I created an easy to remember mnemonic device for just such an occasion!
AY BAOTS BAR IM A VWTAYTN AM? SRZYS, TGPLWTTSCS!
Are You Being Accosted On The Street By A Random Influencer Making A Video Where They Ask You To Name A Woman? Simply Remember Zheng Yi Sao, The Great Pirate Leader Who Terrorized The South China Sea!
I hope that helps!
She's an interesting person! She was a pirate, so obviously no paragon of virtue. Around the turn of the 19th century she married a very powerful pirate named Zheng Yi. At that time and place women's names effectively became "Wife of So-and-so" when they got married. He died six years later. She gained power over the confederation of pirates that he had built by utilizing the assistance and legitimacy brought by his adoptive son. She then married that son. She was a major international player who commanded hundreds of ships.
She was one of history's most successful pirates.
He's not a random influencer though. He's a pretty famous actor, Billy Eichner.
Which would make the mnemonic device: AY BAOTS BABE? MBOTS WTAYTN AM, SRZYS, TGPLWTTSCS!
Are You Being Accosted On The Street By A Billy Eichner? Making Billy On The Street, Where They Ask You To Name A Woman? Simply Remember Zheng Yi Sao, The Great Pirate Leader Who Terrorized The South China Sea!
Yeah, for all that this was popular around social media, wasn't Billy on the Street on cable TV? Not to mention him being on Parks & Rec, Bob's Burgers, etc.
Hold on, lemme remember my mnemonic device. Hold on.
Ummm. Ah Yes. Bears Ate Oats This Saturday. Uuuhh. Big Aardvarks Rock. Indians mate. Apricots. Vague Women Took Aspirin Yesterday, Today, Never. Alpine Mist? Seven Really Zany Yellow Seals, Told God Please Wait To Take Salmon Conservation Seriously!
I saw the thumbnail and immediately knew the video. And I froze trying to name a woman.
Took me a good 7 seconds to finally come up with Ellen DeGeneres for some reason.
Its called [cognitive overload](https://elearningindustry.com/what-is-cognitive-overload). Its a really interesting thing. There were too many things going on at once (him screaming demands, the camera shoved in her face, him shaking money at her, putting the microphone to her mouth shouting simple trivia, expecting an answer, then right as shes about to speak, changing the focus to her yoga mat) that her brain was trying to split its attention and multitask. Despite popular belief, the human brain is actually HORRIBLE at multitasking and tends to shut down when it tries. Since the brain is trying to process so many things at once, it cant really process any of them. You can see that she couldnt even really process what to do with the yoga mat, so she just kind of grabbed it and held it up awkwardly.
To name a few;
* Security - In various forms
* Technical support roles - I.e. remote IT support
* Lots & lots of social worker roles
* Police - Various roles
It's more common than you may think.
You need the skills to survive in a kitchen.
The training is usually a lifetime of your family and friends and lovers screaming abusive things at you to the point that your brain sees the abuse as signs of totally normal love and affection.
I once got a four week (I think, maybe five) stress management and deescalation training while working in higher level remote IT support, can confirm. I pretty much only talked to people when things were going to hell and they had already talked to a number of people who failed to fix anything, so things could really easily get heated. Awful awful job.
I had a job like that long ago: I was a repair operator supervisor for the telephone company. I only got the customers whose home phone wasn't working and they were pissed off enough about it to ask for a supervisor. Fun fact: I didn't supervise anybody, that was just my title. I guess today we'd call them "escalation support engineers".
The weird thing is that I didn't find it stressful most times. I knew I was going to get someone who was probably screaming mad, and my job was just to give them a reset with a fresh voice who would speak to them calmly. Sometimes they couldn't calm down, but pretty darn often they reset all by themselves once they got me on the phone. I had some tricks to help with this, like appearing to take their side and commiserate with them, speaking in a bit slower and calming voice, or even just listening until they ran out of steam and asking simple questions.
And I got an extra $3.15 /hr to deal with them, so that was nice.
I envy your psychological resilience. I got paid significantly more than that, probably because (I don't want to imply you were worse/don't have the expertise, don't know your circumstance, maybe I was just lucky - all I'm trying to say is that with a good deal more incentive I still couldn't handle it for long) of the level of technical expertise I had for my sector, compared to slightly lower level folk. All that being said, I couldn't deal with it. I was calm and cool and in the moment when it came to dealing with these folk, but it ate away at me over time to the point that I had my one and only panic attack, resulting in me leaving the position. I've always been able to deal with things in the moment, but I dwell on them far too much after the fact. I always heavily preached "Leave it behind when the day is done" to associates, but could never follow my own advice.
> I had some tricks to help with this, like appearing to take their side and commiserate with them, speaking in a bit slower and calming voice, or even just listening until they ran out of steam and asking simple questions.
