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I'll be in Las Vegas Monday in part because it's my birthday. Asked my wife if she wanted to watch a cirque show. We've seen all of them at least once. Went to get tickets for MJ One and apparently they don't do local discounts anymore. Ok fine but there was over $100 in fucking made up service fees ?! Guess we're watching TV at home Monday.
 
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What the fuck is this new requirement to confirm a reaction to a post? Cut that shit out.
 
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Burren said:
What the fuck is this new requirement to confirm a reaction to a post? Cut that shit out.
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I used to get that sometimes. I think the page didn't load all the way. Either that or you were put on the discouraged user list.
 
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Kajiimagi said:
I was really allergic to strawberries when I was a kid. Didn't stop me from eating them though. I'm not now. The micro dosing thing probably has merit.
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It does, depending on the allergy and severity, they’ll start with pollen and work up from there. I know a couple families that have done it for nut allergies.
 
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I probably said this before. But I once had an ultrasound done at the local hospital. I have a high deductible plan so I paid for the entire thing before the procedure. A few weeks later they tried to collect 'the rest of the money' from me because the insurance said I owed more. Got to looking into it and figured out they mis coded it and called it an emergency x ray. It was neither an emergency nor an X ray. What pissed me off the most was that neither the insurance company nor the hospital gave a fuck. The insurance company told me there was no way to fix it and the hospital said they weren't going to. Prior to that I always looked at my EOB statements to make sure they were correct. Now there's no point. That shit all goes straight in the trash. I filed a complaint with some state agency but if anything ever came of it, nobody told me.

So yeah I guess if I ever need something like that again I'll look for an independent center. I'm thinking of getting a life alert bracelet with a message to not take me to that hospital under any circumstances. That place actually has the highest mortality rate of any hospital in our region and it's not because they specialize in something especially deadly. I think they specialize in insurance fraud and unnecessary procedures.
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I handle all my mom's finances and my sister coordinates all her medical stuff...

Recently I get a text from one of her Dr's (Cardiologist) about her owning over $400 for some scan. I look into it. The Dr's website says the insurance paid $5, the insurance website says it's paid $150 and the rest was covered in the discount the insurance company gets from the Dr. I go back to the Dr and point this out, send all the documentation, and they say "Well, it is what the system says it is". And that's the exact full extent they will do anything on it.

So at this point, like you, anything that ends up in a dispute like this we just ignore. What are they gonna do? Sue a 75 year old who only has Social Security and Medicare to her name? Fuck em.
 
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It does, depending on the allergy and severity, they’ll start with pollen and work up from there. I know a couple families that have done it for nut allergies.
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As explained by a Dr I had once, over time your body's histamine system (which regulates what you are and aren't allergic to) can partially rotate. Which means you can gain and lose allergies over your lifetime, and most people lose them over time. When I was a wee Haus I was allergic to a stupidly long list of shit, over time (in my late teens mostly) I seem to have cycled out of almost all of them. Now I just can't walk barefoot in Bermuda grass, and can't eat tomatoes. For instance into my teens I could be around cats at all (sneezing, nose would start running, eyes watering, etc...) , for the last 20 years we've had a cat around our house and no problems.
 
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As explained by a Dr I had once, over time your body's histamine system (which regulates what you are and aren't allergic to) can partially rotate. Which means you can gain and lose allergies over your lifetime, and most people lose them over time. When I was a wee Haus I was allergic to a stupidly long list of shit, over time (in my late teens mostly) I seem to have cycled out of almost all of them. Now I just can't walk barefoot in Bermuda grass, and can't eat tomatoes. For instance into my teens I could be around cats at all (sneezing, nose would start running, eyes watering, etc...) , for the last 20 years we've had a cat around our house and no problems.
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As a kid my mom could roll around in poison oak to no effect. In her early 30s that changed to weeping open sores after contact.

