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What is the matter with fat-ass Americans who are too lazy to return the grocery cart twenty feet to the return area??? What a bunch of creeps. (I am a fat-ass American,too, but I return the grocery cart.)
is the number of invalids shopping these days. Have you noticed how many people ride on those little go-cart things in the store now? I don't mean people who have personal ones, I mean people who use the store's thingys because they refuse to walk two steps.
Cheap grill!
Some people are just rude, self-centered assholes. The older I get, the less I have come respect humanity. Lately I've tried to find my center again and my way in the world. I've been reading "The Tao of Pooh" by B. Hoff again, just to try to see the world though humble eyes. There's not really much good out there, and I worry about my children. Not so much being harmed by their world, but becoming one of the masses......Colin
I've heard McDonalds makes you fat and Hardees makes you stupid. So you can pick your poison here.
It's easy to grab a stray cart from the lot on the way into the store. The distance is the same and it's good Kharma. Even in a big hurry, it's no hassle.
What is going on here? Time for a serious rant I say! Do people have a responsibility to society to attempt to promote a reasonable standard of personal health behaviour? When you point out to someone that eating McDonalds 4 times a week is dis-respecting your body and the bodies of your children, and they laugh uproariously and make a joke intended to mock your impecunious butting in as well as your wimpish eating habits; should you; A. Poke them in the nose and run, since obviously their fat lard-asses ain't gonna catch you. B. Point out peacefully that we all must pay for their disgusting personal dietary habits through rising cost of care for such illnesses as Diabetes and Heart Problems? If your right to swing your fist ends at my nose; then does your right to abuse your health end where my wallet begins? Around here the closer to the ocean you get the thinner and healthier the people are because they have money and expensive jobs that require you appear to be sensible in your behaviour. A lack of responsible habits cost a lot of money to those people who slack off and they don't get the promotions in those offices. So if they are required by convention to adopt decent health awareness; then why should they support those who lack integrity? Is it that much work to eat simple, nutritionally dense food and do some excersize, lay off the cigs and beer and hot dogs? Should your personal health habits dictate the premiums we pay for health insurance? I attended the Bruce Springsteen Concert at Madison Square Garden some yrs ago. I sent my partners to thier seats while I got the beer. Upon returning I saw from a distance their faces bright and red with merriment; obviously at my expense. Coming closer and wary of what would be the cause of such delight I spied the seat available to me; and sitting next to it a man of such humongous proportion that he swelled over into my seat in a conspicuous way. Noticing me noticing this my friends exploded in mirth. I approached this individual; who was very apologetic and abashed at his encroachment on my seat. I patiently explained that while I sympathized with his plight; there was no fucking way I was squeezing into the remains of my seat. We dickered back and forth until I expressed my refusal to allow him to scrunch into the side of his seat trying to fit me in. This puzzled everyone in that section until the management arrived and stared in bewildered confusion. After a short time a well dressed gentleman appeared and asked to escort the big guy to another seat. He put up a small fuss until the guy whispered something in his ear. Short story long; he ended up in the sky-box as a guest of the arena. Sometimes things just go your way. We of course were all happy for the guy and joined in expressing mutual affection and good wishes. As a footnote; that was the 41 shots concert and at the begginning of that song all the police in the arena walked out in protest.
EVERYBODY is so f... smart these days, but REAL good-looking people are rare. Then, maybe is better to be pretty then part of the smart-ass crowd?!
So Colin; are you interested in Bhuddist Philosophy? As far as one of the masses, please; I would lay silver at the feet of anyone who can tell me how to prevent that.
I agree with you about good looking people; we are few and far between.
If that can help - I just buy 1m of 0,8mm diameter silver wire, about $4 + tax, from "ae-europe", of course...
Finally that we are in complete agreement... http://audioroundtable.com/Dungeon/messages/827.html
You forgot to tell me how to prevent my kids from becoming cardboard cut-outs of the rest of the sheep and learn to think and form their own opinions based on their own experience's. Not to be programed by some govt/church/political/military/university organisation's propoganda. Thats the deal for the silver reward.
Hey, there are pretty dangerous things, and reward for this is not silver, but often the lead. Like that you probably really don`t want to know who actually put those bombs or have interests in that...it`s much easier and less dangerous to have opinion based on official truth. Read "1984"?
It was my guess the I.R.A. did it.
Suggest that someone quit smoking, drinking, become spiritual, politically motivated, eating healthier and the result is usually a retreat with about the same amount of force as the suggestion that was made. Where I have a problem is if I get really emotionally charged about something. Then I lose all ability to be objective, and with me, it shows. If I get charged about something, I tend to want to tell everyone. Never works but I can't help it sometimes.
At least you're honest; but I already knew that about you. A man should have strong opinions. I think the price of healthcare insurance will become selective depending upon state of health at some point. If you want to have bad habits, they are going to charge you more. Not in an obvious way; more along the lines of makeing the remedies for self-inflicted illness more difficult to obtain and pay for. I had bad habits; won't go into it but as soon as my son was born I cleaned up big time, thats the real issue. You have an obligation to your family to stay alive as best you can. Now I go to bed early and drink my milk. Eat my fruits and veggies.
John, you brought up an interesting point about the correlationship wealth and health. I believe that in general, those with a higher income tend to have healthier lifestyles. But here's the chicken or egg argument. Are they getting the good jobs because they demonstrate responsible habits (including health) as you suggest, or are they in better health because they have higher paying jobs? I'm inclined to side with the latter. The fact is, it's expensive to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Compare the cost of fresh meat and produce with pre-packaged junk at a supermarket and the difference is incredible. If you're the mother of a low income family, are you going to spend you're fixed income on fresh vegetable and meat, or load up on Kraft Dinner and Spam? Buy milk, or for less than half the price, soda? Low income families also tend to be less educated and are more suspectible to the marketing hype of the giant food companies. I'm a strong believer of individuals taking accountability for their own action, but for many of these folks, the odds are stacked against them from the start.
I agree; all you have to do is look at what they serve to the kids in public schools for lunch. People are at the mercy of the resources available to them. Many just don't have a butcher or a fresh produce market close by; and believe me I paid 12.99$ for a pound of flank steak on Saturday. Thats a luxury! My express purpose in bringing up the issue of wealth was to provoke a thought concerning exactly why the wealthy are expected to appear fit and healthy as a requisite for their employment. When you attend a function around here and the women eat nothing but a small carrott the whole night it makes you wonder why anyone can't do the same. Maybe if communities put a limit on the number of poor quality fast food joints there can be in a designated area and offered tax incentives to fresh food providers it would help. But the truth is if people do not have a desire to be healthy; if they smoke and eat poorly by choice does the community have a responsibility to enable that behaviour? As Wayne said; expect people to adopt healthy approaches to living and they run the other way. The funny part is that around here the truely poor have dozens of charities that provide pretty good food; vegetables and milk and cheese and rice and beans. But they end up tossing most of it because the people want fast food.