3. Approximating the English expression "skyscraper."
6. Impression of a decomposing fox.
7. A gentle Alzheimer's patient shows great interest in meeting her daughter's mother.
8. A memorial to the smoke the rose within Grand Central Station over the years.
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"The experience of using TikTok is basically akin to watching tv but changing the channel every 30-60 seconds while the tv spies on you to generate more addictive content, pretty much zero chance that doing so for hours every day isn't burning holes in people's brains"
- @LoFiRepublican
I like the last one the best. Some mildly interesting PopSci that you can absorb in 30 seconds.
8, what a stately building, stunning.
Carlo does have a point. In English "scrape" is a much less common word than "scratch" and it looks that goes for their equivalents in most other European languages. French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian all (if I've got it right) translated the American word with their words for sky (or clouds or heaven) and scratch.
Not interested enough to check out any more of these. They don't require much time, but they also don't seem to have much of a payout.
The Italian butchering English words.
My father-in-law was born in Chiapas, Mexico. He's been in the States since 1957. I assume that he continues to butcher English because he likes the attention.
Beyond becomes Be-jond.
You know becomes Jew No.
Coincidence becomes Co-inky-dink.
Double Whammy becomes Dubla Hammy
There are many others, but you get the picture.
The lady with Alzheimer’s wanting to meet her daughter’s mother really tears at the heartstrings. Her daughter is to be commended for keeping it together when she asks her mom if she was her mother and the mom said she didn’t think so. I’ve seen the children of Alzheimer’s patients break down and end the visits early, it’s just too heartbreaking. Both mom and daughter are gentle souls to be sure.
#1 did nothing for me, but for some reason it did remind me of this clip from the 1988 movie, "Crossing Delancey". Get your hands off her
#2- Smarter than the average bear. Hey Booboo! 3rd place
#3- He's better in English than I am in Italian.
#4- It's a cat video. No comment.
#5- It's a catty video. No comment.
#6- Armisen wins!
#7- I dunno. I found it heartbreaking. Sad. Not something I'd post, personally.
#8- Very interesting. I'd give this 2nd place.
Bear on a wire—I can’t believe it held the weight. And the bird feeder looked empty anyway. Poor bear. A for effort.
First time watching them all. 2 was good. 5 took me a second time but was funny. I wish I couldn't relate to 7, but I can. 8 is interesting, but is it smoking? I can think of other things that might cause discoloration, such as mold.
#7 made me tear up. We were blessed, my mother had some form of dementia but she remembered the constants in her life. My sister, son, husband, and me. So many things got lost but she kept us. Her diagnosis moved from Alzheimer’s, to frontal lobe dementia, to ptsd induced (didn’t even know that was a thing until her last hospital visit).
She forgot my father and her distant past. Even if she confused my sister and I, she knew we were daughters. The last thing she said to us on a zoom call (Covid) was directed to her grandson, “Happy Turkey Day!” By the time they let us back in she wasn’t talking anymore. She died a day later. We lost the last 7 months of her life after an 8 year battle with dementia.
ptsd induced
That is interesting. I didn't know it was a thing either, but I think I've seen it. Mom has told caregivers how my wife and I were arrested and awaiting execution. She's also thought her childhood friend had moved across the street and was spying on her. The stories come and go, but when she is telling them, she apparently fully believes them. We didn't see this behavior in her mother that lived over a decade with dementia.
Leland I’m so sorry you are going through this.
There were quite a few people who would meet my mom and not realize she had dementia. She was very good at masking. She would say things, plausible things, and people would believe her. Then we would have to tell them how much of it wasn’t true. Some of them were doctors.
Her last hospital visit for heart issues the head of cardiacs was in the hall discussing my mom with her nurse. She commented on the fact that my mother wasn’t being confrontational. The nurse started laughing and told her she needed to come in the evening when my sister and I left for the day. My mother would just start yelling/screaming until we came back. She would get stuck in repetitious cycles asking the same thing over and over.
The fact that we could bring her peace and make her feel safe is indescribable, but the guilt we felt anytime we left…
That in part led to the ptsd diagnosis
Found the dementia video most interesting. Had an aunt and an uncle succumb, but did not interact with them at that stage. Fascinating that she could still carry on a perfectly normal conversation with that memory hole.
Healthcare note. There are a lot of doctors who do not perform cognitive tests. My mom sounded normal but she would fail a cognitive test every time it was performed. She could not draw a clock face, spell a word backwards, remember three things three questions later, perform a three step set of instructions (take this piece of paper, crumple it up, hand it off with your right hand).
There were so many doctors we had to tell that they had to perform a cognitive test. It gives me no faith in our system. You have to advocate for your family members (and your president ;). I want a youngish president. I’m tired of worrying about the damage done to the cognitive abilities of the elderly. I’m 55 and dementia has exhausted me.
No. 6 Impression of a decomposing fox.
I used to amuse my fellow kids in the hall with my impression of a salted slug.
No. 7 Alzheimer's patient
Biden couldn't do so well on his best days.
We are so fucked.
Biden's dementia is like poor Kent "Flounder" Dorfman being dressed down by Dean Wormer, except Biden never had the animal comfort of being fat.
I appreciate them all.
Especially the 2gentle souls…
Alzheimer's is such a bitch. You literally watch a person die years before the heart stops. Once you get past grieving the lost mind,you can deal with the different person sitting in front of you.
That's what the daughter is doing here....accepting her mother as she is.....allowing her to respond with grace and love.
Beautiful video.
I have been wondering if my mom is heading toward some form of dementia. She can absolutely play it off at the moment, but there's repetition and lack of recall now that are giving me pause.
Maybe five years ago, I remember reading something from a neurologist hypothesizing a microbial(?) element to Alzheimer's, based on increased incidence in a household where one person has it and on increased incidence among medical professionals exposed to human brain tissue, such as neurosurgeons. It'd be akin to the long-ridiculed, now absolutely accepted as factual, hypothesis about a bacterial cause for many ulcers. I haven't heard anything about it since. Maybe a trip through the interwebs is in order.
"did he call her fat"
LOL.
My ex- husband’s dad is still physically able, in his early 70s, but declining in the other areas.
It’s a long journey- a hard road- yet, I wish I could have taken it w/my Dad rather than the other route.
So many opportunities for Grace. Like the love of child for parent: humbly caught on video here.
-- A gentle Alzheimer's patient --
It's enough to make you cry. But many of us will be there ourselves some day, or have already had a loved one take the journey. I am so forgetful some days I wonder if I'm already on the path. The daughter handles is well.
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