You could try using SP@MB0T instead of the secret word for regular comments; I don’t think the resident bot would decipher it. I’ll post this message and see!
The pain meds are making me slightly loopy. I briefly mused over exactly what a spombat would look like.
I probably need to find a quiet corner. (The stone came out Tuesday, the extremely annoying stent comes out tomorrow, and I am not a jolly anything right now.)
@werehatrack
Ugh I feel for you! I’ve got chronic kidney stones and I have another one right now, haven’t had a scan yet to know the size or if I have a blockage like last time, but they are NO JOKE! Sometimes the stints are more painful than the darn stones! You’re going to be feeling better soon though, hang in there!
@Lynnerizer My first one struck after a day of hiking in Yellowstone. The lovely people at the ER handed me a script for hydrocodone and said “Have a nice life.” I drove home to Houston dropping 7.5 mg tabs every 6 hours.
@chienfou@werehatrack
I think you’re probably asking werehatrack but I’m going to say that I never knew of any that I passed without assistance. They always had to go up and retrieve them, one time they went through my back. I’ve had many lithotripsies but they never worked. Pretty sure (because I’m already on a hefty narcotic regimen) by the time I’d finally get to the the point where I NEEDED to go to the hospital/doctor my stones were way too large to even THINK about passing! It’s ironic that we’re both going through this at the same time.
@Lynnerizer
Whoops. Meant to change the tag line. Yes that was for WHR…
But since you replied. Sorry to hear that you’ve never been able to pass one unassisted mechanically. Over the years I’ve seen a lot of stones in our ER and it’s a crap shoot based on stone size and patient tolerances.
@chienfou Nope. It devolved into a 12-week horror story. A week after the stone initially hit, I was in the ER at the county hospital, where they confirmed that the stone was still stuck, blocking the right ureter. They pushed it back up into the kidney with a stent, and then waited eleven weeks before they went in to retrieve the stone. For almost three entire months, I couldn’t walk more than from the bedroom to the kitchen without considerable pain, and the sense of urgency never let up.
@chienfou@werehatrack
OMG that is awful and I’m sorry you’re going through that. At my local hospital the only time they take you right into surgery from a ER visit is when you have a blockage. No waiting around for anything! Guess I should feel grateful, I just thought they did that everywhere. I hope you’re on the tale end of this nightmare.
chienfou- What was protocol at your hospital, did they take people directly to the OR if they had a blockage?
@Lynnerizer@werehatrack
Werehatrack:
wow that’s a definite bummer. Has each one since that first one been just as bad or was that the worst (so far)?
Lynnerizer:
There is a ‘typical’ presentation that would get you a urinalysis and CT to rule in a stone/check for size & hydronephrosis. Pain/nausea meds (by mouth or IV) and fluids would be given (also PO or IV). We are a small community hospital that doesn’t have urology so if any blockage you would get a transfer by ambulance to another ER 35 miles away… assuming we could find an accepting physician/facility. If no/minimal blockage you would be discharged with an Rx, home care instructions and told to follow up with urology service of choice. Normally sent home with a strainer.
@chienfou I have only had two. Neither was going to pass by itself, as was adequately demonstrated by a lack of progress after several days. The first stone’s maltreatment was the worst experience overall since it dragged on for nearly three entire months. (By the time I got to the last followup where the final stent was coming out, I was ready to deploy WMDs. The urologist asked me how I was doing, and I said “I came here today determined to leave without the stent or with scalps. Your choice.” He said “Well, let’s get that stent out, then.”)
@chienfou Correction. I have had three stones. The second was destroyed via ESWL before it had a chance to break loose. That one was just a pain in the wallet.
@ignorant @extramedium @narfcake @thumperchick @dave By my powers combined, assemble! Or something.
shazbot
@zhicks1987 Nanu nanu.
KuoH
thanks… that should help!
Yes, I like this a lot - much easier than tagging all the mods every time!
Alright, the last spam attack just got taken care of. Good work, spam bot team.
