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Jestery
Aug 2, 2016


Not a Dickman, just a shape

Muk Dumpster posted:

I dont think I could have that much knowledge or care that much about anything

It's systems within systems within systems

Wheels within wheels within wheels

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DPM
Feb 23, 2015

TAKE ME HOME
I'LL CHECK YA BUM FOR GRUBS

Carth Dookie posted:

I know there's plenty of things we don't do well in this country but I can't help getting some slight warm and fuzzies when I go in for a CT scan, and ask on the way out what the charge is and the receptionist looks at me like I'm a crazy person and shoo's me out the door.

Who'd be a seppo?

starkebn
May 18, 2004

"Oooh, got a little too serious. You okay there, little buddy?"
RESULT: COVID-19 virus NOT DETECTED

southern Brisbane is safe, for now

Carth Dookie
Jan 28, 2013

DumbparameciuM posted:

Who'd be a seppo?

Not me, that's for sure.

If I was I'd be dead or bankrupt or likely both by the end of this.

bell jar
Feb 25, 2009

Malcolm Turnbeug posted:

This is what we call a 'conversation starter'



yeah? i usually call em coffee machines

Isaac
Aug 3, 2006

Fun Shoe
Might buy crusader kings iii on the weekend

Caesar Saladin
Aug 15, 2004

i don't really understand those games

Schneider Inside Her
Aug 6, 2009

Please bitches. If nothing else I am a gentleman
They seem like the kind of game I'd be extremely into but whenever I try to play CK2 my brain ices over.

Jezza of OZPOS
Mar 21, 2018

GET LOSE❌🗺️, YOUS CAN'T COMPARE😤 WITH ME 💪POWERS🇦🇺
The tutorial and user interface is a bit more newbie friendly in the new one but I still got real bored with it but it was a more enjoyable less obtuse experience than me trying to play 2

Sillybones
Aug 10, 2013

go away,
spooky skeleton,
go away

iRend
Jun 21, 2004

MOTHER, DID YOU eeeeeayyyyy.... ooooooaaa... ff.



NITROUS DIVISION
what's the movie guarantee :x

Korgan
Feb 14, 2012


iRend posted:

what's the movie guarantee :x

Three ropes or your wank back

Isaac
Aug 3, 2006

Fun Shoe
Ive played alot of ckII im a real pro

Muk Dumpster
Jun 27, 2020


Text Here
I play warcraft 2

Jezza of OZPOS
Mar 21, 2018

GET LOSE❌🗺️, YOUS CAN'T COMPARE😤 WITH ME 💪POWERS🇦🇺
It wasn't made clear what the path to becoming Lord of Cumania entailed from the tutorial so I'll probably wait til someone figures the min maxing on that out until I play it for real

Jezza of OZPOS
Mar 21, 2018

GET LOSE❌🗺️, YOUS CAN'T COMPARE😤 WITH ME 💪POWERS🇦🇺

Muk Dumpster posted:

I play warcraft 2

Horde only PvP for life bro

Lolie
Jun 4, 2010

AUSGBS Thread Mum

Carth Dookie posted:

Not me, that's for sure.

If I was I'd be dead or bankrupt or likely both by the end of this.

Every now and then I log into Medicare and check how much they have paid on my behalf this year. It's a lot and that doesn't even include the $2000 per dose injections of growth factor I was having during chemo.

Dr. Garbanzo
Sep 14, 2010

Lolie posted:

Every now and then I log into Medicare and check how much they have paid on my behalf this year. It's a lot and that doesn't even include the $2000 per dose injections of growth factor I was having during chemo.

with all of my gf's health stuff medicare kicks in quite a large amount of money really even if they cover less than half of a specialist appointment. Now that she's managed to get onto the ndis the public kitty is covering all of her treatments outside of meds and certain medical appointments but does cover weekly physio for the foreseeable future.

I also discovered today that right after I finished getting my approval to teach timber and metals the department of education has started kicking around $20K per year scholarships to retrain as that sort of teacher. I would have grabbed a scholarship when I started but they pulled those two teaching areas right before I started so I'm a little salty about it really

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008

Infinitum
Jul 30, 2004



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG7gR3yiGF8&t=4s

Sillybones
Aug 10, 2013

go away,
spooky skeleton,
go away

CAMP FARTING ROCKS
Jan 14, 2005

how does CK3 work with game pass considering most of that game is spending several hundred extra dollars on monthly dlc for the next three years after the game is released?

