JPINFV
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Do you call reporters "keyboard tappers"?
the 100% directionless thread
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Shishkabob
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You know what, I actually googled pejoratives to use, but thought I'd keep from angering him, as my full name is in the email and I didn't want him putting 2 and 2 together to find out who employs me then file a complaint
But looking at all his previous articles, he's your typical journalist, going for the stories that sell, even if they mean nothing, he doesn't get the full thing right, or just looks at one side. That's why I despise most journalists.
Oh oh, his response:
"I see your point. I do. But I cannot write a line like "protocal dictates the ambulance to divert" for the following reasons (just sharing the newspaper mindset)
1) It's passive voice, and I try to use active voice when writing
2) an ambulance doesn't divert. it's an inanimate object without a brain. Someone makes the object move and changes its direction"
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JPINFV
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Finally found the picture I was looking for...
Sasha
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News flash. We are an ambulance not a effing uhaul.
JPINFV
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Yes! Heartbreak Ridge is on!!
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A certain dispatcher is cruisin for a bruisin...stop being a dingle and dispatching units from hard posts on the other side of the city to low priority calls only to cancel them en route.
Anjel
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I Hate vanbulances
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5.5 earthquake north of Eureka, California. Anyone feel it?
cynikalkat
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medic417
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Rules clearly state such rude behavior will not be tolerated. Now don't make me send you on an involuntary vacation.
Mountain Res-Q
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5.6 according to my data. 20.4 miles deep. 286 miles away from me. So... no.. but I am ready to respond if California falls into the ocean...
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Andddddd the CAD goes down. One thing after another. Doesn't change anything for us, sucks for dispatch.
Cup of Joe
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Ours are either frozen on the main screen, or are just left off so we don't have to deal with a frozen main screen.
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We don't have screens in the units it's all radio still
dispatch has all the CAD stuff so I have no idea how they do it but they didn't look happy when I was in there at EOS turning in paperwork.
Mountain Res-Q
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18 year old College Students make me sad. Just want to rip those rose colored glasses off their stupefied faces...
adamjh3
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Thus why I hate being associated with my generation
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Hey I wear colored glasses! Not rose colored though
More like neon blue, but not at work, I have "professional" glasses for that.
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Hey I wear colored glasses! Not rose colored though
And as you age, they change colors to this color. It is a gradual transition, so you won't be able to pinpoint the start, but it is an undeniable change.
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And as you age, they change colors to this color. It is a gradual transition, so you won't be able to pinpoint the start, but it is an undeniable change.
All you do is make me afraid of getting old
h34r:I kid I kid.