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Anya
Extreme Fanatic   Posts: 656 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 2/6/2004 at 03:16 PM |
The whole California comment was a joke, though half-serious considering
the fact that everything here seems to cause cancer.  However, I know
there are a several vegetarians in the midwest, just not as much as the
west coast. My stepdad cleared up my ignorance on where the soybeans come
from (talked to him sometime after I made my previous post), I really
didn't know that they grew in the mid west (thought they were imported
and/or grown in other places).
Bettie: I'm kind of surprised that you had trouble getting a decent amount
of food here. The Asian Market that I walk to has tofu everywhere and
there's a fair amount of resturants that are allowing people to substitute
meat with tofu. Maybe it's a matter of the areas, though. Then again, I
had trouble finding tofutti cream cheese in some of these places.
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bettie_x
Extreme Fanatic  Posts: 1570 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 2/6/2004 at 05:59 PM |
well it was four or five years ago before the fad truly took hold. Most
vegetarian stuff I found had eggs, or dairy, or whatever in it. I lived on
mcdonald's apple pies and triscuits for A WEEK. I ate good three times in
one week. At a traditional mexican restaurant where they could tell I was
starved and miserable and gave me EXTRA lots of animal free stuff on my
order, and another was at the hard rock cafe because I already knew that
their veggie burgers were vegan. It's mostly because I was on tour routes,
and didn't have a kitchen in the hotel room, because if there had been one
I'd have been FINE. BUT I recently discovered that Taco Del Mar has vegan
burritos. I adore their burritos, they're HUMONGOUS.
This is sort of a dumbshit product, but not a consumer one, it's a "coddle
your stupid kids at the expense of everyone else" supermarket fad.
KIDDIE CAR SHOPPING CARTS.
They're huge, they're unmaneuverable, and the people driving them are so
self obsessed with themselves and their kids that they ram you, bump you,
the kids throw things at you from inside the stupid little plastic car.
SIT YOUR FUCKING KIDS IN THE PROVIDED CHILD SEAT OF GROCERY CARTS LIKE
EVERYONE ELSE YOU JERKS! OR AT LEAST WATCH WHERE YOU"RE PUSHING THOSE
FUCKING THINGS!
Every store I go to it seems has these godawful things. IT"S A GROCERY
STORE. NOT PLAYLAND. ____________________
Trapped in time. Surrounded by evil. Low on gas.
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Ironboots
Extreme Fanatic  Posts: 893 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 2/6/2004 at 06:29 PM |
Are you talking about the little kid-sized shopping carts? If so, then I
disagree. I loved those little things when I was young. Our normal grocery
store didn't have them, but sometimes we'd get to go to one that did. And
then I'd run around with my little red and yellow shopping cart up and down
the aisles... Ah... childhood memories...
If you're talking about something else, then carry on. ____________________
Piggy's got the Conch!
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bettie_x
Extreme Fanatic Posts: 1570 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 2/6/2004 at 10:34 PM |
no, those bug me but I know kids like them and if their parents are
WATCHING them, I don't care. But I have lost it after getting nailed in
the ankles by some little shithead.
Theyre these huge, bulky plastic KIDDIE CARS that are built around already
LARGE shopping carts. I fucking hate them, they take up almost the whole
fucking isle and are usually being pushed by stupid assholes who go so
fucking slow, they goddamned WADDLE at a snail's pace back and forth and
>..>>>GAH FUCK I HATE THEM.
Add those garish horrid plastic oversize KID CODDLERS AND FUCK!!!
*scream*
I'm sorry, but if your fucking kid gets THAT goddamned bored or can't
handle something a TAD more grown up than television like GROCERY SHOPPING
then leave them the hell at home! I wanna STAB who invented those shopping
carts (mostly whoever owns walmart...I get a rash ever time I'm there I
SWEAR)
Thank god for blue tequila.....over and out. ____________________
Trapped in time. Surrounded by evil. Low on gas.
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Zero
Fanatic   Posts: 459 Registered: 15/2/2004 Status: Offline
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posted on 3/6/2004 at 07:21 AM |
Bettie: this is just a guess but...you MUST have worked in one of the marts
before becuase i did and a hatred like that can only be the cause of
working at one of those family freindly Marts. where you have to greet
every customeer at the door, remember to smile, KEEP YOUR SHIRT TUCKED IN
EVEN THOUGH YOU'VE BEEN LOADING AND UNLOADING FURNITURE ALL DAY, OH
YEAH......AND DON'T EVER FORGET YOUR FUCKING NAME BADGE!!!!!
in other words i agree.
