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Tony Phillips posted:The Astros are/were up four runs and 6 outs away from winning their game against the Royals and advancing in the playoffs. From a couple days ago. Today the Jays beat the Rangers 6-3 eliminating them. The Royals beat the Astros 7-2, also eliminating them. Eat poo poo Abbott.
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Eponine posted:The issue, if I remember what I read correctly, was that people complained that the coffee they got at the drive thru wasn't hot enough by the time they drove to work, so the managers/owners started to heat the coffee beyond guidelines to make the people who complained happy. Another reason is that poo poo/cheap coffee only tastes okay when you burn it (and then put a ton of sugar and milk/whatever). It's similar to big beer and ice cold drinks. Coffee is best brewed at around 200F.(Note brewing/steeping temps are not the same as drinking temps. ) PhazonLink has a new favorite as of 07:12 on Oct 15, 2015 |
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Oct 15, 2015 07:09
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If you take your coffee black, just get the barista to put a few ice cubes in it for you. Probably wouldn't happen at McDonalds but Starbucks etc will happily do it.
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Oct 15, 2015 09:25
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Did I just watch somebody fry?
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Oct 15, 2015 10:18
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Ok, wanting some 'cool' meaningless word or phrase tattooed is one thing, but what the hell is the thought process behind having your initials in chinese characters? Or spelling out a name like Jeff, wtf, that's not how this language works. Oh, your name is Angel? Ok, I guess there's a character for that, lemme see. Wait, you want the syllables spelt out? How does it make any sense, you goddamn morons?
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Oct 15, 2015 10:29
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Ozz81 posted:That she didn't say anything about it and waited until after the kid's mom died makes her an even bigger piece of poo poo, she easily could have said something sooner. You've got the timeline wrong. She filed the lawsuit two years ago, and it took that long for it to actually reach a courtroom.
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Oct 15, 2015 11:20
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grate deceiver posted:Ok, wanting some 'cool' meaningless word or phrase tattooed is one thing, but what the hell is the thought process behind having your initials in chinese characters? Or spelling out a name like Jeff, wtf, that's not how this language works. Oh, your name is Angel? Ok, I guess there's a character for that, lemme see. Wait, you want the syllables spelt out? How does it make any sense, you goddamn morons? Haha, "thought process"  In my years living in Japan, I've seen the English language tortured in ways that would give Donald Rumsfeld a big chubby one, but I've never seen anyone dumb enough to get an Engrish word tattooed on themselves. Seen plenty of morons with what they thought was a deep and meaningful GLORIOUS NIPPONESE expression pooed onto their skin though.
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Oct 15, 2015 12:08
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Just lol if you live in a place or area where you have to drive an hour + EVERY DAY to the point where you actually pressure a restaurant to do this. I don't know how people survive and not go completely insane with hour long commutes at 25 mph and gridlock traffic. Constant schadenfreude for me on those poor suckers. Also re: wrist thing, working for insurance companies, I can tell you that yeah that is the way it had to go down. A lot of times suing your relative is the best and only way to get the insurance to pay for poo poo that they otherwise would have.Ex: Grandson rents a house from Grandma and accidentally torches the place. Grandma has to sue grandson to get the landlord policy to pay out. It looks bad, but its genuinely what the insurance is FOR.
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Oct 15, 2015 13:37
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Jastiger posted:Just lol if you live in a place or area where you have to drive an hour + EVERY DAY to the point where you actually pressure a restaurant to do this. I don't know how people survive and not go completely insane with hour long commutes at 25 mph and gridlock traffic. Not disagreeing, but for another example of crazy commutes my supervisor drives about two hours to poorly oversee a government call center. She's not shy about complaining about the job or wishing that she worked somewhere else, and she has a degree in computer science (although she doesn't seem very adept with a computer imho). I don't know why she keeps putting herself through hell every morning to come to a job she doesn't like, and since I was just offered a promotion up the ladder (to a rung with the same pay as her, apparently) I felt weird advising her on how to advance her career or find a different profession. I guess there's schadenfreude in people who get stuck in a job and give up, but like watching someone fall down on their wedding day, it's a little less funny if you know or like the person it's happening to.
