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On 7/17/2022 at 2:39 PM, kiddo82 said:
Saw this today and it was super adorable and earnest with just the right amount of bite to keep it from becoming overly saccharine.
I completely agree. Marcel was funny, too. I loved the way Dean would laugh at Marcel's observations.
Marcel throwing up in the car was hilarious. And his song at the end had me crying.
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On 7/25/2022 at 10:29 AM, Mercolleen said:
ETA: Did Alexis just say that she had a designer vagina?
Maybe it was on the after-show, but I remember her saying that in her efforts to love her body, she made a mold of her vagina, and had a friend help her, maybe? Yikes.
I'm not sure how that would make it a designer vagina, but maybe there's some new terminology in the vagina acceptance world I'm not completely familiar with. And would prefer to remain so.
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This is a charming little French romp, with beautiful scenery. I normally at most chuckle at movies, but the two scenes of Patrick the donkey braying in this one were so expertly handled I was unable to stop laughing out loud.
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I wonder what kind of toilets led to the theories about poo particles flying around. Residential toilets seem pretty gentle to me when they flush, but some of the ones in office buildings flush with real gusto, especially the tankless kinds.
Besides, doesn't everyone know that all stomach upset definitively comes from whatever restaurant someone's reviewing on Yelp, within mere minutes of being there?
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On 7/20/2022 at 7:49 PM, Elizzikra said:
For Heaven's sake, can't any of these people Google "how to tie a bowtie???"
I noticed that the stylist they called in was looking down after every bow-tying move, which I'm guessing was either instructions or a video on her phone.
On 7/20/2022 at 8:23 PM, mythoughtis said:Lindy has already said she left that religion behind. She seems to be a person that believes in G*d but not worried about church. Obviously not all her family has the same belief.
And on the after-show, Miguel said she had warned him that her family is super-religious, so he wasn't blind-sided by her brother's questions.
I guess Miguel was busy thinking about other things, but a better answer would have been, "I'm planning for Lindy and me to deal with personal matters on our own." (Yeah, I can dream. No doubt it would actually have been, "I'm planning for Lindy and I to deal with personal matters on our own.")
On 7/20/2022 at 8:43 PM, Elizzikra said:Me too. I thought he was very sweet and thoughtful with his response to her awkwardness at the first dance.
In an earlier episode, Lindy mentioned having one-night stands, in contrast to her sheltered upbringing. She obviously navigated that, but didn't think to ask someone (even a girlfriend) for a couple of tips on doing a wedding sway-back-and-forth dance?
On 7/20/2022 at 8:56 PM, Kiss my mutt said:Lol at Miguel’s friends singing “Business Time” from Flight of the Conchords!
I didn't catch that. I would have noticed my favorite, Too Many Dicks on the Dance Floor, though.
On 7/20/2022 at 11:02 PM, Retired at last said:I am disappointed that the language used by both men and women is requiring so much bleeping.
I have a foul mouth, so I rather like it. But even I was shocked to notice that Mitch and maybe other grooms were dropping F-bombs in their first private conversation with their bride. I prefer to read a room a little before letting them fly.
On 7/21/2022 at 8:30 AM, Shauna said:More surprising is that she's a doctor?
As others have pointed out, she's a DPT, which is the qualifying degree to be a physical therapist. What got me was that at the wedding, she said something like "I married a doctor," about someone with a PhD in science. You'd think she of all people would know the difference between a doctor and someone with a doctorate.
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Just to add...I just looked at the reviews on Metacritic and was shocked to see that Rex Reed's review was scored as a 100, because he and I are reliably on completely opposite ends of the movie-rating scale. It actually kind of scared me enough to think, "Rex Reed loved it? Did I get this that wrong??"
I don't recommend reading his review in deciding whether to see the movie because it's spoiler-y, but I'll put this part out there:
QuoteVersatile and fearless, I applauded her Oscar-nominated turn as the villainous sister of Daniel Day Lewis who poisoned him with mushrooms in The Phantom Thread...
