Zombie Fears Causing "Zombie Issues"?

[Evan_]

Why is it that when I look at the title of the thread, I always read the words 'Zombie Fears' as 'Zoner Fearless'? Until now I assumed the 'zombie issue' is somekind of bug. Just took the effort find out what kind of.

Human bug it seems. :$

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[sajjukar]

I got you but i expresed my therm of zombie from a medical and real objective...tho we dont call the "zombie's" we call them potatos or carrots witch isnt funny but theya re close to a veggie than anithing.

You wana hear a funy story? Some time ago when i was in ym first year and had tod eal with cadavers...at 20:00 hours when there whas night allready...i could not help myself to stare at them and ask myself "if that thing will sudenly lift himself from the table...what will i do first : have a hear atack or **** my pants?" and yes we dealt with dismembered skinless withought brain or eyes or any other organs(most of them) dead for at least 10 years

[Huhuh]

Potato and carrots? You're telling me that those are correct medical terms?

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[sajjukar]

Offcourse not.Think about it...if someone where a vegetive state...did you like me to tell him/hers parents :"sorry but this potate is brain dead"....it isnt corent in a moral/etic point e view

[Marburg]

I still don't think we are on the same page...or there is some quackery afoot. Yearly puffer poisonings specifically in Japan are generally rare (in the double digits) and actual deaths from it in the single digits. You mention info that is already common knowledge to those interested in blowfishery & easily googled on the top of the page by the rest...but what gets stuck in my craw is that you're not really making sense. Back on page 2, you claim the poison can render a person brain dead. This is simply untrue. as a paralytic, It will paralyze the respiratory system & that may lead to brain death by way of asphyxiation, but the poison itself does not kill the brain as you claim.

Regulations on it's preparation over there are so stringent that the odds of a quick rush to the hospital are extremely high in a poisoning event and the resulting odds of a respirator hookup and stomach pump also high, thereby significantly lowering toxin exposure and the overall odds of asphyxiation brain damage


If a person survives the poisoning, (which the vast majority do) the toxin is metabolized by the body within a week or so & generally has no significant long term effects on the victim.

Hell, I'm just a layman with an abundance of personal interest and study time on the topic over the years. If you're in med school & have covered it, you really should already know this basic stuff Dude:mellow:

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[sajjukar]

I could not fing a proper therm for that so i used brain dead ... and we are on the same page but you consider zombies as mithological creatures with human flesh eating ahbit and such and i consider them real but a slightly different from comon belief and remember any movie or legend has a real life equivalanet...the thing that caused all this huss about zombie movies.And personaly and from experience a heart arest and near death comatose for even 1 day can have severe mental repercusions...because of the brain starvation from oxigen

[Huhuh]

I could not fing a proper therm for that so i used brain dead

And you claim to be have been to medical school?

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[sajjukar]

Its hard to translate something from medical culture that differs very much from englih and i even had problems translading clial cells because google translade posted the same answer as in my natal languadge so sorry about that and the word was comatose/veggetative state/brain dead/mental ratard(hope its right)/lack of mental institutions/and so on and please if you dont understand what i am triing to say dont find a nedle in my heystack

[Agmen of Eladesor]

And you claim to be have been to medical school?

Obviously he's not a native English speaking person, which means he's trying to translate terms he understands his native language into English.

Technical terms are sometimes really tough to translate, anyway. We have a broad international culture here due to the college, and there's not a week goes by that we don't have some Asian student (mostly Chinese) come into our electronics store looking for some part that I have no clue what the heck he's saying. Seriously - try asking for an NPN MOSFET in a language you speak horribly.

Also, it's one of those things that people who work regularly with the less pleasant portions of human kind have to develop some sort of defense mechanism simply to avoid going crazy. Whether that's calling the ward of the care facility full of brain dead the 'vegetable garden' or whatever (since all you can do is feed 'em, clean 'em, and turn them twice a day) or whatever .... That's human nature. We have to laugh at what's possibly the worst thing known to man.

Go read the original 'Stranger in a Strange Land' for an examination of humanity.

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Oh god... The end of days... Agmen agreed with me.

[Marburg]

Sajj, On re-reading my previous post, I can see where I may come across as rude, so I apologize to you for my tone, but not the content. When someone plays the med school card, I very much expect them to be more knowledgeable on a medical subject than me. When that doesn't happen, I tend get uppity as my bullsmeg sniffer kicks into overdrive.

Don't get me wrong, I've got no problem with you personally defining zombie the the broadest possible sense. Alot of people do. Even I do on occasion. some days, depending on context of conversation, a zombie can be anything from a face eating undead freak, braindead veggie or a 9-5 suburbanite. However, I simply find that claiming medical expertice on the subject while ignoring the fact that it's simply just a convenient term of explanation of condition for benefit of the masses a bit insane and unprofessional for an aspiring doctor that knows to differentiate 'tween science & myth. Not that there's anything wrong with insane, mind you...I get along best with insane people. May I recommend in the future to simply switch to the term 'zombie-like'? That would help you come off as abit more credible.

But I now I gotta flat-out ask: In you mind, do vampires exist as well & would you use the term as a doctor knowing full well that whenever 'vampire' is mentioned, the average person defaults to the basic supernatural mythos about them?

That's the problem with claiming zombies exist. 99 times out of 100, in their minds, people automatically default to the pop culture undead version of zombie by reflex & will not automatically differentiate medical slang from a rotten, shambling horde without having to offer a caveat.

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