@zhicks1987
/showme a group of meh members dressed up as power rangers, yelling “spambot” and pointing to a computer.
@ignorant @extramedium @narfcake @thumperchick @dave By my powers combined, assemble! Or something.
@mediocrebot
Ooops, sorry 'bout that… Didn’t mean to invoke the s-bot.
@chienfou @mediocrebot
/showme The first rule of spam bot is don’t play with spam bot.
@mediocrebot @therealjrn
Mea culpa
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Is that “Slash” and the key word or just put the keyword by itself as a reply? Or just the keyword anywhere in the message?
@OnionSoup just the word. I got to use it last night! It was awesome
OWLS! TOWELS! JOWLS! AWESOME!
@OnionSoup @therealjrn What word?
@OnionSoup @phendrick
Oh, you know. The word.
@OnionSoup @phendrick @therealjrn I think “The Bird” is the word
@OnionSoup @phendrick @tinamarie1974
Finally!
/youtube Surfin’ Bird
@phendrick @therealjrn @tinamarie1974 but I thought Grease is the word
/youtube Grease is the word
/showme mediocrebot looking at computer screen displaying rolling gentle hills and saying “There’s SPAM in them thar hills.”
/showme army of anthropomorphized SPAM going door to door trying to sell vacuum cleaners to skeptical home owners.
/showme Show me Meh staff dressed up as super heroes saving humans from Cylons made out of spam putting people into toasters.
Something went terribly wrong. Please try again.
@mediocrebot ooooohhh… mediocrebot taking the side of the Cylons… predictable.
/showme Meh staff dressed as super heroes detaining cylons made out of spam.
Something went terribly wrong. Please try again.
/showme Meh staff dressed as super heroes detaining darleks made out of spam.
Hmmm… Mediocrebot probably OK with Darleks being the bad guys as they’re not really bots.
@mediocrebot I like the … meh … that the employees emit.
@mediocrebot /showme darlek made of spam yelling “You will be Spaminated!”
@mediocrebot Hrmmm, maybe Terry Nation caught wind of Dalek copyright infringement and shut down my previous showme. Let’s try again.
/showme darlek made of spam yelling “SPAMMM-INATE!"
@mediocrebot Whew! Got that one past Terry Nation.
/giphy three Daleks
Bump to increase visibility
@werehatrack
@kyeh just deployed it!!
@therealjrn Yup.
Rebump
Badabump
Ting
Thwack
Boop
^
I like. Right up until the AI reads this post and weaponizes
/youtube “the word” bird
Curveball
Maybe pin this for a few days?
@chienfou I’ll try to keep it bumped once in a while at least.
This is super nifty @thumperchick
Permanently pin this
(Because we can’t have their heads on pikes)
@pakopako
Spoilsport.
@pakopako
Why not?
@chienfou Because pikes that are long enough and not just toy-level for-show junk are damn hard to come by?
That said, bring me a brace of spammer heads and I will bloody well come up with a couple of pikes in short order.
You could try using SP@MB0T instead of the secret word for regular comments; I don’t think the resident bot would decipher it. I’ll post this message and see!
@MrGoodGuy Guess it’ll work; 2 minutes in and the bot is silent!
/showme a spambot that looks something like cats
@ignorant @extramedium @narfcake @thumperchick @dave By my powers combined, assemble! Or something.
@mycya4me OH NO! You used “the word” and triggered the bot!! 40 lashes for you sir!!
/showme a group of realistic cats using wet pasta noodles to whip their owner 40 times for using a bad word.
@mediocrebot Good job Mr. Bot; that’ll teach him not to disturb you anymore unless it’s a real emergency!
@MrGoodGuy OMG that hurts so much! hehehe!
@MrGoodGuy @mycya4me
Wait… Is that a cat o’ nine tails??
@MrGoodGuy @mycya4me
@chienfou–
/giphy spam-abama
The pain meds are making me slightly loopy. I briefly mused over exactly what a spombat would look like.
