Fashionistas you have arrived 3-25-03 - 10-3-03

[tax_hottie]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
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Interesting twist that Rob now has incentive to pick a girl who would choose him over the money. Only possibility that leaves is Paige. I kind of felt for her with the teenaged (ok early 20s) angst last night. Plus if she picks him, she has a built in attorney for all of her DUI and other driving changes... I'm looking forward to the moment that the girls find out they have to choose one or the other. More Paige angst is sure to follow.

I hope he picks Erin. Paige is "cute" and all, but annoyingly young and naive. She looks, talks, and acts like a little girl. Her comment about her "fairy tale" coming true made me want to gag. Erin is very pretty, but has a slightly weathered look around the eyes and mouth. How old is she?

[ThrashersFan]

Originally posted by purse junkie
Can't we just put big signs at the head of the junk-food aisles saying "EATING TOO MUCH OF THIS IS WHAT'S MAKING YOU FAT AND SICK, YOU GODDAMNED IDIOT", so they don't have to get too graphic with the labels? On the rare occurrence when I do want a couple of Oreos, I don't want to read in huge letters on the package that they can kill me unless they'll make me drop dead instantly--I just want to enjoy them in peace.

Agreed. This is why the "fat tax" shit needs to be shelved. Those of us who can consume fatty stuff i moderation or otherwise exercise and stay trim should not have to pay for the lack of control of others. If they want to use a tax to discourage obesity, they should just have a fucking weigh-in each year on April 15th and charge people by the pound.

The hurricane is making me crabby.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by evenodds
What's next? A buzzer in each package?

Kraft Changes Portions Over Fat Fears

The maker of Oreo cookies, Velveeta cheese spread and a host of other foods said it will limit portion sizes in single-serve packages, eliminate all in-school marketing and provide nutrition labeling in all markets worldwide, including markets where it is not required.

Calories per serving: 450

Servings size: 1/2 cookie

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Calories per serving: 450

Servings size: 1/2 cookie

they are very tricky with those serving sizes aren't they? I realized that a few days ago when I discovered I regularly eat about 1000 calories for breakfast.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
they are very tricky with those serving sizes aren't they? I realized that a few days ago when I discovered I regularly eat about 1000 calories for breakfast.

ONLY 3 GRAMS OF FAT!!!!!

per serving

One chip = one serving, approximately 74 servings per package

[Shape Shifter]

"The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last Tuesday that Web loggers, website operators and e-mail list editors can't be held responsible for libel for information they republish, extending crucial First Amendment protections to do-it-yourself online publishers. "

http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,59424,00.html

[evenodds]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
A propos of junk food, I was appalled that one can now purchase, which I learned from being given a free sample, chips and cookies that come in a package designed to fit in the cupholder of your car. Just in case you can't make it from office to home without 6 oz. of Chips Ahoy! or Cheez-It.

OMG, that is what that packaging does? I couldn't figure out what in the hell that packaging could possibly do, except create more unrecyclable litter.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Atticus, sometimes you are too oblique for me. Should you perhaps qualify your intro. by saying "any male graduate of an American middle school" ? What are you talking about in your second and third paragraphs?

Jeez, did you people all grow up in Canada?


Act I, Scene i. A School-yard.

Bully. Are you a fag in a cage?

Dupe. No.*

Bully. {Pointing & Calling to Friends, &c.} Fag on the loose! Fag on the loose!


Act I, Scene ii. Same.

Bully. Did you know that if your face is the same size as your hand with your fingers spread out, you have cancer?

Dupe. No. I do not want the cancer! I should find out by placing my spread hand in front of my face, with my palm touching the tip of my nose. {He does.}

Bully. {Pushes Dupe's hand into face.} You're cancer free, but why are you hitting yourself?

Dupe. O, the humanity!

{Curtain.}

As for the fingernail thing, which is the NTTAWWT way to look at them -- hand spread out flat with the fingers pointing up, or hand closed, in sort of a claw position, with the fingers pointing down?

For boys, the proper heterosexual way to examine your fingernails is to place the palm facing upwards and to curl your fingers inward. Holding the hand flat, palm down will cause grief and misery for you and your parents. For girls, the standard is, of course, reversed.

*Only one person in my schoolyard ever thought he could outwit this system by answering "yes" and mooting the punchline. He was never heard from again.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

I don't understand the obsession with everyone walking around with one. Is America THAT dehydrated? Other countries seem to be doing just fine waiting until they get to an actual PLACE to get water. We apparently can't go five minutes w/out drinking some. I can understand if you're a tourist and you'll be walking around all day, but I see people with them for the walk/train/bus ride home for the office. Are these people going to pass out? Don't get me wrong, I'm the biggest hydration advocate in the world, but I think it's gone too far. Maybe drinking too much water is making us fat...

The GF ALWAYS carries one, and asks me every five minutes if I would like a sip. She pees every 20 minutes.

We didn't drink this much water when we were skinny did we? I'm talking '70s/80s skinny. You drank a glass when you were thirsty. Why are we forcing ourselves to drink more?

