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Knew a 105 year old woman who smoked her entire adult life. When asked to what she attributed her long life, she replied “Oh, it was my doctor. When I was 100, he told me I needed to quit smoking, and I did.”
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Hey I think i got one for this: had cancer at 8, they took out my femur and replaced it with a titanium rod. The rod was a prototype that was only given to kids that one year I needed one. After that, they discontinued the prototype rod. Went to see the doctor who operated on me (in a different city) last year, and he was surprised to see that I still had my leg. Apparently, he told me that all other kids who ended up needing this rod went on to do sports or dancing or something else that requires a lot of movement in both legs and every one of them broke their rods due to the strain of their activities. I instead watched anime and play video games. So whenever I get heck because "why didn't you do sports in school" or heck for being a "otaku weeb nerd", I can tell them that everybody else who used to have this rod now has their legs amputated and that video games and anime actually saved my leg as I'm the only person left in the world with that type of rod in their leg. So I guess I'm biased towards video games and anime because I'm the only one left who has survived this long with my leg still intact. Video games can save lives, confirmed.
Who'd have thought that a titanium rod wasn't as effective as bone? I guess it's because it isn't as flexible.
@@eightw5783I think it would be that the body doesn't heal titanium as it does its own bone. As bones flex, micro-cracks form which the body then heals making the bone harder. If titanium forms stress cracks, those cracks are here to stay and don't get healed.
I have a titanium rod in my leg along side the femur. I had a compound fracture and lost 2 inches of bone. They replaced an inch with bone scrapped from my hip. Worst thing I’ve ever been through. I was 14 and now in my 40’s. I was told back then I could eventually have the rod removed but I still have it to this day.
Reading your story definitely reminds me of fortunate I am.
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@@angc214 I like this answer but if I were to fault it, it is that titanium is so strong it should never break under the stresses applied within the body; (stop to check the ratio of strength) wow this is interesting reading (titanium is only 5 times the strength of bone but it is more likely that it breaks away from the surrounding tissues).
@@angc214 I believe both reasons are correct. Bones are more flexible and also more brittle, and they get healed by the body as they grow and become worn.
I survived Y2K, the end of the Mayan calendar, harmonic conversion, and half a dozen blood moons. I am immortal.
My grandfather was in the Army in Germany during WWII. He liberated a concentration camp and stepped on a land mine. He and my grandmother slept in separate bedrooms because he had night terrors and would wake up screaming. He dealt with the trauma by drinking. He was a functional alcoholic until he retired and started spending his days at the VFW. He died in his late 50s from cirrhosis of the liver.
Just because it wasn't called PTSD, doesn't mean it wasn't PTSD.
Digital survivorship bias here:
I think the worst ones are people who pop into vc desperately asking for help for an hour or so, ignoring all advice, do some terrible strategy, survive by literal luck, and then just say "gaming" after
To add onto this, people who beg for advice or help, don't listen to anything, fail horriblel ways multiple times, then finally take some of the advice and say it was their own idea and how smart they are.
Or people who acknowledge a problem, but instead of trying to solve it they just ignore it or actively make it worse
My Mom has smoked since she was 16. She's in her 60's, is relatively fine, will probably live a decent while longer, universe willing. I'm over here being the one with lung damage from being born with the cord around my neck, almost dying at 2 with RSV, and growing up with severe asthma. At 30 with horrible sinus and allergy problems and every single doctor in my life has told her even if she goes outside every time (which she doesn't) the 2nd hand smoke is still a major reason for my problems. Thanks tabacco cartels.
Anything and everything I tell older generations I can’t/wont do with my baby. Cereal in bottles, cosleeping, car seats, solids before 6 months, only introducing one food at a time… it’s endless.
Wait, you get people arguing against the only one food at a time thing? I'm in my mid thirties and my parents did that with me, and my *grandparents* are the ones that taught them that. Was that not common knowledge back then, too? If you only feed the kid one thing at a time you know what's causing the issue if they get sick!
Although as I say that, I guess a lot of older folks don't 'believe in' allergies, which is one of the biggest reasons to do the one food at a time thing. My family has a very common, very deadly allergy to fish on my mom's side, so even our older generations understood and respected the danger of allergies. Maybe that contributed to our acceptance of the one food at a time. But I seriously thought it was common practice even like a hundred years ago. I can't believe you get people fighting you on that one.
