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Killa - If you're not going to contribute to the thread, I suggest you go ride a horse. They taste good and are of apparently big proportions too.
In this specific picture, yes, I was wearing sunglasses. We had just arrived home and neither me nor him took thought of taking the glasses off, due to distraction or laziness. I've taken pictures in the past where I do make this or that expression just for the fun of it. This wasn't one of those, that's all. Whether or not you believe me is irrelevant to the realism and validity of this fact. However, if you do feel like mocking me about posting an updated picture of myself in which I carelessly had glasses on, then I might have missed the purpose of this thread, completely; even when I was the one coming up with it. On a slightly more dramatic note, I might even been misunderstanding the whole concept in which e-relationships are based on, for that matter.Wow, way to blow a joke way out of proportion.
tl;dr - Fuck off for not having taken the time to read my post and replying accordingly.
Oh so you just wear sunglasses indoors all the time then. Ok.
Alex, yet again, you very much so successful at bringing things down to a basic level, as always. Thanks for not letting me down.You're welcome.
This is relatively ironic. I bad drawing or a first-take at Photoshop posters get an incredible amount of feedback, but I -whose experience is on a slightly more advanced level- get very little to nearly none. And to think it would be worth sharing a slice of my essence with my "mates" here...Ha!
Wow, I'm tempted to try it even though I rarely play RTS games. Incredible review as always.
while hurting everyone else who does pay attention tot heir health.
How does it hurt the people that pay attention tot heir health? If they payed attention, they wouldn't eat that shit, and if they did, they should be reminded of why it's shit.
First you said it was illegal, now you're saying it's immoral. Your reasoning has just turned into opinion. Tax WILL make people pay attention, even if it's just proposing a tax, people will get worked up. That's not an opinion. Don't get me wrong, I don't want to pay a government tax on food when I don't get to choose what is and what isn't good but it will show the clueless people a little bit of what's going on.
On a related note, I'm happy as a clam paying sales tax for my state. I see my money in the roads
despite the many times your reasoning ends up changing further down the discussions, without you realising it.How did my reasoning change? I have been saying close to the same things the entire time.
More often than otherwise, your opinions too, hold very little to no weight, yet you somehow manage to stick by itHow do my opinions hold no weight? You have yet to provide any evidence for me being wrong......
Therefore your reasoning holds very little weight.I could say the same about your comments about it being illegal to tax food but I didn't.They can't just add taxes to whatever food they feel like, they would have to tax all of it.Says who?
LOL. I don't need data and I don't need to prove anything. I just observe and I talk based upon my observations. How is it illegal for the government to tax food? If you're talking free market kinda thing, how are any other goods taxed if it's illegal?
Maybe I shouldn't have said "telling us" but instead have said "persuading us" like you said. But regardless, it is still illegal to tax foods just because they are unhealthy. The government is not supposed to interfere with the free market or it's citizens rights to buy what they want.They decided what is ok to eat and sell from a safety stand point. They are not trying to tax perfectly edible and safe foods just because they can be fattening.
This really goes beyond fattening foods. FDA doesn't block everything unsafe, a LOT of unsafe food is out there. They are still deciding what is and what isn't ok to eat. Taxing food wouldn't tell you what you can and can't eat, it just pursuades you to eat better or pay for consuming (and thus demanding manufacturing of) unhealthy food.
The "average" I was talking about has nothing to do with political or religious views or culture/family history or any shit like that. It has to do with the average of being informed about what people are consuming. A lot of American's are in the dark or just couldn't care less. They need to pay for their ignorance and it's effect on others.
just the thought of congress trying to decide what I eat is scary.
FDA already does, what's the problem?
I feel that if people want to eat unhealthy, let them. It is only themselves they are going to hurt. The average person is educated enough to know what they are eating. What is really fucked up about all of this is that the U.S. government is thinking about trying to control what Americans eat by taxing foods and beverages that they deem "unhealthy." As if the American population is too stupid to understand the concept of unhealthy food. People do not eat unhealthy food because they don''t know it is unhealthy, they eat it because it tastes good.
Using the same logic, on a more sensible and moralistic subject, you may end up with: I feel that if people want to kill out of reason, let them. -- We live in a consequent world. By doing wrong to yourself, you are indirectly causing others to cause wrong as well. By eating fast food, you are contributing to the ever-growing demand for fast food. Between many things, this means more animals will be treated badly and eventually killed, just because the demand is excessively grand --as is the waste.
The average person is educated enough to know...may very well be a wrong pretence of your own. How sure are you that people actually know what is in the food they eat? You may be aware that fast food is unhealthy, however, that does not necessarily mean you know exactly what it is that you are eating, and what the exact consequences will be in your body.
Americans should indeed start taxing food according to their healthy value; "As if the American population is too stupid to understand the concept of unhealthy food." --For someone who is against generalisations, it is rather ironic, if I may. It sounds very much so eclectic to say people eat food because it tastes good. Fallacious. People eat fast food because they can illusively trick their body into feeling "full", they can get their food and eat in a minimal amount of time and pay a reasonable price for the whole meal. This is the demand society put us up with.
First off, one person eating fast food is not taking another human being's life. That is a terribly analogy. In no way can you compare eating unhealthy food with killing a human being. As for the last part, the context I said that in was about how people think the American population is too stupid to know what is unhealthy. I never used a generalization to prove anything.(...) they are fattening would be going against our economic philosophy. (...) The Government shouldn't be able to decide what we eat.
1. What is the American's Economic Philosophy? Without explanation or proof that you do know what you are talking about, your argument stands invalid.
2. By taxing fast food and the likes, you won't be told what you can or can not eat. There is no direct power from the Government applied to such a thing, at all. If anything, the inclusion of taxes will have you change your habits and consume less of what you once did and compensate with different food, drinks and so on. To your own advantage, that would mean eating healthier food.
The Economic philosophy is that the government should have no control over the free market except for a few regulations that keep things fair and keep companied honest. I said that in an earlier post, I guess you missed that.There is no such thing as an "Average American" The United States of America is made up of many different people, cultures, races, and intelligence levels.
Why is it that I have the feeling that you are just joking around?
There is such a thing as "Average American". As there is of "Average Portuguese", "Average British", and so on. Different cultures, races and intelligence levels are but conditions and variants of the average, which does not -at any point in time or stage in theoretical conceptualisation- annihilate the consignation of the average as a whole. Compare it to the notion of "Neutral", if you will. There is no such thing as linear neutrality, however the circumstances. It's an established notion to help de-establish what is unknown or unheard of to humanity.
Nate is not joking around with you. He is simply disagreeing with you.
how can people not know what is healthy and what is not?Look at the today's average American.unconstitutionalSomeone ought to change the record.I also do not like you using the term "Today's Americans" to justify your statement. Everyone I know knows what food is healthy and what is not. Generalizations don't work and should never be used.I fixed it above. I hate generalizations too but in this case, it works!
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