The longest thread ever

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Originally Posted by Kdogg

Up to Hadrian's or further up to Antonine? I enjoy the pace of north England and Scotland.

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No, the other way, south from London through Rochester and Canterbury to Dover Castle. Paddies knows a lot about medieval history and wants to see as intact a medieval church and castle as he can. Someday we want to go to Burg Eltz in Germany.

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Originally Posted by budwom

anyone else running into businesses requiring prepayments these days? Probably been going on elsewhere, but new to us here.

A few weeks ago I scheduled the guy to service our heat pump, he required $150 deposit in advance (we bought the unit from the company and have had them service it in the past).

Made an appointment at the Vet for next week for Holly the Wonder Dog, also had to lay out $ in advance.

Ditto for the guy servicing the whole house generator. I guess it only gets complicated if you prepay and they don't show up?

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Hmm, no, I haven't been asked to prepay for these types of services. I do have to pay my dentist on the way into the cleaning and not on the way out, but it's same day and after I show up, so not quite sure that counts as a prepay.

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Originally Posted by Bostondevil

Hmm, no, I haven't been asked to prepay for these types of services. I do have to pay my dentist on the way into the cleaning and not on the way out, but it's same day and after I show up, so not quite sure that counts as a prepay.

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ha, I was expecting to have to pay the dentist after my tuneup but they just said they'd bill my insurance (which is new) and let me know what I owe...very refined of them!

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Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil

This is funny. When I read that I audibly gasped. Now I've not had a grilled cheese in 10 years. But that's how shocked I was to read that sentence.

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I limit this take to bread but stand by it

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Originally Posted by budwom

ha, I was expecting to have to pay the dentist after my tuneup but they just said they'd bill my insurance (which is new) and let me know what I owe...very refined of them!

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My Medicare plan has a $2000 per year allowance for dental work. The dentist bills the plan and for the last few years I have seen nothing billed to me.


Note: In two weeks I'm going in to get a permanent gold crown put in, my last crown for a while. I might see something this year. :eek:

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Originally Posted by camion

My Medicare plan has a $2000 per year allowance for dental work. The dentist bills the plan and for the last few years I have seen nothing billed to me.


Note: In two weeks I'm going in to get a permanent gold crown put in, my last crown for a while. I might see something this year. :eek:

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interesting...Medicare Advantage I assume, with no co pay or anything? I think I'm good for up to $2000 but have to pay roughly half of cleaning, mouth inspections, crowns and the like...

I know most of the private insurance that you can buy as an individual is a pretty bad deal (not to be confused with plans one gets from an employer). $70/month premium for one person each month, with a max payout of $1500. Better to self insure and pray for no crowns...

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Originally Posted by bundabergdevil

I limit this take to bread but stand by it

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I've never tried it myself, but stumbled across it this weekend. Will have to give it a shot some time.

You can’t plant any flowers if you haven’t botany.

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Originally Posted by bundabergdevil

You can’t plant any flowers if you haven’t botany.

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Somebody needs to stem this tide of terrible puns.

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Originally Posted by Phredd3

Somebody needs to stem this tide of terrible puns.

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You mean — nip it in the bud?

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Originally Posted by OldPhiKap

You mean — nip it in the bud?

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I mean the dude just has to get up and leaf.

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Originally Posted by Phredd3

I mean the dude just has to get up and leaf.

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Yup. Root ‘em out.

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Originally Posted by OldPhiKap

Yup. Root ‘em out.

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You let them know, they can’t petal their wares here!

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Originally Posted by OldPhiKap

Yup. Root ‘em out.

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Put 'em in the dirt.

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Originally Posted by fidel

Put 'em in the dirt.

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Face down with tulips on the ground!

This whole thread diversion seems pretty seedy to me.

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Originally Posted by OldPhiKap

This whole thread diversion seems pretty seedy to me.

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Existential question: can the LTE even remotely approach having a "thread diversion"?

-jk

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Originally Posted by -jk

Existential question: can the LTE even remotely approach having a "thread diversion"?

-jk

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Are all posts branches of the same tree?

(Fair point)

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Originally Posted by camion

My Medicare plan has a $2000 per year allowance for dental work. The dentist bills the plan and for the last few years I have seen nothing billed to me.


Note: In two weeks I'm going in to get a permanent gold crown put in, my last crown for a while. I might see something this year. :eek:

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My wife's Medicare advantage plan has dental coverage, but with a provider that restricts you to what are apparently the bottom of the barrel dentists in our county. Fortunately, I can cover here on my work plan, but most of our dental costs lately are not covered by any normal plans. Price of outliving your teeth.

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Originally Posted by -jk

Existential question: can the LTE even remotely approach having a "thread diversion"?

-jk

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If at the beginning of time you were given the power to press a button that would make it so that earth - and therefore the human race - never exists, would you press the button?

Paddies, who is often too smart for his own good and is, at heart, something of a misanthrope, thinks that the sum total of suffering in the world both inflicted on and/or caused by human existence is a net negative and he would push that button. He says he is not interested in killing people - like Thanos in the Avenger movies - so it's too late, but if he could go back and make it so that we never exist, he'd do it.

I have decided that I would not push the button but I have not yet come up with an argument that passes muster with Paddies yet. My best line of thought is that human existence ain't over yet - there is still time and hope.

How's that for an existential thread diversion?