First of all, I like Rex calling himself "versatile and fearless." Grammar matters, y'all. But even I know it wasn't the villainous sister who did the poisoning in The Phantom Thread, and I'm terrible at remembering plots. What a hack. But he got this right:
QuoteNothing wrong with a movie in today’s troubled winter of discontent that exists solely for the purpose of creating joy and good will, and Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris spreads them around like butter.
But the movie isn't all sunshine and roses (although that flower market scene made me swoon almost as much as the Dior showing); there were two unexpectedly heart-breaking moments for me, such that I was thinking, "The movie better not end like this." And it does indeed have a happy ending.
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On 7/20/2022 at 10:11 AM, aghst said:
She had a thing about old and dirty or like chipped areas of the shower and sinks.
What got me was her objection to the toilet room that had no sink because she'd have to walk a few feet into the kitchen before washing her hands. Does she drag her hands along every surface on her way, like people do along the clothes on racks in department stores?
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If the trailer makes the movie look remotely like your cup of tea, then go see it. It's just as lovely as it looks.
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On 7/18/2022 at 3:23 PM, SuprSuprElevated said:
Often, non-competes are required in return for compensation (bonuses, etc), though I'm sure that isn't always the case.
I'm pretty sure it wasn't the case at Jimmy John's:
QuoteThe Jimmy John’s agreement prohibited employees during their employment and for two years afterward from working at any other business that sells “submarine, hero-type, deli-style, pita, and/or wrapped or rolled sandwiches” within 2 miles of any Jimmy John’s shop in the United States, according to Madigan’s lawsuit. An agreement in effect from 2007 to 2012 extended that to 3 miles.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-jimmyjohns-settlement-idUSKBN13W2JA
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I'm happy to report that the it is expanding to more theaters each week, kind of rolling out the release.
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Genius premise.
It's scheduled as a Fathom event on two nights in September, but I'm hoping it will roll out to regular screenings.
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12 hours ago, ByaNose said:
Also, why do parents allow their kids to have purple hair? Just because they want it doesn’t make it right.
I don't think it's that different from experimenting with makeup, or glasses, or a haircut. At least it's temporary (unlike a tattoo) and not nauseating (unlike a facial piercing). I've also noticed purple hair being popular among women of a certain age.
12 hours ago, ByaNose said:Give me sunshine and a pool all year long and I’d be a happy camper.
That sunshine's not quite so wonderful when it's 110 degrees. But if I had to pick between being in Phoenix when it's 110 degrees and Palm Springs when it's 110 degrees, I'd take Palm Springs mainly because of the way it looks. Except electricity is waaaaay more expensive in California, so winning the lottery is a sound plan.
Mid-century modern is by far my favorite architecture, even before I knew what it was called. I think I've mentioned before that Mr. Outlier and I once did a 20-mile slow roll on our bikes all around the Palm Springs neighborhoods where the MCM houses are concentrated. It was heaven, except a little artificial because it was pretty obvious that many of them were Air BnBs, where they make an effort to make it look like it's "supposed" to.
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6 hours ago, amarante said:
In California you can't have more than one shower fixture able to operate at the same time. You can have multiple fixtures but they can't work at the same time.
That's not quite right. Each showerhead in California is limited to 1.8 gallons per minute (gpm). If you have one showerhead in a shower, it is limited to 1.8 gpm. If you have multiple showerheads servicing a shower, you have two choices: (1) limit the total combined flow among all showerheads to 1.8 gpm, or (2) design the shower to allow only one showerhead to operate at a time.
Perhaps it could be argued that nobody would want to split the 1.8 gpm total between two (or more) showerheads, but it is allowed.
2 hours ago, amarante said:I don't think most people have showers that large in their bathrooms so I think it is more for communal types of bathrooms where you have multiple shower heads along a wall like in a gym or barracks.
Those are called "gang showers" (!) in the California Plumbing Code, defined as two or more showers in a common area.
In the Plumbing Code, there aren't any specific provisions or exceptions relating to showerheads in gang showers (but there are other provisions, like for gutters and mixing valves, so it's not like they were inadvertently left out). The "six feet" rule you mentioned actually does apply to residential showers only, but it's not actually in the Code, and because of where it is, it's not actually a rule.
