We don't choose to pay more taxes, the taxes are forced on us. How many people do you think like the petrol taxes and other such regressive taxes? How many people choose council tax which is not even based on ability to pay? And even when you do pay the binmen rarely bother emptying your bins, the streets are full of traffic wardens giving people tickets because the council want even more money to waste.
In Britain we seem to have the worst of capitalism and socialism. We pay extortionate taxes, but the services are awful. Hospitals are filthy, inefficient, beaurocratic and disease-ridden, schools are disorderly and full of crime and drugs, roads are falling apart despite motorists being taxed to the hilt, the police care more about the criminals than the victims. Most people don't even get dentists, yet have to pay taxes towards them for other people.
You're right, it would be better if we followed the Southern middle-classes and voted Tory. Bring back Michael Scumbag Howard, just what we need. Put Widdecome in charge of policies in drugs and personal freedoms.
The Tories would be a massive step back for Britain. Anti-rights, anti-drugs, pro-religion, anti-Europe, run by the rich for the rich. No thanks. The Tories are dead and buried. On Thursday they didn't gain any votes, Labour lost them.
Appearance is relatively unimportant compared to other human characteristics
That sort of morbid obesity is usually associated with a very fucked up personality. That person probably has severe psychological problems that cause him to turn to comfort eating and sitting at the PC all day. Also it's more than just appearance, imagine the smell. When's the last time you reckon he was able to wipe his own arse? Or have a bath?
Please explain how your large skeleton, or a bias in modern technology forces you to carry around 150 pounds of excess fat? Sounds like you're looking for excuses to not lose weight. It's easier to blame things you're not in control of than it is to take control of your life.
There are no nipples in Duke Nukem 3D. All the strippers have these tassles over the nipples, and they don't take them off no matter how much money you give them. No wonder all the aliens were pissed off.
What do you expect when someone has a large frame and weighs 355 pounds?
How about getting a smaller frame and losing 200 pounds? Come on, in this modern age, with all the knowledge we have about nutrition and physiology, there's no excuse for obesity. None at all.
Don't ask how I know this, and don't tell anyone about it, but the word on the grapevine is, this new Quake 4 will involve moving around a corridor in a first-person perspective shooting things with fantasy guns.
Where do you think almods (or nuts for that matter) came from? You know (or you should know), in "the wild" is where you can find these thingies called "trees", that provide you with almods or nuts.
Yeah, but not very many. In the wild, nuts don't come in backs, and foraging for them can take days just for a small handful.
Nuts being worse than meat, you must be joking right?
Here's a test: eat a pound of meat. Then on another day, eat a pound of nuts. One will be a healthy nutritious meal, the other will make you sick all day.
Yeah, whilst in an elevator, which was having an accident. He decided to end the pain by cutting off the electricity to the building, which caused the elevator to immediately plummet to the ground, killing everyone inside, including Otis. He killed some innocent people, but the pain of dying by diptheria is so long and horrible, it was his only option.
Almonds aren't greens sorry. And good luck finding any in the wild in any meaningful quantities. As far as healthiness goes, they're worse than meat. A vegetarian refusing to eat meat on health grounds, who then eats nuts, it's an idiot. Nuts aren't fruit either.
On a vaguely related note, has anyone else seen that 'Movie Nuttball' character from http://imdb.com/ who goes around every film and computer game, pretending to be a normal visitor, giving it a glowing review from a standard template, calling it 'The Greatest Film Ever', and advising the reader to buy it from amazon.com?
High-energy greens? No such thing I'm afraid. Plants are notorious for their lack of energy. Find me a 'green' that has more than 50 calories per 100g.
Also if you don't eat fish you're an idiot. Everyone knows you should eat at least two portions of fish a week. They're full of healthy oils and nutrients. Also beef is a great source of creatine, and seafood is one of the healthiest things you can eat.
Because it's cheap, easy to cook, widely available and absorbs flavour easily. Chicken has very dry, lean meat. You're disproving your own point by admitting that you need farm-grown chicken just to get any flavour, when any cheap bit of beef is much tastier.
I doubt that very much. 100g of beef has a lot more energy in it than 100g of vegetables. Plants are not a good source of energy at all. You only eat vegetables/fruit for the vitamins, and meat for the energy.
I'm sorry, I'm no metric-zealot, and in fact often use imperial units, but what the fuck is a grain? I know it's a third of an inch, but I'm assuming you're using it as a unit of mass. And what is pound feet/sec?
Actually wait a minute, Garfield has jokes? The ones I've seen are just some cat eating food. Or just sitting there. Maybe you're using a different definition of the word 'joke' than I'm aware of.
Maybe it will expand one way, and not the other. Here's how it might happen:
Water gets into crack in flexible concrete. Water freezes. Concrete is pushed outwards. Water melts and evaporates. Concrete is left with small crevices and canyons etched into it where the conrete has opened up.
Concrete is a lot different to steel. Steel can be used for a skeleton for a building, concrete is the actual building itself. Also it's a lot cheaper. Concrete is just cast in place to form the building, steel has to be (expensively) processed into shape. Can you imagine making a cast-iron building, using iron where you would have used concrete? That's the sort of thing you're talking about.
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We choose to pay more taxes
We don't choose to pay more taxes, the taxes are forced on us. How many people do you think like the petrol taxes and other such regressive taxes? How many people choose council tax which is not even based on ability to pay? And even when you do pay the binmen rarely bother emptying your bins, the streets are full of traffic wardens giving people tickets because the council want even more money to waste.
