Allen ★ Posted December 28, 2019 Share #1 Posted December 28, 2019 I thought I was having the worst hangover of my life. Hangovers don’t usually come with fevers. Hangovers go away. ugh. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Road Runner Posted December 28, 2019 Share #2 Posted December 28, 2019 Sorry to hear. Did you get the flu shot? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allen ★ Posted December 28, 2019 Author Share #3 Posted December 28, 2019 2 minutes ago, Road Runner said: Sorry to hear. Did you get the flu shot? I did not this year. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilbur ★ Posted December 28, 2019 Share #4 Posted December 28, 2019 So, you are telling us this isn't the Vin Rouge Flu? 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allen ★ Posted December 28, 2019 Author Share #5 Posted December 28, 2019 2 minutes ago, Wilbur said: So, you are telling us this isn't the Vin Rouge Flu? Very well could be. I do not recommend getting smashed before the flu. One thing at a time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allen ★ Posted December 28, 2019 Author Share #6 Posted December 28, 2019 Both of my avatars are realistic renditions of me. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randomguy Posted December 28, 2019 Share #7 Posted December 28, 2019 35 minutes ago, Allen said: I did not this year. If I get the flu, I will consider myself ahead of the game, by one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donkpow Posted December 28, 2019 Share #8 Posted December 28, 2019 It's probably just the 24 hour variety. Does someone you know pee on their hands? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2Far ★ Posted December 28, 2019 Share #9 Posted December 28, 2019 Sorry to hear it. Wo2 may have it also. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Road Runner Posted December 28, 2019 Share #10 Posted December 28, 2019 1 hour ago, Allen said: I did not this year. I guess you don't need it now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prophet Zacharia Posted December 28, 2019 Share #11 Posted December 28, 2019 Why am I getting buprenorprine ads in this thread? Do our advertisers think “flu” is being used to describe opiate withdrawal? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Page Turner Posted December 28, 2019 Share #12 Posted December 28, 2019 29 minutes ago, Prophet Zacharia said: Why am I getting buprenorprine ads in this thread? Do our advertisers think “flu” is being used to describe opiate withdrawal? ...your browser history probably reflects your recent efforts to hook up with heroin dealers. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirby Posted December 28, 2019 Share #13 Posted December 28, 2019 Hope you feel better soon. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prophet Zacharia Posted December 28, 2019 Share #14 Posted December 28, 2019 17 minutes ago, Page Turner said: ...your browser history probably reflects your recent efforts to hook up with heroin dealers. Now I’m getting “Supercharge your efficiency with self-service employee help desk support for IT and HR needs.“ Which makes sense because I use @Dottie for all my opiate and IT needs. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allen ★ Posted December 28, 2019 Author Share #15 Posted December 28, 2019 My advert is shucking cancer meds. I’d rather have the flu. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dottleshead ★ Posted December 28, 2019 Share #16 Posted December 28, 2019 1 hour ago, Prophet Zacharia said: Which makes sense because I use @Dottie for all my opiate and IT needs. I definitely have your opiate needs covered. But honestly, isn't New Hampshire a lot closer to you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prophet Zacharia Posted December 28, 2019 Share #17 Posted December 28, 2019 53 minutes ago, Dottie said: I definitely have your opiate needs covered. But honestly, isn't New Hampshire a lot closer to you? Southwest flies direct to Portland, OR for me, I believe. Not so much to NH. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dottleshead ★ Posted December 28, 2019 Share #18 Posted December 28, 2019 2 minutes ago, Prophet Zacharia said: Southwest flies direct to Portland, OR for me, I believe. Not so much to NH. PDX should have you covered for your opiate needs as well. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prophet Zacharia Posted December 28, 2019 Share #19 Posted December 28, 2019 2 minutes ago, Dottie said: PDX should have you covered for your opiate needs as well. Actually, @Razors Edge should be my connection. The District of Columbia had the fastest rate of increase in mortality from opioids with an annual percent change of 228.3% Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dottleshead ★ Posted December 28, 2019 Share #20 Posted December 28, 2019 3 minutes ago, Prophet Zacharia said: Actually, @Razors Edge should be my connection. The District of Columbia had the fastest rate of increase in mortality from opioids with an annual percent change of 228.3% Yeah, it's tough to argue against. In fact -- because RE is involved -- you can really get a fix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airehead Posted December 28, 2019 Share #21 Posted December 28, 2019 I am sorry to hear this stay well hydrated. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dottleshead ★ Posted December 29, 2019 Share #22 Posted December 29, 2019 Get better Allen! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dottleshead ★ Posted December 29, 2019 Share #23 Posted December 29, 2019 Stupid autocorrect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge ★ Posted December 29, 2019 Share #24 Posted December 29, 2019 On 12/28/2019 at 10:23 AM, Allen said: I thought I was having the worst hangover of my life. Hangovers don’t usually come with fevers. Hangovers go away. ugh. I remember a New Year's Eve a decade ago where we drank like mad with our neighbors. Totally trashed. New Year's Day, we couldn't get off the couch all day. Felt like a severe flu. It was a massive hangover. