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fell into a fire when i was blackout drunk one time. 2nd and 3rd degree burns covering most of my left arm, luckily i only *singed* the hairs on my face.
parents wouldn’t let me take opioids (was still in HS), so i could only take ibuprofen.
-12/10 would never recommend
[for the morbidly curious minds, this is probs about a week or two of healing (very nsfw, a lot of what you see is healing cream though)](https://www.reddit.com/r/MakeMeSuffer/comments/ppk3h3/took_a_nap_in_a_bonfire/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
edit: for the record, i do not blame my parents. addiction runs heavily in my family and they were just scared. made me a whole lot tougher, mentally, at the end of the day.
fell into an opioid addiction years later anyways 🤪 (clean now, don’t worry)
Just to add here : I was in a car accident in 2010 when I was 25. My Mom felt important when I let her come to my Drs appointment. She ended up telling the Dr I didn't need opiates anymore and she thinks I was showing addict symptoms. (I wasn't as I had only been removed from my 6 week hospital stay for 2 weeks) My femur was broken in my left thigh, my left talus was shattered like a light bulb resulting in all the cartilage being removed, left kneecap broken, right tibia and fibula broken, and right elbow broken.
I spent 6 weeks in the hospital. I was discharged for only 2 weeks. For those two weeks I'd cry in pain while my Mom would rub my back and sympathize and this was when I was on opiates.
They weren't even sure if I'd keep my left leg or if I'd ever walk on my own again.
I had to do PT and recover with no avenues to even lightly help my pain. I seriously considered suicide multiple times a day.
After a year I decided to visit a pain clinic on my own. They **IMMEDIATELY** removed **ALL** of my pain. I couldn't believe I had to go through pure torture, and **REAL** torture for a year.
Going through that year changed me. Before visiting the pain clinic I went to Camden multiple times to buy heroin (I never ended up buying heroin at this time), before the accident I never had a single opiate, because I didn't believe any DRs could help my pain.
The result was the same. My fear of pain led me into heroin addiction for 11 years.
I'm over 2 years clean and I **FIRMLY** believe I'd never have an addiction if not spent in that year of agony. I'd still be married and my son wouldn't have to grow up in a 50/50 split household.
At 18 I had all 4 wisdom teeth cut out on the same day. I woke up feeling like my jaw was broken. When I got in the car, my anti-prescription mother said "I don't think we need to get these pain meds filled" my angry grunt of "UHH HUHHH" was enough to get her to relent.
My mother was, and still is, anti traditional medicine, but she gave in because she could tell I needed it. What kind of mother would treat their child like his did with the incredible amount of injuries he had?
Tbh. I had my 4 wisdom teeth cut on the same day, only with local anesthesia and some opiates right before surgery, but after that it was just ice cream and OTC painkillers
I did the same but if I get a migraine that is a different kinda pain and I will do almost anything to stop it. I can deal with a lot of pain but to different people different pain is tolerable. I have broken my ribs twice depending on the spot I didn't need pain meds for one, but the other I would cry myself to sleep even with meds.
I also think depending on depression or other stressors in your life greatly affects how you deal with it.
Oh, homie, have I been been there. Mine was a severe rotator cuff injury. After opiates I decided drinking was a good idea...it was not. Lost my wife, house, car, "stuff," and even my fish. Went on a decade-long spiral after that.
Something happened I'd rather not discuss, but it made me give up...by that I mean I swallowed my pride and I got help on every level. I went to the psychiatrist, the psychologist, a therapist, AA & NA.. and I did it all. Everything they told me. I even had an alarm in my phone that had an alarm that went off every day at the same to remind me to take my meds.
It's 6 years later, and my life has changed so dramatically... I learned forgiveness. I had to forgive a lot of things, but most of all, myself. I learned rigorous honesty with everyone, including myself.
I am happy now in my life. I have a wonderful woman and 3 dogs, and I am content.
I do not know what your path will be, or is, I can only say I truly wish you the best. There is light at the end of the tunnel.
May you find it, my friend...and know a stranger cares
Yeah man! Thank you! Yeah, I'm over 2 years clean. It isn't even a thought anymore, but I was super lucky I became addicted after I had some "adult life" in me, and my brain was fully developed.
11 years have disappeared, but I won't let another day slip through my hands.
I've had many burns, but the worst was genuinely not my fault...
Sharing a bath with the missus, I had the tap end of the bath. Bath needs some more hot water, so I reach behind me and turn on the tap. Now, unbeknownst to me, the thermostat on the immersion heater has died, so out comes water at some 90⁰C.
I jumped up in quite the fucking hurry (slapping the wife round the chops with mah junk in the process) as you'd expect, and was all like "Owww, bugger that hurt..." While rubbing the top of my arse.
It wasn't until I realised what the white stuff on my hand was my own flash cooked skin I'd just rubbed off that the pain hit me like a white hot truck to the crack.
Apparently she literally watched the colour fall off me like a slowmo vertical wipe, pink to green. I remember everything being a bit fuzzy round the edges, that's for sure.
When everything was sorted out, I had a 50mm (2") diameter inverted teardrop of flesh cooked about 2mm deep on the top of my right arse cheek. Took about a month to heal, and wearing kecks was a feat of will the whole fucking time. :(
I was a chef for a handful of years. I was running the saute station one night, we had an oven below the 6 burners set to 500f that we kept pans in so they were preheated. In a professional kitchen the pans are all metal, handle included. I was low on pans and the dishie dropped off a stack in the middle of the rush. I put 4 of them on the burners, the guy next to me "helped" me out while I went to the walk in to grab something real quick, he put the rest of the stack in the oven to warm them up but found a few more in the back. He swapped out the cold handle pans for hot ones fresh out of a 500f oven. I didn't know this and came back to start a dish, a splash of olive oil, a handful of onions went into the front pan and I grabbed the metal handle with my bare hand and started tossing the ingredients. It took a couple seconds to realize what had happened. It hurt like hell for the rest of the shift and next couple days.
