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  1. I'm in India...Bangalore specifically. I would love to answer questions....but you will have to be a bit more specific! How old is ds?
  2. Yes, THIS. It is just driving me insane that one person's beliefs are being labeled as "Christian" when I would guess virtually ALL of the people who celebrate Day of the Dead ARE ALSO CHRISTIANS. You can define your religion for yourself. Please don't define what it means to be Christian for the entire faith. I'm a Christian. No problem with the project. As a matter of fact, I participate in TONS of Hindu rituals here in my own home. I am no less a Christian in my own heart. You may not be a good "evangelical Protestant of the American variety" if you do the project - I couldn't speak to that.
  3. DD 14 has an allowance - there is no chance of working here. This year we have transitioned to her paying for going out with friends, spending on birthday gifts for friends, buying clothes if she is out shopping with friends, etc. If we go out shopping together and she wants some item of clothing, I will offer what I am willing to spend and she can chip in the balance if she really wants to get the item. Turns out she is pretty frugal with her own money!
  4. I would send DH and 10 year old, no hesitation. Great trip, time with the family, no issues about exams. They should get to go and have a great time! It is unfortunately that in life we cannot always do EVERYTHING we want to do. I would understand it if the HS kids were disappointed but...thats life. Exams are important. Trips are a perk. I would be a little bummed that I couldn't go...but that wouldn't last long. I have sent DD and DH to Leh and Ladakh (here in the Himalayas) while DS and I stayed home because he had school. It was a fabulous bonding opportunity for the two of them.
  5. The internet outrage machine ramps up quicker and quicker it seems. And it acts with fewer and fewer facts. These are human beings on the other side. People whose lives, reputations, friendships are being destroyed by strangers on the internet being outraged over something they literally know almost NOTHING about. Yet that doesn't stop them from calling her names, judging her actions, condemning her behavior. I really, really hope that you never do one stupid thing in your entire life. I hope you are perfect and wonderful all the time. I hope you never lose your temper, never say something you don't mean, never act in a way that you later regret. Because in this day and age, someone somewhere is bound to tweet/FB/post about it and before you know it your ENTIRE LIFE could be ruined. I thought we were all bigger than this.
  6. I cannot tell you the number of lectures I have recevied from DH on which curries go with rice and which curries go with chapati or naan. Next time he pulls that lecture out....I'm going to eat the rice with my chappati and watch his head explode!!
  7. Attempted FRAUD? Seriously? You think an attorney put his license on the line to help this lady recoup her medical expenses?? The court has a method for dealing with frivolous lawsuits - why not leave it to the judge to make that call. She most likely did not "know it wasn't negligence." She was probably told by the lawyer - there is a "chance" of recovery. She took her chance. She lost. That is the way the system works. Imagine the outrage we could grow if we had a story in this day and age about the woman who sued McDonalds because her coffee was too hot. Oh, cue the public outrage. Except, if you saw the pictures of the horrific burns she suffered, and discovered the McDonalds had a setting for their coffee that was much, much hotter than anything considered safe in the industry you would understand the full picture. You, we, none of us have the full picture. The outrage and the name calling and the judgment is just disgusting.
  8. Ok you just blew my mind...you use the naan to eat the rice???
  9. Or, maybe, she is trying to rehabilitate her reputation after being dubbed the "Auntie-Christ" by all and sundry on the internet.
  10. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3272025/Jury-rejects-New-York-aunt-s-127-000-bid-sue-nephew-breaking-wrist-welcoming-EIGHTH-birthday.html Too bad we don't have a way on social media to apologize for all the nasty comments made about the Aunt.
  11. Here in South India chutney is eated with some of the more typical breakfast foods - dosa (kind of like crepes), idli (steamed rice cakes) , vada (fried dough-ish). Some of our weekly chutneys are - tomato, peanut, coconut and mint. We wouldn't serve chutney at a regular dinner of rice and a veg. curry. Sometimes mint chutney is served with a chicken kabob. That really is all that I have seen done with chutney here. I think perhaps the traditional Indian chutney was changed a bit by English palates and perhaps what is now known as a "chutney" is a bit more English than Indian.
  12. It is interesting to me that they offered $1. Why would they do that? In my eyes that looks like an admission of liability.
  13. I'm not sure that is the case. The child was found to be not negligent, I believe. When a case is completely without legal basis, courts can impose a fine for the frivolous suit. I haven't seen anywhere that she faces any type of penalty for bringing a frivolous suit. Most people would be surprised, I believe, how many different arguments can all have a basis in the law. As a legal researcher I can find a legal basis for arguing almost anything under the sun. It is only the very rare case that has no basis at all.
  14. Not forced to sue by her health insurance company...but by the homeowner's insurance company who, apparently, offered her $1. Whether or not the claim was in the end successful, she had a right to sue. The jury did its job and found that there was no negligence. People sue and lose all the time. Very rarely, in my experience, is a claim found to be completely without basis.
