Useless Conversation

[Trippy]

You eat lobster tail/traditional lobster with butter.

Lobster rolls, however, are pretty unique to the northeast (in that everywhere is is just following their lead if they exist at all in most other places) and have a proper preparation.

Yes, I've spent a lot of time in New England so I know what a lobster roll is.  The good ones have butter.  Putting mayo on lobster is for people who don't like lobster.

I'm a butter (and a squeeze of lemon) lobster roll person too. Maine-style is fine but it's really a "lobster salad" roll, not a lobster roll.

[Trippy]

Near our new house (site), there's a New England style eatery/pub.  They do a proper lobster roll.

I hope the place survives.  That location is really hit or miss for restaurants.

I live across the street now from a lobster place, which seems to be pretty good (only had their lobster rolls -- both styles -- so far). It's also next to an In-and-Out Burger

[Merusk]

I hope users never stop reaching for the stars. I enjoy the befuddled looks on their faces sometimes.

"Why is my laptop so heavy! Macbook Airs are so light!"

"Because you are required to do more than browse the web and post about how awesome your Macbook Air is."  

[Samwise]

Sounds like you need to invest in a helium tank and a big box of mylar balloons.

[Morat20]

400 fucking dollars for an EpiPen? (well, a two-pack). 400 FUCKING DOLLARS?

The shit inside it has been around since 1900! It's costs less than twenty bucks for a whole bottle of it, which is like 100+ doses. 400 dollars for TWO DOSES?

I used to buy Epipens. They were 30 bucks a dose. You can't get those anymore, just these Pfizer fucking talking doses. Built off of US military designs, Pfizer just added a fucking talking chip. If they cost 20 bucks a piece, INCLUDING their research and development costs, I'll eat my fucking hat.

400 fucking dollars. Jesus fucking Christ.

I'll bet GOOD goddamn money that they drop under 50 bucks a dose come June when generics show up.

BTW, the expensive, no-insurance, no-prescription cost in Canada? 94 dollars.

Fucking gouging cunts.

[lamaros]

I think my GF pays $38 for one here is Australia, possibly government subsidized though.

[Morat20]

I think my GF pays $38 for one here is Australia, possibly government subsidized though.

I sorta have to get it because my kid is getting allergy treatments (which, by the way, I totally thought was BS. no, it actually works. I was shocked. I mean VISIBLY works. This is a kid that spent six months a year looking like he had pink-eye and had visible eczema. That was ON daily antihistamines. Now? His body gives no fucks about anything. Admittedly, sometimes I think it's just the fact that they've stuck him with needles so many times now that his body is like "Fuck you, pollen. I only react to COLD STEEL").

Anyways, they won't stick him full of things he's allergic to if he doesn't have an Epipen.

Here's the kicker -- if he forgets it, they just hand him a syringe that's good for a month. Price? THREE DOLLARS. That's what the doctor charges me for the hassle of having to dig it out. II mean, sure, he has to pull his pants down to use it (goes into the thigh), but three bucks. Which is what he's doing until June, when the generics supposedly hit.

Because fuck Pfizer in their asses.

[Pennilenko]

I am the swarm king!

[Samwise]

I am the swarm king!

 

[Ironwood]

400 fucking dollars for an EpiPen? (well, a two-pack). 400 FUCKING DOLLARS?

The shit inside it has been around since 1900! It's costs less than twenty bucks for a whole bottle of it, which is like 100+ doses. 400 dollars for TWO DOSES?

I used to buy Epipens. They were 30 bucks a dose. You can't get those anymore, just these Pfizer fucking talking doses. Built off of US military designs, Pfizer just added a fucking talking chip. If they cost 20 bucks a piece, INCLUDING their research and development costs, I'll eat my fucking hat.

400 fucking dollars. Jesus fucking Christ.

I'll bet GOOD goddamn money that they drop under 50 bucks a dose come June when generics show up.

BTW, the expensive, no-insurance, no-prescription cost in Canada? 94 dollars.

Fucking gouging cunts.

Why do you hate capitalism, Commie ?

[schild]

I paid $80 for two epipens.

They're 7 years old. Had five cases of terrible hives in those five years, never used one. Took Benadryl and passed out for 10 hours after each one.

I should probably get more epipens.

[Morat20]

I paid $80 for two epipens.

They're 7 years old. Had five cases of terrible hives in those five years, never used one. Took Benadryl and passed out for 10 hours after each one.

I should probably get more epipens.

Pro-tip: They cost four hundred fucking dollars.

I used GoodRx, I googled, I looked everywhere. Unless you go to Canada, in which case it costs 94 bucks.

[Miasma]

The damn things have an expiry date too.  My young nephew needs one at his school, one at home, one at the grandparents and one for travel in case he comes in contact with tree nuts.  Have to buy them all over again each year I think it is.

Ours don't talk though...

I'm off to google youtube for talking epipen now.

