Mediterranean-style food is easy to cook, tasty, cheap and healthy. Unfortunately, we're losing all our food traditions to processed food.
Many of the people my age never learned to cook anything decent. I try to teach our culinary traditions to my kids, but most parents will just feed them sausages and fries.
Teens and young adults consider many traditional culinary habits old stuff. They prefer butter or margarine to olive oil. Prefer fried over baked or roasted. Won't touch salads or greens of any kind. Prefer refined white bread over the traditional ultra-healthy mixed-cereal bread. Red wine is considered for the "old men in the tavern", they prefer sodas, beer and liquors like Bacardi (beuh!) and vodka.
I see this trend reversing a bit the latest years. I hope it becomes a strong movement.
What a lame try, dude! Talk is cheap. Making broad statements without any valid information to back them, come on!
Why don't you use Google and get the definition straight from
the horse's mouth?
If you can't bother to use the link, here it goes:
(...)the number of people who do not get enough food energy, averaged over one year, to both maintain productive activity and maintain body weight (FAO, 1990, 1996b)(...)
No, it was built by immigrants. None of them knows any system besides the metric. They don't need it either, because the blueprints are all in metric. And the house didn't fall yet.
Your system is different from the old English system. As if it's not absurd enough, we even have to go even further to tell US units from the old English ones.
Yeah, your system was great for manual workers 100 years ago, so you should keep it forever.
I don't know where you live but here I can just go out to a shop and buy an USB dongle that uses HSDPA. It's pretty fast and I pay a prepaid flat rate.
Many of us were warning a couple of years before the bubble burst that it was in fact a bubble - it wasn't the first one, either. There was the bubble in 1990, the bubble in the early '18s, the bubble in the 70's... gee, looks like there's a bubble every decade
Dude, a pyramid scheme will always work. It appeals to basic human greed. There's no way it won't work, unless you rewire everybody's brains. Very strict regulation, enforcement and punishment from governments is essential to avoid this kind of stuff. And let's call names, the economic "bubbles" that gave us the latest crisis are simply "legal" pyramid schemes that were overlooked by regulators and governments. You can't expect the "market" alone to prevent this shit!
And if you lied on that mortgage application, you deserve a criminal record for fraud. It's your fraud, and the frauds of millions like you, that fueled the bubble, so don't come crying to me about "right-wing" crap.
It's no use being illegal. Look to the other side and people will do it. Like anything else.
If you want an example, just look to your northern border.
Spain? Not a good example...
Canada never got into the 0% down, 40 year amortization, option arm toxic financing because Canadians don't want such financing - it was offered by one bank over a period of about a year, and then withdrawn because nobody wanted it. Nobody
I'm only speculating, but there are several possible reasons:
The income inequality in Canada is a lot lower. People may simply not need to fall for such schemes.
The social pressure for displaying success is a lot lower so people don't take chances to ruin themselves to look "successful".
People in Canada have less tendency for risk, unlike USians, who love living on the edge.
"Now you want to blame them for trying to improve their lives???" is elitist crap. Arguing that people who own homes are somehow better than those who don't?
There's gigantic social pressure for people to own houses instead of renting. In my country, for example, the renting market is almost dead for decades. And we have tens of thousands of houses and apartments empty for several years that were never occupied. The owners ask insane amounts to sell and refuse to rent. People consider owning a house like a great achievement. It may be a lie, but that's the general perception.
Please... if they've had a couple of decades warning, do you honestly think they have any reason to complain about "living in fear".
There's more to a job than only not being fired. Like decent treatment, training, decent working hours, annual raises, etc. They trade being treated like shit in an office than being treated like shit in local the Pizza Hut or unemployment line.
People develop a numbness about being constantly threatened, but it doesn't make it a decent (and productive) way to run a company. And every time they ask for a raise or training, the response is "Outside the door there's a line of people who want your job".
In the same light... the young kids in my neighbourhood used to laugh at the old folks, because of their inability to play baseball. Now the old folks have the last laugh, because one of the kids broke his leg.
Seriously, WTF dude? Is that what you consider a logical train of thought?
