Behold, the Awesome Power of Human Stupidity

12/19/06 | 60Gunner

[60Gunner]

Raybbr, you are now on the ER Nursing ping list. Thanks for stopping by!

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[60Gunner]

ASOC, you have been added to my ER Nursing stories ping list. Thanks for the comment! We use "gorked" almost exclusively to refer to a brain-damaged or brain-dead patient.

OTOH, when referring to a patient who has been rendered unconscious or sedated by medication, we use the term "snowed" (as in the "snow" you see on the TV screen when the station goes off the air). Perhaps I should create an ER Glossary of Terms. Some of the words are entertaining, but many of the terms might be offensive to less understanding souls, even if not meant to be so. It's the "trench humor," you understand.

[60Gunner]

"When the only tool you have is a box knife, every job looks like a box."

Conversely, when the only tool you have is a screwdriver, then every job is screwed.

[ASOC]

LOL

I used to say "I Grok" - to convey a sense of understanding.

Now, I use simplified American Standard English or depending on the audience, a simpler "Yo, word"

[OCCASparky]

Oh my dear goodness. These are people even Jerry Springer would regard as too backwards and stupid.

Then again, it's a wonder I lived through my childhood at times, especially out in the country where I was cavorting around with archery equipment and rifles/shotguns long before I was legally able to drive.

Sadly, a few of my friends did NOT pass the Darwinian final exam.

[OCCASparky]

Oh my dear goodness. These are people even Jerry Springer would regard as too backwards and stupid.

Then again, it's a wonder I lived through my childhood at times, especially out in the country where I was cavorting around with archery equipment and rifles/shotguns long before I was legally able to drive.

Sadly, a few of my friends did NOT pass the Darwinian final exam.

[reagan_fanatic]

The kid with the boxcutter - un-frickin-believable that someone that mind-numbingly stupid has survived for as long as he has.

I wonder if he's learned his lesson yet?

[null and void]

Perhaps I should create an ER Glossary of Terms. Some of the words are entertaining, but many of the terms might be offensive to less understanding souls, even if not meant to be so. It's the "trench humor," you understand.

Please ping me when you have the glossary.

Oh, hell, just add me to your ping list...

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Good post!

[r9etb]

You, sir, should write a book -- create a sort of an anti-James Herriot genre... "All Things Dim and Ugly" might be a good working title.

At the very least, keep posting these gems at FR, and put me on your ping list.

[60Gunner]

Null and void, I have added you to the ER Nursing ping list. It's an honor to have you aboard.

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[doubled]

The word "grok" comes from the Heinlein novel "Stranger in a Strange Land", a very good one.

60Gunner, please, put me on your ping list. Your stories are quite entertaining and I would hate to miss any.

[Exeter]

I've always considered incidents like this as Nature's way of cleaning the dead leaves out of the gene pool...

[BeHoldAPaleHorse]

Ah, this brings back memories, helping transport Homo jackassii to the ER as a cop.

One guy tried to jump out from a freeway overpass, hanging onto a rope, and swing down into the bed of his friend's pickup truck. He'd calculated how his velocity and the pickup truck's velocity would match just as his feet touched down.

He jumped just a little too early, and his friend was going about 25 MPH too fast. So instead of alighting in the bed of the truck, he got hit by the truck grill and given one hell of a shove.

He held onto the rope, though--until he smacked into the underside of the overpass. He then dropped down onto the pavement.

He was a mess--multiple fractures, severe concussion, you name it.

But it must've been really funny to watch.

[KYGrandma]

I'd buy one!

[BeHoldAPaleHorse]

How anyone can believe that such a complex creature arose by chance is beyond me.

It's simple: there is no way any self-respecting engineer would design anything as kludgy and as ineptly engineered as the human body, and then BRAG about it afterwards.

[r9etb]

The word "grok" comes from the Heinlein novel "Stranger in a Strange Land", a very good one.

His last, IMO ... it marks the beginning of his sad decline into stories with an obsessive focus on breakfast and other, less wholesome things.

[null and void]

It was designed by a french engineer.

Who else would put the playground between the sewage plant and the solid waste dump?

[300winmag]

Your are now on the ER Nursing stories ping list!

Our system's ER departments are my biggest customers on midnights.

[Exeter]

Many years ago we had a similar incident in Jackson, Ms. that made Esquire's Dubious Achievement Awards. One night a cop pulled over a car weaving down the street. He discovered two men in the vehicle. One was drunk and the other one was blind, and it was the blind guy behind the wheel. The explanation given was that the sighted one had driven the two of them to a party, and after the party they decided that he was too drunk to drive home safely. So the blind guy got behind the wheel and drove while the drunk one was telling him how to steer as they went down the street!