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[enterprikayak]

Personally lately I've been griping that our money is looking a little too much like your monopoly money in the last few years.

Yeah, y'know different coloured security features to counteract forgery, etc....pretty lame. It makes way more sense to print your $5 bill in the exact same colour as your $100 bill.

[Mitchell]

Count me out. I gets on, Whens I gets on.

I usually don't get up until around 1000, personally.

Slacker.

I think humans do it like this:

We want whatever we can't have.

So in, say, an African country where everyone is hungry and scrawny, fat women are considered beautifully healthy and nourished.

In, say, US or Canada or UK everyone's got six Starbucks drivethrus and six McDonald's drivethrus all vying to take their attention away from the Wendy's drivethru and the Burger King drivethru and the liquor store drivethru. Then add 6 lifetimes of potential tv viewing options every night and, finally, a comfy couch for slouching. And everyone seems to have, um, some trouble, y'know...not ballooning. No one's skinny. There's just too many couches for anyone to be skinny, except rare genetic freaks.

So we hold up these magical humans like Jolene and Flavia de Oliveira who somehow *SOMEhow* have managed to resist the evil triumverate combination of drivethrus, tv, and couches.

And we worship them. Welcome to 2008. It's a strange place to visit.

I just have to add, that its not only the Over abundance of food, an couches. But its well the serious decline in physicaly demanding/related jobs that people are taking up.

The more people sittin on their arses all day in front of computers, or answering phones, or what ever Lazy ass job you can think of, The more over weight the free world's population will more then likely be.

Cause beleave me, If you work hard enough physicaly you'll just bout burn through anything you eat. Assumin you eat more then just Oreos all the time.

An if you have a Hard enough job, you wont have all that extra time to sit round stuffing yer face. I know in the Summer their are days where the only Meal I get in a Day is Dinner. Pluss maybe a snack.

[TPoptarts]

Like, what about Easter Sunday March 23 at 7:30 am PST? Everyone can log on and we can gaze in wonder at the little graphic on the Board Index. And chatter like digital monkeys. God, we are geeks. I love it!

Why does it always have to be when I'm working

[enterprikayak]

Sounds like a plan. Being relatively close to CX in time zone, guess I can drag myself to the machine.

I'll make a thread. Only the Geek Elites shall join us. We are a proud warrior clan.

[enterprikayak]

I usually don't get up until around 1000, personally.

I love this sentence. He uses army time, but 'ee shore as hell ain't stickin' to army hours.

[enterprikayak]

Like, what about Easter Sunday March 23 at 7:30 am PST? Everyone can log on and we can gaze in wonder at the little graphic on the Board Index. And chatter like digital monkeys. God, we are geeks. I love it!

Why does it always have to be when I'm working

why are you working on easter sunday at 700 am. what kind of freaky smackdown bondage zoo do you work for anyhow? I mean, we're all wondering this about the zoo you're in anyhow, but PLEASE! Easter sunday at 7 am????????


Print this post and bring it to your immediate superior. NOW!

In other news T'Popsy, um, I invented that time on a whim, so if there's better day/hour that works, please, anyone, let's chat!

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[justTripn]

It's a myth that people in poorer countries admire fat people. I know, I was in Thailand. I was like 21. Looking about like I do now, I was considered fat, which was bad. Add to that that there is no taboo in Thailand against warning people (in a friendly way) that they are on the heavy side. (In fact there are no nice euphumisms like "on the heavy side.") So the older women at the market or beauty parlor for instance would warn me: "You were pretty when you got here. Now you are fat. If you are fat, you're not going to find a boyfriend."

To which I would say, "Thank you, but please don't say that."

To which they'd respond, "But I'm only telling you this for your own good. Because I like you!"

*SIGH*!

There was no way to get around the friendly advice! Thai people are VERY friendly.

[Asso]

We must not hide the truth.
I was obese, long ago (well, now I don't be exactly a twig!), and life wasn't good.
Beauty (and the living well) have their canons!
And their necessities!

[enterprikayak]

Certainly not every country does, but some do, that's all I meant.

Don't you love it when you run into peeps who love to tell you harsh things 4 your own good. In Canada this is a HUGE no-no. HUGE. We're all tightass. My friend's mom is from South America and very traditional. She is always sitting you down and saying horribly uncomfortable things for "your own good".

