Just a little note for my regular readers: Posting has been a bit light lately because I’ve got strep throat. It started kicking in big time on Sunday. I’ve been taking antibiotics since Monday and getting lots of liquid and as much sleep as I can, but it’s still going strong, alas.
It’s pretty terrible timing, as there’s a lot of horrible and/or ridiculous stuff going on in Misogynyland these days. But you all should absolutely keep sending me tips! I’ll get to as much of it as I can.
@WWTH
I haven’t even fucking gotten to that article yet. I’m still fucking reeling from the New Jersey one.
Fuck. The. Police. Hard.
*incoherent rage*
…What WAS in that box, though? It sounded like a jewelry box.
A fucking white guy shooting up a black church.
A fucking asshole shot up a fucking church.
A fucking fucker fucking shot fucking people in a fucking church.
I’M A FUCKING ATHEIST AND I FIND THIS BLASPHEMOUS.
http://www.reactiongifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/angry-eyes.gif
I WISH HELL WERE REAL SO THIS ASSHOLE CAN BURN FOR ETERNITY.
@David – Please take care of yourself. It sounds like you are doing all the right things. Sleep as much as you can. We will look forward to your triumphant return. I also hear that cat snuggles are good medicine.
Get well soon
Thanks again, everyone.
I’ve opened a new thread for discussion of the Charleston church shootings. Just horrible.
Get well soon, David.
@Jackie: I’m with you. The church is just a building, it has no inherent sanctity; but in western society and especially in black southern society (so I’m told) churches are centrepieces for communities. To attack one is to attack the concept of Charleston’s historic black community and to attack the very concept that black people have the right to exist in communities. Which of course is the point.
This is straight up terrorism, and I find it disappointing that Wayne LaPierre and Ted Cruz will not be arrested for this.
Not only were black churches historically involved in the civil rights movement, but this church specifically has roots back when slavery still existed and it was involved in emancipation activism.
As an atheist, I don’t find churches sacred personally, but it’s hard not to view an attack on a black church in the south that has a history of anti-racism activism as more offensive and horrific than a mass shooting at a mall or an airport would be.
Get well soon! Don’t stress about posting. Hug your kitties instead 😀
David-I hope you get well soon! *hugs* Take care of your self and don’t worry too much about We Hunted The Mammoth stuff. Your health is far more important! 🙁
Sorry to hear that you’re sick! I was wondering why you hadn’t said anything about Irene Gallo and the Tor Books brouhaha (I was thinking maybe you didn’t want to mess up any legal action she might be contemplating). Feel better soon, we and all the misogyny will still be here when you get back.
Take good care of yourself, David! We have plenty of cat videos to keep us occupied until you’re feeling up to scratch again.
Strep’s no joke. A lady I work with has two sons who both had complications from strep. One son got scarlet fever. The other son had his kidneys affected by his immunoresponse. Now the poor 8 year old has to swear off sodium for a year and take blood pressure meds. You know how many kid foods have sodium? Poor kid is going to be the odd man out at any gathering for a year.
There’s a “wonderful” Greek folk remedy for infected throats — or so I was told many years ago by a bloke I knew for a while. (He wanted me to try it because I had a dreadfully infected throat when I had glandular fever.) Toast some bread. Don’t just toast it, make sure it’s cooked until it’s completely dry and brittle. Then eat it with no butter or spread of any kind. It will scrape all that unwanted stuff off your poor suffering throat. Of course, the fact that it will feel like swallowing twenty spiked swords all at once on the inflamed, swollen tissues in that throat is beside the point.
Now you can be happy to swallow your damn antibiotics every day, on time, exactly as prescribed. Be glad you don’t have a Greek peasant grandmother to help you just now.
Aw, get well soon. Strep sucks. I’m actually impressed that you’re writing in sentences.
First of all I hope you do get well very soon. And second, I found an article from the BBC about a Swedish clinic helping male victims of rape, which is at http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-33187011. I wonder if the MRAs will push for American clinics for male rape victims. Probably not.
Sorry to hear you’re sick. Strep isn’t fun. When I have a sore throat, I boil up some water, let it cool, then add a spoonful of apple cider vinegar and a spoonful of raw honey (not the pasteurized supermarket stuff, and add to warm water only – boiling water kills all the beneficial enzymes). Both honey and ACV have antiviral properties, the honey coats and soothes, and warm liquid just feels good on a raw throat.
Take care of yourself, and hope you feel better soon. We’ll keep the mockery fires burning till you get back.
Get well soon, David.
I don’t have home remedies nor kittens to post so, huh, that’s about it ._.
Hope you get better soon, David. Your work running this site is greatly appreciated but your health is more important.
Take care, David. Hope you get well soon.
Did you know that Streptococcus pyogenes the organism that causes streptococcal pharyngitis (commonly known as strep throat) is the same organism that causes necrotizing fasciitis (commonly known as flesh eating bacteria disease)?
That’s why some of the photos for strep throat ourself horrifying.
Please get well ASAP, David.
“Are so horrifying” not “ourself horrifying”.
Sorry for the triple post
May you recovery be quick, David.
I’ll leave my two “sore throat owie” home remedies, and hopes the antibiotics work satisfactorily.
Lemon and Honey: Put 1 – 2 teaspoons of honey in the bottom of a mug. Cover with the juice of half a lemon (or enough bottled lemon juice to cover the honey). Mix together. Top up with boiling water. Sip carefully.
Hot Cordial: Take ordinary cordial mix (I find lemon or lime works best this way), put about 1/4 mug-full in the bottom of a mug, top up with hot water. Sip carefully.
In both cases, the soothing part of it is the hot liquid. You may feel some slight astringency from the citrus. The more astringency you feel, the worse the sore throat is (my personal worst was once on a family road trip, where my throat swelled up so badly that I couldn’t drink ordinary orange juice, and had to dilute it half and half with water). If your throat is really bad, hot sweet tea may be a better substitute, ditto hot soup. Rejoice in the fact your immune system is working as expected, and pray the strep variant you have at present isn’t a resistant one.
Watered down hydrogen peroxide gargle and hot salt water gargle are my go to’s when I get strep.
Best of luck kicking strep’s butt, David. It’s nasty.