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disastrid today about my experience on Thursday of being on a bus that got into a traffic accident. I was sitting on one of the sideways-facing seats and reading a book. The bus was just pulling away from the stop when a car decided to try and make a right-hand turn across it's path.
We weren't going that fast but you know, it's the sudden stop at the end. The impact rolled me onto the empty seat beside me. I looked up towards the aisle to see a forest of feet waving in the air.
It was pretty funny in retrospect.
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When I was sitting in my chiro's waiting room yesterday I read an article about HIV positive seniors. Turns out that all the new drug cocktails are increasing peoples' lifespans to the point where they are living long enough to develop other health problems; ones commonly associated with aging. And there had been almost no research into what happens to HIV positive people who develop osteoporosis or arteriosclerosis or high blood pressure. And zero reaearch into how those drug cocktails interact with the drugs used to treat osteoporosis or arteriosclerosis or high blood pressure.
Is there a job out there somewhere where one gets paid to point out the obvious? Because I honestly can't fathom how nobody saw that one coming.
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The article in question also mentioned that a not-small number of seniors contract STDs for the first time while living in retirement homes. I lived in a senior home for about six months when I was 10 (long story) so the fact that 70 to 90 year-olds are shagging like mad things came as no big news to me. However it appears to have just burst on the public consciousness in the last few years, just judging by how often it's now showning up in movies and televsion shows.
And people in that age group don't tend to use condoms because there is no pregnacy risk. Which I hadn't really thought about before, but it also doesn't surprise me. My own experience of sleeping with men in my age group and higher was that they really don't tend to use condoms by default unless they are in some way involved with the poly or queer communities. Or at least older, straight, serial-mongamous men were the ones that I always seemed to get into arguments with about it. And when I say "older", I really do just mean "older than me" - this has been happening since I became sexually active in my teens. With bi, poly or younger men, whether or not to use a barrier was just never a topic for discussion - it only came up if they didn't have one handy, and did I or was there a 24-hour drugstore in the neighbourhood?
My experience in this was validated in a conversation I had quite a few years ago with a female friend who was a couple of years older than me, and who happened at that time to be paying her rent by turning tricks. "They say to me, 'It's OK, I've only had sex with my wife before you'," she told me, "And I'm like, 'Do you realize what it is that I do for a living?'" Her eyes were wide as she told me this, like me she couldn't fathom what the fuck was going on in their heads.
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Since I'm talking about stuff relating to the meat-suit, two articles from the amazing Body Impolitic blog. Both come from the bursting filing cabinets relating to the war against unfashionable body types.
A weight-control drug marketed for dogs. I shit you not. The impression I get is that it makes them feel so nasty they can't eat. (Although technically the puking and shitting is listed as "side-effects" not as the actual purpose of the drug.) Because nothing ruins one's sleek image like buying one of the currently fashionable breeds of dog and having it pork out on you.
And the second link; apparently you can blame dieters for causing those pesky subway delays on your way to work.
I had an interesting reaction to this second one; it was pure bitter schadenfreude. The first thought that popped into my head when I read this was that people who have become used to having to go without food due to lack of fucking momey don't tend to pass out like pussies after a mere 48 hours without calories.
Which isn't necessarily true either, but it is interesting that the article specifically states that the people who keep tipping over are dieting.
I've never claimed not to be messed up, I'm just messed up different.
What I'm listening to right this second: Slow
disastrid today about my experience on Thursday of being on a bus that got into a traffic accident. I was sitting on one of the sideways-facing seats and reading a book. The bus was just pulling away from the stop when a car decided to try and make a right-hand turn across it's path.We weren't going that fast but you know, it's the sudden stop at the end. The impact rolled me onto the empty seat beside me. I looked up towards the aisle to see a forest of feet waving in the air.
It was pretty funny in retrospect.
When I was sitting in my chiro's waiting room yesterday I read an article about HIV positive seniors. Turns out that all the new drug cocktails are increasing peoples' lifespans to the point where they are living long enough to develop other health problems; ones commonly associated with aging. And there had been almost no research into what happens to HIV positive people who develop osteoporosis or arteriosclerosis or high blood pressure. And zero reaearch into how those drug cocktails interact with the drugs used to treat osteoporosis or arteriosclerosis or high blood pressure.
Is there a job out there somewhere where one gets paid to point out the obvious? Because I honestly can't fathom how nobody saw that one coming.
The article in question also mentioned that a not-small number of seniors contract STDs for the first time while living in retirement homes. I lived in a senior home for about six months when I was 10 (long story) so the fact that 70 to 90 year-olds are shagging like mad things came as no big news to me. However it appears to have just burst on the public consciousness in the last few years, just judging by how often it's now showning up in movies and televsion shows.
And people in that age group don't tend to use condoms because there is no pregnacy risk. Which I hadn't really thought about before, but it also doesn't surprise me. My own experience of sleeping with men in my age group and higher was that they really don't tend to use condoms by default unless they are in some way involved with the poly or queer communities. Or at least older, straight, serial-mongamous men were the ones that I always seemed to get into arguments with about it. And when I say "older", I really do just mean "older than me" - this has been happening since I became sexually active in my teens. With bi, poly or younger men, whether or not to use a barrier was just never a topic for discussion - it only came up if they didn't have one handy, and did I or was there a 24-hour drugstore in the neighbourhood?
My experience in this was validated in a conversation I had quite a few years ago with a female friend who was a couple of years older than me, and who happened at that time to be paying her rent by turning tricks. "They say to me, 'It's OK, I've only had sex with my wife before you'," she told me, "And I'm like, 'Do you realize what it is that I do for a living?'" Her eyes were wide as she told me this, like me she couldn't fathom what the fuck was going on in their heads.
Since I'm talking about stuff relating to the meat-suit, two articles from the amazing Body Impolitic blog. Both come from the bursting filing cabinets relating to the war against unfashionable body types.
A weight-control drug marketed for dogs. I shit you not. The impression I get is that it makes them feel so nasty they can't eat. (Although technically the puking and shitting is listed as "side-effects" not as the actual purpose of the drug.) Because nothing ruins one's sleek image like buying one of the currently fashionable breeds of dog and having it pork out on you.
And the second link; apparently you can blame dieters for causing those pesky subway delays on your way to work.
I had an interesting reaction to this second one; it was pure bitter schadenfreude. The first thought that popped into my head when I read this was that people who have become used to having to go without food due to lack of fucking momey don't tend to pass out like pussies after a mere 48 hours without calories.
Which isn't necessarily true either, but it is interesting that the article specifically states that the people who keep tipping over are dieting.
I've never claimed not to be messed up, I'm just messed up different.
What I'm listening to right this second: Slow