[Edited on 3/6/2004 by Zero] ____________________
"It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak." ~
The Sandman, Dream Country
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bettie_x
Extreme Fanatic Posts: 1570 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 3/6/2004 at 09:34 AM |
Nope, never, I don't shop there much anyway BECAUSE of the "family mart"
feel.
I think I'm just in an ultra angry mood or something. I think it's cuz I
gave up REAL cigarettes yesterday, so haven't had a full dose of niccotine
in 48 hrs. ____________________
Trapped in time. Surrounded by evil. Low on gas.
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callei
Extreme Fanatic  Posts: 759 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 3/6/2004 at 12:00 PM |
Im with you in hate dept thing darlin' 24 hours since my last real cig and
counting.
and i hate them all. every single one of them. even the ones that are dead.
and thier pets. I have been in ONE WalMart a total of 1 time. I wont go
back. I didnt beleive that "Night of the Living Dead" thing til i saw it
for myself. People were walking, welll shuffling, around with t hier mouths
open making strange noises and looking lost. It was one of the more
frightening shopping experiences of my life.
and I think the dumbest product out there is the SUV. Gawds i hate those
things.
____________________
Real goths wear silver and crosses to keep the werewolves and vampires
away.
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Anya
Extreme Fanatic Posts: 656 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 3/6/2004 at 02:43 PM |
Callei: One word on the SUV comment: A-THE-FUCK-MEN. Why in the Hells do
people want to spend 20,000-50,000 on a car that guzzles a minimum of
16-20 miles/gallon worth of gas and takes a parking space line-to-line (or
covers another person's space while at it)? The only thing that I find
worth an SUV is if you have a BIG family under one roof. Otherwise, I see
a lot of single people buying them and taking a lot of space with them.
(Besides, 70% of the SUV drivers I've bumped into seem to not pay attention
to pedestrians.) Glad that I'm not the only one who is bugged by the big
SUV population.
I still cant get over that disclaimer at the store. It's too priceless.
Maybe in two years, snicker bars will be five bucks because of a massive
tax bracket...because it "causes cancer."
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IamSquid
Extreme Fanatic  Posts: 658 Registered: 27/5/2002 Status: Offline
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posted on 3/6/2004 at 03:07 PM |
Callei, yor very right, SUVs are one of the stupidest products out there.
I paticularly hate this new trend known as the H2. The H2 IS NOT a Humvie.
Allow mee to sumarize:
-The Humvie is resistant to most forms of small arms fire. The H2 is
not.
-The Humvie is amphibious. The H2 is not.
-The Humvie has 4 independant gearbozes, 1 for each wheel to maximize
offroad performance. The H2 does not.
-If a tire is punctured on a Humvie, it automaticly reseals and inflates
itself. If a tire is punctured on the H2, the driver has to pull his
stupid-ass over and call AAA.
-Yoo can put damn near any combustible liquid in the Humvie's feultank and
it will drive. This is not the case with the H2.
-The Humvie is not street-legal in most US states except for specific
military buissness because it is wider than a standard lane of traffic and
has a top speed of somewhere around 50 mph. Since the H2 is marketed for
civilians, obviously it must fit the criteria to be street legal.
-The Humvie's engine is raised-up in the middle of the cab to allow a
larger clearance for offroading. The H2's engine is under the hood.
-The Humvie is for the military. The H2 is for men who lack a few inches
in their penis.
The H2 IS NOT a Humvie. IT only looks slightly like a Humvie, and Humvie's
don't even look cool. What a piece of crap! And people actually go into
debt to own them! Fucking idiots!
The only thing stupider than this might be the stretch Humvie!
[Edited on 6/3/2004 by IamSquid] ____________________
i wanted to die, and then it progressed into wanting everyone else to
die so i could watch, and then me die.
-ickgirl
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Schizo
Extreme Fanatic  Posts: 897 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 4/6/2004 at 03:01 AM |
I kind of disagree that the original Hummers don't look cool. They're one
of those things that are so ugly, that they make the full circle around to
looking fucking awesome. My cousin in the army is a Hummer mechanic, and I
think that is wicked cool.
I agree that for most people, an SUV is completely ridiculous. If you have
a family of four or less, there is no reason to have an SUV, unless it is
actually going to go off-road, or you have to haul a lot of sports
equipment or something. Nowadays, every parent thinks they need a huge-ass
off-road capable, brand-new SUV to transport their one, precious,
pre-school bundle of joy. And who would want to take one of those bright,
shiny, not-yet- paid-for things off of pavement, anyway? Even in this
region, where everyone and their brother has a "boonin' rig", and all the
best scenery is down dirt roads and rutted trails, no one uses their shiny
SUV's. It's all Jeeps and beat-up pick-ups and falling-apart Blazers and
RamChargers.
