FreshFluff

2 hours ago, FrankR said:

It is my understanding that most facilities of this nature have a social worker assigned to them. Make him/her your friend and they will be a source of great insight when it comes to gifts. Works for me. 😉

The resident isn’t someone I know well, so I wouldn’t want to ask the facility about him. He’s just someone whose day I want to brighten. 

The person has Parkinson’s disease, and the facility is not local. He uses a walker but can clearly type etc. However, he is not groomed, which makes me thinks he’s struggling to access suppliesh needs. 

I’d like to send a particular brand of pie that is considered really good. It needs to be cut, but I figure i’ll send a pizza cutter thing separately. 

Does this sound like a good idea? If not, do you any ideas for something that that would work? 

What exactly is the Academy planning to “investigate” btw?  If they want to discuss whether to sanction him, just say that  

3 hours ago, SirBillybob said:

I had missed the dust-up prior to WS’s acceptance speech but tuned out of that part because he came across as histrionic and rambling. 

The narrative about hair is complex. If you justify your hairstyle as a default for having no choice but to adopt a certain look it simply conveys a value judgement about there being a gradient of beauty and undermines the buzz cut as a legitimate choice that actually need not be viewed as substandard … take Michaela Cole and others as an example. There appears to be a juxtaposition inherent in that hairstyle in the context of a designer gown and bling. I thought the joke played on that, ie, there must be a film industry backdrop to explain why a woman would choose that. That’s as far as the tastelessness went. 

‘Oh woe is JPS she is backed into a shitty look and short-changed the glamor befitting her stature.’ Was Chris Rock actually supposed to understand the nuances of every minor celebrity’s fashion parameters? 

I’m going to catch hell for this, but here goes: Imagine that everyone walks around naked. You have a rare condition which caused your 8 inch dick to wither to 1 inch, and one of your balls is gone—permanently. That’s what life is like for a relatively young woman with alopecia. 

As I said, though, assaulting Rock wasn’t the way to handle it. Best thing he could have done is sneer and shake his head for the camera. Those around him didn’t react, so the joke fell flat anyway.

16 minutes ago, augustus said:

No.  I meant Smith was out of line.  It's not like she has cancer.

Smith was out of line. So was Chris Rick for mocking Pinkett. She apparently has severe alopecia, which absolutely kills a woman’s self esteem. No one understands that as well as the live Hollywood audience. 
 

10 hours ago, NJF said:

Isn’t the topic just a bit too glib considering the sufferings and deaths that is ongoing in Ukraine?

Multiple outlets have written pieces on his tv show. Others discuss is now-famous t-shirt. Why not this?

22 hours ago, Unicorn said:

Count me in for a YES!

 

Love how he takes his shirt off to get the vaccine.

5 hours ago, Phil_musc said:

The YouTube clip of Zelensky's winning performances in a Ukrainian dance competition showed a guy who could really move. Looked pretty hot to me - and some of his competition clothes, the pants at least, were pretty provocative. I'd say yes.

He’s probably amazing in bed. 

On 3/15/2022 at 7:37 AM, BuffaloKyle said:

Gas had shot up to 4.49 here last week. With oil prices now dropping I've seen most places this week at 4.39 and I did see one at 4.29.

Gas prices here have continued to increase. The station where I paid $5.19 for regular 9 days ago is now at $5.69. On the other hand, the station that was trying it on at $5.99 has not budged either way.

I drove a couple of miles tonight and filled up at $5.19 for regular. My regular station’s listed price is $5.99. 

Gasbuddy has been down all day, but the lowest yesterday was $5.20.

On 2/20/2022 at 2:54 PM, purplekow said:

?I am not boasting or anything but I did get today's wordle  in 2 moves.  One smart cookie here.  

I’m just a regular chocolate chunk cookie, and that’s enough for me. 

21 hours ago, Unicorn said:

Nothing wrong, of course, with using N95's if they're just as comfortable and no more costly! 🙂 Try to recall life's realities, too! You'll know life better! 😄

I said “relatively comfortable.” I said nothing about cost, though I bought 50 VFlexes for about $45. They’ll last for quite a while. 