Your analogy only makes logical sense if breaking a leg was a consequence of playing baseball, and then the geezers would be right to say "I told you so". Otherwise it's just a straw man. Anyway, I find it pretty lame.
Evolution doesn't mean that everyone has to be a dick; in fact, co-operation tends to increase the odds of gene survival/propogation. How the fuck do you think we got this far?
Go tell that to the "free-market, no regulation, anything goes" crowd. The current world financial system is not sustainable and if it's kept, all mankind will lose.
... and they had the complicity of over 20 million greedy Americans, who believed that it was okay to lie on mortgage applications, or be willfully blind to obvious problems, or ignored the experiences from the previous housing bubbles and the warnings from people like me by mindlessly chanting "this time it's different", or who profited from the hype in other ways, or whose cases now clog the courts, or whose recklessness helped cause the meltdown that is costing other people their jobs, or who treated their homes as ATMs, or who rang up huge credit card debts for no rational reason.
If I go to a doctor, then I'm consulting an expert that should know better than me about medicine. I don't have the obligation of having an MD diploma so, if I'm ill advised by him and get sick in consequence it's more his responsibility than mine!
People that are oblivious to how the financial markets work were told by the absolute experts that they could make a loan and buy a house. What they fuck should they do? Now you want to blame them for trying to improve their lives???
This "personal responsibility" bullshit is the last resort of the right-wing to try to justify the disgrace that the "free-market, no regulation" fundamentalism brought on all of us. A society where you should always be on your toes because you can't trust anybody is dysfunctional. And it's an obligation of the democratically elected officials (under scrutiny of the society) to regulate in order to prevent the chain of trust to break.
Employers don't seek out recessions so they can fire people.
Dude, no offence but you need to grow up a little bit. I know people that work for decades in deep fear of getting fired, because no matter what economic climate we're on, they hear everyday their bosses complaining about the miserable profit margins and how there's going to be job cuts. I can't understand why they want to keep people unhappy, but that's how it goes. The most valid quit, the meek stay and live in terror, and the useless greedy motherfuckers have lots of fun backstabbing each other and hurting the company with stupid power games.
The corporate culture has been evolving more and more in the sense of a company being a stone-cold sterile organisation with no concern for anyone or anything except for easy and immediate profit.
Most decent people I know that are still employed above 50 are desperate to get an early retirement because they are completely fed up with working in an environment full of backstabbing sociopaths that persecute the most valid and hard-working while rewarding the incompetent that have mastered the art of ass-licking.
They try to disguise it with all sorts of corporate "culture" bullshit but everybody knows the facts. People are disposable and the corporations don't have the slightest bit of loyalty towards their workers. How can they expect to get loyalty back?
But now they can alleviate their guilt when they bomb villages full of civilians and kill many women and children. They can say in the loudspeakers "Don't run, we are your friends. We even use green energy to avoid polluting your country".
If the government allows development in one area it becomes its responsibility to guarantee a disaster like this won't happen. If the area is so dangerous, forbid any development. You can't expect the common people to be civil engineers.
I like your logic. When you see someone in need, instead of thinking how to solve the problem, you think about buying a gun. That will work very, very well.
Your government's military budget is 600 billion dollars (41% of the world's total). FAO is begging for 20 billion during 3 years to significantly reduce world hunger. So you see, ending hunger would be a lot cheaper than buying a shitload of weapons to keep the hungry away. But that is just too simple for people to understand, isn't it? Your Nobel Prize president didn't even bother to attend FAO's World Summit on Food Security.
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About time for the Yanks to sponsor a new fascist dictatorship and snuff a few thousands of the motherfuckers, hey?
Mediterranean-style food is easy to cook, tasty, cheap and healthy. Unfortunately, we're losing all our food traditions to processed food.
Many of the people my age never learned to cook anything decent. I try to teach our culinary traditions to my kids, but most parents will just feed them sausages and fries.