You don't use car seats, or you refuse to not use them.
@@thesimslover82884 I realized after posting my comment it wasn’t super clear I meant that as a list of topics, not things I refuse to do! That’s my bad xx
@@Scottthespy13 it’s pretty wild, my aunt gave my cousin a bunch of stuff at once and ended in anaphylaxis at 8 months old.., which is why I’m so strict about it… even with that my family doesn’t get it. My grandma tells me all the time how they started all the kids and grandkids with pizza crusts or anything they ate “and never had issues”
@@thesimslover82884 that conversation came up when my baby cried while I tightened her straps and went to pinch the shoulders, my dad said “she doesn’t want it that tight!” Bc she was fussing, I explained the pinch thing and he went on a rant about how when he was born (76) he rode in mom’s lap and that was his car seat and he survived… I looked him in the eye and said deadpan “car seats like this were made for a reason, you were the lucky one.” Also, I was born in 2001, pretty sure car seat safety it’s incredibly different now… pretty sure I had a 5 point harness 😂 apparently not properly secured though
Worked with an old timer and he gave me a ride home once, before he even turned on the car he made sure i had my seatbelt. Apparently when he was young his dad hit a parked car goung like 15, his brother in the front seat no seatbelt hit yhe dash and caused a brain bleed died few days later. Whenever someone especially old folks brag about their dangerous childhoods i think back to this.
Last story: that bias led to a new mental health law in my country that, in practice, left the patients to their own devices. I'm sure someone made the list of all the people (children, adults, civilians, police officers, men, women, close, strangers) who paid the ultimate price when someone near them was going through a psychotic break. That law is still in effect as of today.
When we were kids we would ride the seven miles to the lake on the back of the flatbed hay wagon.
I rode in the bed of my uncles truck one summer when I was helping him with his landscaping business. It would be me and his sons sitting in the bed while he was doing 60 on the free way. It was fun but I realize now how dangerous that really was.
story #44 at 20:45 is something I feel in my freaking bones. I have to remind people that the fact I'm disabled means I'm literally disabled. No, I can't do it if I just "put in that extra effort" that's the whole point of my diagnosis!
Willing to censor Cancer at 3:11 but freely says a slur for the mentally challenged at 4:15.
Now that is stupid.
It's probably just the reddit post that literally said those phrases not the narrator's views on censorship.
I had a cousin who fell out of the back of a Ute/pick-up and the only mark on his body was a small lump on his forehead, he had suffered extreme brain damage and died 2 days after. We had only moved a few feet.
Particle board covered by veneer isn't as good as solid lumber furniture
Story 33: I am guessing they weren't apolitical at all, you just don't know enough about the politics of that era to understand when something is a political reference to an issue that was big at the time but has mostly been forgotten to history by the current day.
Story 14: There's 2 more reason the can succeed in a marriage for 80 years. 1) They prepared for dating for 3 months by sampling people a day or two for the last 4 years and have seen the 120 variations of bad. So when they didn't see signs of bad for 3 months, they knew they had a good one. 2) They didn't see divorce as option even if they suffering all manner of abuse.
I am suprised no one mentions this, but old hardware. Everyone knows the "They dont make them like they used to". Sure, some companies make their products fragile on purpose, but anyone who thinks about it realizes why the old hardware is so rare now.
Something else about untreated mental illnesses, a large number of those who aren't incarcerated, are homeless. Many of those self-medicate with alcohol and/or drugs. People see the addiction issue and blame the victim. The sad thing is addiction in and of itself is both a symptom and a mental health illness.
PTSD was given about a billion different names. Nostalgia. Soldier's heart. Shell shock. Americanitis. War neurosis. And those are just a few off the top of my head, the first one is 2,500 years old. In short, people have known about PTSD since the time before Christ!
I own a couple original Mission chairs. Super nice and super comfortable.
The ancient Greek and Roman philosophers had PTSD from the Peloponnesian and Punic Wars
King David had PTSD from fighting the Philesteens.
"The majority of car accidents happen within 10 miles from the home." Well, that's because most of the time people don't drive more than 10 miles from home.
