I was going to say how reading all the posts with people complaining about how their medical insurance (refusing to pay for things and playing the beaurocratic nightmare game at every opportunity) made me proud to be British. But that would be kind of a dick move in the circumstance - if we were talking about hypothetical people being screwed over by hypothetical corporations, I could say My Country's Better Than Your Country. But because it's actual people I like being screwed over in their actual real lives, I'll just say that it sounds like that really sucks to deal with.

 

Also, bureocratic, beurocratic, burocratic, baeurocratic, beaurocratic, buerocratic, how the fuck do you spell this fucking word? I bet I even got it right at some point and this bloody computer's American spellchecker told me it was a mistake when it wasn't. Bloody bollocks.

bureaucratic.

Bureaucratic. Spelled the same on both sides of the Atlantic.

Those are people in charge of putting socks into the correct drawers, right?

Where are the holes in the socks? Because it might be your toenails which need clipping, bro.

Clipping? You bite those damn nails off like a man!

Where are the holes in the socks? Because it might be your toenails which need clipping, bro.

Jae has possibly hit upon the weirdest aspect of this. One was around the big toe, but two were in the ball of the foot, and the last was near the heel. RANDOM

Do you walk around the house in bare feet?  That'll eat your socks up but good.  Every classy gent should have some slippers.

Just rip your entire toenails off. Good to go. You may get some massive infections.

Those are people in charge of putting socks into the correct drawers, right?

Nope, they are the ones who steal them out of dryers and punches holes in them while you sleep. It's their way of a growing economy.

Do you walk around the house in bare feet?  That'll eat your socks up but good.  Every classy gent should have some slippers.

 

Those dastardly socks rending garments, jealous they are in the drawers while he waltzes around in his bare feet. 

 

Do you walk around the house in bare feet?  That'll eat your socks up but good.  Every classy gent should have some slippers.

 

Those dastardly socks rending garments, jealous they are in the drawers while he waltzes around in his bare feet. 

 

 

Thank you.  I was so afraid I was the only person who caught that.

You are all a bunch of nut jobs.

You are all a bunch of nut jobs.

Well isn't that why this place is so much fun?

You are all a bunch of nut jobs.

 

Yes.  (Well, I speak for myself, anyway...)

Matt can't find any structure in this.

 

Do you walk around the house in bare feet?  That'll eat your socks up but good.  Every classy gent should have some slippers.

 

Those dastardly socks rending garments, jealous they are in the drawers while he waltzes around in his bare feet. 

 

You know, bare...except for...socks.

 

I'll see myself out.

 

Seriously, though, don't walk around in your stocking feet.  This has been a Zimbra PSA.

Holes in your socks?

 

Isn't that the bit you put your feet in?

Socks? In the summer? When the weather warms here in the high desert of Souther Idaho, I bid a fond farewell to socks. Flip flops need no socks, no explanations, no apologies. Flip flops love me for what I am...a man who loves his feet being exposed in mixed company,

So you remember in a previous thread, I told a short, yet somehow hilarious to all of you (schadenfreude, i think) tale of baby C's first birthday celebration with the parent of lil baby A. The one where Mr and Mrs Red did all the work, bought all the food, had all the guests at their house and the A's turned up with a cupcake and half a tin of sausage rolls?

 

They've asked Mrs Red "what we're doing for their second joint birthday celebrations"

 

Apparently a 10-15 stretch for attempted murder wasn't the response they were looking for...

I think my memory foam bed has early onset Alzheimer's. Fuck.

Memory foam never lasts, brother.  Flip it over and see if it helps.

Yeah. I dropped around $1000 on my mattress, which has some kind of memory foam feature. Now I have a giant egg shaped dent in the mattress that doesn't "bounce back" and it's awful on my back. Supposedly, if the indentation is greater than an inch and a half the mattress is covered under warranty. They used some fuzzy math on me to say that wasn't the case.

I put old pillows under the mattress which helped. Can't flip it over because the bottom is not like the top.

 

Really, I don't even want a mattress. If it weren't for my wife, I'd sleep on the floor.

Jae what brand of mattress is it? Last time shopping for a bed, I ended up getting a eurolux, that is a mismash of memory foam and pocket coils. That was four or five years ago, and its aging pretty good, but my mind wonders occasionally for the temporpedic. Just wondering to avoid or be cautious about for a future purchase. . .