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After going to several very long funerals, I told my wife to keep mine simple. Have my group play bagpipes, tell everyone how much I loved them, mention I tried my best to follow JESUS, and close it with Freebird. They can cuss and discuss me on their own time at their leisure. I also told her that as an option, she could fold me up and put me in the deep freeze so she could continue to receive my social security checks or stick me in the roll out trash dumpster and take me to the curb, to save on funeral cost. I don't think she will though.

Makes me surly because it reminds me of all the business pricks I've run into over the years. I don't wish anyone's death and feel horrible for the other people on the sub and hope they are rescued. But I hope the CEO who ignored all the warnings is contemplating his asshole-ness. https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/20/a-whistleblower-raised-safety-concerns-about-oceangates-submersible-in-2018-then-he-was-fired/?fbclid=IwAR1Ys5XCY6VQY-GYxJOoL5vsYFfHkh8tFFVZswo8qXxL2o89wHxcis8pKrg TLDR; the CEO of the Oceangate was warned 5 years ago that the sub going to the Titanic was not safe. He said he didn't care and he didn't see any need to test it because he was smarter than every engineer that designed subs. Then fired the guy who told him and sued him to shut him up.

Somebody made the mistake of blaspheming E King Gill on Texags. Quote: he is quite the celeb in C.Stn even though his time was in the 1920s really, all he did was stand up during a game when everyone was falling, and he didn't even get to play. while volunteering to play is a nice gesture, i think deifying him is overdoing things. his fame/adulation far exceed his achievements and deeds no offense. Nice troll job... I will respond any way. I wouldn't say he has be "deified" but he certainly started something that has transcended what the student body represents for generations. While you are correct he never got to play, he stood ready to go in just in case he was needed and that in my opinion was pretty damn cool and worthy of the accolades he has received over the years. Here was a guy who didn't play football, but was willing to get out there and fill a spot just to make sure his team had enough players to continue on. In my opinion that tells me that he was a great Aggie and willing to do whatever it took to support his team and I admire that. 20231569

Too bad he couldn't do that to all of them.

This stuff isn't a prank. It's stupid shit. They all deserve to have their asses kicked.

Six restaurants and enough parking for maybe 4. There not putting many new businesses on the south side but they're putting in so many houses it's going to cause problems eventually. Except for HWY 83/84 every other road is a single lane county road or FM. People are paying/asking stupid money for land. I can understand in Austin, FW, Dallas, etc. But $45K an acre for land that was selling for $2K an acre 10 years ago is just insane.

Dueling douche bags

I think it might refer to this guy mentioned in the article. And I'm "to each his own" but these guys are pathetic. He keeps it dark in the room, to obscure everything in the room that isn’t porn, and a large-breasted sex doll without a head or limbs stays close at hand.

It could be a lot of things causing it. If you don't have a family dr, I'd try to get in with a urologist to start. But I would get in ASAP to get it checked out.

Welcome to the old man club. I've never had mine shut down completely but I've seen older guys crying because they couldn't pee. Last time my PSA jumped to 15 it was because i had an infection/inflammation. My doc put me on 600 mg of Ibuprofen a day (1 600mg tablet a day) for a month and it cleared it up. Good luck

Does he mean he's on a snipe hunt? Because he doesn't have rifle.

^^^This^^^ I had a really good friend from college that had gone through some real shit. Years ago, his wife left him and her and her mother tried their best to destroy him. She even went as far as calling nationwide AM radio talk shows to spread lies about him. She lied and caused his kids to hate him. Her mother helped finance lawyers that financially bled him dry. He tried solving his problems with booze. I moved and didn't get to hang with him but I always stayed in touch. I called him last year and he was ready to check out and told me to expect it. I kept trying to talk to him but he said he would go out on his own terms. Then he quit returning my calls. That was a year ago. I called him last week and he called me back and we talked for 3 hours. He finally went to a doctor who understood and diagnosed his narcolepsy. He's being treated with the correct medication and has a new outlook on life. He's still got issues but they are things he can deal with. TLDR version; Seek outside help. You can do things online if your not comfortable seeing someone in person. Self medication is not the answer, it's only temporary and the problems do not go away.

When my PSA numbers first jumped through the roof I had a female urologist who ended up quitting for the same reason. It made me mad. She was thorough, would explain things out, really seemed to care and she had very small hands.

This applies to trying to correct claims. When a claim is filled out wrong they will ask for the necessary information to process the claim. If they call before the procedure they will get all the information they need to handle it properly. Years ago, I had a bunch of testing done at UTSW. Two days before the testing (scheduled months in advance) UTSW had not even called my insurance company to get approval for the procedure. I had to call UTSW and tell them to call my insurance company for approval. She acted like it wasn't a big deal, when I felt it was kind of important.