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allen ★ Posted December 29, 2019 Author Share #25 Posted December 29, 2019 26 minutes ago, Razors Edge said: I remember a New Year's Eve a decade ago where we drank like mad with our neighbors. Totally trashed. New Year's Day, we couldn't get off the couch all day. Felt like a severe flu. It was a massive hangover. It’s lasted too long. I’m sick. Better than yesterday though. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prophet Zacharia Posted December 29, 2019 Share #26 Posted December 29, 2019 1 hour ago, Razors Edge said: I remember a New Year's Eve a decade ago where we drank like mad with our neighbors. Totally trashed. New Year's Day, we couldn't get off the couch all day. Felt like a severe flu. It was a massive hangover. Amateur. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge ★ Posted December 31, 2019 Share #27 Posted December 31, 2019 On 12/28/2019 at 4:18 PM, Dottie said: Yeah, it's tough to argue against. In fact -- because RE is involved -- you can really get a fix. I always love the dolts who compare a city (or, literally, a "federal district") to a state. Just stupid. Makes the resulting data useless without excluding it, and then that wastes that data as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kzoo Posted December 31, 2019 Share #28 Posted December 31, 2019 On 12/29/2019 at 5:02 PM, Prophet Zacharia said: Amateur. Nominated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prophet Zacharia Posted December 31, 2019 Share #29 Posted December 31, 2019 3 minutes ago, Razors Edge said: I always love the dolts who compare a city (or, literally, a "federal district") to a state. Just stupid. Makes the resulting data useless without excluding it, and then that wastes that data as well. Really they’re just grouping 100,000’s of people together based on geopolitical boundaries, and measuring how many of them die as a result of opiate overdoses. Washington D.C. is fine to be considered a city or a region. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge ★ Posted December 31, 2019 Share #30 Posted December 31, 2019 7 minutes ago, Prophet Zacharia said: Really they’re just grouping 100,000’s of people together based on geopolitical boundaries, and measuring how many of them die as a result of opiate overdoses. Washington D.C. is fine to be considered a city or a region. Seriously? Yowza, that's raw awful thinking right there. Good as maybe bureaucratic thinking, but horrible as an apples-to-apples methodology. Compare cities to cities, states to states, and countries to countries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted December 31, 2019 Share #31 Posted December 31, 2019 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prophet Zacharia Posted December 31, 2019 Share #32 Posted December 31, 2019 Just now, Razors Edge said: Seriously? Yowza, that's raw awful thinking right there. Good as maybe bureaucratic thinking, but horrible as an apples-to-apples methodology. Compare cities to cities, states to states, and countries to countries. You’re just sore because your region is now exceeding Appalachia in opiate death rates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge ★ Posted December 31, 2019 Share #33 Posted December 31, 2019 3 minutes ago, Prophet Zacharia said: You’re just sore because your region is now exceeding Appalachia in opiate death rates. NoVa? I don't think so. Virginia, even with it's poor SW region, still does pretty well in these sorts of things. It's a pretty reasonable state, with some good and some bad mixed in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longjohn ★ Posted December 31, 2019 Share #34 Posted December 31, 2019 I just read today that elderberries will prevent the flu and if you already have it drink elderberry juice and it will go away in a day. I saw it on the web so it must be true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allen ★ Posted December 31, 2019 Author Share #35 Posted December 31, 2019 I feel human-ish today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge ★ Posted December 31, 2019 Share #36 Posted December 31, 2019 2 minutes ago, Allen said: I feel human-ish today Elderberries to the rescue! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allen ★ Posted December 31, 2019 Author Share #37 Posted December 31, 2019 28 minutes ago, jsharr said: I’m going to make that into a coffee mug 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Page Turner Posted December 31, 2019 Share #38 Posted December 31, 2019 On 12/28/2019 at 1:16 PM, Prophet Zacharia said: Actually, @Razors Edge should be my connection. The District of Columbia had the fastest rate of increase in mortality from opioids with an annual percent change of 228.3% On 12/28/2019 at 1:18 PM, Dottie said: Yeah, it's tough to argue against. In fact -- because RE is involved -- you can really get a fix. 45 minutes ago, Razors Edge said: I always love the dolts who compare a city (or, literally, a "federal district") to a state. Just stupid. Makes the resulting data useless without excluding it, and then that wastes that data as well. 36 minutes ago, Prophet Zacharia said: Really they’re just grouping 100,000’s of people together based on geopolitical boundaries, and measuring how many of them die as a result of opiate overdoses. Washington D.C. is fine to be considered a city or a region. ...the reason you can't do this with Washington, D.C. and expect meaningful results is that the population demographics are still severely skewed from white flight to the surrounding suburbs during the 50's-70's era. I know this because I lived there, grew up there during that time period, and drove a cab there in the 70's. It's has never really recovered from that event, for a number of reasons. Mostly, growth has continued to expand out into MD and VA. Thus you have a population within the boundaries of the federal district that is still skewed toward lower incomes and selected by race in ways that are not represented in states. