Can't make this (stuff) up

[O Really]

The 1/5 article is short on details, but it sounds like owner Miles Walker's oily penny stupidity led to his also being busted for shorting other workers:

... The DOL’s Wage and Hour Division found that Walker failed to pay his employees “legally required overtime” when they worked a 40-hour-plus work week and did not “keep adequate and accurate records of employees’ pay rates and work hours,” according to the release....

Yeah, that's the way it works. If the investigator has the idea that an unlawful practice might be systemic, his/her eyes light up and some of them start to drool. Next will come a records "request" (that could turn into a subpoena) for everything related to the pay, hours worked, lunch practices of everybody who worked there for one or more days in the last three years. And if you don't have the records, they hammer you for that. I paid for a lot of toys over the years just to keep these people fairly happy and calm and keep them from going rabid.

[neoplacebo]

I envision a country western type song about oily pennies......maybe "Baby, I Thought it Was True Love But it Was Oily Pennies Out The Ass." Or "I Should Have Put My Baby's Oily Pennies Back Where They Came From." ok
I just changed this from "county western" to "country western" to be more transparent, as well as correct an error.

[Ulysses]

I envision a county western type song about oily pennies......maybe "Baby, I Thought it Was True Love But it Was Oily Pennies Out The Ass." Or "I Should Have Put My Baby's Oily Pennies Back Where They Came From." ok

Eat less oil, more fiber.

[Vrede too]

Guess who.

Spoiler:

Rebel Wilson!

[GoCubsGo]

Ewww, and lock him up!

A transplant surgeon used an electric beam to burn his initials into patients' organs. He just lost his medical license.

[billy.pilgrim]

Ewww, and lock him up!

A transplant surgeon used an electric beam to burn his initials into patients' organs. He just lost his medical license.

Lost in 2013, he almost got in back recently. Pretty damn light penalty too for an author/doctor of retirement age.

"One of their books - "The Letterman" - is about a surgeon exposed for inscribing his initials on a donor liver during a lifesaving transplant operation, upending his life and the life of his patient while creating a firestorm in the media and the medical world.

The Scalpel Stories"

[Ulysses]

Sort of like some people used to brand their slaves, no?

[neoplacebo]

Sort of like some people used to brand their slaves, no?

If I had one of those Bull Buster cattle prods I'd be sorely tempted to use it on you. I guess I'll have go go ahead and buy one. And I've whipped more than a few women just after midnight. But only the ones who wanted to engage in what was at the time considered bad behaviour.

[O Really]

Sort of like some people used to brand their slaves, no?

I think the doc was more like signing his work than branding the patient. Actually, if he had done it before he installed the organ, I personally wouldn't have thought it a big deal if it didn't harm the organ.

[Ulysses]

Sort of like some people used to brand their slaves, no?

I think the doc was more like signing his work than branding the patient. Actually, if he had done it before he installed the organ, I personally wouldn't have thought it a big deal if it didn't harm the organ.

From the linked story, it appears that the way they discovered his organ branding was when the transplanted organ failed and had to be removed. Not stated was whether the branding was the cause of the organ failure.

[billy.pilgrim]

I think the doc was more like signing his work than branding the patient. Actually, if he had done it before he installed the organ, I personally wouldn't have thought it a big deal if it didn't harm the organ.

In fact most slaves in Connecticut were branded.

[Vrede too]

From the linked story, it appears that the way they discovered his organ branding was when the transplanted organ failed and had to be removed. Not stated was whether the branding was the cause of the organ failure.

You fail comprehension yet again. It is stated that the tagging did no physical harm to the patients:

... In 2018, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, where Bramhall was employed, told BBC News the surgeon had made "a mistake" but said it had "no impact whatsoever on the quality of his clinical outcomes."

... Such marks normally heal and disappear. But at least one of the livers Bramhall branded was otherwise damaged, leaving it unable to heal and erase the doctor's initials, the BBC reported.

... At his sentencing, the judge acknowledged that the physical harm the patients suffered was "no more than transient or trifling," although he said the emotional and psychological impact was severe, the Daily Mail reported....

Pay attention.

[Ulysses]

I think the doc was more like signing his work than branding the patient. Actually, if he had done it before he installed the organ, I personally wouldn't have thought it a big deal if it didn't harm the organ.

In fact most slaves in Connecticut were branded.

None of my ancestors lived in Connecticut when slavery in the USA was legal.

So go find another tree to piss on.

[neoplacebo]

Sort of like some people used to brand their slaves, no?

I think the doc was more like signing his work than branding the patient. Actually, if he had done it before he installed the organ, I personally wouldn't have thought it a big deal if it didn't harm the organ.

I would have written "this side up" on it.

[Ulysses]

Sort of like some people used to brand their slaves, no?

I think the doc was more like signing his work than branding the patient. Actually, if he had done it before he installed the organ, I personally wouldn't have thought it a big deal if it didn't harm the organ.

I would have written "this side up" on it.

Not "Patent Pending" ?

[neoplacebo]

I might have gone with "patient pending" but not with what you suggested.

[Ulysses]

I might have gone with "patient pending" but not with what you suggested.

So in your world, "This side up" has the same meaning as "Patient Pending" ?

[neoplacebo]

I might have gone with "patient pending" but not with what you suggested.

So in your world, "This side up" has the same meaning as "Patient Pending" ?

Goddamn failure of comprehension on steroids......no. "patient pending" was just my humorous take on your "patent pending" suggestion. But evidently in "your world" "patent pending" and "patient pending" are the same. "This side up" has no correlation to either "patent pending" or "patient pending."

On the driver side outside mirror of my car there is a pun on the "objects in mirror are closer than they appear" label that says "objects in mirror will soon disappear." To further explain, the ".....are closer than they appear" statement is only on the passenger outside mirror so I put this label on my driver side mirror for the sake of symmetry. I knew which side was up on the little transfer rub off thing I used. No patents involved.

[Ulysses]

OK, you seem a bit more confused than usual.

First you stated:

Post by neoplacebo » Sat Jan 15, 2022 3:45 am

I would have written "this side up" on it.

Then, less than 24 hours later, you stated,

Post by neoplacebo » Sun Jan 16, 2022 2:04 am

I might have gone with "patient pending" but not with what you suggested.

I'm sorry you could not make up your mind, but it's really not my problem, is it?

[Vrede too]

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You're up at 4:21 am just to be so stupid? Wow. neoplacebo merely stated that he prefers "patient pending" over your "patent pending" as a possible alternative to "this side up". He did not say that "this side up" and "patient pending" have "the same meaning". Pay attention.