[An4ximandros]

I need a hitler rants video stat. http://www.amazon.ca/Melanies-Marvelous-Measles-Stephanie-Messenger/dp/1466938897

[FireSpawn]

And so there goes a little bit of my faith in humanity

[Lorric]

There is nothing marvellous about measles.

Oh, just because all her vaccine-free kids have managed to avoid the diseases, that means everyone's will...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/dandiamond/2015/02/04/measles-is-just-the-start-whooping-cough-outbreaks-are-on-the-rise-too/

I had whooping cough when I was a few years old. It put me in mortal peril for a while, it was a constant struggle for existence for 3 or 4 months. A real battle of attrition. There was a constant vigil over me, and I had to sleep sat up propped up with 2 chairs for fear I would choke to death if I slept laid down. The school had every child in my class make get well cards for me, which was really sweet.

EDIT: Oh hey, I've gone past 3,000 posts.

[BirdofPrey]

Sometimes I wonder if that should be counted as reckless endangerment.

[BirdofPrey]

Hey wait a minute.
I have a Wacom; why have I been using my mouse this whole time?

[Mongoose]

Sometimes I wonder if that should be counted as reckless endangerment.

I'm firmly convinced it should.  Personal choice be damned...you're playing Russian ****ing roulette with your kids' lives.

[BirdofPrey]

Well the larger problem is it's not just YOUR kids' lives.  Even if the other kids they interact with are vaccinated, their chance of catching a disease still goes up some if they are in the presence of someone who is actively contagious (sick or no), so not immunizing your own kids also raises the risk of the other children.

[AdmiralRalwood]

There are also some people who cannot get vaccinated (for various reasons; taking certain kinds of medication, having a compromised immune system, et cetera), and rely on herd immunity to avoid infection. Everyone who could get vaccinated that doesn't is taking away herd immunity for the people who couldn't get vaccinated even if they wanted to.

[deathfun]

