daisy [he/him, comrade/them]

“It’s not whooping cough. Sure, you have all the symptoms of whooping cough and live in an area with an active whooping cough outbreak, doesn’t matter, I don’t think it’s whooping cough.”

multiple visits later in a single week as symptoms worsen

“Fine, here’s a prescription for amoxicillin, you hypochondriac, but I don’t think it will do anything for you.”

whooping cough clears up completely

I do trust medical science but that experience was easily the worst of my adult life. Whooping cough is no joke, folks.

The weirdest thing about watching old sitcoms that one last saw as a kid is seeing all these characters we used to regard as “old people” looking so young.

I shave the parts of my chest within 10cm of my nipples, so that suction toys stay on properly.

Also, Star Trek as entertainment is canon within the Star Trek universe, confirmed in the “Enterprise” TV finale.

So the Scottish-descended person was kind to the Irish-descended person and did her best to ease his pain, but the English-descended person had no regard for the Irish-descended person’s pain and acted cruelly?