The Vent and Rant Thread

[LazyScot]

Originally Posted by RickyMaveety

Alright, this is INSANE!!

I called Toshiba to find out whether or not I could order some wafer head case screws for my neighbor's laptop (she is missing about 9 of them). Their "bulk" quote was $12.00 PER SCREW!! Individual screws were $33.00 each!

So, I went online and found the exact same screws for 25 cents each. I mean really .... who does Toshiba think they are kidding?? I've heard of profit margins, but that is just plain NUTS!

So if their profit margins are on the plain nuts and not the wafer head case screws, how much to they cost?

[nekokami]

Originally Posted by RickyMaveety

Gee, I wondered if anyone would catch that .... but I don't think anyone (except you) read the post.

I read it, but not until Bob had already made the obvious remark.

[koland]

Originally Posted by kazbates

I don't want you to think I was infering that he is hypochondriacal. I think my mother-in-law is, but there are other signs there and she does love the attention. My daughter, Shannon, has IBS and struggles with it because she rebels against all the dietary restrictions the doctors have given her. It's tough to give up so much when you are young. Good luck to your hubby.

A "gluten allergy" can develop at any age (like any allergy), especially if you talking celiac disease. And it is recommended to be test if you have symptoms, even in your 80's (article in current Living Without that had just this question - along with info on neurological symptoms that can exist in celiac without positive biopsy). Carrying the gene is something you wuold have since birth (along with 30% or so of the total US population), but the actual disease being triggered is a lower rate (1 in 30 of those with the gene; 1% of the total population -- the most common autoimmune disease in the US and the most under-diagnosed).

Your mother needs a new doctor if he won't run the test. And if your daughter has "IBS" (which means: intestinal symptoms just like celiac, but of a, so far, undiagnosed origin), then she should be tested as well. None of the dietary restrictions a typical IBS diagnosis bring will help if it is really celiac (in fact, the "add more fiber" advice they will give her will probably make her worse, if she uses whole wheat and oatmeal to get that fiber). And if either is positive - your husband, his siblings and all your children should be tested as well; one first degree relative increases your odds of having celiac to 10% (even more if you have certain conditions like type 1 diabetes, Down's, certain types of epilepsy, thyroid problems, and a number of other related conditions).

A lot of people with undiagnosed celiac are considered hypochondriacs - but it's because they have an evergrowing number of complications (many of which can be reversed) from both the disease and from a lack of nutrition. Calcium, iron and B vitamins are often very low, sometimes dangerously so - and a lack of these can cause a great deal of pain, tiredness or even neurological (seizures, shuffling gate, pseudo-Parkinsons, pseudo-MS) and/or mental issues (depression, suicide).

[Peverel]

Originally Posted by RickyMaveety

Gee, I wondered if anyone would catch that .... but I don't think anyone (except you) read the post.

The sad part was I read it and wasn't surprized by Toshiba. My god, what have I come to think of these IT companies - maybe it's time for a career change..........

[Sparrow]

Originally Posted by RickyMaveety

Their "bulk" quote was $12.00 PER SCREW!! Individual screws were $33.00 each!

Yep, I've had quotes like that - I thought they were pretty reasonable though.

[krisk]

ARRRGGHHHH!!! get over it folks! he's DEAD! I am so freaking tired of hearing michael michael michael!!!!

he was a FREAK! and creepy! and now he's dead. deal and quit carrying on! deal!

(I'm almost tempted to say good riddance)

[phenomshel]

Originally Posted by krisk

ARRRGGHHHH!!! get over it folks! he's DEAD! I am so freaking tired of hearing michael michael michael!!!!

he was a FREAK! and creepy! and now he's dead. deal and quit carrying on! deal!

(I'm almost tempted to say good riddance)

This too shall pass...

[badgoodDeb]

Now, now. Yeah, he was weird lately. (Aren't we all, in our own way?) But he was cool in the 70's and 80's, and those of us who spent our teen years in synch with *his* teen years, still remember those parts of him. Those years were pretty great, for Mr. Sparkly Glove! I loved his dancing.

P.S. If you had done your best work in your teens and twenties, what would you be doing now, to try to top your past successes? Anyway, I suspect he is more loved now that he is gone (and we can remember ONLY those great years) than if he had lived.

