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Sidd Finch · 12-19-2006, 08:11 PM

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Originally posted by Adder
You should be less smug about how this exchange is making you look too (hint: not as great as you think).

She has the certainty of knowing she's right. It comes with being a cunt.

(sorry -- I know you don't like that word)

Penske_Account · 12-19-2006, 08:12 PM

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Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Indeed, he does. He has a sense of humor, some perspective on how unimportant arguments on a chat board really are, and a tremendous lack of arrongance. You should emulate him.

Does suggesting that I am jerking off make you glow in your powerful womanhood?

Truth or dare, are you?

Penske_Account · 12-19-2006, 08:13 PM

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Originally posted by Sidd Finch
She has the certainty of knowing she's right. It comes with being a cunt.

(sorry -- I know you don't like that word)

No papaya?

sgtclub · 12-19-2006, 08:14 PM

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Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Oh, don't be such a whiner.

Some people pay good money for women to slap them around, so suggesting that my wife slapped me doesn't necessarily imply that anything bad happened.

Right? Have I got your "logic" down?

I just figured it out. It's points season. Hence the fucked in the ass imagery above.

Tyrone Slothrop · 12-19-2006, 08:59 PM

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Originally posted by ironweed
I think the point that Club is trying to make is that, when you think about it, we are all "imprisoned wrongfully" -- held by chains woven of circumstance and locked with heavy bolts of fateful chance. Having to pay a mortgage, being beaten with sticks, going to work, being beaten with bigger sticks -- all of this is One in the unblinking eye of eternity. And what is this world, where each of us must live and die trapped alone in the cell of our own consciousness -- unable to connect on the most fundamental level with those around us, even those whom we care for the most -- but a prison of the Self?

Man is born free and everywhere -- everywhere! -- he is in chains.

And the person who said that had access to French health care.

Tyrone Slothrop · 12-19-2006, 10:02 PM

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Originally posted by Spanky
However, from my point of view, these guys were not wearing uniforms when they were caught, and they are part of organizations that are trying to kill innocent civilians, so if torturing them might have even have a .001 percent of saving an innocent life, then I say - torture away.

The American citizen who we've been talking about was not a part of such an organization, nor does there ever seem to have been a serious reason to think he was. Rather, the use of sleep deprivation appears to be a routine way to treat people in U.S. custody in Iraq.

Hank Chinaski · 12-19-2006, 10:19 PM

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Originally posted by Adder
You should be less smug about how this exchange is making you look too (hint: not as great as you think).

"cunt" is an even worse thing to call someone than "fag."

Hank Chinaski · 12-19-2006, 10:21 PM

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Originally posted by Penske_Account
Isn't that what Bill Clinton whispered in Juanitas ear in the afterglow of his rape of her and before he smacked her upside the head to warn her against telling anyone about their forced love making tryst?

I knew a Jewish girl who was raped by a doctor. It made the experience somewhat bittersweet for her.

Hank Chinaski · 12-19-2006, 10:28 PM

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Originally posted by Sidd Finch
I don't know. Like I said, I hesitate to draw a lot of conclusions from anecdotes -- I was just giving a counter-example to Spanky's anecdote (on which he does seem to base broad conclusions).

Your theory -- that we were a nice extra 50 Euros -- is interesting, but I think it's wrong. In Paris, they definitely didn't know we were tourists when they sent the doctor. My wife speaks fluent French. We were staying in an apartment in a residential area (we did a home exchange). The doctor thought it was our apartment and was surprised to learn that we didn't live there. We probably could've faked our way through and not paid, but maybe they require you to show an ID card or something. In any event -- the dispatcher certainly had no idea, and it's hard to believe that the dispatcher would really make an effort to give some unknown doctor extra cash.

Almost ditto for Avignon. While we were staying in a hotel, it was during an event where Frogs galore pour into Avignon.

As for the poor people in the rioting suburbs, you are probably right -- though, I would note, the neighborhood where we stayed in Paris was hardly an upper-class area. In any event, I'm not sure that it makes sense to compare the (unknown) experience of poor Frogs with the anecdotal experience of US lawyers. Do you think uninsured Americans get the same level of medical care that you get?

to the last question- no. And I would be in favor of providing some level to them. I just want to not screw up what we have. I grew up lower middle class. i had good health care.

The story I posted was from a Detroit Business magazine. It reports on efforts by Detroit hospitals to market to Canadians disillusioned by their health care. Maybe it is as simple as saying whenever 2 systems are built that cover so much ground, each system will have strengths and weaknesses. Maybe the Canadians that come over here are simply doing so to take advantage of a few loophole areas where we are better, but I've never heard of a US guy going over there for health care*.

*except types of lasik are approved more quickly, so people go for that. but that's not insurance covered.

Sidd Finch · 12-19-2006, 10:31 PM

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Originally posted by sgtclub
I just figured it out. It's points season. Hence the fucked in the ass imagery above.

Shhhh. Don't even think it. I'm having an historically good year.... (And we don't do that "points" silliness)

Sidd Finch · 12-19-2006, 10:33 PM

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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
to the last question- no. And I would be in favor of providing some level to them. I just want to not screw up what we have. I grew up lower middle class. i had good health care.

The story I posted was from a Detroit Business magazine. It reports on efforts by Detroit hospitals to market to Canadians disillusioned by their health care. Maybe it is as simple as saying whenever 2 systems are built that cover so much ground, each system will have strengths and weaknesses. Maybe the Canadians that come over here are simply doing so to take advantage of a few loophole areas where we are better, but I've never heard of a US guy going over there for health care*.

8except types of lasik are approved more quickly, so people go for that. but that's not insurance covered.

And cheap meds. People go to Canada for that, too.