There's an Appendix L in the Plumbing Code, called "Sustainable Practices," which says right below the title, "The provisions contained in this appendix are not mandatory unless specifically adopted by a state agency, or referenced in the adopting ordinance." So presumably anything in the appendix that is required has been adopted into the Code itself. Appendix L is where the "six feet" rule appears, in a section addressing multiple showerheads.
That "six feet" rule is actually 1800 square inches--Appendix L provides that if you have a shower compartment with more than 1800 square inches, you can double the total amount of flow you're allowed, and it doesn't dictate that the showerheads have to be any particular distance from each other. And it provides an exception for gang showers "in nonresidential occupancies," which are allowed to have a total flow per "showering position," so the 1800 square inches rule is obviously meant for residential showers and not gang showeres.
However, the 1800 square inches rule doesn't appear anywhere that I could find in the Plumbing Code, which means it doesn't apply at all. If that's the case, then no residential shower compartment can have more than a total of 1.8 gallons per minute of water flow, regardless of how big the shower compartment is.
But I'll tell you--if you're just reading the California Plumbing Code, it's not at all apparent that none of the appendices are part of the actual law. I did find portions of the Plumbing Code that referenced an appendix, which indicates that if any of the provisions of Appendix L (such as the 1800 square inches rule) are intended to be mandatory, the Code itself either would have a reference to that provision in the appendix or have the language in the appendix included directly in the Code.
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17 hours ago, aghst said:
That first property they eliminated, they have two courtyards at the bottom of the light well in Spanish buildings. So everyone else in the building overlooks their outdoor space.
It reminded me of an episode from years ago, where a woman got a place in India that had a big patio and later found out that all the neighbors above her threw their trash out their windows and it landed on her patio. She moved.
17 hours ago, aghst said:So they're earnest about having this foreign experience, which is more than can be said for a lot of people who appear on HHI.
I'm realize I'm in the minority, but I liked them. Probably because they chose travel over a wedding.
The thing about dishwashers is that they use less water than hand washing. I wonder if more people knew this they might choose to use the dishwashers they have.
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On 7/11/2022 at 10:11 PM, roseha said:
Actually yes @shapeshifter Part D does have a deductible. What I get is timolol 0.5 gfs, gel solution, 90 days worth. I think there is a generic version out there but I am not sure what it is, I will have to ask the doctor.
Timolol is the generic. I asked what size bottle to check prices on the discount prescription websites, but it's easy enough for you to do it yourself. Plus, there's an ophthalmic version and a gel version and I have no idea what any of it is.
Something interesting--on one discount prescription site, I checked the price for Timolol .5% in different sizes of bottles. I don't know if what I'm looking at is what you're actually prescribed, but it's illustrative regardless.
For a 2.5 ml bottle, it's $59.13 at Walgreens. For a 15 ml bottle, it's $16.62 at Walgreens. That's 6 times more Timolol for less than 1/3 the price. If I needed only 2.5 ml of the stuff, I'd be happy to be prescribed six times more than I need if it means I pay 70% less, and I'd even squeeze 80% of it down the drain in front of the pharmacist to ensure I don't take home more than I'm supposed to.
Actually, if I needed 2.5 ml, I'd get 5 ml for $8.28, and squeeze out only half of it. Less wasteful.
Here's the pricing:
2.5 ml = $59.13
5 ml = $8.28
10 ml = $13.66
15 ml = $16.62
I know you pay a premium for little bottles (like in the travel section), but this is really something, and of course the patient (and probably the doctor) would have no idea when the prescription is being written.
(Assuming I'm understanding this correctly, which is always a crapshoot when dealing with medical costs.)
And just for the record, the 15 ml bottle that's $16.62 at Walgreens? Here are the prices at other pharmacies (not including a "first-time" coupon):
Costco, Jewel-Osco, Hy-Vee, Meijer: $7.92
Walmart: $17.75
Target: $21.22
CVS: $22.80
Suffice to say I'm never going to say, "Call it in to X pharmacy" again. Unless I'm actively dying, I'm taking a paper prescription with me, and looking up the costs before I get it filled. And I have Medicare!
