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Topic: If you are thinking of coming to England for free medical treatment
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maklhouf
Knowflake Posts: 480
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Registered: Nov 2003
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posted April 07, 2005 09:36 AM
 
An Egyptian man has just been prosecuted and sentenced for that.IP: Logged |
pixelpixie
Moderator Posts: 7738
From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Aug 2003
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posted April 07, 2005 12:22 PM
Okay, I won't come to England for free medical treatment.
As I live in Canada.
(And get free medical treatment- not sure if you knew that, thereby making my joke redundant, it was already a stupid one...)IP: Logged |
proxieme
Knowflake Posts: 4612
From: Southern 'Bama
Registered: Aug 2002
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posted April 07, 2005 12:49 PM
I got free medical treatment while in England, does that count?  No, seriously, I did: While in London my Achille's Tendon started really bothering me for some reason. When it got to the point where I was limping around the dern tube I broke down and went to a hospital thinking, "Gah...I wonder how this'll show up on my insurance... :-/ " (keeping in mind that the GBP was, even then, way stronger than the USD). At the end of the most prompt, courteous medical service I have ever received, ever, the doc who saw me said, "Well, it was good seeing you and glad we could help out. Have a good day."
"Isn't there any paper work to fill out?"
Answered by a puzzle expression and, "Paper wor...oh, no, no paper work."
"You know I'm American..." which garnered a raised eyebrow.
"I mean, it's obvious that I'm an American...I guess I could be a Canadian...but I'm not British."
Bemused look.
"I mean, I'm not an American living in Britain and paying British taxes; I'm just here, you know, for school. I don't pay taxes. Here."
And then in a kindly, slightly amused tone, "That's fine, there's still no paperwork. Once again, I'm glad that we could help you." Then, shocked, I made my way out of the building as fast as I could without actually looking like I was hurrying, sure that some one must have dropped the ball somewhere. Ah, Britannia. (Said the girl with the married name of "Patrick".
*cough*) IP: Logged |
thirteen
Knowflake Posts: 276
From: Rochester Hills, MI USA
Registered: May 2004
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posted April 07, 2005 03:23 PM
Pixel, i laughed!IP: Logged |
maklhouf
Knowflake Posts: 480
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Registered: Nov 2003
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posted April 09, 2005 05:15 AM
It's ok as long as u don't come FOR the medical treatment.
Your eyes must be very tired Pixie.
Do the Dr Bates palming exercise before you go to sleep:
Doctor Bates Palming Exercise:
Remove lenses, warm hands, cup hands over eyes and drink in the dark warmth thru closed lids.
Thank you for visiting my guestbook, come again sometime and leave a bizzare recipe for a funeral supper.IP: Logged |
pixelpixie
Moderator Posts: 7738
From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Aug 2003
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posted April 11, 2005 02:37 AM
you said what now?IP: Logged |
maklhouf
Knowflake Posts: 480
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posted April 11, 2005 05:15 AM
Someone signed my guestbook, who wanted a miracle, about that time you posted here saying you wanted something similar, so I assumed it was you, sorry if it wasn't.
The eye exercise relates to something you wrote in the eyesight thread. IP: Logged |
proxieme
Knowflake Posts: 4612
From: Southern 'Bama
Registered: Aug 2002
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posted April 13, 2005 10:42 PM
Bah, forget the medical treatment - I want to come to the UK for the House of Commons.CSPAN covers them a bit, and I can honestly say that they're the best thing on TV. IP: Logged |
maklhouf
Knowflake Posts: 480
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posted April 14, 2005 05:37 AM
(Said the girl with the married name of "Patrick".
*cough*)Does that mean you are Irish? I'm feeling more confused than usual today. IP: Logged |
proxieme
Knowflake Posts: 4612
From: Southern 'Bama
Registered: Aug 2002
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posted April 14, 2005 10:00 AM
My married name is Patrick - my husband's family is of raging Irish descent (and, yes, they're Catholic; even those who're now Protestant are still Irish Catholic in their own way).My maiden name is "Russell", though I have just as much Belgian (Flemish, though my Great-Grandfather's name was "Louis Martin Aspeslagh"), German, and Irish (Catholic) and more Scottish and Scotch-Irish (Protestant Irish) than English ancestry. There's Blackfoot, Crow, and Cherokee in there; some Spanish and maybe some African American (if the tree that my cousin did is right), too. Ah, America! IP: Logged |
Sheaa Olein
Moderator Posts: 2136
From: Laaandon
Registered: Jul 2004
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posted April 14, 2005 10:23 AM
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...raging Irish descent..
I love that *smiles* IP: Logged |
maklhouf
Knowflake Posts: 480
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posted April 15, 2005 02:43 PM
The English are a load of mongrels as well, but we don't dislike the Irish, if that was y u coughed. You have to go to Scotland for rabid anti- Irish & catholics.
If u like to watch TV, u may find the situation comedy, "Yes Minister" tells u how the uk is really governed.IP: Logged |
pixelpixie
Moderator Posts: 7738
From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Aug 2003
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posted April 15, 2005 03:59 PM
Hm.. maklhouf.. I visited your site before, a while ago, when you left a link, but nup, I haven't been back.
must have been one of those synchronistic happenings.
Leave the link again, and I will check it out.
I have no funeral recipes however.
*makes a face like "wha???"IP: Logged |
maklhouf
Knowflake Posts: 480
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posted April 16, 2005 05:14 AM
Hi, Pixie,
I'm rather liking all the confusion in this thread, so let's carry on!
Synchonicity: well there's a lot of it around.
I gave you an answer to the throat problem way back in the French Quarter, but I'm sure the other Flakes can help you out just as well over here.
Sweet of you to ask for a link, here it is: www.geocities.com/maklhouf
Regarding the funeral recipes: if you get it, you get it.------------------
What they undertook to do They brought to pass; All things hang like a drop
of dew Upon a blade of grass. "Gratitude to the Unknown Instructors" by William Butler Yeats IP: Logged |
proxieme
Knowflake Posts: 4612
From: Southern 'Bama
Registered: Aug 2002
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posted April 16, 2005 02:52 PM
Oh, no - I haven't really run across any Brits that dislike the Irish particularly, though I can't say that the feeling appears to be mutual.That's something that I do like about the US, though - I mean, how much historical animosity is tied up in the ancestry of lil' ol' me?
But none of us really care about all of that.
(We have our own brand spanking new dislikes and prejudices   ) Re: the show: I can only watch it if it's showing on PBS - we do actually have a BBC America channel, but that's on a cable tier that we're not quite willing to pay for. IP: Logged |
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