My client, a scientist, needed a poster of her new web application to be presented at a conference. She returned from vacation 4 days before the conference and I went on vacation 3 days before, so I made sure to get her final approval before her vacation and got the poster printed while she was away.
On the one day our worktime overlapped, she mailed me demanding an express correction and reprint “because the screenshots don’t line up”. I met her and we unrolled the poster.
Me: What doesn’t line up?
Client points to three places on the poster.
Me: As for the first one, the lines you pointed out are not the edges of the screenshots, but lines within the screenshot. They can never line up unless we manipulate the screenshot to stretch parts of it, and then the text will look all weird. Do you want this?
Client: No, I guess that’s fine. Leave it as is.
Me: OK, now the other two - pass me that long ruler, please.
Yes, they lined up.
Someone: Raising a family is hard
Necromancer: Not if they're buried close enough to each other
Someone: What?
Necromancer: What?
Think Anorexia is funny? Sorry. I am a survivor and find NOTHING cute about this.
Wanna dress up like an Anorexic? All it takes is:
- 4 years of hospitalization
- A nasogastric feeding-tube because you’ve starved yourself so much that your body doesn’t recognize food as a good thing and tries to attack itself.
- Re-Feeding Syndrome, which can kill you.
- Emotional struggles for years.
- A father crying and pleading on his knees begging for you to get help
- A mother who cries every time she sees you because you look and SMELL like death.
- Holidays missed, birthdays crying in a hospital.
- Almost every major organ in your body failing.
- A shower chair - because you can’t stand in the shower because you’re too weak and the warm water could make you pass out.
- A wheelchair, because you are too weak to walk and it could make you go into cardiac arrest.
- A lifetime of medications for anxiety and the health issues “Anna Rexia” caused.
- Plenty of money for multiple ER trips due to “Anna Rexia” even in recovery.
- And if you don’t get help like I do, or even if you do, a coffin. Because I’ve lost more friends to this eating disorder then anything I’ve ever faced.
I almost died from this. I know it’s supposed to be funny and shit and yeah I get that, but seriously. THIS IS NOT FUNNY. Anorexia is nothing to party about or laugh at. It’s real, it’s deadly, and should not be marketed as a slutty outfit.
Want to dress as “Anna Rexia”? Just go as a Vampire, or a Zombie. Because 1/3 of us are dead.