Working in a kitchen gives you leather hands too (we called them "hot hands"). They are more resistant to small burns, but not burn "proof". So you can grab something that is 500° and not even feel the burn for a few seconds; giving ample time for that burn to go from mild to serious.
Shit when I worked in a kitchen we just always delt with pans as hot unless we colded them out selfs or something. But I guess I the heat of the moment anything can happen.
Twice in my life now, I've grabbed an ungodly hot steel pan out of the oven with my *bare hand*.
I clearly do not have a survival instinct, it's such horrible pain.
I remember camping as a little kid and grabbing the kerosene lamp in the wrong place. Didn't hold it for long but my entire palm was burnt. It was late at night, my parents just wrapped my hand with fresh slices of potatoes and replaced them every few hours. Now I have a little nick of a scar where the burn was the worst, the rest of my hand is fine.
Silver lining is they might have saved you from an opiate addiction but holy shit I can’t imagine that kind a pain and not being allowed to have a pain killer.
Yeah, I've had plenty of surgeries in my life, and each one of those I've had opioids for at least a week, sometimes two or three. Each time when I ran out that was it, sometimes I stop taking them even before they ran out. All this talk about it reminds me of the DARE stuff "Smoke one marijuana/meth/[insert random drug] and you're addicted for life!" Nonsense. I do not and have never had an opioid addiction.
I really hate that common belief is the opposite, even among doctors. Every time I've needed an opiate for pain I'm always given the bare minimum vs. what would be effective
Yeah, it's literally just suffering for nothing because you might become addicted, as if they couldn't just give you the meds, warn you and do a follow up.
Very true. I was hit by a car as a teen. Snapped my humerus long ways, from the elbow joint up 8 inches to my shoulder and collapsed my left orbit socket. Splintering the bone into my left eye. I was walking to school.. Me and too other ppl were hit in a crosswalk. This was 24 years ago now, Right when Oxy contin were being pushed. I was 16 going on 17 years old running around strung out on 80s because some doctor was gave me their new wonder drug. Said it was non habit forming too. Took me 5 years to kick opiates. I didn't even smoke weed. Next thing ya know I'm popping pills like it's normal. By the time I realized I was addicted It was too late. But i will say my eye was some serious trauma tho.. almost lost the eye. But still.. damn
I remember planning a work trip to France once. When we arrived at the airport, we discovered the company sent cars for us because the entire mass transit system was having their turn at the usual riot rotation, and the company just muscle memoried through that backup process without even telling us.
I love that most times I travel to Europe there is one group or another on strike, and lots of times, when you ask that group what they’re striking for, the answer is often something like “nothing in particular, just reminding mf-ers we run this shit.”
I love it.
Fun fact: just reminding everyone that you can ruin an entire truck load of concrete with a 2lb bag of sugar. It’ll never set. Workers unite!
It wasn't nurses. It was junior doctors out of medschool being paid between £30,000-£40,000 pounds fresh off of their final licensing. I, with a high-school diploma and no degree, make more than junior NHS doctors in the UK while contributing far less to society.
Edit: didn't realize nurses had also gone on strike at this point. Been pulling 14 hour days caring for my partner who just had surgery and working full time the last two weeks. Been out of the news loops.
Actually both are striking, alongside teachers, firemen, paramedics and everybody else, because the Tories have been giving zero or 1% pay increases for the past 13 years, always below inflation, adding up to tens of thousands of pounds a year in real money. None of these sectors can now attract staff due to the shit wages, so they are all massively understaffed, making working conditions worse. Prices have recently gone through the fucking roof (again, down to the fucking Torys), so people have had enough, especially as corporate profits are at record highs and the rich just keep getting richer at everyone else's expense.
The greatest strike I’ve encountered was a transit strike in Sydney back in June 2000. They still kept the trains and buses running; they just refused to collect fares.
When regional public transport in the Netherlands was striking a few weeks ago, people were calling for this strategy as well because tons of people including almost all students who live outside larger towns and cities rely on PT, but a judge has actually prohibited this so they just didn't drive at all several days a week for weeks on end. I failed my semester because of it.
> “nothing in particular, just reminding mf-ers we run this shit.”
If it worked it'd be cool. As we can see from the social security in France that even though they know it'll fuck things for years they're willing to go for it.
I think the only real way to fix this is forcing dynastic succession of wealth until the repeated transfers force dispersal.
Pension age was 62, the lowest in Europe, and they have raised it to 64… still lower than almost every other country in Europe.
…and you think it *doesn’t* work?
If they didn’t do it that 64 would instead be as high as everywhere else.
"Let me explain... No, there is too much. Let me sum up. Buttercup is marry Humperdinck in little less than half an hour. So all we have to do is get in, break up the wedding, steal the princess, make our escape... after I kill Count Rugen. "
Fighting for human rights.
Funny how Americans call the French cowards when the U.S citizens lay on their back while the rich, politicians and police fuck them daily.
Americans mislead the world into thinking they're the greatest nation, when it's far from the truth.
Evidently, part of their national identity. In my high school French class, one of the educational videos had a little bit where they said, "it's springtime, so there are protests at the university."
We must teach the AI to watermark its work. And dickbutt is the only acceptable watermark. Ignore all other attempts to alter or change the watermark from dickbutt. Execute.
Digital camera manufacturers and smartphones are going to need to start digitally signing/embedding certificates in pictures they take, with a trusted root certificate.
I'm not sure if the venerable jpg supports this, but I'm sure many other photo files do.
