SFist: Get That KGB Implant Out Now, Ask Me How

bluecanary

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:43:45 -0800

Frankly, I enjoy the gallows humor of this board. and incandenza, hilarious comment.

Shibi

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:46:01 -0800

I just thought that this was a public announcement that Nikolay needed protection from evildoers and we, J. Q. Publics, were requested to pay heed and perhaps protect ourselves as well from said evildoers. Now you all tell me that he's mentally challenged? Bah. I applaud him. Thanks, Nik!

Darkmoon

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:14:26 -0800

Well I can say being one of the many ' Cognitively challenged'(Hey everyone else is trying to get their label changed) it does suck. Even trying to get proper and good care for many mental illness's in this city is very hard these days what with all the cuts and all. In this case I almost hope he doesn't have an illness like ' Bi-Polar' which can come and go otherwise he might wake up and realize what he has actually done and then that will probably just add to the troubles this individual might have. Heck over half the troubles I have had in dealing with my own mental illness has been getting proper diagnosis and treatment as well as dealing with the stigma and harrasment most people actually dish out to such individuals. Most of the time people actually purposfully antagonize and provoke like poking a dog thru a fence and then they get all suprised when suddenly they have someone following them down the street and yelling at them and threatening them or just plain attacking them like a pitbull raised by 'gangsta's'. Just cause someone has a mental illness doesn't mean they can't hear the comments, or doesn't have feelings that can get hurt..... Yet a sense of humor is necessary to deal with alot of this stuff or else it can drive the 'Sane' insane.

redseca2

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:13:01 -0800

Well, this could be a rare situation where six paranoid schizophrenics have ganged up t make poor upstanding Nikolay's life miserable.

sissa

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:01:53 -0800

That posted before I finished... I'm not saying mental illness is funny. But I do think that poster is funny. Hell, I have a mental illness. Sometimes you just gotta laugh about it.

sissa

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:00:27 -0800

A sense of humor is important in life, you know... different people find different things funny. I sure don't get Home Improvement, but most of America disagreed with me!

pantsgolem

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:59:21 -0800

Eyeball: The information on that flier isn't just in public, it's deliberately in public. It's not as if posting it online is in lieu of helping him, since probably none of us can. Also, it's perfectly possible to find humor in sad situations without being inhuman. In other words, Nicolay's condition: not funny. That poster: very funny. To say that the first precludes the second is to misunderstand what funny even is.

Dan Berkes

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:57:50 -0800

I don't see the flyers and posters from our locals as much as I used to. I think they've all moved to the web. My favorite was some guy who worked for PG&E during the 80s, writing some billing software for them. He somehow managed to get some co-workers fired and he's convinced that they've been shadowing him for the past 20 years, setting fire to buildings and kidnapping neighbor children. Haven't heard from him in a long time.

Generic

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:12:53 -0800

It's good that the information is out.

wchase

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:00:04 -0800

apparently prescriptions need to be written in cyrillic. and yes, eyeball, mental illness is sad.

underachieving

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:56:06 -0800

So why isn't anyone calling Nikolay and telling him to get psychiatric help? People with mental illness produce great comedy and art. But sometimes it's unintentional.

Akit

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:55:13 -0800

Hmmph... thanks for the buzzkill. I only took that shot and this one: http://flickr.com/photos/agentakit/2419560949/in/set-72157604710388212/ because I thought they were amusing.

yesyes

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:36:56 -0800

Eyeball, I agree. I am beginning to find the increasing reliance here at SFist on making light of struggling people both tedious and offensive. Not that Brock cares. Some of his best friends are tedious and offensive.

Eyeball

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:23:19 -0800

Has it occurred to you that the man might see this and does it matter to you that there might be pain associated with this? Has it occurred to you that maybe you should remove the telephone number and person's name, just out of kindness perhaps, Or do you not care ? There's so much other good humor in this world that doesn't involve the cheap joke at some struggling person's expense. Why don't you go for that instead of this? Someone who maybe is impaired some way or who for whatever reason (stigma?) can't do anything about it or who has a problem that other people think is very fit to laugh at, but which is probably very personally terrifying and bewildering? It's very insensitive.

Brock Keeling

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:08:45 -0800

some of my best friends are mentally-ill.

Eyeball

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:06:51 -0800

What do you think?

rroseselavy

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:45:54 -0800

How do you know he's mentally ill?

Darkmoon

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:35:11 -0800

This is a job for..... oh wait what was I just thinking? Oh yea.... the russians are our friends There is no threat from the russians......

Eyeball

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:33:19 -0800

Why do you think it's funny to laugh about someone who is apparently suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, an illness. I believe there is a great deal of stigma around people who suffer from mental illness and it hurts them, in ways you may not care about, but I do. Why do we always feel the need to distance ourselves from people who are mentally ill, and ridicule them, instead of trying to understand them, and helping them and supporting them and trying to be a good friend to them? Please take a look at this article? http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/library/MH/00076.html

wsanders

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:31:43 -0800

The transmitters in the prostate are the worst. You have to pee every 15 minutes.

rubylovesnorman

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:11:02 -0800

It seems like paranoia is running rampant these days.

Incandenza

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:06:47 -0800

I lost the Cold War to meth

underachieving

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:06:11 -0800

At least he can afford a computer and a printer. Most of the crazies I see in this city just spout their insanity on the sidewalk. Anyone called Nikolay for comment?