  15. The lawyers are speaking: Jainchill & Beckert, Connell's law firm, said her nephew's parents' insurance company offered her $1 over the fall, which occurred at their home. She had no choice but to sue to pay medical bills, they said, adding that she has had two surgeries and could face a third, her lawyers said. "From the start, this was a case ... about one thing: Getting medical bills paid by homeowner's insurance," the law firm said Wednesday in an emailed statement. "Our client was never looking for money from her nephew or his family." Peter Kochenburger, an insurance law specialist at the University of Connecticut School of Law, said state law typically requires those claiming injury to sue the individual responsible. "In Connecticut and most states, if you have a claim against someone for negligence, you sue that individual, not the insurance company," he said. http://news.yahoo.com/attorneys-law-forced-woman-sue-nephew-over-medical-160812692.html
  16. I would think by now we have had the internet long enough for all of us to be VERY careful about rushing to judgment. Alas, not. Once everyone decided (in a 24 hour news cycle) that this woman was evil...the truth came out. This is an insurance industry problem. This is a problem, perhaps, with the way the law is written in CT. The woman at issue and the child at issue and his family all maintain good relationships. Why should we be more upset than they are? Because we don't know the whole story. Relax people. Wait for the full news cycle before condemming people.
  17. Proving negligence is not easy. Just because things don't work out doesn't make the doctor negligent. Did the doctor act in a way that other doctors in that specialty in your area would act? Did he get fully informed consent from your mom? These are the questions that you need to answer to understand a negligence case.
  18. I recently listed to a podcast about storage spaces - maybe it was 99% Invisible. Anyways, the interesting fact was of the 58,000 storage facilities worldwide in 2009, 46,000 were located in the United States!!!! I think we have a stuff problem in America!
  19. Have to agree with my fellow (sister?) attorneys above. A lawyer will not take the case unless there is a good argument to make because most likely it will be taken on a contingent fee basis (they only get paid if they win). However, there may be some upfront costs to investigate/research the matter. She should know that there is probably no way to isolate the doctor from the lawsuit. It may depend on the doctor's relationship to the practice at issue. At some level, the doctor will be involved.
  20. Just a thought. Here we had a certain stretch of road that was infamous for causing flat tires. Turns out a tire repair shop was placing nails all over the road to drum up business! Might not be happening in your case, but seems weird that you get it after leaving work every time!
  21. We have had a chip and pin system here in India for a few years. No signatures when using credit card. Great fraud protection - if the card is stolen totally useless for anyone without the pin. I remember when the switch happened it was a pain for a little while because shops hadn't totally adapted. Many times in restaurants I had to get up and walk to wherever the cc machine was to enter the pin. Sometimes this was back in the kitchen! Now, however, all the restaurants have wireless cc readers that come to the table. Same for home deliveries. We still have lots of things that come COD. We can pay using a cc and a pin. For online transactions there is a different system that is used here - a one time pin that is generated online from the bank for use in that online purchase.
  22. For those of you trying to get through to relatives...some hope! My mom has a lot of stuff. Not a horder. But too much stuff for her rather tiny living space. When I went out to visit last spring I broght Kondo's book and read it out loud to her. She would roll her eyes at me. She did allow me to declutter some spaces that she could no longer access. I took a few car loads of stuff to Goodwill. I also took a bunch of stuff off her hands that would get used at my place - she had an entire plastic tub full of brand new decorative napkins and paper plats - all picked up at the dollar store for a buck but she is not in a party throwing space any more. She is very willing to give stuff to me but not so much to just donate. Anyways, her room/closet has always been filled to bursting. I couldn't even start in there. I spoke to her last week - she was Kondoizing her clothes!! Everything came out and she could not believe what she was discovering. Things she bought and didn't remember having. Spanx that were purchased, worn once and then never worn again. Tons and tons of clothes that are now much too big for her. This weekend she got rid of NINE large garbage bags of clothes, shoes, purses, etc. She kept one pile of things to tailor down to size. She is so thrilled! Her closets are so tiny I can't even imagine how nine bags of stuff fit in there. She has documented everything she is donating and bringing it to a thrift shop that supports a women's charity. She is super happy and finally understanding what I have been trying to tell her for years about the lightness that you feel when you are not bogged down with stuff. I believe this is also healing from the divorce my parents had almost 15 years ago. When you lose your home, and the future you thought you had, I think it makes you hold on to other things tighter. So this is a real breakthrough I feel. So there is hope! Edited to add - spoke to her this morning - three more bags added! She is on a roll!
  23. Would be surprised if I said "everyone is always in danger in the US." I am an American. Living in FEAR is what I said above. Very different from living in DANGER. Living in FEAR is very clear from all the posts in this thread and other similar threads about how everyone needs their guns to defend themselves. From what? Either from real danger or perceived danger. I believe it is perceived danger. I have said that in India we don't have to worry about being SHOT. We don't have to worry about our children being SHOT. The preception of danger is the basis for every single argument re: gun ownership in order to defend ones self, home, family. I didn't say everyone in the US was in danger. The gun supporters make that argument again and again.
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