Teens and young adults consider many traditional culinary habits old stuff. They prefer butter or margarine to olive oil. Prefer fried over baked or roasted. Won't touch salads or greens of any kind. Prefer refined white bread over the traditional ultra-healthy mixed-cereal bread. Red wine is considered for the "old men in the tavern", they prefer sodas, beer and liquors like Bacardi (beuh!) and vodka.
I see this trend reversing a bit the latest years. I hope it becomes a strong movement.
How about "Sódio" in Portuguese?
They did it in the past but the baddies were the "commies". Other times...
What a lame try, dude! Talk is cheap. Making broad statements without any valid information to back them, come on!
Why don't you use Google and get the definition straight from the horse's mouth?
If you can't bother to use the link, here it goes:
(...)the number of people who do not get enough food energy, averaged over one year, to both maintain productive activity and maintain body weight (FAO, 1990, 1996b)(...)
No, it was built by immigrants. None of them knows any system besides the metric. They don't need it either, because the blueprints are all in metric. And the house didn't fall yet.
Your system is different from the old English system. As if it's not absurd enough, we even have to go even further to tell US units from the old English ones.
Yeah, your system was great for manual workers 100 years ago, so you should keep it forever.
Oh my, the rationalisation to justify your obsolete and absurd measurement system climbed to unprecedented heights...
I hope you're trying to be funny.
Either you have a cognitive disorder or you're just trolling. I suspect both. Goodbye and enjoy your trolling.
I don't know where you live but here I can just go out to a shop and buy an USB dongle that uses HSDPA. It's pretty fast and I pay a prepaid flat rate.
It seems that some highly regarded people agree with me. This is just an example, you can find many more with a simple Google search. Duh!
Another ridiculous, baseless assertion. You may as well be saying that unicorns have the prettiest toenails. Do you really expect a response?
What I find ridiculous and baseless is how you write two posts trying to bash others without presenting a single valid point.
Many of us were warning a couple of years before the bubble burst that it was in fact a bubble - it wasn't the first one, either. There was the bubble in 1990, the bubble in the early '18s, the bubble in the 70's ... gee, looks like there's a bubble every decade
Dude, a pyramid scheme will always work. It appeals to basic human greed. There's no way it won't work, unless you rewire everybody's brains. Very strict regulation, enforcement and punishment from governments is essential to avoid this kind of stuff. And let's call names, the economic "bubbles" that gave us the latest crisis are simply "legal" pyramid schemes that were overlooked by regulators and governments. You can't expect the "market" alone to prevent this shit!
And if you lied on that mortgage application, you deserve a criminal record for fraud. It's your fraud, and the frauds of millions like you, that fueled the bubble, so don't come crying to me about "right-wing" crap.
It's no use being illegal. Look to the other side and people will do it. Like anything else.
If you want an example, just look to your northern border.
Spain? Not a good example...
Canada never got into the 0% down, 40 year amortization, option arm toxic financing because Canadians don't want such financing - it was offered by one bank over a period of about a year, and then withdrawn because nobody wanted it. Nobody
I'm only speculating, but there are several possible reasons:
"Now you want to blame them for trying to improve their lives???" is elitist crap. Arguing that people who own homes are somehow better than those who don't?
There's gigantic social pressure for people to own houses instead of renting. In my country, for example, the renting market is almost dead for decades. And we have tens of thousands of houses and apartments empty for several years that were never occupied. The owners ask insane amounts to sell and refuse to rent. People consider owning a house like a great achievement. It may be a lie, but that's the general perception.
Please ... if they've had a couple of decades warning, do you honestly think they have any reason to complain about "living in fear".
There's more to a job than only not being fired. Like decent treatment, training, decent working hours, annual raises, etc. They trade being treated like shit in an office than being treated like shit in local the Pizza Hut or unemployment line.
People develop a numbness about being constantly threatened, but it doesn't make it a decent (and productive) way to run a company. And every time they ask for a raise or training, the response is "Outside the door there's a line of people who want your job".
lol
In the same light ... the young kids in my neighbourhood used to laugh at the old folks, because of their inability to play baseball. Now the old folks have the last laugh, because one of the kids broke his leg.
Seriously, WTF dude? Is that what you consider a logical train of thought?
