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Started by Syt, December 03, 2013, 01:20:46 PM

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The Brain

I don't have a forum stalker except katmai. :(
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grumbler

Quote from: The Brain on December 04, 2013, 01:46:06 PM
I don't have a forum stalker except katmai. :( 

You can have mongers.  He will deny stalking me, anyway (even if he admitted it in this thread), so you can claim him without fear of contradiction.
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alfred russel

Quote from: mongers on December 03, 2013, 02:03:41 PM
For my recent trip first to a medical centre and then to the hospital to have 4/5 stitches put in my chin, could well have cost me $2,000-3,000 in America.  :hmm:

This is the reason I wouldn't visit America, have an accident and despite medical travel insurance, risk ending up in some administrative BS that leave you with a big bill or possible compromised treatment because of uncertainty of who's paying.   :( 

Please not I'm not saying this is likely to happen, but that it's a fear one doesn't need whilst travelling.

They wouldn't comprimise treatment, and ultimately, they can't make you pay. No one is going to fly across the ocean to break your knees.
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The Brain

Quote from: alfred russel on December 04, 2013, 02:23:43 PM
Quote from: mongers on December 03, 2013, 02:03:41 PM
For my recent trip first to a medical centre and then to the hospital to have 4/5 stitches put in my chin, could well have cost me $2,000-3,000 in America.  :hmm:

This is the reason I wouldn't visit America, have an accident and despite medical travel insurance, risk ending up in some administrative BS that leave you with a big bill or possible compromised treatment because of uncertainty of who's paying.   :( 

Please not I'm not saying this is likely to happen, but that it's a fear one doesn't need whilst travelling.

They wouldn't comprimise treatment, and ultimately, they can't make you pay. No one is going to fly across the ocean to break your knees.

They will however put you on a plane to Syria if you ever enter the US again.
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Quote from: The Brain on December 04, 2013, 01:46:06 PM
I don't have a forum stalker except katmai. :(

Don't be so sure he's restricting it to forum only. I heard (secondhand) that he'd been checking prices on tickets to Stockholm.  :ph34r:
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The Brain

Quote from: Peter Wiggin on December 04, 2013, 02:37:26 PM
Quote from: The Brain on December 04, 2013, 01:46:06 PM
I don't have a forum stalker except katmai. :(

Don't be so sure he's restricting it to forum only. I heard (secondhand) that he'd been checking prices on tickets to Stockholm.  :ph34r:

I don't worry. I was just told no one would do that.
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mongers

Quote from: grumbler on December 04, 2013, 01:56:33 PM
Quote from: The Brain on December 04, 2013, 01:46:06 PM
I don't have a forum stalker except katmai. :( 

You can have mongers.  He will deny stalking me, anyway (even if he admitted it in this thread), so you can claim him without fear of contradiction.

Do demonstrate that.

The problem with having 'a grumbler' is perhaps similar to treading in dog shit, you think you've gotten the last off the shoe, but the smell lingers.

Do keep posting snide replies to my posts, as I figure it takes up time, which you might otherwise utilise to take pot-shot at some of our more vulnerable members on the forum.
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

mongers

Quote from: alfred russel on December 04, 2013, 02:23:43 PM
Quote from: mongers on December 03, 2013, 02:03:41 PM
For my recent trip first to a medical centre and then to the hospital to have 4/5 stitches put in my chin, could well have cost me $2,000-3,000 in America.  :hmm:

This is the reason I wouldn't visit America, have an accident and despite medical travel insurance, risk ending up in some administrative BS that leave you with a big bill or possible compromised treatment because of uncertainty of who's paying.   :( 

Please not I'm not saying this is likely to happen, but that it's a fear one doesn't need whilst travelling.

They wouldn't comprimise treatment, and ultimately, they can't make you pay. No one is going to fly across the ocean to break your knees.

Oh, I don't doubt the wisdom and the experience of what you're saying, it just one of those niggles at the back of one's mind, when you should be trouble free whilst holidaying. 

Which is why the pan-European system of reciprocal health cover is somewhat re-assuring.
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

Eddie Teach

Quote from: The Brain on December 04, 2013, 02:42:29 PM
I don't worry. I was just told no one would do that.

Willingly travel to Sweden?  :hmm:   You're probably right.
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Quote from: Admiral Yi on December 04, 2013, 01:00:57 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on December 04, 2013, 12:44:39 PM
Stalking accusations are ridiculous on a forum this small.

Walk a mile in my shoes.

I've walked several miles in close proximity to your shoes.
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Eddie Teach

Well, now I feel the need to clarify. Responding to posts in many/most threads you post in is not stalking. Trying to track down somebody's home address is.
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Quote from: alfred russel on December 04, 2013, 02:23:43 PM
Quote from: mongers on December 03, 2013, 02:03:41 PM
For my recent trip first to a medical centre and then to the hospital to have 4/5 stitches put in my chin, could well have cost me $2,000-3,000 in America.  :hmm:

This is the reason I wouldn't visit America, have an accident and despite medical travel insurance, risk ending up in some administrative BS that leave you with a big bill or possible compromised treatment because of uncertainty of who's paying.   :( 

Please not I'm not saying this is likely to happen, but that it's a fear one doesn't need whilst travelling.

They wouldn't comprimise treatment, and ultimately, they can't make you pay. No one is going to fly across the ocean to break your knees.

dude really? Clean it out real well and use some Steri-strips aka Butterfly stitches.

For Christ's sake.
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Quote from: Peter Wiggin on December 04, 2013, 04:21:08 PM
Well, now I feel the need to clarify. Responding to posts in many/most threads you post in is not stalking. Trying to track down somebody's home address is.

You already jumped the shark with your ridiculous Krackel comment.  Cut your losses dude.