So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

[AmateisGal]

You've been to the UK a few times, we have many American immigrant. This year we also had the extremes of weather, in March we had a blizzard dubbed The Beast from the East. Ten weeks later and we were into sub tropical temperatures, but all that was in keeping with the rest of the northern hemisphere, by and large our weather is changeable but clement, and if you apply for, and are accepted as a UK citizen, your health bill will be no more, courtesy of our NHS. So when can we expect you?

I actually tried to go to the University of Exeter to get my PhD this year - I applied and was given a partial scholarship, but it wasn't enough for me to make it as I would have had to take out a LOT of money in student loans.

I'm not giving up, though! I'd LOVE to live in the UK, even if it's just during the summer months!

 

[ChiTownScion]

I went to Arizona once for four days in August and it was one of the most unsatisactory experiences of my life. From the moment of walking off the plane to walking back onto it was like having the blast nozzle from a gas-station hand dryer blowing right in your face, 24 hours a day. Nertz to that.

My wife got her MSN from ASU/ Tempe, and sings the praises of that state, although I doubt that she'd want to move there. I visited the Grand Canyon with her once: that was enough.

Our joke employs their old standby, "Well, it's a dry heat."

Yeah... and so is my freakin' oven.

 

[GHT]

Pull-tab lids on tins and cans that take 50psi of force to remove, then curl up at the speed of sound at your knuckles.

I'm not giving up, though! I'd LOVE to live in the UK, even if it's just during the summer months!

Living in another country is great fun, providing that you are prepared to adopt the colloquialisms, quirks and cultures of that country. I had a gap year between leaving school and starting college. Most of it was spent grape picking in France. It's possible to follow the harvest as the grapes ripen in the south first. It's really well organised and when you are 17 going on 18, it's one big adventure.
When I left school the only French that I knew was all about conjugating verbs, at the end of the grape picking I wasn't exactly fluent, but I could think in French and didn't have to stop to mentally translate something.

 

[tonyb]

Isn't the colonoscopy entirely covered by whatever's left of AHC? That's what I was told at my last office visit. As for the meds, talk to the pharmacist. My issue is with the little tests that are done in the office that are paid out of pocket. My DR. actually got real huffy when I insisted he order proper lab work if he wanted tests done. Enough with those $25 finger pricks. He seemed clueless to the fact that those little tests are where the office makes its money.

Speaking of meds, I tried to call in a renewal at my Dr's office and the nurse asked me what I was taking and what the dosage was. My response was, how the hell do I know

It’s covered, within the limits of the policy. Until I’m 5 G’s out of pocket for these sorts of things, insurance has me paying a chunk of it.

The insurers flat-out declined to cover one diagnostic procedure my ticker-tending doc had ordered. “Medically unnecessary,” they said. I was of course welcome to pay for it in its entirety out of my own pocket, but at a rate many times that negotiated between the insurance company and the providers for the very same procedure.

RICO, anyone?

 

[Zombie_61]

I went to Arizona once for four days in August and it was one of the most unsatisactory experiences of my life. From the moment of walking off the plane to walking back onto it was like having the blast nozzle from a gas-station hand dryer blowing right in your face, 24 hours a day. Nertz to that.

This reminds me of my first trip to Chicago after my wife and I married 37 years ago (so I could meet her relatives). The airport doors opened, and the humidity was so oppressive that initially it seemed I could actually feel some resistance as I attempted to walk through it. Between that and the temperature, it was difficult for me to breathe. Fortunately, every day we were there after that it rained 10-15 minutes in the morning and again in the evening, and it brought the humidity down to a far more tolerable level.

 

[tonyb]

My wife got her MSN from ASU/ Tempe, and sings the praises of that state, although I doubt that she'd want to move there. I visited the Grand Canyon with her once: that was enough.

Our joke employs their old standby, "Well, it's a dry heat."

Yeah... and so is my freakin' oven.

I lived 46 years in and around Seattle. Having moved there from the upper Midwest, where winters are winters (bitter cold) and summers are summers (hot, HUMID, mosquitoes everywhere), I never adjusted to the unreliability of summer weather in the Maritime Northwest, where it might well be cool and drizzly on the Fourth of July. (The territory east of the Cascades is a whole nuther story, by the way. Summers there are reliably hot and sunny.)

This is my fourth summer residing in greater Denver, and the novelty of hot summer weather has yet to wear off completely. I wouldn’t wish to be performing hard physical labor out in the summer sun, but sitting on my covered deck in 100 degree weather isn’t oppressive at all. I may unbutton my shirt, and I may wear shoes other than sandals only when I absolutely have to, but give me hot and sunny over cool and drizzly any summer day.

 

[MisterCairo]

Pink Floyd.

 

[TimeWarpWife]

I used to love summer. It used to be my life's ambition to retire to southwest FL on the Gulf. Then I got old. Now, I can't take the heat or the cold. In my part of the country this year we went straight from winter into summer, there wasn't any spring where the temps are warm enough during the day to open the windows and cool enough at night to still leave the windows open and only require a light blanket for warmth. I can only hope we're not going to go from summer back to winter and we get to enjoy a long autumn of beautiful, comfortably warm days and cool nights.

