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Leaf wrote:not to mention disturbing. I recommended that she google the term. that ought to provide for a nice evening for her and the hubby.

Yeah thanks for that Leaf. Not. It's always nice to expand your horizons, but this just took the biscuit. Yelch, yuk and don't frighten the horses.

That reminds me of the old "soggy biscuit" myth. At least, I HOPE it's a myth.

At least you see why I wasn't very comfortable verbally explaining that ... "process" to a female co-worker.

Leaf wrote:That reminds me of the old "soggy biscuit" myth. At least, I HOPE it's a myth.

I went to public school (I think Americans call it 'private school') and I can guarantee it is a myth. Or at least I was never invited to partake. I mean, come on, when is it ever an advantage to come first??

Caravan Ray wrote:

Puce wrote:

c hack wrote:

I've recently met three vegetarians. When I asked them why they gave up meat their answers surprised me. None of them had an ethical objection to eating cute animals. Instead, one was worried about deforestation and the environmental effects of meat production, another said she doesn't like the taste of meat, and the third cited health reasons.

Turns out they weren't the hippies I had been accusing them of being.

The first 2 are valid reasons - the third ones a hippie.

(reducing meat intake for health reasons is sensible - eliminating it is stupid).

I think it's different for different people. If I stopped eating meat, I'd feel totally malnourished. But some people, no big deal. Of course, no one can just quit eating meat without replacing it with specific vegetables, or at least, vitamin supplements.

I think the 2nd two reasons are valid, but the first isn't. If the environment was your top priority, you'd quit eating farmed meat and start eating venison and stuff. Help manage the deer populations.

Caravan Ray wrote:Re. the roadkill issue (at last we're discussing something sensible on these boards) - can't say I've ever been tempted to sup at the asphalt smorgasbord. Used to see a lot of dead cattle when I lived out in Mt Isa - that had been hit by roadtrains during the night. It didn't take long for them to start smelling really bad. And they would also get claimed pretty quickly by wedge-tailed eagles - who you really don't want to go messing with.

Yuck. I'm not talking about something you find on the side of the road -- that's just plain nasty. I'm talking ONLY about when you hit a large animal and kill or maim it. Granted, I've never even hit a deer, but it seems like the right thing to do would be to bring it home and eat it.

Leaf wrote:At least you see why I wasn't very comfortable verbally explaining that ... "process" to a female co-worker.

Well yeah. That shit can get you fired.

j$ wrote: I went to public school (I think Americans call it 'private school')

Okay, here in the good ol' US of A, public school is where the general public goes. It's publicly funded. Private school, OTOH, is privately funded. You have to pay to send your kids there. How is that not perfectly logically consistent?

j$ wrote:

Leaf wrote:That reminds me of the old "soggy biscuit" myth. At least, I HOPE it's a myth.

I went to public school (I think Americans call it 'private school') and I can guarantee it is a myth. Or at least I was never invited to partake. I mean, come on, when is it ever an advantage to come first??

Why do he English call private scools 'Public Schools'. Even here in Aus. though we call state-run schools 'public schools' - a few of the most expensive and ponciest private schools still refer to themselves as "GPS" or 'greater public schools' (and it is very well known fact to all that don't go to these schools that the game of "soggy biscuit" is virtually compulsary in these GPS schools, as is the manly and noble art of "soap-dropping)

Anyway - I'm sure "soggy biscuit" is a naval tradition - something to do with softening up the hard cabin biscuits to make them more edible.

Some buddy of mine convinced a bunch of people that it was a tradition of the Pittsburgh Penguins to play limp biscuit before every game. Pretty funny, but it also shows how little the average American knows (or cares) about hockey; if he had said "Pittsburgh Steelers" or "Pittsburgh Pirates," I don't think anyone would have bought it.

c hack wrote: If the environment was your top priority, you'd quit eating farmed meat and start eating venison and stuff. Help manage the deer populations.

If you really wanted to be a carnivore to save the environment - the best thing to eat would be Americans.

Recipe:
Deep fry 1 medium sized American in West Texas crude. Serve piping hot, accompanied by a couple of Australians thrown on the barbie (powered by Roxby Downs uranium), and finished off with a nice plump Canadian, lovingly clubbed to death by a Hudson Bay sealer - then smothered with maple syrup.

Mmmmmmm....sustainable...

Caravan Ray wrote:

c hack wrote: If the environment was your top priority, you'd quit eating farmed meat and start eating venison and stuff. Help manage the deer populations.

If you really wanted to be a carnivore to save the environment - the best thing to eat would be Americans.

