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why is no one saying "Lou Gehrig's Disease" anymore?
Posted on 8/20/14 at 7:12 pm
Posted on 8/20/14 at 7:12 pm
Growing up we never heard ALS. Why the change?
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Posted on 8/20/14 at 7:12 pm to LSUlefty
Libtards
Posted on 8/20/14 at 7:13 pm to LSUlefty
Why should it be his? He didn't build it.
Posted on 8/20/14 at 7:14 pm to LSUlefty
Posted on 8/20/14 at 7:15 pm to LSUlefty
Medical community is shying away from using eponyms.
Posted on 8/20/14 at 7:17 pm to LSUlefty
Lou Gehrig may not have had ALS.
Posted on 8/20/14 at 7:20 pm to goldenbadger08
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Libtards
When did this become a blanket insult for every situation?
Ex. "This liberal cut me off in traffic today" or " come on officer, don't be a liberal, give me a break this time" or " After he came back from Iraq he was a real liberal, he started beating his wife and drinking everyday"
This post was edited on 8/20/14 at 7:23 pm
Posted on 8/20/14 at 7:22 pm to LakeViewLSU
Lol
Posted on 8/20/14 at 7:24 pm to LakeViewLSU
quote:
Ex. "This liberal cut me off in traffic today" or " come on officer, don't be a liberal, give me a break this time" or " After he came back from Iraq he was a real liberal, he started beating his wife and drinking everyday"
I'm disappointed that I've never heard one of these IRL.
Posted on 8/20/14 at 7:27 pm to LakeViewLSU
quote:
When did this become a blanket insult for every situation? Ex. "This liberal cut me off in traffic today" or " come on officer, don't be a liberal, give me a break this time" or " After he came back from Iraq he was a real liberal, he started beating his wife and drinking everyday"
Actually, that's a really good idea - I'll have to start doing this
Posted on 8/20/14 at 7:29 pm to RDOtiger
Wait wait wait
Als is lou gherigs?!
Als is lou gherigs?!
Posted on 8/20/14 at 7:30 pm to John McClane
quote:
Lou Gehrig may not have had ALS.
Posted on 8/20/14 at 7:30 pm to LakeViewLSU
quote:Not in this thread.
When did this become a blanket insult for every situation?
goldenbadger was implying that the name change was due to the PC movement. That's incorrect in fact, but the PC movement is correctly associated with modern political liberalism.
Posted on 8/20/14 at 7:32 pm to LSUlefty
I had one of my old high school buddies die of that not too long ago. Whatever you call it, it's a death sentence, maybe a little less worse than Alzheimers. 
Posted on 8/20/14 at 7:34 pm to LSUlefty
Someone changed the name to piss off the OT members with small peckers.
Posted on 8/20/14 at 7:34 pm to LSUlefty
We've become more medically knowledgeable. I think people are more comfortable using the actual terms (although this is an acronym). Plus people are living longer in general so the disease has more time to rear its ugly head without being hidden by other ailments or causes of death. This has increased the diagnosis rate and its become a lot more people's disease.....not just Lou Gherig's.
Posted on 8/20/14 at 7:35 pm to LSUlefty
Because hardly anyone knows who Lou Gehrig is anymore.
And LGD isn't as good an Acronym as ALS
And LGD isn't as good an Acronym as ALS
Posted on 8/20/14 at 7:35 pm to LSUlefty
I think most people understand that the odds of Lou Gehrig dying from Lou Gehrig's disease are so low that it was probably just a government plot.
This post was edited on 8/20/14 at 7:37 pm
Posted on 8/20/14 at 7:36 pm to fr33manator
Did lou have gehrigs?
Posted on 8/20/14 at 7:38 pm to PapaPogey
Who's Lou Gehrig?
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