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Oct 15, 2015 13:54
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Jastiger posted:Just lol if you live in a place or area where you have to drive an hour + EVERY DAY to the point where you actually pressure a restaurant to do this. I don't know how people survive and not go completely insane with hour long commutes at 25 mph and gridlock traffic. I've done an hour plus commute, it sucks, especially when it's a job relocation you had to take or get fired  I have a little travel mug thingy (like a grown up sippy cup I guess) and I'll make coffee at home and drink it from that in the car if I ABSOLUTELY have to. Thankfully I have a different job now where I have to get up so early there is not much traffic around anyway  In other news, I had a go on one of those hoverboard thingies yesterday. Amazingly I didn't fall off but MAN I can see how easy it would be to wipe out on one of those suckers. I have to admit it was quite fun whizzing round Maplins (probably one of the only places in the UK it's legal to go on one) like some sort of techno ghost. I also had to sign a disclaimer form before they'd let me touch it.
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Oct 15, 2015 13:54
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Jastiger posted:Also re: wrist thing, working for insurance companies, I can tell you that yeah that is the way it had to go down. A lot of times suing your relative is the best and only way to get the insurance to pay for poo poo that they otherwise would have.Ex: Grandson rents a house from Grandma and accidentally torches the place. Grandma has to sue grandson to get the landlord policy to pay out. It looks bad, but its genuinely what the insurance is FOR. Excuse my ignorance of US healthcare systems, but I was under the impression that your health insurance was for covering your medical bills, not exclusively those caused by somebody else and even then you have to sue your family in order to make a claim.
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Oct 15, 2015 14:26
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Insurance companies are in the exclusive business of loving you over as hard as they can.
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Oct 15, 2015 14:31
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nexus6 posted:Excuse my ignorance of US healthcare systems, but I was under the impression that your health insurance was for covering your medical bills, not exclusively those caused by somebody else and even then you have to sue your family in order to make a claim. This woman undoubtedly had private health insurance, and I imagine it had an out of pocket cap in the low thousands. She didn't have to sue anyone. She could have realized "poo poo happens" and dealt with it, not looked for someone else to pay her because she has to hold her hors d'oeuvre plates differently now.
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Oct 15, 2015 14:31
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Rondette posted:In other news, I had a go on one of those hoverboard thingies yesterday. Amazingly I didn't fall off but MAN I can see how easy it would be to wipe out on one of those suckers. I have to admit it was quite fun whizzing round Maplins (probably one of the only places in the UK it's legal to go on one) like some sort of techno ghost. I also had to sign a disclaimer form before they'd let me touch it. We had ours while we were interviewing interns a couple weeks ago. Two of them wanted to try, I was like "uh well, are you SURE? Because its really likely that you will fall." Then I told them what to expect and how to start: grab the wall, hold the wall. When you get of, step one foot backwards then the other. Don't jump off, just step off. Backwards. They both fell, lol. In front of like 5 of us.
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Oct 15, 2015 14:33
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:she has to hold her hors d'oeuvre plates differently now. Hey, plating is important! What are we, animals?
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Oct 15, 2015 14:34
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Isn't it usually the insurance company that litigates to recoup costs incurred from claims? I'm not familiar with any claims situations where the insurance company requires you to litigate on their behalf before they'll honor a claim. Granted, I'm sure the laws vary from state to state, but this seems like some CYA bullshit to keep the negative press at bay.
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Oct 15, 2015 14:37
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:This woman undoubtedly had private health insurance, and I imagine it had an out of pocket cap in the low thousands. She didn't have to sue anyone. She could have realized "poo poo happens" and dealt with it, not looked for someone else to pay her because she has to hold her hors d'oeuvre plates differently now. Oh wait, I think I have been misunderstanding this. I thought her own insurance was refusing to pay for her treatment. Was she trying to get her nephew's insurance to pay for it? Isn't that still a dick move?