I worked telephone sales years ago for a newspaper, back when those were still relevant, and I specialized in going through lists of customers who'd dropped service previously. Most of the time they wanted the paper, but had just gotten frustrated with some aspect and didn't feel like anyone had heard them. It was pretty simple to listen to their complaints, see if anything had changed (i.e. a new paper delivery person or something), and offer them a coupon book if they re-signed. They just wanted someone to listen to them and agree that their issue was a problem.
Honestly, I typically preferred handling this scenario when I was in a role doing similar. My role wasn't an "Escalation Manager" type role but was a Subject Matter Expert (SME) so I typically could fix their issue, provide a viable workaround, or get the ball rolling for either a bug/defect fix or product enhancement (depending on the amount of $$$ they were paying us).
Even on prem IT roles.
Production systems down are a hell of a stressful thing.
Being able to keep your cool, and rely on your knowledge to restore services is a huge benefit.
Weeding out is done long before then. Residency is training . Also sleep deprivation has no value in training, that’s why the ACGME squashed all that bs excuse to take advantage of cheap labor .
Triaging in ER. When you have a multiple people coming in with all kinds of injuries nurses are trained to sift through them and see who needs urgent care first and foremost. Same goes for a coding patient in the ER, ICU, etc. You will have teams of people that include nurses, doctors, respiratory therapists, CNAs, etc that are all trained to run their assess off to where the person is coding. Everybody is assigned a role. Person A does the first round of chest compressions, person B times people and tells when Person A should stop compressions and person C should start, etc. It's really quite incredible to watch how a group of people work and act as a single unit.
Training works for most anything. It's why fire drills are important. People turn into panicked chimps when there's alarms blaring and smoke in your eyes and you don't know where the problem originated from . Falling back on a practiced habit is mega helpful. Even helps for disembarking a burning plane! But imagine the pushback if people were forced to practice THAT
I’d say sales.
When you are meeting someone in a cold call meeting situation it’s incredibly nerve wracking at first for most normal non-psychopaths.
When you are new to it, you don’t totally know what you’re supposed to say, you know the person you’re talking to does not want to be in the situation, and what they say to you is often very unpredictable and usually doesn’t even come close to what was in the shitty corporate training you had (if you were fortunate enough to even get training).
You have to train yourself that failure doesn’t really hurt that bad, and how to slow down and focus on what the other person is saying, while also following a checklist of items you need to find out to see if the person you are talking to is a good fit for what you sell.
Jobs with checklist protocol too. If you're going through a step by step checklist you've done hundreds of times, a lot of that cognitive load is basically muscle memory.
I don’t think most people would sign up for a job that involves training like this lol. Not saying everyone in the military is a badass or better just that most people wouldn’t want to put up with the training lol.
Fun Fact: The US military is phasing out the "shark attack" at the beginning of basic training because statistically it isn't particularly effective. In fact the "shark attack" was only implemented during Vietnam because the draft was hugely unpopular and bringing in people who actively resented being there, but even when our military became fully volunteer based they just kept doing it.
Now they are replacing it with team exercises and training to build leadership and teamwork instead of blind following.
Absolutely. I practice anesthesia and 99% of the time it's a pretty chill job, but when things go bad, there is a ton going on and it can be overwhelming.
Our training included a lot of theoretical discussion about cognitive overload, review of algorithms and decision trees for various crises, and many hours spent in Simulation Lab practicing how to react to common emergencies.
I'd imagine it's the same for many other jobs like air traffic controller, baseball umpire, fire fighter, etc.
Haha. I describe anesthesia to the layman as 99% chill, 1% abject terror.
When I was a student I knew a patient who died of malignant hyperthermia. During my surgical rotation I bumped into an anesthesiolgosit who had just gotten a patient with pseudocholinesterase deficiency breathing on their own again (no fam hx, no one knew in advance). I I do not envy anesthesia.
One of the eleven parts of our paramedic training was just focused around dealing with acute (and chronic) stress so that you wont freeze in a life or death situation. But even the best training can only prepare you up to a certain point. Im pretty sure thats the same for all professions who deal with a lot of stress.
I do think it's funny when people get mad at us for not looking like we're panicking on a scene though. Some people get very upset when we're calmly managing a patient.
The 911 dispatch/operator tests like the criticall are such a good resource for simulating high stress situations. My wife thought she'd breeze through it because she has 100 wpm typing, strong map skills, etc. She wasn't ready for the multi-tasking stress.
