Very Strange Places to Visit

Make credence recognised that on Sat, 20 Oct 2007 14:28:23 -0700,
Jenny6833A has scripted:

On Oct 20, 8:22 am, javawizard wrote:
I'm wondering if there would be interest in a website about weird
places to visit ....

Weird according to whom? Do you mean weird to Americans?

Excellent!

I've read a lot of crap on usenet, but your post was one of the most
poignant ever. Irrelevant to the discussion, but well said anyway.

Keep it up.
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Poignant as in "Stinging"? Then I would agree. Completely rude and insulting
to Americans.

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Make credence recognised that on Sat, 20 Oct 2007 14:28:23 -0700,
Jenny6833A has scripted:

On Oct 20, 8:22 am, javawizard wrote:
I'm wondering if there would be interest in a website about weird
places to visit ....

Weird according to whom? Do you mean weird to Americans?

Excellent!

I've read a lot of crap on usenet, but your post was one of the most
poignant ever. Irrelevant to the discussion, but well said anyway.

Keep it up.
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DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com
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On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 14:28:23 -0700, Jenny6833A
wrote:

On Oct 20, 8:22 am, javawizard wrote:
I'm wondering if there would be interest in a website about weird
places to visit ....

Weird according to whom? Do you mean weird to Americans?

If so, I could arrange for pics of a doctor's office which consists
only of one small waiting room and one large, well equipped examining
room.

Thanks.

There is a discussion happening at the moment on
alt.support.diabetes and misc.health.diabets concerning
Universal health care, so I've re-posted your comment there.
I hope you don't mind.




Cheers, Alan, Australia
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latest: Slovenia
http://loraltraveloz.blogspot.com/
latest: Mossman Gorge in the Daintree Rainforest

On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 14:28:23 -0700, Jenny6833A
wrote:

On Oct 20, 8:22 am, javawizard wrote:
I'm wondering if there would be interest in a website about weird
places to visit ....

Weird according to whom? Do you mean weird to Americans?

If so, I could arrange for pics of a doctor's office which consists
only of one small waiting room and one large, well equipped examining
room.

Thanks.

There is a discussion happening at the moment on
alt.support.diabetes and misc.health.diabets concerning
Universal health care, so I've re-posted your comment there.
I hope you don't mind.




Cheers, Alan, Australia
--
http://loraltravel.blogspot.com/
latest: Slovenia
http://loraltraveloz.blogspot.com/
latest: Mossman Gorge in the Daintree Rainforest

Just how is that rude or insulting? It was satire.

Oh, and top posting is rather rude too.
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Make credence recognised that on Sun, 21 Oct 2007 17:43:33 -0400,
"Daniel R. Bonham" has scripted:

Poignant as in "Stinging"? Then I would agree. Completely rude and insulting
to Americans.

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Make credence recognised that on Sat, 20 Oct 2007 14:28:23 -0700,
Jenny6833A has scripted:

On Oct 20, 8:22 am, javawizard wrote:
I'm wondering if there would be interest in a website about weird
places to visit ....

Weird according to whom? Do you mean weird to Americans?

Excellent!

I've read a lot of crap on usenet, but your post was one of the most
poignant ever. Irrelevant to the discussion, but well said anyway.

Keep it up.
--
---
DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com
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On Oct 20, 11:22 am, javawizard wrote:
I'm wondering if there would be interest in a website about weird
places to visit, something along the lines ofwww.odd-homes.comorwww.odd-bikes.com. Let me know your thoughts.
Thanks,
- Jeff

Yes. Any site on interesting unusual things is sure to get its share
of viewers. now you give me your opinion about something weird that is
going on in Venezuela!

I really need to know about the milk situation in Venezuela.
This article here says there is a milk shortage there.
http://destinations123.blogspot.com
If I am to go down there, should I bring my own milk? Coffee without
milk sucks. Please help.
What about Hugo Chavez, does he have milk? Did all the cows die?
what the heck, I am going crazy here.

travelbug
http://joyangel123.wordpress.com

On 10/22/2007 1:01 AM Magda plucked Senior Frog's Magic Twanger and said:
On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 14:28:23 -0700, in rec.travel.europe, Jenny6833A
arranged some electrons, so they looked like this:

