Louis "Lou" Gagliardi / Ash Franzetti / Alex 'Ace' Maddox / Tegan Ainsley / Taryn Amita / Diana / gothickitteh / ashkat724 / Lynn Brooks / @acekatt - #T R A M S _ C R O W _ F U N D *buys 12 iPads* "Anyone got $600 they can spare?" *spits on cancer patient*

[Lurk]

Fair enough! Thanks for answering that! I was simply curious, that's all. Appreciate you clearing this up for me!

Back in the earlier days of the thread, Lou did say multiple times on Twitter that he was no longer going to read it but it became extremely obvious he continued to do so and then signed up to be a terrorist himself.

 

[Sheeeeeiiiiiittt]

This is what that finger-hole is gonna look like the more this goes on.

Spoiler: Gross

 

[Rich Evans Apologist]

When Lou loses his foot, I hope gigaByteGirl and Undertale Larper understand that they probably could have prevented it if they'd just given him tough, honest advice like a true friend would, but instead they chose uncritical hugboxing that ultimately did him far more harm than KF ever could.

Chances are they're even bigger fuckups than he is (literally and metaphorically, of course), and they would take this as further evidence of a "cruel, uncaring world" that needed BERNIE TO WIN and FREE EVERYTHING FOR EVERYONE to truly become livable.

More likely, they're completely insane and disconnected from reality, though, so Lou's actions have no causal bearing on his consequences once it filters through the social-media-enabled-membrane of theirs.

 

[Doggo]

This is what that finger-hole is gonna look like the more this goes on.

Spoiler: Gross

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I'm... I'm not hungry anymore.

This sorta thing is partially why I didn't become a doctor. I'm hardly known for having the strongest stomach out there. Also, how old is this particular photo? It looks newer, and worse? Or is this modified?

Chances are they're even bigger fuckups than he is (literally and metaphorically, of course), and they would take this as further evidence of a "cruel, uncaring world" that needed BERNIE TO WIN and FREE EVERYTHING FOR EVERYONE to truly become livable.

More likely, they're completely insane and disconnected from reality, though, so Lou's actions have no causal bearing on his consequences once it filters through the social-media-enabled-membrane of theirs.

In all fairness, if I didn't live in a country with universal healthcare, I'd be completely fucked. America scares the shit out of me, where breaking a leg can make you go bankrupt. In no other developed country that I'm aware of, is this a thing.

Here be rants! I won't hold it against you if you skip—it's all good.

Spoiler

Not to get political or anything, but yeah, I'm glad I don't have to worry about that sorta stuff here in Australia. Hell, I'm on enough medication that I hit the safety net by, what, July or August or something. Basically if you are low income, your medication is subsidized. It's about $6 a throw. I take... a lot of stuff. So once you've had your 100th subsidized script dispensed that year, you hit the safety net, and your medication is free for the rest of the year.

I do hope America gets universal healthcare one of these days. I genuinely believe that access to affordable, quality healthcare is a fundamental human right.

Let's say you aren't ace, lets say you're me, trying to get by on what you do have, and a big hole opens up in your foot. Id absolutely be scared to go to the doctor or the hospital, because that shit sounds like it could get expensive. The human brain is weird. It kinda wants things that are uncomfortable to magically go away. I suppose it's like a frog in a pot of boiling water. If you throw one in that's already hot, it'll jump out. But if the frog is already in the pot and it starts to heat up, it won't realize it's fucked until it's too late.

I guess a similar thing could be at play here. Also, it's just heartbreaking to see how many good, honest hard-working people have something to wrong with their health, and they have to sell their home to pay for their bills, because for whatever reason, they couldn't obtain insurance, or the insurance wouldn't pay out. I believe it's also been proven that countries with universal healthcare have overall healthier populations, which helps keep expenses down. If you can tackle something now, like a small cut and infection on your foot, then that's way cheaper than waiting until it takes your whole leg, and having to go on disability because the job you were working at requires two legs to do.

But that's just me, and what do I know?

 

[Paul Barker!]

I'm... I'm not hungry anymore.

