The Totally Radical Thread for Crotchety Old Bitches

I think it's more secrecy borne of incompetency - how can the enemy know what we're doing if even WE don't know what we're doing?

It's idiotically brilliant. Secrecrcy through unintended obfuscation. Little known fact. The US outlasted the USSR by forcing them to spend all their money on figuring out our sea of acronyms. It just cost too much in the end.

When really all it would have taken is a strip club full of beautiful Russian babes, a lot of vodka, and a platoon of privates and they'd have cracked the code.

Anyone here ever been in a MRI machine?

Indeed I have.

Aside from the lengthy questioning on whether I had ever been involved in explosions, gunfights etc. the main thing I noticed that while the inside of a MRI machine is quite claustrophobic, that doesn't apply when you are looking at a mirror showing you a screen outside of the machine.

I have been in one. They had one that moved air through it. I am claustrophobic to a certain degree so the experience was unnerving for me.

I've also had an MRI. No screen to watch - that would've been nice.

My understanding about the explosions/gunfights thing is that if there is the slightest chance you have any metal in your body, an MRI is a no go. The strength of the magnetic field is such that said metal would move around, with potentially catastrophic results. Gives me shivers just thinking about it.

I've been told that for small metal objects away from the area of interest, they can recalibrate the magnetic field so it's weaker in the exact area of the object, and also cover the object with a shield of low magnetic permeability.

But it's a huge pain and the techs would rather not do it.

Edited by TParadox on Feb 3rd 2022 at 5:45:48 AM

On the internet there s a picture of a loaded police officer's gun stuck to an MRI machine. Seems he walked into the room and - well the field grabbed the gun from him and it stuck to the machine.

There are many, many photos of MRI machines that have sucked in carts, walkers, hospital beds because someone was careless.

I've been in an MRI machine. Several times, in fact. I was diagnosed with MS in early 2017 (After I suddenly got double vision around Christmas in 2016), so I have to get a scan at leas once a year to make sure that my current treatment is working.

Perhaps the experience is a tad claustrophobic - I mean, they do "lock" your head in place, and it is cramped. But I'm mostly just bored when I'm in there, so I just let my mind wander.

Well, it wasn't claustrophobic for me. But mother said she would be afraid from being in one and one of the questions were about claustrophobia, so I think it can be a concern.

If you are claustrophobic and it lacks internal lights, air flow, or the viewing screen it is a bit unnerving.

Also hello Magma.

Edited by TuefelHundenIV on Feb 4th 2022 at 12:40:04 PM

I don't remember being locked in place when they scanned my head, but maybe because they were just looking at my nasal cavities and not my brain they needed less accuracy?

I just remember the entire experience as being very uncomfortable and loud

^^Could be. In my case perhaps they had to keep the mirror in place.

Ahhh appliances and all those kitchen gadgets

All appliances made since 2000: "P-p-pwease go easy on me! Clean by hand and use me gently!"

All 80's and 90's era appliances: "Okay let's get to work....oh...I'm broken and they don't make the parts anymore..."

Anything built before 1979: "I have existed from the morning of the world and I shall exist until the last star falls from the night. I will outlive you and everyone you love, therefore I am a God."

Also heavy as a mother from a your mom joke. I don't miss moving appliances anymore. But that's probably my age/body talking

I love all TV's built after 2010 and it would take an act of Congress to make me go back to CRT's.

I hated having to move my TV/VCR combo because it was HEAVY.

Ditto my desktop PC's CRT - fucker was heavy.

It's s funny how ridiculously light most monitors are these days.

Ah yeah, them 90's kids are starting to feel their age.

One of the memes from the Superb Owl half-time show was:

So, last night I was dreaming about pursuing a bike-sized pet amoeba in a place I have never been in, and I am sure I had a similar dream way back when. Why did I dream about ... this thing?

That you miss your pet abomination?

I just had to Google amoeba because I genuinely had no idea what they looked like

Am singing in a choir concert tomorrow. With the current situation in Ukraine, it was prescient of our director to choose the choral suite from Karl Jenkins' The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace as part of the program.

I'm confused on one of the movements, though. We sing a setting of Rudyard Kipling's "Hymn Before Action" which calls on God for aid before battle. I can't figure out if Jenkins meant his setting to simply portray the bleakness of war, or if he meant it as a critique of militaristic poetry.

Scion: Good question. I would lean towards irony or commentary rather than sincerity given the theme of the piece.