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pits

Original Poster:

6,689 posts

213 months

Friday 14th August 2009
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Talk about getting something wrong,

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=3...

Here is the article now it has been edited to fix the major problem they had put in there amongst the detritus of paragraphs, claiming at one point that a group of NHS thugs decides who lives and who dies, comes a legendary statement.

Here is what it originally said
said:
“People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn't have a chance in the U.K., where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless.”
For those people who live on the far side of the moon, or the US, there are a couple of mistakes in that comment. Essentially:

1. Stephen Hawking is British and lives in the UK.
2. Stephen Hawking is British and lives in the UK.


I appreciate that this is really only one point, but it is such a big one that it was worth mentioning twice. As one internet wag put it, "Well, they probably couldn't tell he was British from his accent!"



Honestly? They have edited it now, to try and make themselves look less dull with the statement at the top of that link

said:
Editor's Note: This version corrects the original editorial which implied that physicist Stephen Hawking, a professor at the University of Cambridge, did not live in the UK.

GTIR

24,741 posts

289 months

Friday 14th August 2009
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Slightly off topic; I was in John Lewis earlier this year looking at digi TV's and got wacked in the back of my shin, right by the tendons, it bloody hurt.
Spun round and you guessed it bloody Hawkings!

He looked at me like it was my fault...actually that's what he looks like all the time come to think of it.


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Carfiend

3,186 posts

232 months

Friday 14th August 2009
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Wait so when we was saying that he was happy with the care he received yesterday and thanked the NHS for allowing him to live his life they were putting words into his robot mouth?

We might bh about the NHS but it is our NHS and we are British so we can bh about it all we want but you yanks can go get fked and come back when you care for people who are not rich... which will be never... wkers.

pits

Original Poster:

6,689 posts

213 months

Friday 14th August 2009
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To be honest, I have private healthcare to many fk ups from the NHS/local hospital.

How can a "newspaper" make such a massive fk up though and try and cover there tracks, as if to say "yeah we werent wrong, honestly, we just errr typed it wrong"

To quote again a same paragraph

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editor's Note: This version corrects the original editorial which implied that physicist Stephen Hawking, a professor at the University of Cambridge, did not live in the UK.
No he does not only live in the the UK and teach in the UK, he is from the UK, Born and raised in Britain, he is British, he lives in Britain, so your not implying that he doesnt live in the UK, you have admited that fk up, but what about the fact he is British, and that you have edited the comment relating to your fk up out completely


Horrible thing is I suppose this isnt really a tabloid paper as such, its for investors and businessmen and they are reading this st, and probably believing it

MentalSarcasm

6,083 posts

234 months

Friday 14th August 2009
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I'd rather have free healthcare than the American system.

Sorry to the Americans on here, not meaning to bash your country, but I know too many Americans that have told me their own stories of trying to find the cash for procedures (latest is one friend who had to find $6000 for a gallbladder removal, husband doesn't get health insurance through work).

sleep envy

62,260 posts

272 months

Friday 14th August 2009
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MentalSarcasm said:
I'd rather have free healthcare than the American system.

Sorry to the Americans on here, not meaning to bash your country, but I know too many Americans that have told me their own stories of trying to find the cash for procedures (latest is one friend who had to find $6000 for a gallbladder removal, husband doesn't get health insurance through work).
I wonder what the difference would be between NI subs and BUPA payments

jammy_basturd

29,778 posts

235 months

Friday 14th August 2009
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MentalSarcasm said:
I'd rather have free healthcare than the American system.

Sorry to the Americans on here, not meaning to bash your country, but I know too many Americans that have told me their own stories of trying to find the cash for procedures (latest is one friend who had to find $6000 for a gallbladder removal, husband doesn't get health insurance through work).
How much is it for healthcare in America? I guess it is quite dependant on each individual thinking about it?

HNS costs £100b a year (figure plucked from internet), 60m people, suggests that each of us is paying £1k a year. Obviously my calculation has no founding in the real world (there aren't 60m paying NI), but it just goes to show!!

Dupont666

22,541 posts

215 months

Friday 14th August 2009
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sleep envy said:
MentalSarcasm said:
I'd rather have free healthcare than the American system.

Sorry to the Americans on here, not meaning to bash your country, but I know too many Americans that have told me their own stories of trying to find the cash for procedures (latest is one friend who had to find $6000 for a gallbladder removal, husband doesn't get health insurance through work).
I wonder what the difference would be between NI subs and BUPA payments
Bupa payment equated to about £350 a year via the company

RichBurley

2,432 posts

276 months

Friday 14th August 2009
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Dupont666 said:
sleep envy said:
MentalSarcasm said:
I'd rather have free healthcare than the American system.

Sorry to the Americans on here, not meaning to bash your country, but I know too many Americans that have told me their own stories of trying to find the cash for procedures (latest is one friend who had to find $6000 for a gallbladder removal, husband doesn't get health insurance through work).
I wonder what the difference would be between NI subs and BUPA payments
Bupa payment equated to about £350 a year via the company
Does BUPA offer a full A&E service at any hospital, for paying customers?

Dupont666

22,541 posts

215 months

Friday 14th August 2009
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RichBurley said:
Dupont666 said:
sleep envy said:
MentalSarcasm said:
I'd rather have free healthcare than the American system.

Sorry to the Americans on here, not meaning to bash your country, but I know too many Americans that have told me their own stories of trying to find the cash for procedures (latest is one friend who had to find $6000 for a gallbladder removal, husband doesn't get health insurance through work).
I wonder what the difference would be between NI subs and BUPA payments
Bupa payment equated to about £350 a year via the company
Does BUPA offer a full A&E service at any hospital, for paying customers?
Last time I went into A&E was to ask the Bupa doctor there to see my shattered collar bone, we arrnage a time after he had finished the A&E stuff and he went and opened up his clinic specially for me and didnt charge.

hehe

Neil_H

15,407 posts

274 months

Friday 14th August 2009
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The NHS would be better off if it was a little more picky about who could receive treatment. fk the fatties off for starters, along with non-reparatory cosmetic surgery.

MkGriff

716 posts

304 months

Friday 14th August 2009
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GTIR said:
Slightly off topic; I was in John Lewis earlier this year looking at digi TV's and got wacked in the back of my shin, right by the tendons, it bloody hurt.
Spun round and you guessed it bloody Hawkings!

He looked at me like it was my fault...actually that's what he looks like all the time come to think of it.


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You should have hit Ctrl Alt Del on his keyboard. That would have nobbled him for 5 mins!