Maybe not acting in bad faith but they don't know what they're doing and often ignore the information the processors are requesting. If they send a bill and say "you can figure it out for me" they are doing their patients a disservice. They may be great doctors but they are horrible business people. And you can say whatever you want but insurances are businesses and you have to communicate with them in a language they understand. A lot of the times the doctors will start a procedure without checking with insurance to even see if it's covered. Or if it is covered, are they following the guidelines of both the insurance company and the pharmaceutical company who invented the medicine/process. There a a lot of experimental procedures that have to be done in the correct order not only for billing purposes but also for the safety of the patient. If they call insurance before the procedure, they will give then the guidelines they need to follow. They rarely do. If they would hire someone who knew what they were doing to do the billing it would simplify things. I keep telling my kids they need to leave insurance and go to work for doctors and work in their billing department. My daughter said every job she has applied for in a doctors office (and even some large rehab centers) offer $ 9-12 hour with no benefits. If they were serious they would up their game. We're just going to have to disagree on this. Yes there are good doctors. But there are hundreds of thousands of bad ones too.

Of course there are good doctors who just want the best for their patients. Mine is one of them. He has gone out of his way to protect me from some of the inane rules of insurance. But the insurance companies also have a long list of doctors who refuse to play by the rules and constantly try to scam them out of more money. In the movie Patton, he made the comment (paraphrased) that Americans and Brits are basically the same people separated by a common language. And I think that's what happens in the medical/insurance business. Believe it or not, most insurance claims processors want to side with the patient rather than their own company because they understand the struggles people have with paying for costly medical. But if procedures are not followed correctly by the provider they are powerless to change the claims because the adjusters above them will shoot it all down and write them up. And the processors are not allowed to tell the doctors office how to fill paperwork out properly. They will ask for more information, hoping they get what they need. It's a constant back and forth with the patient in the middle.

Actually is was closer to 40 or so in sales and management in FW/Dallas. That doesn't include Houston. The CEO and president were both aggys. The CEO drove a custom Cadillac painted maroon with a white leather interior. The president a custom Lincoln painted white with a maroon interior, They hired 90% from the A&M school of industrial distribution. When they got full aggy control of the company it only took them about 8 years to destroy it. Nice guys but so full of themselves and what they learned in college they were business idiots. Not saying they all didn't wash their hands after peeing, but I heard that statement from several of them.

Yeah, my family members who process claims would beg to differ with you on this one.

Years ago, I worked with a ton of aggys at Briggs Weaver in Dallas, who didn't wash their hands after they pissed. When I called them out on it they all said "we didn't piss on out hands". I told them I didn't want to shake hands with their dicks either so I refused to shake a lot of hands.

This happens all the time; there is a set charge for a procedure. But instead of the doctor having a set cost for the whole thing, they a la cart the invoice hoping it will get around the insurance codes. They add separate lines for sutures, bandages, gloves, giving an injection (the cost of the medicine is covered but there is a separate line charge for actually giving the shot, etc. Anesthesiologist get screwed all the time because of the way the hospital bills. You would assume that with a surgery you would need one to proceed but because they appear as a separate line on the bill, they are required to have preauthorization. If the hospital doesn't submit it for preauthorization, their fee can be declined. I know they are correcting this but the games that are played between the insurance companies and doctors/hospital are insane.

And doctors forcing people to pay up front, might not be legal. My son-in-law had surgery last year. The surgery center tried to force my daughter to pay for it all upfront. She pulled out the contract and told them to stick it where the sun don't shine because they couldn't do that according to their agreement with the insurance company. When I had my shoulder surgery, they made me pay $50 every rehab visit. When the new year rolled around I handed the desk my credit card to pay for my visit and they pulled up my account. Long story short they overcharged my almost $1800 the previous year and had to cut me a check. If i hadn't ask they wouldn't have paid me until they closed the books at the end of the year. The exact same thing happened with the MRI company. I got a check for $900 a year after I had my MRI because they "accidentally" overcharged me. I can't imagine how much money they bank with overcharges.

My daughters and wife work for BCBS. I understand why everyone complains about insurance companies being heartless corporations who just want to collect your money and then not pay for anything. But the reason they fight every bill is because of crap like that. A lot of the doctors they deal with have no business acumen and hire their barely literate niece to run the billing department. They believe they can get around the limits set by insurance companies by submitting outrageously oversized bills, hoping that insurance will miss something and overpay. The submitted bill for my shoulder surgery was $52,000. They ended up settling at $11,000. The doctor still made money or he wouldn't work with my insurance. You can't believe the quack procedures and charges they try to submit. Many not based in any scientific fact but more like medicine by Facebook. The sad part is that all the incompetent quacks/crooks cause such a crackdown that innocent and well meaning doctors get hurt in the process.

Back in the mid 80's I sold safety equipment to the Miller plant in Fort Worth. They had 10 cent beer machines in the employee lunch/break room. Pop a top for morning break!