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The "Go Home You're Crazy Lady!" disease.

After my wife's health issue back 2012 that wiped us out. She came down with a bout of this as well. Until she realized the only relief was about a $500 bill a month.

Insurance don't cover Unicorn pain. The Doctor will convince you they will but they wont. The Doctor will get his and he knows it.
People get older and their tendons and muscles aren't as flexible. You can pull or strain them very easily. Doctors would rather you freak out over a mystery illness than tell you, you probably pulled a muscle or a tendon that can last for 6 months to two years that kind of pain. When shoulders and upper arm muscles and joints are inflamed they pinch nerves in hands, wrist and fingers. They tingle and they are numb. When I read the symptoms they sure sound like what I went through when I pulled my rotator cuff using it as a battering ram to close a steel door into a deteriorated door frame so I could get paid for a job. It's why I ended up learning programing and got out of flooring, my shoulder, neck and right arm was fucked up for two whole years.

The problem with pain is that it is always a "self diagnosis" and there is not much of a test or see if the pain is "real" except probing etc., which also depends upon a subjective response. Elaborate EEG monitoring and nerve conduction studies might be able to see more.

When I had the terrible flu last year, I had something like "fibromyalgia". Basically, everything hurt, my joints, my skin, my lungs, my back, my neck. I even felt like I could feel pain in my bones and skeleton.

However, trash bag diagnoses like "fibromyalgia" cover a lot of sins. If somebody is addicted to opioids that they take for pain, when they go into withdrawal, they indeed have "pain all over" from the withdrawal. The Dr. FeelGoods know that this is a good way to keep the RX pad active and the patient dependent.

Ceffer says

Basically, everything hurt, my joints, my skin, my lungs, my back, my neck. I even felt like I could feel pain in my bones and skeleton.

That's from your muscles wringing out your lymph nodes every time you wince, cough and sneeze when you get the flu.
your glands and nodes get tender and sore.

HEYYOU says

Republicans & Democrats are a pain in my ass!

I think that warrants a Vicodin prescription.

Tenpoundbass says

Insurance don't cover Unicorn pain.

LO fucking L. Unicorn pain.

anonymous says

Lady Gaga may be crazy but she can produce some really nice music

Not my style at all, but can totally understand why people like it. And not trying to knock her down a peg or anything (she has talent), but there are also a lot of people and tech to help her along the way, as there is in most music production. Probably the main reason I'm not into pop music that much. Too over processed and it's not totally an individual or group of individuals (as in a band) making original music.

anonymous says

easy on the eyes for the most part

Much like music, looks are an opinion. Her face is a train wreck in my opinion, all of it, not most. Sure, I guess I could see it when she's performing or at red carpet shit when they have painted on her face. But the few times I've seen the clown mask off, that situation is shit show if you ask me... and I know you didn't. We'll have to agree to disagree on this one, respectfully.

Yeah, Lady Gaga isn't good looking at all, with or without makeup.

Interesting thread I found, it looks like they're all addicted to painkillers and/or cannabis, or pushing it. "Herbal Medicine" LOL. Excuse to be unemployed and smoke weed.

https://www.quora.com/Why-are-so-many-people-in-the-medical-profession-skeptical-of-Fibromyalgia-pain

It's about time Lady Gaga was a pain in her own ass.

Look up Dr. John Sarno. He came up with the diagnosis of TMS that can cover this and other types of pain that persists long after it really should. It’s all related to muscle tension and the damage this does to nerves. And muscle tension is managed by our subconscious which is affected by internal stress. Deal with your feelings first and confront your issues instead of hiding from them, and most of those aches will fade away.

HEYYOU says

Republicans & Democrats are a pain in my ass!

APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostikovitch says

Isn't Gaga the lady singer with a dick?

Are these two events related?

Lady Gaga develops Fibromyassgia, aka Acute Hysteric-Hypochondria

Middle Aged Acute Malingering-Female Attention Trolling (MAA'M-FAT)

90%+ of Fibra My Ass, Gia sufferers are women
80% are over 35
80% are over 25 BMI and half are over 30 BMI (overweight to obese)
50% report Depression
70% report Anxiety
50% are unemployed.
91% of "Personal Injury Payment" (Disability) for Fibro My Ass Gia in the UK go to Women
0% of symptoms are quantifiable based on observative physical symptoms (Neuropathy in extremities, WBC Count, Sed Rate like other Rheumatory disturbances, etc.)
100% of Fibro My Ass, Gia diagnosis are based on subjective pain claims
Locations of Pain do not match up to any nervous system pathways
The same women who claim not to be able to have any kind of work spend hours upon hours on Social Media whinging and sympathy trolling.

