From: Bill Bonde {Colourless green ideas don't sleep furiously) on 31 Jan 2010 07:54 Donna Evleth wrote: > > > From: "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" <evgmsop(a)earthlink.net> > > Organization: NewsGuy - Unlimited Usenet $19.95 > > Reply-To: evgmsop(a)earthlink.net > > Newsgroups: rec.travel.europe,alt.activism.death-penalty > > Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 13:22:53 -0700 > > Subject: Re: Dutch McDo's 'wrong' to fire worker over cheese slice... > > > > > > > > Mxsmanic wrote: > >> Bill Bonde {Colourless green ideas don't sleep furiously) writes: > >> > >>> Food tends to be the cheapest thing going. Of course if you insist > >>> on buying pre-made TV dinners, your costs will skyrocket. > >> > >> Food costs have skyrocketed in recent years, and balanced foods with good > >> general nutritional value and expensive ingredients like protein are always > >> more expensive than cheap carbohydrates. > > > > I don't think it does any good to confuse this jerk with facts, Mxxi! > > Evelyn, the main problem with Bill is that he believes he is always right. > No argument can touch him. Bill is always right. > I don't see you telling us that you are wrong. Why should I tell people I'm wrong when there is no specific evidence that I am wrong on any issue that is being discussed at the moment? That seems absurd. So am I wrong about food? No, I'm not, what I said is exactly correct: The cost for good food that you prepare yourself is less than or equal to the cost of store bought pre-made foods that aren't good for you. And BTW, when I make a mistake, I do admit it. For example, when I made a typo, I owned up to the error. Of course Holman will bring it up to attack me for *years* later. And then he'll lie and claim I didn't admit I was wrong. -- "Gonna take a sedimental journey", what Old Man River actually said.
From: Bill Bonde {Colourless green ideas don't sleep furiously) on 31 Jan 2010 07:56 Mxsmanic wrote: > > EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) writes: > > > Depends upon your choice of food! If you can buy high quality protein > > and fresh produce year-round, it is far from "cheap". High carbohydrate > > foods, on the other hand..... (But of course, that's the point Mxxi was > > making.) > > Food is an incredibly expensive fuel. > It's cheap enough that they almost can make it into alcohol or biodiesel and use it in your car. > In fact, it has recently occurred to me that riding a bicycle to work may > actually be worse for the environment than driving a car. Extracting and > processing the fuel for the car is less wasteful than growing food and > consuming it to provide power for the bicycle. People think that cycling is > "free" and thus doesn't damage the environment, but in fact it burns calories, > and those calories are incredibly expensive to produce. > Kook Alert. -- "Gonna take a sedimental journey", what Old Man River actually said.
From: Bill Bonde {Colourless green ideas don't sleep furiously) on 31 Jan 2010 07:58 Earl Evleth wrote: > > On 30/01/10 15:57, in article 4B6448F6.D5E60329(a)yahoo.co.uk, "Bill Bonde > {Colourless green ideas don't sleep furiously)" > <tribuyltinafpant(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > > > Food tends to be the cheapest thing going. > > In industrial societies. In 3rd world countries in which > the per capital income of the lowest elements of the society > are less than $2/day, food is the major "budget" item. > There's no doubt that there are people on this earth who are baring making it food wise. Some are starving. But the issue was first world "poor" who often have cell phones, high speed internet, seven Showtimes, three HBOs and drive cars around rather than walking or riding a bike. My assumption is that they would give those things up if they were actually starving, and since they are often overweight, the argument that they are starving is silly. -- "Gonna take a sedimental journey", what Old Man River actually said.
From: Bill Bonde {Colourless green ideas don't sleep furiously) on 31 Jan 2010 08:01 Donna Evleth wrote: > > > From: "Bill Bonde {Colourless green ideas don't sleep furiously)" > > <tribuyltinafpant(a)yahoo.co.uk> > > Organization: Our legacy is not the lives we lived but the lives we leave to > > those who come after us. > > Newsgroups: rec.travel.europe,alt.activism.death-penalty > > Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 16:05:27 +0000 > > Subject: Re: Dutch McDo's 'wrong' to fire worker over cheese slice... > > > > > > > > Mxsmanic wrote: > >> > >> Bill Bonde {Colourless green ideas don't sleep furiously) writes: > >> > >>> Food tends to be the cheapest thing going. Of course if you insist > >>> on buying pre-made TV dinners, your costs will skyrocket. > >> > >> Food costs have skyrocketed in recent years, and balanced foods with good > >> general nutritional value and expensive ingredients like protein are always > >> more expensive than cheap carbohydrates. > >> > > Even the "poor" in first world countries have generally enough > > money to buy staple foods. > > They tend to concentrate on buying cheap staples, like flour, beans, rice. > Little or no meat, little or no fresh fruits and vegetables. It's the > balance in the diet that is lacking. This is the point Mxsmanic was making, > which seems to have gone completely over your head. > This "Mxsmanic" character is a troll and he made no valid point. The people who are "poor" in the 1st world often do not concentrate on staples, rather they buy expensive pre-made meals, "TV dinners". I've explained this several times, claiming absurdly that they are not buying vegetables because they don't have the money when they clearly are buying Hot Pockets and sodas is ridiculous. -- "Gonna take a sedimental journey", what Old Man River actually said.
From: Earl Evleth on 31 Jan 2010 13:50
On 31/01/10 19:35, in article a5jbm59iookq91kcpfhh4jf6b4vrrkg02t(a)4ax.com, "Mxsmanic" <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Corn I eat mainly as popcorn or tortillas, Where do you get corn tortillas in Paris? |