Dances with syphilis? by Iremisst

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Dances with syphilis?

POSTED BY: IREMISST
UPDATED: Friday, July 9, 2010 09:31
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Monday, July 5, 2010 6:56 PM

Oddball question of the night. Am watching Dances with Wolves (obviously) and I have always loved that scene where Dunbar is in the Major's office and he says
"I've just pissed my pants, and nobody can do anything about it..."
I have always just assumed he went nutso but I think the Major would have had a more elated look on his face. I noticed instead he just looked lost. Was he supposed to have syphilis or bladder cancer or something? It would explain the whole bullet in the brainpan thing...

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Monday, July 5, 2010 8:06 PM

REENACT12321

well I know syphilis was definitely the STI of the day. shaded glasses (not unlike the ones we see Simon wearing at the opening of our BD pilot episode) were given out by doctors to syphilis sufferers to ease the sensitivity to light (this detail is lost on some Civil War reenactors I know who wear them for "period sunglasses" much to my amusement.

The phrase was I believe, "a night with venus, a lifetime with mercury" meaning for one night of... activity, one could experience a lifetime of immense pain, which doctors prescribed doses of mercury to be taken to dull the pain.

"...we need a hood ornament..."

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Tuesday, July 6, 2010 4:59 PM

IREMISST

Did ya ever hear the story of how Chlamydia got to be called "the Clap"? I think of all the STD horror stories they tell kids that that's the one that made me wait 'till 19... And I'ma gal, but that's just creepy.

Can't blame your buddies on the glasses thing, I don't ever go outside without mine, am horribly light sensitive. Hopin' to get lasix in 2012ish so I can at least wear some sexier sunglasses. I don't much care for transitions.

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Tuesday, July 6, 2010 5:07 PM

IREMISST

Anyone know any horror stories with STDs?

I knew a girl who intentionally gave her boyfriend an STD and then let him believe he gave it to her so she could "forgive him" and they could bond over it! I swear if I'd have known beforehand I woulda run her over with my car, manipulative whore...

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Tuesday, July 6, 2010 9:14 PM

CATPIRATE

The range at that time was like being castawayed on the moon. If you were to civilized it might take you over the edge. That did happen alot to people crossing the great plains. When I was at the Little Big Horn you get that feeling there because your so far away from anything.

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Tuesday, July 6, 2010 9:32 PM

BORIS

I assumed it was syphillis...symptoms + historical consistency etc. haven't watched in a while, might have to revisit it.

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Wednesday, July 7, 2010 4:26 AM

IREMISST

So Boris- you're an Aussie, right? Have you ever been here? My kid watches an Aussie show about obnoxious girls and their horses, so when you type, that's what I hear in my head...To me, whenever I hear an Austrailian speak the main thing I've noticed is it seems all of the vowels are massively elongated. I was wondering what you- being in the field you are in- hear when we Yanks speak? I've heard people from other countries say we sound like slow idiots, not that a LOT of us aren't mind you...

Also, what's down there that'd be worth seeing if I ever won the lottery?

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Thursday, July 8, 2010 1:39 AM

BORIS

AAGH! Is the frightful show of which you speak "The Saddle club"? It's an Aussie/Canadian project. Most Aussies don't think negatively about American accents coz most of what we watch is American. As A speech Path, I am interested in the many different accents produced in the States...here we get variations of drawl broadness, so not so drawly in cities and more so as you get into the country. My accent varies according to who I'm talking to. Also I have a low voice for a female...I lowered it years ago when I started working with kids and realised they responded better to lower pitched voices.
I've never been to the States, but aim to make it to at least one Comic con in my lifetime...if I win the lottery I will shout you to a trip down here. there's lots of spectacular nature to see and some amazing beaches...art, culture, food...lots to see and do...and we are a reasonably friendly bunch too.

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Thursday, July 8, 2010 5:19 PM

IREMISST

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AAGH! Is the frightful show of which you speak "The Saddle club"?

Yes, I'm pretty sure I'll be wanting to kill all 12 year old girls by the end of the year...

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down here. there's lots of spectacular nature to see and some amazing beaches...art, culture, food...lots to see and do...and we are a reasonably friendly bunch too.

Yeah, but can you only stand on your beaches? I watch a lot of nature shows and you always hear horror stories about how Australia has more poisonous critters there than anywhere else. Box jellyfish and the like...

What kinda weird foods do you have there? At our local food festival, they always have weird stuff like chocolate covered crickets and 'Gator tails and deep fried oreos? You guys have an awful lot of moving critters I'm sure SOMEBODY has deep fried at one time or another!

I wish I could say we are a mostly friendly bunch, my area in particular people avoid direct eye contact like the plague. I've been to six Parent Teacher meetings (about 15 people) and I can't recall being spoken to yet.

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Thursday, July 8, 2010 5:42 PM

CHRISISALL

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I've been to six Parent Teacher meetings (about 15 people) and I can't recall being spoken to yet.

Hint: Be nice.

The laughing Chrisisall

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Thursday, July 8, 2010 5:52 PM

IREMISST

It's hard to be nice to people who are EMPTY!...

BTW, I have a naturally bubble-y personality,(I'll admit to being a wee bit wacky) Thank YOU, they are the ones with zero emotional intelligence. Oddly enough, my daughter goes to school with the son of my fifth grade teacher, they are the only ones that have spoken back to me at any great length, but they don't go to PTO meetings because the people there are quote "frigid"...