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Oct 15, 2015 14:42
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nexus6 posted:Oh wait, I think I have been misunderstanding this. I thought her own insurance was refusing to pay for her treatment. Was she trying to get her nephew's insurance to pay for it? Isn't that still a dick move? I didn't see anything that said her health insurance was refusing to pay. And I don't see why they would, an injury is an injury. And she was seeking compensation from the kid's parents' homeowner's insurance. The articles don't make it clear exactly why she wanted $127,000, aside from the fact that she has to walk up 3 flights of stairs and hold heavy plates. edit: I got the impression she was suing for pain and suffering and maybe loss of use of her wrist (?). And it's all predicated on the fact that he nephew hugged her so vigorously that he was negligent, and as an 8 year old he knew or should have known that hugging her as he did was likely to cause injury. Which is some bullshit. Flash Gordon Ramsay has a new favorite as of 14:53 on Oct 15, 2015 |
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Oct 15, 2015 14:46
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Grey Fox posted:Isn't it usually the insurance company that litigates to recoup costs incurred from claims? I'm not familiar with any claims situations where the insurance company requires you to litigate on their behalf before they'll honor a claim. I'm not sure that health insurance companies subrogate for injury claims. I've only dealt with wrt property insurance and car insurance. But yes, if she wanted money from the homeowner's policy, she would have to sue the person responsible for the injury, not the insurance company. She doesn't have a contract or any relationship with the insurance company, that much is true. What is not true is that she had to sue anyone at all, or seek compensation just because she injured her wrist.
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Oct 15, 2015 14:49
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Jastiger posted:Just lol if you live in a place or area where you have to drive an hour + EVERY DAY to the point where you actually pressure a restaurant to do this. I don't know how people survive and not go completely insane with hour long commutes at 25 mph and gridlock traffic. some people can't afford to live near their jobs, hth
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Oct 15, 2015 15:13
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I dunno, I'd probably be happier with lukewarm coffee at work than something that would cause burns severe enough to require hospitalization if it splashes or tips.
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Oct 15, 2015 15:16
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:I didn't see anything that said her health insurance was refusing to pay. And I don't see why they would, an injury is an injury. See I thought the way it worked was
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I know 'lol US healthcare' isn't new but I'm getting confused here.
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Jastiger posted:Just lol if you live in a place or area where you have to drive an hour + EVERY DAY to the point where you actually pressure a restaurant to do this. I don't know how people survive and not go completely insane with hour long commutes at 25 mph and gridlock traffic. FCKGW posted:some people can't afford to live near their jobs, hth Others were lucky to find a job at all. Also in some US cities (Los Angeles) a 10 mile drive can take an hour easily. In other cities, people commute long distances because they have kids and the public schools in the white flight suburbs are far, far better than the ones in the inner city. In fact, I would go so far as to suspect that if you don't have a long commute, you either have an extremely well paying job, or there's no traffic/the price of housing is low where you live because it's a shithole place that no one wants to live. It's almost like life is complicated and people generally have rational reasons for the tradeoffs they make decisions about! Imagined has a new favorite as of 15:26 on Oct 15, 2015 |
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Oct 15, 2015 15:19
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Have there been any new sovereign citizen videos? I think they might be the best source of schadenfreude possible because they're just so drat sure they've got the secret cheat codes to get out of a ticket and they're so smug about it.
