MrsSpringsteen
Blue Crack Addict
No toys for Timmy? Geez-pot was voted down in CA too. I guess the hippies and flower power folks were too busy getting stoned to get out to the polls.
I don't know why you guys find Iron Horse's threads so offensive. Take a few chill pills or something, seriously.
Also, Iron Horse, whatever else may be said about his threads and points of view, has a point about the low fat milk thing he keeps on about. Semi-skimmed milk is fucking horrible, frankly. It tastes like water with chemicals injected in it and goes off a in few days. It even goes off before the use by date. Proper milk on the other hand is both delicious and nutritious and keeps for a good ten days or so. Full fat milk is still available in Ireland, fortunately.
When I was young there were adverts with the slogan "Healthy kids drink litres, not pints of milk" whereas now milk is apparently a very very bad thing indeed and leads to all kinds of terrible diseases so there's a bit of inconsistency in the building about the health freakery brigade, me thinks.
Next year, another health scare. Maybe the fruit and veg will be found to be bad for us after all. Given the amount of chemicals that are pumped into them these days, I wouldn't be remotely surprised.
No toys for Timmy? Geez-pot was voted down in CA too. I guess the hippies and flower power folks were too busy getting stoned to get out to the polls.
the toys have nearly always been shit anyway.
I don't eat pork, but once in while I do love a cheeseburger made at home. I get the leanest ground beef and use water instead of added oils to cook it. I have to eat proteins. So it is the turkey version for ham, bacon and sausage.
I try to stay away from a lot of the fake meat stuff. I hear too much processed soy isnt good for you and that seems to be what most are made of. Plus, they're so god damn expensive. I'll see if my grocery store carries the stuff you mentioned, Kramwest
I agree, and no one said that we're "relying" on fast food to do this, but let's face it too many kids are relying on happy meals. There's a few reasons for this, different paced lifestyle, parents not being educated enough to know what they are feeding their kids, etc...
Should we allow cigarettes being marketed to kids? So why are we allowing this poison being marketed to kids as real food?
i didn't need to watch a 90 minute doco to know that you would become very ill if you ate nothing but maccas for breakfast, lunch and tea for a month.
I'm not quite sure what your point is here. Why does having to eat make it ok to market poison to kids?You have to eat. You don't have to smoke.
and expecting them to suddenly start putting in fruit and veggies and such and be a world of healthdom is strange-
they're way better than oursI take my nephew once a week usually.. the toys are pretty bad ass actually.
This one talks and shoots an acorn off his chest.
And this one shoots the dude off the animal (no idea what it is.. my nephew knows all their names)
Then we got Halloween buckets last week with stickers.
Cute, Sicy
oh, well since you put it that way...Quorn vegetarian stuff is quite good. It's not Tofu; it's protein from egg whites and fungus (mushrooms).
I'm not quite sure what your point is here. Why does having to eat make it ok to market poison to kids?
But they're already making options with fruit instead of fries, or veggie instead of fries. This law is saying that those that reach certain nutritional expectations CAN have the toy.
At the end of the day, no one's freedom of choice has been violated. End of story.
oh, well since you put it that way...
Quorn vegetarian stuff is quite good. It's not Tofu; it's protein from egg whites and fungus (mushrooms). I like their fake turkey loaf a lot. It doesn't look terribly appetizing, but whatever.
I love the Quorn grounds. Great in dishes where you would use ground beef or turkey such as chili, spaghetti sauce, soups, etc.
I've got a friend on facebook (who I'm quickly coming to despise) that constantly spams with vegetarian propaganda. His latest go to argument is that humans are truly herbivores and when we eat meat, we're going against what nature intends. I really want to punch him in his face
I do have one story worth sharing about people inquiring about my reasons. I met a girl at a restaurant, and she offered me a chicken wing. I refused, and she asked me why. When I told her that I was a vegetarian, she responded with the following: "Doesn't it say in the Bible that God put animals here for us to use?"
It was the worst first impression of my entire life.
You raise a great point about the proselytizing. It's strictly unnecessary on both sides. I don't try to convert anybody, nor do I talk about my reasons unless I am directly asked. Even then, I usually dodge the question for the same reasons that you mentioned.
I do have one story worth sharing about people inquiring about my reasons. I met a girl at a restaurant, and she offered me a chicken wing. I refused, and she asked me why. When I told her that I was a vegetarian, she responded with the following: "Doesn't it say in the Bible that God put animals here for us to use?"
It was the worst first impression of my entire life.
Good point Finance Guy.
People my age drank whole milk as children, had real butter on their toast and then played outside. None of my friends or I were obese. Actually, we were quite skinny. Obesity at that time, was extremely rare for children and was more often due to medical problems, than lifestyle.
P.S. Iron Horse, I don't find your threads or post offensive. I enjoy reading everyone's point of view. It helps me to learn more about these topics.