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Page Turner Posted December 31, 2019 Share #39 Posted December 31, 2019 ...I apologize in advance if that's too political for anyone. It just happens to be true. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted December 31, 2019 Share #40 Posted December 31, 2019 35 minutes ago, Razors Edge said: Seriously? Yowza, that's raw awful thinking right there. Good as maybe bureaucratic thinking, but horrible as an apples-to-apples methodology. Compare cities to cities, states to states, and countries to countries. How does this work with Texas? We were a country and a state? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted December 31, 2019 Share #41 Posted December 31, 2019 5 minutes ago, Allen said: I’m going to make that into a coffee mug I stole it off the interwebz so you may be trespassing on someone's intellectual property. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allen ★ Posted December 31, 2019 Author Share #42 Posted December 31, 2019 2 minutes ago, jsharr said: I stole it off the interwebz so you may be trespassing on someone's intellectual property. I won’t sell the mug 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge ★ Posted December 31, 2019 Share #43 Posted December 31, 2019 8 minutes ago, Page Turner said: ...the reason you can't do this with Washington, D.C. and expect meaningful results is that the population demographics are still severely skewed from white flight to the surrounding suburbs during the 50's-70's era. I know this because I lived there, grew up there during that time period, and drove a cab there in the 70's. It's has never really recovered from that event, for a number of reasons. Mostly, growth has continued to expand out into MD and VA. Thus you have a population within the boundaries of the federal district that is still skewed toward lower incomes and selected by race in ways that are not represented in states. Common sense would be that either include it in some way with the Maryland numbers, or exclude it from a list of STATES. It needs to be factored in, but when you are ranking things, it makes no sense to have it in the states and not cities or metropolitan areas lists. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted December 31, 2019 Share #44 Posted December 31, 2019 4 minutes ago, Allen said: I won’t sell the mug Just give them as gifts to your closest and bestest interweb friends? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge ★ Posted December 31, 2019 Share #45 Posted December 31, 2019 4 minutes ago, jsharr said: Just give them as gifts to your closest and bestest interweb friends? If he had a laser engraver, he could rip off some Marvel stuff too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allen ★ Posted December 31, 2019 Author Share #46 Posted December 31, 2019 4 minutes ago, jsharr said: Just give them as gifts to your closest and bestest interweb friends? Exactly 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allen ★ Posted December 31, 2019 Author Share #47 Posted December 31, 2019 2 minutes ago, Razors Edge said: If he had a laser engraver, he could rip off some Marvel stuff too! I have a dye sublimation printer. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prophet Zacharia Posted December 31, 2019 Share #48 Posted December 31, 2019 2 hours ago, Razors Edge said: Common sense would be that either include it in some way with the Maryland numbers, or exclude it from a list of STATES. It needs to be factored in, but when you are ranking things, it makes no sense to have it in the states and not cities or metropolitan areas lists. Where in my post is the word “state”? On 12/28/2019 at 4:16 PM, Prophet Zacharia said: The District of Columbia had the fastest rate of increase in mortality from opioids with an annual percent change of 228.3% Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prophet Zacharia Posted December 31, 2019 Share #49 Posted December 31, 2019 2 hours ago, Page Turner said: ...the reason you can't do this with Washington, D.C. and expect meaningful results is that the population demographics People are dying. The death rates are increasing fastest in the Washington DC area than anywhere else in the country. Those are facts. They are meaningful results in and of themselves. I would not be so fast to assume this is purely inner city problems, though. The opiate epidemic has hit many communities. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Page Turner Posted December 31, 2019 Share #50 Posted December 31, 2019 29 minutes ago, Prophet Zacharia said: People are dying. The death rates are increasing fastest in the Washington DC area than anywhere else in the country. Those are facts. They are meaningful results in and of themselves. I would not be so fast to assume this is purely inner city problems, though. The opiate epidemic has hit many communities. ...I did not read your source statistics. Are they for the District proper (within the boundaries as laid out by George Washington), or are they for the metropolitan area ? The Metropolitan area for D.C. is not confined within the original boundaries. So what exactly are the facts in this case ? Your posting clearly says "District of Columbia". Once again, I grew up there, and I am pretty familiar with the population demographics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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