>Getting filthy is part of being a kid!
Damned right. These days, if your kid eats mud they get bundled off for a life sentence of Ritalin or somesuch. I used to. know a girl who liked to eat ants.
Thinking about it, maybe she needed help, but apart from her, it's good to get involved with the mud.
Of course most of them described some kind of improvement in their wellbeing
I'd love to see the original footage. At a wild guess they asked 20, 3 had a placebo reaction and said the right thing for the cameras. The others either noticed no change or complained their arse was doing wierd things.
Amen to the voice of reason. Things like anti bacterial wipes are going to do us in just as throughly as global warming, nuclear war or republican politics. Our bodies *need* to be exposed to bacteria, bugs, sundry muck to enable our immune systems to work properly, either recognising and combating new ones or refreshing our ability to fight off known targets. One of the reasons we get less colds as we get older is that there are only so many variants and after a while we've learned to fight off a larger percentage of them.
As the OP said, wash your hands after the toilet and when preparing food. Anything else is going to hurt you more than help you.
I'm not so sure. There are a lot of reasonably savvy people who are basically just lazy. Got a new PC? Off to your fav. appz source to grab the latest MS Office, XP Pro (probably Vista RTM now), Nero, Photoshop CS etc. If suddenly it becomes impossible to find those, they'll be happy with 80-90% of the functionality at 0% of the price by doing a bit of research, hunting around then grabbing the closest equivalent free versions.
There are a significant number of people who used pirate software through collage when they're broke, get used to them then when they're financially better off, start to buy the real thing. You'll start losing those sales if they start off with free software right from thr word go.
The whole beach and breakfast thing sounds great but I go from asleep to out the door in 30 mins and 15 of that is making the tea and sitting in bed drinking it whilst jnr bounces all over the place yelling 'daddy, daddy'. Then the daily 2hr commute begins. Bus, train, (Docklands) Light Railway, walk. Thank God for podcasts and TV episodes on a laptop.
With water? You heathen! Porridge should be made with milk. Gak!
Every now and then I do indulge in the full fry-up though:
2 Eggs
3 bacon
black pudding
fried bread
Mushrooms
(tomatoes for the wife's fry-up)
3 chipolata sausages
2 slices of bread & butter
2 cups of tea
>Are you too lazy to brew a quick cup
Whilst I'm not shy when it comes to dissin' our cousins over the pond, I have to say, I seriously doubt it's being lazy, more a lack of time.
Why is the US so down on gambling? I've never been interested in it myself but compared to half the things available in the US, it seems pretty tame and the response to it like arresting CIO's etc seems pretty extreme. Did someone equate gambling with terrorism somewhere?
The more complex the software, the less useful the review will be. Unless it's something major like Office 2007 which will get a 25 page special, with almost anything else journalist paid the same amount whether it's twenty hours work or 30mins and in most cases, it's only just about worth it for a 30min one.
In some ways, those that write for free, the so called vanity writers, are producing better stuff because they'll quite happily produce a ten page review with dozens of images for pretty much anything whereas a 'proper' journalist will only have time to do a single page if they are to keep the food in their families mouths.
As someone else suggested, the best bet is to google on the product and 'problem'.
Alas, this seems to be the norm amongst the US reviewing magazines. I've worked on and off in the UK arena and have heard some truly scary tales about how the US market works i.e. the PR company provides the copy, the advertising dept drives the editorial dept and so on. That would get seriously frowned upon here. Indeed, I know one editor whose ad dept wouldn't talk to him because he got so stroppy with them when they suggested he couldn't hammer a product whose manufacturer had just taken out a full page ad.
I work in the finance sector and it's a very common view there both in the UK and abroad and has been much published as an increasing concern so no, it's not a unique view.
Of why most companies now think SOX was a mistake and it's costing more to implement it that it would ever have saved in additional costs from fraud etc.
>why not charge $1.99, or $0.99, or even $0.01
To cover their costs of collecting/processing the money I'd imagine. Sounds quite a reasonable amount under the circumstances.
Wow. You USAians really live in a fucked up country if you can be charged with showing your mates a playboy.
It would have been OK if it was 'Big Gun Monthly' or 'Killing and Survival Gazette' or maybe even 'Top Violent Moments' on DVD but include anything involving nudy ladies and you're an evildoer par excellence.
>No offence but your takeaway sucks
There are one or two good chains but on the whole, yes, you're right.
>what is the orange stuff on sandwiches and don't tell me it's cheese
Orange? God knows! Especially in a sandwich. Cheese is usually sort of yellow. Oh, it could have been Red Leicester but that's usually a bit more, well, reddish.
Basically, if you had something orange in your sandwich and lived, be happy;-)
How are the Maf*a et al going to hide their bodies now if the concrete side of things is automated? Actually, thinking about it things could go the other way for them. Concrete shoes sir? What style? Any particular heel?
