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karl fungus posted:As a native New Yorker, I can confirm this as true. Times Square is where tourists go and eat at overpriced, lovely restaurants while getting harassed by assholes dressed up like Spider Man and Elmo that want your money. I will never understand the allure that place has. The whole place is crowded every weekend. Endless dumbass tourists. As a non-New Yorker, I went once just to say I'd been there. Aside from the Israelite School of UPK reminding everyone that white men are born criminals and the heavenly smell of the M&M store, I found nothing worth ever revisiting. I got more out of five minutes in the village than an hour in Times Square.
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:Goddamn, how loving old are you? I only ever had to sing O, Canada; it was the bilingual version where all us anglos would mumble in tune to the french sections. My parents sang God Save the Queen, I guess, or maybe they just know it from being in the military. A bit late, but I did this at around age 6 or 7 in Saskatchewan and I was born in 1990.
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Oh lovely.  I mean, yeah reddit is pretty racist, but that's not the reason.
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:The one thing you're least likely to run into in Times Square is an actual New Yorker. I once had to go from Grand Central to thw Port Authority bus terminal to pick up a friend of mine who was visiting. I went way the gently caress out of my way to avoid times square. gently caress that place.
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RareAcumen posted:The thing I'm saying is that I know domestic abuse happens/happened but for some reason I didn't immediately think 'Oh right, domestic abuse. A significant portion of the comments on every Ray Rice article posted on my ultra-Conservative city news site were like "some women just need to be put in their place" and "this is the best way to handle a smart mouth on a woman." The other portion were about how all black men are wife beating animals and that they wished they could "go ferguson" on him. It's not implicitly built into marriages and most people are rightly shocked when it happens, but there are still many, many men out there who wouldn't hesitate to slap the poo poo out of their wife if she got too mouthy. And are rearing their sons to feel the same way! (In between all the switchins and whoopins) Double Plus Good has a new favorite as of 06:36 on Sep 17, 2014 |
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That still happens.' so it totally caught me off guard. I don't know how it happened but I'm an idiot more often than not so I'm not surprised. 
Double Plus Good posted:A significant portion of the comments on every Ray Rice article posted on my ultra-Conservative city news site were like "some women just need to be put in their place" and "this is the best way to handle a smart mouth on a woman." The other portion were about how all black men are wife beating animals and that they wished they could "go ferguson" on him. Are these portions even on the same site? They have to see each other's posts, right? How can they come to these conclusions without fighting? Side B is basically implying Side A are wife-beating animals, and if Side A did a little bit of introspection they'd-- poo poo nevermind.
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Apogee15 posted:The "most helpful" 5 star review is pretty good. If you sort the 5 star reviews by "most helpful," they are like that for about 2.5 pages, and then it turns into people supporting the authors and this method of child "discipline." Over a thousand people think that kicking the poo poo out of a baby for crawling off a blanket is a legit way to raise them. That's fuckin' depressing, and I'm going to go hug my kid now.
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Sep 17, 2014 07:27
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Crain posted:Oh lovely. Won't someone think of the poor white people making fun of themselves?!?
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 Friend of mine just posted this on facebook. I'd share the comments but they're all "HOW CAN THEY DO THAT?!"
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Sep 17, 2014 08:08
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Crain posted:Oh lovely. One of these things is not like the others One of these things just doesn't belong One of these things was never used as an icon of an entire race's inherent inferiority But I bet you'll never guess before I finish this song.
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:As a non-New Yorker, I went once just to say I'd been there. Aside from the Israelite School of UPK reminding everyone that white men are born criminals and the heavenly smell of the M&M store, I found nothing worth ever revisiting. I got more out of five minutes in the village than an hour in Times Square. Even the tour guide said "it was better when there were drugs and porn."
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 Anti-biotic means "snake oil" in Latin, right? Bonus: it's a pyramid scheme!
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Well it had better not work, resistant strains are enough of a problem as it is.
