Your second toe is a Morton’s toe
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If you name a cat after an invasive species junk fish that’s what you get
I was just there to buy drugs, not deal with the attack cat.
I had to look that up. Interesting, because shooting takedowns always really killed my big toe. I’d opt for either throwing or letting them shoot and sprawl, then work around them to a takedown because of this.
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Change your name to Royal Toe or Turkey Toe… you’d think it would give you more traction but probably only caused drag on the mat
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Turkey toe with a mean chicken wing. 
Could arm drag that thing
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I suppose. My claim to fame was getting a 12 second pin from Kery Kolat. We went from standing to pinned in one swiftly botched attempt at a single leg.
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Practice or in a match? I wrestled Karelin and Sanderson back-to-back. Barely lost
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A match. 7th or 8th grade. He was from one county to the south. Western PA has always had some seriously competitive wrestling programs.
Edit: also, those are two bad mofos. Holding your own against them is pretty damn good.
Your story is true… mine wasn’t
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Bastard! You got me!
That freakin monkey toe kept me from olympic gold!
Thats a lie though. Drug abuse and and an inability to give a fuck were 1st and 2nd, monkey toe was waaaay down the list.
My one old coaches son just took the NCAA championship in 197 and Kurt Angle wrestled in the borough next door, so when someone says they got their ass flailed by a legend, I tend to believe them! 
Foxcatcher … I have a shirt
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All the best wrestlers/teams come from regions with bad winters.
Cuz why not beat the shit out of eachother for 4 months per year? There ain’t nothing else to do.
@Njord thanks for your thought-provoking posts in this thread. I’m not going to debate due to time constraints, but I’ve been reading along. My point would not be to disagree with you, but to focus on the corruption that makes it near-impossible for a “regular person” to fight the machine. My former BIL was a whistle-blower against one of the big hospital groups in Texas. He was administrative, working in Austin. It’s all been 20 years ago now and I can’t remember his job title or the hospital group (it was back when my kids were tiny, the early 90’s maybe), but he was awarded $13 million dollars for his part. Lotta money now, even more back then.
I wonder why you feel the need to post “shenanigans” when you clearly understand that it’s annoying and that most people completely ignore you. I wouldn’t bother saying this because what point harassing you for dropping little piles of nothing into threads where interesting discussions are happening, but this post of yours seems to suggest you want things for yourself and want to learn.
Maybe it’s time to stop being the 7-year-old who disrupts conversations with loud burps, then laughs when people look irritated?
I agree, there is a lot of corruption. I know you’re not debating but I would call attention to the fact your BIL was whistling against a big hospital group.
My own experience with hospitals has been unhappy.
One was for emergency care after my motorcycle accident. I wasn’t in a state to shop around and it was incredibly expensive because while the hospital was in network and listed as my preference considering, the staff they contracted to work both the emergency room and ICU were not, so that was fun.
When my wife gave birth, there were some major billing errors. The most egregious was an emergency room charge for something like $9k, but neither she nor our daughter visited the emergency room. While going back and forth with billing, they sent me to collections for non-payment. This dropped my credit score from 800+ to the low 600s and I had to hire a lawyer to write a demand letter showing record of the alleged visit before they apologized and said it was a mistake, but it still took me 2 years to clear things up with bureaus. The hospital wasn’t so quick to correct their reporting.
They do this shit to insurance companies too, on a regular basis, which leverages them out as well when scaling across many people.
While insurance companies do make mistakes, the billing and coding errors on the provider side are nearly unchecked and probably should be regulated more tightly than they are.
When running through insurance, hospitals know it’s a telephone game. They bill whatever they want knowing insurance isn’t going to contact the individual patient for a line item audit of services.
It’s insane.
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So why is that and how would you fix it?
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Oh, I realize. However, I think there are similarities and we know there is overlap.
My belief is that lobbying activity represents active corruption. I can’t/won’t vouch for the integrity of this random google hit site, but its chart offers this re: leading lobbying industries. It squares with my sense of things, which is neither here nor there, but I am not alone in this “sense of things.”
Find more statistics at Statista
You say “read your policy” as if I have options. Most people don’t. My employer makes these decisions without my input (though I can of course leave for another job or pay twice as much privately) and there are subtle changes each year - none, it seems, for the better. I am paying middle men to sell the products to my employer despite my employer being a hospital, and so not naive to health needs and costs. Meanwhile, while I was once able to pay cash for a c-section when I discovered that we were not covered for maternity, that would be impossible today for families in the income range we were then (husband starting a business, me underemployed with small children). Perhaps it all seems very obvious to you. My husband is a biomedical engineer. He can plumb in a new bathroom, maintain a 1947 dump truck, and wire an outlet if I need one in a dark corner. I don’t feel any of the fear I once did of mechanics and such - we won’t be robbed, because it’s all very obvious to my husband. He knows what’s wrong, just doesn’t have the equipment or motivation to fix it himself.
Neither of us are equipped to read the fine print of insurance policies. Which of course is where corruption thrives. So as someone offered above, I have to count on my government, using the funds I pay them, to regulate these industries on my behalf.
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