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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?
Date: 2 Jan 2025 20:36:11 GMT
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On Thu, 2 Jan 2025 12:17:18 +0100, D wrote:

> On Wed, 1 Jan 2025, rbowman wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 1 Jan 2025 12:58:28 +0100, D wrote:
>>
>>> I think this has been tried in sweden as well. Sweden also started to
>>> charge a minimum fee of around 20 EUR or so to get rid of old people
>>> who just went to the doctor to socialize when it was free.
>>
>> But you meet the nicest people. When I checked in for last year's exam
>> the receptionist led me to an exam room which sort of surprised me
>> since there's usually a short wait. When I walked in my doctor and the
>> woman in the room were rather surprised too.
>>
>> It turned out the receptionist had been told her husband was going to
>> pick her up and the first old fart through the door would do as her
>> husband.
> 
> Brilliant! And you are now happily living together I assume? ;)

I get along well with my ex on the phone. She's about 2000 miles away and 
it's better that way. It may say something about our personalities that 
neither of us remarried.

A few years after his wife died my brother remarried. I think that was 
something he needed.