You are correct. The EMT basic is a certificate, not a degree. EMT courses can be taught and tested within 2 weeks. The job only pays minimum wage for a reason despite long hours, emotional cases, and heavy lifting

It is less inconsistent than you think. You assume all jobs are made equal. Blue jobs (police, firefighter, EMT) have a team mentality. When the officer in the Oklahoma shooting of Terence Crutcher went to court, her colleagues put up a human shield for her. Fiona's workplace is filled with ex-cons and drug…

Ugh. It's this again, Myles. Ian's love affair plotlines were not dumb, they were a predictable to show Ian's downward spiral with mental illness. Last season you felt that Caleb was a useless addition to the cast when I argued that this specific scenario would happen in the comments with you last year. Mental…

HBO, you know what a fabulous idea is? Renting out a Spanish castle for 2 years, then spending less than 1 episode having all the main characters die. That will show your audience that your show is amazing because you literally are able to flush hundred dollar bills down the toilet during production

Actually, there is a scene where Lip discusses applying for the RA position when Amanda offers to pay for Lip to be her roommate, right before her roommate is a stalker lesbian, so there has been mapping out of his earlier position. As for his teaching position, it happened after a time skip, so you do have a lack of…

because they are the fucking Gallaghers. Deep beyond the resentment, the disbelief, and the distrust, there is something inside of the Gallaghers that desperately demands that their father is there for them. It goes beyond basic necessity and it does lack reason, but it represents the culture of people who fall…

Also going to disagree with you about Sean's role in Shameless despite Emmy's personal desire to have her character be single. You ask why would Fiona need to marry Sean? Sean in season 6 has been building up as the dad the Gallagher's need, if not necessarily want compared to Frank. When Carl got in over his head…

Lip has always struggled with living expenses. During his first year in college they had him working in the cafeteria for free food. Also, Mr. McNutt, I don't know what world you live in, but one of the heaviest groups of food bank users where I live is the poor college students. And Lip should be pretty familiar…

It's actually illegal to not disclose HIV status before having sex with a partner. Charlie Sheen explained how he kept getting blackmailed for legal disclosure of his status. The state health board is required to keep track of HIV people for AIDS epidemics and it can be criminal to knowingly pass AIDS to another…

You actually don't know the real time frame. Ian had to leave the party and get to the hotel, without a car maybe assume 2 to 3 am, call and wait for the cops maybe 3 to 4 am, then ride with Mandy back to south side in her car 4 to 5am? And Ian had to get to work while Mandy stayed all day, maybe 2 to 3 hours of…

Cold water soak and hydrogen peroxide, you learn it in EMT school

It is not novel and these are not stereotypes. They are more a snapshot of real people with real lives than you are aware. Sorry that you have never had respect for the poor

It is called open sores. Such as a drug addict mouth.

Miles, you missed two key points of this storyline in both Ian and Carl's parts.

Dollar a day, not a week. Bleeding Gums is not in a photo on a dresser, he is her screen saver on the computer. Lisa did not sell Malibu Stacy for a concert, she sold the doll collection for a dress for Hetty. Worst fact check ever.

The writers did not say the house did not belong to the new owners. During inspection, the banker told the owner to scuttle the house by throwing it back into the gutter. One way to go back- Fiona gives money to new owner for deed, no banks, just lawyers and title company

Can't leave the alibi. She has a whore house in the attic

They would never kick him out over the scandal. You have to imagine the PR nightmare with trying anything with Lip, "young, impressionable, disadvantaged man stripped of his house and kicked out of college after wealthy, well-educated professor sexually assaults him". Good standing just means Lip proves himself…

You are forgetting Lip's real personality. This was the kid willing to give up college for a girl with an Asian baby with down syndrome. Until Karen got hit by a car… He's got the puppy dog romanticism for the wrong women and once he falls for them, never lets them go

It's called food stamps and charitable donations. The refugees come from a church group and refugees qualify for government subsidies, see Hmong history in Sacramento. Vee and Kev are also not against subsidies for adopting kids like they did with the polygamist daughter/wife