Chat Thread 37: Diss Wants to Be Involved

Post by **Sleet** » Mon Jul 09, 2012 12:32 pm

Or people who do have blood relations with you but who you never want to talk to again.

Alastair · Post by **Alastair** » Mon Jul 09, 2012 1:09 pm

Sleet wrote:Or people who do have blood relations with you but who you never want to talk to again.

I think we all have those in our families.

KJOokami · Post by **KJOokami** » Mon Jul 09, 2012 1:10 pm

There's one in every family, sire.

... two in mine, actually.

yehoshua · Post by **yehoshua** » Mon Jul 09, 2012 1:13 pm

Let me count...

16 in mine.

Post by **Sleet** » Mon Jul 09, 2012 2:13 pm

Exactly one.

Seth · Post by **Seth** » Mon Jul 09, 2012 3:01 pm

ugh
my extended family is all kinds of messed up.

KJOokami · Post by **KJOokami** » Mon Jul 09, 2012 3:06 pm

I was actually just quoting Lion King (not sure if anyone caught that or not; oh well), but I really do have two people in my extended family who cause most of the drama. One of them technically has an excuse as she's clinically diagnosed with bipolar disease, but my Uncle Don is just a [really mean person].

Then again, I see my extended family so little anyway that there's rarely any drama either way. It also helps that my "extended family" pretty much consists of 6 of 7 people at this point. It sucks not getting to have those huge, fancy reunions because I think those would be pretty neat once in a while, but it certainly reduces the family-related stress.

holmebrian · Post by **holmebrian** » Mon Jul 09, 2012 3:14 pm

adopted so i wouldn't know enough about my blood siblings to hate them that much.

Post by **Sleet** » Mon Jul 09, 2012 3:20 pm

My family generally got along, though family drama recently has brought out the worst in people. My mom and her sister don't seem to get along well right now, which is a shame, because I like seeing my aunt, uncle and cousins.

Mon Jul 09, 2012 3:45 pm

I don't have any family that I don't want to talk to.
just some I don't want to listen to. (my cousin who has two baby daddies and wants to be a model and is a source of all kinds of drama.)

Post by **Sleet** » Mon Jul 09, 2012 3:51 pm

That's basically how I feel about my aunt (though she's not that bad). She's plenty nice and such but she's kind of self-centered and is wrong a lot, despite insisting she's right and wanting everyone to admit it. She even went so far as to essentially say her niece is "not a real doctor" because she knows an MD who says that and she decides to believe everything they say.

JeffCvt · Post by **JeffCvt** » Mon Jul 09, 2012 3:54 pm

I'm guessing her niece did the whole Med school thing and is in fact a doctor?

Post by **Sleet** » Mon Jul 09, 2012 4:01 pm

My sister is a DPT.

JeffCvt · Post by **JeffCvt** » Mon Jul 09, 2012 4:08 pm

Well that's neat. I hope she's doing well.

The Grey Wolverine · Post by **The Grey Wolverine** » Mon Jul 09, 2012 4:25 pm

You know what gets on my nerves, when people discredit nurses and their medical knowledge. They went to school people! They know plenty!

Post by **Sleet** » Mon Jul 09, 2012 5:34 pm

Nurses are medically educated, but at the same time not to the extent of a physician.

Post by **Dissension** » Mon Jul 09, 2012 5:37 pm

The focus of care is also different for doctors, nurses, and other allied healthcare professionals.

The Grey Wolverine · Post by **The Grey Wolverine** » Mon Jul 09, 2012 7:14 pm

Sleet wrote:Nurses are medically educated, but at the same time not to the extent of a physician.

Yes, this is true as an RN, but my aunt Linda for example, sees her own patients like a doctor, as she is an Nurse practitioner, she sees, diagnoses, and treats her own patients to the same capacity as a normal doctor. She also was working in a burn unit for 10 years and the horror stories Gaah! but, at the hospital she is in now, I believe South Shore in Weymouth, it doesn't have a full burn unit, as there are less than I believe 20 in the US, so when they get a burnt patient, the doctors usually have her see them, because she is the only one with any extensive knowledge of treating a burn victim.