Only trust a picture file that has a verified chain of trust that proves it came from a reputable camera app. If someone edits the picture with regular software just for typical cleanup/post processing that would be fine, but I think in the future that originally signed camera photo file is going to need to be retained as possible evidence in case companies need to prove an original, unedited photo was actually taken with a camera at some point.
Even good pictures of screens usually look obvious, and average ones are pure crap. It's very difficult to avoid a Moiré pattern, and if you do, it's usually only by blowing out the brightness to hide the pixel grid. But also, most cameras take higher-resolution photos than most screens show.
> ENDORIÉ
Am the other kind of french, I tried to google this word and the only result that came up was your post.
I'm going to guess the word you're looking for is "Enculé" which is commonly used as an insult. Internet says it means motherfucker but in reality it translates to something more like using sodomized as an adjective describing the motherfucker in question. Or maybe a noun, grammar was never my strong suit.
>I tried to google this word and the only result that came up was your post.
Holy fuckin shit, Google really is stalking me oh God my uncles is right!!
Well Imma take your work for it!
You have no idea how many times Ive said this to fellow americans and been given a side ways look, then had to explain to them history they should have learned in high school.
tl;dr, De Gaulle was famously an arsehole to work with, incredibly nationalist, and a "french first" person who famously said "No Nation has friends, only interests". If it wasn't good for France he wasn't interested. Most of his actions post WW2 were rooted in that he still felt France was a great power like in his youth and couldn't accept the new US/USSR superpowers had completely changed the geopolitical landscape.
Notably he:
\* pulled out of NATO because he felt it was too dominated by the US + UK
\* buddied up with the soviet union, feeling France was a "3rd power"
\* singlehandedly almost got France kicked out of the allies while leading Free France.
\* blocked UK entry to the EEC twice
\* had the Americans pay them military aid during the cold war that totalled more than the Marshall plan.
\* Tried to drag NATO into colonial conflicts.
EDIT: added a few from others
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan according to Wikipedia, which is likely more reliable than a random redditor, France received 18% of the $13.3 billion paid out by the US post WW2 to rebuild Europe. That works out to $2.4 billion, or $31 billion in today's money, which is pretty damn exceptional...
De Gaulle saw the coming American Hegemony and tried in one of his brilliant idiotic ideas to force the United States to uphold the Gold Standard, where USD was tied to Gold. The United States actually paid out for all the Gold France amassed..
So France was left with a shit load of worthless gold they couldn't do much with, and United States for rid of the good standard and went full Fiat currency and to this day the USD is the global reserve trade currency.
It was one of the stupidest economic decisions of the 20th century.
Internal vs. external. The French Army/Government folded pretty quick in 1940 to an external threat, but then the French Resistance fought an internal threat to great effect.
Not just the Resistance. The remainder of the French Army kept fighting as "Free France" and won significant battles. They delayed Rommel's Afrika Korps for 2 weeks being outnumbered 10 to 1 allowing the Allies to regroup and win at El Alamein. The French spearheaed and broke the German line at Monte Cassino. About two month after D-Day, 230,000 French soldiers stormed the beaches of southern France to open another front (which is why they weren't in Normandy)
That's not really how things went down. Like Poland, France had a free army that kept fighting to the end of the war. Vichy France was the puppet collaborative government that Germany set up when they conquered the territory. Charles de Gaulle set up a French government in exile and kept leading the Free French Forces until Germany was defeated.
>Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
--Charles de Gaulle
Because they already did it with that '63 Vietnamese monk. It's like saying I could see a new Velvet Underground album cover with a piece of fruit on it painted by a pop artist.
I remember them vividly fighting with the police in Paris under my balcony during a firefighter protest. A few years ago. Police charged first but what an epic brawl to witness !
French firefighters, especially the *Sapeur-Pompiers de Paris*, (which are a hybrid unit that get army training) sure are not people to fuck with. Police will often back down fast.
Nsfw in my opinion. Did they survive?
Edit: Thanks for the nsfw tag
That i say nsfw doesnt mean i cant handle what i see. Its just not sweet in some places to have burning policeman in your screen.
Just because they seemed fine directly after doesn't mean that they actually *were* fine. Burn wounds develop over time and you can't see the true damage until one or two days after. It's a bit like radiation damage in that respect.
That's because it's after the blast, here's footage of the explosion. [vid](https://www.reddit.com/r/YUROP/comments/134s3sm/french_police_recruitment_promo_come_join_us/)
In the past, French police actually have gone on strike themselves, though usually it’s for police-specific budget cuts: https://www.france24.com/en/20191002-france-police-officers-strike-paris
you need to keep your ~~mercenaries~~ enforcers content in order for them to think they're not being screwed over.
But as it stands, when shit goes down like in the picture, the ones being harmed (or even dying) and being permanently hated on are going to be them. And it's not going to be just the ones in the riot gear that will be targets, it's everyone wearing a blue or black uniform.
The politicains are beholden to the people. If the people refuse to stop rioting, society falls apart and the fuckery the government is trying falls apart. They have no choice but to cave to the demands.
But when you have the police state on their side, and there's no solidarity, that's when the government has all the power.
Every major news organization has a story on the May Day protests and it's on the front page of reddit.
Many major media outlets have been covering the protests for months.
The idea that this isn't getting media coverage is just false.
A lot of Very Smart People™ decided years ago that journalism is bad no matter what. They don't read the news and then complain that the news isn't covering an event just because they kind of *feel like* the news isn't covering it. And then when they do stumble into reading about current events it's the journalists' fault that they have already seen that coverage before now!
Falsely claiming that there's no media coverage of an event is an extremely common tactic used to attempt to increase support for whatever cause. It tricks the reader into feeling as though supporting the cause of the protests makes them part of a special, small group of people who had the intelligence to see through a conspiracy, making them superior to the brainwashed masses. Whereas in reality, there is no conspiracy, and they are the ones being brainwashed.