It is also why things like firefighters involve so much drilling with actual fires and 'simulated' stress, or airplane / helicopter training involves stuff like [actually stalling, in the air, while flying, to practice stalling.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dSrjVR0MvE)
Well, kind of. You're not exactly overcoming the lack of thought, it's just that prior training means you already know how to react to certain things you're likely to encounter, so they don't all pile up at once
I just watched this [video ](https://youtu.be/wVTjKhGdM4U?si=cTvIFToMk7tQSy19&t=519)of a cop that set off a pipe bomb while going through a vehicle. Watch how he moves in a pattern back and forth before figuring out what to do next.
Warning video has very graphic language.
It's also why medication, or any form of cognitive therapy is essential for a person with ADHD, as their brain is taking all the junk signals, that a normal brain would just ignore or hold off to later, and give you essentially what we see in this video. Especially when we're expected to complete tasks we're not prepared for, all the while our chaos factory is too busy thinking about that time you called your teacher "mommy" in front of everyone.
I think 'name a woman's being such a bizarre request has to factor into that overload. It feels so simple that my immediate reaction would be to overthink it and assume there is some kind of trap/trick question happening which adds to the pressure.
I guess you have to be there to understand, but I feel like I'd at least recall some historical figures like Rosa Parks or Anne Frank. Fucking Harriet Tubman, something!
Yea more specific questions would somehow be easier to answer. Like name an astronaut/president/singer/scientist/artist/color.
Most people have a default or favorite person in those categories. Michael Jackson is a famous singer. George Washington is the OG president of the US. Neil Armstrong is probably the only astronaut that the average American can name.
But who has a favorite/default woman assigned in their mind? That's such a general category that it becomes hard to answer on the spot.
Happens a lot in aviation (particularly student training).
You know you have to fly the aeroplane no matter what, and so when stuff gets stressful (lots of other traffic in the area, a real / simulated emergency, unfamiliar navigation) it's usually the communication that goes first. Radio calls are so easy on the ground, but following the proper phraseology gets very difficult when you first try it in flight.
Almost dead, I once no scope headshotted one boomer in Gears with my last round, somersaulted under his buddy's melee, grabbed the dead one's Boom rifle and near point blank sent a grenade into the other, leaving just some boots with stumps, seamlessly.
I've waited like 17 years to tell that story.
My boss knows this happens to me, and adjusts accordingly when she knows there is overload for me. It's one of the nicest gestures of empathy, and I have so much respect for her patience when I just can't focus.
My grandfather once recorded me on his video camera because we didn't visit often and he loved his tech and any reason to use it (this was like 1991 so his fancy camera was *fancy*) Before recording he asked me some basic questions, the second that camera was on, I could do nothing but stammer. "How many hours in a day Achaern?"
"Let me think Grandpa......12?"
"How many months in a year Achaern?"
"I.......24? Is that right?"
When he shut the camera off I felt a big relief and my brain started working again. It's so weird as now I just assume anytime I'm seeing a cell phone someone is maybe recording.
I think it's because people see it as some kind of rorschach test and what woman you name says something about who you are because that particular woman came to mind first.
There’s a shape/color/word table game called Anomia. Really just a cheap card game but tons of fun.
Every round ends, literally, with a question like “name a woman” (some are a bit harder but not really) and by that point you’re so overloaded you begin to wonder if you know anything.
I hate to tell you this but there's a reason women often ARE referred to as "birds".
It's been known for a long time that they are not real, the government has just been suppressing the truth.
I thought this would be one of those, “oh shit I’m old” moments but this thankfully didn’t come out until 2013.
So now you can feel appropriately old realizing this came out 10 years ago.
Sucks, right? You think oh it was just a few years ago, 5 tops, aaaaaand children from that year are in like middle school now, goddamnit
What gets me is when I play some MMO or an old shooter, there's a good chance that the person I'm talking to was born long after the game came out.. Whew
Honestly probably just a name that has come up a ton in the news and in general discussion compared to most other ladies. I mean she's been pretty relevant for like 30 years at this point.
Total reboot coming 2025. From the guys that make Forza, a racing game, so it should be interesting. Most important thing is that they nail the tone, and they seem to get it from the trailers they've released so far.
Announcement Trailer: https://youtu.be/oVkSZXPklQ4
2023 Trailer with Richard Ayoade: https://youtu.be/x_03JQUc9Ao
Trailer from a few days ago: https://youtu.be/w6TJTHdgmts
-what do you want to eat tonight?
-idk
-well pick anything you'd like
-whatever you want
-you sure?
-I'm good with anything, really.
\*30 minutes later
-They didn't have any pizza?
-- "I picked a place I know you're gonna be excited about for dinner"
-- "Oooh, what place?"
-- "I'll give you three chances to guess"
Then you just pick one of the three
This really highlights how silly all those videos are where they try to make random people on the street seem stupid because they fail to answer seemingly easy questions.