Do a quick search of Reddit, Pinterest, etc. Fibro My Ass Gia areas. The #1 complaint? "Nobody recognizes my suffering and dotes upon me"

Sometimes also called "Cubefrau Illness"

I believe the condition is real but a misnomer and belongs to the CFS/ME/PVFS and chronic inflammation bracket. Also probably only 20% who claim to have it do have it, and of those only 20% are in moderate+ pain. It's not uncommon to have aches and pains historically, some come as a result of bodily work. The idea to give someone disability because they have mild to moderate chronic pain/distress is idiotic and enabling all the freeloaders, mostly wommynz. And yes pretty much all I know who have some sort of it also have other psychological or social problems/issues and usually always had trouble keeping a man or a job.

"In other news, Justin Bieber is covered with tattoos."

Lady Gaga can actually sing. She doesn’t need any outrageous costume or voice processing. Have you seen her with Tony Bennett?

https://youtu.be/EIoyTlfUPPU

Undoctored says

Lady Gaga can actually sing. She doesn’t need any outrageous costume or voice processing. Have you seen her with Tony Bennett?

You do understand live music in todays world, right? I can make a male bass signer sound the exact same with electronics. No one actually sings live anymore. All have effects on vocals at minimum and at worst are auto tuning or lip synching. And not auto tuning like rappers.

A female with good tits and an ass, and a decent producer is a millionaire over night. Has nothing to do with their voice. Very few people have the ability to truly sing. Go to the opera for that. Of somewhat recent vintage, Christina Aguilera I think can sing. Maybe Adele. Lady Gaga, nope. Brittany Spears. Taylor Swift. All a big hell no to it being real vocals. A trained ear, and mine is amateur but have done studio work with musicians, can hear the tuning effect whether live or in studio. Obvious as can be. And even the good singers use tons of effects.

Biggest tell is no acoustic signing. You'll never see the big names do it. A mic is always attached or in their hand. It's no different than a guitar player. They have pedals to change the sound and have for decades. Singers have similar tools that make them sound better. Doesn't mean they can actually sing when you put them on the spot. Most can't.

WookieMan says

Undoctored says

Lady Gaga can actually sing. She doesn’t need any outrageous costume or voice processing. Have you seen her with Tony Bennett?

[…] Of somewhat recent vintage, Christina Aguilera I think can sing. Maybe Adele. Lady Gaga, nope. […] And even the good singers use tons of effects.

Biggest tell is no acoustic signing.

Would you do yourself the favor of actually watching the video I linked of Lady Gaga singing “Anything Goes” with Tony Bennett? https://youtu.be/EIoyTlfUPPU

Here’s another one, “Night and Day”: https://youtu.be/7P2K7A3hopE

What do you think?

WookieMan says

Undoctored says

Lady Gaga can actually sing. She doesn’t need any outrageous costume or voice processing. Have you seen her with Tony Bennett?

You do understand live music in todays world, right? I can make a male bass signer sound the exact same with electronics. No one actually sings live anymore. All have effects on vocals at minimum and at worst are auto tuning or lip synching. And not auto tuning like rappers.

A female with good tits and an ass, and a decent producer is a millionaire over night. Has nothing to do with their voice. Very few people have the ability to truly sing. Go to the opera for that. Of somewhat recent vintage, Christina Aguilera I think can sing. Maybe Adele. Lady Gaga, nope. Brittany Spears. Taylor Swift. All a big hell no to it being real vocals. A trained ear, and mine is amateur but have done studio work with musicians, can hear the tuning e...

As a (pretty decent) amateur musician in a past life, I can attest to the fakery of voice processing. Even back in the naughties (2000's), vocal processing was pretty damn impressive. Once, for shits and giggles, I picked up a vocal processor from Sweetwater which I planned to return. It had the capability to modify vocal pitch based on MIDI note input. I reproduced the vocal intro to "Bohemian Rhapsody" in realtime, using just my voice and the keyboard. I was seriously impressed with the technology, although I couldn't use it live because I was the keyboard player. I was a better player than vocalist.

WookieMan says

A female with good tits and an ass, and a decent producer is a millionaire over night. Has nothing to do with their voice. Very few people have the ability to truly sing. Go to the opera for that. Of somewhat recent vintage, Christina Aguilera I think can sing. Maybe Adele. Lady Gaga, nope.

