noise."Onto the Pony Planet Chapter 30 notes · 3:14am Nov 2nd, 2017
Pre-read by metallusionismagic and AShadowOfCygnus. Let's all give them a round of applause.
General Helm Wind is an OC. He's named after a famous wind in England, which is a wind that blows down the slope of the Cross Fell. Apparently, it's the only wind that they bothered to name in England, although according to Wikipedia, other escarpments have a similar wind.
Viridian and Cerulean Frost are also OCs. Both of them are named after colors: Viridian is a blue-green color, and that name was first used for the color around 1860, while Cerulean is a shade of blue. Cerulean Frost specifically is a color that Crayola used for a crayon, in their Silver Swirls collection.
All different professions have their lingo. Some people (usually those not in the profession) think it's to try and sound smart or be inaccessible to the average person. In some cases it's true, but most of the time it's because the experts need a more specific way of naming things than the amateurs have.
Doctor is one of those professions, and while doctorese might be Latin to me, it's pretty important to a doctor that he know which tendon or ligament is damaged. Maybe not so important when you're not going to fix it, but fairly vital if there is going to be surgery. You don't want to tell the surgeon “Just go in there and fix the bad one.”
The circumstances of the shoulder injury Dale describes are similar to one I got years ago, when I did something dumb, and then did it a second time. It really did sound like a gun going off next to my ear, and it did mostly heal on its own (although I don't have quite as much range of motion in my right shoulder as I do in my left).
I once was prescribed 800mg Ibuprofen, and didn't bother filling the prescription, since I had plenty of 200mg Ibuprofen at home.
I've never been in a Catholic hospital, so I have no firsthand experience of Catholic nurses, but I've heard that they don't mess around, and it doesn't matter who you are.
Heck, the same seems to be true of non-Catholic nurses, who are willing to be arrested rather than violate a patient's rights.
And I think it's a safe bet that the pony nurses are the same way, when it comes to treatment of their patients. Probably only Celestia herself (and maybe Luna) could bully their way by one.
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Some horses like the taste of apple cider vinegar, and it really does aid in their digestion, at least a little bit, by slightly acidifying their stomachs. There are other ways that you can use it, too; it's a mane and tail conditioner, it causes them to excrete more B1 through their skins, which keeps some bugs off, and it also prevents intestinal stones.
By far the best use I came across is that if you get your horse used to apple cider vinegar in her water, then when you're traveling, you can add a little to the strange new water, and the horse will be fooled into thinking that this is the same water she always drinks.
A lot of people don't read contracts. And some car dealerships try to scam you. [I, personally, avoid the car dealership and instead buy cheap junk that nobody else would want for cash.] This actually happened to my manager recently: he and his wife went to buy a new car, and they read over all the paperwork, agreed to everything . . . but the car wasn't ready yet, so they had to come back the next day to pick it up.
They should have read over the contract a second time, to make sure it was the same one they'd been looking at. Because of course it wasn't.
The dealership had added in all sorts of extra options, and disguised it by keeping the payment the same, but increasing the term of the contract for another year.
This might not have been the smartest move, because for the next week or so, that was all my manager could talk about to anyone who happened to walk through our door, and he had no hesitation to name names. Odds are that none of our customers who were at the shop in the last couple of weeks and heard his rants will ever buy a car—new or used—from that dealership.
Times Beach is probably unknown to my younger readers, or those who live outside the US, but back in the early 80s it was a big deal. It was a small town in Missouri.
Like many towns back in the day, they sprayed oil on the dirt roads to keep the dust down. Waste oil was used, coming from various sites, one of which was a chemical plant. The stuff from the chemical plant was loaded with dioxin, which is bad.
You can read the Wikipedia summary here, because I'm not going into detail about the whole mess; suffice to say that ultimately the entire town was abandoned, disincorperated, and bulldozed.
To the best of my knowledge, we don't know specifically where Fancy Pants and Fleur live.