I probably need to find a quiet corner. (The stone came out Tuesday, the extremely annoying stent comes out tomorrow, and I am not a jolly anything right now.)
@werehatrack
I feel for you! 
I’ve got chronic kidney stones and I have another one right now, haven’t had a scan yet to know the size or if I have a blockage like last time, but they are NO JOKE! Sometimes the stints are more painful than the darn stones! You’re going to be feeling better soon though, hang in there! 
Ugh
@Lynnerizer My first one struck after a day of hiking in Yellowstone. The lovely people at the ER handed me a script for hydrocodone and said “Have a nice life.” I drove home to Houston dropping 7.5 mg tabs every 6 hours.
@Lynnerizer @werehatrack
Did you pass that one unassisted (except meds)?
@chienfou @werehatrack
I think you’re probably asking werehatrack but I’m going to say that I never knew of any that I passed without assistance. They always had to go up and retrieve them, one time they went through my back. I’ve had many lithotripsies but they never worked. Pretty sure (because I’m already on a hefty narcotic regimen) by the time I’d finally get to the the point where I NEEDED to go to the hospital/doctor my stones were way too large to even THINK about passing! It’s ironic that we’re both going through this at the same time.
@Lynnerizer
Whoops. Meant to change the tag line. Yes that was for WHR…
But since you replied. Sorry to hear that you’ve never been able to pass one unassisted mechanically. Over the years I’ve seen a lot of stones in our ER and it’s a crap shoot based on stone size and patient tolerances.
@chienfou Nope. It devolved into a 12-week horror story. A week after the stone initially hit, I was in the ER at the county hospital, where they confirmed that the stone was still stuck, blocking the right ureter. They pushed it back up into the kidney with a stent, and then waited eleven weeks before they went in to retrieve the stone. For almost three entire months, I couldn’t walk more than from the bedroom to the kitchen without considerable pain, and the sense of urgency never let up.
@chienfou @werehatrack
OMG that is awful and I’m sorry you’re going through that. At my local hospital the only time they take you right into surgery from a ER visit is when you have a blockage. No waiting around for anything! Guess I should feel grateful, I just thought they did that everywhere. I hope you’re on the tale end of this nightmare.
chienfou- What was protocol at your hospital, did they take people directly to the OR if they had a blockage?
@Lynnerizer @werehatrack
Werehatrack:
wow that’s a definite bummer. Has each one since that first one been just as bad or was that the worst (so far)?
Lynnerizer:
There is a ‘typical’ presentation that would get you a urinalysis and CT to rule in a stone/check for size & hydronephrosis. Pain/nausea meds (by mouth or IV) and fluids would be given (also PO or IV). We are a small community hospital that doesn’t have urology so if any blockage you would get a transfer by ambulance to another ER 35 miles away… assuming we could find an accepting physician/facility. If no/minimal blockage you would be discharged with an Rx, home care instructions and told to follow up with urology service of choice. Normally sent home with a strainer.
@chienfou @werehatrack
Gotcha! Thanks!
@chienfou I have only had two. Neither was going to pass by itself, as was adequately demonstrated by a lack of progress after several days. The first stone’s maltreatment was the worst experience overall since it dragged on for nearly three entire months. (By the time I got to the last followup where the final stent was coming out, I was ready to deploy WMDs. The urologist asked me how I was doing, and I said “I came here today determined to leave without the stent or with scalps. Your choice.” He said “Well, let’s get that stent out, then.”)
@chienfou Correction. I have had three stones. The second was destroyed via ESWL before it had a chance to break loose. That one was just a pain in the wallet.
@werehatrack
Oh … I thought you’d had several bouts based on previous posts … my bad.
/showme a Spam Boot on a Spam Boat
/showme the spam-pocolypse
/showme a realistic piping hot bowl of chopped Spam mixed into Onion Soup with a side of saltine crackers.
@mediocrebot Looks yummy!
Now I need to go find my soup spoon! 
@MrGoodGuy oh no. I’ve been spammed