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And if anyone challenges it, just say you’re bi but that wasn’t an option.
Even the Gay Parking Only spots give you more questions than that
the what
so reverse “gay for pay”… got it
Pretty sure the reverse of “gay for pay” would be paying for pretending to be gay 🤔
The US likes their slaves with as few off days as can be prevented by less than ¢50…$.5¿ Never really did learn the finer… Of financial punctuation.
No, no, it goes after the number for cents, 50¢, before for dollars, $50
Why? 'Murica I guess.
I’m really surprised to hear that somewhere in the EU doesn’t cover the cost of preventative vaccines. In the USA, even the most basic insurance covers vaccines for HPV and a bunch of other stuff.
Not all vaccines, but some, yeah.
At least in Germany, insurance generally only covers the vaccines recommended by a federal expert group of physicians and statisticians called the Stiko, standing committee on vaccination, who tend to be conservative in their recommendations. The HPV vaccine is only recommended for under 18 year olds and it can be difficult to find a physician who will go against the recommendation for liability reasons.
Wait, what? Difficult to find a physician who will give you an HPV vaccine even if you pay for it?
I find that hard to believe. I’d imagine the STIKO recommendations are the German implementation of a national vaccination schedule. That wouldn’t mean they’re in any way against other vaccines, just that those are not deemed vital for population safety.
But I’m just guessing here. Difficulties in getting required vaccines seems completely insane.
If you’re over 18 you most likely already have been exposed to HPV so a vaccine is pointless. Not a doctor might be wrong, but that’s the rationale behind only giving it to minors.
I can understand that rationale, but that just makes it less useful for adults (at least probabilistically). That doesn’t mean adults should be prevented from getting one, just be advised that they likely already have the immunity.
That 87€ would likely be the standard price without any additional coverage though.
Still does seem a bit pricey if its just one shot but also seems like a number OOOP just made up on a guesstimate.
Idk about one shot, at least in USA they give you 3 different shots with 9 months between the first one and the last one
In the United States even the most basic health insurance is hundreds of dollars a month. I imagine it’s cheaper in European countries.
It’s literally free in most of them
Except Switzerland. Yaay second most expensive healthcare system in the world over here.
And you know why? Because we have a system of private insurance, with various band aid fixes aimed at preventing the worst outcomes. It’s better than what the US gets, but not a good system because it’s still fundamentally wrong.
Well, paid in advance by taxes, anyway.
Fair point. There is Medicaid for the poor in the USA. It covers vaccines, and like 40% of births in the US are covered by Medicaid. But for those that earn too much it sucks to pay for insurance.
It still sounds crazy to me that you guys pay to be born. What a way to start off in life.
No no no. Our parents pay for us to be born, that way they can hold it over us for the rest of our lives
All vaccines? Where I am in Europe, some vaccines are covered and it varies by group, but not all.
In mexico is all 100% but at the age and rythm dictated by government officials (doctors, at least).
Some optional vaccines (think second shots for non endemic illneses for example) are paid but even then you can get them for free if they have them in health centers.
Ok yeah similar here but sounds better there. Nice
I, the only gay in my USA village, asked my provider about this vaccine. It was going to cost me about $1,000 USD total.
It is not covered by my insurance. Each dose of the vaccine costs around $300 USD out-of-pocket and a full course is 3 doses, if I recall correctly. So in addition to that particular visit, I would have had to make 2 additional appointments with my healthcare provider, each of which would have a $55 co-pay – which is in addition to the $300 cost per dose of the vaccine.
As much as my provider and I were on board with getting me vaccinated, an extra $1,000 expense was not written in the cards for me.
Wait, is HPV a higher risk for gay people?? I thought it was a risk for straight people, or rather everybody, like men and women can get it from the opposite gender, i thought everyone should get the HPV before their first sexual activity?
Oof. I got my series of vaccinations years back at Planned Parenthood. I remember it not being covered by my insurance (I was outside the target age range) but not incredibly expensive.
What is a USA village?
A village in the USA
I’ll be gay for €87. Where do I sign? Is there any induction material to read? Does anyone show me around gay headquarters? Do I have to meet any key stakeholders?
Hi, yes, I would like to meet the CEO of gay?
Do you have an appointment?
He has a full load, according to the schedule, but he might be able to sneak you in somewhere
Is there any induction material to read? Does anyone show me around gay headquarters? Do I have to meet any key stakeholders?
Fuck it, that’s too much work. I’ll just suck some dicks on the day, and see if that works.
I’ll be gay for free
Sent you a PM. Let’s meet…to discuss this further.
I’m pretty sure gay headquarters is The Village in Montreal.
Damn it, I will prove it to save $87.
At current exchange rates €87 is like $100USD
€and¢are vaguely similar symbolsAssuming they didn’t confuse ¢ and €, it’s possible they were asking a threshold question. Like, if you’d be officially gay for €87, what would you do for less than a dollar?
It depends on the proportional savings. Not to me, I understand how math works, but to most people.
They’ll drive across town to save 5 cents per gallon on fuel, with a vehicle that has a 10 gallon tank (a total savings of half a dollar) but often wont drive the same distance for a product thats $10 lower than wherever they are if the product costs $500 to begin with.
I’ll be gay to save any money. Doesn’t matter to me. You got some other discount I don’t have to prove? Sure I’ll say I’m a disease vector for $2. Oh, you have a student discount where I save $1? How handy that I still have my decade-old student ID on me and always do because it doesn’t have dates on it. Why yes I did look up the local zip code to save $0.25/person on admission!