You've got me there, except it'd be much better to eat the Chinese. Why is manufacturing so cheap over there? No environmental laws.

c hack wrote:

Caravan Ray wrote:
If you really wanted to be a carnivore to save the environment - the best thing to eat would be Americans.

You've got me there, except it'd be much better to eat the Chinese. Why is manufacturing so cheap over there? No environmental laws.

China is a Signatory to the Kyoto protocol, and they don't drive huge gas guzzling monstrosities.

Kamakura wrote:China is a Signatory to the Kyoto protocol, and they don't drive huge gas guzzling monstrosities.

Sure, they consume 1/3 the oil that the US does, but of the 10 most pooluted cities in the world, 7 can be found in China. Some more info and factoids:

http://www.elaw.org/news/advocate/defau ... ticle=2876

The US also is a Signatory, they just haven't ratified. Interestingly, Austrailia is dead against it. This is also interesting:

http://www.junkscience.com/MSU_Temps/Kyoto_Count_Up.htm

You know what I haven't had in a while? Big League Chew.

man, that stuff sucks!! I'm more of a wine gum/jubie kinda guy. Now my dad, he's a potato chip man. My wife likes those big league chews though. Or so she claims.


You know, eating another human as a topic reminds me of story.

My friend was telling me that in some highschool class he had ages ago, the teacher asked the students...what is the one thing you can eat that will provide all the nutrition you require?


Human.

Now, I don't know if that's true...but you gotta wonder: what exactly was that teacher trying to accomplish?

Leaf wrote:My friend was telling me that in some highschool class he had ages ago, the teacher asked the students...what is the one thing you can eat that will provide all the nutrition you require?

Human.

I thought it was bologna?

WeaselSlayer wrote:You know what I haven't had in a while? Big League Chew.

I just finished a pack the other day. The gum is great, but it's kinda irritating that there's nothing to spit the gum into. One is not always near a trash can (or, you know... in a dugout).

c hack wrote: Some more info and factoids:

Factoid is supposed to refer to an unverified fact, often thought to be true because of constant repetition. The media has convinced most of us that it means fact and so we have grown up referring to fun little facts as factoids. Since dictionary's are only descriptive, they have to acknowledge this new use, and the word factoid now stupidly means both "fact" and "not an actual fact".... isn't that crazy?

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=factoid

Reviews aside, shock-media argument aside:

I hate people that constantly make crap music and don't appear to make progress. And it's not even a genre problem here. I like well-crafted rap music. I really do.

PiGPIN can't rhyme for crap, can't flow for crap, and has a voice tone that sounds like the mentally-challenged Wal-Mart guy who hands you fliers on your way in.

His whole "I'm from the hood" story has less street cred then my own poverty-stricken-drug-dealing life story, and on top of everything else he takes all this crap music he makes and evedently (based on his posts in this thread), believes from the very bottom of his heart that his valueless not-commercially-viable-not-artistically-respectable-crap-music is art, and self-expression.

I swear to god: Luke Henley has more talent up his ass then PiGPIN has in his empty cerebellum.

Aw you big sweetie.

Also, anybody else run into this problem? You get on the subway and all of a sudden there's this voice. What is he even SAYING!? I mean come on, who is this guy!? The big Mr. Inaudible Voice Guy? Haha! I mean WHAT is UP with THAT!?

Southwest_Statistic wrote:Reviews aside, shock-media argument aside: then stuff

that was two pages ago. what do you think about eating road kill?

i think it's a good idea. i fully support recycling in all forms...including the soggy biscuit and snowballing.

Southwest_Statistic wrote:I hate people that constantly make crap music and don't appear to make progress.

I respect that. Lucian Freud made crap paintings for years, but later in his career he got really good. I respect anyone who plugs away at it, especially if they're not making any apparent progress. Monet said you've got a thousand bad paintings in you. It's just a matter of getting them out of the way.

Guts over talent, any day of the week.

Of course, there's something to be said for being able to be objective about your work, especially if it's obviously bad.

now i remember why i never come to the political thread. you people need to chill the fuck out.

Southwest_Statistic wrote:I hate people that constantly make crap music and don't appear to make progress. And it's not even a genre problem here. I like well-crafted rap music. I really do.

Its important to remember that good and bad music are objective. And that some people enjoy playing and recording music, even if they are horrible. Still others like recording and playing because they suck so much. I'd throw myself in the second catagory. My music is undeniably simple and yet still preformed poorly. If I was better at song writing and playing that be great. But I just like the playing and song writing. Kind of like the guys that go hunting and never come back with a deer or goose or whatever it was they were hunting. But come back happy and relaxed.

Reggie Dallas wrote:I'm the only one who gets to write epilogues here, motherfucker. And this story was over long before your dumb ass brought anything to the table!

No.

Win.