In England, and probably other places as well, before they had street numbers, they had house names and while that's mostly fallen by the wayside for ordinary houses, lots of manors still have names. I would presume that you can still address things to that manor rather than using a street address (I don't know for sure, because I don't have any friends who live in manors in England).
“Welara” is an English breed of pony which is described by Wikipedia as a refined but hardy pony breed, and I think that that would fit Fleur and Fancy Pants quite well. They're also sometimes called sport ponies.
You can lead a pony to water, but you can't make her drink,
Man, that picture of Rainbow Dash is just great. She look like she really not liking your call back joke
Yeah. Ugly business, that.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/11/video-dooms-cop-who-arrested-nurse-for-not-letting-him-take-patients-blood/
That cop is pretty screwed.
Apparently the British way of dealing with numbers confuses Americans.
They do talk a little bit about naming houses and buildings at the end of the video.
Nurses in general are pretty hardcore. I guess it's kind of prerequisite when your job involves regularly shoving tubes up people's bits and getting barfed on.
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Yeah, I've gotten into it with paramedics before over getting the name of the hospital a patient is being taken to... I need that information to show duty of care and to protect myself, the client and my company from liability suits. They won't even give it to the security guard that called 911 and/or provided first aid.
Seriously, I've got his blood on my shirt and have been staunching the blood flow for almost 20 minutes but you can't tell me where you're taking him? Sucks for me, good for whoever, I guess?
So I wasn't sure and I googled apple cider vinegar oatmeal and yes, of course that's a thing.
It's not all that unusual for normal houses to have names rather than numbers. My parents house is a name, in fact all the houses on the street have names rather than numbers (it's not that big a street, about 8 houses I think) and the houses aren't that old, probably about 60 years given they're where the local train station was which was closed in the 50's.
I think you can actually apply to have your house named whatever you want although I think you might have to pay for the privilege.
Apple cider vinegar has strange and powerful effects.
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Maybe she's mad because I made her switch genders in that callback joke, too.
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Arrest a nurse, lose your job. Shoot an unarmed black kid, "eh, mistakes happen."
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Yeah, I remember that one. Actually, our system is very logical (at least in most places); if you know it, you can pick right about where a house should be, based on the street grid.
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Yeah, I think that with the stuff they deal with on a day-to-day basis, there probably isn't much that would faze them.
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It's one of those things that cuts both ways. I've had that happen to me, too, working at CMH. They transported one of our residents to a hospital but didn't tell us which one, and it took a while to get that information. Then again, I'm trained to stonewall when someone calls me asking for information about one of our residents, so. . . .
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Huh, I didn't know you could actually buy it pre-made like that.
I've also never tried it, which is a bit of a research failure on my part.
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Where do you live? In Michigan, I've never heard of it.
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I'm going to claim that that's also an intentional callback to my story where Harshwhinny thinks that RD is a stallion.
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Yeah, I have to do what I'd consider a violation of privacy and not leave the patient until they're loaded into the ambulance. I now have to listen to private conversations between the medics, family and patient in order to obtain that information.
Irony is that I have to violate privacy in order to bypass privacy laws for something so relatively minor.
And I REALLY don't like doing it. But it can mean the difference between the office being blindsided and them being able to have enough information that a lawyer thinks a lawsuit is a bad idea.
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Don't you hate that? I don't know what laws you've got up in Canada, but they're probably pretty similar to ours . . . and I get why they're there, but sometimes they're so frustrating.
At least that's something I don't have to worry about too much at CMH (although it's not outside the realm of possibility). But there have been incidents. . . .
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It is in the UK, so it might be a British vs American thing, but the point is that over here it's not just mansions which have their own names normal houses can as well.
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Yeah, I think that's a UK thing. Some of Europe might do that, as well. But as far as I know, it's not something we do over here in general.
I'm not going to deny doing the first, but it's almost always the second.
huh, that's interesting. Also, that rainbow dash pic is great.
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I occasionally do the first (mostly to baffle idiots), but for me it's also almost always the second.
Fun equine facts!
Thanks!
I actually used it as coverart on a really dumb fic.