On 7/11/2022 at 9:11 PM, shapeshifter said:Does Medicare Part D have a deductible too?
It depends on the plan. Not all do. If they do, it's a maximum of $480.
I mentioned upthread that the advice is to, during every open enrollment, enter all your drugs into the data cruncher thing and it will tell you which drug plan will be the cheapest for you. But of course, as I said, it's literally impossible to know what drugs you'll actually be taking for the next year, so I just can't see that it's such a great thing. Better than nothing is about how I'd judge it.
But it's even worse. The drug prices the data cruncher uses can change after you pick your plan, and you're stuck with it until the next open enrollment. Not only that, according to this article, drug companies usually raise their prices in January--right after open enrollment ends on December 7, which means the numbers the data cruncher uses to pick your plan won't even be valid for more than a few weeks.
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/05/03/1095946813/medicare-drug-costs-spike
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16 minutes ago, Cinnabon said:
It’s good news to hear that fewer and fewer are actually watching this show. Closer to cancellation!
I won't count toward that because my satellite dish has never been connected to a phone line, so nobody knows what I watch. I've always said that I'd never watch any of this shit if that fact were being logged somewhere, but always in the back of my mind wondered if I could actually do it just out of principle. And I think I could.
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On 7/12/2022 at 8:31 AM, MaggieG said:
Is nobody watching?
I started this thread and not even I'm watching. 😀 I'm still old school teevee-ing it, and there are scheduling conflicts that have overridden this shit show. Somebody up there's watching over me.
Actually, when I saw a new season was coming, I went to this thread and didn't recognize any of the characters' names and was thinking, Who are these people?? So I went back a page to refresh my memory and all it took was this post:
On 10/26/2021 at 11:02 PM, waterytart said:Rachel. Dear God.
to make me go, "Oh, that Rachel." And everybody else flowed from that, in all their eyelashed glory.
I always found Rachel compelling, not in a good way, and am kind of sad I'm not able to keep up. But not sad enough to skip Celebrity Game Face and What We Do In the Shadows. But I am curious about Rachel's hair.
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3 hours ago, roseha said:
Just one comment about the annual physical under Medicare. The first time I had mine with my doctor, the office apparently didn't code it as a "wellness visit" which is what Medicare insists on calling it. They tried to charge me over $500. I notified the office and after some wrangling the fee was reduced to the very small "wellness" charge.
It sounds like you ran afoul of the confusion between annual physicals and annual wellness visits. Medicare doesn't cover annual physicals. It does cover one "Welcome to Medicare" visit, and "annual wellness visits," but these are not physical exams. Here's an article about it by the Kaiser Family Foundation. It starts with an example that sounds like your situation--a woman got a routine physical and was surprised to be billed for it because she assumed Medicare would cover it:
https://khn.org/news/medicare-covers-wellness-visit-not-annual-physical/
The article includes this explanation of why annual physicals (as most people understand them) aren't covered:
QuoteWhen the Medicare program was established more than 50 years ago, its purpose was to cover the diagnosis and treatment of illness and injury in older people. Preventive services were generally not covered, and routine physical checkups were explicitly excluded, along with routine foot and dental care, eyeglasses and hearing aids.
As for the "very small 'wellness' charge" you mentioned, wellness visits are free. Did you have to pay that charge?
3 hours ago, roseha said:I've recently had a couple of xrays and an ultrasound to figure out why I was having a lot of pain in my left thigh and am being charged very little although whether Part G is helping there I'm not sure. (The pain is much less since I've had a lot of PT fortunately.)
It's Plan G, not Part G. (A pox on Medicare for its confusing lettering system.)
But you said you're being charged very little. What do you mean? Are you paying anything out of pocket?
Medicare pays 80% of covered services. You are responsible for the other 20%, and you pay that out of your pocket if you don't have a supplement, or your supplement pays your 20% it if you do have a supplement. If your supplement is paying your 20%, then you shouldn't be paying anything. Unless you haven't met the Medicare Part B $233 deductible yet, and if that's the case, Plan G is still involved because it's applying your payments to your deductible.
