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Re: Overrated concepts
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Recycling.....you do realize that most stuff have a larger energy cost to recycle than to make new? You do realize the the best way to "treat" most garbage is to simply burn it? (Gets rid of garbage, CREATES energy and with proper scrubbing and cleaning tech installed has minimal pollution PLUS useful by-products like drywall can be made)


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69 .... god bless you if this is fun for you, but I dunno ... there's just a little too much going on and people's anatomies don't always line up the way they need to.....
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Advice...giving or taking it has never actually helped anyone I know. People do what people do, and making decisions is best done individually.

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Working from home. It's never worked for me. Possibly others--but I need convincing.

Discussing National Healthcare Policy. I've yet to meet a person that truly understood it. And I work in the insurance industry.

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Originally Posted by Viridis Lament
Recycling.....you do realize that most stuff have a larger energy cost to recycle than to make new? You do realize the the best way to "treat" most garbage is to simply burn it? (Gets rid of garbage, CREATES energy and with proper scrubbing and cleaning tech installed has minimal pollution PLUS useful by-products like drywall can be made)



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Recycling: not everything is about the energy cost. There's the diminishing supply of material resources.

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Globally recognized and renowned "recycling" program, considered the best in the world....Sweden's. They burn almost everything they have for garbage and some of Norway's too.

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Owning the newest everything, just because they are new.

Social media popularity, in terms of number of likes of whatever you post.

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Originally Posted by Viridis Lament
Globally recognized and renowned "recycling" program, considered the best in the world....Sweden's. They burn almost everything they have for garbage and some of Norway's too.

Doesn't negate my point. If they're only concerned with getting rid of the trash, that's a fine way to do it. It doesn't solve the dwindling resources problem.

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Realworld realism on scripted shows. hunh? WTF!? If I wanted real world realism, I'd actually meet people.


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Gasp!

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THE BIG EVENT!!!! Multi-issue, multi-title crossover events that seem to happen every year in comics these days.

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Variant covers.

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Mensa. I know a front for the wealthy elites / eugenics movement when I see it.

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Teeny tiny cars. I keep looking for the wind up thingy stickin' out the back. "Oh, arem't I great, I'm saving the worl....BANG... Oh shit, I just got run over by a bicycle... I'm dead!


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Team sports.

I was a scrawny, uncoordinated nerd as a kid who was deathly afraid of crowds. My folks still thought they were helping by making all their kids participate in at least one team sport outside school. Playing them is thus indelibly associated in my mind with living purgatory. Watching them is only bearable because now I'm old enough to drink.


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Vacations. Gosh, so much stress! I always end up needing a few days to relax *after* a vacation. You go get packed onto a plane or bus and then herded through the Sistine Chapel with a herd of 400 other people so fast that you don't get to see anything. I'll be here with a book.

Facebook and / or high school reunions. I spent a decade or so threading the gauntlet that was childhood and adolescence and high school. Then I moved a thousand miles plus away and never looked back. Why on earth would I want to reconnect with those people? Do I really want to know what jobs they have, or who they married, or what their kids have accomplished? No. I really don't. The only thing I want to hear less than your smug boasts about your kid who is a doctor in the army is your even more smarmy gossip about your sister's kid who is a drug addict and in jail.



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I'm with you on vacations. The last few I've had were more stressful than just going to work or staying home and hanging out in my backyard.

I miss the days when my wife and I were in our early 20's, not even married, and went to Key West for drinking, eating and lounging by the pool (for more drinking).

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Behaviorial Psychology.

I know a CIA mind-control front when I see it.

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Weight loss. [points to current subheading]

As numerous "recover from diets" sites point out, it's so rarely a permanent state for the "big loser" that you'd practically have better odds of being struck by lightning. Twice.

Also, there's nothing more boring (for participant and observers) than the subject going on and on in public about eating this or not eating that, running so many miles yesterday, etc. Dog Forbid I should eat that steamed broccoli or take a ten-block walk because it's enjoyable. Nope. Doesn't mean anything until I can zip myelf into a Size 6 and after that life all of life will be perfect. (Except that of course it never is.) So there.

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Green lawns.

Save yourself some water and some mowing time and just let it turn brown. The rainy season will start up again soon enough.


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Originally Posted by cleome47
Weight loss. [points to current subheading]

As numerous "recover from diets" sites point out, it's so rarely a permanent state for the "big loser" that you'd practically have better odds of being struck by lightning. Twice.


Er....sorry? shrug I make no judgements on what others should do. It's not vanity for me at all. I just want to be healthier and be there for my wife and kids for the long haul.


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I've tried and failed before, by the way, so I certainly know the bad odds.


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Humility.

Unselfishness.

Whatever the opposite of superficiality is called.

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Originally Posted by Paladin
I've tried and failed before, by the way, so I certainly know the bad odds.


I actually plan to start a thread about this at some point, but Dr. Linda Bacon's Health At Every Size sites numerous studies that point to yo-yo dieting (or, as they call it, "Weight cycling") as being worse for human health than simply eating well and being active at a stable, but less-than-"ideal" weight. Good nutritious food, eaten in an atmosphere free of stress, along with physical activity one enjoys will actually benefit the person doing them, regardless of whether s/he ever succeeds in losing a pound in the process.

And I can personally vouch for the studies citing that most people who attempt to lose weight will end up heavier in the long run for it. I got fatter after being sucked into various fad diets and "miracle foods." Had I ignored all that pressure to "fix" what wasn't even broken in the first place (not that it's easy to ignore it in our culture, especially if you're female) I would have saved myself a lot of expense and emotional pain. Never again, though.

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Well, I was definitely doing things to really exacerbate bad health, like eating at Wendy's for lunch five days a week. And I'm not on any fad diet at all, just eating less and avoiding sugary things. I even go to Taco Bell and other places with my kids once a week. I just eat less than I used to when I go. Not on any exercise program at this point, either. Avoiding things I can't sustain. And I've already got Type 2 diabetes, so I'm not overreacting based on nothing.


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