This is an excellent question.

In 1994, I broke my arm, obviously went to the ER. The only patient they considered higher priority was a potentially dying baby. I can respect that and did even as a kid at the time. (Unrelated to the rest of the comment, but the doctor who ended up repairing my arm told me, a seven year old with a broken arm, “stop being a crybaby.” What a jerk.)

In 2022, I broke my ankle. I waited for hours before being admitted. After the EMTs dropped me off, the hospital wouldn’t even give me water or painkillers because “we’re not sure how the doctor is going to want to treat you.” (I think they were referring to the method of administering anesthetic.) In my several hours in the waiting room in a wheelchair, I didn’t see anyone else getting admitted. However, that was during the peak of COVID, so it’s fair to say things could have been going on behind the scenes; still, communication with waiting patients could have been better. I saw at least two patients give up and leave. I was definitely the nurses’ only advocate in the waiting room. (I didn’t cry that time. Guess I learned my lesson.)

Then in 2023 I had a nosebleed that wouldn’t stop. I walked into the ER literally holding a mixing bowl of blood under my nose and was admitted immediately, I think without even any paperwork (though my wife might have filled that out after the nurses took me in). After I was admitted, they ignored me for an amount of time I couldn’t quantify … Until I started passing out, at which point I suddenly became a priority. (During the wait, one nurse listened to me and laughed as I compared my bowl to how they called Lucifer in Supernatural, then walked away.)

I started this post thinking I had a point, but I think I kind of lost it remembering all that stuff as I typed it. However, the vast majority of medical staff I’ve met are good, competent and compassionate people. Communication is often a problem but I doubt that’s due to the front line.

I have no idea why a potential stroke victim would be left unattended that long. My best guess is, if it was during COVID, all of the hospital’s beds were just full so they literally had nowhere to put that person; however, I don’t know enough about hospital administration to make any useful comment on it.

One last point: while everything I said is true to the best of my memory, I left out a lot of details in the interest of brevity I didn’t quite manage. If you got this far, thanks for reading my rambling, pointless comment!

The feeling is mutual!

That’s a pretty bold statement (though TBH I don’t really disagree). I’m not a big fan of dry beverages generally speaking, but different strokes for different folks; even for the same folks, tastes evolve (the booze I enjoy now was disgusting to me half a lifetime ago); and also context matters a lot. I have enjoyed dry red wines much more with a well paired dish or even mixed with a less dry drink than I have by themselves.

People who are not you or me can apparently even enjoy them without accommodation.

A straw still sounds like an unappealing addition, though.

Good for your heart, even.

While you might disagree, very dry beverages have never been enjoyable through a straw to me.

I’m no stranger to booze straws, but red wine would be one of my last choices for one for me.

Oh, there’s audio. That makes somewhat more sense. Thank you for the information.

My mother always said “let them have their own accident somewhere else.”

If someone is driving unsafely around me, I absolutely feel offense and the desire to punish them in some way, but it seems best not to do so. Unsafe drivers probably won’t learn anything good from other drivers no matter how the other drivers respond. If you try to create consequences, the other driver may well escalate - for example, as you described, passing on the shoulder and creating an unsafe situation for others; but also possibly by taking issue with you personally and acting to endanger you directly through various methods.

So in summary, if someone is driving unsafely around me, my goal very quickly becomes getting the lack of safety away from my passengers and myself as soon as possible.

Maybe I’m confused, but why is this a video/gif?

That’s definitely more impressive than 37.

I wonder how large Gary’s property was.

Unacceptable.

You are correct! My client screwed me up. Thanks for helping to explain my mistake.

Austin Evans tried this.

He deemed it unnecessary, IIRC.

Hmm, my client has recently changed how it interacts with usernames when clicked. I think that interfered with this post.

I used to see you all over Lemmy, then my client added automatic suppression of hugely expressive characters in usernames.

I thought I stopped seeing you after that, but your 18,005 comments suggest I probably just didn’t notice.

Why not both?

That last statement seems like it cannot be true in this context.

Well, hard to argue with that.

Not sure “neat” is the word I’d use. Its existence doesn’t upset me, but I wouldn’t mind if it didn’t exist.

If you really want it, I can send it to you directly, or you can find it by googling “spider blowjob creepy” or something like that. (I specifically say “googling” because I was unsuccessful in finding it on DDG. I didn’t try other search engines.)

I don’t know what the gif’s origin is, but it was semi frequently posted on Reddit. To shamefully continue referencing Reddit, this probably wouldn’t be your proudest fap. (I originally said “I can assure you” but then again … You did request the gif and I don’t know you.)

edit: Improved my originally very cavalier approach to grammar. Did not change the message of the post.