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yeah I think the pricing has come down in the last couple of years considerably, was over $300 IIRC when they first started offering them...still should be free, similarly all cancer checks, would cost initially but the long-term benefit to society and the health system would surely outweigh the current set up.
Mind you, even free some people still probably wouldnt go.
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@taniwharugby said in Aging:
Mind you, even free some men still probably wouldnt go.
fixed for accuracy
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@Rembrandt said in Aging:
Had a GP who recommended I get a molemap, I said $300.00 is pretty steep, he responded "Its cheaper than a coffin"
I got the molemap.
You don't miss the cost of the coffin though
It also falls apart if you plan to be cremated ... urns must be cheaper than $300 I'd say?
So weird that in NZ and Oz mole maps aren't free. As @taniwharugby notes surely it must be cheaper in the long run for the respective countries health services to have free check ups rather than be the ambulance at bottom of the cliff.
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@mariner4life said in Aging:
So weird that in NZ and Oz mole maps aren't free
fucking communist!
I do work for a Chinese organisation ... well, for one more day anyway.
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So weird that in NZ and Oz mole maps aren't free. As @taniwharugby notes surely it must be cheaper in the long run for the respective countries health services to have free check ups rather than be the ambulance at bottom of the cliff.
$100 for the checkup
$100 for last week's knife work
$100 for this week's knife workIf I had more, it'd be $100 a pop because "equipment costs".
Why the fuck they couldn't just do both last week, and save themselves the cost of the equipment getting bloody a second time?
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@Rembrandt said in Aging:
Had a GP who recommended I get a molemap, I said $300.00 is pretty steep, he responded "Its cheaper than a coffin"
I got the molemap.
You don't miss the cost of the coffin though
It also falls apart if you plan to be cremated ... urns must be cheaper than $300 I'd say?
The most modestly priced receptacle is US$180.
Unless you use a biscuit tin...
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Ok, I have a rec for dairy/gluten/soy free ice cream: Little Island (can get from most supermarkets.) I don't make this rec lightly, but today I bought Vanilla Bean and Raspberry Chocolate and they were both YUM. Bonus, they are cheaper than Ben & Jerry's and Halo. (Halo tastes like shit, don't even bother.)
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Don't get me started on eyes.
If it makes you feel any better - I drive my father down to Auckland every 6 weeks to get injections in his eyes (sometimes he deserves it, most of the time not). Yes, they stick needles in them to stop macular degeneration. Poor old bugger.
Medically interesting though. They discovered that a drug being developed for cancer helped stop degeration. Was a fluke apparently.
What I cant work out is why someone decided to stab a patient in the eye with a needle and they realised that it had halted the macular problem. -
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Did anyone get the strap or cane at school and what did you do to "deserve" it? We had a principal that wore short stubbies, socks over his knees, a comb over and just loved dishing out the strap. I think I got it for fighting and maybe breaking the teachers pole they used to point to shit.
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Bulldog Morrison (ex Battle of Britain fighter pilot) in Standard 3 used a barbers strop. Can't remember what for but he gave it a full swing of his arm. It hurt and swelled up enormously.
5th Form Maths Can't remember the name of the teacher but feel a bit bad in hindsight. He had totally lost control of the class - used to foam at the corners of his mouth. Everyone was getting caned except me which wasn't a good look. So I sat at the front of the class, leaned back in the chair and started counting aloud. He asked me what I was doing and I replied that it was a maths class so I was counting the dots in the ceiling tiles.
He didn't have the power of the old Bulldog. He did however have a nervous breakdown within a few weeks. Turns out his wife had left him and he was now a solo parent looking after a quadriplegic son who also had Downs Syndrome. Poor bastard.
