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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"It's not whooping cough. Sure, you have all the symptoms of whooping cough and live in an area with an active whooping cough outbreak, doesn't matter, I don't think it's whooping cough."

multiple visits later in a single week as symptoms worsen

"Fine, here's a prescription for amoxicillin, you hypochondriac, but I don't think it will do anything for you."

whooping cough clears up completely

I do trust medical science but that experience was easily the worst of my adult life. Whooping cough is no joke, folks.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The weirdest thing about watching old sitcoms that one last saw as a kid is seeing all these characters we used to regard as "old people" looking so young.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I shave the parts of my chest within 10cm of my nipples, so that suction toys stay on properly.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I feel that way every time I start vscode. A fast, high quality, open-source, cross-platform IDE - on Electron of all things - made by Microsoft? It's so weird.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Also, Star Trek as entertainment is canon within the Star Trek universe, confirmed in the "Enterprise" TV finale.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (5 children)

So the Scottish-descended person was kind to the Irish-descended person and did her best to ease his pain, but the English-descended person had no regard for the Irish-descended person's pain and acted cruelly?