I've also found many specialists to be very flexible in the amount and timing of repayment. Many will at least agree to a payment plan so you can gradually pay rather than take a huge hit all at once. Quite often they can take a little off the cost if you're in a tight financial situation and the procedures are very…

I may be wrong, but I'm fairly certain that America has fairly similar wait times for specialists. Awaiting OHIP (or whichever depending on the province) approval is usually the shortest part of waiting for treatment. In fact, usually OHIP doesn't take very long at all, in most cases approval/disapproval is pretty…

Perhaps for you sex is so private people should not discuss it outside of darkened rooms of medical school, but most of North American society (which this website caters too), have long since gotten over the notion that people shouldn't talk about sex outside the bedroom. That's not to say that everyone's happy to…

I agree that out of courtesy, measurements should be in both metric and imperial. I mean, it's to the benefit of both parties, it makes recipes more accessible to a wider audience. For example, pulling out my phone and using google's measurement converter (which is way faster than doing the calculations myself, but…

Most of the scaling filters are pretty terrible I've found. Almost all of them butcher lines (warping previously straight lines), and produce the overall appearence that someone just applied gaussian blur to the whole image. Text becomes more difficult to read, animations become muddy looking, it just looks bad.

Simply, "Argue, don't fight." Argueing is just debating a point. Things can get heated, but ideally don't devolve into ad hominem character assassinations. Children can then learn conflict resolution skills. Obviously fighting does the opposite and teaches them to attack the person rather than the point, which of…

I was a kid who had assembled his own computer for the first time, and was asked to assemble one for the family by my father and step mother. I ordered all of the parts on their dime, and put it all together. Turned it on for the first time, and "BANG!", with a puff of smoke it died before it ever truly lived. What…

The troll is strong with this thread.

I have had mild social anxiety that seemed to emerge during my high school years. It's difficult to tell whether the fact I shelled up for most of high school for no explainable reason (I was socialable in elementary, but barely socialized during high school) caused this mild social anxiety, or whether something else…

I take it about as far as not giving a fuck about people judging your own personal choices that ultimately really only affect you. This includes hair style, taste in music, whether I go out with friends one night or pass, etc.

I love the neutral sound for it's cost effectiveness. Quality neutral headphones tend to make most songs sound pretty damn good. Some headphones are better suited for some genres, like while I wouldn't want boomy bass for "Four Seasons" by Mozart, I would for Kanye West's "Power". And yes, I just compared the two in…

Buy the ATH-M50s. Don't even question it. They're an amazing pair of headphones, perfectly neutral sound (nice tight popping bass instead of over the top booming bass, crystal clear highs, etc). They're considered by many to be the best in the $150~ price range, let alone $90.

Since when did we start calling websites "webapps". It seems a little pretentious.

I understand thinking anal sex is gross. It is pretty gross (note that gay people tend to maintain a more rigorous cleanliness down/up there because of that, at least prior to sex if possible). The odd part of your statement is that you think gay people are gross because of that. You never have to see or touch a gay…

I haven't heard of any mass exodus from uTorrent. Complaints? Sure. But the core features are still there, it still does a good job, respects the torrent standard (unlike a few other popular clients which do things against the standard, such as allowing the PRIVATE flag to be ignored). The ads introduced were a minor…

Why the fuck would you decide which application to use based on it's icon? VLC is a great piece of software, it is one of the few large, versatile, entirely self-contained media players out there, and it's not filled with crapware. The only reason to use other players is if you want to use system codecs for some…

This is an old wives tale. It's been debunked by several cooking blogs; potatoes simply aren't very absorbent, and even if they were, the alleged mechanism would not selectively draw salt in, but rather all surround fluids. So even if it worked, the amount you'd have to put in to consistently reuptake the salt would…

I wasn't advocating people doing nothing :P I was advocating teaching people a safer, more effective technique than one that has persistently been pushed on the public by an egotistical man with a background of making fraudulent medical recommendations, and for using money from his foundation to block the advance of…

The Heimlich Maneuver really shouldn't be the go-to for choking. Most medical organizations have stopped recommending it's use due to the fact it easily causes internal injuries and that back blows have been found to be more effective. The reason it's so well known is thanks to the efforts of Henry Heimlich, who is…

If the items in question are vanilla enough they could be considered gifts, then you shouldn't be embarrased buying them, because the cashier certainly doesn't give a fuck. If they are actually potentially embarassing (i.e dildos, STD meds, etc), they are either ungiftable (who gives crabs medication to people :P) or…