Someone in our town has this HUGE black H2 that's jacked up to THERE with
big-ass tires. You better believe that thing has never touched dirt.
I AM considering getting an SUV, but that is because I have a child, two
step-kids, and my fiance and I are thinking of having another kid in a year
or two. Right now, in our normal-sized vehicles, we can't go grocery
shopping when we have the older two over. And when I pop out another, we
won't fit at all. We will NEED something with a third seat. We could
really use the extra space now, too!
But when I see someone I know is single, and does not live the kind of
lifestyle where they need to haul bulky stuff around, driving around in a
humongous gas-guzzler, I find it pretty ridiculous. ____________________
"You can tell by the scars on my arms and the cracks in my hips and the
dents in my car and the blisters on my lips that I'm not the carefullest of
girls." - Dresden Dolls, "Girl Anachronism"
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Meranda_Jade
Fanatic  Posts: 511 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 4/6/2004 at 04:46 AM |
| As far as people with large families needing SUVs goes, I have had a large
family for a number of years now. I'm not sure the average SUV would hold
all of us. We have a minivan. It has 4 wheel drive, and is better able to
tackle a Midwestern snowstorm than the average SUV. I can haul 5 kids and
two adults in it, plus groceries from a full grocery trip. It gets really
great gas mileage. It costs much less than an average SUV. Nobody ever
really needs an SUV. There are other options. ____________________
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IamSquid
Extreme Fanatic Posts: 658 Registered: 27/5/2002 Status: Offline
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posted on 4/6/2004 at 06:10 AM |
Okay, but most SUVs are of no use whatsoever offroad! Look at the
Escalade, do yoo think for one second the guys at Cadillac sat down around
a table and said "this needs to be able to go through a mud slide in
Montana" or do yoo think they just pumped out an SUV shaped piece of
crap?
Jeeps ARE made for offroading as are REAL Humvies. The Suburban is not
(it's caleld a Suburban for crying out loud). ____________________
i wanted to die, and then it progressed into wanting everyone else to
die so i could watch, and then me die.
-ickgirl
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Ironboots
Extreme Fanatic Posts: 893 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 4/6/2004 at 09:10 AM |
Yeah, I go out into the woods every week with a hiking group. I've been
doing it since January now, and only TWICE has there been an suv in our
group. I drive my little volkswagen, another dude has his minivan, and
everybody else has compact cars, 4wd station wagons, or volkswagens.
The few times that there is a pickup in the group, its because its a diesel
so they can run biodiesel in it.
(yeah, these are a bunch of tree-hugging owl-lovin' environmentalists, so
the results are a little skewed. But the vehicles we pass on the dirt road
aren't that much different from ours)
Of course, back in march, the dude with the minivan cracked his oilpan on a
rock, but that's what you get for watching the birds instead of the road...
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2002 Ford Expedition: 16mpg
1927 Ford Model A: 20-30mpg
Isn't progress nice? ____________________
Piggy's got the Conch!
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Anya
Extreme Fanatic Posts: 656 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 4/6/2004 at 02:59 PM |
Speaking of cars, here's a currently dumb-shit product now...yet one that a
several of us need: gas. The prices need to change dammit.
Either way, I really do not drive my car much anymore. I'm too afraid to
drive it now because of how funny it's been acting, so I'm waiting for my
stepdad to diagnose it when he comes down here. I walk everywhere now.
I'll walk two hours someplace and two hours back, even more if I have
to...as long as I get home before dark, I'm perfectly dandy.
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LadyCygnet
Fanatic  Posts: 287 Registered: 31/10/2003 Status: Offline
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posted on 4/6/2004 at 11:34 PM |
quote:
It's McDonalds that bugs me. Square fish fillets? Last I checked fish
weren't square. they were fish-shaped.
Wow...this is one of the funniest (and most true) things I've read all
week. Most of the time, processed fish is packed into a square shape.
It's kind of funny that we live in a world where fish are square-shaped and
crackers are fish-shaped.
I'm living for the day when they can invent a cat litter that actually
deodorizes the box without smelling like cheap aftershave. ____________________
"To Live is to Annoy." -- Rev. Lambert Reilly, Archabbot, St. Meinrad Abbey
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bettie_x
Extreme Fanatic Posts: 1570 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 5/6/2004 at 08:47 AM |
The key thing about an SUV is that it stands for SPORTS UTILITY VEHICLE.
