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My lease is ending the end of May 2025, so by the time this posts, I should be living someplace else, perhaps temporarily.
2025-06-10
2025-06-09
Doctors & Dignity
Yes. If your surgery is in that area. Yes, if it’s not. Not like they put you up in stirrups exposure EVERY time, but honestly, once you are anesthetized, they don’t give a rat’s patoot about your dignity. It’s easier to position a patient without the gown on. That ugly thing that does nothing for our dignity is a hazard. It can get caught in the operating table mechanisms, can get bunched up and cut off circulation, gets soiled with bodily fluids and has to be changed and MORE. These personnel positioning us and preparing us aren’t nurses or doctors, they are technicians. They have no licenses, are supposedly checked out for criminal history and such, and are ‘trained’ by the hospital to do exactly what they are doing: get the ‘job’ done. Patients are jobs. Once anesthetized, no compassion is required. Even posters claiming to be ‘in the business’ post this. They don’t care, and they need to cut costs, so we can’t expect to be treated with dignity plain and simple. If you want that surgery, you comply.
Of course, there is also the fact that doctors and nurses truly believe that we should feel graced by them even stooping to ‘care’ for us and thus if the patient is ‘available’ to ‘study’ in the operating room, that ANY body part is up for scrutiny, examination, and photographs whether actually necessary for the patient’s health or not. That little part of the multiple paged consent form you sign just before you go under contains the oh so gracious line about the doctor, personnel and in fact ANYONE in that facility having your consent to do ANYTHING they deem ‘medically’ necessary. Not necessarily for YOUR health, but necessary for THEM. They are the ‘medical’ arbiters of what is ‘necessary’. Your arm is considered to be just the same as your genitals, and they make NO distinction.
They are so magnanimous in their sharing their ‘gifts’ with us lowly, untrained, IGNORANT plebes that IF they feel it is ‘necessary’ they will give us complimentary multiple pelvic or rectal exams done by their medical students while we are kept under anesthesia LONGER to do this. HHS wrote a truly lame directive on this, that has a nice little codicil that the doctor can over ride the patient’s declining students ‘practicing’ on them. Even the states that forbid this disgusting abuse of patients can’t enforce their law, and patients are told that if they decline, their surgery is cancelled.
Add in the fact that the surgeon doing the surgery very rarely is ‘in on’ the prep process, and enters the OR AFTER the patient has been prepped and draped. They have no idea what has or hadn’t been done to the patient regarding dignity, privacy or what invasive techniques have been used despite the patient’s wishes. So promises made by surgeons to preserve dignity and privacy are very rarely followed by the OR personnel who are solely interested in following ‘what we always do’. That unnecessary urinary catheter was put in anyway, and a student nurse was allowed to do it. ‘Because we always put one in’ says the nurse in charge. The patient is NEVER made aware of this. It absolves the facility of being responsible for catheter associated urinary tract infections. Many patients awaken to find their genitals completely shaved for NECK surgery. We truly are there for them to ‘practice’ on.
Remember, patients are beholding to these ‘higher intelligence’ GODS, and our bodies are theirs for the using whether we are alive or dead. They are entitled, and we are considered selfish and too ‘prudish’ if we don’t like how we are treated when awake OR how we are treated when anesthetized and vulnerable. We are repeatedly penetrated by strangers we aren’t even allowed to TALK to about this ‘practice’ ahead of time.
So yes, at the very least our private parts are exposed, and we’d better just go along with them, because as one poster wrote, we are whiny, self-concerned pains in the asses who just don’t understand how hard they have to work and how overly demanding and undeserving we are. And don’t forget to leave them a five star review on the way out.
2025-06-03
2025-06-02
Train Joke
A woman who rented a second story flat beside a railway line complained to her landlord for months about the rattling and shaking the trains caused as they passed. On the phone she continuously asked for a flat further from the line but the landlord always said it can't be that bad. One day she rang him again and said l want you to come to my flat and see for yourself how bad it is. So the landlord arrived at her flat and she said there's a train due in 3 minutes, so you'll see what l mean. It's worse when l'm trying to sleep so why don't you lie on the bed beside me and you'll experience what l'm talking about? So the landlord lay on the bed beside her. A minute later her husband walked in and said ‘ullo ‘ullo, what's going on ’ere then? The landlord, looking embarrassed, said you won't believe this, but we're waiting for a train.
2025-06-01
Setting up TV
Yes, a TV with the center at 6 feet high is likely too high for a comfortable viewing angle—especially at a 12-foot viewing distance.
Here’s why:
1.
Ideal Eye Level:
- For seated viewers, eye level is typically around 42–48 inches (3.5 to 4 feet) off the floor.
- The ideal TV center should be at or slightly below eye level to minimize neck strain.
2.
Viewing Angle:
- The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) recommends a maximum vertical viewing angle of 15° from eye level.
- With the TV center at 6 feet (72 inches), and assuming your eye level is ~42 inches, that’s a 30-inch difference.
- At a 12-foot (144-inch) viewing distance, that’s:
\text{angle} = \tan^{-1}\left(\frac{30}{144}\right) \approx 11.7^\circ
—which is within the limit, but still on the higher end of comfortable.
3.
Practical comfort:
Even though the angle might technically be okay, long-term comfort is better when your eyes naturally fall on the top third or center of the screen, not when you’re looking up the whole time.
Recommendations:
- Lower the screen center to 48–54 inches from the floor if possible.
- If you can’t move the TV lower (e.g., due to furniture or wall constraints), consider:
- Tilting the TV downward if it’s wall-mounted.
- Using a reclined seating position to align your eye level more with the screen.
- Mounting the TV so the bottom edge is around 30 inches off the floor, then adjusting based on screen size.
Let me know your setup (e.g., wall-mounted or on furniture), and I can help you dial it in.