Wizardhawk's memorial thread (a cautionary tale of dental care and garlic)
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
Big Phoenix
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Sterling
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Was actually saline or lactated ringers and it was to avoid drinking that shit. It wasn't particularly hardcore or special lots of guys did that shit, iodine water was nasty as fuck. Just was a comment about the people being bitches about 16-19 gauge needles.
Sterling
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The water there is bad to drink so treating it with iodine keeps you from getting sick. If you're toting around 60-70 pounds of gear while walking up and down hills for 15 or 20 miles in 110+ degree weather you're going to drink a lot of water. Like gallons a day. You can't really carry like 15 gallons of water so you carry some iodine tablets to avoid lovely diseases and that sort of thing. Doesn't change the fact that said treated water tastes fucking awful and some people preferred to use IV's to it. This isn't the intended purpose of the IV fluid and it's not necessarily how the military does this sort of thing 20 years later but it was some stuff that we did back then. Anyways the whole point was that if a 16 or 20 gauge needle is keeping you from donating plasma that's pussy shit.
Sterling
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Big Phoenix
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zombiewizardhawk
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