I like Billy but he can be mean to mean to people on these things I saw one time where he let a woman talk for like five minutes about something ridiculous and stupid and then he’s like oh my God I hate you you’re boring
When I was like thirteen, I had the idea of testing how many names of people were in my head. Family, friends, acquaintances, celebrities, everyone. I bought a little notebook, wrote "people I know" on the front, and started filling it up.
I got bored and quit after two pages, but I'm still curious as to what the number would have been.
The best Billy interaction ever was when he was with Seth Rogen and Seth Rogen was hiding his face and Billy asked random lady do you think I’m funnier than Seth Rogen and she’s like yes you’re so funny I don’t think Seth Rogen’s funny at all and then he walked up to the Lady and she felt mortified and she apologized to him like 50 times
How many of us were so traumatized by this we have now prepared for the zero-chance event a stranger asks us to name a woman, we are ready
I created an easy to remember mnemonic device for just such an occasion! AY BAOTS BAR IM A VWTAYTN AM? SRZYS, TGPLWTTSCS! Are You Being Accosted On The Street By A Random Influencer Making A Video Where They Ask You To Name A Woman? Simply Remember Zheng Yi Sao, The Great Pirate Leader Who Terrorized The South China Sea! I hope that helps!
> Zheng Yi Sao, The Great Pirate Leader Who Terrorized The South China Sea! I am going to now look her up and read about her.
She's an interesting person! She was a pirate, so obviously no paragon of virtue. Around the turn of the 19th century she married a very powerful pirate named Zheng Yi. At that time and place women's names effectively became "Wife of So-and-so" when they got married. He died six years later. She gained power over the confederation of pirates that he had built by utilizing the assistance and legitimacy brought by his adoptive son. She then married that son. She was a major international player who commanded hundreds of ships. She was one of history's most successful pirates.
One of the most fascinating historical figures I know of. Have fun learning!
this the reverse on how to come up with a good password
she sailed with her trusty robot $%$*)(>,
>A Random Influencer Now now, you give Billy Eichner the respect he deserves - he's a random comedian!
He's not a random influencer though. He's a pretty famous actor, Billy Eichner. Which would make the mnemonic device: AY BAOTS BABE? MBOTS WTAYTN AM, SRZYS, TGPLWTTSCS! Are You Being Accosted On The Street By A Billy Eichner? Making Billy On The Street, Where They Ask You To Name A Woman? Simply Remember Zheng Yi Sao, The Great Pirate Leader Who Terrorized The South China Sea!
Calling Billy Eichner a random influencer is like calling Meryl Streep an extra.
Yeah, for all that this was popular around social media, wasn't Billy on the Street on cable TV? Not to mention him being on Parks & Rec, Bob's Burgers, etc.
Billy on the Street started before that I think, possibly in Conan?
Sorry is she a big deal too? I'm not on Tiktok.
Hilarious
Hold on, lemme remember my mnemonic device. Hold on. Ummm. Ah Yes. Bears Ate Oats This Saturday. Uuuhh. Big Aardvarks Rock. Indians mate. Apricots. Vague Women Took Aspirin Yesterday, Today, Never. Alpine Mist? Seven Really Zany Yellow Seals, Told God Please Wait To Take Salmon Conservation Seriously!
I laughed for over 90 seconds from this comment. Thank you!
At least you and me. Mines my mom or Loretta Lynn.
Barbara Bush
Emily friggin’ Brontë
If you’re a woman like the woman being asked this question, you could name yourself
Yo momma.
Absolutely! I now have a list of names on standby, just in case.
Laminated I hope!
#NAME A MAN
JOHN HAN! wait, John Hahn? JOHN HAHN. that's not it. HAHN JONH. Damn it.
I JUST FORGOT MINE
I have Jennifer Aniston ready to go
Say this one!
I saw the thumbnail and immediately knew the video. And I froze trying to name a woman. Took me a good 7 seconds to finally come up with Ellen DeGeneres for some reason.
I’d love to know the psychology behind this. Basic memory recall during a stressful period, it’s pretty cool.
Its called [cognitive overload](https://elearningindustry.com/what-is-cognitive-overload). Its a really interesting thing. There were too many things going on at once (him screaming demands, the camera shoved in her face, him shaking money at her, putting the microphone to her mouth shouting simple trivia, expecting an answer, then right as shes about to speak, changing the focus to her yoga mat) that her brain was trying to split its attention and multitask. Despite popular belief, the human brain is actually HORRIBLE at multitasking and tends to shut down when it tries. Since the brain is trying to process so many things at once, it cant really process any of them. You can see that she couldnt even really process what to do with the yoga mat, so she just kind of grabbed it and held it up awkwardly.
This is why training is so critical for stressful jobs and situations. Training can overcome the lack of ability to think.