This sorta thing is partially why I didn't become a doctor. I'm hardly known for having the strongest stomach out there. Also, how old is this particular photo? It looks newer, and worse? Or is this modified?



In all fairness, if I didn't live in a country with universal healthcare, I'd be completely fucked. America scares the shit out of me, where breaking a leg can make you go bankrupt. In no other developed country that I'm aware of, is this a thing.

Here be rants! I won't hold it against you if you skip—it's all good.

Spoiler

Not to get political or anything, but yeah, I'm glad I don't have to worry about that sorta stuff here in Australia. Hell, I'm on enough medication that I hit the safety net by, what, July or August or something. Basically if you are low income, your medication is subsidized. It's about $6 a throw. I take... a lot of stuff. So once you've had your 100th subsidized script dispensed that year, you hit the safety net, and your medication is free for the rest of the year.

I do hope America gets universal healthcare one of these days. I genuinely believe that access to affordable, quality healthcare is a fundamental human right.

Let's say you aren't ace, lets say you're me, trying to get by on what you do have, and a big hole opens up in your foot. Id absolutely be scared to go to the doctor or the hospital, because that shit sounds like it could get expensive. The human brain is weird. It kinda wants things that are uncomfortable to magically go away. I suppose it's like a frog in a pot of boiling water. If you throw one in that's already hot, it'll jump out. But if the frog is already in the pot and it starts to heat up, it won't realize it's fucked until it's too late.

I guess a similar thing could be at play here. Also, it's just heartbreaking to see how many good, honest hard-working people have something to wrong with their health, and they have to sell their home to pay for their bills, because for whatever reason, they couldn't obtain insurance, or the insurance wouldn't pay out. I believe it's also been proven that countries with universal healthcare have overall healthier populations, which helps keep expenses down. If you can tackle something now, like a small cut and infection on your foot, then that's way cheaper than waiting until it takes your whole leg, and having to go on disability because the job you were working at requires two legs to do.

But that's just me, and what do I know?

I think that’s just an example photo from a different, worse-off foot. And I’m glad you’re in the position to get any health care you need, newfren.

 

[Rich Evans Apologist]

In all fairness, if I didn't live in a country with universal healthcare, I'd be completely fucked. America scares the shit out of me, where breaking a leg can make you go bankrupt. In no other developed country that I'm aware of, is this a thing.

The bulk of the problem with health care costs in the US is for chronic illnesses and conditions, ambulance rides, and staying in a hospital - and even then, the first one vastly outstrips the others. The cost of an ambulance or a hospital stay is fucking absurd - but if you're paying it out over 5 years, it's not much at all. Most hospitals will work out payment plans, especially if you're poor. Obamacare's shitty implementation actually made it harder in many areas to get cheap insurance if you were self-employed or otherwise couldn't get insurance through your employer, but it did also put in place some shit to deal with the pre-existing conditions shit. (It did so in a fucking retarded way which often made shit worse for everyone else, but that's the name of the game for that bill's implementation.)

Medical care is not going to make you go bankrupt unless you need constant medical care or an extremely expensive treatment/medicine and lack even the most basic insurance (this is fairly rare). OR if you're chronically bad with money because you buy the newest shinies whenever they come out, which is more Lou's angle. The US's main problem for the average joe is how fucking unhealthy we are, how retarded with money we are, and the trend of having employers pay for health care thanks to FDR being a fucking retard. More unhealthy people in an insurance pool spikes the cost of insurance; more money flowing in from insurance spikes the cost of care; more expensive care provides the leverage by which insurance can still further raise its rates.

In the end, it follows that paying less in tax would lead to paying more for the care in concentrated bursts -- but you can still leverage an income-based repayment plan in most cases with the hospitals. Beyond people who need constant top-ups of medication, you'll be just fine if you realize that a new car is a luxury if your old one works fine, whole foods is not where you should be shopping, and a degree in women's dance theory is not a sound investment. In the cases where people are genuinely trying and can't afford health care, that's in part because they can't afford anything - the run-down, zero-opportunity areas in the country which are just barely kept afloat (the pennsyltucky which Lou despises) are a separate issue to the cost of health care for people who are in an area which isn't dysfunctional.

tl;dr if Lou would actually fucking work, he'd be fine. If he got treatment, he could pay it off over time -- but he would probably be pushed to get a job for it. And he doesn't just want to pay those installments with money he could be spending on a ps5, so he'll just hope the boo-boo goes away.

