SuperFerret
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Is Ice Man still around? I think that's a bit before Rainbow's time (unless he's an old face under a new name).
10% and 90,000 people dying a year is rare
Also, nosocomial is also used in veterinary medicine, although the root may have originated with reference to humans.
I'm sure it is a top priority, considering that zoos are open to the public and rely heavily on entrance fees and such to operate. Nevermind the fact that their staff is usually mostly human, and it's imperative to keep them healthy.
My point is that most diseases that we can catch are caught from humans, not animals, and most of the zoonotic diseases are from other primates, which would be the highest risk factor in a zoo (or anywhere people work in close proximity with non-human primates) and is recognized as such, therefore it is monitored and regulated much more thoroghly.
This is like saying that I've already went skydiving, but I don't want to cross the street because it's dangerous. Yeah, I might get hit by a car, but I also might choke on my burger. Life is full of risks, and it wasn't fear that prevented him from going to the zoo, it was pride.
People who die based on their own faulty decisions do deserve sympathy, and courtesy (which is often confused with respect), and it is unfortunate that this man died for his pride. However, it's only natural and is a fact of life that people will joke about the morbid and tragic, and it's perfectly fine to do, in certain company.
Now, were we in the presence of the man's widow, or if someone on here knew the man, in all likelihood, we'd be polite. That's not the case, and this situation, as unfortunate as it is, is humorous, thus we should be allowed to joke about it.
okay, I'll show some respect... I'll ask for seconds tonight at dinner in honor of him
The tax payer should pay for it right? I should pay for a hospital to get a hippo x-ray machine installed because it is not feasible for them to use the one at the zoo? Right! We wouldn't want to embarass a man that can't walk, can't wash himself, can't drive a car, can't sit in an airline seat because he eats 10,000 calories a day by making him use an x-ray machine at the zoo. Pride!
If you choose to do heroine instead of having a good life then you deserve NO sympathy. If you choose to drink your life away, you deserve NO sympathy. If you are offered help and turn it down, then you deserve to be lol'd at.Being fat is not that simple. Yes, most of the time it is over eating and just being lazy and all that good stuff. However, when it comes to being MORBIDLY obese and you're eating yourself to death, I would stay that stems from severe psychological issues. Nobody in their right mind would want a life of constant ridicule and humiliation.
The point is morbidly obese people are addicts. Usually people do not laugh at people who are drug adicts, alchoholics, etc ...but when you're morbidly obese I guess it all changes. This person had an addiction to food.....and his inner demons eventually won. Wheres the funny?![]()
Uh you repay student loans. And, an 18 year old kid trying to go to college with no money because his parents are dead or they didn't work is different than a fat guy eating 10 cheeseburgers a day.
Trying to better yourself with an education =/= turning down medical services at the zoo.
If you choose to do heroine instead of having a good life then you deserve NO sympathy. If you choose to drink your life away, you deserve NO sympathy. If you are offered help and turn it down, then you deserve to be lol'd at. If you eat 20 cheeseburgers a day and turn down medical services because it might embarass you when you are a 600 pound man, then you deserve no sympathy.
This story made me life..... Yes, I'm cruel but I hate fat people unless they have the condition where you get fat uncontrollably.
If you choose to do heroine instead of having a good life then you deserve NO sympathy. If you choose to drink your life away, you deserve NO sympathy. If you are offered help and turn it down, then you deserve to be lol'd at.
If you eat 20 cheeseburgers a day and turn down medical services because it might embarass you when you are a 600 pound man, then you deserve no sympathy.
Uhhh loans have nothing to do with taxpayer money.............................................
For all of us lonely, myopic, evil, satanic, horrible people that we are...I suggest reading The Darwin Awards. It is a compilation of idiotic deaths from idiotic people.
Makes me think about the recent situation where the girl was raped and a large group of people stood around watching and taking photos and laughing about it, saying it was the girl's fault, etc. I can't help wondering how many of you would've been right there among the crowd.
You didn't type 'federal.' Someone needs to read more...Someone needs to read more. There are federal student loans, there are banks and institutions that offer student loans through federal programs, banks that offer them independent of overt government aid are loaning money from the BANK, etc.
Try again.
Oh, and can I complain about GRANTS people get for college? Because those don't even have to be paid back! Talk about a bunch of freeloaders!
You laughed at those horrible accidents in The Darwin Awards. You are evilSee, I read the Darwin Awards. I read News of the Weird as well. And I find them humorous.
But if you can't see the difference between that, and the comments being made here and the steady slide into acting like the guy deserved to die etc, then you have something wrong in your brain.
And I can find those awards etc humorous without going on to say I don't also feel any sympathy etc. Again, big difference.
You said:If you're so socially and emotionally stunted that you lack compassion for other people just because their terrible situation started as their own bad choices, you deserve to be ostracized and mocked by everyone around you. If your personality is so mean-spirited and myopic that you think other people's plights deserve mockery and laughter and disrespect, you deserve to be a very lonely person who most people find it difficult to love. If you laugh even at someone's death because you can't sympathize with anyone who makes a bad choice or has the misfortune of having a bad choice snowball into something that ruins their lives or kills them, you deserve no sympathy for any of your own suffering or problems or cries for help.
You didn't type 'federal.' Someone needs to read more![]()
It doesn't matter anyways, it isn't tax payer money or a tax payer burden. Student loans are repayed with an interest rate. So, those institutions make money. There are special programs where you can get a 0% interest rate for special needs for a certain amount of time.
I think you are mixing up loans and grants![]()
You laughed at those horrible accidents in The Darwin Awards. You are evil
Or here, you are all this:
How is this in any way a valid comparison? A girl being assaulted and raped is in no way the same as someone eating themselves to a quarter ton.
Oh my goodness. You vast knowledge of the banking industry is astounding! Loans are a burden on tax payers!!! Someone call Bernanke...my taxes are going up because people are taking out loans.
If you choose to do heroine instead of having a good life then you deserve NO sympathy. If you choose to drink your life away, you deserve NO sympathy. If you are offered help and turn it down, then you deserve to be lol'd at.
If you eat 20 cheeseburgers a day and turn down medical services because it might embarass you when you are a 600 pound man, then you deserve no sympathy.
Totally 100% agree. I don't feel any sympathy for addicts, drug addicts, food addicts, alcoholics, it's a number of personal choices going down that road and continuing on it. However, I do have a lot of respect for people who realize they've screwed up and take the necessary steps to get their life back on track.