UO Thursday!

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• Myanswer true member

  January 2014

  TallMomma29 said:

  
  

  Myanswer true said:

  susanskowera said:

  My UO...Expiration dates on food and the people that follow them to a 'T" (As I sit here eating my 4 day expired greek yogurt).  Yes, if the food is looking a bit nasty, expired or not, pitch it.  If that jar of pasta sauce says it's been expired for 2 months and its still unopened in your pantry...THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH IT!!!!  Why throw out something perfectly good that you paid money for?? 
  

  Please tell my husband this... I get so pissed at him for throwing away perfectly good food.

  I only follow it pretty close to a T (give or take a few days) with perishables when I'm home alone (i.e. when DH isn't there to smell it for me) because I don't have a sense of smell so I can't tell for sure that nothing is wrong (unless it looks obviously moldy ;-)).  

  
  This probably sounds really stupid, but does greek yogurt look obviously bad if it's bad?  i.e. can I eat it past the expiration date as long as it looks normal??  I am suffering in the greek yogurt department with DH being deployed!
  

  I'd assume it'd get moldy or something... I've eaten regular yogurt 6 months past its expiration date, and it just tasted a little more tangy. I mean, yogurt is already spoiled milk anyway, right?

  

  
  

  

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• AmericanInOz member

  January 2014

  my UO (9 pages late obviously) is that I don't understand why people are so anti-socialism health care wise

  my sister's husband just lost his insurace, I can't see how they afford to pay for it out of pocket, I don't know how obamacare works but I hope that can somehow help them, especially since they have a ds who is 2

  if they were here (australia) they would just go to the doc if they were sick, period and not have to worry about cost

  If you choose to have private insurance you get seen sooner and have a private room at the hospital., but you do not end up with any bills if you go public. We took dd to a public childrens hospital when she broke her arm and never paid a cent. I wish my sisters had access to healthcare like that

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• Salsera29 member

  January 2014

  BoraBoraBaby said:

  Whew!! Ok. -runny eggs are gross. -ranch is the best thing that ever happened to pizza

  I now NEED pizza with a side of ranch.

  My brain is not computing this blasphemy. 

  
  

  
  

  

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• cookieinva member

  January 2014

  AmericanInOz said:

  my UO (9 pages late obviously) is that I don't understand why people are so anti-socialism health care wise

  Not an indication of my opinion in the topic, but I have family in England (they are English) and they keep saying we should not go towards national healthcare based on their experiences. They are envious of the choices we have and how much faster we can get medical attention, especially for things like medical conditions, specialists, etc.
  
  I'm certainly not claiming to have all the answers, just pointing out not everyone with national healthcare thinks it is the answer.

  

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• AmericanInOz member

  January 2014

  cookieinva said:

  AmericanInOz said:

  my UO (9 pages late obviously) is that I don't understand why people are so anti-socialism health care wise

  Not an indication of my opinion in the topic, but I have family in England (they are English) and they keep saying we should not go towards national healthcare based on their experiences. They are envious of the choices we have and how much faster we can get medical attention, especially for things like medical conditions, specialists, etc.
  
  I'm certainly not claiming to have all the answers, just pointing out not everyone with national healthcare thinks it is the answer.

  Yes true, but NHS in the UK works differently to how national healthcare works in Australia. Private Healthcare to 'top up' is much more encouraged here

  and I paid for private health care when I lived in the UK and got seen right away, it's a choice in those systems - if you want to get seen right away, you pay more for it. If you dont' want to pay out of pocket, there will be a wait, but you won't go into debt over it.

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• cookieinva member

  January 2014

  @AmericaninOz, true but how it works in the US will not necessarily be the same as Australia.

  

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• AmericanInOz member

  January 2014

  fair enough, I get that, but I just worry when my sisters who work minimum wage jobs can't afford healthcare, I hope they don't get into massive debt like my uncle who couldn't afford it, had a heart attack and a 30k bill

  surely a system that helps the people who can't afford it is a good thing, but anyhow, I don't know the ins and outs of what will happen in the US, my family is just so 'anti socialism' and I'm like why? it's a good thing in some cases

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