... On Oct 20, 8:22 am, javawizard wrote:
... I'm wondering if there would be interest in a website about weird
... places to visit ....
...
... Weird according to whom? Do you mean weird to Americans?
...
... If so, I could arrange for pics of a doctor's office which consists
... only of one small waiting room and one large, well equipped examining
... room. There is no receptionist, no room full of clerical staff
... pounding keyboards and shuffling a myriad of insurance papers, no
... billing system, no mailing expenses, no nurses, no nurses' aides, and
... no aides to nurses' aides. There's just the doctor. He doesn't need
... a raft of helpers to weigh people and take temperatures and blood
... pressures, because (unlike American doctors) s/he knows how to do such
... stuff himself. He doesn't even need helpers to interview the patient
... and write cryptic notes on a chart. The doctor in this weird place
... knows how to do that too, and believes that actually talking to his
... customers himself makes for better diagnoses. Oh, yeah, he doesn't
... need helpers to give shots either, because he knows how to do that too
... -- and he's very expert.
...
... (Of course, most people there don't get shots in a doctor's office,
... because that wastes the doctor's time. He just scribbles a
... prescription for a shot. The syringe is purchased at a pharmacy, and
... the shot is given at home by a spouse, a neighbor, or the patient
... herself -- although the doc or the pharmacist will do it if the
... patient is chicken.)
...
... The way a visit to a doctor works is, you just show up at the doc's
... office during walk-in hours. There'll be half-a-dozen chairs, some
... old magazines, and a lot of notices on the wall. You're expected to
... read the notices. (This place I'm talking about has a very high
... literacy rate, due to a very good K-12 system, another aspect that
... will be weird to Americans.) After a while, the doc walks through the
... waiting room to the exterior door with the patient he's just seen.
... Then he turns and says, for example, "Bon jour, Madam Allen, welcome
... back." He knows I'm next because he has more than half a brain. Like
... American barbers, but unlike American doctors, he doesn't need a
... helper for that. We make chit-chat on our way into his office, then
... get down to business.
...
... Or, if I want an appointment, I call. Guess who answers? It's the
... doc himself. He knows how to keep an appointment book too. We don't
... futz around. I do a one sentence problem statement, he says "Today at
... 15H00." I say, "See ya then." Clunk. Hey, he's with a patient, so
... we keep it brief.
...
... The whole place is spotlessly clean, but it's not deluxe. He doesn't
... spend money on non-essentials like thick carpets, fancy furnishings,
... and art on the walls. He impresses his customers with excellent
... medical care, not with posh furnishings and a raft of flunkies.
... Excellent medical care at low cost is why they're #1.
...
... We talk medical business while he's doing temp and blood pressure and
... all that. He's good at concurrency. He's writing a prescription for
... whatever ails me while asking if I need a flu shot. I say yes, so he
... writes a separate one for that. There's never a shortage of vaccines
... there. It's an advanced country; unlike some places I can think of,
... they make all their own vaccines.
...
... When we're done, he starts writing the obligatory receipt -- by hand
... -- while I dig out the obligatory 20 euros. Cash preferred, checks
... accepted. I've spent ALL of my visit with the doctor himself, and
... it's taken half the time I spend in the States dealing with flunkies
... and cooling my heels in some tiny room waiting for the American doctor
... to rush in. He walks me out through the waiting room, making chit
... chat about his recent visit to New York, and I'm soon on the street.
... As the door swings shut behind me, I hear him say, "Bon jour, Monsieur
... Girard."
...
... The 20 euros, when converted to dollars, is one-sixth of what I pay in
... the USA for a visit that typically takes twice as long and includes a
... lot less time with the doc himself.
...
... I stop at the pharmacy on the way home. One flu shot syringe and one
... 28-day pack of pills. The pharmacist stamps "filled" on the flu shot
... prescription, and keeps it. He stamps "filled one" and the date on
... the pill prescription and hands it back to me. Unlike in the USA, I
... can get the refills at any pharmacy I like just by presenting the
... prescription. Pharmacies don't keep a prescription until all refills
... have been issued.
...
... And, if the pharmacy doesn't have the medication in stock, I don't
... have to wait until they get it. I can go to another pharmacy if I
... want it now. I mean, pharmacies there don't confiscate the
... prescription first, then tell you they're out of stock. That's what
... makes all this on topic. While RVing, I've been stuck in American
... burgs because the pharmacy takes my prescription first, tells me they
... can't fill it until Monday, and won't give it back.
...
... Oh, and before I forget, my overseas doc does house calls too. That's
... REALLY weird. I think those cost 30 euros, although it may be 35
... euros now.
...
... So, Jeff, whatdaya think? Would all this be weird enough for you?
...
... Or would it be way too weird for your American audience?
...
... :-)
...
... Jenny

Just for the record - I keep all my prescriptions even when they are filled, in case I
need to see a doc when mine is unavailable. Never a pharmacy asked to keep it!



You want weird? You want USA? Then check out Weird New Jersey
http://www.weirdnj.com/ Such oddities include a tombstone and real
grave in the middle of a movie multiplex parking lot. Never mind
Bigfoot, in the NJ Pine Barons lurks "The Jersey Devil" and I don't mean
the hockey team. He has been sighted since Colonial days. Check it out
the next time you have a long layover in NJ.