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kith_groupie posted:
12 drops ~Young~ Thieves 6 drops ~Living~ Oregano 3 drops Frank
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Pulsedragon posted:
Okay... As a non-American... How the gently caress CAN they do that? Honestly you Americans just assume everyone on the Internet is too!
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uglynoodles posted:Okay... As a non-American... How the gently caress CAN they do that? They can't, since the ACA isn't an insurance policy but more of a centralization of pre-existing insurance polices with some rather light regulations.
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As a fellow non-American I agree with the sentiment, but the answer is obviously "they can't, this is either fake or illegal"
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Sep 17, 2014 10:26
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It's illegality depends on the state and what exact for of insured healthcare they are providing. If you're the form of profession that takes certain insurances (usually through an applied panel system) you can technically accept or deny people on basis of their insurance. Therapists and Psychologists do it frequently because certain insurances pay like poo poo so they will only accept them if they desperately need clients. It has a lot to do with the lobby of whatever profession you have and how well they advocate you to different companies.
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BonHair posted:As a fellow non-American I agree with the sentiment, but the answer is obviously "they can't, this is either fake or illegal" I can tell you're not American just by the fact that you believe we must have laws that would protect people against this sort of poo poo. If you assume something can't be legal in the United States because it is blatantly abusive or nonsensical, you will be wrong a depressing percentage of the time. Anyway, the real reason the sign is bullshit is that there is no such thing as "Affordable Care Act insurance." There are just some new regulations that govern insurance providers.
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Sep 17, 2014 11:38
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So basically they are lying to turn away paying customers out of spite. Good business sense clearly.
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Forgall posted:So basically they are lying to turn away paying customers out of spite. Good business sense clearly. Or it's just a photo that someone with an inkjet printer has knocked up in 5 minutes, for whatever reason.
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Paying customers? No, that would be to keep away poors and coloureds.
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EL BROMANCE posted:Or it's just a photo that someone with an inkjet printer has knocked up in 5 minutes, for whatever reason.
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Double Plus Good posted:It's not implicitly built into marriages and most people are rightly shocked when it happens, but there are still many, many men out there who wouldn't hesitate to slap the poo poo out of their wife if she got too mouthy. And are rearing their sons to feel the same way! (In between all the switchins and whoopins) That and their idea of a woman being "smart mouthed/too mouthy" is usually something like "verbalizes a thought or opinion that isn't mine" or "still has some little bit of self-esteem left." Forgall posted:Then I'll be the idiot on social media I guess. The only thing I can think of is it's remotely possible they were dumb and meant something like Medicaid, which was expanded by ACA in a lot of states and which is also not accepted by some doctors. But most likely it's just some "Obamacare!"  idiot making a stand with their home printer.I haven't had insurance for a few years now and it never ceases to amaze me how much some people hate the idea of someone getting medical care they need without going into bankruptcy. I've even gotten lectures from doctors in a clinic that specialized in patients without insurance.
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 this is what obama's america looks like But this video was clearly made in the UK? 
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Sep 17, 2014 15:47
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Centripetal Horse posted:Anyway, the real reason the sign is bullshit is that there is no such thing as "Affordable Care Act insurance." There are just some new regulations that govern insurance providers. Exactly. Everyone covered under the ACA has an insurance card from an independent insurance company (except maybe the Medicaid expansion). The old plans that weren't under the ACA have mainly been fazed out. Often times, when people lost their doctors it was because their insurance provider consolidated it's network for cost reasons. Not because those doctors decided they didn't want to cover ACA patients. This was someone trying to make a point or scare people into thinking their own doctors were dropping coverage. Amused to Death posted:I think doctors can refuse plans on the exchanges though? To my knowledge the exchange plans are different than the private plans offered off the exchanges for individual or employer consumption, and doctors are free to choose which insurance they accept(exchange plans might have lower rates when it comes to reimbursal) They can choose not to accept a certain plan (aka exchange), but they've always been welcome to do that. I guess it is an OMG CRISIS because all of a sudden your doctor is outside your network when you were promised that it wouldn't happen. But doctors move in and out networks all the time, especially when they are associated with a hospital system that has to negotiate with insurers. Krispy Wafer has a new favorite as of 16:01 on Sep 17, 2014 |
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I think doctors can refuse plans on the exchanges though? To my knowledge the exchange plans are different than the private plans offered off the exchanges for individual or employer consumption, and doctors are free to choose which insurance they accept(exchange plans might have lower rates when it comes to reimbursal)
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Amused to Death posted:I think doctors can refuse plans on the exchanges though? To my knowledge the exchange plans are different than the private plans offered off the exchanges for individual or employer consumption, and doctors are free to choose which insurance they accept(exchange plans might have lower rates when it comes to reimbursal)
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Aphtonites posted:
Also Muslims are a race now? 