Your analogy only makes logical sense if breaking a leg was a consequence of playing baseball, and then the geezers would be right to say "I told you so". Otherwise it's just a straw man. Anyway, I find it pretty lame.
Evolution doesn't mean that everyone has to be a dick; in fact, co-operation tends to increase the odds of gene survival/propogation. How the fuck do you think we got this far?
Go tell that to the "free-market, no regulation, anything goes" crowd. The current world financial system is not sustainable and if it's kept, all mankind will lose.
... and they had the complicity of over 20 million greedy Americans, who believed that it was okay to lie on mortgage applications, or be willfully blind to obvious problems, or ignored the experiences from the previous housing bubbles and the warnings from people like me by mindlessly chanting "this time it's different", or who profited from the hype in other ways, or whose cases now clog the courts, or whose recklessness helped cause the meltdown that is costing other people their jobs, or who treated their homes as ATMs, or who rang up huge credit card debts for no rational reason.
If I go to a doctor, then I'm consulting an expert that should know better than me about medicine. I don't have the obligation of having an MD diploma so, if I'm ill advised by him and get sick in consequence it's more his responsibility than mine!
People that are oblivious to how the financial markets work were told by the absolute experts that they could make a loan and buy a house. What they fuck should they do? Now you want to blame them for trying to improve their lives???
This "personal responsibility" bullshit is the last resort of the right-wing to try to justify the disgrace that the "free-market, no regulation" fundamentalism brought on all of us. A society where you should always be on your toes because you can't trust anybody is dysfunctional. And it's an obligation of the democratically elected officials (under scrutiny of the society) to regulate in order to prevent the chain of trust to break.
Employers don't seek out recessions so they can fire people.
Dude, no offence but you need to grow up a little bit. I know people that work for decades in deep fear of getting fired, because no matter what economic climate we're on, they hear everyday their bosses complaining about the miserable profit margins and how there's going to be job cuts. I can't understand why they want to keep people unhappy, but that's how it goes. The most valid quit, the meek stay and live in terror, and the useless greedy motherfuckers have lots of fun backstabbing each other and hurting the company with stupid power games.
The corporate culture has been evolving more and more in the sense of a company being a stone-cold sterile organisation with no concern for anyone or anything except for easy and immediate profit.
Most decent people I know that are still employed above 50 are desperate to get an early retirement because they are completely fed up with working in an environment full of backstabbing sociopaths that persecute the most valid and hard-working while rewarding the incompetent that have mastered the art of ass-licking.
They try to disguise it with all sorts of corporate "culture" bullshit but everybody knows the facts. People are disposable and the corporations don't have the slightest bit of loyalty towards their workers. How can they expect to get loyalty back?
only government pre-approved questions may be asked, and only government pre-approved answers will be given
I live in Europe and never got such answer from any teacher throughout my whole education.
Can you back your affirmations, or you're just trolling?
But now they can alleviate their guilt when they bomb villages full of civilians and kill many women and children. They can say in the loudspeakers "Don't run, we are your friends. We even use green energy to avoid polluting your country".
Whooooooooooshhhhh!!!
If the government allows development in one area it becomes its responsibility to guarantee a disaster like this won't happen. If the area is so dangerous, forbid any development. You can't expect the common people to be civil engineers.
No, but it's in Wikipedia.
I would suggest leaving Mom's basement and getting a little sun and perhaps actually talking to some girls.
Don't do it. I tried that and got married. Now I'm back in the basement and the Playboy channel again.
Hey, it's hard for the other 6.706.999.999 fellows to match your extremely brilliant culture, society beliefs and religion. Don't be so hard on us.
I like your logic. When you see someone in need, instead of thinking how to solve the problem, you think about buying a gun. That will work very, very well.
Your government's military budget is 600 billion dollars (41% of the world's total). FAO is begging for 20 billion during 3 years to significantly reduce world hunger. So you see, ending hunger would be a lot cheaper than buying a shitload of weapons to keep the hungry away. But that is just too simple for people to understand, isn't it? Your Nobel Prize president didn't even bother to attend FAO's World Summit on Food Security.