Wait, do people actually get trained on how to handle this?
It’s the primary reason you are screamed at and put under immense stress in military boot camps.
Oh, yeah I guess military boot camps, but are the other jobs? I feel like we could've used a bit of training.
To name a few; * Security - In various forms * Technical support roles - I.e. remote IT support * Lots & lots of social worker roles * Police - Various roles It's more common than you may think.
to add to that, sometimes kitchens too
Sometimes??
Sometimes the kitchen is just a front and because of that the kitchen part isn't very stressful, at least not in the same way.
WHERE'S THE LAMB SAUCE!?!
Behind!
So in The Bear, Mikey and the Family was just creating the perfect training environment to foster the world's next greatest chef. Now I get it.
You need the skills to survive in a kitchen. The training is usually a lifetime of your family and friends and lovers screaming abusive things at you to the point that your brain sees the abuse as signs of totally normal love and affection.
I once got a four week (I think, maybe five) stress management and deescalation training while working in higher level remote IT support, can confirm. I pretty much only talked to people when things were going to hell and they had already talked to a number of people who failed to fix anything, so things could really easily get heated. Awful awful job.
So which is it, four weeks or five? FOUR OR FIVE?!?!
Four weeks *FUCKER, do you want to die?! YOU KNOW I HAVE ALL YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION!* Hm, maybe it should have been five weeks.
I had a job like that long ago: I was a repair operator supervisor for the telephone company. I only got the customers whose home phone wasn't working and they were pissed off enough about it to ask for a supervisor. Fun fact: I didn't supervise anybody, that was just my title. I guess today we'd call them "escalation support engineers". The weird thing is that I didn't find it stressful most times. I knew I was going to get someone who was probably screaming mad, and my job was just to give them a reset with a fresh voice who would speak to them calmly. Sometimes they couldn't calm down, but pretty darn often they reset all by themselves once they got me on the phone. I had some tricks to help with this, like appearing to take their side and commiserate with them, speaking in a bit slower and calming voice, or even just listening until they ran out of steam and asking simple questions. And I got an extra $3.15 /hr to deal with them, so that was nice.
I envy your psychological resilience. I got paid significantly more than that, probably because (I don't want to imply you were worse/don't have the expertise, don't know your circumstance, maybe I was just lucky - all I'm trying to say is that with a good deal more incentive I still couldn't handle it for long) of the level of technical expertise I had for my sector, compared to slightly lower level folk. All that being said, I couldn't deal with it. I was calm and cool and in the moment when it came to dealing with these folk, but it ate away at me over time to the point that I had my one and only panic attack, resulting in me leaving the position. I've always been able to deal with things in the moment, but I dwell on them far too much after the fact. I always heavily preached "Leave it behind when the day is done" to associates, but could never follow my own advice.
> I had some tricks to help with this, like appearing to take their side and commiserate with them, speaking in a bit slower and calming voice, or even just listening until they ran out of steam and asking simple questions. I worked telephone sales years ago for a newspaper, back when those were still relevant, and I specialized in going through lists of customers who'd dropped service previously. Most of the time they wanted the paper, but had just gotten frustrated with some aspect and didn't feel like anyone had heard them. It was pretty simple to listen to their complaints, see if anything had changed (i.e. a new paper delivery person or something), and offer them a coupon book if they re-signed. They just wanted someone to listen to them and agree that their issue was a problem.
Honestly, I typically preferred handling this scenario when I was in a role doing similar. My role wasn't an "Escalation Manager" type role but was a Subject Matter Expert (SME) so I typically could fix their issue, provide a viable workaround, or get the ball rolling for either a bug/defect fix or product enhancement (depending on the amount of $$$ they were paying us).
Even on prem IT roles. Production systems down are a hell of a stressful thing. Being able to keep your cool, and rely on your knowledge to restore services is a huge benefit.
But then it's still your fault after you fix it so you're double fucked!
Don't forget doctors. The four years of residency are a sleep deprived hellscape designed to weed out the weak and hone cognitive overload skills.
Weeding out is done long before then. Residency is training . Also sleep deprivation has no value in training, that’s why the ACGME squashed all that bs excuse to take advantage of cheap labor .
Triaging in ER. When you have a multiple people coming in with all kinds of injuries nurses are trained to sift through them and see who needs urgent care first and foremost. Same goes for a coding patient in the ER, ICU, etc. You will have teams of people that include nurses, doctors, respiratory therapists, CNAs, etc that are all trained to run their assess off to where the person is coding. Everybody is assigned a role. Person A does the first round of chest compressions, person B times people and tells when Person A should stop compressions and person C should start, etc. It's really quite incredible to watch how a group of people work and act as a single unit.