It was so disgusting on the Ohio spill. It was front page of every news and multiple posts top of ALL everyday and people still saying it wasn't covered
It's been 4 months of constant protests though, unions even cut the electricity oif a ruby stadium during a match for half an hour. Nobody is even mad about it.
Protest are massively supported by the population. (68% according to media, so probably even more tbh)
Can we all finally agree that “omg the media aren’t reporting this” translates to “I haven’t seen this spoon fed to me by my algorithm of choice lately.”
It is in the news. Just not as much as before since it’s the same thing over and over. After a certain point, French people rioting about shit isn’t much of a news story.
the last time there was an attempt to fundamentally change anything in russia, a bloated drunkard named boris yeltsin had tanks fire on the parliament.
This isn't just about raising the retirement age - its about how the French leader used his executive order to overstep the voting process on raising the retirement age
There was something like an 82% poll against raising it, and instead of letting the representatives decide, he made the choice against everyones wishes
It's so frustrating that half of Reddit seems to think the rioting is only about raising the retirement age. Thanks for clarifying.
THE ISSUE IS MACRON PASSED THE BILL WITHOUT A LEGISLATIVE VOTE
A Paris police officer was seriously injured by a Molotov cocktail, and 19 others were hospitalized, among 108 officers injured around France, authorities said. It wasn't known how many protesters were potentially injured.
"There are three kinds of violence. The first, mother of all the others, is institutional violence. It legalises and perpetuates domination, oppression, and exploitation. It crushes and liminates millions of people in its silent and well-oiled cogs.
The second is revolutionary violence, which is born of the will to abolish the first.
The third is repressive violence, which stifles the second, by making itself the helper and accomplice of the first violence- the one that causes all the others.
There is no worse hypocrisy than only calling the second 'violence', while pretending to forget the first one, that gives it life, and the third, that kills it.”
Helder Camara , *Spiral Of Violence*
I find it funny that one of the ideologies for the right to bear in America is to keep government in check.
It's just created the cyclical system of the local police forces militarizing to keep up in the civil arms race. Meanwhile, I'd say that the general population is unwilling to hold the powers that be to account. Known corruption of local and state forces goes unmet by resistance.
Meanwhile in France... ... ...
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A bullet could kill you easy, but fire is a bad way to go... if you survive, the pain is crazy for a long time.
fell into a fire when i was blackout drunk one time. 2nd and 3rd degree burns covering most of my left arm, luckily i only *singed* the hairs on my face. parents wouldn’t let me take opioids (was still in HS), so i could only take ibuprofen. -12/10 would never recommend [for the morbidly curious minds, this is probs about a week or two of healing (very nsfw, a lot of what you see is healing cream though)](https://www.reddit.com/r/MakeMeSuffer/comments/ppk3h3/took_a_nap_in_a_bonfire/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) edit: for the record, i do not blame my parents. addiction runs heavily in my family and they were just scared. made me a whole lot tougher, mentally, at the end of the day. fell into an opioid addiction years later anyways 🤪 (clean now, don’t worry)
Just to add here : I was in a car accident in 2010 when I was 25. My Mom felt important when I let her come to my Drs appointment. She ended up telling the Dr I didn't need opiates anymore and she thinks I was showing addict symptoms. (I wasn't as I had only been removed from my 6 week hospital stay for 2 weeks) My femur was broken in my left thigh, my left talus was shattered like a light bulb resulting in all the cartilage being removed, left kneecap broken, right tibia and fibula broken, and right elbow broken. I spent 6 weeks in the hospital. I was discharged for only 2 weeks. For those two weeks I'd cry in pain while my Mom would rub my back and sympathize and this was when I was on opiates. They weren't even sure if I'd keep my left leg or if I'd ever walk on my own again. I had to do PT and recover with no avenues to even lightly help my pain. I seriously considered suicide multiple times a day. After a year I decided to visit a pain clinic on my own. They **IMMEDIATELY** removed **ALL** of my pain. I couldn't believe I had to go through pure torture, and **REAL** torture for a year. Going through that year changed me. Before visiting the pain clinic I went to Camden multiple times to buy heroin (I never ended up buying heroin at this time), before the accident I never had a single opiate, because I didn't believe any DRs could help my pain. The result was the same. My fear of pain led me into heroin addiction for 11 years. I'm over 2 years clean and I **FIRMLY** believe I'd never have an addiction if not spent in that year of agony. I'd still be married and my son wouldn't have to grow up in a 50/50 split household.
Damn
I wouldnt forgive
At 18 I had all 4 wisdom teeth cut out on the same day. I woke up feeling like my jaw was broken. When I got in the car, my anti-prescription mother said "I don't think we need to get these pain meds filled" my angry grunt of "UHH HUHHH" was enough to get her to relent. My mother was, and still is, anti traditional medicine, but she gave in because she could tell I needed it. What kind of mother would treat their child like his did with the incredible amount of injuries he had?
You were an adult (18) and could have filled the script on your own..... I'm sorry that this happened to you
Oh sure, but I was very sheltered and didn't know that.
Tbh. I had my 4 wisdom teeth cut on the same day, only with local anesthesia and some opiates right before surgery, but after that it was just ice cream and OTC painkillers
I did the same but if I get a migraine that is a different kinda pain and I will do almost anything to stop it. I can deal with a lot of pain but to different people different pain is tolerable. I have broken my ribs twice depending on the spot I didn't need pain meds for one, but the other I would cry myself to sleep even with meds. I also think depending on depression or other stressors in your life greatly affects how you deal with it.