[RickyMaveety]

Originally Posted by koland

A "gluten allergy" can develop at any age (like any allergy), especially if you talking celiac disease. And it is recommended to be test if you have symptoms, even in your 80's (article in current Living Without that had just this question - along with info on neurological symptoms that can exist in celiac without positive biopsy). Carrying the gene is something you wuold have since birth (along with 30% or so of the total US population), but the actual disease being triggered is a lower rate (1 in 30 of those with the gene; 1% of the total population -- the most common autoimmune disease in the US and the most under-diagnosed).

Your mother needs a new doctor if he won't run the test. And if your daughter has "IBS" (which means: intestinal symptoms just like celiac, but of a, so far, undiagnosed origin), then she should be tested as well. None of the dietary restrictions a typical IBS diagnosis bring will help if it is really celiac (in fact, the "add more fiber" advice they will give her will probably make her worse, if she uses whole wheat and oatmeal to get that fiber). And if either is positive - your husband, his siblings and all your children should be tested as well; one first degree relative increases your odds of having celiac to 10% (even more if you have certain conditions like type 1 diabetes, Down's, certain types of epilepsy, thyroid problems, and a number of other related conditions).

A lot of people with undiagnosed celiac are considered hypochondriacs - but it's because they have an evergrowing number of complications (many of which can be reversed) from both the disease and from a lack of nutrition. Calcium, iron and B vitamins are often very low, sometimes dangerously so - and a lack of these can cause a great deal of pain, tiredness or even neurological (seizures, shuffling gate, pseudo-Parkinsons, pseudo-MS) and/or mental issues (depression, suicide).

Any true allergy can develop at any age. The members of my family don't get an iodine (as in seafood) allergy until they are well into their 70s.

Now, some "allergies" like lactose intolerance, for example, aren't really allergies at all, but enzyme deficiencies, and those are usually genetic and present at birth.

But, anyone who says that all of your allergies are present from early in youth, knows pretty much nothing about the immune system. Maybe they forgot what they should have learned in medical school ... maybe they were asleep that day .... they just don't know what they are talking about.

Oh, and "ps" .... I've had IBS all my life. Awful not knowing exactly what it is from, but when I get a bout, the pain is insane! Also, I had undiagnosed migraines for years. That was not a lot of fun, especially when people say you are faking, and not "really" sick, and you feel like you just want to freaking die. So, before you call anyone a hypochondriac (and this is not directed at you, koland), make SURE it's true. Granted some people just play sick for the attention, but there are a LOT of people out there who actually have problems that are real and get ignored or overlooked. Hell, they didn't know my wrist was broken for three months ... that didn't mean that the pain was imaginary ... just meant they hadn't spotted the problem.

[RickyMaveety]

Originally Posted by Sparrow

Yep, I've had quotes like that - I thought they were pretty reasonable though.

Depends on whether you are getting the quote from a hooker or a computer manufacturer. Perfectly reasonable in the first case, in fact quite the bargain, but out of the park in the second case.

[Greg Anos]

Originally Posted by RickyMaveety

Depends on whether you are getting the quote from a hooker or a computer manufacturer. Perfectly reasonable in the first case, in fact quite the bargain, but out of the park in the second case.

Wafer head cases are not my type, price or no price.....

[pilotbob]

Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 takes FOREVER to install on the new VM I am building...

BOb

(Bright side, I can MR while waiting for it to install.)

[RickyMaveety]

Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward

Wafer head cases are not my type, price or no price.....

Head cases of any type are not my type. I prefer someone in the relationship to be at least marginally sane.

[pilotbob]

Originally Posted by RickyMaveety

Depends on whether you are getting the quote from a hooker or a computer manufacturer. Perfectly reasonable in the first case, in fact quite the bargain, but out of the park in the second case.

Actually, if a hooker quoted me $12 I think I would RUN. If somethings to good to be true, it probably is.

BOb

BTW: I found out that those people that email you they will put $18 million in your bank account are trying to rob you!

[RickyMaveety]

Originally Posted by pilotbob

Actually, if a hooker quoted me $12 I think I would RUN. If somethings to good to be true, it probably is.

BOb

BTW: I found out that those people that email you they will put $18 million in your bank account are trying to rob you!

Ah, but keep in mind, that was the "bulk" quote. So, if we're talking about your typical gang bang ..... $12 per head, at what .... 5 minutes per "client."