This is "Lady Gaga" before she sold out and whored herself out to the machine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3b5mgPmw2zw

It's weird but Lady Gaga looks different to me almost every time I see her. I mean, different to the point where I don't recognize her until they say who she is.

richwicks says

WookieMan says

A female with good tits and an ass, and a decent producer is a millionaire over night. Has nothing to do with their voice. Very few people have the ability to truly sing. Go to the opera for that. Of somewhat recent vintage, Christina Aguilera I think can sing. Maybe Adele. Lady Gaga, nope.

This is "Lady Gaga" before she sold out and whored herself out to the machine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3b5mgPmw2zw

So what I said is correct. She can't sing. I've heard better at a Karaoke night at a dive bar. And bands we opened and closed for with chicks as singers.

She's highly modified in studio and live. Highly. Also isn't she a daddy's money chick as well? Didn't really make it on her own.

WookieMan says

So what I said is correct. She can't sing. I've heard better at a Karaoke night at a dive bar

I have too. I've been at dive bars with karaoke with singers that sound incredible.

I think it's all about looks and being willing to sell out. Everybody is Milli Vanilli now.

WookieMan says

So what I said is correct. She can't sing. I've heard better at a Karaoke night at a dive bar.

Anyone can have a bad performance. Also, what Richwicks posted was interesting but the sound quality was terrible.

For some good “early” Gaga (née Stefani Germanotta) see this performance at an NYU talent show.

https://youtu.be/NM51qOpwcIM

And again, as I said, her recent jazz standards with Tony Bennett:

“Anything Goes”: https://youtu.be/EIoyTlfUPPU

“Night and Day”: https://youtu.be/7P2K7A3hopE

She is a good singer, no special audio effects necessary.

Undoctored says

She is a good singer, no special audio effects necessary.

She may be, but that's not what catapulted her to fame.

She did the same thing that Madonna did, she's "shocking". Miley Cyrus walks in their footsteps.



Really, celebrities are entirely interchangeable and meaningless. Music today is made through a corporate machine, not by a human being. It's been this way for 40 years. Basically they are just people willing to absolutely prostitute themselves.

They are used to make whatever political message they are told to produce, they have no convictions or values, they are purposeless and entirely directed by corporate machines. They exhibit no will of their own. They are puppets, not people.

I hope someone reading this thread will put their prejudices away, follow the links I posted, and take a listen to Lady Gaga without her silly costumes, heavy audio effects, and techno backing tracks. My point is unlike some other manufactured celebrities you people love to equate her with she actually has a great voice and can hold her own with a standard microphone and a piano.

I have often thought that a large portion of the income of doctors and hospitals is directly due to hypochondria.

So they have no reason to discourage hypochondria, but instead a motive to keep saying "See your doctor!"

Undoctored says

I hope someone reading this thread will put their prejudices away, follow the links I posted, and take a listen to Lady Gaga without her silly costumes, heavy audio effects, and techno backing tracks. My point is unlike some other manufactured celebrities you people love to equate her with she actually has a great voice and can hold her own with a standard microphone and a piano.

Older comment. I've played live and know some larger bands. I've seen their rack mount equipment. Just because it looks authentic and acoustic, doesn't mean it is.

There's not a large act that isn't auto tuning vocals for pitch and tone. ZERO. Lady Gaga is 100% auto tuned live. Is her voice above average? Probably. I hate the opera, but go there if you want to hear good singing. Pop music is literally all fake if you've ever played or recorded.

I'm 3 albums deep recording wise and well over 100 shows. Opening for big bands sometimes. They bring in their own rackmount rigs with all their effects and their own sound guy. Just roll it in and plug into the sound board. When Lady Gaga sings live it's 100% auto tuned. I wish she could auto tune her face though.

Patrick says

I have often thought that a large portion of the income of doctors and hospitals is directly due to hypochondria.

Nurses. I know too many. Their kids are ALWAYS sick with something. Miss school. My kids get an annual physical and that's it. Nothing bad that we can't handle with OTC meds and even then it's maybe once every 2-3 years one time. I think it's this: https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/9833-munchausen-syndrome-factitious-disorder-imposed-on-self

Can be inflicted on a child but usually a female nurse. My aunt did this. I have nurse friends that do this to their kids. It's rather sick. They all pop pills themselves and throw shit at their kids if ANYTHING seems wrong. My cousin had "asthma" and is a perfectly functioning adult. Nebulizer daily for 15 minutes as a child. My nephew has legit lung issues. I went camping for a week with all the boys and didn't know he needed medicine or anything. Guess what, he didn't die and had a blast.

Lady Gaga just opens a vial of adreonochrome like Popeye opens and downs a can of spinach, and her warbling becomes divine.

She had some video thing a few years ago where she was wandering around a stream naked. She was the most sallow, out of shape honkey white thing imaginable, with ugly tattoos. They really have to pile on her makeup and hair pieces and juice her up to get her out there.