For those who find N95s too uncomfortable, KF94s with adjustable loops feel about the same as surgical masks with the straps crossed. 

I finally got mine two days ago.

On 2/14/2022 at 11:52 AM, Unicorn said:

Well, the sources from this table seem deliberately vague "...a study by Lindsley et al..." (not referencing the actual article or journal). Without even looking at the studies, one sees immediately that the data from the various types of masks is taken from multiple studies, using different methodologies, so it's disingenuous at best to present them side to side in a table. That being said, I was able to find the Lindsley study (though they didn't make it easy):

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33619500/

As you can see, these studies were not studies on transmission in the real world, but rather studies on the theoretical efficiency of the masks for given particle sizes:

This is not a method which will tell one whether one mask will work better than the other in real life. The ONLY way to tell whether a mask works better than another is to do a randomized controlled trial. This means you take a high-risk group (such as hospital personnel), randomize them to one form of mask or the other, and keep all other personal protective equipment and behavior the same. Those studies have been done, multiple times, and they all come to the same conclusion: N95's perform no better than surgical masks. 

(Another point is that the above study does not appear to have been peer-reviewed, whereas all of the studies published from the randomized controlled studies were peer-reviewed)

As for Brosseau's article, it didn't even use any laboratory experimentation, but was a purely theoretical construct:

https://academic.oup.com/annweh/article/65/1/53/5895199?login=true

Digging into this even deeper, Dr. Brosseau herself requested that the article be retracted because people were coming up with incorrect conclusions in referencing that article!!

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/04/commentary-masks-all-covid-19-not-based-sound-data

I saw that surgical/cloth and N95 rates came from different studies. That’s why I asked whether the moethods were similar if not the same. Given that N95s are plentiful and relatively comfortable, I don’t require strong  evidence to choose N95s over surgical masks.
 

Thanks for the summary of each of the papers cited. I hadn’t known that Broussard asked for a retraction. 

On 2/12/2022 at 3:49 PM, Unicorn said:

N95 masks need to be fitted professionally (a hood is put on, bitter scents puffed into the hood, various sizes tried until no scent detected) in order for them to be perform as expected. The straps of the professional masks should go around the head, not around the ears. Mostly needed if working with people who have tuberculosis (probably for anthrax, though that's extremely rare). No point in torturing yourself with unfitted N95's. Essentially 100% of the virus in most places (certainly in the US) at this time is of the omicron strain, so the only point is to protect the unvaccinated in any case. Even if it were true that N95's do better than surgical masks at preventing Covid-19 transmission, why torture yourself?

What do you think of this matrix, which was published widely a few weeks ago? Of course, the assumption is that the conditions under which the N95 amd surgical/cloth masks were tested are similar. 

FWIW, I find the KF94s with adjustable straps as comfortable as surgical masks. The N95s with wings and quality straps aren’t bad either. 
 

Reminds me of people who are desperate to lose weight who pad lock the pantry and hand the key to a friend. The chances of success here are about the same. 

Did anyone else read the title and think he was talking about a dog?

26 minutes ago, Lucky said:

The Times recommends a toaster oven above an air fryer.

They’ve “evolved” i.e. they figured out they were losing revenue. Nevertheless, I’m going to try an air fryer. I’m always light frying over the stove with a little Pam, and dealing with an open flame makes me nervous. 

How did he drug the men? Did he put a cloth over their mouth?

I ordered mine on the launch date. It still isn’t here. 
 

I didn’t give them an email so no updates. 

9 hours ago, MikeBiDude said:

Well as a matter of fact @samhexum cats do save people!

Right, @FreshFluff?
https://www.today.com/pets/good-kitty-these-6-hero-cats-saved-humans-they-loved-2d79677090

And reputation notwithstanding, they can be very affectionate. Even Persians. 

The truth may be somewhere in between. She’s unprofessional and insecure, but she might also see your efforts to go beyond your job description as overreach. If you have a mentor, you might want to seek his counsel on the political battle ahead of you.