From the Hobo Spider wiki:
Most bites occur when the spider is accidentally crushed or squeezed by a human.
Just like consultants!
You bite consultants when they squeeze you?
Depends on the type of consultant.
Is the idiot kid with the stiff upper lip getting treatment now?
Had he gotten an MRI? And if so, did it actually show anything? Was it filled with eggs?
4: If you have to ask, you should just assume it is filled with eggs.
He went to the emergency room on Friday. On the way over, the MRI docs called him and told him to go to the emergency room. So there was widespread consensus that his ankle was too gross to be good.
Oh, and on the part of the post that's likely to be ignored, I really like the way Minaj plays with her voice.
The spider in that picture is, to me, visually indistingishable from about 50% of the spiders I see around all the time. I feel the same way about brown recluses, too. Black widows at least have the decency to be identifiable.
Oh just a medical emergency lol a hobo ma'am
As for the spider, that Wikipedia page seems to say that in North America it's limited to the Pacific Northwest, which makes it sound like a brown recluse is definitely more likely.
12: It's a hobo. They get around whether by foot, rail, or ankle.
lol a hobo ma'am
Want this t-shirt.
Oh, I just listened to that song for the first time. While I'm generally sympathetic to the use of computer-generated percussion, that fake clave "click-clock" sound drives me batty for some reason.
I predict the song will become stuck in my head for days nonetheless.
One of the very first secrets ever posted on postsecret.com was of someone who'd played a childhood prank on a younger sibling by putting a spider in the sibling's bed (pillow?), and it ended up being a hobo spider, which bit the sibling and resulted in an infection that required amputation of the toe or finger or whatever it bit (this was years ago, I don't remember the details perfectly). Anyway, that always struck me as a horrible thing to carry around in secret for decades, never telling anyone. It stuck with me.
That website quickly went downhill from there, though; I stopped reading it years ago.
I remember that it was definitely a hobo spider, though, because that was the first time I'd ever heard of them, and I had to look it up at the time.
And they told everybody that it was meat slicing accident?
19: the part that was a secret was the deliberate placing of the spider in the sibling's bed. The family thought it had just crawled in there by chance, a freak accident.
I mean, I don't think "my sibling lost his left foot after a hobo spider bit him when he was 3" was a secret, no.
I was just making a joking reference to Rahm.
And yes, I am aware that people don't usually have amputations as a result of spider bites, so it may have been completely fabricated. (A real problem on that website, that seemed to grow over time.)
However, I actually knew someone that had part of her forearm amputated* as a result of a black widow bite, so it seems possible.
*not by a doctor.
At this point, I guess I should probably expect your comments to be jokes.
Speaking of, um, mother nature attacking, everybody and her brother seems to have gotten poison ivy rashes this summer. Is it a particularly bad year or something? Do the stinkbugs pollinate it maybe?
(A real problem on that website, that seemed to grow over time.)
My belief is that they were fabricated by the people running the website, because the decorations of the postcards were so homogeneously hipster.
(A real problem on that website, that seemed to grow over time.)
To clarify, I meant that the problem seemed to grow over time, not the website. The website definitely grew over time. I'm not sure if its growth has slowed or reversed over the last few years.
*not by a doctor.
OK, I'll bite (so to speak): could you exhume the lede and tell us the rest of this story?
29: I just meant that it's possible it wasn't medically necessary, since no doctor was involved. Her uncle (I believe) just did it with some sort of farm equipment. They were rural people.
26: I haven't seen more poison ivy than usual.
30: You really have an eye for leaving out the interesting details.
My belief is that they were fabricated by the people running the website, because the decorations of the postcards were so homogeneously hipster.
I assumed this was curation, rather than fabrication, but who knows. It grew annoying fairly quickly.
I like the verses on that song way more than the ultra-generic, modish chorus.
Now you know!
had part of her forearm amputated
I'm trying to visualize what this means. I mean, if part of her forearm were amputated, I think I'd say she lost her hand and part of her forearm. And if she just lost a chunk of the forearm arm, "amputated" doesn't seem right.
I'm trying to visualize what this means. I mean, if part of her forearm were amputated, I think I'd say she lost her hand and part of her forearm. And if she just lost a chunk of the forearm arm, "amputated" doesn't seem right.
I think what it means is that a stretch of arm between the elbow and the wrist was removed, but the wrist and hand themselves are still intact.
I love the super saccharine smile that Minaj gives at the beginning, and also during the first chorus while dancing.
35: it's possible "amputated" isn't the right word. The lower half of her--ulna, I think?--was cut out. She kept her hand, but not great functionality.