For HER own good, I'd like to tell her she's being rude.

(But I'm Canadian, so I can't.)

Her daughter usually gets the brunt of it all of course. And sometimes the mom sees me without the daughter (I recently did a PC party at her house). And she likes to grip my arm intimately, and pull me aside and ask me things about the daughter. "Yenny-fer. You tell me. Isobel...is she...is she...the lessbian?" (Say 'lesbian' all soft and emphatic and horrified when you read it aloud.)

The daughter doesn't date much.

[CoffeeCat]

It's a myth that people in poorer countries admire fat people. I know, I was in Thailand. I was like 21. Looking about like I do now, I was considered fat, which was bad. Add to that that there is no taboo in Thailand against warning people (in a friendly way) that they are on the heavy side. (In fact there are no nice euphumisms like "on the heavy side.") So the older women at the market or beauty parlor for instance would warn me: "You were pretty when you got here. Now you are fat. If you are fat, you're not going to find a boyfriend."

To which I would say, "Thank you, but please don't say that."

To which they'd respond, "But I'm only telling you this for your own good. Because I like you!"

*SIGH*!

There was no way to get around the friendly advice! Thai people are VERY friendly.

in which I would respond: "You're a bitch. I'm only telling you this because I like you." ;-D

[vero3110]

Certainly not every country does, but some do, that's all I meant.

Don't you love it when you run into peeps who love to tell you harsh things 4 your own good. In Canada this is a HUGE no-no. HUGE. We're all tightass. My friend's mom is from South America and very traditional. She is always sitting you down and saying horribly uncomfortable things for "your own good".

For HER own good, I'd like to tell her she's being rude.

(But I'm Canadian, so I can't.)

Not all Southern Americans are like your mom's friend. Around here the only one who would tell you something for your own good is your mom, and probably your sisters. We're all tightassy, too.

Vero

[evcake]

Her daughter usually gets the brunt of it all of course. And sometimes the mom sees me without the daughter (I recently did a PC party at her house). And she likes to grip my arm intimately, and pull me aside and ask me things about the daughter. "Yenny-fer. You tell me. Isobel...is she...is she...the lessbian?" (Say 'lesbian' all soft and emphatic and horrified when you read it aloud.)

The daughter doesn't date much.

Tell her, for her own good, that she's probably destroyed her daughter's self esteem to the extent that certain relationships are going to be very difficult. Say "when she gets away from you, she'll probably be fine." Then smile sweetly.

[blacknblue]

Her daughter usually gets the brunt of it all of course. And sometimes the mom sees me without the daughter (I recently did a PC party at her house). And she likes to grip my arm intimately, and pull me aside and ask me things about the daughter. "Yenny-fer. You tell me. Isobel...is she...is she...the lessbian?" (Say 'lesbian' all soft and emphatic and horrified when you read it aloud.)

The daughter doesn't date much.

Tell her, for her own good, that she's probably destroyed her daughter's self esteem to the extent that certain relationships are going to be very difficult. Say "when she gets away from you, she'll probably be fine." Then smile sweetly.

How about: "No, but she's not a slut either. She is a little bit picky,and doesn't jump on every drooling loser than wanders by, that's all."

Maybe the poor girl has a brain. Let's have a show of hands. How many people here have known the grim experience of going out on a date with an airhead? Someone who just barely has sense enough to keep up with lowbrow mainstream culture, and couldn't name one of the classics to save themselves from death by slow torture? You know, the type that starts every sentence with "You know"... or..."And like".."

Argh.

[TPoptarts]

You know, the type that starts every sentence with "You know"... or..."And like".."

Argh.

HEY!! I say "and like"

[enterprikayak]

The Big Bang of course leaves the question, where did the big bang come from?
why does the universe appear to present entropy?
If the universe is cycling, then where does the energy come from for the second explosion?
What force will pull it back toward the center then?
How will that heat energy act to drag the matter back to the center to power a second bang?
But if it doesn't, what happens at the end?
Why did the bang happen at all, if there was no purpose to it?

Maybe we'll get some answers to Blue's question.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23408757/