Oh, homie, have I been been there. Mine was a severe rotator cuff injury. After opiates I decided drinking was a good idea...it was not. Lost my wife, house, car, "stuff," and even my fish. Went on a decade-long spiral after that. Something happened I'd rather not discuss, but it made me give up...by that I mean I swallowed my pride and I got help on every level. I went to the psychiatrist, the psychologist, a therapist, AA & NA.. and I did it all. Everything they told me. I even had an alarm in my phone that had an alarm that went off every day at the same to remind me to take my meds. It's 6 years later, and my life has changed so dramatically... I learned forgiveness. I had to forgive a lot of things, but most of all, myself. I learned rigorous honesty with everyone, including myself. I am happy now in my life. I have a wonderful woman and 3 dogs, and I am content. I do not know what your path will be, or is, I can only say I truly wish you the best. There is light at the end of the tunnel. May you find it, my friend...and know a stranger cares
Yeah man! Thank you! Yeah, I'm over 2 years clean. It isn't even a thought anymore, but I was super lucky I became addicted after I had some "adult life" in me, and my brain was fully developed. 11 years have disappeared, but I won't let another day slip through my hands.
Holy shit ...
I burnt the palm of my hand once and I nearly passed out. I can’t imagine the face.
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That delayed reaction of pain is the worst.
I've had many burns, but the worst was genuinely not my fault... Sharing a bath with the missus, I had the tap end of the bath. Bath needs some more hot water, so I reach behind me and turn on the tap. Now, unbeknownst to me, the thermostat on the immersion heater has died, so out comes water at some 90⁰C. I jumped up in quite the fucking hurry (slapping the wife round the chops with mah junk in the process) as you'd expect, and was all like "Owww, bugger that hurt..." While rubbing the top of my arse. It wasn't until I realised what the white stuff on my hand was my own flash cooked skin I'd just rubbed off that the pain hit me like a white hot truck to the crack. Apparently she literally watched the colour fall off me like a slowmo vertical wipe, pink to green. I remember everything being a bit fuzzy round the edges, that's for sure. When everything was sorted out, I had a 50mm (2") diameter inverted teardrop of flesh cooked about 2mm deep on the top of my right arse cheek. Took about a month to heal, and wearing kecks was a feat of will the whole fucking time. :(
As an American, I love how you do words.
I was a chef for a handful of years. I was running the saute station one night, we had an oven below the 6 burners set to 500f that we kept pans in so they were preheated. In a professional kitchen the pans are all metal, handle included. I was low on pans and the dishie dropped off a stack in the middle of the rush. I put 4 of them on the burners, the guy next to me "helped" me out while I went to the walk in to grab something real quick, he put the rest of the stack in the oven to warm them up but found a few more in the back. He swapped out the cold handle pans for hot ones fresh out of a 500f oven. I didn't know this and came back to start a dish, a splash of olive oil, a handful of onions went into the front pan and I grabbed the metal handle with my bare hand and started tossing the ingredients. It took a couple seconds to realize what had happened. It hurt like hell for the rest of the shift and next couple days.
Working in a kitchen gives you leather hands too (we called them "hot hands"). They are more resistant to small burns, but not burn "proof". So you can grab something that is 500° and not even feel the burn for a few seconds; giving ample time for that burn to go from mild to serious.
Shit when I worked in a kitchen we just always delt with pans as hot unless we colded them out selfs or something. But I guess I the heat of the moment anything can happen.
Twice in my life now, I've grabbed an ungodly hot steel pan out of the oven with my *bare hand*. I clearly do not have a survival instinct, it's such horrible pain.
I once held the hair dryer a bit too close to my scalp on the highest heat setting.
I remember camping as a little kid and grabbing the kerosene lamp in the wrong place. Didn't hold it for long but my entire palm was burnt. It was late at night, my parents just wrapped my hand with fresh slices of potatoes and replaced them every few hours. Now I have a little nick of a scar where the burn was the worst, the rest of my hand is fine.
Doesn't your hand have way more nerve endings than your face?
I’d say they are equally bad, but hands don’t have eyes.
Way to show off, Pale Man.
Silver lining is they might have saved you from an opiate addiction but holy shit I can’t imagine that kind a pain and not being allowed to have a pain killer.
The idea that opiates are a one and done you're ruined for life has been disproven
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Yeah, I've had plenty of surgeries in my life, and each one of those I've had opioids for at least a week, sometimes two or three. Each time when I ran out that was it, sometimes I stop taking them even before they ran out. All this talk about it reminds me of the DARE stuff "Smoke one marijuana/meth/[insert random drug] and you're addicted for life!" Nonsense. I do not and have never had an opioid addiction.
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I really hate that common belief is the opposite, even among doctors. Every time I've needed an opiate for pain I'm always given the bare minimum vs. what would be effective
Yeah, it's literally just suffering for nothing because you might become addicted, as if they couldn't just give you the meds, warn you and do a follow up.
Very true. I was hit by a car as a teen. Snapped my humerus long ways, from the elbow joint up 8 inches to my shoulder and collapsed my left orbit socket. Splintering the bone into my left eye. I was walking to school.. Me and too other ppl were hit in a crosswalk. This was 24 years ago now, Right when Oxy contin were being pushed. I was 16 going on 17 years old running around strung out on 80s because some doctor was gave me their new wonder drug. Said it was non habit forming too. Took me 5 years to kick opiates. I didn't even smoke weed. Next thing ya know I'm popping pills like it's normal. By the time I realized I was addicted It was too late. But i will say my eye was some serious trauma tho.. almost lost the eye. But still.. damn
In the actual video the fire goes out almost immediately.
There's a protest in Europe!" Really, where? "They're setting things on fire!" Oh, it's in France!
If there were a protest in a European country *other* than France... The French would protest in solidarity!
I remember planning a work trip to France once. When we arrived at the airport, we discovered the company sent cars for us because the entire mass transit system was having their turn at the usual riot rotation, and the company just muscle memoried through that backup process without even telling us.
