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"The Plate in my head wasn't big enough" makes no sense

posted 6 months ago by avortac4 (3478)
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Maybe I am completely out of bounds here, I don't really know the 'The United States Of American(R)' welfare system very well, but how the heck does it make any sense to give out some kind of healthcare based on the SIZE of the metallic part in someone's body?

Really? The SIZE dictates whether you are eligible for welfare or unemployment money, dole, or whatever it's called? THE SIZE?!

Shouldn't the amount of disability, how able you are, your injuries, the damage, your pain, your doctor's opinion and so on be more prevalent than the actual physical SIZE of the plate? I mean, what kind of sense does that make?

Let's say there are two people - one of them has a small plate in their head, but they are not able to function all that well, the other has most of their skull replaced by metal, but they can function perfectly and jog every day.

Does the latter individual get welfare (or whatever it is), and the former gets nothing?

What kind of insane policy is that? How inhuman is that?!

SIZE of the plate?! WHAT?!

It makes NO sense!

[–] SandyR (7362) 6 months ago

Randy Quaid said something that didn't make sense? Odd.

[–] nyctc7 (41295) 6 months ago

It was the asbestos talking

[–] cv1cv (383) 5 months ago

Avortac4 (3271), let try to enlighten you a little since you seem to be completely clueless. The movie is FICTION, and it is a COMEDY. It doesn't have to conform to reality. It was one of many, many funny moments in the movie. And before you get your bowels in an uproar, I should tell you that the actress who played Aunt Edna didn't really die. Nor did the dog.

[–] 123Guy (6182) 5 months ago

The OP is manic and always posts this pointless stuff.
Or it's just an ai bot spewing crap. We're about to see a lot more like that with ai.

[–] cv1cv (383) 5 months ago

I doubt it's AI. AI wouldn't make such a stupid comment.

[–] 123Guy (6182) 5 months ago

if it's smart it would. to act like a weird, faulty human, throwing us off.

[–] KingBob (408) 4 months ago

He apparently has a plate in his head for the trauma he sustained during the war but the government decided his trauma wasn’t bad enough for him to receive disability.