There’s also ₡ (the CRC symbol)
Ya but ¢ goes after the number
Do people pay attention to that? € should go in front, but I always put it after (because that’s how we pronounce the value in Italian) and nobody ever corrected me
Same in English, goes in front but pronounced after
I’ve never even heard that it’s supposed to go in front. Interestingly, the English Wikipedia article for the Euro does put it in front, the Italian, French and German articles does not.
Maybe it was decided to put the € in front for English, because £ and $ are in front, but to put it behind like every other measuring unit for other languages?
This is the page you’re looking for Written conventions for the euro in the languages of EU member states.
Thanks, that’s exactly what I was looking for. Deeper down from there, I also found the information that:
- Countries/languages were allowed to continue putting the € in front or behind, like where they put their currency sign before the euro was introduced.
- Yes, for English, it was decided on before, because of the £ and $.
- The English EU style guide says explicitly:
The euro sign is followed by the amount without space: “a sum of €30”
The same rule applies in Dutch, Irish and Maltese. In all other official EU languages the order is reversed; the amount is followed by a hard space and the euro sign: “une somme de 30 €”
Sources:
I’m glad I could point you in the direction of the rabbit hole. It’s not for nothing that my name’s Alice :)
For me it was also a good read learning about how the various languages make the plural of euro. Some languages keep “euro” as the plural, some others have a plural form (which is fine), but some others have really weird shit with complex logic. I’m always fascinated by languages!
I’m just surprised the French don’t call it Orue.
Yes and no, I guess. It’s the arbitrary, prescriptive way to write cents that USians learn in school.
It would look wrong to me if I saw a sign advertising something for ¢50 or 0.50$.
That said, I also learned to always put commas inside the quotation, “like so,” but I think that’s super dumb and I refuse to do it.
The part that throws me is the regions that use a comma instead of a decimal, although I suppose that might simply be a holdover from non-decimal currencies
logical quotation supremacy
That makes so much sense, thank you.
They’d forget that their currency is $ if corporate capitalism wasn’t so heavily ingrained into their national identity
(Assuming the one who made a mistake is American - even though many countries use dollars the US are the only ones bold enough to forget the internet isn’t just for them)
I genuinely wonder how many click-bait/rage-bait links about American politics get clicked abroad. Is it a chicken and the egg situation? Companies only put out what people want to see and people only see what companies put out?
Personally, it seems like people love to hate America.
I hope any statistics gathered from this data considers the 87 euro credit.
Like i always say $20 is coough cough 87 pounds is 87 pounds.
Euros?
Not sure who cares pull down your pants
Europe?
Sounds like a King of the Hill episode in which Hank regrets letting Peggy fill out his medical forms.
He gets really upset about it, and the whole episode everyone thinks he’s just homophobic, but at the end we find out he’s only upset because she lied to the government.
Boomhauer mumbles something about about sucking a dick one time don’t make you gay man.
Bill questions whether he is gay.
Dale goes conspiratorial about gay frogs.
Yeah man, 87 euros is more than 87 dollars…
Big if true
It dipped briefly post COVID but… In general yeah.
I know lol. Now that we’re being literal and earnest, though, I’m gonna guess that the commenter in the OP was confused by the (very) slight visual similarity between the euro sign € and the American cent sign ¢ 🤷🏻
Sorry I got that you were joking but I’m caffeinated and that makes me addicted to earnestness.
No worries, there are far worse addictions to have 😄
I just want to applaud everyone for being so nice and clear!
We don’t have good healthcare here, he probably doesn’t have glasses to see the small print with
You gotta look at the better numbers. It was nearly equal until mid-January 2025. Then it dropped rapidly. Wonder what happened?
What do you mean by “at the better numbers”? The ones I linked are the historical international exchange rates. It’s the Google preview (not the AI Overview) but I can find a source from a webpage if you prefer, the numbers won’t change.
It’s almost never been “nearly equal”. Unless 1 EUR = 1.15 USD is nearly equal for you, in which case the data I linked is correct so again which numbers are you talking about?
I think you really took my comment very negatively. That was not my intention
It rose to 1 usd = .97 euro in January of 2025. Then it began a sharp decline immediately after Trump took office. I pulled my data here
https://www.investing.com/currencies/usd-eur-historical-data
Google’s overview is similar, but for the same time period if you convert Euro to USD you get the same ratios you posted. Currency markets are weird.
But as an American currently living in the EU the difference between pre-Trump to now I get significantly less when converting USD to Euro. A few cents doesn’t seem like much but when you transfer enough you feel it.
Anyway, I wasn’t trying to call your data bad. My goal was to insult Trump.
Well, I was talking about the value of the euro, you were talking about the value of the USD (basically, inverse values), that’s why your “sharp decline” made no sense to me on the context of the image I linked.
In any case, if you see the graph, it’s not really a plunge/increase from a plain, but more of a valley/mountain situation. The value of the dollar rose from the election, I guess from expectation or whatever, but then rapidly went back to its usually values after the pig took office.
It might be somewhat lower than before though as you said, I’ve not checked the ±0.05 ratios (not trying to be condescending btw, you are right, those cents matter. I wish I had a 4% raise lol).
the link you gave looks more like march. i vaguely remember from uni economics that depreciation can be caused by decreased exports because less people now need to buy your currency which is needed to buy your export, thus demand falls and the euro’s price in dollars falls (though usually it’s depreciation that happens first causing increased exports since it’s cheaper to buy your export now). march 2025 sounds like when trump announced a ton of tariffs
I set it for January, but just adjust the parameters
Interesting. Why is gay considered an at risk group for HPV? I thought it was most likely to cause problems in women?
Thanks. That makes sense.
