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Post by imec on Jun 27, 2009 4:05:33 GMT
189. People who go to funerals when they didn't even know the person obviously not a Harold and Maude fan...
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Post by lola on Jun 27, 2009 13:00:04 GMT
any excuse to get a hat with veil.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 27, 2009 15:07:51 GMT
;D And one does so yearn to be described as "fetchingly tragic".
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Post by lola on Jun 27, 2009 19:55:14 GMT
192. The likelihood that people would forget to add the "fetchingly" part when describing me.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 27, 2009 21:00:11 GMT
193. The likelihood that people will say, "Geez, her nose gets really big and red when she cries!" when describing me.
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Post by bazfaz on Jun 29, 2009 21:03:15 GMT
LOL.
That is much over used and, indeed, meaningless.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 29, 2009 21:25:40 GMT
195. WHY do manufacturers make bottles containing liquids oval shaped and tall?! There you are in the shower, hands wet and slippery and eyes squinched up because of soap suds. But you have to open your eyes to make sure you put the #$!%&*! shampoo bottle down just so.
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Post by spindrift on Jun 29, 2009 21:42:05 GMT
People saying 'No Worries'.
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Post by hwinpp on Jun 30, 2009 2:38:12 GMT
Oh, oh, lots of stuff here I say and even write sometimes...
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Post by BigIain on Jul 7, 2009 16:16:59 GMT
197: The F**king USELESS, and I mean totally and utterly, pathetic, most user-UNfriendly f**king National Health Service here in the UK! F**king A**holes!!
I have finally cracked and just taken my Father to a private healthcare hospital in Edinburgh (without having insurance cover to pay for it) because having been scanned he was told 16 weeks before he could see a consultant!!!!
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 7, 2009 20:35:24 GMT
Oh man, Iain, that's awful.
There is nothing, nothing at all, more infuriating and heartbreaking than to play advocate with "health care providers" for a loved one. And when you think of all the pushing and fighting you have to do to get any kind of results (if you're lucky), your blood runs cold imagining what it would be like for the patient with no advocate.
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Post by lola on Jul 8, 2009 2:37:02 GMT
Iaian, How frustrating.
May I just say that this situation is not unique to the UK? It can take many months to get in to see a specialist in this mecca of state of the art freedom, the US health care system.
Many of us are lucky to be insured at all.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2009 13:12:48 GMT
198. Formerly having a friend who worked for an insurance company and listening to her defend the insurance company's point of view.
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Post by traveler63 on Jul 8, 2009 13:52:46 GMT
199. Trying to resolve a problem(any problem) with "Customer Service" which has been outsourced to somewhere in Timbuktoo and you can't understand what they are saying.
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Post by lola on Jul 8, 2009 18:15:35 GMT
200. Having misspelled Iain's name.
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Post by rikita on Jul 8, 2009 19:36:47 GMT
201. getting home from shopping and realizing i forgot to buy one important item.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2009 19:53:46 GMT
202. Realizing it was the one item I went to buy in the first place.
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Post by bazfaz on Jul 8, 2009 20:27:35 GMT
Iain, so sorry to hear that. When I was diagnosed with a malignant melanoma here on a Friday midday, I was operated on Tuesday at 8 a.m.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2009 20:39:32 GMT
Going off subject, I know there are very many UK citizens who come to France for treatment to avoid waiting, because there is an agreement between the NHS and France for respecting each other's health coverage programmes. So they can have operations and such in France without having to pay.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2009 20:41:43 GMT
(And I hope that all is well with you, Baz. Since my biological father died of malignant melanoma, it is something to which I pay very close attention.)
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Post by lola on Jul 8, 2009 21:16:34 GMT
Continuing off subj: I was impressed in the movie Diving Bell and the Butterfly at the painstaking lavishing of attention by his various therapists. A French friend assured me that this level of care was realistic, and not because the pt was rich and/or famous.
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Post by BigIain on Jul 10, 2009 16:29:45 GMT
202: only having white wine and being too lazy to go to the store
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Post by livaco on Jul 12, 2009 12:23:19 GMT
203 People who misuse "literally"
Someone on tv just said that if it wasn't for a new program the kids would literally be couch potatoes all summer.
And yesterday I heard someone say that their life was literally a roller coaster of emotions right now.
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Post by lola on Jul 12, 2009 15:03:15 GMT
204. People calling other human beings "icons".
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Post by lola on Jul 12, 2009 15:14:40 GMT
205. Being too lazy to figure out how to create a custom avatar.
Like yours, K2. You? What, Empire State Building? It's classic, even if not technically you.
And traveler63's lovely irises.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 12, 2009 15:22:40 GMT
206. Having my helpful, advice-giving self ignored by the lovely Lola, who with just a little guidance would have a stellar custom avatar.
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Post by lola on Jul 12, 2009 15:36:10 GMT
207. Having bixa think even for moment that I would ignore her always excellent advice, but forgiving her because she doesn't realize I'm waiting for my daughter to photograph and then transfer to IMac my selfportrait using her digital camera so I can have a unique avatar that resembles me slightly but that could still be considered flattering, and realizing that bixa further doesn't realize that my daughter and I share an indolent strain and also lack of initiative.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 12, 2009 15:53:49 GMT
208. Having Lola labor under the misapprehension that I could ever, for even a moment, be in any way critical of her or that I would have the temerity to ever criticize anyone for indolence or lack of initiative -- traits which I prefer to describe as "being of a contemplative nature".
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Post by traveler63 on Jul 12, 2009 22:37:30 GMT
209 Asking people how they are, they respond fine and then start to tell you why they really aren't fine.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2009 4:48:11 GMT
210. Not finishing the housecleaning before leaving on a trip.
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