Holy crap man.  I didn't know.  And even if Kip hadn't passed, I thought it would be painfully obvious I was kidding.

Heck, when someone starts a joke with "so a priest, pastor and rabbi walked in a bar" - do you tell them "uh - you do know we don't have a rabbi in this town right", and then persist on interrogating them to death about it when they try to salvage the joke that you just utterly pissed on?

Since you have done this, it's obvious that anything that's abnormally stated, you take as literal, so let me be painfully forthright with you: I made up the list to highlight how ridiculous the K9 description is.  Okay got it?  Thanks for ruining it.

(holy crap I cannot believe that someone would actually believe that I literally asked Kip, especially if you already knew he had passed it should then be painfully obvious to anyone with wit that the "kip" reference wasn't the POINT of the friggin joke, the list I made up is dumb and was intended to make fun of the K scale and the fact that this has to be explained to you makes this whole situation so bloody stupid.  Next time: learn to recognize a joke and don't question it - jokes are not intended to be analyzed as if they were real.  Duh).

don't analyze a joke.  It's not intended to be real, and any attempts to dissect it will make you look like a you-know-what.  And seriously - how can you possibly believe that list came from anywhere but me, in other words - it's made up.  Therefore just let it be.  You remind me of all those people I've ever met who sit there and question jokes after they've been told them and conclude in the end that the joke could not be possible in real life.

Again I ask you, and I think this point is obvious to anyone: where do you really believe my list came from?  Why not read it again.  Do you really think it's a serious list?  I mean REALLY? 

Honestly I can't believe I'm asking this.  Some of the items on that list are the most stupid things I've ever written, and the fact that you're still arguing with me and telling me that you couldn't tell it was a joke is flabbergasting.  How stupid does something have to be before you clue in that it was a joke?

But since you can't tell that something like a "priest/pastor/rabbi walk into a bar" being in the list (the most classic joke OF ALL TIME) means it's a joke, this conversation shouldn't be dragged on any further, because I can't get through to you.

(ps. I'm not caffeinated up, I just got a K7.5 headache right now, so I'm sure you all know what that can do to your mood.  And no, this part is not a joke)

ajy,

For what it's worth:

For unexplained, excruciating head pain a good Neurologist will want to see both MRA and MRI imaging to look for tissue/biomass/structural problems and vascular related issues.

Marc

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Apparently not, according to researchers the most classic and funniest joke of all time is...

A couple of New Jersey hunters are out in the woods when one of them falls to the ground. He doesn't seem to be breathing, his eyes are rolled back in his head. The other guy whips out his cell phone and calls the emergency services. He gasps to the operator: "My friend is dead! What can I do?" The operator, in a calm soothing voice says: "Just take it easy. I can help. First, let's make sure he's dead." There is a silence, then a shot is heard. The guy's voice comes back on the line. He says: "OK, now what?"

I prefer the one that came second....

What do you call a monkey in a minefield.. A


Lefty...!

watch what?  That was an entirely reasonable and inoffensive question.  Perhaps you can tell me what made you mad about it.

Or perhaps you can tell me which ones on my list were not stupid and that you actually took seriously - let's start there.

Honestly, the longer we drag this on the worse it is going to get for everyone.  My #5 simply proves my point regardless of whether you or anyone else were "confused" and thought the other 9 on that list somehow made that list serious.

You can't blame ME for asking these questions, because no-one has yet explained to me how anything from that post could in fact be mistaken for a real actual list that I intended to use to fool others to come from the real Kip.

Ask yourself: how difficult is it to write something stupid?  Real easy right?  So you can imagine how easy it was to come up with a list of 10 stupid things.  Now imagine how puzzled am I that you're offended by that question, because I still don't get it: How stupid do I have to write something before people stop taking it seriously?

Knowing when to stop is most often a critical component of effectively making a point.

Marc

This is proof that just a WEE bit of antagonism goes a LOOOONNNNGGGGG Way   

 

 

I'm probably the last person to ask whether or not you have it,  but I can't resist contributing my thoughts on the matter.  Given my experience of decades of supposed mis-diagnosis and recent diagnosis with CCH, it's difficult to know quite what to believe.  Clearly the medical profession isn't infallible, by any stretch of the imagination, but nor is self-diagnosis renowned for its reliability.

Writing clearly, on days like today when my pain level is about 5/10, is a struggle.  I have difficulty expressing myself coherently when my pain gets much worse.  So I probably haven't communicated my symptoms very clearly on such occasions, when consulting specialists.  Similarly, I doubt I'd be capable of forming a reliable self-diagnosis when consulting the KIP scale or doing the quiz.

Believe me, when my pain approaches 8/10, reading or writing is last thing on my mind.  It is entirely focused on trying cope with the excruciating pain.  I doubt I could read or write anything when it reaches 9/10.

I probably wouldn't be here at all of it ever reached 10/10, however by comparison I feel absolutely wonderful when it drops to about 2/10.  I imagine it would be like winning the lottery, if it ever dropped to 0/10 again.

Surely, pain is subjective.  I'm not aware of any scientific double-blind method for testing pain in an objective way.  If there is, then perhaps someone could enlighten me.

So, it seems to me that pain threshold scales and quizzes are simply guidelines. Nothing more; nothing less.