Ceffer says

They really have to pile on her makeup and hair pieces and juice her up to get her out there.

I hate being derogatory of females, but this is spot on. As I mentioned probably an above average voice, but literally no one would know. She never sings in a non-mic'd up situation. I believe she's a rich bitch so $$$$ can make you what you want to be. Good for her. She's hideous in my world. She looks like a man.

Patrick says

I have often thought that a large portion of the income of doctors and hospitals is directly due to hypochondria.

So they have no reason to discourage hypochondria, but instead a motive to keep saying "See your doctor!"

At one point in my life a Dr. actually told me I might be a hypochondriac. At that time, I think I was. She recommended some type of mental medication and after I took for about 2 days, I was cured of going to the Dr. for frivolous things. I hated whatever that drug was and stopped after 2 days.

WookieMan says

When Lady Gaga sings live it's 100% auto tuned.

Please go back and watch and listen to those videos I linked to, and give me your opinion of Lady Gaga’s voice in those videos.

Undoctored says

WookieMan says

When Lady Gaga sings live it's 100% auto tuned.

Please go back and watch and listen to those videos I linked to, and give me your opinion of Lady Gaga’s voice in those videos.

I watched all the videos the first go around with this topic. Studio work and live work are one in the same now. Even 10-15 years ago. All live music is massively processed. That can include all instruments. Singing is the unique one where you can miss the note and have it completely corrected. You still have to play your instrument correctly.

And I'm not talking the rap autotune style. I could easily get an awful singer to sound exactly like Lady Gaga live. Even a man. Actually auto tune might be the OG of AI.

Every clip linked she had a mic. I know the OP is about Gaga, but you think a 90 year old Tony Bennett can even sing the way he did at that age?? Hell no. They were 100% processed.

That's why shows like Unplugged in the 90's on MTV was so popular. Love or hate his voice, that was Kurt Cobain's voice during his unplugged session. Gaga could not do that show today without modern tech. There are very rarely naturally good singers if you take the mic away.

WookieMan says

I believe she's a rich bitch so $$$$

Same elite private high school in Manhattan as Rose Kennedy. Father was one of the execs who became a consultant, massively increased his pay, and then advised AT&T not to let anybody leave and become a consultant.

Lady Gaga is probably a few years older than she claims to be, which is common in the music industry. She also stole her entire look and persona from another performer, named Lady Starlight or something, that she performed with and collaborated with on several occasions before she got famous, so she can't claim she didn't know who she was. Her hit albums, including her first, were all written by master producers and corporate lyricists.

Music is not even close to art like is was decades ago. The processes have been systemized. An example of manufactured reality. The actual song writers might be the only artists left and even that process can be broken down to a formula.

Tenpoundbass says

my shoulder, neck and right arm was fucked up for two whole years.

A fucked up shoulder can take a long time to heal. A while back, I assumed a shower rod was screwed into the wall (it wasn’t) and went crashing down onto the floor from a high-walled tub in a hotel. Let out a string of curses. My shoulder was fucked up to 6 motnhs at least. My primary care physician discouraged me from geting surgery and said that time would heal it, which it did. It was a motherfucker, tho.

Everyone I know that got the surgery, lost some mobility in their shoulder. Mine healed fine, but from time to time I get a tingle in my wrist, I suspect is a pinched nerve in my shoulder as my shoulder will have a dull burning sensation at the same time. Usually after using something like a chipping hammer to bust out cinder block for a 1900 two gang electrical box.

Undoctored says

has a great voice and can hold her own with a standard microphone

What is a standard microphone? The microphone has nothing to do with what I'm talking about at all. I record drums in my basement that sound as good as any $4k microphones like overhead condenser mics with $200 mics. It's the rack mount equipment. Studio or live.

I'm doing my solo drum recording, but did it for 20 years paid gigs and doing albums. Don't know how old you are but the tech has been extremely advanced for quite some time to process live vocals. The microphone is moot. It's all going through rack mount equipment to make it sound better and can alter the voice if it's close enough to pitch and tone.

She might sound above average acoustically WITHOUT a mic, but she's not a great singer even with the assistance. I mean that's like saying Brittany Spears is a great singer. Adele is one that passes my great singer test, though she's also processed heavily. They all are. The music industry is the front runner of AI over 20 years ago. We just called it effects.

Also "in the box" is extremely advanced. If I have a snare hit that is just off a little, there are plugins that will allow you to align them perfectly. This is consumer level grade stuff. You can buy some crazy shit for live audio. Hell, look at lighting at live events. It's unreal what even a smaller band can do now.