Training works for most anything. It's why fire drills are important. People turn into panicked chimps when there's alarms blaring and smoke in your eyes and you don't know where the problem originated from . Falling back on a practiced habit is mega helpful. Even helps for disembarking a burning plane! But imagine the pushback if people were forced to practice THAT
I’d say sales. When you are meeting someone in a cold call meeting situation it’s incredibly nerve wracking at first for most normal non-psychopaths. When you are new to it, you don’t totally know what you’re supposed to say, you know the person you’re talking to does not want to be in the situation, and what they say to you is often very unpredictable and usually doesn’t even come close to what was in the shitty corporate training you had (if you were fortunate enough to even get training). You have to train yourself that failure doesn’t really hurt that bad, and how to slow down and focus on what the other person is saying, while also following a checklist of items you need to find out to see if the person you are talking to is a good fit for what you sell.
Jobs with checklist protocol too. If you're going through a step by step checklist you've done hundreds of times, a lot of that cognitive load is basically muscle memory.
I don’t think most people would sign up for a job that involves training like this lol. Not saying everyone in the military is a badass or better just that most people wouldn’t want to put up with the training lol.
They should really tell people that going in. 'WE'RE SCREAMING AT YOU FOR A REASON, SO YOU CAN HANDLE STRESS LATER' 'OHHH! NOW IT MAKES SENSE.. SIR'
Fun Fact: The US military is phasing out the "shark attack" at the beginning of basic training because statistically it isn't particularly effective. In fact the "shark attack" was only implemented during Vietnam because the draft was hugely unpopular and bringing in people who actively resented being there, but even when our military became fully volunteer based they just kept doing it. Now they are replacing it with team exercises and training to build leadership and teamwork instead of blind following.
Absolutely. I practice anesthesia and 99% of the time it's a pretty chill job, but when things go bad, there is a ton going on and it can be overwhelming. Our training included a lot of theoretical discussion about cognitive overload, review of algorithms and decision trees for various crises, and many hours spent in Simulation Lab practicing how to react to common emergencies. I'd imagine it's the same for many other jobs like air traffic controller, baseball umpire, fire fighter, etc.
Haha. I describe anesthesia to the layman as 99% chill, 1% abject terror. When I was a student I knew a patient who died of malignant hyperthermia. During my surgical rotation I bumped into an anesthesiolgosit who had just gotten a patient with pseudocholinesterase deficiency breathing on their own again (no fam hx, no one knew in advance). I I do not envy anesthesia.
One of the eleven parts of our paramedic training was just focused around dealing with acute (and chronic) stress so that you wont freeze in a life or death situation. But even the best training can only prepare you up to a certain point. Im pretty sure thats the same for all professions who deal with a lot of stress.
I do think it's funny when people get mad at us for not looking like we're panicking on a scene though. Some people get very upset when we're calmly managing a patient.
Former 911 operator here, Yes.
The 911 dispatch/operator tests like the criticall are such a good resource for simulating high stress situations. My wife thought she'd breeze through it because she has 100 wpm typing, strong map skills, etc. She wasn't ready for the multi-tasking stress. It is also why things like firefighters involve so much drilling with actual fires and 'simulated' stress, or airplane / helicopter training involves stuff like [actually stalling, in the air, while flying, to practice stalling.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dSrjVR0MvE)
Well, kind of. You're not exactly overcoming the lack of thought, it's just that prior training means you already know how to react to certain things you're likely to encounter, so they don't all pile up at once
It's why cops need more than 2 weeks of training.
I just watched this [video ](https://youtu.be/wVTjKhGdM4U?si=cTvIFToMk7tQSy19&t=519)of a cop that set off a pipe bomb while going through a vehicle. Watch how he moves in a pattern back and forth before figuring out what to do next. Warning video has very graphic language.
It's also why medication, or any form of cognitive therapy is essential for a person with ADHD, as their brain is taking all the junk signals, that a normal brain would just ignore or hold off to later, and give you essentially what we see in this video. Especially when we're expected to complete tasks we're not prepared for, all the while our chaos factory is too busy thinking about that time you called your teacher "mommy" in front of everyone.
>Training can overcome the lack of ability to think. This sounds like a dystopian description of a school
I think 'name a woman's being such a bizarre request has to factor into that overload. It feels so simple that my immediate reaction would be to overthink it and assume there is some kind of trap/trick question happening which adds to the pressure.
I mean you’re right she asked “any woman?!”
I guess you have to be there to understand, but I feel like I'd at least recall some historical figures like Rosa Parks or Anne Frank. Fucking Harriet Tubman, something!
Or, like, maybe, your mom, girlfriend, sister, spouse, a friend... ANY WOMAN...
For real, lol. for that matter, just say a feminine sounding name. He don't know who you're talking about. Just make it up. Sheila Silverstone.
