Stupid questions about America

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Hay, do americans know what a slipperydip is? Without Googling?

I figured it was a sexual term. I googled and lost.

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Originally Posted by The Gas

Way off. And my post was entirely grammaticaly correct; some of you need to go back to high school English.

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Run-on sentences are not grammatically correct. I understand what you wrote, but it is terribly communicated. Maybe you should have gotten a bigger loan to go to a better college.

huh?

Oops. Meant to quote Gas Bag or whatever his stupid new name is.

The hot rumor is that he's changing it again to "punctuation".

Except it wasn't a run-on sentence a run-on sentence is when you go from one sentence to the next without using ending punctuation and initial capitalization like this yes that sentence was long but every part of it was a properly connected piece of a single coherent thought.

:p

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"You can get rims these days for the loans those of us without at least upper-middle class parents have to take out to get a college education in order to even have a shot at getting a good enough job to afford health insurance?"

A 43 word sentence and you don't think there's a run-on somewhere in there?

Concerning health insurance, I think Yoshi is full of shit. I cover my parents and my "family" (ie... me and my kid) on a marginal health plan and it costs me $2008/month. Unless my math is fuzzy, that's equivalent to a $300,000 mortgage. Add to that day to day expenses (rent/mortgage, food, electric, phone/cable, etc...) and you have to make $80K per year, minimum, to be able to afford to cover your family. The system is broken.

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Originally Posted by J2d

I was wondering about a few things.

Health care seems like a hot topic over there, I'd like to know about the insurance issues. Let's say someone gets badly injured, maybe a gunshot, can hospitals refuse to treat you if you don't have insurance? Breast cancer is something that's common. Are you basicaly fucked if you don't have insurance and a low income? Incase a tnl'r had someone going through that I would like to know how much that costed.

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If you are a not for profit hospital like the Cleveland and Mayo Clinic for example, you can NOT refuse service to anyone in the emergency room. We also have charity hospitals like Saint Johns which would be your choice if you require cancer treatment. The reality? You won't get the same level of service as you would at a standard hospital.

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Originally Posted by J2d

Growing up with a lot of American shows I for a while thought that people kept their shoes on inside their homes but I've seen a lot of reality shit and so lately and a lot of people wear them inside still. Is that common or did I just get it all wrong?

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Depends on the person, some wear them all day, some walk barefoot in the house. I do the latter.

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Originally Posted by J2d

Is broadband really uncommon over there? Seems like it, what's your up/download.. ugh rates? I got like 10meg up and 90 down (on paper, haven't measured it myself).

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No clue, we are working with companies that are building multimode fiber 50 micron 10 gig runs to the home as we speak, that's the next big thing.

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Originally Posted by J2d

Do you consider people's faith in god to be a problem in your daily life? I have no idea on how serious some take their beliefs but I saw some research that showed that a huge amount of Americans believed in god so I'd just like to know if it's a problem in your eyes. Seems to affect politics.

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The media places much more on the "god issue" than anyone above tennessee. The American south is still hung up on the worship factor, but in NY, Cleveland, LA, etc you'll find that most people are either not practicing, atheist, or don't choose to disclose their religious choice, and we don't ask.