A new game coming to Oklahoma

[Kilted contractor]

The battle on 66 is in the works. It will be on aug 8th at the creek county fairgrounds. Admission price is $8 prepay or $10 at the gate. We will be having the adaptive class and all the other classes. I'm helping organize and host it plus will be competing in the adaptive class. The website is being set up and there is a Facebook page for it.

[Jock Scot]

The battle on 66 is in the works. It will be on aug 8th at the creek county fairgrounds. Admission price is $8 prepay or $10 at the gate. We will be having the adaptive class and all the other classes. I'm helping organize and host it plus will be competing in the adaptive class. The website is being set up and there is a Facebook page for it.

ERRRRR, could you explain to this rather ill-informed Brit. what your event is about, please?

[Kilted contractor]

ERRRRR, could you explain to this rather ill-informed Brit. what your event is about, please?

We are organizing and hosting a Highland game. Right now it will be what most American games offer but hopefully next year we want to offer more events like they do in Scotland. If you was asking about the adaptive class. It's a class for people with disabilities. This class hasn't been around long it started in 2017 and most games don't offer it. I currently compete with the masters 40+ group but am partially paralyzed and have 50k in metal in my back. The class will be a little nicer to my body.

[Jock Scot]

We are organizing and hosting a Highland game. Right now it will be what most American games offer but hopefully next year we want to offer more events like they do in Scotland. If you was asking about the adaptive class. It's a class for people with disabilities. This class hasn't been around long it started in 2017 and most games don't offer it. I currently compete with the masters 40+ group but am partially paralyzed and have 50k in metal in my back. The class will be a little nicer to my body.

Thank you, I thought it was probably a Highland Games with all the assorted goings on. But one can never be too sure.

[jsrnephdoc]

I currently compete with the masters 40+ group but am partially paralyzed and have 50k in metal in my back. The class will be a little nicer to my body.

At first I read that as kiloGRAMS, which of course meant there couldn't be any real competition at ALL, presuming you could even stand up for the first event!

Then I realized you meant $50,000, which brought up the issue of American vs. UK Health care, because at least at its best, the UK National Health Service would make the monetary expenditure irrelevant although the metal's very presence still a burden making your effort to support inclusiveness even more noble.

And, since we're talking health care expenditures, here's the Scottish NHS tartan, from which I'd like to have cloth for a kilt woven for my lovely retired RN spouse, but the tartan is restricted, and those restrictions make it not currently possible (or even desirable, since I think Lochcarron wove it only in 11 oz cloth):

(Disclaimer: I've never needed medical care in the UK, so I cannot comment on the claim that the tartan's color scheme features those in the uniforms of the Scottish NHS, nor can I comment intelligently about the merits of funding or organization of British/Scottish medical care, although I've been told that whenever someone who's risen to speak about medical issues in Parliament in London causes dismissive murmuring among his colleagues, the surest way to shut them up is to ask with a twinkle in his eye "so, would you advocate replacing it with what the Americans call a "system?" But, of course, I DID have many decades experiencing what was wrong AND right with medical care on my side of the pond).

[Jock Scot]

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[Kilted contractor]

At first I read that as kiloGRAMS, which of course meant there couldn't be any real competition at ALL, presuming you could even stand up for the first event!

Then I realized you meant $50,000, which brought up the issue of American vs. UK Health care, because at least at its best, the UK National Health Service would make the monetary expenditure irrelevant although the metal's very presence still a burden making your effort to support inclusiveness even more noble.

And, since we're talking health care expenditures, here's the Scottish NHS tartan, from which I'd like to have cloth for a kilt woven for my lovely retired RN spouse, but the tartan is restricted, and those restrictions make it not currently possible (or even desirable, since I think Lochcarron wove it only in 11 oz cloth):

(Disclaimer: I've never needed medical care in the UK, so I cannot comment on the claim that the tartan's color scheme features those in the uniforms of the Scottish NHS, nor can I comment intelligently about the merits of funding or organization of British/Scottish medical care, although I've been told that whenever someone who's risen to speak about medical issues in Parliament in London causes dismissive murmuring among his colleagues, the surest way to shut them up is to ask with a twinkle in his eye "so, would you advocate replacing it with what the Americans call a "system?" But, of course, I DID have many decades experiencing what was wrong AND right with medical care on my side of the pond).

