OT - Grumpy Old Man Thread

[bayareabadger]

Amazon Prime video just went from $3.24 for ad-free to $5.40, a $2.16 increase.  I know it's beans, but it's the principle.  They're rapidly losing the grounding for their claim that "Prime Video is free with a Prime subscription."  I don't expect charges for a free service to be comparable to another streaming service.  You can get basic Hulu plans for less than 9 bucks.  Amazon is not far away from that, so regardless of whether or not I can afford it, once it enters territory that other platforms charge, then just stop the silly nonsense that it's a perk of being a Prime member.  If you have ads, you're just Tubi or FreeVee.  If you have to pay to stop the ads, then stop saying your video library is "free" with Prime membership.  That's skating on a technicality, and anyway, we all know the costs of your video platform are absorbed in the cost of a Prime membership anyway. 

If it doesn't hurt moving paper towels, they don't care. 

[betarhoalphadelta]

Wife says tinnitus can be treated if it's related to hearing loss. 

If it's not related to hearing loss, we don't really have good treatment for it. 

Well, I've spent a couple decades abusing my hearing, so it's probably related to hearing loss.

[847badgerfan]

Mine went away. Not sure how or why. It just did.

[MrNubbz]

Do you have neuropathy? I do in my left due to that asshole neurosurgeon nicking my L4 branch when he was in there doing a laminectomy back in 2013. Still makes me grumpy. I should have sued the MF.

well if you lost you might have to slum around in Chevy,maybe one of those red plastic models though

[Riffraft]

Mine went away. Not sure how or why. It just did.

I've just learned to.live with it. Most of the time I don't notice it.

[utee94]

Chiros and PTs are very different lanes, good for different things.  Same thing again with MDs. 

The problem with chiros are 1) finding a good one, they're not all the same  2) finding one who knows what his trade is good for, and what it's not  3) patients who can't differentiate between things that are legitimately in the purview of a good chiropractor and things that a chiropractor cannot possibly help.  There are all kinds of crackpots out there who believe things like thinking chiropractic techniques can heal things like metabolic diseases and bullcrap like that. 

I've gone to a chiropractor for specific things for years when problems flare up (mainly, due to major nerve damage in my feet, I don't walk correctly and it causes my right hip to go out of place, but some C-spine issues as well).  My doctor and my wife both encourage the measured use of a good chiropractor for certain problems.

Chiropractors and Manual Physical Thearpists with a specialty in ortho really aren't all that different in function.  They are quite different in purpose and application and business model.

One major difference is that chiropractors have a much wealthier lobby and spend much more money entertaining MDs.

Feel free to ignore my advice.  I'll leave it at that.

[OrangeAfroMan]

People here tend to poo-poo lobbyists and their influence.  Makes you wonder why industries spend so much money for them if they're so ineffective...

[betarhoalphadelta]

People here tend to poo-poo lobbyists and their influence.  Makes you wonder why industries spend so much money for them if they're so ineffective...

Nah. I think they're effective. But going into it would be delving into politics, so I won't say more on that. 

Mostly we just poke you for your strange obsession with the egg lobby. 

[847badgerfan]

well if you lost you might have to slum around in Chevy,maybe one of those red plastic models though

WTF?

[OrangeAfroMan]

Nah. I think they're effective. But going into it would be delving into politics, so I won't say more on that.

Mostly we just poke you for your strange obsession with the egg lobby.

It's not about eggs, though.  It's about an invented limitation put on us by those in charge.  And a vast majority of us just go along with it.  Even those who are fine with school shootings in the name of 2nd amendment rights.

Hmm, I see what you mean about it delving into politics.  

[847badgerfan]

It's not about eggs, though.  It's about an invented limitation put on us by those in charge.  And a vast majority of us just go along with it.  Even those who are fine with school shootings in the name of 2nd amendment rights.

Hmm, I see what you mean about it delving into politics. 

We know.

You can't help yourself.

[MrNubbz]

Feel free to ignore my advice.  I'll leave it at that.

Go jump in the lake, really that's what I did and the swim did wonders

[utee94]

Aquatic therapy is awesome.  One of the many reasons I love having a pool.

Speaking of which, it's time to go jump in the pool.

[847badgerfan]

Aquatic therapy is awesome.  One of the many reasons I love having a pool.

Speaking of which, it's time to go jump in the pool.

Right behind ya.

Got a scorcher going on here lately.