Post #191,737
1/26/05 2:13:39 PM
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another usetowazzes email, good old days
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing and didn't get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
We ate cupcakes, bread and butter and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.
We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and ate worms and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes, nor did the worms live in us forever.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them!
Little league had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of.
They actually sided with the law!
This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!
The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!
And YOU are one of them! CONGRATULATIONS!
Please pass this on to others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good.
Anyone who has passed through the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape: Samuel Butler
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Post #191,740
1/26/05 2:42:56 PM
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Yeah, and y'all are keeling over of cancer.
It's raging through the 50-70 generation.
There's nothing noble or graceful or dignified about dying of cancer.
Peter
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Post #191,750
1/26/05 3:29:13 PM
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ROFL
And the next generation won't? Bwahahahahaha! No - all the fad diets will save them!
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] Imric's Tips for Living
- Paranoia Is a Survival Trait
- Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
- Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.
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Nothing is as simple as it seems in the beginning,
As hopeless as it seems in the middle,
Or as finished as it seems in the end.
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Post #191,767
1/26/05 4:21:48 PM
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Nope. The nanites will, though... ;)
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Post #191,769
1/26/05 4:25:01 PM
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You better hope they aren't Microsoft Nanites (tm)
Can you say 'gray goo'?
[link|http://forfree.sytes.net|
] Imric's Tips for Living
- Paranoia Is a Survival Trait
- Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
- Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.
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Nothing is as simple as it seems in the beginning,
As hopeless as it seems in the middle,
Or as finished as it seems in the end.
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Post #191,770
1/26/05 4:26:28 PM
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How can we incorporate your molecules today?
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Post #191,786
1/26/05 5:55:40 PM
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It's DRL-style rose-tinted spectacleism, is what it is.
"ah, the good old days! They were so much better!"
...if you weren't black, gay, old, young, a woman, etc.
Complete and utter bollocks. Basically, it rocked to be a 25-65 year old white man.
Peter
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Post #191,791
1/26/05 6:19:48 PM
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you didnt have to be white
to enjoy sex without condoms and not taking a chance on a death sentence
regards,
daemon
Anyone who has passed through the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape: Samuel Butler
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Post #191,821
1/26/05 9:18:09 PM
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:-(
Those WERE the days.
[link|http://forfree.sytes.net|
] Imric's Tips for Living
- Paranoia Is a Survival Trait
- Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
- Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.
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Nothing is as simple as it seems in the beginning,
As hopeless as it seems in the middle,
Or as finished as it seems in the end.
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Post #191,820
1/26/05 9:16:05 PM
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because I don't believe
that fad diets help cancer?
Truly, there were good and bad things about 'the good old days' - but in the end, they were just days. Days are what you make them.
If you want to defend all the progress we've made since 'then' to 'now', that's fine. "Yeah, and y'all are keeling over of cancer" just sounds like sour grapes, though.
Don't worry - you'll be looking back at fond memories soon enough!
[link|http://forfree.sytes.net|
] Imric's Tips for Living
- Paranoia Is a Survival Trait
- Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
- Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.
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Nothing is as simple as it seems in the beginning,
As hopeless as it seems in the middle,
Or as finished as it seems in the end.
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Post #191,837
1/26/05 10:22:10 PM
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Re: because I don't believe
that fad diets help cancer? Truly, there were good and bad things about 'the good old days' - but in the end, they were just days. Days are what you make them. If you want to defend all the progress we've made since 'then' to 'now', that's fine. "Yeah, and y'all are keeling over of cancer" just sounds like sour grapes, though. Well, as someone who is currently watching a relative suffer from cancer, the bottom line is it didn't matter if you were from back then or from here now, smoking was bad for your health... and this particular uncle not only smoked for years, (yes, he's recently been trying to quit, way too late), but he also worked in a chemical plant that he was warned would do damage to his lungs. I know cancer isn't always predictable or always preventable, but there are certain things one can do to lessen the risk, such as not pollute their lungs with smoking residue. Granted, back then the risk wasn't as publicized, and much more is known today. So now if you choose the routes that are suspected to lead to cancer, knowing the risks, you should expect to face the consequences. Brenda
"The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself." -- Hitopadesa 600?-1100? AD, Sanskrit Fable From Panchatantr
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Post #191,848
1/26/05 10:58:41 PM
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cancer is simply evolution
just down a bad track. Broken cells multiply at an alarming rate eventually killing the host. The fact that we have more cancer these days is the effect of a longer lifespan in most cases. Earlier in the century people died of other foreign infections, cancer is what happens after you survive life.
regards,
daemon
Anyone who has passed through the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape: Samuel Butler
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Post #191,942
1/27/05 10:35:00 AM
1/27/05 1:47:27 PM
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Not entirely, by any means.
Living longer is not really the point. The average lifespan was very low because of early deaths, but if you made it to 30 your chances of making it to 80 were not that different from today.
Something has changed because cancer and heart disease were once rather rare in America. Exactly what changes have caused these diseases to increase so is what we don't know. There is a correlation with the rise in consumption of unsaturated vegetable oils and particularly hydrogenated vegetable oils (trans fats, previously used only for soap), but proof of cause / effect is lacking.
Even at the American Heart Association's kick-off event for their "Heart Healthy Diet", one of the older physicians invited said he doubted the research. He said early in his career the American diet was everything the Heart Association said was bad - yet he saw almost no cases of either cancer or congestive heart disease.
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Post #191,966
1/27/05 1:09:04 PM
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It's the diet
in conjunction with cars and couches.
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Post #191,879
1/27/05 5:03:52 AM
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Depends on the meaning of fad, no?
Or are you suggesting that there is no correlation between one's diet and cancer .. that you 'believe in'?
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Post #191,884
1/27/05 7:02:35 AM
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That we know and understand,
Hell - we don't fully understand diet's relation to coronary disease. We still fight cancer by killing every cell we can, and then hoping we get all the cancer cells in the process.
[link|http://forfree.sytes.net|
] Imric's Tips for Living
- Paranoia Is a Survival Trait
- Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
- Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.
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Nothing is as simple as it seems in the beginning,
As hopeless as it seems in the middle,
Or as finished as it seems in the end.
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Post #191,886
1/27/05 7:06:14 AM
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Eat fibre!
Helps prevent cancer of the arse.
Peter
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Post #192,026
1/27/05 6:06:28 PM
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eat arse it prevents cancer of the fibre
I love her dearly, far beyond any creature I've ever known, and I can prove it, for never once in almost seventy years of married life have I taken her by the throat. Mind you, it's been a near thing once or twice.
George Macdonald Frasier
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