 

[Chicken Picnic]

Just imagine you are one of those weirdo tranny supporters and see him begging for help, and you do want to support him. So you click on his page to check him out and see what he's like... and boom, this is the first thing you see. Literal gore.
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Lou, you're beyond retarded for pinning this. And no, no one is going to want to donate to you when they see this, they are just gonna tell you to go to the hospital. Which you obviously are strongly against. This is your dumbest grifting tactic yet, and that's saying a lot.

I avoided opening the spoiler cause I've learned my lesson from Kelly the Munchie's thread when it comes to wounds, but then scrolled to this mid sipping a hot chocolate and just immediately stopped, put my mug down and sat in a state of depression for 30 seconds.

Remember that zoo analogy? This is why you come to a Lou exhibit: Seeing a man stick his finger in his foot hole while claiming there is nothing wrong with his foot.

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i just wanted to drink my hot drink in peace

Like others I have family experience with diabetes, but the ulcer that I got to see was on the shin, a lot more disgusting looking but it did take an extremely long time to heal. I'm talking months upon months both in and out of hospital. Specialist dressings every single day that had to be done by trained nurses.

This shit is no joke, it needs to get treated now before it gets to the disgusting actual like ulcerated gooey stage.

 

[Bad Gateway]

This thread brings me so much joy. It's like the Deagle Nation duel but Lou is Jace AND Tyce AND Eli

 

[BoobWhiskers]

So I know Lou has many cows that he seems so perfectly suited for (Stapphy and Rabbie being my personal faves) but man, this sure does seem to indicate he should go live on the Tran Ranch with Fetish Kevin. He's already fingered one disgusting hole on camera, why not go all the way and hook up with the one true Am Hole?

 

[Norman B. Normal]

Chances are they're even bigger fuckups than he is

I'm having a hard time conceptualizing this.

 

[Kled]

While I've never had to deal with a family member with diabetic ulcers myself I was told a story about a now deceased relative of mine having to get her leg cut off because she was burned horribly by a heated blanket that she didn't feel because of diabetic neuropathy. That story alone made me terrified of even remotely getting close to getting that far down the line. Lou is one foot on the surgeon's saw and one on a banana peel from reading all of the posts on the diabetic ulcers and hearing stories of advanced beetus. Dude's jonesing so hard for sad cash that he's willing to go through life altering shit just to enhance his grift.

 

[Iron Hamster]

Maybe he's injecting krokodil in his foot and that's where his begged for money goes.

 

[patchwork]

This dude is 100% losing his foot, he has too many mental hang-ups to face before he'll realize he should've seen a doctor about it yesterday. Maybe he'll get that wake up call when they tell him outright he's going to need an amputation... Lou, if you're thinking you can get disability pay because of it - you have to be missing the whole fucking leg. Mind you, he's too fucking fat to use a prosthetic without causing more injury to whatever stump he'll be left with, and we're already seeing how little he thinks of an extremely concerning ulcer.

 

[Captain Hastings Official]

It feels pretty ghoulish to be this excited about the possibility of someone losing their foot to a horrific, ulcerating wound, but I can't help it. Lou's self-destructive greed is hilarious.

 

[BoobWhiskers]

While I've never had to deal with a family member with diabetic ulcers myself I was told a story about a now deceased relative of mine having to get her leg cut off because she was burned horribly by a heated blanket that she didn't feel because of diabetic neuropathy.

An interesting side note, that I observed at the time but seems worth bringing up again as things develop: people have mentioned that sweet jesus, sticking a finger right in the wound like that seems like it should hurt and the fact that it apparently doesn't is a big red flag. Bear in mind, this was theoretically caused by a piece of glass... that Lou stepped on and then didn't even realize was still embedded in his foot for a full MONTH until it finally fell out.
Lou was walking around on a piece of glass for a month without realizing it beyond 'ow, I cut my foot'. If that doesn't indicate a foot with little to no feeling left, idk what does.

