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Reply #26 October 3, 2011 11:30:04 AM
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$5.00 for a 12 pack? Cheap! Here in Pa at the local WaWa a 12 pack goes for $6.00 and that's the sale price. Two six packs for $6.00.

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Reply #27 October 3, 2011 11:50:00 AM
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This is such BS - just another scheme to get more money from us, and you can be pretty sure that the extra money will NOT go to public health care. This tax won't stop people from eating fatty foods either (and they know it very well, in fact, they are counting on it).

Next thing you know they will be taxing us for going to the beach with the excuse that deliberate and prolonged exposure to the sun causes skin cancer. Sigh. lol

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Reply #28 October 3, 2011 12:29:51 PM
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Reply #29 October 3, 2011 12:32:24 PM
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Quoting JcRabbit,
reply 27
This is such BS - just another scheme to get more money from us, and you can be pretty sure that the extra money will NOT go to public health care.

Denmark has become the first country in the world to create a fat tax

Do you live in Denmark?

If not, how could you possible know that

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Reply #30 October 3, 2011 3:39:14 PM
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As long as they don't put a tax on Danish bacon

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Reply #31 October 3, 2011 6:15:24 PM
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Quoting Fuzzy Logic,
reply 30
As long as they don't put a tax on Danish bacon

Only if you can find fat free bacon.
It will get more expensive.

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Reply #32 October 3, 2011 6:24:41 PM
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Quoting JcRabbit,
reply 27
Next thing you know they will be taxing us for going to the beach with the excuse that deliberate and prolonged exposure to the sun causes skin cancer. Sigh. lol

Hopefully...

Happily the Northern hemisphere now has a hole in their ozone layer too...so perhaps the twits on the "top" of the world will eventually concede that global warming is a genuine issue.

Who's still running CFC refrigeration?....

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Reply #33 October 4, 2011 12:19:03 AM
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Quoting Jafo,
reply 32

Quoting JcRabbit, reply 27Next thing you know they will be taxing us for going to the beach with the excuse that deliberate and prolonged exposure to the sun causes skin cancer. Sigh. lol

Hopefully...

It's not that it doesn't increase the risk of skin cancer (it does), but they would make it sound like you go to the beach and BAM!, you're dead. Then we *all* have to pay the bill for THEIR skin cancer (their argument to brain wash people, of course).

This is what they did with cigarettes, which is bad for you no doubt, but looking at the anti-tobaco fundamentalists behavior these days you would almost say they are truly convinced that taking a whiff from second hand smoke means instant death to them. Sigh.

Getting back to the beach (and the sun tan) it's funny how these things go: back in medieval times, a perfectly pearly white skin was *THE* sign of social status (you see, the only people with tans were peasants, toiling away in the sun, while nobility hid away from it in their castles). Now it's the opposite: a sign of status is to show case a tan all year long, as it usually means that person has a lot of free time to spend on the beach living the good life, while others are forced to toil away in darkened offices.

Quoting Jafo,
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Happily the Northern hemisphere now has a hole in their ozone layer too...so perhaps the twits on the "top" of the world will eventually concede that global warming is a genuine issue.

Dream on. There's no money to be had there, only money to spend.

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Reply #34 October 4, 2011 2:45:32 AM
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Only if you can find fat free bacon.
It will get more expensive.

The bastards

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Reply #35 October 4, 2011 4:24:40 AM
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Quoting JcRabbit,
reply 33
This is what they did with cigarettes, which is bad for you no doubt, but looking at the anti-tobaco fundamentalists behavior these days you would almost say they are truly convinced that taking a whiff from second hand smoke means instant death to them. Sigh.

They've pretty much killed the Pub trade over here, because not many people want to go outside to smoke when you live in a country that's cold and wet a lot of the time. That in itself has probably increased the number of antisocial behaviour crimes being committed, because so many of the younger generation that would once have gone out for a few swift ones with their friends at the weekend, don't bother doing that now. Instead they invite their friends round to get rat-arsed while playing Xbox or PS3, or just stay at home and have their own personal party, like the jerks that live below me.

They're planning to make all cigarette packaging plain white over here, so that it's less appealing to minors. Yeah, like that'll work! I think all they'll do with that is save the tobacco companies some expense when it comes to the packaging, as the more colours you use, the more it costs. It's generally one of the ways supermarkets keep cost so low on their own brand budget range.

Quoting JcRabbit,
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back in medieval times, a perfectly pearly white skin was *THE* sign of social status

It is funny, Jorge. During the time of the Flemish Baroque painter, Peter Paul Rubens, women were considered to look healthy if they were of a 'fuller' figure. Yet these days, women are made to feel so neurotic about their weight and how they look.

 

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Reply #36 October 4, 2011 9:46:46 AM
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If the present is the opposite of medieval does that mean medieval is the opposite of sucky?

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