dream, cia operation, here I am basically some guy who's just taking some classes in digital animation but I'm rew=quested into some buildingof which an old "acquaintance" of mine was being held and interrogated for information. I was apparently an ex operative of which they required me for a mmission involving some old assets. The plan here was to get some contact down in south America to come up to the states on a drug deal, this fellow has some ties in with some pretty big fellas as well as being a pretty big fella himself. Also turns out that I've dealt with him in the past while undercover for a allied cartel or something hence why I was needed. I was a person he trusted
[5:03:17 PM] Andrew "Deathfun" Allardyce: anyhow, the task was to obtain a certain amount of money, but the amount of money was to be obtained through capturing some high value targets, guessing they were targets the cartel wanted out of the picture
[5:06:42 PM] Andrew "Deathfun" Allardyce: so myself and some other fellow hit the streets looking for these guys,. Upon finding them, it was apparently a gang, we ended up going into a chase. The weird part of this dream in that part was that before hand, I and my partner were running from a cop and to hide, we had put on some marathon numbers and stripped down naked. We were with the targets who also did the same. The cop moved on but not without passing me a bill fold filled with money and a message. This is when the targets drew guns in an attempt to rob us, so they tried to and ended up into a chase. Whatever right?
[5:07:36 PM] Andrew "Deathfun" Allardyce: we ran, causing some problems along the way (we were now clothed again)
[5:07:58 PM] Andrew "Deathfun" Allardyce: all were eventually caught, and
[5:08:25 PM] Andrew "Deathfun" Allardyce: this is where we were to then go down to south America and deliver these fellas at a party
[5:09:04 PM] Andrew "Deathfun" Allardyce: now, my person in the dream originally said that a week op is just risky and that there's hardly any good preparation to be done in a single week\but I went on the job anyways
[5:11:07 PM] Andrew "Deathfun" Allardyce: this is where Ana came into my dream as apparently I had already told her about a great deal of this and was somehow involved with her in some fashion? Not entirely sure, but I was explaining a great deal of what was happening as though to keep her in the know so as not to be completely pissed off at me for what I was doing. No iddea
[5:11:34 PM] Andrew "Deathfun" Allardyce: the even stranger part, is that the entire dream felt like a deja vu, while in the dream. Like I had the dream already before in the night
[5:11:41 PM] Andrew "Deathfun" Allardyce: weirdest ****ing feeling ever
[5:13:36 PM] Andrew "Deathfun" Allardyce: unfortunately, the previous dream of the same dream had more on thhe party but I can't seem to recall very well what it was, I just know that there was a great deal of talking with the boss guy and he sends me to Africa of which I was to meet up with a few people for drugs
[5:13:57 PM] Andrew "Deathfun" Allardyce: now, here, I had to dresss as the rebels did in order to get through their territory
[5:14:28 PM] Andrew "Deathfun" Allardyce: oh, and had to ditch my American passport so as not to be attacked or something?
[5:14:41 PM] Andrew "Deathfun" Allardyce: this makes sense in terms of how I was to travel back to the states
[5:14:45 PM] Andrew "Deathfun" Allardyce: later
[5:15:40 PM] Andrew "Deathfun" Allardyce: anyhow, I meet up with these militia types of which they knew I was coming, but the lower soldiers did not hence the precautions I needed to take in order to get there and meetup with them. We talked, I get the goods, and then it was back to getting home with the drugs and whatnot
[5:16:00 PM] Andrew "Deathfun" Allardyce: or were they diamonds? makes more sense to be diamonds since why would a cartel in the south needs drugs from Africa?
[5:17:11 PM] Andrew "Deathfun" Allardyce: so I make my way through some town ditching my outfit here and there in order to better chance myself to getting on a small plane towards some more civilized areas and thus, getting the required stuff to go back to the states of which the meet up with the cartel fellow was apparently taking place in a big city
[5:17:23 PM] Andrew "Deathfun" Allardyce: guessing new York, but it felt like liberty city from GTA
[5:17:52 PM] Andrew "Deathfun" Allardyce: funny thing though, my dream just now ends at the airport upon being attacked by a few unknown men, no idea what their connections was
[5:18:05 PM] Andrew "Deathfun" Allardyce: guessing they were sent there to kill me from either the cartel or the rival one
[5:18:39 PM] Andrew "Deathfun" Allardyce: but my other dream I had about the same thing, I got past this part and was back in the states
[5:18:56 PM] Andrew "Deathfun" Allardyce: after having killed the people who came after me, I was obviously on edge
[5:19:24 PM] Andrew "Deathfun" Allardyce: the plan was to hand off the goods which was now laced with explosives as a detonation was to happen. The deal was taking place on top of a roof
[5:19:49 PM] Andrew "Deathfun" Allardyce: upon arriving, there was a lot of muscle, and it ws just me and my partner
[5:20:01 PM] Andrew "Deathfun" Allardyce: cia support was elsewhere
[5:20:25 PM] Andrew "Deathfun" Allardyce: I was not to kill the big guy, as he was our target to catch and obtain information from
[5:20:37 PM] Andrew "Deathfun" Allardyce: why the hell we had such an elaborate plan to get him I have no idea
[5:20:46 PM] Andrew "Deathfun" Allardyce: main plothole in this whole thing as that was never explained
[5:20:51 PM] Andrew "Deathfun" Allardyce: why not just nab him at the party?
[5:21:22 PM] Andrew "Deathfun" Allardyce: suppose it was a matter of bringing him out of his comfort zone and into somewhere more easily caught, but who knows
[5:21:37 PM] Andrew "Deathfun" Allardyce: getting some conflict diamonds out of the circulation is a bonus\
[5:22:36 PM] Andrew "Deathfun" Allardyce: either way, we all get attacked and I end up grabbing the boss and jumping off the roof and basejumping towards saftey
[5:22:45 PM] Andrew "Deathfun" Allardyce: don't recall if the cia was the one attacking or not
[5:23:00 PM] Andrew "Deathfun" Allardyce: naturally the bomb in the case of diamonds explodes making coolness in my dream
[5:23:43 PM] Andrew "Deathfun" Allardyce: fighting all around as I move him to the cia safehouse under the guise of it just being my own for the fellas safety
[5:24:01 PM] Andrew "Deathfun" Allardyce: don't remember much else after that of the dream
[5:24:08 PM] Andrew "Deathfun" Allardyce: from there it's just filling in the blanks


Had typed all of that into the skype but I have some of the most awesome dreams sometimes

[X3N0-Life-Form]

Had typed all of that into the skype but I have some of the most awesome dreams sometimes

Your dreams sound like fun
Recently all I've got is a Terminator-esque unstoppable hired gun going after me for reasons in a city that appeared to be be a mixture of the 5-6 places I've lived over the past 8 years, the age-old White Void Space dream, some weird-ass dream I don't remember anything but huge-ass spiders everywhere, which were actually quite friendly for a change (I think). I appeared to have gotten out of my zombie invasion craze from last year, so that's a good thing.