Most of the people I see driving them do no sports nor utilities. I can
understand in places that get wicked snowstorms or regular bad bad weather
the need for something like that, but why on EARTH does anyone really
really need one when they're just hauling their 2.5 kids around?
Since my car is finally toast, if I don't go get a cheap ass new one, my
dad is looking to "horse trade" a guy that wants a '64 chevy truck from him
for the guy's Jeep Wrangler and some extra cash. It's got 180K on it, but
he had the transmission rebuilt recently and has a whole new engine for it
and blah blah blah. Then I'd just pay my dad every month instead of a
bank. But anyway, Jeep usually gets really good gas mileage, and Jeep is
really the only reliable american car.
As squid put it, it's only a matter of time before I'm "whippin shitties in
the mud with a guy on the back yelling heee haw like the redneck I am". ____________________
Trapped in time. Surrounded by evil. Low on gas.
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BlueLinn
Fanatic  Posts: 246 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 14/7/2004 at 08:31 PM |
| I don't know why you pay for the 8th continent soy milk... that stuff is
icky... SOY DREAM... SOY DREAM!!!! Thats the good stuff... there is nothing
better than a big old glass of chocolate Soy Dream soy milk in the
morning... NOTHING! ____________________
When the world is over, will we wonder how it began?
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BlueLinn
Fanatic Posts: 246 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 14/7/2004 at 08:57 PM |
oh yeah, and as far as those exercise machines go... who needs them, just
grab your respective boy/or girl frind/or toy and just do every position in
the karma sutra... now THATS a work out... :>
do this three times a week and you will never have to worry about
weight,,, or flexibility for that matter, again... ____________________
When the world is over, will we wonder how it began?
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Schizo
Extreme Fanatic Posts: 897 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 15/7/2004 at 02:51 AM |
Yeah, most SUV's don't have a 3rd seat, but the Durango does, and we're
looking at that. I'd prefer a Cherokee (I have a running love affair with
Jeeps), but it doesn't have that 3rd seat, so that doesn't do me any good.
And my fiance is working on starting a car-customizing business, so the
Durango would double as a pallette for his custom ideas. We've already got
a closet-full of parts to lower his 2WD Dodge Dakota (can you tell he's a
Dodge man?) and put air-bags on it, and he's thinking of applying for a
position at work where he will learn to use C&C (I think that's what
they're called) machines, which will stand him in good stead if he can ever
get his shop up and running, and manage to buy one of those things.
I'm wondering Meranda - how hilly is the region you live? Here, we're
right in the foothills of Mt. Monadnock, and I have to drive up a doozy to
get to and from work, not to mention climb over the edge of the mountain
itself to get to the nearest decent-sized town. It takes power even in
good weather. I'm no expert, but mini-vans don't have a rep for being very
powerful.
And Ironboots - I agree with you. You can take a car off-road if you want
- depending on the off-road. I've got pics of my fiance standing on the
hood of his little Subaru back in the day, in the middle of the woods. We
pushed the poor thing pretty hard that day, but it still wouldn't take us
the places we took the rust-bucket of a Ram Charger he traded that thing
for. Some trails you have to cross swamps, deep enough to set you swimming
inside your car if you were stupid enough to drive it through. There was
one that always threatened to swallow up the Ram Charger if you didn't gun
it hard enough to keep the engine from flooding. You NEED something with
power and size to make it some of the places I like to go. Not that I'd
take my Durango out there. That thing I would buy purely for the seating
room, and for my fiance to fix up for his business. But I'm begging for a
nice Jeep CJ, or maybe a 'Yota flatbed redneck truck with steel pipe for
bumpers and about three different colors of paint to take out on the
trails. ____________________
"You can tell by the scars on my arms and the cracks in my hips and the
dents in my car and the blisters on my lips that I'm not the carefullest
of
girls." - Dresden Dolls, "Girl Anachronism"
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KittyGoesMrow
Fanatic  Posts: 218 Registered: 30/4/2003 Status: Offline
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posted on 15/7/2004 at 11:19 AM |
HAH! Useless product... bottled crystal light.... But the best part is that
it Crystal LIGHT.... and it was never not LIGHT... it's like some water and
powder.. why pay so much more for less powder and some water in a four pack
of crystal light when you can buy the powder that makes three gallons?!
USEFUL PRODUCT: OMG *drools* I am so glad they made butter flavoured salt..
I know i'm going to die an early death because I eat salt and its my
indulgence... and now I can butter my popcorn without sogging it up with
real butter ^_^ *glee*
[Edited on 15/1/2005 by KittyGoesMrow] ____________________
Anata ga sabishii toki, bokumo sabishii n da yo
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