Just say CANCER not C-word. You won't catch it by saying it. My dad died of lymphoma, an aggressive type of CANCER at 40. I don't ģo about life trembling at the word. If I die of it since my paternal aunt also got breast cancer, its just my unlucky genetic hand. On the other hand, all my mother's siblings are alive and they are 10, and my maternal grandmother died of old age at 98.
Yeah, i hate these censors so much too. Everyone knows what it means anyway, so what is the point? I also cannot stand it when words like "damn" and "dead" get censored. I even saw "wounded" get censored in some cases. Who actually wants this, besides insanely overbearing parents?
So, pedantic med student here. About the vasectomy vs hysterectomy thing around 19:14. As opposed to the female operation, the male one is actually reversible with a second procedure that can be done even years after the first. Even so, in some countries (as is the case in Brazil, where I live) doctors are actually prohibited to perform vasectomies unless a couple of conditions are met, namely the person being older than 26 or already having 2 kids. The same goes for hysterectomies. That's because It's an accepted fact in psychology that most people who don't want children in their 20's will change their opinion in their 30's. From a medical standpoint it just hits me as reckless and unprofessional to alter the body of a patient permanently at a young age over something that isn't life threatening.
19:13 I think it should be illegal to sterilize anyone, male or female under 30 with no kids UNLESS they have a medical condition CONCERNING THE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM THAT WOULD BE TREATED BY STERILIZING THE PERSON. This applies for everything from a tubal ligation (getting your tubes tied) a hysterectomy (removing the uterus) or a vasectomy (tubal ligation equivalent for the sperm).
Edit: this should be especially important if the person isn't married.
14:10 species going extinct because of bad luck is basically the neanderthals
They got breed out of existance
People who post their "cute" videos of their massively incompatible pets _(think cats and dogs with birds, rodents, lizards, frogs, etc etc)_ interacting, tacking on flowery descriptions under the video about how they're "such good friends" and then get in fights in the comments because of course they will never ever hurt each other because you just don't understand, their dog or cat HAS NEVER & WOULD NEVER and because they havent tried to hurt each other in the past it's obvious that they're best friends.
*"has never" =/= "will never"*
Every single cat who HAS eaten a hamster was once a cat who HAD NOT eaten a hamster.
For the child abuse one:
I actually know sum1 (lets call them a) who got adopted a few years ago by someone who was born in the early 80's. (We'll call him j). J now always threatens to beat a and says that if their mom weren't there as a child then the a and their siblings would've gotten beat as kids.
10:44 great grandmother was the youngest child in a family with no sons. As each of her elder sisters died in their first childbirth, not one leaving a living baby, her parents stopped teaching Ruth housekeeping skills. She was to be a pianist. She fell in love. Eloped (meaning they were married in the pastor’s living room with his wife as witness). Her mother in law taught her to cook g-gpa wouldn’t eat food his mom never made- all known descendants are quite neurodivergent- this kinda was in her favor, but anyway…). This was like 1910 so birth control not really a thing (source my History degree. And my aunt’s, and her conversations with Ruth)
Ruth’s dad’s response to hearing of her pregnancy was punching g-gpa in the face. Consider both previous statements and that I’m not done before you judge, plus she never demonstrated “I want kids more than anything” at any known point. She wanted George (her husband). She went into labor. Doc came out saying the babe was lost and he could patch her uterus together to stop the hemorrhage or do a hysterectomy so this wouldn’t repeat. (“Twilight sleep” was used in labor a lot around then and hemorrhaging tends to limit one’s ability to understand stuff). George would not risk her again.
The nun who had been doing the stuff farmers and folks overseeing their dog or cat’s birth do when babies aren’t picking up breathing and adapting to being outside (hopefully while getting a vet on site with the tools unavailable in the Edwardian era) while this was going on, so George (and his parents-in-law) got Ruth *and* George Jr.