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Aphtonites posted:
Actually they're warning Americans to prepare because "The muslim invasion is ever-present, and it won’t stop anytime soon." Really quite a wonderful woman in that video. http://qpolitical.com/her-town-was-invaded-by-muslim-extremists-watch-what-happens-when-she-confronts-them/
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karl fungus posted:As a native New Yorker, I can confirm this as true. Times Square is where tourists go and eat at overpriced, lovely restaurants while getting harassed by assholes dressed up like Spider Man and Elmo that want your money. I will never understand the allure that place has. The whole place is crowded every weekend. Endless dumbass tourists. Shhhhhh - we can't let them know that Times Square is basically the tourist corral we created to keep them out of our way while still sucking up their precious precious tourism dollars. There's a reason Times Square packed full of all the milquetoast chain restaurants and big box stores you can imagine, and it's not for the New Yorkers - it's for the people who are too intimidated by anything not familiar. We need their money, but we also don't want to be around them, so we basically built them a nest to try and keep them in one place. StrangersInTheNight has a new favorite as of 16:25 on Sep 17, 2014 |
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StrangersInTheNight posted:Shhhhhh - we can't let them know that Times Square is basically the tourist corral we have to keep them out of our way while still sucking up their precious precious tourism dollars. There's a reason Times Square packed full of all the milquetoast chain restaurant and big box stores you can imagine, and it's not for the New Yorkers - it's for the people who are too intimidated by anything not familiar. We need their money, but we also don't want to be around them, so we basically built them a nest to try and keep them in one place. Coincidentally how New York works for the rest of the nation. 
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So what happened when that woman confronted them? I don't really want to watch that video.
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kith_groupie posted:
It's fitting that some of the oil is named "thieves"
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Wasabi the J posted:Coincidentally how New York works for the rest of the nation. Whatever man, there's 8 million of us and more every day. You can say what you want, but I doubt anyone's fighting as hard to get into your town. There's not a lot I can say in my life, but I know I can Make It in NYC, which isn't something everyone can do. But enjoy your life on 'easy mode' I guess.
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StrangersInTheNight posted:Whatever man, there's 8 million of us and more every day. You can say what you want, but I doubt anyone's fighting as hard to get into your town. There's not a lot I can say in my life, but I know I can Make It in NYC, which isn't something everyone can do. But enjoy your life on 'easy mode' I guess. You're only reinforcing his point.
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StrangersInTheNight posted:Whatever man, there's 8 million of us and more every day. You can say what you want, but I doubt anyone's fighting as hard to get into your town. There's not a lot I can say in my life, but I know I can Make It in NYC, which isn't something everyone can do. But enjoy your life on 'easy mode' I guess. My town is actually growing pretty rapidly. But cool.
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Forgall posted:So what happened when that woman confronted them? I don't really want to watch that video. They told her that she'd burn in hell for not being a Muslim. There's an hour-long video in there as well that I didn't watch, but the short video is a documentary of a woman talking to people at a single protest. The marchers are chanting "UK go to hell, British police go to hell" and she confronts a few of them who tell her she's wrong for not being Muslim, and that Islam requires they convert the land to their way of life. And then she's a little sad at the end.
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New York owns, go Yankees, these are Facts
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Tater Love 