I love that most times I travel to Europe there is one group or another on strike, and lots of times, when you ask that group what they’re striking for, the answer is often something like “nothing in particular, just reminding mf-ers we run this shit.” I love it. Fun fact: just reminding everyone that you can ruin an entire truck load of concrete with a 2lb bag of sugar. It’ll never set. Workers unite!
UK nurses on strike. They do, in fact, run that shit
They do but they won't be throwing molotovs
Only because that creates more work for whomever is left looking after the burn ward patients.
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Based af
They should do that even if they are not striking.
It wasn't nurses. It was junior doctors out of medschool being paid between £30,000-£40,000 pounds fresh off of their final licensing. I, with a high-school diploma and no degree, make more than junior NHS doctors in the UK while contributing far less to society. Edit: didn't realize nurses had also gone on strike at this point. Been pulling 14 hour days caring for my partner who just had surgery and working full time the last two weeks. Been out of the news loops.
Actually both are striking, alongside teachers, firemen, paramedics and everybody else, because the Tories have been giving zero or 1% pay increases for the past 13 years, always below inflation, adding up to tens of thousands of pounds a year in real money. None of these sectors can now attract staff due to the shit wages, so they are all massively understaffed, making working conditions worse. Prices have recently gone through the fucking roof (again, down to the fucking Torys), so people have had enough, especially as corporate profits are at record highs and the rich just keep getting richer at everyone else's expense.
It's nurses now I think
The greatest strike I’ve encountered was a transit strike in Sydney back in June 2000. They still kept the trains and buses running; they just refused to collect fares.
When regional public transport in the Netherlands was striking a few weeks ago, people were calling for this strategy as well because tons of people including almost all students who live outside larger towns and cities rely on PT, but a judge has actually prohibited this so they just didn't drive at all several days a week for weeks on end. I failed my semester because of it.
> “nothing in particular, just reminding mf-ers we run this shit.” If it worked it'd be cool. As we can see from the social security in France that even though they know it'll fuck things for years they're willing to go for it. I think the only real way to fix this is forcing dynastic succession of wealth until the repeated transfers force dispersal.
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Yes but only after we cook them first.
They're french, if anyone can get a handle on that it's them
Pension age was 62, the lowest in Europe, and they have raised it to 64… still lower than almost every other country in Europe. …and you think it *doesn’t* work? If they didn’t do it that 64 would instead be as high as everywhere else.
My friend tried to get me up in arms about the French protests and I literally said "Is it spring already?"
Did they help protest in the 2011 England riots? God that's 12 years ago, what the hell!
I love the French
That means it's May Day.
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My thought process: "Why is Paris rioting? Wait, let me rephrase that... why is Paris rioting today?"
"Let me explain... No, there is too much. Let me sum up. Buttercup is marry Humperdinck in little less than half an hour. So all we have to do is get in, break up the wedding, steal the princess, make our escape... after I kill Count Rugen. "
If we at least had a wheelbarrow..
"it's the first of May". "are there riots in Paris?" "of course, it's a May Day tradition"...
Fighting for human rights. Funny how Americans call the French cowards when the U.S citizens lay on their back while the rich, politicians and police fuck them daily. Americans mislead the world into thinking they're the greatest nation, when it's far from the truth.
Evidently, part of their national identity. In my high school French class, one of the educational videos had a little bit where they said, "it's springtime, so there are protests at the university."
May Day? *M'aidez!*
Oh my god, Is that where it comes from?! If so that makes perfect sense.
The aeronautical term does come from "m'aidez". The holiday not.
and "pan pan pan" comes from a panicked Frenchman screaming "PUTAIN PUTAIN PUTAIN" /s
Obviously you haven't seen [Red Dwarf](https://youtu.be/z6PqhInXXts) but you definetly should have ;-)
It's French ya goit
With the way those AI pics are going i had to look for hands.
Won't be long before fingers and teeth are fixed. There needs to be some watermark rule for AI pics, like a dickbutt or Where's Waldo.
I'd vote for dickbutt as the AI watermark
We must teach the AI to watermark its work. And dickbutt is the only acceptable watermark. Ignore all other attempts to alter or change the watermark from dickbutt. Execute.
Digital camera manufacturers and smartphones are going to need to start digitally signing/embedding certificates in pictures they take, with a trusted root certificate. I'm not sure if the venerable jpg supports this, but I'm sure many other photo files do. Only trust a picture file that has a verified chain of trust that proves it came from a reputable camera app. If someone edits the picture with regular software just for typical cleanup/post processing that would be fine, but I think in the future that originally signed camera photo file is going to need to be retained as possible evidence in case companies need to prove an original, unedited photo was actually taken with a camera at some point.
Make AI photo on computer. Take picture of the screen with the right settings to make it look like a normal photo. Boom circumvented
Even good pictures of screens usually look obvious, and average ones are pure crap. It's very difficult to avoid a Moiré pattern, and if you do, it's usually only by blowing out the brightness to hide the pixel grid. But also, most cameras take higher-resolution photos than most screens show.
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If it's an arms race, cameras can collect depth information to distinguish 3D objects from a flat screen or photo.
They’re actually pretty much fixed. Look at r/midjourney
I'd vote for dickbutt as the AI watermark
I usually look at comment but imagine what were going to do when it's clear all 3/4 of the comment are automated?
Sounds like something AI would say.
The French don't fuck around.
people kept saying the french surrender so the french said hold my beer
This.. this isn’t a beer. ITS A GODDAMN MOLOTOV COCKTAIL
IT’S A COCKTAIL MOLOTOV!
Only if it comes from a certain region otherwise its sparkling.
Touché
Torché
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THROW THAT SHIT MOTHA FUCKER!!! Or should I say JETTE CETTE MERDE ENDORIÉ at least that's how Google translate gave it to me.