The family ensured that we knew the painting over the piano (by a dead sister) and other traces of the lost ones, and how both mother and child were within a hair’s width of ending everything that Ruth’s dad had built his dreams around (the punch is a moment of passion by a man who’s 4’11, under 100 lbs (note I am 45 and the same size, she was not a child bride. It did increase the risk to her due to less torso room to add a full sized fetus plus amniotic sac in. Little People with uteruses (I am above the maximum height for the designation but would still be at higher risk) often are discouraged from pregnancy because it is riskier. And we only see say clothing made for smaller people in the past because those for average sized people was passed to others or made into children’s clothing, etc, and the stuff for tiny women or teens (*many* small garments in museums etc were found to be made for a teenager) didn’t have as many reuse options so were stored lest such a use presented). Women married around 21, nobles who married early usually were under their MIL’s care until the parents agreed she was physically mature! Anyway, history knew children usually died in childbirth…)
When I was in college I paid about 500a semester. That was in the 70s
The vasectomy thing actually does happen, a lot. You just don’t hear about those stories because vasectomies are more treated as permanent than tying tubes, at least around here.
The crumple zone of '57 Buick Roadmaster is from the outer bumper OUTWARD. You could have a head-on collision and DRIVE to the garage.
Story 33: the drop in ratings cannot be ignored.
All the old people saying back in their parents days or grand parents days they used to do or not do this or that and survived fine. Remember that for nearly all of human history the average number of kids who survived to become adult who go on to have children of their own is just very very slightly more than 2 per couple. Average number of kids a family has 100 years ago is 5-8 depending on regions. That mean if a family has 8 kids, they would fully expects only 2-3 of them to survive into adulthood. Just imagine now day, if a family has that much deaths among their children it's unthinkable tragedy, back then it's just expected 2/3 of the kids will die.
See, I'm not gonna say 'seatbelts/carseats bad', but I was very surprised to find out how old/large the children are recommended to be before they get out of those these days! I don't have any memory of being in a carseat, so I must have stopped being in one around four, maybe five at the latest? These days kids are in them at *eight* ? I was riding my scooter around the neighborhood (with helmet thanks) and climbing trees and was like...most of a whole *person* by then. Somehow I got the impression carseats were for children too young to hold themselves up, or too fidgety to not mess with the belt, or so small that the chest strap went across their neck instead of their chests. Eight just *feels* like way too old to be in a 'baby seat'. But...its safer, I guess, and safe is good, especially with kids. I'm not against it and if parent asks me to use a carseat I'm not going to argue, it just blew my mind when I found that out. Little bit of generational culture shock.
Betty White was the best host ever.
19:52 not if you’re neurodivergent have you heard of crush 40 or Brian Lanning. Or heck, even some of the newer boy band stuff. Especially the Backstreets. listen to in a world like this!(and also no place and don’t go breaking my heart from their DNA album)
I forgot another one from the in the world like this album show ‘em what’s your made of
Dbd brain rot kicking in on the title
So, all my generation with peanut allergies died before the doctors figured it out?
As sad as it is, probably yes.
I shouldn't be here just simple but I don't know if it was the hospital and their work or my will to live after consuming a lethal volume of wood alcohol
Just when I think 4Chan is the worst, I take a look at these Reddit compilation videos.
I hated music from when I was a child. Still do. And that's probably because it's still played all the time today.
Like jesus shake it off is a decade old stop playing it
Are... are we now censoring Cancer?
Edit: oh wait no... what is it then? (The c thingy idk)
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My dad and I a tornado under a vhyduck
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Why do people call it the C word? Just call it cancer and get on with it
I believe this is due to the fact that social media websites are so random with their algorithms demonetizing channels after flagging their content as "inappropriate for the general audiences" that the creators are being extra careful to avoid the stress in advance
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@@cowey13we rode on little wooden stools for that grandma used to sit on when she fished.
Laws that mandate the usage of seatbelts (helmets on motorbikes) are stupid. If someone is willing to take the risk, it is their life they gamble, so those laws make no sense
Except it is not just the person not wearing the seatbelt who is at risk. In an accident, that person becomes a literal projectile. If they are not heading towards the front windshield, they are bolting into the other passengers and severely injuring, even killing them, despite them wearing their seatbelts.
These laws are not stupid. They were enacted after decades of efforts by road safety advocators in order to prevent the egoistical jackoffs from killing the innocent within the car.
@@user-mz3ig5oo3w fair enough. What about the obligation of using helm in bikes?
Do you mean bicycles or motor bikes? The situation can be quite different, and my opinions on each depend on a lot of factors like personal safety, insurance, encouraging people to use more eco-friendly transportation means, the natural selection making no sense...
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