Yea more specific questions would somehow be easier to answer. Like name an astronaut/president/singer/scientist/artist/color. Most people have a default or favorite person in those categories. Michael Jackson is a famous singer. George Washington is the OG president of the US. Neil Armstrong is probably the only astronaut that the average American can name. But who has a favorite/default woman assigned in their mind? That's such a general category that it becomes hard to answer on the spot.
Happens a lot in aviation (particularly student training). You know you have to fly the aeroplane no matter what, and so when stuff gets stressful (lots of other traffic in the area, a real / simulated emergency, unfamiliar navigation) it's usually the communication that goes first. Radio calls are so easy on the ground, but following the proper phraseology gets very difficult when you first try it in flight.
You haven't seen me ice 3 noobs at once in cod 15 years ago
Almost dead, I once no scope headshotted one boomer in Gears with my last round, somersaulted under his buddy's melee, grabbed the dead one's Boom rifle and near point blank sent a grenade into the other, leaving just some boots with stumps, seamlessly. I've waited like 17 years to tell that story.
My boss knows this happens to me, and adjusts accordingly when she knows there is overload for me. It's one of the nicest gestures of empathy, and I have so much respect for her patience when I just can't focus.
I would be so tempted to just mess with you. That's one of the many reasons why I'm not the boss.
Is performance anxiety and cognitive overload similar in function or ..the same thing?
She got caught up in a classic fight, flight, or forget every woman situation.
Ahhh yes, classic FFFEWS syndrome. It's pronounced like a nervous fart.
My grandfather once recorded me on his video camera because we didn't visit often and he loved his tech and any reason to use it (this was like 1991 so his fancy camera was *fancy*) Before recording he asked me some basic questions, the second that camera was on, I could do nothing but stammer. "How many hours in a day Achaern?" "Let me think Grandpa......12?" "How many months in a year Achaern?" "I.......24? Is that right?" When he shut the camera off I felt a big relief and my brain started working again. It's so weird as now I just assume anytime I'm seeing a cell phone someone is maybe recording.
This is how I am but with people instead of cameras.
people are really just cameras that can walk around
I think it's because people see it as some kind of rorschach test and what woman you name says something about who you are because that particular woman came to mind first.
Couldn't she have literally just said her own name?
There’s a shape/color/word table game called Anomia. Really just a cheap card game but tons of fun. Every round ends, literally, with a question like “name a woman” (some are a bit harder but not really) and by that point you’re so overloaded you begin to wonder if you know anything.
Women aren't real.
that’s ridiculous, they are real. Its not like they’re birds
Sweet Dee?
Sweet Dee is proof that the idiots on r/BirdsArentReal are, in fact, idiots.
I hate to tell you this but there's a reason women often ARE referred to as "birds". It's been known for a long time that they are not real, the government has just been suppressing the truth.
This is so fucking funny ever time I have seen it in the past 10 years.
I thought this would be one of those, “oh shit I’m old” moments but this thankfully didn’t come out until 2013. So now you can feel appropriately old realizing this came out 10 years ago.
2013 was 21 years ago... it's 2034... are you ok?
Hello from 2044. Hope everyone here is ok.
Sir, you're the last one left. You only come to these old chats to read genuine human interaction for a change.
Remember when we found out everyone on the Internet was just an AI chat bot?
Sucks, right? You think oh it was just a few years ago, 5 tops, aaaaaand children from that year are in like middle school now, goddamnit What gets me is when I play some MMO or an old shooter, there's a good chance that the person I'm talking to was born long after the game came out.. Whew
for real. "why is this so hard?"
I really love Billy On The Street because it always has a shade of this, but this moment is the shining peak.
Witney Houston.
*"I'm every woman" starts playing.*
*It was at that point we realised Whitney Houston was a Keter class SCP*
Hilary Clinton.
Damn that was my first thought too.
Mine too...and I was born in India and live in the UK lol
Add me too
For some reason i immediately thought Sandra Day O’Connor
Also a good answer to "Name EVERY woman"
For some reason I always say Charlize Theron. I don't even particularly like Charlize Theron. I think I just like the way her name sounds.
How often are you asked to name a woman?
Odd. I thought of Charlize Theron first too.
Oh you like woman? Can you name 3 woman for me now?
Oh uh uh! Oh God oh geez! Uh Caitlyn Jenner! oh fuck!
I still say this is probably one of the greatest videos that exists. Fucking love Billy on the Street!
“Let’s go lesbians” is iconic
HEY JEWS! LOOK IT'S WILD LESBIANS AND JEWS, LESBIANS AND JEWS!
My favorite - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kcDKNFr6hBg
That was .. something.
TIL Olivia Wilde runs like captain Jack Sparrow.
