Yeah, the guy's a dick. I think it's sad that ER work can add fuel to dickishness.
Get up...get up, you stupid piece of... What did you do that for? What's wrong with you? Didn't you hear a word he said? All of you! You think there's someone just going to drop money on you?! Money they could use?! Well, there ain't people like that. There's just people like me.
Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Scrappy - Oct 18, 2009 8:50:07 am PDT #26871 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Topic!Cindy - Oct 18, 2009 8:50:08 am PDT #26872 of 30000
What is even happening?
Ass 'em in the ear, Tep.
Barb - Oct 18, 2009 8:51:01 am PDT #26873 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
Speaking of assing people in the ear...
The case of a giant Mylar balloon, which ascended into the sky late last week amid fears a 6-year-old boy was aboard, has been determined to be a "hoax" and a "publicity stunt," Larimer County, Colorado, Sheriff Jim Alderden said Sunday.
The family of the Fort Collins boy, Falcon Heene, engineered the incident in order to better market themselves for a reality television show, Alderden told reporters at a news conference.
P.M. Marc - Oct 18, 2009 8:51:08 am PDT #26874 of 30000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Americans have been brainwashed, Tep. This is the only explanation I can come up with.
Steph L. - Oct 18, 2009 9:12:28 am PDT #26875 of 30000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Americans have been brainwashed, Tep. This is the only explanation I can come up with.
My best friend's fiance (the other overweight person who got a pointed look when Doctor was suggesting higher premiums for our "poor choices") is a fierce liberal, and the only thing he asked Doctor and Other Shitbag Friend was, "If a free-market healthcare system is so ideal and is the only way to have a good healthcare system, why have NO OTHER INDUSTRIALIZED NATIONS DONE IT?"
I hugged him, said, "I love you and I'm thrilled you're marrying my best friend," promised to discuss Anathem with him later, and then The Boy and I left before I started getting physically violent with the other 2 shitbags.
erikaj - Oct 18, 2009 9:23:27 am PDT #26876 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
You should have. really tested that private coverage. But occasionally I am callous and strange. (hopefully in the service of a good cause.)
flea - Oct 18, 2009 9:49:02 am PDT #26877 of 30000
information libertarian
Women do pay higher insurance premiums (when not employer-insured), partly because of the possession of a uterus. [link]
My neighbor is an ER doc and pro health care reform. Sure, he sees a lot of idiots (ask him about home football weekends), but he also sees the kid who fell off his bike and broke his arm, and the 4 month old baby spiking a 103 fever at 3am. Okay, maybe we should prohibit 6 year olds from indulging in the dangerous lifestyle choice of no training wheels, but the baby? What did he do wrong?
Jessica - Oct 18, 2009 9:50:07 am PDT #26878 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
What about people who play sports? They have much higher risk of -- depending on the sport -- torn ACLs, traumatic brain injury, broken bones -- should they pay higher premiums? Or are certain sports exempt?
But Tep, sports are awesome and manly! You wouldn't want to make someone pay for being extra-awesome and manly, would you??? WHY DO YOU HATE AMERICA????
My feeling is, in America even assholes get free speech. Therefore, in America, even morons deserve health care. It's a fucking civil right.
Scrappy - Oct 18, 2009 9:55:36 am PDT #26879 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
What Jess said.
Shir - Oct 18, 2009 10:21:07 am PDT #26880 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
First day done. I got back to my Great Aunt's home to find a dinner waiting for us on the table (and as she knew, I was planning to cook today, but she refused because "I had a long day".) Clearly she's been in the Israeli Academic Women Organization for a long time, and knows how to support one. Now, where were she in the days I studied 12 hours, not 6?
I had so much fun coming back today, to friends, crazy lecturers and crazy academia. I think French is a hell of a crazy language (while Hebrew is the opposite with the what to pronounce/not to pronounce ratio.) I also have no idea whatsoever when I'll read "dire" and stop pronouncing it first as I do in English. And I already done my daily French homework! Woot!
The thing that did make me switch colors in class today and almost lose my sanity was the unbelievable reduction in Social Theories class of the scientific revolution: according to that lecturer, it began in the 19th century, with Darwin and the rise of "rational science", and some machines that were the harbingers of said revolution somewhere in the beginning of the 19th century. She also included Einstein and the relativity into that century. I believe me reaction to her nonsense was mourning at the loss of reason she was so eager to talk about, and doing the gravely acrobatics behalf of Kuhn, Popper and Newton (none of them, of course, were mentioned. Gravity? What is this gravity you're referring to?)
So if you didn't know, science began in the 19th century. We didn't know much before that, apparently.
Seriously, how can anyone expect me to take him/her seriously after beginning the year with rubbish like that, especially when calling that "historical background to the rise of sociology"? As if The Royal Society and Académie des sciences never existed.