Random Rants OA - I Have 71 Problems, But This Thread Ain't One

[Traitorfish]

Personally, I think teachers should be treated like the police: They can have a union, but have no legal right to go on strike.

The police traded their right to strike for extremely generous treatment. They didn't give it up just because somebody "proved" that they shouldn't be allowed to do so. That's just not how the real world works.

This may come as a total surprise but in a normal Western country it is possible to both tackle poverty and pay teachers well.

As a rule, the former usually entails the latter. Education is the strongest long-term antidote to poverty, and that doesn't work if your front-line providers are overworked, underpaid and roundly demoralised.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

After getting over a flu and enjoying almost an entire week of health I decided it's time to start jogging again. Sprained my ankle about 100 meters in.

 

[Yeekim]

Nothing like getting up 4 AM in the morning to discover your flight got cancelled and you'll face a 9-hour layover.

EDIT: Ok, so now they've cancelled the next flight as well.

 

[Arakhor]

Well, if they keep up with it, you'll be able to claim damages soon.

 

[Synobun]

I was pretty excited when I finally got approved for a dental allowance from the government as I haven't been to the dentist in almost six years.

Excitement dashed when I learn my local dentist files a reimbursement claim from insurance after you've paid upfront. So I guess I need to go hunt for a dentist that files claims directly.

 

[JohannaK]

My mom just got fired.

 

[Arakhor]

My mom just got fired.

What was her job?

 

[cardgame]

Was she a team leader for an overseas contractor?

 

[Cutlass]

My mom just got fired.

Sorry to hear that. What was it about?

 

[hobbsyoyo]

My mom just got fired.

This really sucks dude, I'm sorry to hear this. I hope it doesn't affect your education.

 

[Hygro]

On the topic of stepping on people, I ran across this today

At 40:45 Herb (center) is a top manager of the world's most prolific mix engineer (left) as they two interview a top songwriter (right)


Link to video.

 

[Takhisis]

Apparently the pixelninja site is closed…

 

[Lemon Merchant]

Moderator Action: Remember the title of this thread? "Random Rants" was it? There's been so much off topic stuff lately... Hmmmm... what to do? I know, let's get back to ranting about stuff. If you want to have a discussion on the finer points of being a bully then by all means open a thread about it, but this thread is about random rants. Thank you.

 

[Takhisis]

My postcount!

A more legitimate rant: pixelninja's still officially ‘closed’.

 

[Perfection]

 

[Arakhor]

Moderator Action: I've split off the discussion on whether behaving badly is socially acceptable over here.

 

[Synobun]

I was pretty excited when I finally got approved for a dental allowance from the government as I haven't been to the dentist in almost six years.

Excitement dashed when I learn my local dentist files a reimbursement claim from insurance after you've paid upfront. So I guess I need to go hunt for a dentist that files claims directly.

I found one while taking a walk and made an appointment on a whim.

I was used to getting x-rays done with a mouth guard but they wanted me to use this fancy pants spinny machine they had in a separate room instead. Much easier, and much higher quality. Pretty cool.

Sometime in the past two to three years I had a wisdom tooth grow in the top right of my mouth. It's completely impacted and didn't drop at all, instead simply growing sideways. Right now it has my molar's root pinched against another molar. That explains the recurring toothaches last year.

Somehow, this got infected, and since it's in such a weird spot and since I haven't gone to the dentist in so long, the infection spread to all of my other teeth. That explains the tooth sensitivity and the general feeling of "gee, my teeth aren't doing so great".

The surgery for getting rid of the tooth/source of the infection isn't covered by government insurance and will require a private specialist. My dentist didn't even want to try and do it himself because of how far up the tooth is. Just the surgery alone will cost over $600. So that's not happening.

I'm going back on Monday to get all the infected material cleared, removal of all the tartar, getting all the cavities filled with composite resin, and then probably getting a special brush that can reach the very far edge of my mouth so that I can keep the problem at bay. Not sure how that will work given that the pinched molar presses up against my jaw/cheek now.

At least the dentist has a TV on the ceiling.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Can you get a doctor to declare the surgery a medical necessity and then it will be covered? Tooth infections like that can kill you.

 

[Synobun]

Can you get a doctor to declare the surgery a medical necessity and then it will be covered? Tooth infections like that can kill you.

Probably once it kills the molar it's pressed up against. No idea when that will happen, or if it ever will. The pain subsided a couple months ago so maybe it's done moving around.

It'd be fine if I could do a payment plan. Dentists in Vancouver though do "full payment up front". At least at the 8 different practices I've gone to in the past week. Even with insurance they require you to pay cash up front and then you file a reimbursement claim afterwards. I was fortunate in finding this one that does direct insurance claims.

Super weird. Dental should just be included under universal healthcare.

 

[Broken_Erika]

I got an early birthday present, my mom bought me a new laptop. Unfortunately it's an AMD A9 9420 Dual core with 8gb ram and a radeon R5 M230. From what i can tell it is more or less incapable of any form of gaming other than facebook games and even then it will apparently run slowly from what i've read of the reviews. Pretty much has roughly half the power of my current kitty-thrashed laptop......Now i just got to figure out how to tell her about these problems without sounding ungrateful..........