I would guess ‘cycling out’ of an allergy is less likely with increased severity
 
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Yeah growing up nothing bothered me, then 35 hit an I am allergic to being “outside” and take Zyrtec every other day just to not be randomly itchy
 
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Maaan fuck poison oak, got it really bad around my knee, needed steroids to get rid of it.
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as a kid I got poison oak on the bottom of my foot and it got to my knee before one of my relatives (think it was grandmother) pointed out the blisters spread it. That shit sux!
 
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This gif reminded me of dinner last night. Had a big ole steak and baked potatoe (something I don't do often) on a plate. I was carrying it to the table and I still don't know what happened but I fucking dropped it. It landed steak down on the dirty ass floor and it broke my favorite plate. I was in shock for a few moments just cussing and my wife thought I had been shot or something. I was like no. I've been looking forward to this steak all motherfucking day. I skipped lunch for this. Fuck.
 
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This gif reminded me of dinner last night. Had a big ole steak and baked potatoe (something I don't do often) on a plate. I was carrying it to the table and I still don't know what happened but I fucking dropped it. It landed steak down on the dirty ass floor and it broke my favorite plate. I was in shock for a few moments just cussing and my wife thought I had been shot or something. I was like no. I've been looking forward to this steak all motherfucking day. I skipped lunch for this. Fuck.
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You gotta finish the story. Did you wash it off and slide it back on the heat to sanitize it, or did you just eat it straight from the floor?
 
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You gotta finish the story. Did you wash it off and slide it back on the heat to sanitize it, or did you just eat it straight from the floor?
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We have 4 dogs, 2 cats, and we both hate cleaning. That motherfucker was fuzzy. The rest of the story probably belongs in the "My Wife is Awesome Thread". Once she saw I wasn't bleeding and just really pissed off, she immediately cleaned it up and gave me her steak. I didn't ask her to, I was sitting there continuously cussing trying to figure out how to even start the cleanup when she jumped into action. I thought the potatoe was probably still good because it was protected by the steak. She said no, the potatoe will have shards of the plate in it and I can't eat it. But she said the steak was salvageable. She washed it off in the sink, put more seasoning on it then put it back in the oven to sanitize it.

Unfortunately she didn't tell me she had put it in the oven and then suddenly had to go to the bathroom. By the time she got back, the formerly medium rare steak was now well done. She got mad at me for not smelling the burning steak and taking it out. What could I do? I couldn't even be mad, I was like, yeah it is my fault. I dropped my steak. I let her fuck with me for the rest of the night for having no sense of smell. It was my fault, just not for the reason she was harping on. Anyway I cut it up for her later and that shit was crunchy on the edges. But at least it wasn't charred or dried out. It was properly well done.
 
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So I just got back from dinner with my oldest, dearest childhood friend. I've known this guy literally longer than I can remember, but we haven't seen each other in-person since before COVID. He's in town for a convention, so I made reservations downtown at a really, REALLY nice restaurant - Michelin star, the whole deal.

We had a blast. Best time I've had in ages - we fell back into that familiar rhythm of friendship like not a day had passed. We talked for hours - the whole thing was like my own personal version of My Dinner With Andre, if My Dinner With Andre had an extended and deep dialogue on Warhammer (40k and Fantasy, in case you were wondering).

So why am I complaining? Fucking tourists, man.

This is a small, intimate, expensive restaurant. It's well-known for its excellence. So why the shit do you think that you and your huge, sweaty family can wander in and just get a table? When the nice hostess tells you that you need to make a reservation weeks in advance, maybe just leave with quiet dignity? No, no - God forbid! You need to make a scene; make sure that everyone knows that you - the most important people to ever live - are upset that you can't waltz in and get a dozen people seated in the middle of dinner.

And this didn't just happen once! While it's true that my friend and I were there for quite a long time catching up, we saw at least 4 groups of tourists try the same thing. Each one the same: big group, badly dressed, demanding a table without reservations. When they're turned away, they start to make a scene - loudly whining and complaining, children wandering into the dining rooms, parents demanding to see the manager, until at last the staff (who are clearly used to this) firmly escorts them out.

When the fuck did this become the norm?
 
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