... Which makes me realize I apparently have a thing about being hunted by something(s) in dreams.

[InsaneBaron]

Sometimes I wonder if that should be counted as reckless endangerment.

I'm firmly convinced it should.  Personal choice be damned...you're playing Russian ****ing roulette with your kids' lives.

Very much this. "Personal choice" ends when someone else's life begins.
(I strongly regret being a kid before the development of a proper Chickenpox vaccine...)

[Scotty]

My battalion is getting a new commander in the summer.

His name is Lt. Col. Kirk Dekker.

[Colonol Dekker]

One day hell get promoted.... get a time machine.

And moderate.


For the good of humanity.

[InsaneBaron]

So my oldest brother, my oldest sister, and I all like movies. But the kind of movies my brother and I watch are radically different from the ones my sister likes. We tease eachother good-naturedly about it. Sis: oh, hi bro, I'm watching a movie. Me: have the leads said anything yet or are they too busy kissing? or Me: oh, hi sis, I'm watching a movie. Sis: did you know that every explosion you see kills a brain cell?

So the three of us made a dare: We'd show her Godzilla (2014) and she'd show us Pride and Prejudice (the four-hour version).

She actually though Godzilla was pretty good.

Last night we watched the first part of P&P, and within five minutes I was laughing my head off. And not it a "so bad it's good" manner either, but in a "these characters are brilliantly hilarious" manner! Seriously, Mr. Bennet is the king of snarkers.

[Klaustrophobia]

Laptop won't charge at all now, no matter how I jiggle the cord.  Although new evidence suggests it may in fact be the cord, although I was previously convinced it is the power connector on the laptop.  Unfortunately have no way to test that beyond buying a new adapter, and these damn things cost close to a C note.

edit: apparently that's just physical stores.  online they seem much more reasonable at around $40.

[An4ximandros]

Woke up at 2 am just to vomit over the toilet. (눈_눈 )

[Goober5000]

So my oldest brother, my oldest sister, and I all like movies. But the kind of movies my brother and I watch are radically different from the ones my sister likes. We tease eachother good-naturedly about it. Sis: oh, hi bro, I'm watching a movie. Me: have the leads said anything yet or are they too busy kissing? or Me: oh, hi sis, I'm watching a movie. Sis: did you know that every explosion you see kills a brain cell?

So the three of us made a dare: We'd show her Godzilla (2014) and she'd show us Pride and Prejudice (the four-hour version).

She actually though Godzilla was pretty good.

Last night we watched the first part of P&P, and within five minutes I was laughing my head off. And not it a "so bad it's good" manner either, but in a "these characters are brilliantly hilarious" manner! Seriously, Mr. Bennet is the king of snarkers.

That's awesome.

And Mr. Bennet has an outstanding exchange with Elizabeth and Mrs. Bennet near the middle of the series.  You'll know it when you see it.

[That Man]

So, this happened.

****ing the ****. Ignorance like this costs lives, as it could now cost the life of an infant.

I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

[InsaneBaron]

So my oldest brother, my oldest sister, and I all like movies. But the kind of movies my brother and I watch are radically different from the ones my sister likes. We tease eachother good-naturedly about it. Sis: oh, hi bro, I'm watching a movie. Me: have the leads said anything yet or are they too busy kissing? or Me: oh, hi sis, I'm watching a movie. Sis: did you know that every explosion you see kills a brain cell?

So the three of us made a dare: We'd show her Godzilla (2014) and she'd show us Pride and Prejudice (the four-hour version).

She actually though Godzilla was pretty good.

Last night we watched the first part of P&P, and within five minutes I was laughing my head off. And not it a "so bad it's good" manner either, but in a "these characters are brilliantly hilarious" manner! Seriously, Mr. Bennet is the king of snarkers.

That's awesome.

And Mr. Bennet has an outstanding exchange with Elizabeth and Mrs. Bennet near the middle of the series.  You'll know it when you see it.

The one over Mr. Collin's, um, request? The zinger at the end nearly made me break my chair.    Sis: "Shh! It's not THAT funny!"

[Lorric]

So, this happened.

****ing the ****. Ignorance like this costs lives, as it could now cost the life of an infant.

I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

That's very powerful. While it's preaching to the converted, I encourage everyone to read. And might be something to use on any anti-vaxxers you might come across.