The Testingtard's Lament: Boo-Hoo-in' Revolution

[weemadando]

Today someone in Africa is saying "I'm sick of carrying fifteen litres of dirty water from the town well to our home a kilometre and a half up a hill. Let's order modern infrastructure!"

Normally I hate that kind of FWP rant but jesus Zod, don't you ever complain about modern conveniences again.

[Gands]

Sometimes I forget what year it is.

[timmy]

I wanna know where he got that awesome suit

[Veef]

guys guess what

Fallon healthcare through Medicaid is different than just regular Fallon which I used to have

and my doctor doesn't accept it

so now I'm gonna have a bill just because I wanted to go see my doctor

yay

[Oxymoron]

In what kind of fucked up country do you live again ?

Oh, yeah. The Land Of The Free (to be left to die if they can't pay for their medical bills)

[Zod]

Is it something you can dispute? Because that sounds really fucked up.

[Veef]

It's probably my fault for not reading the fine print.

[Flagg]

Just do what I do: Don't pay the bill.

[Oxymoron]

(results may or may not involve debt collectors knocking at your house's door)

[Veef]

my mother will do something about it probably

she's a much angrier jew than I

[Flagg]

(results may or may not involve debt collectors knocking at your house's door)

Tell them to fuck off and then declare bankruptcy?

[Oxymoron]

Isn't it going to hurt your credit rating ?


There's also the option of faking death and escaping to Mexico.

[uraniun235]

If you can duck the collections agencies for long enough, it may expire under the statute of limitations. (There was an article in today's Oregonian about a court decision concerning the statutes of limitation in different states and debt collection.)

[Gands]

I've been to the GP three times in the last fortnight because of various maladies.

Hasn't cost me a penny. It seems so alien to have to get a bill for a GP visit.

[Flagg]

Well that's because it's extortion, and it seems alien to sane people that you would have a legal framework for doctors to extort money from people.

[Zod]

Going to the doctor in America terrifies me because I have no clue if I'm going to find a doc who is actually useful or one who will waste my money and tell me I just need to lose weight.

[Flagg]

If they tell you to just lose weight as opposed to ordering a bunch of tests, then they are probably a good doctor.

[Questor]

I dunno, maybe I've just had good luck, but my GP's have always been reasonable.

Specialists, on the other hand...
(to be fair, that was more an issue of me wanting/needing a shot he didn't have, but telling me that would have been more productive than telling me that the CDC was wrong.)

[adr-admin]

TOR: Kramer tells me that you are interested in an alternative to surgery.

GEORGE: Yes, yes I am.

TOR: (Blows into George's face) I think we can help you. See, unfortunately, the medical establishment is a business like any other business. And business needs customers. And, they want to sell you their most expensive item which is unnecessary surgery.

GEORGE: (Still on the showers) Can I use hot water on my face?

TOR: No. You know, I am not a business man. I'm a holistic healer. It's a calling, it's a gift. You see, it's in the best interest of the medical profession that you remain sick. You see, that ensures good business. You're not a patient. You're a customer.

JERRY: (He thinks this, the audience can hear his thoughts) And you're not a doctor, but you play one in real life.

[Aaron]

Good thing I'm replacing the stock on this Mosin, cause they shipped it with the bayonet pressed against the stock. So there is a two foot long gouge in the side of it.

[Zod]

I just spent an hour and a half creating training documentation. My eyes are fucking bleeding.

[Oxymoron]

Did you take care that even a fucking terminally retard can understand what you were trying to say ?


*had to experience first-hand what it means to write use-procedures for "complex" systems destined to computer-illiterate people ; sometimes even barely literate, period*

[uraniun235]

Did you take care that even a fucking terminally retard can understand what you were trying to say ?


*had to experience first-hand what it means to write use-procedures for "complex" systems destined to computer-illiterate people ; sometimes even barely literate, period*

i remember one time when i worked for the school district


a co-worker sent an email out to all relevant staff with instructions about how to do a thing

staff person called asking how to do that thing

co-worker asked "oh hey did you not get my email?"

"no, i didn't read it. it was way too long. if you want me to read it you're going to have to shorten it up a lot."

coworker:

[Oxymoron]

If it was more than two standard Word pages long, it WAS too long.

Also, annotated pictures/screen-caps aren't a luxury in most of these cases. People have, in general, a far easier time understanding things if they are told them visually rather than textually (reading comprehension is never a given, even sadly for people with a college education...).


It really is a job.

But ever so satisfying in its own way when you do it right...


Anyway, I feel your pain, Zod.

[uraniun235]

If it was more than two standard Word pages long, it WAS too long.

probably less than a quarter of that