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Jean-Pierre Jeunet, with Audrey Tautou in it. I now have a movie crush on her because of that movie, or at least a crush on her character. I can't talk about anything in this film because I don't want to ruin the slightest bit. Just take my word for it, this movie will really recharge your batteries. It's easily the best movie I've seen all year. And I will go out and say it will be better than Lord of The Rings, and I've been saying all year that that will be the year'sbest movie. Amelie deserves to win the oscars for best picture, director, and actress hands down. |
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day discovers something that changes her life and she goes about trying to help people and it involves counting orgasms, photobooths, suicidal goldfish and a man with fragile bones who paints the same Renoit painting over and over. That's all I'm willing to reveal and that should be enough. |
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bitter old man like yourself, I predict, will exit with a smile. (Agatha! I command you to get thee hence and drag dave.'s ass to this movie!) |
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I dare you to see this movie. I saw it with a person in greiving and it really helped take them to take a break from all the stress and sorrow. Seriously, folks, I tend to make a lot of recommendations and say everyone should see this or that, but I swear to God that this is the movie that every Sorabjite should see. I think Mark should see it to take his mind off the crap he's been living through lately, for one. |
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I am sooo up for that. |
Thankyou for making me laugh out loud for the first time in two days. Love, moonit |
dave's making fun of me and my friends without even meaning to. |
All you bitch ass cynics need to see this movie. It was fantastic. |
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i wasn't going to go see that one because i thought it looked cliche, but now i want to see it. it's supposed to rain all weekend anyway. bah. |
your boy there appears to be a pro at it too. |
his two main categories are "us" and "them." (the boy runs a bit on the paranoid side...) |
i sent you a message re: a post on WAYD about sending me some music of the side project of Low. did you get that? |
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a guy buys an auto insurance policy. $475/6 months. guy typically pays late because he doesn't give a fuck. company suspends coverage for a certain period of time until money comes in. money comes in. coverage is re-instated. repeat. after 6 months, the guy has paid for 180 days of coverage but has actually only been covered for maybe 150 days. bottomline: does the guy have a case for a credit or pro-rate? |
pay this shit on time homeboy. |
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no. fuck it. from now on, they get my money on my terms. if i don't like the price, i don't buy. |
pick your battles wisely |
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Tell your friend to forget it. He's not entitled to diddley. Even though his coverage was suspended. He would have been covered for that time as long as they received his check. It's the way they cover themselves from fruad. Also, tell him to pay his bills on time. A bad credit rating will kill him if he ever really needs money. Enough about insurance. I'll wait for this movie to showup on HBO. |
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I didn't think utilities like car registration, insurance, gas bills, electric bills and phone bills show up your credit report. technically, they aren't extending credit. its only bank loans, credit cards and the like, where you are being given a sum of money or credit with the intentions to pay it back that show up. slack off if you just don't feel like paying it, just be sure and tell everyone who gets in your car man and avoid driving kids around unless their parents know. seriously. i take a professional manner with my bills. I also inform all of them, that I pay my bills on the 1st of the month, period. My car insurance bill shows up at odd times and say if it shows up on the 4th and is due by the 20th, the fuckers don't get paid until the 1st. I have another bill that is like this, so inadvertently I get on month behind, but they don't send out their bills on time, so they don't get their money on time either. Intentionally being slow, to the brink of loosing coverage or having your account on hold is how accounting departments deal with bills, thats how i do it. |
and nobody fucking cares. everyone's satisfied with this relationship. god, i must be from another planet. keep counting your orgasms, amelie. everything's gonna be just fine. |
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Still have an outstanding tkt from 1998 in NY when I was A PASSENGER & got ticketed for no seatbelt. I was a legal resident of FL at the time & still am/so they can come & take it outta my ass if they want their fucking money! (I started speaking broken French & pretending to be Hatian w/no driver's license when the cop came up/but my pre-wedding-jitters-homegirl blew it by yelling at me in English -- du-uh! But I no longer live at the FL address I had then/so Fuck Um!) I HATE HELMET LAWS. If I"m willing to risk spilling my brains on the pavement from riding on a motorcycle/that's ny damn problem. The insurance co. won't spend anything on me becuz I'll be dead by the time the ambulance arrives. Lauren Hutton was just a lucky bitch that day in the desert in Cali -- most motorcycle accidents are fatalities. But get this -- Florida doesn't require motorcycle drivers to have insurance until AFTER they'r 1st accident/yet they instituted a helmet law 2 yrs. ago. Go figure. I HATE NON-INSURED-DRIVER INSURANCE Becuz people like Dave let their insurance lapse then decide to drive to FL/& becuz there are so many assholes here period/at least 25% of the people on the roads at any given time in the Sunshine State do not have insurance. So FL insurers offer addidiontal (but not mandatory) coverage so you can pay the medical bills of the uninsured asshole driver who hits you! I opted not to take that. If you hit me & you have no insurance/you can die on the side of the road for all I care. R.C. ALWAYS PAYS HER CAR INSURANCE ON TIME. Up until last year/I always paid it in full at the beginning of the year. And even when I had to stretch it out over 5 mos./when that bill came/I paid it before anything else. That & my homeowner's ins. were the 1st priorities. It is NO JOKE to get into a car acident & not have auto insurance. Fuck repairing yr car -- repairing yr self will cost a fortune. The main reason you have insurance is to cover YOUR ASS & YOUR PASSENGERS. And so that yr insurance company will be obligated to go to court & fight to get yr medical bills paid by the insurer of the jerk who hit you. If the jerk has no insurance/then yr insruer will amke sure he spends the rest of his days paying off yr medical bills. DO NOT *EVEN* FUCK AROUND WITH YOUR CAR INSURANCE, DAVE! The hell w/what it can do to yr credit -- you've got a kid to think of. |
