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yonder wrote on Aug 19, 2014, 22:35:PHJF wrote on Aug 19, 2014, 22:19:
You seriously comparing seating people at a restaurant to medical care? It takes five, ten minutes to cook a steak. Want to tell me how long to detect and then tell somebody they have cancer?
Who cares if doctors actually have legitimately important and complex jobs and that they may have been in an emergency at the hospital earlier that day which caused his 2PM appointment to be bumped up an annoying amount of time even though the doctor helped save a life. Dammit... 2 PM!!!!!!
yonder wrote on Aug 19, 2014, 22:35:PHJF wrote on Aug 19, 2014, 22:19:
You seriously comparing seating people at a restaurant to medical care? It takes five, ten minutes to cook a steak. Want to tell me how long to detect and then tell somebody they have cancer?
Who cares if doctors actually have legitimately important and complex jobs and that they may have been in an emergency at the hospital earlier that day which caused his 2PM appointment to be bumped up an annoying amount of time even though the doctor helped save a life. Dammit... 2 PM!!!!!!
PHJF wrote on Aug 19, 2014, 22:19:
You seriously comparing seating people at a restaurant to medical care? It takes five, ten minutes to cook a steak. Want to tell me how long to detect and then tell somebody they have cancer?
Jamil20 wrote on Aug 19, 2014, 09:41:Pigeon wrote on Aug 19, 2014, 09:30:
If only we could charge them fees when they make a mistake.
I want to do this at my doctor's office when I have to wait an hour past my appointment time. My time is money too.
jdreyer wrote on Aug 19, 2014, 15:04:Agent.X7 wrote on Aug 19, 2014, 14:35:
That was amusing. My grandmother just used to shoot them with a .22 rifle. Of course, she used to shoot birds she didn't want on the feeders as well. I never understood why it was OK to feed one group of wild creatures but not another.
Don't get me wrong, squirrels caused $4k worth of damage to my roof in NY. I used to blow them off the power lines with a pressure hose to keep them away from my house after that. (We lived in town, or I would have been using a .22 as well...) But I never put out food hoping to entice one group of animals over another.
You could use an air rifle with lead pellets.
Also, did you ever wonder what happened to those squirrels she shot? You thought that was chicken flavor in your soup?
Agent.X7 wrote on Aug 19, 2014, 14:35:
That was amusing. My grandmother just used to shoot them with a .22 rifle. Of course, she used to shoot birds she didn't want on the feeders as well. I never understood why it was OK to feed one group of wild creatures but not another.
Don't get me wrong, squirrels caused $4k worth of damage to my roof in NY. I used to blow them off the power lines with a pressure hose to keep them away from my house after that. (We lived in town, or I would have been using a .22 as well...) But I never put out food hoping to entice one group of animals over another.
It makes me feel cynical to suspect they may have been just hoping I wouldn't notice
Pigeon wrote on Aug 19, 2014, 09:30:
If only we could charge them fees when they make a mistake.