 'Washington' and 'driving skill' will never go together.

TRUTH!

A-yup. Sugar cane. That's terra roxa, originally called terra rossa by those filthy italians, translates to red land, absurdly nutrient rich, which is why it can grow more than two six crops of that shit before having to cycle.

I ate no shit at all. What are you talking about?
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Oban: i told u i was hardcore.

If you'd been on a bike you'da eaten shit right there.

[Yegolev]

I come here to post stupid shit and some asshole just narrowly escaped death.  FML.

[Strazos]

This doesn't happen in the PA/NJ/DE area, because when it begins to rain, everybody slows down to 5 MPH. I might be exaggerating, but not much.

Heh, Truth. Also, I get to be extra careful i standing water, because if I have to ford anything above, oh, lets say 3 inches or so, I have to do it quickly or risk flooding my exhaust. I cannot imagine it'd be any fun.

[Strazos]

Board of Examiners for the Foreign Service
Washington, DC 20522

February 2009
(Strazos)
(wherever he lives)
Dear (Strazos) ,

Congratulations! Based on a comprehensive review of your candidate file, you have been selected to participate in the next step of the Foreign Service Officer
selection process, the Oral Assessment.

(blah blah details)

OMG....I think my pulse just jumped like 50 bpm. I can has real career?