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DickCappels
- Joined Aug 21, 2008
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This guy should attend a 100 hour course on avoiding poor taste as punishment:
Why do some kids get Autism - most are perfectly normal to advanced (bright) kids until a switch is flipped between age one and three.
i don't have Autistic kidsbut it seems more and more families are dealing with this.
Lots of correlation data but little in terms of cause and effect.
Most people I talk to claim it doesn't effect them but it does. More and more school resources snd public health resources and family time and tutoring and medical expenses drain families and change families.
am I missing something? Any theories?
not really expecting answers - just a thought for the day.
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* who knows for sure? It's a spectrum of disease intensity - we're all on the spectrum somewhere.
i don't have Autistic kidsbut it seems more and more families are dealing with this.
Lots of correlation data but little in terms of cause and effect.
Most people I talk to claim it doesn't effect them but it does. More and more school resources snd public health resources and family time and tutoring and medical expenses drain families and change families.
am I missing something? Any theories?
not really expecting answers - just a thought for the day.
________
* who knows for sure? It's a spectrum of disease intensity - we're all on the spectrum somewhere.
When I first saw this menu story, I thought it was a meme in bad taste. I read it again and thought it could be someone trying to undermine a business (a competitor or someone who had bad service or a former spouse, for example). Finally, I read that this idiot owner actually wrote this menus thinking his "humor" was going to entertain customers and attract new customers if it went viral. The owner apologized and announced he will have a new menu with a different theme soon.
A bunch of OpenTable users tagged the place as "no longer open" so OpenTable is no longer taking reservations for them.
What a weird story
We knew something was wrong with our child because @ age 3 he was still non-verbal. Pediatrician kept saying "he has 2 older sisters to do the talking for him, don't worry about it". It took a lot of different doctors with a lot of different diagnoses before we found the correct one. High Functioning Asperger's Syndrome Autism. He was given a special ED diploma, can't say he really earned it. Has speech problems that years of speech therapy did little for. Sometimes difficult even for me to understand what he is saying. His IQ is at the bottom end of normal (not surprising due to his communication problems and not a valid evaluation). But he drives and has a part-time job photographing cars for a dealership to be listed online for sale. Still lives at home (very protective wife) @ age 35 although I would like for him to learn to live on his own with our watching out for him. Many truly autistic people are far worse off than our son and would/will be institutionalized without their parents to care for them.
You have my admiration and respect, Sam... I have a 23 year old daughter with cerebral palsy so severe that she cannot even sit up. Her whole world revolves around her iPad and watching lots of romantic, chick-flick movies. There is nothing but innocence and tenderness in her, and if you give her one gram of love, she will hand you back a ton of it, and more... our routine consists in changing her diapers three or four times a day, lifting her off the floor and sitting her in a special chair so we can feed her thrice a day, and bathing her about four times a week.
It's hard to understand for most people when we tell them that she's our greatest blessing. She has an uncanny way of knowing one's state of mind... i.e., she will comfort you and try to cheer you up if she senses that you're sad or stressed, no matter how hard you try to hide it... she's an angel that never fails to bring out the best in people.
He's not the best sales person I've ever seen. The guys in the middle-east are better at this kind of recruiting - they sell with visions of virgins and so on. I don't think his comment about firing squads and 2.5x ammunition use was the hook he was hoping it would be.
DickCappels
- Joined Aug 21, 2008
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Clearly, Russia’s army is not as laid back as the U.S. army was 50 years ago. No alcohol? We never would have made it out of basic training!
That wasn't the Russian Army. He is hiring for WAGNER Group. A Russian "security company". Also called "Putin's private army".
Here's a tangential story...
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No alcohol, easy. No sex with Flora or Fauna, that's inhuman.
Whomever would be stupid enough to even consider using a male-to-male extension chord?
More efficient than using a butter knife.
DickCappels
- Joined Aug 21, 2008
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When the underground electric service to my house went up in flames, after we learned that my electician was out of town we called the power company which immediately sent out a truck full of electrical guys. They took one of my very long high current extension cords, cut off the female end and wired that end to the electricity meter, making a male plug with 240 VAC on it. Then they plugged it into a outside AC outlet, and we had air conditioning for the night.
The next day they showed up again and flew aluminum wire from the meter out on the pole to the house. Everything was great until I asked how they made the aluminum-to-copper splice and they answered "We twisted the wire together very tightly and wrapped it very tightly in black tape". So I called my own electrician, and we went over the itemized bill. Turns out that the materials for the new mains feed on the fake receipt they showed me was the equivalent of US $300 over the actual cost. My electrician obtained the proper splice and anti-oxidation paste and crimp tool and re-did the splice.
Later we heard that people from the power company show up at my electrician's shop and caused some damage. That was years ago, but even now whenever we call him for electrical work he sends someone else.
The next day they showed up again and flew aluminum wire from the meter out on the pole to the house. Everything was great until I asked how they made the aluminum-to-copper splice and they answered "We twisted the wire together very tightly and wrapped it very tightly in black tape". So I called my own electrician, and we went over the itemized bill. Turns out that the materials for the new mains feed on the fake receipt they showed me was the equivalent of US $300 over the actual cost. My electrician obtained the proper splice and anti-oxidation paste and crimp tool and re-did the splice.
Later we heard that people from the power company show up at my electrician's shop and caused some damage. That was years ago, but even now whenever we call him for electrical work he sends someone else.