Or are you looking at the Medicare-approved charge compared to what the provider claims its fee is. In many cases, the Medicare-approved charge is alarmingly lower, and Medicare pays 80% and you pay 20% of that (or your supplement pays your 20% once you've met the $233 deductible).
3 hours ago, roseha said:Drug costs are outrageous I agree. I take eyedrops (timolil) and can't get anyone to fill it for less than $100 though I swear they used to be closer to $10. Fortunately the little bottles last a very long time.
Do you mean Timolol? What strength (.25% or .5%) do you use, and how big is the bottle (2.5ml, 5ml, 10ml or 15ml)?
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3 hours ago, shapeshifter said:
The most interesting takeaway was that the State of NY apparently does not have a pre-existing condition exclusion.
Of course, I will now need to double and triple check that and wonder if it could change.Aah, I forgot about that. I edited my post slightly to reflect that. New York, Connecticut, and Washington are the best ones for that, and a handful of other states have some situations that prohibit medical underwriting, like around your birthday or your anniversary date.
And there is a "free look" situation where you can enroll in a Medicare Advantage plan one time and drop it and you can get back to your supplement without underwriting. As you would expect, it's complicated. 😀
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I did the deep dive into Medicare recently. Every time I hear someone cheer "Medicare for All!!!" I want to say, "Do you actually know anything about Medicare?"
Aah, the irony. The ACA prohibits any pre-existing condition exclusions. But Medicare allows them. Yes, young people have guaranteed-issue insurance, but except in just a few states, the elderly are subject to medical underwriting when buying a supplement outside their initial enrollment period. How backwards is that?!? And does that surprise you? It sure did me. And here's more...
On 6/10/2022 at 6:26 PM, BradandJanet said:We could probably do without the BC/BS supplement since Medicare covers a lot, but I don't want to take a chance.
Medicare Part B (doctor visits) covers 80%, and it's 80% of the approved Medicare reimbursement, which is notoriously low. The Medicare beneficiary's 20% coinsurance is therefore pretty low, and the $233 deductible isn't a big deal. But remember, this is in addition to the $170.10/month premium for Medicare Part B (it's more than that if you make more than $91,000/year). So it could seem reasonable to not buy a supplement, which will probably cost about $120/month when you sign up for Medicare at 65, and will get considerably more expensive as you get older.
HOWEVER, what if you go into the hospital? That's covered under Medicare Part A (hospitalization), which most people don't have to pay a premium for because they have enough work credits. But Medicare beneficiaries pay an in-hospital deductible of $1,556. Okay, that's not horrible. But if you're in the hospital for over 60 days, you pay coinsurance of $389 per day for days 61-90, and $778 per day for "lifetime reserve days" (you get 60 of those over your lifetime, and once you've used 60, any future hospitalizations will cost the deductible and then $389 per day for days 61-90, and after that, you pay everything).
The coinsurance for a skilled nursing facility is $194.50 per day for days 21-100.
I don't know about anybody else, but all of this was an absolute shock to me. And this hospitalization business is why I bought a supplement, even though I'm healthy, don't go to the doctor, and don't take any medications and am unlikely to incur even $233 in coinsurance costs for doctor visits. But the supplement will pay the hospital deductible and coinsurance. Plus I found a supplement that includes gym memberships. That makes my $120/month premium for my supplement more palatable, but beware--I've found only one supplement that has that benefit; typically gym memberships are available only with Medicare Advantage plans (the ones advertised on TV).
Oh, and annual physicals and screening bloodwork aren't covered by traditional Medicare! Old people don't have annual physicals covered, but young people with ACA plans get free ones. Surprise! And Medicare doesn't cover Shingles vaccines, either. So if you have insurance, get your Shingles shots before you get on Medicare. Or, actually, Shingles vaccines are covered if you have Medicare Part D (prescription medication plan), but the Part D deductible is likely to be $480, which is about the cost of the two Shingles shots. But Shingles shots are covered as preventive care under ACA plans, and if you get it done in accordance with their rules (from a doctor, or from certain pharmacists), you pay nothing.
