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Very true.
Maybe in 12 years time Mcdonalds will merely be a faded memory...
*wishful thinking*
Now t-h-a-t-'-s well put. Don't mind that at all. It's the "youngster" word that gets my goat...if I had one.:p
PNJ - you pig for eating that whole tub of Haagen Daaz! The nearest I ever came to that was buying a tub of Baskin Robbin's mint ice cream for some friends when we were doing a project on Shakespeare which they barely touched - it took me and my family a week to get through it.
At least you're not as bad as your jock friends - they bulk up today on protein but when they get a job and stop all that regular exercise it'll all turn to fat.
When you have a full time job and a family will you still be exercising as much as you do now? I doubt it and that is when all your past sins (such as the Haagen Daaz) will come and haunt you....
Elysium - I agree our society's attitude to food is so messed up, there was this woman who had such a bad case of anorexia she lost the use of her stomach and now has to eat these frozen pots of nutrients which looked like cow pats and she said tasted just as bad. The pictures were just horrible, there were girls whose rib cages looked like the bones of a turkey. At the other extreme you had a guy who was so fat the fire brigade had to cut him out of his window to get him to hospital for life saving treatment.
I don't eat at McDonald's any more since our local branch was shut down because the male staff.. how can I put this politely... brought a whole new meaning to the phrase taking pleasure in your work with the milkshake dispenser. PNJ - take note!
Booo:shocking:
Trying to scare an innocent child.:flirt:
Not with getting fat. But about having a wife and job. :yuck:
what a shock:rolleyes: Bah grow up
I don't like the look of anorexic people but I also dislike the 'look' of fat mamas.
I can't understand how a person can find rolls of flab attractive.
They probably go for whats inside which is what a lot more people should do.
Ok have you got the looks? cos your personality does not show here, apart from showing me you are quite ignorant and can sometimes speak totally out of hand.
Yeah lots of people would like to have the perfect look but at the end of the day whats the use in having looks if the person is a boring, ignorant so and so?
My personality does show. Does yours? To me you seem air-headed. Not what I call a good personality!!!!
I'm not boring, neither am I ignorant. You simply don't understand where I am coming from.
Yeah it does :rolleyes:
I didnt say you were boring, In the latter piece of my post I said
If you check my post it was a new paragraph, I never mentioned you in that part :rolleyes:
Becky is hardly airheaded, her posts are always interesting (and longer than one line) and she always comes across as kind hearted, bubbly and loyal. Whereas if your posts are anything to go by you have all the personality of a cardboard cut out!
I can't comment on boring as your posts aren't long enough to make any kind of deduction on that front but your posts are ignorant, you seem to lack any kind of knowledge of the real world outside your political theory textbooks. However, at least now we know you're patronising - if people can't understand where you're coming from it's up to you to make your posts clear to most people and not just look like you're chatting BS.
It's a starting point, but practical knowledge is of greater value. Unless you think that a junior doctor is as competant as a Consultant (for example)?
Worth also noting that your textbooks don't help you argue your points very well...
Besides which last time we discussed this you said you didn't read textbooks, although I hope this means you've taken my advice and started to actually gain some knowledge if so then good on you but if not, which I think is the case, we'll never see your posting quality improve - and I don't think we have seen your post quality improving showing you haven't improved your debating style.
PS. I noticed how you totally ignored all my other points in that posts, is that because you couldn't answer them?
Who said anythin g about self improvement.
Practical knowledge of what? That I know more of politics than you?
This textbooks thing started because I probably argued points which went over the heads of some people here, or which were perceived as being too offensive.
Er... you?
"Why should you rebuke someone for wanting to improve themselves?"
Unless you think that I was talking you personally...?
Huh?
This could be that you make no sense. Like here.
I was talking about how textbooks don't necessarily improve a person. What has this got to do with you personally?
I disagree. Personality is far more important than looks. I believe personality can make a person attractive or unattractive.
Appearing human always helps.
People seem to be finding themselves dragged into slanging matches that look bad for everyone, everyone is just going through the same points (the same personal points)
Take a step back, remember the point of the thread and address the debate rather than speculate about other users.
Hear hear, personality is what makes you unique - anyone can have plastic surgery and have their boobs made bigger, their nose made straighter, their fat sucked away or whatever the thing that will remain with all people is their unique personality.
Would you buy a car without checking the engine just because it had a nice paint job? Don't forget that the best diamond rings come in a boring, plain old leather covered box.
Exactly.
Unfortunately looks will always be important and people will remain to be judged by them. It annoys me so much how more attractive people seem to have everything laid on a silver plate for them despite the fact they could be a complete arse-hole.
Looks are like the packaging of the product - if the product's crap the best packaging in the world won't help them, yet the best product in the world can come in boring packaging and it will still sell. So it is with looks and personalities, look at the number of failed relationships in the showbiz sector with their "beautiful people" and why supermodels can never get dates.
In fact the better looking someone is the more likely it is they'll be an arsehole, because whereas plainer people develop their personalities to make themselves attractive, beautiful people don't and are used to getting everything they want because of their looks - hence they usually have huge egos.
If you have good looks, they fade with age - if you have a good personality it's with you for life.
Looks are just as important as personality. To state that looks don't matter is just a politically correct thing to say.
No-one said looks don't matter all that was said was that they are not as important as personality. If you meet someone and like their looks but dislike their personality you won't be likely to hang around however if you meet someone who you don't especially find attractive but like their personality then you'll stay because they can hold a good conversation with you. No-one would pretend that looks aren't a factor in whether you like someone but looks only get you to go over to that person, their personality determines whether you'll stay there.
In your opinion, dont class everyone the same.
Id rather have decent banter, have a few laughs with an ugly barsteward (like me hubby) who has a personality than be married to a gorgeous, muscly boring hunk
I never do.
Good for you...
There was a Labour Party proposal to put such a tax into the next election manifesto but even if VAT was put on to such goods the impact would be minimal - take a £2.99 Big Mac meal at McDonalds with 17.5% VAT it would cost £3.51; a 40p Dairy Milk would become a 47p Dairy Milk. They are price increases but is an extra 50p on a Big Mac meal and an extra 7p on a Dairy Milk enough to put people off? I don't think so and if we did make these foods cost enough to put people off we'd then have a problem with it adding to inflation.
I think these problems come from when you're little and most parents force little kids to eat fruit and veg "cos it's good for you." which then puts the youngster off the fruit and veg because they see it as a punishment because they didn't like it. I think we should do what they're doing in Wales and provide free fruit to primary school kids at break, I remember when I was at nursery and they'd bring round all different kinds of fruit chopped up on a plate for us and it always looked so nice and brightly coloured and really encouraged us to like fruit. Also most people in this country don't do enough exercise so I think that we should make leisure centres totally free to the public and pay for it by increasing council tax.