air conditioning may be making us fat
in [Europe]
|
From: Mxsmanic on 14 Jul 2006 02:24 Tim C. writes: > It doesn't take a rocket scientist to work that out. So it's an inference? > An attack doesn't have to have identified targets. A _personal_ attack does, hence the name. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail.
From: Carole Allen on 14 Jul 2006 02:37 >Carole Allen writes: > >> Pancreatic cancer for one. By the time symptoms surface and diagnosis >> is made, it is usually too far advanced to arrest regardless of how >> much money you have. You can be gone in 1-3 months in many cases. I >> have personally known several people who died of it; they were >> economically comfortable and certainly could afford the best medical >> care, but it is a relentlessly nasty form of cancer. > On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 08:22:13 +0200, Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote: It's also an exception to the rule in this respect. > >-- You asked for an example - I gave you one.
From: Dave Frightens Me on 14 Jul 2006 04:41 On 13 Jul 2006 22:11:43 -0700, "A Human Being" <justahumanbeing1(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >Mxsmanic wrote: >> Dave Frightens Me writes: >> >> > Happiness makes you vulnerable? >> >> Emotion makes you vulnerable, when you allow it to make your decisions >> for you. > >Which emotions are you talking about? There are two kinds- positive and >negative . Oh christ, the other half is back. -- --- DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com --- --
From: Dave Frightens Me on 14 Jul 2006 04:45 On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 08:17:38 +0200, Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote: >Carole Allen writes: > >> What a load of c... p. When you aren't at McD's, or walking in Paris >> (which of course you don't do on the "hot" days), or teaching English >> to a group of students (adults, not children? - the same students, >> they don't take just one lesson from you?), you are sitting in your >> AC'd little apt, flying flight simulator, or checking your watch to >> the nanosecond, or messing with your computers. You don't go to >> libraries, or to the theater, or to sporting events, or to bars, etc., >> etc., or any other sort of place where large crowds gather (except >> perhaps the subway). You probably live a more isolated life than >> 99.9% of rte's posters. > >Not from the standpoint of disease exposure. Ninety minutes in a >small room with someone who sneezes continually is a virtual guarantee >of infection. Were you smearing their phlegm on your breasts during this? (apologies for that mental image!) -- --- DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com --- --
From: Dave Frightens Me on 14 Jul 2006 04:46
On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 05:18:58 GMT, carolea7(a)comcast.net (Carole Allen) wrote: >On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 13:19:20 +0200, Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> >wrote: >>If one cannot discern that he is a non-native speaker or writer of >>English, then that is perfection in practical terms. >> >How can you determine from what someone has written if that person >(someone otherwise unknown to you) is a non-native speaker or writer >of English? Stanislas' written English is of better quality than >some of the stuff I receive from highly educated Americans born and >bred in the States. He said something like "an hotel" a few days back. No mother tonuge speaker would make that mistake! -- --- DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com --- -- |