My new favorite autocorrected message from my best friend:
“I woke up with a sore ghost this morning.”
Ambulance cars line the streets outside of St. Paul’s Hospital’s emergency triage centre for those injured on the night of June 15. Photo credit: Andrés Goñi
Tim,
Just because you can string an apologetic sentence together does not mean you are sorry. Perhaps I should make you aware of the consequences of your action. To you, it’s just an overturned car that you set on fire. To me, it’s walking into an overflowing ER and helping treat a girl with a severe asthma attack because she was exposed to the noxious, acrid smoke of a burning vehicle. To her, it was just a chance to be a part of a group cheering for her team. Little did she know that later on, we were thinking of sticking a breathing tube down her throat if her condition did not improve.
To you (yes, I am lumping you with all the douchebag rioters in the ER that night), it’s a chance to congregate in the ER waiting room, pounding on the triage window demanding to be seen for teargas exposure and cuts from looting and fighting, while posturing and bragging about how you kicked the crap out of somebody and smashed shit up. To me, it’s taking my time away from the little old quiet lady having chest pain or taking time away from the person you “shit-kicked” for trying to stop the looting.
To you, it’s just a fight. To me, it’s the ER social worker looking for a teddybear to console a 4 year old girl because she just witnessed her dad get a broken nose as he was trying to get his daughter out of the hotzone.
To you, it’s writing a letter saying “you will do whatever it takes to help clean the city.” To me, it’s walking home after a long shift and seeing all these people at 7:30 in the morning armed with garbage bags cleaning up YOUR mess and realizing that these people have more class in their pinky finger than you could ever muster in your whole life.
To me, it’s getting home to shower, only to have my elderly neighbour knock on my door and ask me if he should make an appointment to this doctor because he was experiencing shortness of breath which later turned to chest pain in the morning. He did not think about leaving his window open as he went to bed at 9 o’clock. The smoke from all the burning cars made it to our building, into his room and triggered his asthma, which then raised his heart rate, which then became a small heart attack. I asked him why he didn’t go to the ER, and he answered, “I turned on the tv this morning and saw the rioting, I did not want to be a burden.” To you, it’s just an overturned car that you set on fire.
Why am I blaming you for all this? Because you are the instigator. You ask people to leave your family, friends and co-workers alone?! I think they need to know how much of a colossal douche you are. Remember that your parents worked themselves to the bone so they can move to this country and give you your god-given right to flip cars over and set them on fire.
You, Tim Kwong, are a douchtard. Apology not accepted.
— from a E.R. nurse
I started out clicking strategically… and by the end was just wildly clicking and dancing in my chair.
CLICK THE SQUARES.
THE WHOLE WORLD NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT THIS.
THIS THIS THIS THIS!
TODAY IS THE LAST DAY TO VOTE - PLEASE REBLOG! ONE PERSON THAT REBLOGS THIS WILL WIN A FREE TEE OF THEIR CHOICE!!!
I’m in a design contest on Facebook - CLICK HERE to be taken to my profile. There, you can sign up for MASScanvas (the group holding the contest), and then just click LOVE IT beneath my two designs. The buttons will then turn green and say LOVED, which means your vote has registered!
It will only take a minute, and if one or both (!!!) of my designs win, it would be a HUGE help to SEIBEI and help fund more fun projects. As my way of saying thanks, if one or both of my designs win, I’ll throw a big sale at SEIBEI!
Thanks in advance!!!
The photo on the left is what NBC released. The photo on the right is what i think the colors should have been. The color difference makes a huge difference.
Some of you may have recently seen that I gave away my ticket to PAX East due to an family emergency. Well unfortunately that emergency was my father getting in an accident at work and almost completely severing his hand. This has obviously stopped him from working and has had the rest of the…
Made these today. Recipe is from Smitten Kitchen http://smittenkitchen.com/2010/02/chocolate-souffle-cupcakes-with-mint-cream/ So good! The mint cream topping is delicious. Could use a titch less than 15 minutes in my oven, but they are still tasty.
My new chicks! Until they are big enough to live outside, they live in the box that my microwave came in. But um, let’s not tell them that, okay?
Even though I just started Alan Wake, have not yet finished Splinter Cell, Bioshock 2, Batman or pretty much anything on my pile of shame list including Prince of Persia, I’m totally buying Red Dead Redemption and Prince of Persia:The Forgotten Sands. I may need a game buying intervention. Of course Mr. Tess totally encouraged my habit by pointing out that he could play Red Dead while I finish Alan Wake (I won’t let him play Wake past the point I’m up to because I don’t want it ruined for me. I could just leave the room and go play one of the pile of shame games while he plays but we all know that won’t happen). Do they have Starbucks in game purchasing rehab?
And you can read it at The Xbox Domain if you’d like http://bit.ly/beKe1p I hardly keep up with this tumblr thing, so it’s a bit of a deal that I actually wrote something for public consumption. Which is interesting considering I got a degree in journalism. Maybe I’ll do this writing for public consumption thing again sometime. :)
