My first one was a shot. By the time the military got to me it was a drop of vaccine on a sugar cube. During the Vietnam days everyone had a pretty full shot card so they could deploy you as fast as they could.
I'm in that age group. I'm scheduled for a full blood work up as part of my annual physical, including Hep C.
Indirectly, your doctor did include the Jet Injector: "Have you ever been exposed to blood?"
Read the "Concerns" section at the link below. Fluid Suck-Back and Retrograde Flow both mention contamination by blood.
That looks like what they used when I got the swine flu shot around 1970.
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I remember getting a polio vaccine in 1967, IIRC required by the school system. It wasn't a shot. They put a drop of liquid on my tongue.
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Cheap bastards, We got a sugar cube.
On Sat, 12 Jun 2021 23:33:34 -0400, Ed Pawlowski posted for all of us to digest...
I resemble that remark!
On Mon, 14 Jun 2021 20:29:59 +0100, NY posted for all of us to digest...
Once you have an IV started it goes in the injection port.
IIRC mine was a "stick" but that was back somewhere between 1957 anf
1960. By 1961 the oral Sabin vaccine had pretty much replaced the injected Salk vaccine. (attenuated vs killed virus - and also trivalent (covered 3 strains)
Lie-berry - library Ideal - idea
No it doesn't. I don't get confused when someone asks me to click on part of my phone screen.
Why did the word have to be changed for phones anyway?
No, they shouldn't. The word fewer is superfluous and was actually invented by an author 100 years ago who in his own personal opinion thought it sounded good.
More apples, more water. See how we get by with more for both?
It can be ambiguous when there isn't another word to help. For example is DEFCON 1 or 5 the highest?
My video camera says welcome, with a picture of a road, while playing a silly Chinese jingle.
You actually know/care the difference?
I've never seen ie and eg confused, they're so different in meaning I can't imagine anyone using the wrong one.
Or different to? Who cares? Than/to/from has no meaning. The "different" contains the meaning.
Does anyone actually know what the meaning of "of" and "have" is? They're just noises you shove between the words that mean something. A better way to speak would be pigeon English. "Car better, new engine make very fast." means precisely the same as "The car is now much better, the new engine makes it go very fast."
I've heard that a lot, and never correctly. I've always wondered WTF they're talking about.
Indeed, a complete and utter lack of numerical skills. Probably because they only learn one math instead of all of them.
Of and have have no meaning, why does it matter what you put there?
I say them the same way. Leever and leeveridge. One of each is nonsensical.
I can't even think what that would mean.
Outside the box I've heard, I assume it's the same meaning. Why does it annoy you?
I would find it very hard to run up a flagpole. I'd rather climb it for a polegasm.
Why do you distinguish between sincerely and faithfully?
As a matter of interest, who is that author? Do you have a reference to support your factoid?
It *is* odd, though, that we have two words "fewer" / "less" for countable/uncountable objects, but only one word "more" which covers both cases. I wonder why there isn't a countable opposite to "fewer", and we have to use the uncountable "more" instead?
I thought I was going to get a sugar cube, but that's not what happened.
I don't like "fewer", but that could just as a child I often heard the word spoken by someone with an always nasty voice.
Thinking of differences in countable and uncountable, I remember hearing a strange thing in first grade when a kid spilled milk. The teacher said "Go get you another milk.".
On Jun 16, 2021 at 11:25:10 AM MST, ""Rod Speed"" wrote snipped-for-privacy@mid.individual.net>:
Right. Our dictionaries and grammar rules are descriptive... the grammar exists even without them and it changes.
That sounds fine to me. There's an implied "container of" in there, as in, "Go get you another container of milk."
OTOH, "Go get you" could just as well have been "Go get".
on 6/16/2021, Snit supposed :
My favorite example is the following:
Horror Horrible Horrific <== all bad Terror Terrible Terrific <== One of these things is not like the others.
"Go get another container of milk" doesn't indicate who the milk is for.
"Go get you another...", Go get me another...", "Go get Susie another..." does.
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