L. Marcus Posted December 18, 2017 Report Share Posted December 18, 2017 Eclectic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted December 18, 2017 Report Share Posted December 18, 2017 Steam typewriters?! Now I want one! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 18, 2017 Report Share Posted December 18, 2017 That would be neat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted December 18, 2017 Report Share Posted December 18, 2017 I'm holding out for the nuclear typewriter, personally. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 18, 2017 Report Share Posted December 18, 2017 A great gadget for Fallout. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted December 18, 2017 Report Share Posted December 18, 2017 "For" meaning "to use in" or "for" meaning "to cause"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 18, 2017 Report Share Posted December 18, 2017 The former; had I meant the latter, Fallout would not have been capitalized. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 18, 2017 Report Share Posted December 18, 2017 4 hours ago, Old Man said: I'm holding out for the nuclear typewriter, personally. With glow-in-the-dark cobalt-60 ribbon! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 19, 2017 Report Share Posted December 19, 2017 Sounds unhygienic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 19, 2017 Report Share Posted December 19, 2017 Hm, I think it would make hygiene ... irrelevant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 19, 2017 Report Share Posted December 19, 2017 Hygiene Is Life!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted December 19, 2017 Report Share Posted December 19, 2017 No, speed is life. Hygiene is a necessary evil. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 20, 2017 Report Share Posted December 20, 2017 If an insufficient one. I have dark expectations that the nasty bug that laid my wife out last night and today will get the rest of us over Christmas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted December 20, 2017 Report Share Posted December 20, 2017 Did you get her to a doctor? The pediatrician hooked up our kid with some Tamiflu when he tested for influenza-A last week, and he was only out for a few days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 20, 2017 Report Share Posted December 20, 2017 No, as symptoms really got unpleasant only a bit before 5 PM. An ER visit would not have been the best choice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted December 20, 2017 Report Share Posted December 20, 2017 What is it with our healthcare system that you can only get sick or hurt during regular business hours or else there are no doctors and/or it'll cost a fortune? I'm pissed. As it is we're having to switch insurance plans this month so if we get sick or hurt between Christmas and New Year's the office will have to backdate our new enrollment which will cost another fifteen hundred dollars and yet I'm supposed to be happy I can get any insurance at all. Especially when my wife has a preexisting condition, as does older boy if you count the allergies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 20, 2017 Report Share Posted December 20, 2017 I bet allergies count. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 20, 2017 Report Share Posted December 20, 2017 I actually wasn't teeing off on cost there; it was a backreference to an incident 15+ years back. Daughter (age 3 or so) got something one evening that put her temperature up to 103F. We hauled her into the HMO's after-hours facility. Reported in, but the room was full of 3 or 4 dozen gomers (acronym: Get Out of My Emergency Room, a perjorative over here for age 70+ old men with symptoms that probably aren't lethal but scare them). We sat around for a couple of hours being ignored and left since we hadn't seen anyone actually leave the waiting room). There's a reason why everyone called that HMO "Group Death". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted December 23, 2017 Report Share Posted December 23, 2017 We actually got a lecture as part of our beginning of year inservice meetings a couple of years back about using the InstaCare. They said that the widespread use of InstaCare facilities by District employees was driving up our healthcare costs, and that our insurance premiums were going to increase as a result. They specifically told us, "Don't go to the InstaCare if you don't have to." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 23, 2017 Report Share Posted December 23, 2017 I'm an ocean away from the US, and the US healthcare system still makes me want to both spit and swear. Bazza 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 23, 2017 Report Share Posted December 23, 2017 At the risk of going political ... medical care in the US is subject to the unstated class system. Rich people get what they want. Poor people aren't supposed to. Otherwise, what would be the point of being rich? That Obamacare was ostensibly an attempt to make for equal access is deeply offensive to folks who comfort themselves as having Those People to look down upon. So, the cost mechanisms, for no clear reason, are ratcheting up to maintain that status, so that poor folks -- as ought to be the case -- don't get real medical care. Class and race are easy to conflate here, but to automatically assume race here is an error; poor rural whites are also among the people who aren't s'posed to live decently. L. Marcus 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted December 23, 2017 Report Share Posted December 23, 2017 Us vs them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted December 23, 2017 Report Share Posted December 23, 2017 Good for music (Pink Floyd), not good for health care. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 23, 2017 Report Share Posted December 23, 2017 Not good social policy of any sort, but there we are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 23, 2017 Report Share Posted December 23, 2017 Is the GPS showing an alternative route? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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