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Pavlish: I think the whole part of these kids being unsympathetic tossers is part of the satire of the whole movie, really... that's how I read it.

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Honestly.... I much rather not find something deadly in my toilet myself.

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I'm rooting for....  Universal Healthcare smile

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C'mon guys, Moose aren't THAT scary. I had some in my backyard the other night... but unless you hit them with your car, and unless you walked in on their kids... they run from you. Very shy.

Well.

Generally.

smile

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Actually I checked with the current pricing and exchange rate, and assuming the series depicts less than a year, Walt *AND* Hank would have paid $769 combined in health care.

In Sweden, you pay $20-$40 for a doctors visit, and about $30 per night you need to stay in a hospital (doesn't matter if that is a triple bypass, hip replacement, or an ingrown toenail being polished).

When your costs reach $165 during a year, any care for the rest of the year is free.

Prescribed drugs are not free, but for them there is also a a "per-year ceiling", so anything beyond $330 is free.

Non-prescribed drugs - you are on your own. But they are reasonably cheap (and you need a prescription for almost anything more complicated than aspirin anyway).

Dental care is free until you are 20, after which it is a bazillion dollars per second.

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"Breaking Bad" is what happens when you don't have Universal Health Care.

In Sweden, Walt AND Hank's total medical bill would probably not go above $1000 ... combined.

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Trey, could you elaborate on your statement "Book of Eli can't possibly be about what people say it is about"...?

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Well say Hi from me when you see him next, willya?

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I was so psyched to hear Ian on this! Awesome.

Except of course, he couldn't get a word in Edgewise, poor guy!

But still. Ian. Man.

Any more Dynamo coming soon? wink

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I wasn't aware it was even possible to buy a non-smartphone in 2013...!?

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Oh you "texting" luddites. I'm amazed. Really? It's 2013!!?? And you make *calls*, with a measurable frequency? Wow.

Wow!

And no, I am definitely *not* under 21.

The main use for my "phone", by unit of time?

ABSOLUTE top: Podcast streamer and Audiobook listener.
After that comes email and skype, and then twitter/facebook/googling.
After that comes photography, video capture and editing.
After that comes managing the audio streaming in my house via SqueezeBox controller.
After that comes code development (yes, on the phone), remote desktoping into my home system when out.
After that comes painting / sketching.
After that comes "other"
And then... comes making a phonecall.
And last.... comes sending an actual oldschool "SMS" text message.


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Btw, all theatres in Sweden (that I know of, I should add) are assigned seating, and frown quite heavily on cell phones up during movies (they actually have cameras checking that, and if someone is waving one more than a quick look, they have come in and told 'em off, actually pausing the movie.

That said, if the theatre would prohibit me to be tweeting up to the *second* the main feature starts, or from the second the movie ends, I'll kick someone. I.e. I wouldn't want to sit in a "faraday cage" theatre.

Sorry.

Maybe I'm just more of a Net-o-holic than any of you guys, but it's my constitutioinal right to be online. (I think it has "human right" status in Sweden by now, or if not yet, it has soon).

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Maybe this is different coz in Sweden you pay per minute talking and are charged per text so you minimize that (with some special exception, like we have a family plan where in-family texts are free, we still use skype chat anyway coz texting is such an ancient technology, and not multi-platform, etc.)

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Codename of new Doctor is "Houdini". So clearly, it's Rupert Grint smile

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