Post by **Sleet** » Mon Jul 09, 2012 9:31 pm

Nurse practitioners are almost the same as doctors. They are extremely well-educated.

The Grey Wolverine · Post by **The Grey Wolverine** » Mon Jul 09, 2012 9:54 pm

Indeed. Also, I kind of realized something, my family has three trades that are prevalent. Fishermen, nurses/NPs, and HVAC (Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning for those that don' know) workers, my uncles Frannie, Ralph, both my grandfathers and my family back in Newfoundland are generally fishermen, some of my aunts and even my second cousin Laurie are RNs/NPs, and my uncle Kevin, and my cousins Patrick and Neil are in the local HVAC union. Kind of weird

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Mon Jul 09, 2012 10:01 pm

well it seems military is a prevalent career in my family. My grandad and uncle (both on my mom's side) were in the navy while my grandpa, grandma, uncle (all dad's side) and dad were all in the army. and it continues, because it seems my cousin (mom's side) is going into the army.

I'm not the military type, though.

Post by **Sleet** » Mon Jul 09, 2012 11:50 pm

There isn't a single career that runs in my family. My sister and I are both going into the medical profession, though. People are always surprised we've never had a doctor in the family before.

Seth · Post by **Seth** » Tue Jul 10, 2012 1:15 am

Most of my extended family didn't go to college so they're kind of all over the place, lots of construction or farm work.

Post by **Obbl** » Tue Jul 10, 2012 9:57 am

My Grandpa was an Engineer for NASA, which translated to my Dad as a Software Engineer, and I'm leaning in the same direction

Tiggy · Post by **Tiggy** » Tue Jul 10, 2012 10:33 am

Most of my family have been chefs/cooks, including my brother and sister who both work at restaurants.

I'm currently trying to get a lot better at video games ;~;

Wanderer · Post by **Wanderer** » Tue Jul 10, 2012 10:56 am

There happens to be a lot of engineers and entrepreneurs in both sides of my family.

KJOokami · Post by **KJOokami** » Tue Jul 10, 2012 10:56 am

My dad's side of the family has a long history of military involvement; he and his brother are actually the first in quite a few generations that weren't ever involved in some way.

My dad designs and installs sprinkler systems, and my mom works for a racing newspaper. My older sister has no idea what she wants to do with her career (she just graduated college), I have an idea, but it's a long-shot in reality, and my little sister is pretty sure she wants to go a similar path to what I'm doing (but she's still got a lot of time to change her mind).

sonic id furreh!!! · Post by **sonic id furreh!!!** » Tue Jul 10, 2012 7:14 pm

my dad's side of the family built a town in england :3

The Grey Wolverine · Post by **The Grey Wolverine** » Tue Jul 10, 2012 8:17 pm

That's pretty cool.

Liam · Post by **Liam** » Tue Jul 10, 2012 8:43 pm

sonic id furreh!!! wrote:my dad's side of the family built a town in england :3

Which one?

DanTwelve3 · Post by **DanTwelve3** » Tue Jul 10, 2012 8:51 pm

Not really any consistency for career choice in my family. Maybe military, as my brother and a few cousins went that route.

Biology research could have been one though - my mother considered it when she went to college, and my brother and I both considered it, though my sister actually did go that route. With the interest my brother and I have in engineering as well (which is what I do), we'd probably be making androids by now.

