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Cake day: July 8th, 2023

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  • I’ve spent over a decade in the army where you’re taught to pride yourself into “embracing the suck” and the whole “pain is all in your head” mentality. I have now taken a different career path and realized that this kind of mentality is only useful in very specific cases and is otherwise very bad. But to this day I still tend to downplay and hide my problems/pain whenever things are wrong.

    That nearly got me killed a year ago when I showed up at the ER with pulmonary embolism (likely caused by a COVID infection) and the doctor dismissed it because I didn’t look in pain enough for it to be that. The doctor sent me home untreated. It would have likely killed me had I not returned the day after to see another doctor who luckily took me seriously and got me a CT scan that revealed the problem.









  • This is referring to the fact that after the French revolution the people of France changed the way they spoke to sound more like how the noble class spoke. The French in North America were isolated from this and maintained the “original” way of speaking French.

    Nowadays, to a Quebecer, Parisian French sounds pompous and snobbish, while to a French person, Quebecers sound unrefined and coarse.




  • DaddleDew@lemmy.worldtome_irl@lemmy.worldme_irl
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    6 days ago

    Just because you are hungry doesn’t mean that you are desperate enough to go for a hot dog that has been laying on the ground. Maybe he should try to make himself more appealing than that.

    • Edit: I get it now. Poe’s law hits hard sometimes.