Edit: Ehhh, that's mostly stupid.  The only reason I say mostly is some people are poorly trained on how to use them.  My sister watched some guy, whose job was to show people how to use them, treat it like a blood sugar meter where you just click and remove, he didn't give it any time for the damn adrenaline to actually get in the bloodstream.  At least the talking one makes it clear you have to keep those needles jammed into you for a while.

[Bunk]

Epipens are ridiculous even up here. Have a friend with a severe peanut allergy, refuses to buy any. As he sees it, they'd usually expire before he'd use one, so he won't waste the money. Last time he had an accidental exposure at work he tried driving himself to the hospital (barely able to breath). Had to stop him and make him let us drive him over. People can be stubborn

[Ironwood]

That's going to make a lovely Darwin story one day.

[Bunk]

Oh we know. Hard to tell a guy with gout, arthritis, bad knees, nut allergies, and prostate cancer to be more careful with his life though.

[Ironwood]

Fuck me.  Yeah, God pretty much got that chap in his sights.

[Miasma]

And even an expired epipen is useful if you're going to be cheap about it.  So long as you don't leave it in the glovebox on a hot day or something.

I kind of admire the uniformly cheap but the penny wise pound foolish people I find infuriating for some reason.

[Merusk]

Oh we know. Hard to tell a guy with gout, arthritis, bad knees, nut allergies, and prostate cancer to be more careful with his life though.

Ha, sounds like my good friend here.  Guy's a former football player whose knees are blown, overweight and got a MERSA infection that nearly killed him and continues to have complications. He also has a nut allergy that could kill him. No epi pen, instead he takes Benadryl and Chugs a Coke because - according to him - the acidity of the Coke counteracts his particular nut allergy. (to a point. He concedes that if the ever got more than a bite he'd have to go to the hospital.)

[Pennilenko]

Why the fuck can't I stop trying to make bigger numbers? Somebody help me please.

[Polysorbate80]

Anyways, they won't stick him full of things he's allergic to if he doesn't have an Epipen.

I had allergy shots for a couple of years as a kid.  There was never even mention of an Epipen.

[Yegolev]

Atlanta is a great city with a tough south side. Like many cities.

I was talking about neighborhoods.  I somehow managed to accidentally drive through Perry Homes one day and I felt like I was in a action-horror film, fearing for my life without even going under 35 mph.  I'm someone who commuted through "bad" neighborhoods for years, too, so I'm not being alarmist.

That said, I'd submit that the west side is also not for casual strolls.

[ezrast]

Why the fuck can't I stop trying to make bigger numbers? Somebody help me please.

If you don't make your numbers bigger, somebody else might get bigger numbers than you. You wouldn't want that, would you?

[Rasix]

Anyways, they won't stick him full of things he's allergic to if he doesn't have an Epipen.

I had allergy shots for a couple of years as a kid.  There was never even mention of an Epipen.

I get regular allergy shots.  I had to get an Epipen due to reactions to the shots.  One time had me close to going into the emergency room.  I probably should have gone as my breathing was starting to get affected.  I switched shot providers due to having regular mild reactions and a couple bad reactions.   No reactions with the new provider, although their office hours for shots are considerably worse.  Ohh well.

New provider recommends I have one, but I'm not going in for hundreds of dollars.  Their shots have at most caused arm soreness and irritation, but nothing that concerns me.

[Signe]

I've never had a lobster roll but now I want one really really bad.  With butter.  I don't put mayo on anything although sometimes I use it in cooking.

[Yegolev]

Why the fuck can't I stop trying to make bigger numbers? Somebody help me please.

If you don't make your numbers bigger, somebody else might get bigger numbers than you. You wouldn't want that, would you?

[Nevermore]

[Sky]

"Pull my finger"

Should be heading out to the family seat in Maine this autumn, now I'm dying for some robstah. We used to gorge on it when I was a kid and we had a lot of working lobstermen (most are dead now). If not for WW2, I'd have been a lobstaman meself, family business until my grandaddy got all uppity.

[Ard]

Lobstermen?  I killed a few of those.

[Morat20]

Anyways, they won't stick him full of things he's allergic to if he doesn't have an Epipen.

I had allergy shots for a couple of years as a kid.  There was never even mention of an Epipen.

That was back in the day. The allergist is basically "We're filling him full of concentrated doses of things he's allergic to. OF COURSE HE NEEDS AN EPIPEN".

[Sky]

Lobstermen?  I killed a few of those.

It's true I'm invulnerable to missile fire.

[Margalis]

I'm pretty sure I've never had lobster.

We aren't all made out of money you damn corporate fat cats!

[Abagadro]

I light my lobsters with 100 dollar bills when I smoke them.

[Nevermore]

In colonial days, lobsters were so plentiful in New England they were considered a poor person's food.

[lamaros]

When I went to Cuba all they had at every place I stayed was lobster. Lobster for dinner gets boring fairly quickly.