In Britain we seem to have the worst of capitalism and socialism. We pay extortionate taxes, but the services are awful. Hospitals are filthy, inefficient, beaurocratic and disease-ridden, schools are disorderly and full of crime and drugs, roads are falling apart despite motorists being taxed to the hilt, the police care more about the criminals than the victims. Most people don't even get dentists, yet have to pay taxes towards them for other people.
You're right, it would be better if we followed the Southern middle-classes and voted Tory. Bring back Michael Scumbag Howard, just what we need. Put Widdecome in charge of policies in drugs and personal freedoms.
The Tories would be a massive step back for Britain. Anti-rights, anti-drugs, pro-religion, anti-Europe, run by the rich for the rich. No thanks. The Tories are dead and buried. On Thursday they didn't gain any votes, Labour lost them.
Appearance is relatively unimportant compared to other human characteristics
That sort of morbid obesity is usually associated with a very fucked up personality. That person probably has severe psychological problems that cause him to turn to comfort eating and sitting at the PC all day. Also it's more than just appearance, imagine the smell. When's the last time you reckon he was able to wipe his own arse? Or have a bath?
Please explain how your large skeleton, or a bias in modern technology forces you to carry around 150 pounds of excess fat? Sounds like you're looking for excuses to not lose weight. It's easier to blame things you're not in control of than it is to take control of your life.
I'll tell you what, when they stop releasing dull, unoriginal, uninspiring FPSes, I'll stop complaining about them.
There are no nipples in Duke Nukem 3D. All the strippers have these tassles over the nipples, and they don't take them off no matter how much money you give them. No wonder all the aliens were pissed off.
What do you expect when someone has a large frame and weighs 355 pounds?
How about getting a smaller frame and losing 200 pounds? Come on, in this modern age, with all the knowledge we have about nutrition and physiology, there's no excuse for obesity. None at all.
Have you seen the pic on his site? He's never going to find himself a girl. Morbid obesity is VERY unattractive.
Don't ask how I know this, and don't tell anyone about it, but the word on the grapevine is, this new Quake 4 will involve moving around a corridor in a first-person perspective shooting things with fantasy guns.
Where do you think almods (or nuts for that matter) came from? You know (or you should know), in "the wild" is where you can find these thingies called "trees", that provide you with almods or nuts.
Yeah, but not very many. In the wild, nuts don't come in backs, and foraging for them can take days just for a small handful.
Nuts being worse than meat, you must be joking right?
Here's a test: eat a pound of meat. Then on another day, eat a pound of nuts. One will be a healthy nutritious meal, the other will make you sick all day.
Yeah, whilst in an elevator, which was having an accident. He decided to end the pain by cutting off the electricity to the building, which caused the elevator to immediately plummet to the ground, killing everyone inside, including Otis. He killed some innocent people, but the pain of dying by diptheria is so long and horrible, it was his only option.
Almonds aren't greens sorry. And good luck finding any in the wild in any meaningful quantities. As far as healthiness goes, they're worse than meat. A vegetarian refusing to eat meat on health grounds, who then eats nuts, it's an idiot. Nuts aren't fruit either.
Wow, Luddism on Slashdot. Is the world about to end?
On a vaguely related note, has anyone else seen that 'Movie Nuttball' character from http://imdb.com/ who goes around every film and computer game, pretending to be a normal visitor, giving it a glowing review from a standard template, calling it 'The Greatest Film Ever', and advising the reader to buy it from amazon.com?
He's not even subtle: http://imdb.com/user/ur1132073/comments.
High-energy greens? No such thing I'm afraid. Plants are notorious for their lack of energy. Find me a 'green' that has more than 50 calories per 100g.
Also if you don't eat fish you're an idiot. Everyone knows you should eat at least two portions of fish a week. They're full of healthy oils and nutrients. Also beef is a great source of creatine, and seafood is one of the healthiest things you can eat.
Humans eat: n s,s .
Sharks,
Cats,
Dogs,
Tarantulas,
Snakes,
Tunas,
Pigs,
Squid,
Eels,
Octopuses,
Pengui
Seals,
Dolphins,
Crabs,
Lobsters,
Leopard
Because it's cheap, easy to cook, widely available and absorbs flavour easily. Chicken has very dry, lean meat. You're disproving your own point by admitting that you need farm-grown chicken just to get any flavour, when any cheap bit of beef is much tastier.
I doubt that very much. 100g of beef has a lot more energy in it than 100g of vegetables. Plants are not a good source of energy at all. You only eat vegetables/fruit for the vitamins, and meat for the energy.
Please tell me, what would a 17th century Japanese swordsman know about subtle differences between 21st century English synonyms?
"I'll bet you $50 that waitress is an unemployed mathematician."
So she does the waitressing for free then?
I'm sorry, I'm no metric-zealot, and in fact often use imperial units, but what the fuck is a grain? I know it's a third of an inch, but I'm assuming you're using it as a unit of mass. And what is pound feet/sec?
Well, it worked for Peter Kay...
Actually wait a minute, Garfield has jokes? The ones I've seen are just some cat eating food. Or just sitting there. Maybe you're using a different definition of the word 'joke' than I'm aware of.
Erm, when metal hits some metal or stone at high speed it often makes sparks. There's nothing 'silly' about that at all.
Maybe it will expand one way, and not the other. Here's how it might happen:
Water gets into crack in flexible concrete. Water freezes. Concrete is pushed outwards. Water melts and evaporates. Concrete is left with small crevices and canyons etched into it where the conrete has opened up.
Concrete is a lot different to steel. Steel can be used for a skeleton for a building, concrete is the actual building itself. Also it's a lot cheaper. Concrete is just cast in place to form the building, steel has to be (expensively) processed into shape. Can you imagine making a cast-iron building, using iron where you would have used concrete? That's the sort of thing you're talking about.