The Not Happy Thread

<nudges a bottle of whiskey toward you>

 

Baby born yesterday needs blood transfusion to survive. Parents opposed on religious grounds. Working on a court order to get the transfusion.

 

If the baby dies, the parents should be charged with murder. Refusing medical treatment for yourself due to some stupid irrational belief is one thing. But refusing it ON BEHALF OF SOMEONE ELSE is fucking immoral.

 

That's more or less my view as well. If a competent adult wants to refuse treatment for any reason, I'm fine with it. When it comes to a child who can't make their own decision yet, I think they should get the treatment. Especially when, as here, the child won't survive without it.

 

Thanks, horizontal fish-dude!

 

Wondering about micro-dosing alcohol. It can't be good to down a bottle of vodka a day, but there are seventeen shots in a bottle and sixteen hours in a usual work day (including government-mandated nutrition and hygiene breaks). One shot an hour shouldn't affect one's work performance, but over time will provide the necessary relief on the pension plan...

 

Especially it that someone else can’t speak for themself.

 

Couldnt decide on whether to put this in the "Happiness" thread or this one.... but today is my last day at my job. This was my very first job in this state.... I interviewed while I was still living on the East Coast and then moved the week after I got hired.
In a year, I cant believe how much of an impact I had on these people and them on me. I've gotten cards, and gifts, and cupcakes. One of my coworkers, an older grandmotherly lady that I've gotten really close to, cried as she gave me this elaborate gift with butterfly wings ("so that you may soar wherever you go! and think of me!"), and I cried when I read her card, and we both just hugged and cried.....

I'm happy that i got hired elsewhere, but I will miss them and the job that enabled me to move here.
I hate goodbyes

 

Did a bit of work on a short story - nothing serious, just a bit of fun - on an online notepad. Got too tired to continue and closed the tab. Re-opened it immediately after to check it had saved properly. It had not. I'm too tired to write it again, so I'm just going to end up forgetting what happened.

 

I was cuddling my wife's hamster yesterday (called Squidge) and she was the cutest little thing. I went to put her back in her cage whilst I got her ball so she could go for a run, and as I lowed my hand into the cage, she jumped, from about 4 inches... landed badly, and broke her neck...I held her whilst she slowly passed away.
I know it's 'just a hamster', but man that was not how I wanted to spend my evening.

It was her first ever pet too, so she's gutted.

 

That really sucks, sorry for you and your wife's loss.

 

It's never "just a hamster" or "just a dog". Pets are part of your family, and it's always tragic when they go, especially under such circumstances

 

Thanks both. I just feel awful about how the poor thing died. I was worrying about the day the wife would go downstairs first, see that it had died throughout the night, and would come upstairs and tell me.... but didn't expect this.

But, time for perspective and not get down about it!

 

There's precedent for that in Australia so you'd win here at least.

 

This makes me sick. I hope someone with an ounce of common sense see's sense with the court order.

 

DPD did not drop my mixer into the shop yesterday as promised, so more complaints. According to a colleague of the bf's, who went to buy a card for his girlfriend near where the car hire place was, the driver for our area is new and doesn't know the area very well, he knows because they met.

That parcel should have been in my flat 11 days ago, and we have done everything in our power to make it as easy as possible for the guy. I will ask the bf to contact the seller to let them know about the incompetence.

ETA: Called DPD customer service, when I got a hold of the rep, and passed the security questions, he called the depot directly. My mixer has been waiting for a new label for two days after the driver failed to deliver it to my landlord's shop. No one has done it so it's sitting there. He said he was going to contact the shift manager directly, stating that this is appalling and telling them that getting it rectified needs to be done today, and that we should be notified within a couple of hours.

The bf isn't holding his breath on the matter, and I don't blame him. Not after all this crap.

 

"I need your clothes, your boots, your hamster ball."

 

Califiornia has statutes that provide for this, though it is ultimately up to a judge to decide whether the grant the order. It's also a matter of getting the gears of government to grind sufficiently fast.

 

Honestly, shouldn't we just allow Natural selection to take it's course, if the parents are this stupid, most likely the kid is too, and.... it might be good for the good of humanity to let nature take it's course in this case.

Having said that, as Opposed as I am taking away a parents rights in regards to their child, except in extreme cases such as abuse, I can live with this... as their is consequences for their stupid action. Again, could this be considered a form of abuse.

 

Just let natural selection take it's course.

 

This presupposed religious belief correlates with a lack of intelligence, which I think is a dubious proposition. And in this context, it wouldn't be "natural" selection.

 

Look! I'm a Christian and if you're that fucking dumb to let your child die because of religious indoctrination. It's best if they don't reproduce, we have enough dipshitz on this planet as it is.

What religion are they, if you say Christian, I was going to get more angrier at these two dipshitz

 

That's terrible about the hamster, and I had the same thing with the cat when he died and I buried him at sea, and then it must have been the cold water, and he was swimming back to shore. And I was lighting cigarette after cigarette to guide him home to daddy but the zippo failed me and I didn't have the heart to tell my wife, and then he came home in the middle of the night, tapping the window with his wet paw. I said to her baby it's his spirit go back to sleep. And I took him back down the beach, dragged him y'know, and she was moving on in her grieving process it seemed right that night and so I put it here for you to help me, don't judge me, I am not guilty I love animals really, well dogs are mainly, she said I could have a dog, it was his time.

 

It's an offshoot of Christianity. That said, however, I know quite a few very smart people who came from very fundamental religious backgrounds (including this one), and left those backgrounds behind to make their own way in the world.