Or, actually, annual physicals and Singles vaccinations probably are covered by Medicare Advantage plans (these are called Medicare Part C). I didn't look deeply into those because I can afford traditional Medicare plus a supplement. But be aware that the TV ads say they're free. Well, not exactly. The Medicare Advantage company doesn't charge its members a premium, but members still have to pay their Part B $170.10/month premium. Funny how Joe and JJ don't mention that part.
And Medicare Advantage plans may be free (as they define "free"), but generally are HMOs, with networks, referrals required, copays, and general overlording of your care. If you can swing the Part B premium ($170.10) but not a supplement, then you're pretty much forced into Medicare Advantage unless you want to accept the risk and burden of coinsurance under traditional Medicare Parts A & B.
But don't be complacent with your supplement. There are now "Medicare Select" supplements that DO have a network for hospitals. It's another assault on traditional Medicare, part of the inexorable attempt to push everyone out of traditional Medicare and into Medicare Advantage. (And by the way, Medicare Advantage was pitched to the government as a cost-saving measure, because their managed care will be cheaper. Turns out...not so much.)
And I haven't even touched on the array of Medicare supplements (a/k/a Medigap because more words for the same thing is always good). Supplements are an alphabet soup of plans, from Plan A to Plan N. Note these are Plan A, not Part A. Very different things. And different supplement plans have different coverages (e.g. Plan G vs. Plan N), but every plan within a letter (e.g., all Plan G plans) have the exact same coverage. But the premiums vary all over the place. Why? Who knows. And it really doesn't matter which company you choose, since they have no say over anything. If Medicare pays 80%, the supplement pays the your 20%. If Medicare doesn't cover it, the supplement doesn't cover it. Period. The supplement has no choice.
Aah, but the company might matter after all, because there's this thing they do where they stop offering a plan to new subscribers ("closing the books"). The problem with that is that if you're on that plan, there won't be any new, younger people joining, so the plan's costs for older sicker people won't be offset by lower costs for younger healthier people, and that will be reflected in the premiuims. And depending on your health, if you're in a state that allows underwriting for supplement plans, you might not be able to change to another company, so you're stuck.
And then we get into attained age, age-at-issue, and community based premium pricing for supplements. Only...the community based one? Yes, there's a "standard" premium for the community (which appeals to my socialist heart), but people get a discount depending on their age. Which sure makes it look like an attained age premium structure to me.
This is no way to treat old people.
And as bad as all that is, drug plans are even worse. If you don't get one when you're first eligible, if you later get one you'll pay a penalty for the rest of your life. And how do you pick a drug plan? You enter all the drugs you take into a data cruncher and it tells you which drug plan will be the cheapest for your drugs. What if you get put on a heinously expensive drug for a new illness you have? You hope it's covered well by the insurance you've chosen. If it's not, tough tacos. You should have predicted you would get a disease you had no way of knowing you'd get AND which drugs you'd be prescribed for it, loser.
Or, well, the typical answer is that you can change your drug plan every year during open enrollment, at which point you'll put that expensive drug in the data cruncher if you're still taking it, but if you're going to stop taking it soon, should you not put it in the data cruncher because it will affect what you're paying for your other drugs for the next year? And don't forget to predict which drugs you'll be prescribed next year for conditions you don't know you have.
And don't forget about the famous donut hole, which I'm not going to bother to try to deeply understand because it's there and people can't do a damn thing about it. Well, except maybe use GoodRx instead of your Part D plan, to delay entering the donut hole, but if you use GoodRx instead of your insurance, you're not putting anything toward your deductible.
This is no way to treat old people, and it's definitely no way to treat all people. (Medicare for all!!!!!) I'm appalled at the amount of decision making a person must do with respect to Medicare, and the possible financial implications the vast majority of them have no understanding of. And to no one's surprise, a lot of people have no idea what they have. My brother is a psychologist and he's had lots of people make an appointment with him and tell him they're on Medicare, and it turned out they were on Medicare Advantage, and he had to explain to them that they had a network and he wasn't in it.
This is our gold standard for health coverage. Medicare for all!