 

[MetalParakeet]

What's that Mumsnet thing we apparently have stuff in common with?

Is there another site like this and y'all didn't tell me?

 

[Dante Alighieri]

What's that Mumsnet thing we apparently have stuff in common with?

Is there another site like this and y'all didn't tell me?

It's a weird hardcore feminist site and about the only thing we have in common with them is the whole anti-trans/they're actually men thing.

 

[Sheeeeeiiiiiittt]

I'm... I'm not hungry anymore.

This sorta thing is partially why I didn't become a doctor. I'm hardly known for having the strongest stomach out there. Also, how old is this particular photo? It looks newer, and worse? Or is this modified?



In all fairness, if I didn't live in a country with universal healthcare, I'd be completely fucked. America scares the shit out of me, where breaking a leg can make you go bankrupt. In no other developed country that I'm aware of, is this a thing.

Here be rants! I won't hold it against you if you skip—it's all good.

Spoiler

Not to get political or anything, but yeah, I'm glad I don't have to worry about that sorta stuff here in Australia. Hell, I'm on enough medication that I hit the safety net by, what, July or August or something. Basically if you are low income, your medication is subsidized. It's about $6 a throw. I take... a lot of stuff. So once you've had your 100th subsidized script dispensed that year, you hit the safety net, and your medication is free for the rest of the year.

I do hope America gets universal healthcare one of these days. I genuinely believe that access to affordable, quality healthcare is a fundamental human right.

Let's say you aren't ace, lets say you're me, trying to get by on what you do have, and a big hole opens up in your foot. Id absolutely be scared to go to the doctor or the hospital, because that shit sounds like it could get expensive. The human brain is weird. It kinda wants things that are uncomfortable to magically go away. I suppose it's like a frog in a pot of boiling water. If you throw one in that's already hot, it'll jump out. But if the frog is already in the pot and it starts to heat up, it won't realize it's fucked until it's too late.

I guess a similar thing could be at play here. Also, it's just heartbreaking to see how many good, honest hard-working people have something to wrong with their health, and they have to sell their home to pay for their bills, because for whatever reason, they couldn't obtain insurance, or the insurance wouldn't pay out. I believe it's also been proven that countries with universal healthcare have overall healthier populations, which helps keep expenses down. If you can tackle something now, like a small cut and infection on your foot, then that's way cheaper than waiting until it takes your whole leg, and having to go on disability because the job you were working at requires two legs to do.

But that's just me, and what do I know?

This wasn’t Lou, but just an example of a diabetic foot ulcer. This one is definetly infected and shares a lot of similarity with his wound.

It feels pretty ghoulish to be this excited about the possibility of someone losing their foot to a horrific, ulcerating wound, but I can't help it. Lou's self-destructive greed is hilarious.

Even though this waste hardly deserves any sympathy, I don’t want him to lose his foot. Amputees live a hard, miserable life, especially if they are as large as he is.

 

[Opposite Time Nomad]

Maybe he isnt suicide baiting.. maybe he really is just killing himself slowly with poor diet and life decisions.

 

[Rich Evans Apologist]

Maybe he isnt suicide baiting.. maybe he really is just killing himself slowly with poor diet and life decisions.

Well, he -is- a writer, y'know! Maybe he just wants to follow in the footsteps of famous writers who are often read towards the end of high-school and thus get undue veneration by those with arrested development:

Here's the news: I am going to sue the Brown & Williamson Tobacco Company, manufacturers of Pall Mall cigarettes, for a billion bucks! Starting when I was only twelve years old, I have never chain-smoked anything but unfiltered Pall Malls. And for many years now, right on the package, Brown & Williamson have promised to kill me.​

But I am eighty-two. Thanks a lot, you dirty rats. The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.​

Problem is, he just forgot to write and publish anything of worth first.