I feel, BB, SD's post might be more than just to entertain you !
On Aug 4, 10:17 am, BB47 <[email protected]> wrote:
> One thing I can say about you Slip is you are more fun than most in
> here. Ripping , yes, but at least more fun. You have a sense of
> humor. A rare and special gift it seems among these people. So
> many in here are simply pompus and arrogant, but you do that with
> humor! It is a nasty humor, but humor nonetheless, and I will take
> nasty humor over no humor at all any day. This is the most humorless
> room I have been in since jury duty, It is like you threw a party at
> the public library. This is a tough crowd.
>
> It is like an academic morgue in here mostly. I have felt more warmth
> looking down at the fish on ice at the market. It is like telling
> jokes in a shark tank. You know I always thought that when a person
> achieved some wisdom, through knowledge and experience, they would
> become more "gentle" like a grandfather talking to a child. No sir!
> The more books you folks read the more blowhard you get. The angle of
> the snoot just changes.
>
> You know what academics I admire? The poets. Only because their
> entire goal is to condense their idea down to its purest form. They
> spend all their time crossing out lines while you folks add more and
> plop some big words in for spice and a nice insult on top. The poets
> would rather find the perfect word to reduce the rest. Not that I
> like poetry. Hate most of it to be honest. I just like that idea. I
> only like one out of a hundred, but that one sure is powerful.
>
> On Aug 3, 9:05 pm, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > BB, now look what you have done, tsk tsk tsk.
> > Now you are going to have to make amends by saying three Our Fathers,
> > two Hail Marys, and five Sob's, but wait, that 's not all, you will
> > also have to do 59 sit ups, that is if you can put a vacuum cleaner
> > hose up your butt to suck in that belly fat far enough to pull it
> > off. After that you will have to write a letter, in triplicate, to
> > everyone about how sorry you are about derailing Orn's thread and IF
> > that is not enough you are going to have to listen to 450 hours
> > straight of Billy Mays loud mouth, in your face commercials.
> > I'm sure that Orn might reduce the infraction to a smidgen, after all
> > he's not that bad of a mod.
>
> > On Aug 3, 10:44 pm, BB47 <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > I may have missed the point, but I had one. I am trying to avoid
> > > politics. Sorry to derail your thread. Carry on.
>
> > > On Aug 3, 8:29 pm, ornamentalmind <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > If you read the article, you seem to have missed the point.
>
> > > > On Aug 3, 8:23 pm, BB47 <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > > Can bacon be considered a necessary evil? Am I too simple to be in
> > > > > this group? I love bacon but I avoid it whenever I am able.
> > > > > But let me tell you, bacon adds flavor to certain things like nobody's
> > > > > business. Is it nobody's business? I don't know. I think it should
> > > > > be a personal choice. Is it basically bad for you? I think it
> > > > > probably is. Certainly not something you want to eat everyday if your
> > > > > goal is a really long life. Are there exceptions to that? Probably
> > > > > Do I want to live a really long life? Not really. But ask me when I
> > > > > am really close to the end. I might want to extend it. Can't promise,
> > > > > but maybe. If you told me it was the bacon, I might have to accept
> > > > > it. It sure was good.
>
> > > > > Is the goal of life to live long? Like 90 something? It doesn't
> > > > > look that great to me, but being that life is the only game in town,
> > > > > it might be good enough. What if you sacrificed every single really
> > > > > good tasting, good feeling thing in life just to live to 90? Was it
> > > > > worth it? I don't think so.
>
> > > > > On Aug 3, 7:31 pm, ornamentalmind <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > > > First, a lay of the land by a former FDA head:
>
> > > > > > "Former FDA Commissioner David Kessler: “The End of Overeating:
> > > > > > Taking
> > > > > > Control of the Insatiable American Appetite”
> > > > > > A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
> > > > > > warns
> > > > > > that the direct medical costs of obesity total about $147 billion a
> > > > > > year. That amounts to nine percent of all US medical costs. It’s
> > > > > > also
> > > > > > over $50 billion more than the annual spending on cancer...."
>
> > > > > > for the rest of this story, go
> > > > > > to:http://www.democracynow.org/2009/8/3/former_fda_commissioner_david_ke...
>
> > > > > > And now for the weapons:
>
> > > > > > "From the McDonald’s McGriddle to Wendy’s “Baconator” to
> > > > > > “baconnaise”
> > > > > > to bacon-infused vodka, bacon has become a ubiquitous ingredient in
> > > > > > many diets in this era of extreme food combinations. Arun Gupta of
> > > > > > The
> > > > > > Indypendent writes, “Behind the proliferation of bacon offerings is
> > > > > > a
> > > > > > confluence of government policy, factory farming, the boom in fast
> > > > > > food and manipulation of consumer taste that has turned bacon into a
> > > > > > weapon of mass destruction.” ..."
>
> > > > > > for the rest of this story go
> > > > > > to:http://www.democracynow.org/2009/8/3/arun_gupta_on_bacon_as_a-Hidequo...-
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