Things you wish you could say

[Nabiki]

Since when?

Since it was derived from the Japanese word. I used to think it was Spanish, but found out a few years ago that it's Japanese.

 

[Nyhillbillies]

Question for our Canadian neighbors: do you like your healthcare system? What is it like to get emergency care? What about seeing a specialist? Pros & cons??

 

[Bonkerelli]

True story of what happened yesterday:
I am at work (takes place outside) and these 2 kids CLEARLY under the age of 13 are on skateboards basically riding in the busy main street which duels as the highway (highway runs through middle of town. The kid loses his skateboard that rolls in front of a semi truck! Luckily this truck driver is aware and slows way down. Usually semis barrel through the town. Here are these 2 boys laughing and cussing (lots of F, S, A words.. remember these kids are not even 13 yet). I yell to the kids to get over here (which they showed COMPLETE disrespect not only to me and the lady that was with me), acting that they didn't do anything wrong and started walking away and cussing as we tried to explain the danger that they put a good majority of people in. When we asked where their parents are.. they are at home. So the boys are running free basically on the highway. They didn't care whatsoever. If those were MY kids.. they would've gotten a good spanking. Also, I want to have a good talk to the parents and give them a spanking too.

I am SO glad that no one was hurt but I'm still angry that it happened.

 

[MACCanadianCoop]

Question for our Canadian neighbors: do you like your healthcare system? What is it like to get emergency care? What about seeing a specialist? Pros & cons??

This is too long a question to answer here.

Short answer, generally yes, we like it. There are issues that need to be sorted, mostly due to understaffing especially since covid. But it beats having to pay astronomical health care fees every day of the week.

All those horror stories Americans have heard about people dying because they can't access care or specialists in a timely manner are for the most part false.

 

[Folly's place]

And I'll add that here in the USA, with excellent insurance, health care runs in slow motion too, especially when making appointments for specialists.
And ERs , at least here, are understaffed and overcrowded.
Mary

 

[MACCanadianCoop]

And I'll add that here in the USA, with excellent insurance, health care runs in slow motion too, especially when making appointments for specialists.
And ERs , at least here, are understaffed and overcrowded.
Mary

Define "excellent insurance" please

 

[Brooks_]

Define "excellent insurance" please

I had it in 1996. Downhill since then.

 

[R2elk]

Define "excellent insurance" please

Mine pays everything.

 

[Brooks_]

Mine pays everything.

Very impressive these days

 

[Nyhillbillies]

The Logical Song
Supertramp

When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful
A miracle, oh it was beautiful, magical
And all the birds in the trees, well they'd be singing so happily
Oh joyfully, oh playfully watching me

But then they send me away to teach me how to be sensible
Logical, oh responsible, practical
And then they showed me a world where I could be so dependable
Oh clinical, oh intellectual, cynical

There are times when all the world's asleep
The questions run too deep
For such a simple man
Won't you please, please tell me what we've learned
I know it sounds absurd
Please tell me who I am

I said, watch what you say or they'll be calling you a radical
A liberal, oh fanatical, criminal
Won't you sign up your name, we'd like to feel you're acceptable
Respectable, oh presentable, a vegetable!
Oh take it, take it, take it, yeah

But at night, when all the world's asleep
The questions run so deep
For such a simple man
Won't you please (Oh won't you tell me)
Please tell me what we've learned (Can you hear me)
I know it sounds absurd (Oh won't you help me)
Please tell me who I am

Who I am
Who I am
Who I am

'Cause I was feeling so logical
D-d-d-d-d-d-digital
One, two, three, five
Oh, oh, oh, oh yeah

Ooh it's getting unbelievable, yeah