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I know nothing about Marvel whatsoever, but have seen the trailer a few times and laughed out loud at the scene where Thor's clothes fall off and some guy on the dais faints. I didn't know these movies are funny.
That alone wasn't necessarily enough to make me go, but now y'all talking about these goats may have tipped the balance.
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On 7/4/2022 at 3:14 PM, theredhead77 said:
Isn't pseudoephedrine generic for Sudafed (brand name)?
Federal limits are 9 grams per 30 days (I just looked it up). A tablet of pseudoephedrine is 30mg. 9 grams is a LOT.I've taken Sudafed every day for at least 20 years. It used to be OTC, and then became restricted. You have to buy it from the pharmacist, and each purchase has to be "approved" by the database, which limits the amount you can buy in a month. The monthly allotment will get you three boxes of the 10-count 24-hour Sudafed, or 30 days worth.
At one point, Target was interpreting the limit as one box every 10 days. So if I was at Target on Monday and then on Saturday, I couldn't get more on Saturday even if it was the first two boxes I'd ever bought in my life and was therefore not exceeding any monthly limit. It was a massive PITA and not what the law says. Then CVS took over Target pharmacies and jacked up the price so I quit getting it there anyway.
I endure the hell of the Walmart pharmacy for my Sudafed, and let me tell you, I was NOT happy when I went there last week and stood in the pharmacy line (which will make you despair for humanity), and then the fucking database interface wouldn't work, so I couldn't get any. It was a lot simpler (and completely useless for enforcement) when they just had a sheet of paper everybody would sign.
Whenever I can talk him into it, I take Mr. Outlier with me and we both get it, which helps immensely to loosen up the stranglehold on my Sudafed supply. I'm sure it looks suspicious as hell for us to be there together both getting Sudafed, with out-of-state driver's licenses, but we're not doing anything wrong so I don't care.
BTW, in Oregon, Sudafed is by prescription only.
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This was one of those movie where I sit there marveling, "How did somebody even think this up?"
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13 hours ago, bref said:
I didn't see dislike either, but she did comment that his high-fiving her (which seemed like cute bonding at the altar) was "corny",
I remember a couple who high-fived at the altar in 1988, and I thought it was cute. But that was waaaay before every. single. thing. in. the. world. warranted a high-five.
I hate high-fives, and if someone doesn't pick up on my scowl as their arm goes up, I'll leave them hanging.
So when she complained about his constant high-fiving, I kind of cheered.
Also, I thought it was hilarious that his brother said he was a crybaby when he was little, and Justin protested. And proceeded to cry what, three times in this episode? And on the after-show, too.
18 hours ago, Empress1 said:I thought Mitch was okay until he started talking about throwing tantrums over water.
I've seen several references to this, but somehow missed it on the show. Would someone be so kind as to summarize his problem? Something about getting water refills in restaurants??
9 hours ago, endure said:I have just started reading the comments here and watched the show last night. I actually wondered if Justin has Marfan Syndrome but hadn’t considered weight loss. He has a totally different build than his brother which makes me lean to Marfan.
It was hard to hear, but he said his grandmother was six feet tall, and "the guy in the wheelchair" (sitting next to his mother and identified as his uncle) was 6'11" tall. (The captions said "my dad in the wheelchair"--they're wrong.)
But that would be height on his mother's side, not his father's. Whatever--he comes from very tall people.
And I think he's cute, but I have a soft spot for super tall black beanpoles.
1 hour ago, Allison1 said:And she wants all those same people to know she was proposed to THREE TIMES! Three, mind you.......
She identified the three proposers, and one was a college romance or something like that, and one was a college friend. I'm not sure the friend's proposal should be counted.
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I'm guessing that's the best they can do, because a pre-nup requires full disclosure of each person's financial information, and as we learned last season with Steve and Noi, they definitely don't do that.
I'm not sure what you mean. A person has to have a DPT in order get licensed as a physical therapist, so it's not like she was choosing studying over working when getting it. I got the impression she has fashioned a work life that allows her to either not work fulltime, or work fulltime and take periods of time off, in order to have time to play. I'd normally have no problem with that, except it seems incompatible with a lot of debt.