Hmm, maybe that's why Argo was so good.

sonic id furreh!!! · Post by **sonic id furreh!!!** » Tue Jul 10, 2012 8:59 pm

Liam wrote:
sonic id furreh!!! wrote:my dad's side of the family built a town in england :3
Which one?

i forget, my grandma told me a few years ago

Wanderer · Post by **Wanderer** » Wed Jul 11, 2012 9:57 pm

I am simply terrible at small talk. I was waiting to get out of the airplane when all of a sudden this guy that sat next to me that looked like he was in 20s decided to talk to me.
If you didn't talk to me the past five hours, why did you suddenly decide that you needed to talk to me now! Naturally, he started talking about sports and what university he goes to and crap. He didn't even need me in the conversation!
I just said yeah and good a bunch of times. Whenever he pauses, probably to let me speak, there would be this short awkward silence before I blurt out something stupid to keep the conversation going. Then for some reason, I kept saying thank you a lot. I almost ran out after the plane landed and hurried to my destination. I avoided eye contact, got my things, and left. Then it happened to be that the guy was going in the same direction as me. Is this a recurring problem to anyone here, or am I socially retarded?

0404 · Post by **0404** » Wed Jul 11, 2012 10:07 pm

Wanderer wrote:I am simply terrible at small talk. I was waiting to get out of the airplane when all of a sudden this guy that sat next to me that looked like he was in 20s decided to talk to me.
If you didn't talk to me the past five hours, why did you suddenly decide that you needed to talk to me now! Naturally, he started talking about sports and what university he goes to and crap. He didn't even need me in the conversation!
I just said yeah and good a bunch of times. Whenever he pauses, probably to let me speak, there would be this short awkward silence before I blurt out something stupid to keep the conversation going. Then for some reason, I kept saying thank you a lot. I almost ran out after the plane landed and hurried to my destination. I avoided eye contact, got my things, and left. Then it happened to be that the guy was going in the same direction as me. Is this a recurring problem to anyone here, or am I socially retarded?

No, you ain't. I don't like having eye contact too, and I like to keep lowprofile somewhere that isn't school. Tho I like to have small talk but oppertunity of small talk doesn't come often to me.

KJOokami · Post by **KJOokami** » Wed Jul 11, 2012 10:10 pm

Wanderer wrote:Is this a recurring problem to anyone here, or am I socially retarded?

You're probably socially retarded. But don't worry about it, you're definitely not alone in that. The concept of small talk completely eludes me too. Honestly, I can't even hang out with a lot of the people I consider good friends unless I have one or more of a select few people there as well who are able to keep the conversations going. Otherwise, it just ends in long, awkward silences and really bad attempts at vocal interaction. It's pretty sad. XD

Wed Jul 11, 2012 10:11 pm

you aren't alone. I couldn't even keep small talk going with my first girlfriend.

0404 · Post by **0404** » Wed Jul 11, 2012 10:22 pm

Not everyone is bartender.
And I should learn some talking skills from bartenders. And I wish I can Sweet Talk like Maxwell.

@sonic da Furreh, Thanks to you, I love my new banner 'cat Lover rules'.

Wanderer · Post by **Wanderer** » Wed Jul 11, 2012 10:33 pm

Ah okay, at least I'm accompanied with like people.
Haha yeah. I need speech lessons or something XD.
Apparently my facial expressions gives away a lot of what I think.
I was with my friends and everyone was cracking jokes.
Even though I wasn't in the mood for silliness, I told a joke that usually gets a lot of laughs but I said it with kind of a serious and run a marathon off face. Everyone stopped laughing right then and I felt pretty bad. Never take me to a party XD

For some reason, I'm especially good at having conversations with people I know very well, but usually end up looking like an idiot in front of people I don't know.

Coatl_Ruu · Post by **Coatl_Ruu** » Wed Jul 11, 2012 11:21 pm

Honestly, I'm pretty bad with small talk too. I tend to just flail about verbally unless there's an opportunity for me to tell stories about things, or if I can change the subject to a topic I and the other person are both really interested in. At that point, I can babble on for ages.

Seth · Post by **Seth** » Thu Jul 12, 2012 1:28 am

Small talk isn't that hard if you just keep things in perspective. Just go talk to people, worst case scenario they don't like you and you're back where you started. Not sure if that'll work for anyone else but it's how I got over my social awkwardness.