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Oct 15, 2015 15:22
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FCKGW posted:some people can't afford to live near their jobs, hth I'm less making a dig at people stuck with long commutes, and more making a dig at people with distance wise short commutes, but live in such rat nests that it takes two hours to go 5 miles. nexus6 posted:Excuse my ignorance of US healthcare systems, but I was under the impression that your health insurance was for covering your medical bills, not exclusively those caused by somebody else and even then you have to sue your family in order to make a claim. It was likely a homeowners insurance claim since that is what the liability portion is for. If someone is injured in your home and they wish to press suit against you the homeowners liability insurance is designed to provide liability coverage since you may very well be liable. Your kid tackling someone and breaking their wrist would absolutely fall under that liability portion. Imagine if it was the Best Buy TV delivery guy and I think everyone would approach this story differently. But its his aunt, someone invited into the home and that obviously loves the family. So she is either stuck with "I pay all of my own health insurance bills and deductibles" which sucks, but is probably reasonable. OR "I sue them and get the homeowners to help cover the unexpected cost of fixing my wrist" which really isn't that unreasonable either. I mean if its the difference between paying a few hundred grand out of pocket and not, I doubt a lot of people here would balk at suing to recover medical costs. My guess is the pain and suffering part was designed for a jury rather than the actual things needed, but I don't know the case.
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chitoryu12 posted:I dunno, I'd probably be happier with lukewarm coffee at work than something that would cause burns severe enough to require hospitalization if it splashes or tips. Not to mention the fact that every job I've had from factory work to a bank had a break room with a microwave in it. If the coffee's too cold when you get there, nuke it, it's not like the delicate flavor of fast food coffee is going to suffer too greatly.
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nexus6 posted:I know 'lol US healthcare' isn't new but I'm getting confused here. With most insurance plans, they either have a deductible of some sort, or only pay part of the treatment until you hit your out of pocket maximum for the year. Like right now, every time my wife goes to see her rheumatologist, we pay $50 up front and get a bill later for another $130 or so that the insurance didn't cover. If we were to hit our maximum of $15,000 for the year, the insurance would have covered everything except the $50 co-pay. So it can still be expensive.
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Oct 15, 2015 15:28
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Adult gamers being bad at Lego: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmKN_v-ALsw From the Lego thread, the awful at lego starts at roughly 8 minutes, and continues through out. Don't watch past the Batmobile.
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Oct 15, 2015 15:31
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The aunt and nephew went on TV together today. I don't think they actually hate each other. http://gawker.com/aunt-from-hell-an...dium=socialflow
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oh cool, a healthcare derail On topic: http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/homeland-graffiti-artists-racist-1.3272124 posted:Graffiti artists hired to work on the set of Showtime's Homeland have duped the popular series, painting Arabic slogans criticizing the show on walls seen in the background. https://twitter.com/EgyptianStreets/status/654537870380695552
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Oct 15, 2015 16:41
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Found some good freude in a local news article today. http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article39003903.html quote:A Clay County sheriff’s deputy retreated to a safe distance from a van burning in a field Tuesday afternoon after he heard the sound of live ammunition going off inside it.
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Oct 15, 2015 16:44
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I saw a video of this with sound. The music starts real quiet and slow then it starts blasting fast techno. He waited like half a minute for the music to play and then just eats it. loving nerd, just play the game. If your trying to do something cool in Hotline your gonna die. Hihohe has a new favorite as of 16:52 on Oct 15, 2015 |
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Oct 15, 2015 16:47
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Dillbag posted:oh cool, a healthcare derail Or maybe just season 1 did a good job at that, I didn't pay attention to season 3 really.
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Oct 15, 2015 16:52
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Shalkore posted:Yeah! What this guy said! Waiting 60 seconds for my beverage to cool down is unacceptable! loving this I don't want bath tub water warm coffee because you old ginger fingered fucks don't know how to hold coffee I need that poo poo to still be hot when I get to work
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Oct 15, 2015 17:19
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You could make coffee at home and also save a lot of money?
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Oct 15, 2015 17:24
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zakharov posted:You could make coffee at home and also save a lot of money? Definitely save some, but if we're talking mcdonalds coffee it's probably not "a lot".
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Oct 15, 2015 17:25
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zakharov posted:You could make coffee at home and also save a lot of money? Also live in a reasonable location with reasonable commutes? Somewhere in central Iowa maybe?
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Or convince your office to set up a coffee pot in the break room.
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You guys could also all find a girlfriend, but I don't bring that up when you complain about your waifu pillows 
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