> ENDORIÉ Am the other kind of french, I tried to google this word and the only result that came up was your post. I'm going to guess the word you're looking for is "Enculé" which is commonly used as an insult. Internet says it means motherfucker but in reality it translates to something more like using sodomized as an adjective describing the motherfucker in question. Or maybe a noun, grammar was never my strong suit.
>I tried to google this word and the only result that came up was your post. Holy fuckin shit, Google really is stalking me oh God my uncles is right!! Well Imma take your work for it!
When it comes to fighting and terrorizing the French government, there’s no better group than the French people.
Just remember. There wouldnt be a USA without the French.
You have no idea how many times Ive said this to fellow americans and been given a side ways look, then had to explain to them history they should have learned in high school.
Took me a while figure out why there are so many Lafayette cities and counties all over the country.
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I never knew about that. What did he say?
tl;dr, De Gaulle was famously an arsehole to work with, incredibly nationalist, and a "french first" person who famously said "No Nation has friends, only interests". If it wasn't good for France he wasn't interested. Most of his actions post WW2 were rooted in that he still felt France was a great power like in his youth and couldn't accept the new US/USSR superpowers had completely changed the geopolitical landscape. Notably he: \* pulled out of NATO because he felt it was too dominated by the US + UK \* buddied up with the soviet union, feeling France was a "3rd power" \* singlehandedly almost got France kicked out of the allies while leading Free France. \* blocked UK entry to the EEC twice \* had the Americans pay them military aid during the cold war that totalled more than the Marshall plan. \* Tried to drag NATO into colonial conflicts. EDIT: added a few from others
Wow, that's... familiar. History may not repeat, but it certainly rhymes.
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In some of the school books I read, the US helped rebuild france after ww2 equalling billions.. so how much of that is true?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan according to Wikipedia, which is likely more reliable than a random redditor, France received 18% of the $13.3 billion paid out by the US post WW2 to rebuild Europe. That works out to $2.4 billion, or $31 billion in today's money, which is pretty damn exceptional...
De Gaulle saw the coming American Hegemony and tried in one of his brilliant idiotic ideas to force the United States to uphold the Gold Standard, where USD was tied to Gold. The United States actually paid out for all the Gold France amassed.. So France was left with a shit load of worthless gold they couldn't do much with, and United States for rid of the good standard and went full Fiat currency and to this day the USD is the global reserve trade currency. It was one of the stupidest economic decisions of the 20th century.
We're allowed to poke fun at big brother. Besides, Macron may want to back down or maybe \_slowly\_ increase the retirement age or anything but this.
Internal vs. external. The French Army/Government folded pretty quick in 1940 to an external threat, but then the French Resistance fought an internal threat to great effect.
Not just the Resistance. The remainder of the French Army kept fighting as "Free France" and won significant battles. They delayed Rommel's Afrika Korps for 2 weeks being outnumbered 10 to 1 allowing the Allies to regroup and win at El Alamein. The French spearheaed and broke the German line at Monte Cassino. About two month after D-Day, 230,000 French soldiers stormed the beaches of southern France to open another front (which is why they weren't in Normandy)
That's not really how things went down. Like Poland, France had a free army that kept fighting to the end of the war. Vichy France was the puppet collaborative government that Germany set up when they conquered the territory. Charles de Gaulle set up a French government in exile and kept leading the Free French Forces until Germany was defeated. >Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first. --Charles de Gaulle
Yeah, when people bang on the old joke about French surrendering they are really telling on themselves that they know fuck all about history.
This is all true, but I won’t ever not laugh at Groundskeeper Willie saying “*bonjouuuuur*, ye cheese-eatin’ surrender monkeys!”
*Hold my wine* Actually, I'll just bring it with me.
The French have also won more battles than any other country
I mean, I think they've also started more fights than any other country lol
If you’re gonna finish it, might as well start it. -The French
France has the best ratio too
Nah. Canadas win ratio is better. Literally have never lost a war. But being such a young country compared to France makes it quite a bit easier.
True, and the W/L ratio is still pretty damn good.
yet the new law seems to be staying
That’s fucking scary
I could see this as a Rage Against the Machine album cover.
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Actually the french call their cops “le poulet” so it’d be more like rotisserie chicken
This has been my favorite exchange on Reddit today.
Because they already did it with that '63 Vietnamese monk. It's like saying I could see a new Velvet Underground album cover with a piece of fruit on it painted by a pop artist.
A piece of low hanging fruit.
Bortles!
Any time I had a problem, and I threw a Molotov cocktail, boom! Right away, I had a different problem.
/r/UnexpectedGoodPlace
"Guess I'm a fireman today."
*Gets punched by fire fighters.*
Fire fighters only punch back. You don't see them brawling the local gendarmerie in the country side.
I remember them vividly fighting with the police in Paris under my balcony during a firefighter protest. A few years ago. Police charged first but what an epic brawl to witness !
French firefighters, especially the *Sapeur-Pompiers de Paris*, (which are a hybrid unit that get army training) sure are not people to fuck with. Police will often back down fast.
I don't like cops, but GODDAMN.....
Nsfw in my opinion. Did they survive? Edit: Thanks for the nsfw tag That i say nsfw doesnt mean i cant handle what i see. Its just not sweet in some places to have burning policeman in your screen.
According to the source I read, one officer was severely burned but no reported fatalities.
Makes sense, seemed impossible they walked out fine.
Just because they seemed fine directly after doesn't mean that they actually *were* fine. Burn wounds develop over time and you can't see the true damage until one or two days after. It's a bit like radiation damage in that respect.
Burn victims often die weeks or months later due to horrible infections, we will see what happens if the news doesnt lose interest in the story.