IIRC, though, the intent had been just to take out a chunk of flesh; I think the bone may have been collateral damage. I don't know--it's been years since I talked to her. And she was only like 6 or 8 when it happened, so may not even be the most accurate reporter of the event.
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I first heard this song while spending a long day buying clothes. I think they played this song four times while I was at one store. The first time, I thought, "What is this shit?" The second, I thought, "Wait, is this that Nicki Minaj?" The third: "Yes, she calls herself that." And on the final listening I decided it was kind of catchy.
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Justice Dep't to file writ of mandamus to prevent a selective or vindictive prosecution defense in the trial of Dan Choi. Lawyers here may ponder how far up the racism and homophobia go. Needs new Cossacks? Hah.
Never ever trust...someone who hangs with rich fucks.
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just did it with some sort of farm equipment
Want this T-shirt.
I woke up a few weeks ago and found a dead spider on my pillow. A little later I had some odd bites on my left heel. I've been getting a lot of insect bites this summer, but almost all have been from mosquitoes. These seemed different and stuck around longer.
I've generally been co-existing with the spiders in the basement fine. (But I've crushed a few - don't go near the bed, spiders.) The rather large one behind the toilet just seems to hang out in its web all day and I don't feel like bothering it.
42 -- I can see why they'd want out of MJ Facciola's court. He can see what is happening, and is no pushover. (He once told me he was a boxer in his youth). And they're probably right to think they'll have a better shot with the circuit, depending on how many authoritarians they get on the panel.
The good news, though, is that the petition has to be dealt with at a higher level within DOJ,* and will take some time. This would be a really good time for some "rich fucks" -- to whom this kind of petty oppression is of no value at all -- to remind the president's team that looking presidential is worth a lot.
*Point about cossacks and tsars is well taken; on the other hand, because they don't really micromanage, sometimes the pogroms go farther than the senior cossacks had intended. To take the analogy a little further back in time, 'will no one rid me of this troublesome [x]' sometimes gets overread by the underlings.
to whom this kind of petty oppression is of no value at all
Ahh, but this is about Oil & Climate ...Digby
this tar sands in Alberta is a big deal. It's the second largest pool of carbon on Earth, after the oil fields of Saudi Arabia. Jim Hansen of NASA, who was arrested today, really the world's foremost climate scientist, said -- as he was speaking this morning, said, if we go ahead and begin tapping these unconventional energy sources, of which the tar sands are the biggest example, it is -- and here I quote - "essentially game over for the climate."
Anybody remember Jim Hansen? "Game over."
The PtB are not stupid or crazy. How many times do I have to say it?
They know they are making the world uninhabitable, probably this century.
And they do think longterm, they are very responsible, and they really do care.
Just not about you.
"Ark" is just a metaphor.
The PtB are not stupid or crazy. How many times do I have to say it?
Given that nobody here is arguing that they are, I don't know: how many times do you have to say it?
well, it's nice to see some hot dudes objectified in a video one time. you could grate cheese on that fuckers abs, srsly. but pepto-bismol? I almost assume she's the spokesperson for some revolting boutique cream liqueur.
48:Great!
Then we are all agreed that the ultra-elites understand and accept that their deliberate conscious policies will make the world unfit for human habitation, probably in your lifetime? That this is not an error or oversight?
Now we can think, move on.
The elites, say the Sauds, care about their families. In fact, when you are a doddering old dynast, it is about all you do care about, not because you like them, but as a point of pride. What was it all for?
I don't know postsecret.com, but it sounds like a great way to run a blackmail operation.
So now I'm watching Nicki Minaj videos as part of my program of avoiding thinking about heebie's other post. She seems to be going for the hostile weirdo niche. And yet, she still has to present as sexy since this is apparently legally mandated. I suspect it was part of the bill that repealed AFDC.
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Transcript by Hamsher of today's mandamus bench hearing of DoJ vs Dan Choi. Judge Facciola is kinda fun. Long, but I enjoyed what I understood. I think DoJ wants to persecute Choi, but very very much wants to avoid discovery, because of the illegal wiretaps and corrupt Obama's direct illegal complicity.
The "fixed" BP well in the Gulf is leaking like a sieve again. Google for yourself. They know they are destroying the environment. They know, but they are in a hurry to get the oil out. Not for money, money is no good in a dead world, but for what the oil can make before the social disorder.
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34: Yes. Verses> chorus> bridge, and what is going on with that ending? It's as if she just ran out of song.
37: I like the smile in those places too, and the girl-group dancing -- to me it looks like they're genuinely having fun. The color/body type variation in the group is eyecatching.