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View My Web Page: http://home.earthlink.net/~brian1951

My son loves that book!! and weird USA
sheree

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On 10/22/2007 1:01 AM Magda plucked Senior Frog's Magic Twanger and said:
On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 14:28:23 -0700, in rec.travel.europe, Jenny6833A

arranged some electrons, so they looked like this:

... On Oct 20, 8:22 am, javawizard wrote:
... I'm wondering if there would be interest in a website about weird
... places to visit ....
... ... Weird according to whom? Do you mean weird to Americans?
... ... If so, I could arrange for pics of a doctor's office which
consists
... only of one small waiting room and one large, well equipped
examining
... room. There is no receptionist, no room full of clerical staff
... pounding keyboards and shuffling a myriad of insurance papers, no
... billing system, no mailing expenses, no nurses, no nurses' aides,
and
... no aides to nurses' aides. There's just the doctor. He doesn't
need
... a raft of helpers to weigh people and take temperatures and blood
... pressures, because (unlike American doctors) s/he knows how to do
such
... stuff himself. He doesn't even need helpers to interview the
patient
... and write cryptic notes on a chart. The doctor in this weird place
... knows how to do that too, and believes that actually talking to his
... customers himself makes for better diagnoses. Oh, yeah, he doesn't
... need helpers to give shots either, because he knows how to do that
too
... -- and he's very expert.
... ... (Of course, most people there don't get shots in a doctor's
office,
... because that wastes the doctor's time. He just scribbles a
... prescription for a shot. The syringe is purchased at a pharmacy,
and
... the shot is given at home by a spouse, a neighbor, or the patient
... herself -- although the doc or the pharmacist will do it if the
... patient is chicken.)
... ... The way a visit to a doctor works is, you just show up at the
doc's
... office during walk-in hours. There'll be half-a-dozen chairs, some
... old magazines, and a lot of notices on the wall. You're expected to
... read the notices. (This place I'm talking about has a very high
... literacy rate, due to a very good K-12 system, another aspect that
... will be weird to Americans.) After a while, the doc walks through
the
... waiting room to the exterior door with the patient he's just seen.
... Then he turns and says, for example, "Bon jour, Madam Allen, welcome
... back." He knows I'm next because he has more than half a brain.
Like
... American barbers, but unlike American doctors, he doesn't need a
... helper for that. We make chit-chat on our way into his office, then
... get down to business.
... ... Or, if I want an appointment, I call. Guess who answers? It's
the
... doc himself. He knows how to keep an appointment book too. We
don't
... futz around. I do a one sentence problem statement, he says "Today
at
... 15H00." I say, "See ya then." Clunk. Hey, he's with a patient, so
... we keep it brief.
... ... The whole place is spotlessly clean, but it's not deluxe. He
doesn't
... spend money on non-essentials like thick carpets, fancy furnishings,
... and art on the walls. He impresses his customers with excellent
... medical care, not with posh furnishings and a raft of flunkies.
... Excellent medical care at low cost is why they're #1.
... ... We talk medical business while he's doing temp and blood
pressure and
... all that. He's good at concurrency. He's writing a prescription
for
... whatever ails me while asking if I need a flu shot. I say yes, so he
... writes a separate one for that. There's never a shortage of
vaccines
... there. It's an advanced country; unlike some places I can think of,
... they make all their own vaccines.
... ... When we're done, he starts writing the obligatory receipt -- by
hand
... -- while I dig out the obligatory 20 euros. Cash preferred, checks
... accepted. I've spent ALL of my visit with the doctor himself, and
... it's taken half the time I spend in the States dealing with flunkies
... and cooling my heels in some tiny room waiting for the American
doctor
... to rush in. He walks me out through the waiting room, making chit
... chat about his recent visit to New York, and I'm soon on the street.
... As the door swings shut behind me, I hear him say, "Bon jour,
Monsieur
... Girard."
... ... The 20 euros, when converted to dollars, is one-sixth of what I
pay in
... the USA for a visit that typically takes twice as long and includes
a
... lot less time with the doc himself.
... ... I stop at the pharmacy on the way home. One flu shot syringe
and one
... 28-day pack of pills. The pharmacist stamps "filled" on the flu
shot
... prescription, and keeps it. He stamps "filled one" and the date on
... the pill prescription and hands it back to me. Unlike in the USA, I
... can get the refills at any pharmacy I like just by presenting the
... prescription. Pharmacies don't keep a prescription until all
refills
... have been issued.
... ... And, if the pharmacy doesn't have the medication in stock, I
don't
... have to wait until they get it. I can go to another pharmacy if I
... want it now. I mean, pharmacies there don't confiscate the
... prescription first, then tell you they're out of stock. That's what
... makes all this on topic. While RVing, I've been stuck in American
... burgs because the pharmacy takes my prescription first, tells me
they
... can't fill it until Monday, and won't give it back.
... ... Oh, and before I forget, my overseas doc does house calls too.
That's
... REALLY weird. I think those cost 30 euros, although it may be 35
... euros now.
... ... So, Jeff, whatdaya think? Would all this be weird enough for
you?
... ... Or would it be way too weird for your American audience?
... ... :-)
... ... Jenny

Just for the record - I keep all my prescriptions even when they are
filled, in case I
need to see a doc when mine is unavailable. Never a pharmacy asked to
keep it!



You want weird? You want USA? Then check out Weird New Jersey
http://www.weirdnj.com/ Such oddities include a tombstone and real grave
in the middle of a movie multiplex parking lot. Never mind Bigfoot, in
the NJ Pine Barons lurks "The Jersey Devil" and I don't mean the hockey
team. He has been sighted since Colonial days. Check it out the next time
you have a long layover in NJ.

--
________
To email me, Edit "blog" from my email address.
Brian M. Kochera "Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once!"
View My Web Page: http://home.earthlink.net/~brian1951