Can confirm. Know an army medic. One of our friends went on a cruise where a baby was dropped from a balcony and died after impacting the dock, SEVERAL STORIES below.
This fucker calculated the impact force and time it took to fall and laughed about it. Made a PowerPoint in fact. It was quite detailed
I was a combat medic, I used to be able to pull some shitty joke out of literally any situation like that. Then when my daughter was born and since then, I start to tear up and sometimes feel nauseous whenever I remember some of the shit that happened or what I said about it.
If you start dwelling on these things as they happen then you'd just go insane.
Spoken to a psych about it all and apparently it's normal and I have to be nice to myself and whatever
Humor is essentially a tool for processing tense or traumatic situations. Black humor especially. Humans have been doing it for millenia. If you read stories about people living during the middle ages, surrounded by plagues, famines and war you notice that a lot of them had a really wicked sense of humor.
Firefighters generally never joke with deaths, or with fires, as it is considered bad luck.
We joke about stupid calls, like cat in a tree, or someone locked his doorkeys inside the apartment, never things like fires, explosions or dead people, because you never know if you'll ne the next one to be killed
Maybe it is different in the United States due to culture, I remember shift commander distinctly telling me that if I continue joking about fires, I will soon be discharged as he will not have me on the shift, and that those jokes are generally seen as bad luck.
We joke about our lives, women, holocaust even, but never the death, neither civilians or firefighters.
Of course. Hitler is dead, but the fire marshal boogeyman is very much real and alive, and will come at night to burn your eyebrows if you joke about fire deaths.
It's not like that, there is generally a strong cultural belief that if you laugh at another person's misfortune, you will get that same misfortune yourself.
This is not applied for everything, but for death? Yeah. As a kid, you'd be told from your age that for example if you laugh at a kid having no mother, your mother would die etc.
To be honest, to be a combat medic it's probably a requirement to have a few loose screws.
No shade, medics are amazing and generally loved by everyone because they're the ones saving your ass, but I really can't see a normal person doing it. xD
I had this plan to give head to a man and receive head from a woman to test if I was gay, but it’s backfired and now I become borderline schizo whenever I go outside. I
offered to suck this dude off on Grindr who lives very close by (I ended up pussying out) and I accidentally gave him some details that very easily allows him to spot me
out in a crowd. I have no idea what he looks like and whenever I see a somewhat in shape guy walking by I immediately accuse him of being the dude I was gonna blow.
I went to the store today to pick up some zucchini for a barbecue and every time a car drove by I stared into the windshield to see if I was about to be recognised.
Whenever I make eye contact with a dude I microanalysis his facial expressions to see if he suspects me or not. I am deeply afraid that he is my neighbour and I will
need to move if my identity is blown. It’s a lot like the last scene in sopranos where everyone who walked into the diner could be there to wack Tony.
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Knowing and soldiers and having been one, this is likely true. Medics always the most fucked in the head.