CAMP FARTING ROCKS
Jan 14, 2005


look I was tired okay

DPM
Feb 23, 2015

TAKE ME HOME
I'LL CHECK YA BUM FOR GRUBS

Hey look its your mate

Jestery
Aug 2, 2016


Not a Dickman, just a shape

Hyperlynx
Sep 13, 2015

Lolie posted:

Every now and then I log into Medicare and check how much they have paid on my behalf this year. It's a lot and that doesn't even include the $2000 per dose injections of growth factor I was having during chemo.

Not to mention, medical stuff costs more in the USA too. I'm not sure exactly how this particular capitalist death spiral works, but it's something like hospitals putting prices as high as they can and insurance more or less just paying out. Fine if you have insurance, but you're turbofucked if not.

Caesar Saladin
Aug 15, 2004

Furthermore you have to be American, which is an incurable disease in itself that modern medical science can't even hope to manage

McSpergin
Sep 10, 2013

Wandering around the alley behind my building at work getting some sun and listening to Kero Kero Bonito

Infinitum
Jul 30, 2004


Customer called and was pissed off going "I know you don't give a poo poo about my order"

Legit wanted to go "yeah nah fair call"

McSpergin
Sep 10, 2013

Infinitum posted:

Customer called and was pissed off going "I know you don't give a poo poo about my order"

Legit wanted to go "yeah nah fair call"

Well yeah not yours specifically

McSpergin
Sep 10, 2013

My mate just messaged me about this interaction he had with a telemarketer and I got a good chuckle

Telemarketer on the phone:
"I believe you are the homeowner?"
"No"
"Oh so are you renting?"
"No"
"Oh so who is the homeowner?"
"Me"
"Wait so you are the homeowner?"
"No"
*Confused silence*

well why not
Feb 10, 2009




"let me put my brother on, [slight pause], hello" x 10000

Laserface
Dec 24, 2004

Infinitum posted:

Customer called and was pissed off going "I know you don't give a poo poo about my order"

Legit wanted to go "yeah nah fair call"

yeah see thats the thing. customer service doesnt suck because its bad policy or the representative isnt trained, customer service sucks because everyone knows its a lie.

Germans are super lovely with customer service but nobody cares because they didnt adopt the absolutely insane idea of 'make the customer feel like the center of the universe so that they might throw more money at us' that the US basically forced on everyone.

Caesar Saladin
Aug 15, 2004

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Tr3jCCHlwE

I know its vice but this documentary about an Australian mullet festival is quite good and funny.

McSpergin
Sep 10, 2013



@lube enthusiast

Drint Blasters
Jul 1, 2007

Carth Dookie posted:

Me either. I just roll with it and enjoy it when it turns out to be free.

Also saw my dentist today for a check-up on the draining of the abscess and to discuss the CT results and take some of her own xrays. Also paid nothing this time. Then she called and bullied a root canal specialist who told her receptionist that the earliest appointment they had was next Wednesday into seeing me same day so now I'm waiting to see them. So that's 4 dental related appointments in 2 days and zero dollars paid. Or $400 if you include the 1st appointment I had last week with her when she first saw me/drained the abscess last week. There's no rhyme or reason for it all as far as I can see.

Edit: I think what I really paid for last week was for her to bully surgeons, root canal specialists and dental implant specialists to see me on short notice.

How the poo poo are you not paying for dentist work? Every time I have gone it's like the oval office has boat, car and house repayments all at once

Muk Dumpster
Jun 27, 2020


Text Here
Its only cosmetic dental that isn't covered isn't it

ili
Jul 26, 2003


Lol no, dental isn't covered unless you're super poor or some such.

Flannelette
Jan 17, 2010


Muk Dumpster posted:

Its only cosmetic dental that isn't covered isn't it

It depends, dentistry isn't medicare'd but you can get things covered for dental surgery refereed by the dentist. They won't make you pay if you show up to the hospital with an infection in your tooth that's about to spread to your skull for example.

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NPR Journalizard
Feb 14, 2008

ili posted:

Lol no, dental isn't covered unless you're super poor or some such.

Kids are covered now as well, I think.

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