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I can't get over the sink water. It looks like I bombarded it with gamma rays.

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Originally Posted by LoathsomePete (Post 1247303)

Well to put it into personal terms, when I was 18 I fractured my foot while working at the lumberyard and made it worse by working on it for five days after the incident. When I got it x-ray'd they said I'd have my results in a day or two, and I was okay with that, but later on that day I just felt something snap in my foot and had to go to the ER. It was pretty embarrasing because I looked like shit, same clothes for three days, no showers, and I was holding onto my laptop without a case or a bag. It took about 4 hours but I got my results from the x-ray clinic that confirmed the fracture and advised a 6-8 week resting period in a cast. I got the aircast and the prescription for Tylenol 3's (wooo codeine!) and I didn't pay a damn thing except $20 for my drugs. Worker's Comp took care of my aircast and got me 90% of my wages, which was great cause I had just moved and was in dire need of money.

Over the next 2 months I proceeded to have 4 more x-rays taken on my foot to showcase my healing. I didn't have to pay for any of those x-rays, while at the same time in America, my mum had to have x-rays on her lungs because she got bronchitis and those x-rays cost her a good $600. I remember her bringing up the bill while we conversed and I suddenly got paranoid that a bill would be coming for me, but one never came and my WC guy explained to me how the system works.

As BD said, it's got its flaws, but I would feel a hell of a lot better under that than what I'm currently under in the States. Back in March my grandfather pretty much passed out while we were having dinner and I called 911. He got taken to the hospital and was going to be staying the weekend, which resulted in a pretty steep fee despite his Veteran's status and health coverage. I believe he's still paying those bills off.

Yeah, if that happened in the States, and you didn't have health insurane, you'd be ****ed. Like, move back into your parents house or be homeless kinda ****ed. I've never been sure if Universal Healthcare would work in the US, but I think we need to at least be able to have a real public conversation about it without half the population crying "COMMUNISM!"

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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 1247675)

Well when I was 18 I was still on my step father's health insurance plan which was pretty decent because he's a state employee, now though... well lets just say Nevada isn't exactly swimming around in a lot of money right now. I'm still on the health plan, but it's pretty much been reduced to a credit card with like $1200 on it for medical emergencies or other things like prescriptions and the such. It was incredibly annoying a few months ago when I needed to go for a vision test to update my prescription and they wouldn't accept the card because it didn't have my name on it. It was easier to just pay the $100 for the eye test than try to figure out a time when my step dad could make it, and with the office being closed on the weekends and Fridays (like a lot of private practices around here).

If I grew up in this country I would probably be a lot nicer to the system, but it's so completely alien to me. I never feel comfortable when I go because I expect I'm going to get some massive bill, but the last medical emergency I had was only $120 after insurance took care of the rest, so it could certainly be worse. That said though, if the US were to adopt some kind of system similar to Canada or the UK, be prepared to see a decent amount of your wages garnished. It's dependent on how much you're making, like when I was 15 and working in my first lumberyard, I was only working 16 hours per paycheck (8 hours each Saturday), so my deductibles were only like $20. Fast-forward to 2006-2008 when I was working full time and making about $1200 each paycheck, and it looked more like $950 by the time it was done with taxes, even more if it was a Union dues paycheck. Still, having that security net to fall on is nice.

****ing crappy craft wood furniture. Went to put some clothes away in a drawer and the bottom had dropped and hooked onto the frame. The whole front of the drawer ripped off.

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Originally Posted by stp (Post 1248667)

****ing crappy craft wood furniture. Went to put some clothes away in a drawer and the bottom had dropped and hooked onto the frame. The whole front of the drawer ripped off.

Everything is cheaply made now. Decent quality items are really hard to find.

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Originally Posted by Burning Down (Post 1248745)

Everything is cheaply made now. Decent quality items are really hard to find.

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I don't like when good books are turned into utterly generic looking movies. I had my reservations when I heard they were making World War Z into a movie rather than a TV series, which I think it is better suited for, but this trailer makes it seem like they just took the name of the novel, and then nothing else.

It kind of speaks volumes to the current state of Hollywood when you need to staple on the name of some other property to get your zombie movie, or your sci-fi/military action movie made. People are going to show up for a zombie movie regardless of what you call it, I mean they made a movie called Cockneys vs. Zombies for fuck sake, and if they bothered to promote it and show it at theaters, it might have actually made money.

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Originally Posted by LoathsomePete (Post 1249256)

I don't like when good books are turned into utterly generic looking movies. I had my reservations when I heard they were making World War Z into a movie rather than a TV series, which I think it is better suited for, but this trailer makes it seem like they just took the name of the novel, and then nothing else.

It kind of speaks volumes to the current state of Hollywood when you need to staple on the name of some other property to get your zombie movie, or your sci-fi/military action movie made. People are going to show up for a zombie movie regardless of what you call it, I mean they made a movie called Cockneys vs. Zombies for fuck sake, and if they bothered to promote it and show it at theaters, it might have actually made money.

Was that not just an episode of "Eastenders"?? :laughing:

Obamma 2012.
Enough said.