The movie establishes that the phone lines to the house are down, that’s also why nobody is able to call Kevin at home. The movie also establishes that all of his neighbors are out of town which is why he couldn’t borrow their phones. The movie ALSO BEGINS by introducing the main antagonist as a “police officer” which is why Kevin doesn’t trust the cops. I’m so tired of the ignorance. The slander.
FINALLY we’ve reached the time of year for home alone discourse
If anyone deserves a raise it’s the employee from four seasons total landscaping who answered the phone and went “yup, we can set up a podium and everything” and just acted like nothing was out of the ordinary.
My mom taught me to exaggerate my pain so that doctors would take me seriously and all I’m saying is that it hasn’t failed me yet
Listen. If you’re a Black Woman you absolutely should exaggerate your pain.
We’re dying because these doctors refuse to take us seriously. If you feel like something is off exaggerate it until they test for it. We’ve gotta advocate for ourselves
Seriously yall. Doctors would rather you be in pain than have to actually diagnose you. Some doctor stans gon be mad but damn if it took 10 years for them to successfully diagnose my mom after she was telling them textbook recounts of what she was experiencing and if it took 8 years for my aunt experiencing terrible indescribable pain in her stomach that they could have EASILY xrayed her for to which they actually did after literal fuckin years of her crying they found that the last operator on her left shit in her stomach. Then yes doctors don’t fucking care aboht patients anymore. Its a money business and you’re a dollar sign to them. May be some legit ones out there but in my experience its been “you’re fine, heres some shit that won’t help.” Because nothing fuckin changes.
So many stories of people having to see 3,4 different doctors with the same symptoms just to get someone that’ll run all the tests so they can get a diagnosis
I had all the classic symptoms of Multiple sclerosis 4 years ago. I mean textbook symptons. A disease which has no cure and which best hope is to get on treatment as soon as you see symptoms to delay or stop disease progression.
I went to my doctor after the er discharged me with “stress” and said “help my face is numb and I’m scared. He looked at me in my face and said “well what do you want me to do about it?” I had to beg to see a neurologist. The neurologist refused to let me speak and told me I was just stressed and refused to schedule me for an mri. Had she done that they would have found lesion on my brain.
4 years later I have now 2 lesions on my brain consistent with MS. I only found a doctor willing to take me seriously by happenstance after being hospitalized and refused a surgery that I would need anyway a few short months later. While on the hospital I was dismissed and refused pain medication unless I was literally screaming.
Fuck these doctors. Advocate for yourself hard.
“I want to copies of your documentation in my records of the symptoms I have reported and what actions were taken to respond to them.”
LISTEN ALL OF YOU BUT BLACK WOMEN ESPECIALLY
If a doctor refuses treatment or tests, say “I would like your refusal to treat documented in my chart.”
Then wait about 24 hours. (Partly for computer processing time, partly so if they think they’re being smart and saying yes but not actually doing it they’ll think they’re in the clear.)
Then call the doctor’s office AND SAY YOU WANT A COPY OF YOUR MEDICAL RECORDS.
If the refusal to treat isn’t in your records, younowhaveamalpracticesuit.
Very, very few doctors are going to risk that possibility. They’ll bitch and moan when you ask for documentation, but they’ll run your tests.
As a comparison, by the way, here’s a doctor who had nothing to hide: my mom’s eye doctor when her eye started getting to the “It’s going to have to be physically removed” stage. He met us at the office at 9pm, long after close, with his date, to give my mom an injection to try to relieve the pressure in the eye. (Luckily said date also worked at the clinic and completely understood why he was doing this. He’s a great guy, he deserves a great lady.) I asked if he could note the exact time in her records, because the time needed between these injections was speeding up immensely. His reply:
“Actually that could give us an idea how fast this is progressing. Yes. What time is it? I’ll look up her earlier visit when I’m done.”
If your doctor isn’t that eager to make these notes, demand documentation and try to find a new doctor ASAP. It will save your life.
All amazing advice and highly recommend everything.
I just wanted to make a note for people that are off on their own, on the their own insurance for the first time, it can be a bit nerve wracking selecting a primary care physician, especially if you are at a point where all your peers are in the same boat and recommendations are not available to you (but seriously, communicate with your community, it can really help you weed out terrible doctors and find helpful ones).
First off, you can literally look up multiple reviews on doctors (also leave reviews for others, we gotta help each other out), but in my personal experience find new doctors.
You can usually tell by their age, how many clients they have and often clinics list how long their doctors have been there.
Not only are you finding someone with fresher medical knowledge, while this person may be quite a bit older than you, you are likely to have a generation in common, I find this is extremely helpful for mental illnesses; as a millennial, i have more faith in a millennial doctor to empathize with me than I do a boomer.
But more than anything, they are usually eager to do their job well, for whatever reason. they can finally help people, they are finally paying off those student loans, they are a new employee and eager to please. Really there is a plethora of reasons, but more often then not, you get the care you need.
I decided to do this when I first moved out, because I noticed the pattern between doctors that tossed me aside and ones that genuinely helped. I was nervous about sacrificing possible experience for eagerness but I decided to try it. Let me tell you, the best decision I’ve ever made. To the point I literally recommend my doctor to others. A doctor that is willing to help you is worth a hundred of “experienced” doctors. I know it can all be stressful figuring it out, but it is possible!!
In other news, if your leaving your parents for the first time, please get the numbers of all the doctors you’ve had, and all that fun stuff. It’s a bitch to figure out later, and trust me, you’ll need it, especially if you have medical issues.