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Friday, July 9, 2010 2:19 AM

BORIS

Yeah we do have a lot of dangerous critters, but we have adopted a pretty blase attitude torwards them. You can swim at manned beaches pretty safely as long as you stay between the flags and within sight of lifeguards. we have pretty good shark patrols so beaches are closed when they are about though occasionally one is missed...we've only had 5 or so attacks this year and none were fatal that I know of. Most of us bring a little bottle of vinegar and some bandages just in case of blue bottles and jelly fish. I've been stung a couple a times and its bloody painful but only fatal if your allergic, or don't get attention right away. (again with the blase attitude).
Weird food: "Bush Tucker" is inspired by the indigenous folk and includes great tasting bush herbs spices and berries used as condiments (my fave is Lemon Myrtle). Witchetty grubs, a fat white wriggling insect larva cooked over coals, roasted reptiles (I won't eat red meat but I have eaten crocs. lizards and snakes...tasty if prepared right).other aussie food: Meat pies and sausage rolls (meat wrapped in pastry) are staples as well as revolting Vegemite, a vile black yeasty substance my fellow aussies like to spread on toast. We have yummy chocolate and coconut dipped sponge cake squares called lamingtons and another great dessert, called Pavlova made out of meringue, cream and fresh fruit. deep fried marsbars for the adventurous palates: mars bar dipped in thick batter, frozen solid, then deep fried...gooey and decadent.

I'm intrigued about teachers not talking to you...do they talk to the other parents? have you had run ins with them? I know i sometimes put teachers off back when I was running afterschool care because I looked stern (so one told me).Ironically they started talking to me more after I made the nasty school vice principal cry once when overheard her telling the parents of one of my charges that he was too stupid to do well at anything and that he would end up in prison (he was a very bright but bored 9 yr old, not stupid at all).

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Friday, July 9, 2010 2:32 AM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)

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...and we are a reasonably friendly bunch too.

Not to mention modest! Every Aussie I've had the pleasure of meeting, in real life or virtually, has been among the nicest, friendliest people I've ever interacted with. It's the reason Australia's the one place I'd really like to live outside the U.S.

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Friday, July 9, 2010 4:49 AM

IREMISST

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Witchetty grubs, a fat white wriggling insect larva cooked over coals,

well as revolting Vegemite, a vile black yeasty substance my fellow aussies like to spread on toast.

Pavlova made out of meringue, cream and fresh fruit..

I'm intrigued about teachers not talking to you...do they talk to the other parents? have you had run ins with them?

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Oh so that scene from Quigly is actual? I thought that was more of a historical thing... Love Quigly!

I read an article a while back about Kraft mucking about with the Vegemite name, we're really good about pissing off other cultures...

I will have to find a recipe for Pavlova, I'm a fruit fanatic.

As for people not talking to me? It's complicated... I'm pretty tall, am new to an area that doesn't GET new people, am always using power tools that apparently the other mothers don't know exist and out of 140 kids I'm the only one who comes froma different religious background. Our classes look like a tiny Aryan Reich. There is NO diversity up here.

I DID NOT like my kid's kindergarten teacher. At the begining of school, my kid got stuck at the top of a slide, the other kids were rushing her and she had a meltdown. The teacher had the gall to say "We would appreciate if you would keep her off the slide" (like I'm there at recess!) and also my kid cried a lot the first few months (a little anxiety prob) so the teacher kept saying "You just need to give her more self confidence" like I can just wave a magic wand?... She was always saying snarky comments around the holidays, even though I did every thing I could to work with her. Mei-Mei's (yea, we have a Firefly style nickname for our kid!) first grade teacher was very nice though...

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Friday, July 9, 2010 6:40 AM

BORIS

No diversity, thats gotta suck. My Mum had to set some of my teachers straight when I was at school. She pretty much gave them the rundown on what would freak me out, and how to handle my "qwirks" my first school was ok but my second school was run by hitler's sister the scary "good samaritan" nun from hell. She did not like me at all, but because i was so oblivious to those social cues (which everyone else gets without training) Her crap would just roll right past me. which would irritate the hell out of her so much she'd practically turn blue...for years I thought she had a jaw clenching problem till I worked out she just had a me problem.
Yeah Kraft did try to mess with Vegemite. It was a marketing ploy gone wrong. Do not mess with Aussie icons.

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Friday, July 9, 2010 6:41 AM

BORIS

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Friday, July 9, 2010 6:44 AM

BORIS

Aw Thanks Kwicko...you are welcome here anytime

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Friday, July 9, 2010 9:12 AM

CHRISISALL

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Originally posted by Iremisst:
Love Quigly!

Great movie- you ARE obviously too interesting for them peeps.

The laughing Chrisisall

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Friday, July 9, 2010 9:31 AM

IREMISST

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Originally posted by Iremisst:
Love Quigly!

Great movie- you ARE obviously too interesting for them peeps.

The laughing Chrisisall

I always play that or ST:The Undiscovered Country(the part where they eat dinner with the Klingons is just...epic!) or Serenity or The 13th Warrior or Love Actually or The Three Musketeers or Last of the Dogmen or Under the Tuscan Sun or Down Periscope when I have a bad day... Wow, didn't realize my favorite movie list was getting so long...

TaH Pagh taHbe!, my dark Irish friend

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