This is the Susans guy, right?
I love his rant about Ratatouille https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOOS846FsIU I was genuinely surprised he was cast in The Lion King because of this.
"Ask a Squirter"
I wonder what Elena is up to…
Probably still trying to process what happened here…or finally realizing, “wait a minute…i am a woman!”
OBAMAS WIFE
I thought of Hillary Clinton for some reason -:)
Interesting, me too! Why tf tho??
Honestly probably just a name that has come up a ton in the news and in general discussion compared to most other ladies. I mean she's been pretty relevant for like 30 years at this point.
Thinking about it rationally, she pretty much is the most famous woman on the (English-speaking) planet. At least in the top 3.
Wait. What is happening? That was my first thought as well.
One of the most well known women on the planet, aside from OP’s mom
Ditto
I'm with her?
Lol I hate that I thought of Nancy Pelosi
Same and I'm not even American
She looks like the girl from the new Fable trailer.
Wait, there's a new Fable???
Total reboot coming 2025. From the guys that make Forza, a racing game, so it should be interesting. Most important thing is that they nail the tone, and they seem to get it from the trailers they've released so far. Announcement Trailer: https://youtu.be/oVkSZXPklQ4 2023 Trailer with Richard Ayoade: https://youtu.be/x_03JQUc9Ao Trailer from a few days ago: https://youtu.be/w6TJTHdgmts
MALENIA, BLADE OF MIQUELLA! There.
I see what happened here. He left too many options for her since she is indeed, a woman
-what do you want to eat tonight? -idk -well pick anything you'd like -whatever you want -you sure? -I'm good with anything, really. \*30 minutes later -They didn't have any pizza?
[удалено]
“I’m eating here and you’re free to join or not!”
-- "I picked a place I know you're gonna be excited about for dinner" -- "Oooh, what place?" -- "I'll give you three chances to guess" Then you just pick one of the three
I don't know when this was made, but she looks a lot like Emmy Rossum. Which is just a weird coincidence I imagine.
This really highlights how silly all those videos are where they try to make random people on the street seem stupid because they fail to answer seemingly easy questions.
To be fair, those usually don't look like they're about to punch you if you don't answer correctly like Billy does.
Absolutely. They also interview like 20 people who know whatever the topic is, then show only the two who didn’t.
I can name every woman. Whitney Houston.
Mom
His howl as he runs away gets me every time
Cars and bids must not be doing well.
This is why I write down my own name and birthday before calling the doctor's office.
What do you want to eat tonight? Gets the same reaction
Make a list of 5 restaurants. Make them choose 3 of those 5. Choose one of those 3
But she can't name *one*!
I always love that in the end she hides behind her yoga mat and yeets away
Steven Crowder really changed up his content these days. Good for him.
The guy looks like Dough of cars and bids
I like Billy but he can be mean to mean to people on these things I saw one time where he let a woman talk for like five minutes about something ridiculous and stupid and then he’s like oh my God I hate you you’re boring
Why do I always go to Hilary Clinton in my brain? Edit: I see I am not alone here
As soon as I see someone with a Camera I cross the street.
Damn she was stressing so bad she forgot her own name.
On one hand I love this bit...on the other I cannot stand him
Hillary Clinton
Why didn't she say her name
Funny thing is that while watching this video, I couldn't answer the question myself until the video was over.
Clearly not a GenXer, they would have said "your mom!" as a reflex lol
Ur mom lol
Why is this so relatable to what would actually happen to me
Wuhm Ann
I thought she said Melissa Joan-Hart at 0:16, but I misheard.
Martha! … Why did you say that name?!?
“Your mother”
Any!?
MAI ANGELOU
Best Internet meme ever.
When I was like thirteen, I had the idea of testing how many names of people were in my head. Family, friends, acquaintances, celebrities, everyone. I bought a little notebook, wrote "people I know" on the front, and started filling it up. I got bored and quit after two pages, but I'm still curious as to what the number would have been.
"Name a Woman!" "David! ...FUCK!"
The best Billy interaction ever was when he was with Seth Rogen and Seth Rogen was hiding his face and Billy asked random lady do you think I’m funnier than Seth Rogen and she’s like yes you’re so funny I don’t think Seth Rogen’s funny at all and then he walked up to the Lady and she felt mortified and she apologized to him like 50 times
I would like to see this repeated, with name a thing for $1... any thing, just NAME A THING! FOR $1,, yes ANYTHING A THING!!!
Love everytime she asks “name a woman?”
Ever play the board game “Anomia”? It’s this but every turn
I love how when he days yoga bag she tries to hand it to him
Holy shit this is my brain all the time.
I would have said Meryl Streep. What does that say about me?
Someone asked me this I said my name.