The many questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread XX

[sophie]

Was downtown a actually interviewer? He said something once that made no sense and he should have know it.

He worked for a recruiting firm that handled reviewing résumés and hiring employees for various firms.

 

[Quackers]

Are the British and Canadians really trying to 'ditch' socialized medicine?
Are they really 'unhappy' with it?

I hear that from the right in the US so much without evidence and I can't believe it's true.

I cannot talk for the Canadian system but no, we aren't ditching the NHS. We are reforming it like every new government does and the usual medical trade unionists and lefties are crying out how it's going to destroy the NHS - basically a lot of fear mongering! In fact, our healthcare system has been saved from the cuts that a lot of other departments have suffered. Although to be fair i think there is a modest "cost-saving" operation in the NHS now, but thats after falling productivity in the past decade IIRC....
..and i think WIM is right, no government would ever go that far.

 

[Borachio]

That's not how I see it, Quackers.

The NHS just lurches from crisis to crisis, imo. And the PPI scheme has been an extremely costly enterprise which has benefited "evil capitalism", locking the NHS into long-term contracts, at the expense of the tax payer.

A nightmare.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

So the concensus is the NIH works, has flaws and is in the process of being tuned, not ditched?

Cool beans. I hear over and over again from the right how disfuntional it is in the UK and Canada but I never actually see facts to back that up. I realized all I've gotten now is the opionions of 2 UK dudes, but I hold them higher than the opinions of random right wing Americans who have never been in the UK or used the system.

 

[LegionSteve]

So the concensus is the NIH works, has flaws and is in the process of being tuned, not ditched?

That's basically it. To add another random UK dude to your survey: the NHS has problems and all politicians have ideas how to 'fix' it, most of which are just hot air, but there is no way they could get rid of it.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

I know people who want the NHS scrapped and want a system similar to the US one. They claim that the NHS is an ineffective bureaucratic mess with an odd way to employ people, and they want a return to the old ways with family doctors. They also don't like the kind of medicine used and want it replaced with natural medicine like homeopathy.

 

[ELITEOFWARMAN8]

He worked for a recruiting firm that handled reviewing résumés and hiring employees for various firms.

Well I tend to dispute that. I told him a name of a degree I am going for and he has no idea what I was talking about..... even though he brought up something very similar a few posts prior.

 

[Dachs]

I know people who want the NHS scrapped and want a system similar to the US one. They claim that the NHS is an ineffective bureaucratic mess with an odd way to employ people, and they want a return to the old ways with family doctors. They also don't like the kind of medicine used and want it replaced with natural medicine like homeopathy.

11/10 would read again

And you think you're not a good poster.

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

Where's that hug smilie? I can't find it, and am thus increasingly irritated.

Also, not that creepy (but hilarious) one where the one being hugged pops, but the other one.

 

[Farm Boy]

Well I tend to dispute that. I told him a name of a degree I am going for and he has no idea what I was talking about..... even though he brought up something very similar a few posts prior.

You dispute what exactly, that he held that position?

I see no reason in the years that Downtown has posted to believe that he was entirely full of **** about what he did for a living on the basis of one whiff in forum communication or one piece of knowledge unknown.

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

I note that Prince Charles and Camilla are leaving today after their "highly successful" royal tour of Australia. How has it been successful? In the sense that they had a great time? Maybe Charles finally stood up on a surfboard?

I've never returned from overseas and been asked how my trip was only to reply "Oh, highly successful"....people would think I'm nuts.

Was it successful because they were pleasant to the locals and successfully wined and dined them? You pay my first class airfare around the globe, but me up in the finest hotels and I promise you I'll be the best damned ambassador Australia ever saw!

 

[Grendeldef]

Does anyone feel kind enough to point out the part(s) in the Bible to which one sees as a defense of the anti-abortion view ? Or is it just a pragmatic view to keep the population of believers maxed out.

It's been decades since I've read the Bible and what I remember from it was that God wasn't too keen on saving lives never mind the unborn but there're surely people who know the Bible a lot better than I do. I started to read it from the beginning again and I'm struggling to find out where Cain got his wife so this may take a while.

G

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

Does anyone feel kind enough to point out the part(s) in the Bible to which one sees as a defense of the anti-abortion view ? Or is it just a pragmatic view to keep the population of believers maxed out.

It's been decades since I've read the Bible and what I remember from it was that God wasn't too keen on saving lives never mind the unborn but there're surely people who know the Bible a lot better than I do. I started to read it from the beginning again and I'm struggling to find out where Cain got his wife so this may take a while.

G

Thou shalt not kill. Clearly stated. (if you flick over, down the bottom left part of Tablet B, there is the exemption clause in regards the death penalty, pertaining to innocent life. Flick back over to tablet A in the slightly chipped upper corner is the part that the contradiction between all of this and the concept of original sin is explained).

Crystal I assume?

 

[Grendeldef]

Crystal I assume?

Nope, not really. I was rather looking an explanation to why life as a person starts at conception rather than at birth ?

G

 

[sophie]

Well I tend to dispute that. I told him a name of a degree I am going for and he has no idea what I was talking about..... even though he brought up something very similar a few posts prior.

That is not how I remember that particular exchange having played out.

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

That is not how I remember that particular exchange having played out.

That's because you're a crimhugger

@G.....check out the posts by El-Machinea in the various abortion threads. He has the answers (or more to the point, why the pro-life argument in many cases lack them)

 

[Grendeldef]

@G.....check out the posts by El-Machinea in the various abortion threads. He has the answers (or more to the point, why the pro-life argument in many cases lack them)

Thanks, I'll do that.

G

 

[Borachio]

I note that Prince Charles and Camilla are leaving today after their "highly successful" royal tour of Australia. How has it been successful? In the sense that they had a great time? Maybe Charles finally stood up on a surfboard?

Successful for whom, and at what moment of time?

For the Australians, success means they've gone now and didn't stay long.

For the British, success means they went and stayed away a little time. And there was always the hope they might never return.

For the royals... to be honest, who cares whether it was successful or not for them?

Am I being mean?

 

[sophie]

For the royals... to be honest, who cares whether it was successful or not for them?

Am I being mean?

Well really the question should be "For the royals, who cares whether or not Australians thought it was a successful visit?" In reality so long as the British (read: British newspapers) perceived it as a rousing success, then mission accomplished for the Royal Family.

 

[Arakhor]

I didn't even know that Prince Charles was abroad.