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ReindeerF posted:Shooting up schools is shocking because KIDS, but getting to be old hat. Look how fast everyone stopped being outraged about Newtown, for example. I mean they're unhappy about it, but it's off the fridge whiteboard to-do list. Blowing up marathons, though, that's new and exciting. Definitely going to stay in the press if only because it's a whole new thing for all the opiners to opine endlessly about. I'm sure the "What's Next? Spartan Races? 10Ks? How To Protect Your Next Athletic Event." segments are already being slotted. Right wing media announcing the Government should ban all sporting events not held in sporting stadiums to protect the public.
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Whats the significance of this race? Is it just some local running race, or is it a bigger thing. Googling "boston marathon" just gives me BOMBS BOMBS BOMBS. I'm an aussie, so its the first I've heard of it. I'm not trying to be insensitive, I just don't understand the significance of it all?
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| # ? Apr 15, 2013 22:32 |
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VideoTapir posted:Found a picture of one of the duds. Just in case someone is curious why VT's post is both hilarious and saddening. I want to believe that somehow, something greater for society will come out of scores of people being senseless maimed, but then I think about insurance. The hell happens to the medical bills in a shitstorm like this? For some people is this going to be like, hey, sorry bout your legs, but uh, can we see your United card?
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| # ? Apr 15, 2013 22:33 |
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duck monster posted:Whats the significance of this race? Is it just some local running race, or is it a bigger thing. Googling "boston marathon" just gives me BOMBS BOMBS BOMBS. It's one of the top 6 biggest marathons I believe.
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/\/\/\ Yeah, it's a really big one for marathoner dorks. Major international event.EvilElmo posted:Right wing media announcing the Government should ban all sporting events not held in sporting stadiums to protect the public.
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S.T.C.A. posted:The hell happens to the medical bills in a shitstorm like this? For some people is this going to be like, hey, sorry bout your legs, but uh, can we see your United card? No, they get treated, but since they're out of state they're automatically out of network so they get saddled with 50-200k in debt. Do people still just not 'get' how the US medical system works?
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| # ? Apr 15, 2013 22:37 |
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ReindeerF posted:/\/\/\ Yeah, it's a really big one for marathoner dorks. Major international event. IPSC matches will now have a stage where you shoot the fuse off of an old-fashioned spherical bomb.
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| # ? Apr 15, 2013 22:41 |
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duck monster posted:Whats the significance of this race? Is it just some local running race, or is it a bigger thing. Googling "boston marathon" just gives me BOMBS BOMBS BOMBS. It's one the highest profile marathons in the world. Certainly top 3. It's also the oldest marathon in the world. [You know, still running at least]. One of the largest sporting events in the US, period. You can't even compete it in it unless you have already been certified as having completed another marathon by an official governing body, it's not just some thing where you show up a week earlier and drop down some money to hoof it. You also have to have a certain, fairly stringent, time of completion. If you can't run another marathon at a solid pace, you aren't even allowed to run this one. Even *qualifying* to run in it is a big deal. Better part of 500,000 people come into the city when it happens [Not to mention it happens on Patriot's Day, a state holiday, so a larger than average number of locals are there too], tens of thousands of people run it from all over the world.....it's kind of a big deal, yeah.
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| # ? Apr 15, 2013 23:17 |
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Harik posted:No, they get treated, but since they're out of state they're automatically out of network so they get saddled with 50-200k in debt. Do people still just not 'get' how the US medical system works?
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| # ? Apr 16, 2013 00:27 |
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JT Jag posted:Often you end up seeing charities that raise money for the medical bills of people wounded in high-profile events like this. So in a tiny way, some of these people might be luckier than those who are maimed in a similar way that doesn't make the news. I thought Harik's post was a joke until I read this.
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| # ? Apr 16, 2013 02:12 |
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As the 9/11 first responders can attest, it doesn't always work out.
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| # ? Apr 16, 2013 02:25 |
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I'm just going to go ahead and guess this attack was domestic since TAXES are the greatest form of tyranny. Perhaps even literal slavery!
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| # ? Apr 16, 2013 02:43 |
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Pleasure to chill posted:I thought Harik's post was a joke until I read this. It's a bit of an exaggeration. Emergency room visits don't have a penalty for going out of network.
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| # ? Apr 16, 2013 02:49 |
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New thread: http://forums.somethingawful.com/sh...hreadid=3544377
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