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Tinwhistler

Tinwhistler

GasBandit said:
Extremely infrequently, if ever.

Basically, my stomach will only hold about 3 or so bites of food. So I have to make those count - especially for things like protein and fiber. I'll be taking multivitamins every day, too, because it will be physically impossible for me to get enough food in me to get all the nutrients I need the old fashioned way.

I mean, technically, I could order a blast, take 3 bites, get full, then throw the rest away... and then wonder why I feel like utter shit the rest of the day because basically I had that and nothing else to eat. But getting in the habit of that is a good way to end up back in the hospital, I've been told.
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Trust me, your body will let you know right away when you've had too much sugar in too short a time. I've seen it happen with my wife enough.
 
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fade

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My MIL did this surgery. Like many, she found that with training, your stomach will adapt to the good ol days. Which is not a good thing after you paid all that money and made all that effort to get the surgery in the first place.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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fade said:
My MIL did this surgery. Like many, she found that with training, your stomach will adapt to the good ol days. Which is not a good thing after you paid all that money and made all that effort to get the surgery in the first place.
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Yeah, if you constantly eat to your limit and stretch it back out. Which is definitely not something I want to do.
 
sixpackshaker

sixpackshaker

I had to walk back across the street to pay for lunch again, because Mexican Dairy Queen swiped my card instead of reading the chip. My bank declined the purchase. I tried telling the waitresses what happened. Then I realized that not a single employee there is fluent in English.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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sixpackshaker said:
I had to walk back across the street to pay for lunch again, because Mexican Dairy Queen swiped my card instead of reading the chip. My bank declined the purchase. I tried telling the waitresses what happened. Then I realized that not a single employee there is fluent in English.
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Point out the window and start shouting "Migra! Migra!" and see what happens :p
 
Tinwhistler

Tinwhistler

I bought myself a new whistle for christmas. A MK Pro, coming all the way from Scotland.


It arrived at my post office yesterday. Because of the cluster fuck that is Christmas in the post office, they were running late and called a delivery driver from another town to deliver my route. He delivered all of the mail to the wrong mailboxes, at 9pm. Walking the block, I didn't see my whistle on anyone's porch.

Today, delivery happens normally, no package. I go to the post office, and they look for it for half an hour and don't find it. They explain about the out-of-town delivery guy, and suggest I call that post office. I do. The supervisor says that the postal worker remembers my box, because it's an unusual shape (nearly 3 foot long narrow tube), and that he didn't deliver it, but dropped it back off at my local post office along with two other undelivered packages, because he didn't want to get out of his mail truck at 9pm.

So, my couple-hundred-dollar whistle that I've been jonesing for is now in limbo somewhere :(
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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Tinwhistler said:
I bought myself a new whistle for christmas. A MK Pro, coming all the way from Scotland.


It arrived at my post office yesterday. Because of the cluster fuck that is Christmas in the post office, they were running late and called a delivery driver from another town to deliver my route. He delivered all of the mail to the wrong mailboxes, at 9pm. Walking the block, I didn't see my whistle on anyone's porch.

Today, delivery happens normally, no package. I go to the post office, and they look for it for half an hour and don't find it. They explain about the out-of-town delivery guy, and suggest I call that post office. I do. The supervisor says that the postal worker remembers my box, because it's an unusual shape (nearly 3 foot long narrow tube), and that he didn't deliver it, but dropped it back off at my local post office along with two other undelivered packages, because he didn't want to get out of his mail truck at 9pm.

So, my couple-hundred-dollar whistle that I've been jonesing for is now in limbo somewhere :(
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Stuff like this is why every time the post office talks about what dire straits it is in, my first impulse is to say "well close it the fuck down, what fucking good are you, anyway?"
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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sixpackshaker said:
In reality the ability to cross a continent in two days to deliver my unneeded package is pretty impressive. Or the dozens of payday loan ads that I get a month.
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One often replicated by private companies, and the only reason they don't drive the USPS out of business entirely through competition is because it would be illegal.[DOUBLEPOST=1513724265,1513724223][/DOUBLEPOST]
stienman said:
The USPS is one example of a useful government mandated monopoly.
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I really hate having to punch the big red X on you there, bud.
 
blotsfan

blotsfan

GasBandit said:
One often replicated by private companies, and the only reason they don't drive the USPS out of business entirely through competition is because it would be illegal.
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Don't many of the private companies just decide not to deliver to certain addresses? Or they have the USPS do the last chunk of it?
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

blotsfan said:
Don't many of the private companies just decide not to deliver to certain addresses? Or they have the USPS do the last chunk of it?
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Private companies can't deliver to USPS property (like PO boxes or technically even mailboxes), but much like ISPs can give you "fiber to the node," they let the USPS handle that last mile.

--Patrick
 
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