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>Getting filthy is part of being a kid!
Damned right. These days, if your kid eats mud they get bundled off for a life sentence of Ritalin or somesuch. I used to. know a girl who liked to eat ants.
Thinking about it, maybe she needed help, but apart from her, it's good to get involved with the mud.
Amen to the voice of reason. Things like anti bacterial wipes are going to do us in just as throughly as global warming, nuclear war or republican politics. Our bodies *need* to be exposed to bacteria, bugs, sundry muck to enable our immune systems to work properly, either recognising and combating new ones or refreshing our ability to fight off known targets. One of the reasons we get less colds as we get older is that there are only so many variants and after a while we've learned to fight off a larger percentage of them.
As the OP said, wash your hands after the toilet and when preparing food. Anything else is going to hurt you more than help you.
There are a significant number of people who used pirate software through collage when they're broke, get used to them then when they're financially better off, start to buy the real thing. You'll start losing those sales if they start off with free software right from thr word go.
FX: Guard on gate waves hand mysteriously 'This isn't the Data Complex you're looking for'
Not strange at all. I can fully account for it. I umm... screwed up ;-)
You're making me jealous. I can't have grapefruit anymore as grapefruit juice stops my epilepsy medication w(Tegretol) orking properly.
The whole beach and breakfast thing sounds great but I go from asleep to out the door in 30 mins and 15 of that is making the tea and sitting in bed drinking it whilst jnr bounces all over the place yelling 'daddy, daddy'. Then the daily 2hr commute begins. Bus, train, (Docklands) Light Railway, walk. Thank God for podcasts and TV episodes on a laptop.
Whisky & coffee, surely?
With water? You heathen! Porridge should be made with milk. Gak!
Every now and then I do indulge in the full fry-up though:
2 Eggs
3 bacon
black pudding
fried bread
Mushrooms
(tomatoes for the wife's fry-up)
3 chipolata sausages
2 slices of bread & butter
2 cups of tea
Eat, grab Sunday paper and relaxxx....
>Are you too lazy to brew a quick cup
Whilst I'm not shy when it comes to dissin' our cousins over the pond, I have to say, I seriously doubt it's being lazy, more a lack of time.
>a tongue in the ass
I used to get that from my pet dog. I've learned to sleep on my back these days.
Why is the US so down on gambling? I've never been interested in it myself but compared to half the things available in the US, it seems pretty tame and the response to it like arresting CIO's etc seems pretty extreme. Did someone equate gambling with terrorism somewhere?
The more complex the software, the less useful the review will be. Unless it's something major like Office 2007 which will get a 25 page special, with almost anything else journalist paid the same amount whether it's twenty hours work or 30mins and in most cases, it's only just about worth it for a 30min one.
In some ways, those that write for free, the so called vanity writers, are producing better stuff because they'll quite happily produce a ten page review with dozens of images for pretty much anything whereas a 'proper' journalist will only have time to do a single page if they are to keep the food in their families mouths.
As someone else suggested, the best bet is to google on the product and 'problem'.
Alas, this seems to be the norm amongst the US reviewing magazines. I've worked on and off in the UK arena and have heard some truly scary tales about how the US market works i.e. the PR company provides the copy, the advertising dept drives the editorial dept and so on. That would get seriously frowned upon here. Indeed, I know one editor whose ad dept wouldn't talk to him because he got so stroppy with them when they suggested he couldn't hammer a product whose manufacturer had just taken out a full page ad.
I haven't had breakfast on a working day for about 15 years. However, weekends it's a big steamy bowl of porridge with honey, sultanas and cinnamon.
I work in the finance sector and it's a very common view there both in the UK and abroad and has been much published as an increasing concern so no, it's not a unique view.
Interesting that this happened within a day or so of the first HD DVD hitting the torrents.
Of why most companies now think SOX was a mistake and it's costing more to implement it that it would ever have saved in additional costs from fraud etc.
>why not charge $1.99, or $0.99, or even $0.01
To cover their costs of collecting/processing the money I'd imagine. Sounds quite a reasonable amount under the circumstances.
>At 15 I was attracted to women in their 30s and 40s, it's not impossible... ;-)
Ah, your friend's mom eh?
>it's hard enough for an IT pro to figure out which came first
The guy, usually. That's what all the girls around here complain about, anyway.
>No offence but your takeaway sucks ;-)
There are one or two good chains but on the whole, yes, you're right.
>what is the orange stuff on sandwiches and don't tell me it's cheese
Orange? God knows! Especially in a sandwich. Cheese is usually sort of yellow. Oh, it could have been Red Leicester but that's usually a bit more, well, reddish.
Basically, if you had something orange in your sandwich and lived, be happy
How are the Maf*a et al going to hide their bodies now if the concrete side of things is automated? Actually, thinking about it things could go the other way for them. Concrete shoes sir? What style? Any particular heel?