Off-Topic / Stock Market Talk and Trading - part 2 [743]

So in fact another meltdown, at least this time without the false claims of being a millionaire financial markets trader.

To keep it on topic, I had a bit of nice news the other day from ERNIE. Like all investments, it's a bit of a gamble however it's true what they say that the longer you hold them the more worthwhile they are.

Food / Poland-Tea or coffee land? [165]


Costa belonged to Whitbread's and was nice at first. Now it's the MaccyD's of cafes.

Much better to go to an independent one, where they exist.

Off-Topic / Stock Market Talk and Trading - part 2 [743]

It's such fun to call out your transparent lies

Off-Topic / Stock Market Talk and Trading - part 2 [743]

That's interesting,... Jim shares his computer with several hundred other people...

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Food / What do non-Poles think about eating the following Polish foods? [1450]

Sadly all too true

nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/eu-frog-leg-trade

Life / What do Poles really think about cats? [470]


It would t work otherwise.

Also, for me, black cats have a secondary symbolism to do with duty and home. There's one waiting for me at home now. I just sent him some cat soup (this exists) from Amazon, so he'll be happy.

Life / What do Poles really think about cats? [470]


I know someone who believes that strongly.

For me, a black cat means that good things will happen although care will be needed.

Food / What do non-Poles think about eating the following Polish foods? [1450]


Very crue. They cut the legs off with a sharp curved blade while they're still alive, drop the legs in a bucket and throw the rest of the frog on a heap.

Life / What do Poles really think about cats? [470]


Their only warning is that if you don't appreciate how nice they are, you'll miss out on the joy of knowing it.

The black ones ar often highly intelligent.

News / Coronavirus in Poland - part 2 [599]


Cheaper than assisted dying probably. And there's plausible deniability if he makes it look like he spilt his meds into a dish of jelly tots.

News / Coronavirus in Poland - part 2 [599]


Tell him to shít or get off the pot regarding his much mentioned ignore list. That or see a psychiatrist if he can afford one there.. And less of the "little"...

Good that he didn't go bankrupt, like so many there every year, or have to join a medicines 'lottery'.

Then again, he lives in a heavily Democrat area...


I've not heard that word for a decade. Or puścidupa. Both do fit 5bough.

News / Coronavirus in Poland - part 2 [599]


Geometry. Chosen for here and for ease of typing.

It's perhaps a little unusual to have a three letter name that looks as if it's short for things but isn't however such names do exist. Of course when it's just a screen name for here it's just three letters and may as well be Bob or Sam. Elsewhere on the internet, I use other screen names, often one particular one that I thought of using here however a previous poster who was her ages ago used that name.

My actual name begins with a different letter of the alphabet, and is so unusual that nobody would guess it in a decade of guessing.

News / Coronavirus in Poland - part 2 [599]


Certainly not healthcare.

The moral of the story is for you not to start arguments you can't win.

And, btw, you got my name wrong; it's not short for anything.

News / Coronavirus in Poland - part 2 [599]


Wages?

Do people in "for profit" companies work for free then?


Except for healthcare, crime levels, capital punishment, workers rights, access to pregnancy termination, and their electoral system.

News / Coronavirus in Poland - part 2 [599]


Are you suggesting that there's corruption among health service managers?

And what about large sums of money being 'pocketed' by so-called investors? Why would there be a need for that?


"These"?

Health and social care in developed countries does work, despite right-wing politicians being in office every few yearstand trying to destroy them. We complain; about it sometimes, and our media love little more, however such whines really ar a case of "this Rolls Royce is going too slowly".

And of course when we had the pandemic, everyone pulled together; the health of a nation is a shared matter, so ebbing for all of us and for the future, do you not agree?

News / Coronavirus in Poland - part 2 [599]

Fortunately, it's not factory workers, insurance clerks or capitalists that run healthcare in developed countries.

News / Coronavirus in Poland - part 2 [599]


Thank your government.


There isn't one for Covid treatment in Europe. Why would there be?


That's why developed countries have universal healthcare as a reality. Why involve insurance companies?

News / Coronavirus in Poland - part 2 [599]


An interesting study here from your own government:

For-Profit Hospitals Have Thrived Because of Generous Public Reimbursement Schemes, Not Greater Efficiency: A Multi-Country Case Study
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7756069/


Please refer to the official document above, the one from your government.

As you were told, there's n9 reason for a profit motive. And no profit motive existed anyway in Europe for treating Covid patients.

Life / What do Poles really think about cats? [470]


How many Christians you're likely to find in that particular city is of course a matter of judgement, however in the Coliseum any lion is likely nowadays to find mostly Chinese tourists.

News / Coronavirus in Poland - part 2 [599]


You mean the facts.

"For profit" barely exists in some countries and there's no reason for it. And as you were told, in the U.K. and in Poland, private clinics are not General Hospitals.


You mean how well patients are treated on the basis of need rather than money, presumably.

And since you're trying to take the thread off topic with capitalistic crap, it's worth remembering that the 'profit' motive that Jim mentioned in relation to Covid does not exist in Europe.

News / Coronavirus in Poland - part 2 [599]


Fortunately not many and in both the U.K. and Poland, none are general hospitals. There's no reason for such things to exist.

They're just clinics that don't have an A&E.

News / Coronavirus in Poland - part 2 [599]


Not in Europe. Hospitals aren't businesses. There is no profit motive for treating patients in developed countries.


No idea, since I've never taken that.

News / Coronavirus in Poland - part 2 [599]

It was an awful thing. There was a particular cluster of infection in her town and both she and her husband were ventilated. He came round, she didn't.

She wasn't young, but wasn't that old either.

News / Coronavirus in Poland - part 2 [599]


He doesn't realise that it can be quite nasty anyway, complications or not, and that a large part of why the various vaccines were given to younger and healthier people is to make it less likely that they pass it on to someone older of in poor health.

His wibble is offensive; I lost a family member to Covid during the initial stages of the pandemic. None of the vaccines had been developed at that stage. If they had, perhaps she'd still be alive.

Life / Polish Music. [303]


Tautology.

And if not following downmarket and rather unpleasant televangelist stations makes someone an 'ignoramus', then there are millions of us, generally with high IQs.

Life / Polish Music. [303]


Are they still going?

News / Coronavirus in Poland - part 2 [599]


That's the whole point of them. Grifters seeking to make relatively small amounts of money by pushing destructive nonsense.

Life / What do Poles really think about cats? [470]


They're obligate hunters. Even if they aren't hungry, the kittens and older cats around them often are.

Life / What do Poles really think about cats? [470]


And extremely cute and affectionate


If they were larger and/or you were smaller, they'd certainly kill you, however that's part of their charm.

News / Coronavirus in Poland - part 2 [599]


Exactly. Even several different 9nes.