i couldn't now
there's a 3 year limit on personal injury claims.

it would depend what it was. i suppose it wasn't really a fair analogy. if they fucked my eyes totally, yes i'd have sued - although other people tried that and got zero compensation - but if i had just had to suffer a deterioration in the quality of my life, such as dry eyes or no night driving, both of which are well-documented side effects, i think i'd have had to take it on the chin.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 15:27, 1 reply, 14 years ago)

The 3 year thing isn't really the point.
In this case it's not the surgen fucking your eyes, it's a product that he used fucking your eyes... a product that is designed, sold and used to not fuck your eyes. I don't think people are understanding, it's not an ordanary/documented risk that "your implants my contain non-medical grade blah bah".

I can't see the difference between this and someone buy a fridge from dixons that turns out it has a manufacturing fault that can cause house fires.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 15:54, Reply)

No, it's not at all.
Although, if you want to use that analogy, it would be like someone buying a fridge from dixons that a friend of a friend in France reckons might cause house fires despite there never being one single case of a house fire being actually caused by that fridge. So, out of interest, do you think you should be able to take your fridge back after you've had it for 8 years because some bloke said he heard it might cause a fire?
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 16:02, Reply)

Oh no, not at all, I'm basing everything I'm saying on them being unsafe, I've said that right from the start.
I'm not arguing weather they're safe or not, I don't have a clue....I'm arguing as to if they are unsafe, that the women who have had it done should have sympathy and shouldn't foot the bill themselves.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 16:16, Reply)

The point is what you wish them to be unsafe relative to?
I mean, nothing is abitrarily "safe". In this case, for whatever reason, every patient has chosen to have something foreign placed in their body, which has an inherent risk.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 16:38, Reply)

Racist
They haven't all got AIDS, you know.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 16:54, Reply)