Anybody e;se feel like this?

[EagleSmack]

So true, Twila, I walk in town here 3 or 4 times a week and it's really disturbing to see all the people in their 40s and 50s, struggling just to walk and mostly at least 50 lbs. over weight. A lot of them are sitting on the sidewalk beside their caps waiting for spare change.........what an existence for a young person!

Beggars are new?

That's what's killing us!

No it isn't. It is what is making life more convenient as well as keeping us alive in our elder years.

You have to be joking, man!!!! Read the food labels. Check the salt and sugar content of what we eat. How many pizza outlets do you have in your town? We have at least 10 in a medium sized city. That should tell you something. Two glasses of pop a day provides more than the recommended sugar dosage. How many people are on medication for high blood pressure? Most of that is caused from salt consumption. Our diets today are as poor as they can possibly get unless you make a conscious effort to modify them drastically. If you drink coffee at A & W you get 18% cream to add to it. Why do you think the cardiac department at any hospital has long line ups for by passes? It's the sh*t we eat and the hours lying on the couch!

What the heck does that have to do with anything! The days of rancid salted meat, weevil filled grain and bread, unsafe water, and little to no vegetables were better?!

Just because crappy food is produced does not mean you have to eat it... while sitting on the couch all day.

Geez man you need to read some history.

 

[darkbeaver]

What the heck does that have to do with anything! The days of rancid salted meat, weevil filled grain and bread, unsafe water, and little to no vegetables were better?!

Most of the world did not eat on a seventeenth century square rigger.

 

[JLM]

Beggars are new?



No it isn't. It is what is making life more convenient as well as keeping us alive in our elder years.







What the heck does that have to do with anything! The days of rancid salted meat, weevil filled grain and bread, unsafe water, and little to no vegetables were better?!

Just because crappy food is produced does not mean you have to eat it... while sitting on the couch all day.

Geez man you need to read some history.

You're the guy who needs to do the reading. There was no shortage of vegetables. The one disadvantage of years past was lack of refrigeration but that could be compensated for in many cases by pressure cooking. Salted meat is not good but easily remedied by boiling it for an hour. But to be realistic the amount of detrimental food you mention is equalled today by a bag or two of potato chips.

 

[petros]

Do we really have more energy, more free time, a stronger immune system? What with the constant technological distractions, 14hr+ work day (at the office, more if you include the commute) the amount of processed foods that offer very little in the way of nutrition, Pop (diabetes in a bottle)? I think it might be a toss up.

We now work twice as long to pay other people to do the "chores" we use to do ourselves.

Yup we do. It's up to you to stay fit. You could always head out to the garden or get on a plow for 16 hours a day.

 

[Sal]

Possibly for two main reasons- first the weak got eliminated in the first year or two of life and second living required much more physical activity. We live more years now but dependent on more people and generally become a bigger pain in the A$$ to people, we need more pills, more elevators and wheel chair ramps and a whole crew delivering meals on wheels etc. We are alive in the clinical sense but for all intents and purposes "dead from the A$$hole both ways". Our final ten years will likely be spent being propped up playing bingo games with a network of wires, hoses and tubes.

jesus, two people gave you a thumbs up for that...that is about the saddest take on life I've read EVER

Speak for yourself, old man. Me, I'm going out in a blaze of glory: either on my motorcycle or in the saddle of some hot Latino chickita. I haven't given the powers that be any other options.

you and me both...jesus my guy is 65 and he marathons

JLM...I would off myself before ending up in that sorry state

the old days be damned...live life now, not longing for some past maybe or some future what if

 

[Twila]

Yup we do. It's up to you to stay fit. You could always head out to the garden or get on a plow for 16 hours a day.

hmmm, could I have a couple of oxen with my plow? I'd also need a proper style of wearable overalls...the kind that prevent farmers tan...I want a nice all over tan or no tan at all!

 

[petros]

hmmm, could I have a couple of oxen with my plow? I'd also need a proper style of wearable overalls...the kind that prevent farmers tan...I want a nice all over tan or no tan at all!

Depends on how your credit is with HBC or CPR.

Do you have a Bay card?

 

[Twila]

Depends on how your credit is with HBC or CPR.

Do you have a Bay card?

Drat! I don't. This is just great, now I'm going to have to go and rob a train in order to have some money to buy some oxen and covernothings. Sheesh!

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

hmmm, could I have a couple of oxen with my plow? I'd also need a proper style of wearable overalls...the kind that prevent farmers tan...I want a nice all over tan or no tan at all!

So plow nekkid. Save money on clothes, and if your guy is around, you could. . . um. . . fertilise the fields.

 

[petros]

Drat! I don't. This is just great, now I'm going to have to go and rob a train in order to have some money to buy some oxen and covernothings. Sheesh!

Save your egg money to buy a calf.

 

[JLM]

Beggars are new?

I don't know about where you live, but food banks were virtually unheard of 40 years ago here. Nowadays what you get from the food banks is mainly processed food. What is being traded off is hunger for malnutrition.

 

[EagleSmack]

I don't know about where you live, but food banks were virtually unheard of 40 years ago here. Nowadays what you get from the food banks is mainly processed food. What is being traded off is hunger for malnutrition.

You haven't seen our food banks. And food banks are so 70s and 60's. They have SNAP cards and can buy whatever they wish including lobster!

Most of the world did not eat on a seventeenth century square rigger.

And meat was oh so fresh. And grain... why the fields were scythed each day so the freshest of grains were used. Vegetables just popped out of the ground daily!

 

[Corduroy]

So plow nekkid.

The only way to plow.

 

[JLM]

You haven't seen our food banks. And food banks are so 70s and 60's. They have SNAP cards and can buy whatever they wish including lobster!

WOW- down there maybe! Who's paying for this sh*t? I'd say you guys have it pretty good under Obama! (Maybe you guys just whine too much)

 

[EagleSmack]

You're the guy who needs to do the reading. There was no shortage of vegetables. The one disadvantage of years past was lack of refrigeration but that could be compensated for in many cases by pressure cooking. Salted meat is not good but easily remedied by boiling it for an hour. But to be realistic the amount of detrimental food you mention is equalled today by a bag or two of potato chips.

The lives of the average Joe back then was a constant struggle to exist.





Try reading this.

WOW- down there maybe! Who's paying for this sh*t? I'd say you guys have it pretty good under Obama! (Maybe you guys just whine too much)

Oh! Oh if you don't want to work baby then come on down! All is provided. Come one come all!


It's all free in America now!

 

[JLM]

You haven't seen our food banks. And food banks are so 70s and 60's. They have SNAP cards and can buy whatever they wish including lobster!

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) | Food and Nutrition Service


Absolutely pathetic for one of the richest countries in the world. Some people need to get off their A$$.!

 

[Corduroy]

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) | Food and Nutrition Service


Absolutely pathetic for one of the richest countries in the world. Some people need to get off their A$$.!

 

[Sal]

yeah in order to qualify your net monthly income has to be under a $1,000.

luxury living on $250.00 a week...bring on the bacon man...

 

[EagleSmack]

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) | Food and Nutrition Service


Absolutely pathetic for one of the richest countries in the world. Some people need to get off their A$$.!

Oh I know!

How cruel can we be!

 

[Sal]

oh and by the way...one person can have a max of $200 worth of food a month