Not only did the husband end up falling in love with the peacock (named Chief), they ended up getting a chicken as well!
That ended more wholesome than I had feared and I’m glad
exotic animals should not be pets 🙃
Peacocks are domestic and extremely common ya city bitch
when I lived in California as a teen there was gang of peacocks that beat the living shit out of my sisters cat
Also if it’s being sold like that it’s more likely the animal cant go back into the wild and would need a person to take care of it. Birds that are rehabilitated mostly can never be wild again as they easily imprint on humans 🤷♀️
@senil888@greenleafsama it… It’s not wild OR exotic. They are domestic game fowl in the US, the same as turkeys and pheasants. They’re farm animals at this point. Like chickens, just with different care needs. They’re sold at farm auctions and game bird swap meets alongside all other kinds of domestic fowl, and most of them aren’t even that expensive, like you can get a plain blue like that for $50-100 around here, which is the same amount I paid I adopt my cat. They’ve been bred so domestically and for so long that there are literally hundreds of color/pattern mutation combos. Do you even know purple peafowl actually exist? Bronze? Opal? Silver pied? Even most of those won’t put you out by more than $200 if you’re just looking for a pet. People pay more for dogs. Rats, mice, rabbits, and guinea pigs are considered “exotics” by vets, but that doesn’t mean we haven’t domesticated them.
Chief was almost certainly being sold because someone hatched him on purpose from their pets. Chances are good that if these two have a “local” livestock auction, they live in some approximation of “the country” rather than the city, so I’m guessing they are perfectly capable of keeping both of these birds just fine. Whether they do or not I don’t know, but even if they don’t, it wouldn’t change the fact that plenty of people on farms do.
Like me, for example. Here’s one of my purple kids looking for some attention. That’s their pen in the background. He was out free ranging with my chickens.
One of my ladies begging for a treat:
Here’s our pens:
Here’s a baby I was babysitting for a friend down the road that has them. Two of my other neighbors have them too.
Like. They’re galliformes, the same as chickens, the same as turkeys. They look fancy but I promise you, they’re not.
They just shiny! That’s it! No FOWL done!
Interesting and all well and good for the US of A but… You know the world keeps going past American shores and in other English speaking countries these little guys are certainly exotic and should not and rarely are pets outside of rehabilitation centres/zoos… So… Everyone is right?
@axendil Actually they’re domestically kept on every major continent except antartica, including MOST english-speaking countries and also a LOT of non-english-speaking countries so…. no, they’re really not just a “US of A” thing.
They were originally domesticated in Asia/SE Asia, not the US, and they’re still kept there. Australia has really strict no-import laws so they’re doing the best they can with colors and patterns down there (last I heard they have pied, white, cameo, and I think BS? maybe Steel, and I’m PRETTY sure they managed to get green imports to make spaldings at some point) but they definitely keep them on farms there too. Europe has a really beautiful morph called EU violet that is SO much bolder than the US purples, but we’re having a difficult time getting them over here since it’s a few thousand dollars to ship w/ the vet work, but people are doing it. Germany has a morph just started up called Elfenbien that is a mutation of a mutation, something Went Wonky in the opal mutation and caused a sex-link blackshoulder pattern to appear, but since the original breeder doesn’t know what exactly is going on yet, he’s not really spreading them to the other breeders in the area yet. I belong to several peafowl groups online and I regularly see posts from Russian, African, and Brazilian breeders, and just this weekend I had a long discussion with someone in Scotland who was lamenting not having purples yet and I got to introduce her to another Scottish breeder who has EU violet, and show pics of the differences. They’re considered domestic fowl in England, and kept on farms. I’ve seen fewer Canadian breeders/keepers, possibly because it’s so cold up there they don’t fare well, but I definitely have seen them there too.
BUT LIKE lol it’s not a USA Only thing for them to be kept on farms or as pets, so like, maybe hop down off that high horse until you know what you’re talking about? Also the dude and his wife in question are from the USA anyway so that’s where the debate is taking place?
According to Wikipedia, Peacocks have been domesticated for at least 4000 years, they are not exotics.
… so I’m mostly rebloging for the pictures, but the idea of peacocks being exotic has always just been so ingrained in me that this was eye opening and a fascinating discourse. Do they serve a purpose other than decorative? Just curious to be honest.
They can be useful as guard animals, since they get quite loud if they aren’t happy about something, including raccoons coming near your chickens.
Also, they will kill and eat snakes, which is probably especially useful in SE Asia, where they originate from.
They are like the shiny version of geese lol.
But really, you’d see them at the zoo, but not in an enclosure, just roaming around, the same way you’d find ducks at Disneyland. Lots of farms back home kept them (I lived in a bit more suburb/rural area of San Diego) and sometimes they’d just be roaming random streets in the morning. Just because they are pretty doesn’t mean they are exotic
Remember when Nintendo was like affordable and most kids, even lower class could grow up playing them but then they randomly decided to release a console for $200 and the controllers cost like $70 each to replace and all the games cost at least $60. Remember when you could get a dslite for under a hundred dollars and the games all at most cost $40 so even like less privileged kids could get one game for Christmas if we were all good with money, and it was the cheapest most obtainable system in the market of video games. Remember that?
the appeal of buzzfeed unsolved is that it’s not just a wacky believer and a strait-laced skeptic bc the skeptic is much weirder as a person than the believer. obviously the classic scully/mulder dynamic is very entertaining but there’s just something about a man who firmly does not believe in ghosts but does believe that it’s ok to eat a pickle floating in a pond “if it’s fresh”