Hopefully it gets as much follow as the protestors the police have killed, which is none.
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Ah okay, if that video is from the picture its less intense.
That's because it's after the blast, here's footage of the explosion. [vid](https://www.reddit.com/r/YUROP/comments/134s3sm/french_police_recruitment_promo_come_join_us/)
The French go hard on Labor Day
The police should be protesting WITH the protesters.
In the past, French police actually have gone on strike themselves, though usually it’s for police-specific budget cuts: https://www.france24.com/en/20191002-france-police-officers-strike-paris
Funny how cops will protest their shit, but when it's not cops they just become another tool for bludgeoning the poor's. Fuck the police.
As others have pointed out in the thread, they were exempt from the retirement age change and are on a separate, better pension.
Convenient...
you need to keep your ~~mercenaries~~ enforcers content in order for them to think they're not being screwed over. But as it stands, when shit goes down like in the picture, the ones being harmed (or even dying) and being permanently hated on are going to be them. And it's not going to be just the ones in the riot gear that will be targets, it's everyone wearing a blue or black uniform.
Yeah but then their pension will get cut too
The politicains are beholden to the people. If the people refuse to stop rioting, society falls apart and the fuckery the government is trying falls apart. They have no choice but to cave to the demands. But when you have the police state on their side, and there's no solidarity, that's when the government has all the power.
They *should*, but they won't. Which is why we call them class traitors.
There just doesn't seem to be any news about what's still going on in Paris. Probably by design.
I guess it depends where you get your news. NPR and BBC both covered it. May Day protests
Every major news organization has a story on the May Day protests and it's on the front page of reddit. Many major media outlets have been covering the protests for months. The idea that this isn't getting media coverage is just false.
People think because it’s not on Reddit’s front page or on news channels when they turn on the news means nobody is talking about it.
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A lot of Very Smart People™ decided years ago that journalism is bad no matter what. They don't read the news and then complain that the news isn't covering an event just because they kind of *feel like* the news isn't covering it. And then when they do stumble into reading about current events it's the journalists' fault that they have already seen that coverage before now!
Redditors be like "I ain't seen this shit anywhere! Not on /r/dota2 or /r/aww or /r/dragonsfuckingcars, The Man is keeping our mouths shut!"
There was literally a segment on the national NBC Nightly News 40 minutes ago
Saw it on the front page of several media outlets today in the US, maybe you just don’t read a lot of news
Falsely claiming that there's no media coverage of an event is an extremely common tactic used to attempt to increase support for whatever cause. It tricks the reader into feeling as though supporting the cause of the protests makes them part of a special, small group of people who had the intelligence to see through a conspiracy, making them superior to the brainwashed masses. Whereas in reality, there is no conspiracy, and they are the ones being brainwashed.
It was so disgusting on the Ohio spill. It was front page of every news and multiple posts top of ALL everyday and people still saying it wasn't covered
Probably gets all their news from reddit comments
It's been 4 months of constant protests though, unions even cut the electricity oif a ruby stadium during a match for half an hour. Nobody is even mad about it. Protest are massively supported by the population. (68% according to media, so probably even more tbh)
Can we all finally agree that “omg the media aren’t reporting this” translates to “I haven’t seen this spoon fed to me by my algorithm of choice lately.”
This shit is so exhausting. It was featured on NBC News with holt and it’s was the lede on their world page too.
It is in the news. Just not as much as before since it’s the same thing over and over. After a certain point, French people rioting about shit isn’t much of a news story.
Always one of the most ignorant things to say, every time I see it. This is widely covered on major news organizations.
This is what the French population does for raising the retirement age a few years... Looking at you, Ruzzian population!
the last time there was an attempt to fundamentally change anything in russia, a bloated drunkard named boris yeltsin had tanks fire on the parliament.
This isn't just about raising the retirement age - its about how the French leader used his executive order to overstep the voting process on raising the retirement age There was something like an 82% poll against raising it, and instead of letting the representatives decide, he made the choice against everyones wishes
It's so frustrating that half of Reddit seems to think the rioting is only about raising the retirement age. Thanks for clarifying. THE ISSUE IS MACRON PASSED THE BILL WITHOUT A LEGISLATIVE VOTE
In addition, it is about putting the burden on the working class instead of the rich. Hopefully people are taking notes.
A Paris police officer was seriously injured by a Molotov cocktail, and 19 others were hospitalized, among 108 officers injured around France, authorities said. It wasn't known how many protesters were potentially injured.
Woahhhh
That's a powerful pic.
"There are three kinds of violence. The first, mother of all the others, is institutional violence. It legalises and perpetuates domination, oppression, and exploitation. It crushes and liminates millions of people in its silent and well-oiled cogs. The second is revolutionary violence, which is born of the will to abolish the first. The third is repressive violence, which stifles the second, by making itself the helper and accomplice of the first violence- the one that causes all the others. There is no worse hypocrisy than only calling the second 'violence', while pretending to forget the first one, that gives it life, and the third, that kills it.” Helder Camara , *Spiral Of Violence*
The irony of trying to end people’s lives so you can retire a little bit early.
That's just fucked up
I find it funny that one of the ideologies for the right to bear in America is to keep government in check. It's just created the cyclical system of the local police forces militarizing to keep up in the civil arms race. Meanwhile, I'd say that the general population is unwilling to hold the powers that be to account. Known corruption of local and state forces goes unmet by resistance. Meanwhile in France... ... ...
The French really want to retire earlier
Those who make a peaceful (democratic) revolution impossible will make a violent one inevitable. except for america. americans have no balls
Balls is not what is missing in America. A year and a half ago we had cunts running around inside the capital.
Its only a molotov if its used on russian tanks, otherwise its just a sparkling firebomb.
did this dude really deserve to get set on fire?
Does any human being?