I apologize for derailing the thread. Can we get back to the topic?
Face up.
Also, falling people always land on the center of the roof of a car, never the hood or the trunk, or just clipping the bumper.
When my younger brother was diagnosed with brain cancer, the doctor told him a few months, and he’d be lucky to see Christmas (this was on Halloween Day). He actually died that December 23rd.
When my twin sister was dying from her second bout of breast cancer, she was told “maybe six months.”
As explained earlier - if a physician is asked how long someone with a particular condition might typically live, they’ll generally give a ballpark answer (with the proviso that it is not at all an exact science).
There’s a difference between that and the bogus trope about how “the doctor gave him six months to live”.
*in these stories, the patient often counfounds his physicians and lives indefinitely by believing in Jesus, taking an alt med remedy They didn’t want him to know about, or just being of sterner stuff than ordinary weaklings.
I’m not sure what the distinction you’re making is - is it that the doctor in the trope says “six months” instead of “5-6 months” or “around six months”. Or are you only talking about the trope where the patient is given six months to live and ends up living five more years because of glurge, and not the more commonly seen tropes where the doctor gives a few days and someone gets to the bedside just in time or where someone is given six months and spends that six months doing things they always meant do - and then dies right around six months ?
Falling people always leave a perfect puddle, and are perfectly intact upon landing, as if they were placed in a puddle of their own blood. There’s never any blunt force trauma or “exploded” organs, craniums, or limbs from the trauma. Never any splatters along the walls or passers by, either. Nope, folks that hit things land pristine by the laws of Hollywood physics.
Tripler
Clean as a whistle, with a tidy pool of blood.
I don’t know how to explain this much more clearly to you.
Physicians in my experience do not dogmatically “give” anyone a set amount of time to live in response to questions about terminal illness. Unless I’m missing something from all the cancer conferences I’ve attended and all the consultation reports I’ve read, or have blocked out instances involving family members.
“Doc - is it fatal”?
“Yes. You’ve got six months to live.”
Nope, doesn’t happen.
Nowadays, to show that their cop show is “darker”, the shot of the (perfect, unmarked) body from directly above has the pool of blood expand as if it’s leaking out the back of the head.
Ooooh, edgy… not really.
Well, no, they probably don’t say “You’ve got six months to live” in precisely those words. And “give” might not be the perfect word. But here people have mentioned others being told “you won’t see Christmas” and when the doctor said my grandfather had a few days, most likely less than a week, I wasn’t imagining it. He didn’t have cancer- but your original post didn’t mention cancer either,
Wait long enough, and someone here will swear they were told “don’t buy any long-playing records.”*
*or in more modern terms, “don’t bother with any extended downloads.”
Potentially, that could be considered opting not to exist…
(Sorry - couldn’t help myself. I’ll just let myself out now. And not by the plate glass window…)
I knew a girl in high school who had walked through a sliding glass door a few years previously. She’d had a ton of surgeries, but was badly scarred and still walked with a bit of a limp. In addition to scars, she had a lot of skin discolorations – like birthmarks almost – I don’t know what you’d call them. She survived and had a decent quality of life, but it was a long haul getting to that pint.
standing in line to attack the hero - and guy #8 just knows he can win !
Why the distinction “plate” glass? Is there some way for a large glass window to be “non-plate” glass?
Yeah, as I said in post #444, it can happen that distinguished researchers sometimes teach entry-level courses. But again, that’s not because they’re trying to talent-spot “bright young minds”. They meet plenty of bright young minds in the upper-level and graduate courses.
Don’t buy any unripe bananas.
I think we can all agree it would be pretty unpleasant to get thrown through that.
Stained glass wouldn’t be a walk in the park either.
why would you have stained glass in the park?