I didn't know they had a nursing tartan. I'll have to tell my mom about it since she is a rn.
Lol yeah 50 kilograms I wouldn't really be standing 😅. I guess if i listened to the dr i wouldn't be walking anyways
. Luckily I wasn't out of pocket except what my insurance cost and around $3000 that wasn't covered out of the $500k from the surgeries, in patient and out patient therapy.
Same I've experienced the good and bad of our system here and wish we could go back 40 yrs before it became health for profit instead . I remember my brother's birth and how much it cost my folks less then $2000 now that is just a day in the hospital doesn't count dr fees, any equipment or anything else used during birth.

[Jock Scot]

Two points that you chaps from the US and elsewhere might find interesting.

The first is, our health care within the UK is generally funded by the tax-payer. We do have private healthcare too that is available, but ............ I am not sure how visitors are dealt with financially, should they require treatment though. I suspect that minor scapes and bangs are treated on a goodwill basis, but major health issues costs are, I presume, are handled by the relevent Embassy. It is a subject the visitors to Scotland and Countries outwith the UK might give some thought to. I have no idea what the financial procedures might be? One thing is for sure, you won't be left on the pavement to die!

As to the nursing tartan, my wife is a very recently retired Infection Control nurse and has never heard of the "nurses tartan" nor have any of her colleagues. None of them seem very impressed with it, when shown a picture of it!

[cessna152towser]

It is a subject the visitors to Scotland and Countries outwith the UK might give some thought to. I have no idea what the financial procedures might be? One thing is for sure, you won't be left on the pavement to die!

If you are a holder of an EHIC card (European Health Insurance Cover) you will be treated for free in Scotland. When my stepdaughter was taken ill during a visit to us from Germany she received free treatment from the NHS with her EHIC card. My wife and I both hold EHIC cards. They do not give free treatment throughout Europe, only that you would be treated as a native of the country where you took ill and would only be charged the equivalent of what a local would pay. In some cases this would be free, in other countries you would pay a proportion of the cost.
This is a point which restricts my wife and I from travelling nowadays as we become older, as we would need to buy health insurance to travel outwith Europe, which would be prohibitively costly. Bear in mind also that our EHIC cards would not cover us for health care on UK's Crown Dependency islands such as Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey. There is a GHIC card which would cover health care on these islands but this would only be available to UK Citizens.
If you do not hold an EHIC or GHIC card you would receive any treatment you needed from our NHS but would be billed afterwards.

[jsrnephdoc]

Two points that you chaps from the US and elsewhere might find interesting.

The first is, our health care within the UK is generally funded by the tax-payer. We do have private healthcare too that is available, but ............ I am not sure how visitors are dealt with financially, should they require treatment though. I suspect that minor scapes and bangs are treated on a goodwill basis, but major health issues costs are, I presume, are handled by the relevent Embassy. It is a subject the visitors to Scotland and Countries outwith the UK might give some thought to. I have no idea what the financial procedures might be? One thing is for sure, you won't be left on the pavement to die!

As to the nursing tartan, my wife is a very recently retired Infection Control nurse and has never heard of the "nurses tartan" nor have any of her colleagues. None of them seem very impressed with it, when shown a picture of it!

It certainly is atypical when compared with “family” tartans, emphasizing pastels, somewhat reminiscent of the tartan created in remembrance of Princess Diana, but my spouse likes it, so I’ll keep stirring the pot hoping someone else tickles the people at Lochcarron or Gordon Nicoloson enough to pique their interest.

And, your off-list comment about having to help clear sheep from a neighborhood road reminded me of a quite funny British comedy film we just saw: “Sheep Detectives.”