i've never made a car insurance claim. i rarely go to the doctor, like twice in the last 15 years. i want my money back. |
I've never been treated badly by my healthcare provider, muchless my car insurance company. I somewhat understand your POV dave, but you know, there are things worth obsessing over and things not worth obsessing over. going to the doctor 2 times in 15 years is insane. Dude take advantage of what you are paying for. considering how much it could have cost IF you had slammed into that brick wall with you and your buds in the car...considering how much emergency room healthcare could cost dave...the premiums you've paid in the last 15 years probably would barely cover a trip to the emergency room. |
the emergency room is prohibitively expensive for the uninsured because the insurance companies make it that way. get it? i broke my hand in arnold, ca. my hammering hand. couldn't hammer, no job, no insurance. mark twain hospital refused to treat me so i had to drive 90 or so miles to the county hospital in muhfuckin stockton county hospital so they could half-assedly put a cast on the lower arm. it took ALL FUCKING DAY for a 15 minute procedure. why couldn't mark twain just reach into a cabinet, grab some plaster strips and fix me up? insurance, that's why. i think it's totally worth obsessing over. much more so than not having a boy or girlfriend or being fat or wishing the acne would clear up. |
for the most part I am too, BUT i fear a decline in quality with socialized medicine. i understand, from a business perspective why things are they way they are. and I also understand the inherent ridiculousness in your situations depicted above dave. wanna hug? |
i love guys for whom "healthcare" means things that can be taken care of in the emergency room. |
it's just that so many people get their tits in a tangle over microsoft and their business practices when that's so trivial compared to this. microsoft is trying to make it so that you can't help but buy their product, not only as a consumer of services that run on ms products but also just flat-out purchase their shit. they buy or take whatever they can to make that a reality. and they get sued for it. nobody dares to tackle the insurance companies for the very same business model. "that's the way it is", they say. "whaddaya gonna do?" they ask rhetorically. maybe sun micro, et al should just give up and let microsoft have their way. somewhere along the way, business has managed to trick us into thinking we need them when it's the other way around. |
i think you need a hug dave. *giggles* (btw did anyone see the "Butters" episode of South Park the other night? Frackinn chrissakes that was funny) |
If you want to talk expensive insurance. Look into a Long Term Care policy. That's the kind of coverage everybody should have. Because, you can never tell when you would need to be in a nursing home. But, the few insurance companies that have these policies won't sell it to you until you're 45 or fifty. Then it's at least a thousand dollars a year premium. At least!!! The difference between Microsoft and the Insurance industry is that the insurance companies are in a "regulated" business. Each state has their own Insurance Commissioner that has authority to say what kinds of policies a company can sell and what they can charge for them. They even settle coverage disputes. |
WHO REGULATES THE REGULATORS!!?? WHO REGULATES PURE EVIL!!?? |
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people complain about the nhs a lot here. 'free' hospital sounds fun until you have to wait a year for an appointment and you die waiting for treatment- and no one wants to be a doctor in london so they recruit from other countries and end up with language issues. sounds great. |
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these institutions essentially have all the power of a taxing authority and yet their business model is profit-driven. i think that, when we are required by law to buy a company's product, the product should have its profitability limited to operating expenses plus maybe 5%, like the government. so yeah, when it's required, it should be socialized. auto liability rates would be calculated on the previous years claims paid out divided by the number of policyholders plus a few percent. eliminate the shareholders and funds managers' influences. i'd pay 5% of my income if i knew that i and everyone else would get the very best medical care available regardless of their financial status. that means letting the doctors decide treatment and keep the hmo's out of it. other than that, people can buy whatever insurance they want. insure your cock if you can afford to. that's up to you. |
{there is only one hospital that I know of,that is TOTALLY private,and wouldn't have to obey this rule] What is considered a true medical emergency,in the medical field,is not the same as what a lay person would consider an emergency. Example: a woman in labor,who is dilated 6 or more cms,cannot be refused admittance.Before 6 cms,she can be sent packing.Birth is not considered imminent.[although,it might be] AND,of even more signifigance,pre employment checks,are now including checking one's credit history. |
you are required by law to buy insurance to drive. driving is a privilege. you don't HAVE to drive. AAA is a not-for profit insurance agency dave. did you know that? but their rates are not always the most competitive, but you do get reductions and even checks back if claims are less than anticipated. |
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you have a right to roam the great plains dave, but HOW you do it, is another matter. |
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your the one with issues. not me bucko. |
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from out of my ass curls the very fabric of space/time. smells like double helix. |
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It was warming, but not corny in the least. and dave, i care not about your insurance nor about your ass, but you really should see the movie if you haven't yet. I'm going to cut and dye my hair and run around stalking lonely people and spy on neighbors and send dwarves on vacation and be Amelie, so dont you try and stop me. |
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i just got back from seeing Amelie by myself at the theater about a mile away. good distraction. i cried for the first 10 minutes and last five minutes of the film. the rest of the time i was completely charmed. what a sweet story. they're showing "Scratch" at that theater starting March 22, and "Life & Debt" starting next week. ROCK ON!!!! |
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do you guys remember when it cost $1.75 to see a movie at the theater? i was about six years old. now it costs $7-9, unless you go on cheap night, and then it's $5. that seems so strange. |
"Cheap night" Buck Night, because that's what it cost. That was back when people still clapped when the movie was over. speaking of Amelie, I'm going to go see it again with Bridget on Thursday. |
To cram yourself in an uncomfortable seat with no leg room. |
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