 

[Formeruser012523]

Pink Floyd.

 

[Fading Fast]

I'm on the email distribution list for several bookstores and book recommendation sites. Some lists come out with a three or four sentence description of each book while others just show the titles (usually with a pic of each cover).

The former is very helpful as we all know about judging a book by its cover (tee-hee). Why would a bookstore or recommendation site recommend a book without a brief description - it seems lazy and sloppy, as if they don't really care and just want clicks (which they'll get less of by not providing a brief description)?

The same holds for movie recommendation sites.

 

[Fading Fast]

The "Moviepass" thing. How do they get off starting a business that requires theatres to cooperate without even asking if they want to be involved? And then when something goes wrong with the card or the transaction won't go thru, we have to take the blame. Nuts to that.

From MarketWatch:

Many MoviePass subscribers no longer find it trustworthy or reliable, survey finds

Published: Aug 28, 2018 2:58 p.m. ET

47% of MoviePass customers surveyed were considering canceling their membership, according to The Hollywood Reporter

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MoviePass subscribers are very disgruntled.
By

SARAHTOY
REPORTER

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/m...-survey-finds-2018-08-28?mod=newsviewer_click

 

[LizzieMaine]

We've seen a dramatic dropoff in Moviepass users at the box office window over the past month. Hope none of them were investors.

 

[3fingers]

I saw an article where people had cancelled their subscription, then were directed to a page informing them that they had cancelled. There was only one navigation button on the page. It said "continue". If you clicked it you were resubscribed and your card was charged without notice or knowledge until your statement arrived. Outrage ensued.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

I got so sick of hearing "tropical moisture" and "monsoonal flow" in the weather report. Can't we have a NORMAL SoCal summer!

 

[Zombie_61]

I got so sick of hearing "tropical moisture" and "monsoonal flow" in the weather report. Can't we have a NORMAL SoCal summer!

Nope, not any more. When we first started experiencing higher humidity levels here (10-20 years ago as best I can remember) during the summer months one of the local weather monkeys said, "We really don't know why southern California has been so dry for the last few decades. Based on what we know, it should have been as humid here as the rest of the U.S.. But our dry summers are coming to an end, so you'd better get used to it." Then four or five years ago that same weather monkey said our more recent humidity is caused by Arizona's "monsoon season" moving a little farther west every year.

 

[ChrisB]

I was in Allbuquerque once during a spell of 105 degree temperatures. In the afternoon, a strong breeze would blow straight down the main street. It felt like a blowtorch, a dry heat indeed.

 

[GHT]

When someone is arguing with you and then the red mist comes down and out pours a string of profanities, there's nothing like telling them to eff off Shakespeare style: "Away, you starvelling, you elf-skin, you dried neat's-tongue, bull's-pizzle, you stock-fish!" It's from Henry IV Part I - Act II, Scene iv.
Prefer something shorter? To the point and still packs a punch? "Thou art a boil, a plague sore," from King Lear - Act II, Scene ii.
When someone thinks it's funny to fart in public: "The rankest compound of villainous smell that ever offended nostril," from The Merry Wives of Windsor - Act III, Scene v. And a great way to injure the pride of moron is to mock his manhood: "Away, you three-inch fool!" from The Taming of the Shrew - Act III, Scene iii.
Can you tell I've found one of my school books? The young lad next door is reading The Merchant of Venice, because of a serious rise in anti semitism, in the UK. His teacher chose The Bard to get the racist message across. The lad was impressed when I quoted Shylock's speech to Antonio, the one that starts: "Signior Antonio, many a time and oft, In the Rialto you have rated me, About my moneys and my usances:
Still have I borne it with a patient shrug, For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe." Act 1, Scene 3.
During my schooldays, our English teacher couldn't see the point of writing I must not talk in class 500 times. He would find a relevant speech and tell you to write it out 50 times. It made you learn it. Writing lines you could write them down in columns but with a speech you just had to write it. Mind you, I didn't tell the lad that.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I'm fond of quoting the New Testament while watching the news: "Serpents, offspring of vipers, how will ye escape the judgement of Gehenna?"

 

[Harp]

The young lad next door is reading The Merchant of Venice, because of a serious rise in anti semitism, in the UK. His teacher chose The Bard to get the racist message across. .

Shakespeare had a turn of phrase for all of life's vagaries and vicissitudes. In school some mention was made
that a decade of his life had never been fully accounted for and remained open to conjecture. From what I have
read of the man I suspect that at some point in life he had been a soldier.

 

[Haversack]

George Macdonald Fraser relates in Quartered Safe Out Here, his autobiographical account of his time as an infantryman fighting in Burma during the Second World War, that his hard-case Cumbrian sergeant, after reading Henry V, was also of the opinion that Shakespeare had been a soldier.