After nine months, I actually have an answer. The writer, Doc Hammer, mentioned in an interview that had the final season been approved, the character would have appeared in a wheelchair at a hiring fair for cut-rate henchmen. Apparently the sequence would have been based on his experiences when he was temporarily paralyzed after an accident.
So yes, canonically he survived but lost his legs.
When terrorists or criminals decide to rent box trucks or vans to commit an attack they will ALWAYS rent the most ironic/festive ones so for example TOYS FOR ALL on the side of a van carrying stinger missiles.
On an FBI rerun, there was a bombing, and they accused the wrong guy. They said “you have an engineering degree, you know how to make a bomb.” I have one, and I wish! That might be a useful skill in this day and age, but, no, for some reason they never taught us that. But one skill I did learn was not to trust explosives recipes found on the internet. They’re probably fake, wrong, or come from a .fbi website.
Stella in CSI:NY is probably the worst. She must be a lot of fun off duty, what with all that anger. I don’t think having your boyfriend revenge-porn and try to murder you excuses it all, either.
He’s got a Masters degree…In Science!
I was in graduate school when the Unabomber struck, injuring one of our professors. The FBI sent someone out to give a presentation to everyone working in the lab. At one point he made a point about how amateurish homemade bombs were and how easy it is to to spot them, with some examples shown. I looked around the room at the cream of the nations graduate students and post-docs in Electrical Engineering and realized everyone had the same thought “I could make that a lot better”.
OK, let me clarify.
I could certainly make a better bomb. I could probably disarm a lot of typical bombs. My degree is good for that.
What I can’t do is make the explosive. And I have no idea where to buy it, legally or illegally. I don’t even know where to get det cord, which I think is legal. This one guy tried to sell me some C4 out of a white van, that said “Flowers By Irene”, but I passed.
I chuckle when I see some show like FBI cataloging the “bomb making equipment” and they list chemicals in rapid fire. I bet if you put those together you’d make a nice dessert.
I thought the island was avoided because it was a leper colony.
I think you could figure it out pretty quickly. Sporting goods stores sell black powder. It’s a low explosive but an engineer could figure out how to make the pressure build up at ignition. It’s also not hard to figure out how to put together ANFO. I Wouldn’t know the first thing about making C4 but that’s not necessary.
FYI det cord is not legal to own privately. There are legitimate uses and there is a licensing procedure for commercial use. Det cord contains the high explosive PETN.
My algorithm is currently showing me a ton of medical shows. *Greys Anatomy, Chicago Med, New Amsterdam…*To go by these clips doctors routinely and blatantly ignore DNRs, perform surgeries on juveniles when ordered not to by parents, totally ignore HIPAA, give vaccinations against the wishes of parents… I’m sure things like that happen but from what I’ve seen it’s the same maverick doctors doing illegal acts of righteous indignation over and over and still somehow they are still doctors.
Well, you know, if you flagrantly disregard your orders and the law, it’s okay as long as everything turns out the way you wanted it to.
In every karate fight, there’s a whooshing sound with every punch. In reality, I don’t even know if that’s possible.
My father’s DNR was ignored. He went into cardiac arrest while in the hospital awaiting a bed in either a nursing home or a hospice, in the end-stage of pancreatic cancer that had spread to his nerves in his lower body, so he was incontinent, and could not walk. He also had had a very bad concussion from falling from this nerve damage, before his doctor got insurance to cover a wheelchair; the result of the concussion was confusion that had the hospital staff asking if he was in the early stages of Alzheimer’s. No-- perfectly clear mentally until the fall, and you could see the huge bruise on his head.
And they still called for the crash cart.
When my mother came to visit, they were telling he all about how they “got him back.”
She was furious.
He died two weeks later, but couldn’t speak that whole time, and we were not entirely sure how well he understood us. He also had a lot of trouble feeding himself to the point that he was embarrassed to eat in front of us.
The nurses asked my mother if she wanted to feed him.
She was furious again, and told them “this” was their fault-- they could feed him.
I had a relative who was in a terminal coma a few years ago, complete with a neon DNR bracelet, and when he coded, they also brought him “back” and only prolonged his, and his family’s, misery for a few more hours. Our mutual relative was beyond furious.
I’m rereading this, and realizing it sounds callous on my mother’s part, but the fact was that my father all along had been terribly embarrassed about the level of care he needed since he lost a lot of ability to do things like use the toilet, dress himself independently, shower, and so forth, and actually preferred hospital staff over my mother doing it-- and was horrified at the idea of my brother or I doing it. He said he’d rather sit in sh!t all day than be changed by one of his children.
Having had to wipe shit off of my naked FIL in his last days, I completely understand. My MIL insisted that he be kept alive and at home long after his quality of life had any value.
The worst part of dying of old age is having to be old and sick first, often very sick, for a very long time. I’m healthier than many and I already rue how diminished my horizons are and how much real suffering I can’t escape.
On the flip side of this, I have absolutely never pulled up to a stop sign and waited for it to turn green.
Nope. Never.
Isn’t that called “Pulling a Columbo”?
Depending on the weight of your karate gi, you can make it “pop” when you punch. That is why some people prefer certain gi, especially for demonstrations. It does not sound like what they do in the movies and tv though. The same is true about Katana, when you make it a cut, it certainly is possible to have it make an audible “swish” sound, but it depends on the quality of the weapon and how you make the cut. They certainly do not make the “ding” sound when it hits another one that is often used.
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It isn’t the quality, it is if it has “bouhi” or lightening groves. A grooved katana will “woosh”, ungrooved will not. Can even get a woosh with a grooved bayonet I have here (but harder to do without a full sword length).