My job requires me to have contact with medical billing personnel on a daily basis. Many doctors are starting to outsource their medical billing (which is not unusual) to India. Not cool. Try getting information by fax or mail to someone on another continent who can't or won't give you their address or fax number because they're trying to maintain the illusion that they're "Peggy" from "Akron OH."
For some reason this makes me think of my dad when we got our first cordless phone, circa 1986. If we tried to make a call on it, he'd say, "Go! Go! Walk around! That's what it's for!"
And my dad STILL has the ginormous GE camcorder he got around the same time, and it still works. They'll stop making VHS tapes before that thing goes kerplooey.
All I'll say is that if PETA put just a fraction of the energy, time and money that they consume remaining controversial into, you know, actually helping animals, they'd get a lot done.
And I used to belong to PETA and donate money to them, but I got disgusted after one too many publicity stunts. That, and the fact that they openly advocate euthanizing animals rather than keeping them as domestic pets.
Yeah. Thanks to this syndrome, people can be real asses to someone whose grandmother really HAS just died and who would never think of trying that scam. :(
Azog, you're absolutely right: my brother who has been a mechanic and for a large part of his adult life worked outdoors, has what was once a very elaborate Celtic tattoo on his hand. Now it's a very elaborate blur and he admits he never should have had his hand tattooed, with his lifestyle.
I think this is a lovely idea and once broached the subject to my husband, who doesn't like to wear his wedding ring because he is missing part of his left ring finger and is afraid he would lose a ring. Sadly, my hubby isn't the tattooing kind.
The world needs janitors and will always need janitors. Not all kids are going to turn out to be intellectuals. That doesn't mean they won't end up doing important jobs.
Frau, there are plenty of people who donate time, money, and resources to animal charities every day, helping nameless animals who don't make the news.
And my dad STILL has the ginormous GE camcorder he got around the same time, and it still works. They'll stop making VHS tapes before that thing goes kerplooey.
And I used to belong to PETA and donate money to them, but I got disgusted after one too many publicity stunts. That, and the fact that they openly advocate euthanizing animals rather than keeping them as domestic pets.
(Red Dwarf flashbacks)
Glad Campbell is OK.
Oh, and BigJ: *snerk*