Recruiting Forum Football Talk IX

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VolsDoc81TX said:
Yup, I had a paper route that taught me a lot of responsibility. I had to collect the money for the monthly paper. Deal with people who would dodge me to get out of paying for the paper that they requested. Then complain to the paper when I just stood on their front porch rining their doorbell once a minute until they answered the door to pay me for the last 3 months that they had stiffed me for their paper. The paper would not let me withhold the paper delivery until they paid either. But I still had to pay the paper fee to the company. I had to pay for the plastic bags to keep their papers from getting wet. Taught me how to manage a checking account and my business expenses.

It was an educational experience that I still cherish. Taught me a work ethic that cannot be taught. Taught responsibility. I got up at 3:30AM every day from age 12 to 16. I worked two jobs from 15 1/2 to almost 17 when I finally found a job that would pay me more than my paper route and my second job combined. I was able to buy a 10 speed bike, a tent and camping gear, and my first car with the money that I saved. I bought my first car one month after my 16th birthday.

There were some very hard lessons in there, but also the only way oI would have been able to get a car. Single parent household. Wouldn’t trade it for anything. 🤠
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Just imagine if you had stayed with that paper route. By now, you could have run all the paper routes in the area. But noooo, you had to go and become a doctor.
 
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Big Orange#1 said:
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Not sure when you were in high school but $30 per hour today is what $15 per hour was in 2000. whew. And yes everyone complaining about the UT ticket prices should take up their complaints with the Federal Reserve and the laws of Supply and Demand. Danny White has no power over them lol
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Yeah $15 back then was livable. Hell I lived off of $10 per hour in 2007, 8. Plus tips. People out there need help, but, also need to want to help themselves. There's always a middle ground.
 
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Adam Sandler said:
The longer I look at it the more I agree with timber rattler. Bands are too thin for a copperhead. Size is too big for a massasauga.

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Yeah. The chevron markings give it away and that single, narrow stripe down the center
Copperheads have Hershey's Kisses markings.
 
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barrylee said:
Fatim Diggs, a linebacker for Cuse says they gonna show Tennessee how we do things in the ACC!

Made that comment a few weeks ago, surprised we haven’t seen this widely reported.

Hope we jump out early and often!
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Yeah and the little 2 lb yappy dog next door barks like he!! at my 120 lb behemoth right before he eats a supper that weighs 10 lbs.
 
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bignewt said:
HAPPY DRAFT DAY(ONE OF THE GREATEST DAYS, PEOPLE HAVE CALLED ME, MANY PEOPLE, AND HAVE SAID THIS) TO THOSE WHO CELEBRATE! AND IF YOU DON"T YOU SHOULD GO TO LOSER CANADA! THANK YOU FOR YORU ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER - BN
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Apologies to the league, but I’ll be like the legislators in Texas - a no show. Daughter has a cross country meet tonight. Only Friday meet of the season……
 
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barrylee said:
Fatim Diggs, a linebacker for Cuse says they gonna show Tennessee how we do things in the ACC!

Made that comment a few weeks ago, surprised we haven’t seen this widely reported.

Hope we jump out early and often!
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Syracuse Linebacker Provides Bulletin Board Material for Tennessee Ahead of Season-Opener | Rocky Top Insider

Tennessee football may have a quote to stick on its bulletin board before the Vols meet Syracuse in Atlanta to open the season.
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franklinpence said:
Apologies to the league, but I’ll be like the legislators in Texas - a no show. Daughter has a cross country meet tonight. Only Friday meet of the season……
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you dont have a phone? its a cross country meet, once she starts running you won't be seeing any action for a hot minute...
 
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VolsDoc81TX said:
You may be blaming the doctors for an insurance issue. Does your insurance plan cover ApoE genotyping?

10-15 years ago a swab of the cheek sent for genetic testing could tell us white narcotic analgesic would work best for you, which one could give you issues and which ones were unlikely to work. Could obtain the same data for anti-depressants.

Imagine the benefits of that simple test. Insurances quit paying for it after about 6 months. I still offer it to patients, but I have not had a single patient who paid out of pocket due to the cost.

I read a lot of your posts and physicians are vilified frequently. Maybe you pick really bad doctors or maybe you are vilifying the wrong group. I have battled insurance companies for over 30 years now. I’m about over it. Especially when the patient yells at me and my staff for the issues caused by their own damn insurance. Did I advise your boss or you on which insurance policy to pick? No! Did I pick your medicare advantage plan for you? No!
Let the buyer beware.

End rant 😡

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Vilify doctors? No. Vilify the system? Sure.

But even among doctors, there are different schools of thought. You've expressed very strong negative opinions about doctors who use alternative methods, but some of them are *curing* cancers and dementia. I have tremendous respect for them. A mainstream neuro will give you a $1k a month AD drug that is virtually useless, while he is completely unaware of the implications of the ApoE4 gene and methods that are successfully treating AD. Who's fault is that? The doctor's or the system's? Little of both I'd say.

Recent example. When I learned than I had a bicuspid aortic valve and would likely require surgery someday, I started looking for ways to slow or reverse calcification. While researching options, I saw a forum post where the poster asked a cardiac surgeon about Vit K2 and recent research showing potential benefit in calcification. The doc responded with a summary dismissal and explanation that Vit K was for clotting. Seriously? Vit K1 is for clotting, but Vit K2 is the activator of Matrix GLA Protein and osteocalcin, the two proteins responsible for removing calcium from soft tissue and putting it into bones. Ignorance? Arrogance? Greed? He's a valve surgeon...I'm guessing all of the above. Cleveland Clinic guy, BTW. Best of the best.

As for costs and insurance...I'm a small businessman. I have a high deductible plan, so even things that are covered aren't really covered. My PCP and cardiologist are both cash guys...it costs me far less that way. My echo and initial cardio consult was about $400. My wife's UT-based cardio bills insurance about 3x that for just an echo. Not sure you can blame insurance for that.

And the ApoE4 test is $125 and you can get the order on the web. Zero reason not to know.
 
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Big Orange#1 said:
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Not sure when you were in high school but $30 per hour today is what $15 per hour was in 2000. whew. And yes everyone complaining about the UT ticket prices should take up their complaints with the Federal Reserve and the laws of Supply and Demand. Danny White has no power over them lol
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That doesn't make me any happier that perhaps a large part of our fan base is priced out from attending games. We're going from the Beer and Brats crowd to the Champagne and Grey Poupon folks (lil exaggeration).
 
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Outofmyvolcanmind said:
My wife walked into my game room the other day to find me watching simulated games between us and Syracuse on YouTube. She just had this look that screamed "pathetic" on her face as she walked out. I suppose I have that same feeling when I see her watching the Gilded Age.
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Lol she doesnt understand, but we here, understand and got your back GBO🍊
 
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Outofmyvolcanmind said:
My wife walked into my game room the other day to find me watching simulated games between us and Syracuse on YouTube. She just had this look that screamed "pathetic" on her face as she walked out. I suppose I have that same feeling when I see her watching the Gilded Age.
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You're both right 😆
 
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screenthis said:
That doesn't make me any happier that perhaps a large part of our fan base is priced out from attending games. We're going from the Beer and Brats crowd to the Champagne and Grey Poupon folks (lil exaggeration).
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Well I go to all home and many road games and I never see Mister and Miss Howell there. More like the beer and likker crowd.
 
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