Edited to add that, lately, I've been forcing myself to drink more. Not water though...

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by evenodds
What's next? A buzzer in each package?

Food companies and fast food chains have faced increased criticism for producing unhealthy, fatty foods. Obesity among adults in the United States has doubled since 1980, and tripled among adolescents, according to the U.S. surgeon general.

This is getting ridiculous. It is not McDonald's or Kraft's or anybody's duty to protect us from ourselves. The idea that they can't market their unhealthy product because we may be stupid enough to buy it is ludicrous. The idea that McDonalds can't sell fat-filled fries because some people eat too much of them is insane.

I want those things to be available. I can control myself and I am in shape. If I feel like having something that I know is unhealthy, I should be able to. I can always go to a healthier restaurant. Sometimes I don't want to. Hell, even if I was a huge fatty that weighed 400 pounds (think Wonk -- and you don't want to Wonk), I should still have the option to stuff fist fulls of fries in my fat fucking face.

All they should be required to do is disclose the ingredients and nutritional breakdown of the products they sell. You're on notice, so shut the fuck up.

TM

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?

The GF ALWAYS carries one, and asks me every five minutes if I would like a sip. She pees every 20 minutes.

I do the same thing. The bottle always in hand, the sip-offering and the perpetual peeing. It's a weird water-obsession disease I think.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
I don't understand the obsession with everyone walking around with one. Is America THAT dehydrated? Other countries seem to be doing just fine waiting until they get to an actual PLACE to get water. We apparently can't go five minutes w/out drinking some.

Given all the health messages to drink more water, I can see where it's coming from.

Now, my question is, why do people willingly spend $1-2 on a small bottle of "spring" water, when the stuff is available completely free? NYC has always had some of the best tap water anywhere, so why so many water bottles? And it's not like other cities have polluted water (except on some rare occassions). What's even more recockulous is that Dasani (and I think other products) are just city water (of the local bottling plant) which is filtered, purified, and then has a mineral/flavoring pack mixed in to give it a uniform national "taste." Folks, that's tap water.

Now, this doesn't say anything about the folks with the Nalgene bottles, or the few who refill their poland spring bottles from the tap. But $1 for water? What are people doing complaining about gas prices?

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Given all the health messages to drink more water, I can see where it's coming from.

Now, my question is, why do people willingly spend $1-2 on a small bottle of "spring" water, when the stuff is available completely free? NYC has always had some of the best tap water anywhere, so why so many water bottles? And it's not like other cities have polluted water (except on some rare occassions). What's even more recockulous is that Dasani (and I think other products) are just city water (of the local bottling plant) which is filtered, purified, and then has a mineral/flavoring pack mixed in to give it a uniform national "taste." Folks, that's tap water.

Now, this doesn't say anything about the folks with the Nalgene bottles, or the few who refill their poland spring bottles from the tap. But $1 for water? What are people doing complaining about gas prices?

Chicago water is fine too.

Indianapolis water is disgusting. Brita doesn't even filter that shit.

What's wrong with Nalgene? I have three.*

Attaching the Nalgene to your belt loop via a carabiner makes you a dork.**

*but they're only carried around in a daypack for hikes, beach, etc.

**I've done this.

[purse junkie]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
I don't understand the obsession with everyone walking around with one. Is America THAT dehydrated?

I think some people are drinking water constantly so they don't just stuff their faces with junk food instead. Or maybe they never got over the breastfeeding-as-security thing and sucking water from a bottle is the closest substitute.

Me, I'd rather have a glass of sangria to quench my thirst on a hot day, but quite unjustly I am apparently not supposed to do that at work.

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Given all the health messages to drink more water, I can see where it's coming from.

Now, my question is, why do people willingly spend $1-2 on a small bottle of "spring" water, when the stuff is available completely free? NYC has always had some of the best tap water anywhere, so why so many water bottles? And it's not like other cities have polluted water (except on some rare occassions). What's even more recockulous is that Dasani (and I think other products) are just city water (of the local bottling plant) which is filtered, purified, and then has a mineral/flavoring pack mixed in to give it a uniform national "taste." Folks, that's tap water.

Now, this doesn't say anything about the folks with the Nalgene bottles, or the few who refill their poland spring bottles from the tap. But $1 for water? What are people doing complaining about gas prices?

It's because - and believe this if you want to - there's a difference in taste. Arrowhead and Aquafina are the worst. Aquafina has way too much chlorine, and Arrowhead tastes like it came out of my fish tank. Between the Big 2 (pepsi and coke bottlers) Dasani tastes a smidgen better - less chlorine less soapy. I'll spend the extra for Fiji (my favorite) or Evian - there's just a cleaner taste.

And I'm with you on the health messages re: drinking more water. Every single diet book, anti-aging book states in bold "and remember to drink plenty of water - 8 glasses a day" and then pee your guts out. Our doctor told us that you should be peeing about every hour - give or take. Too often, and you're depriving your body of essential minerals and electrolytes, too seldom, and you're clogging your kidneys with crap. I don't think there was as much emphasis on drinking water back in the 70's-80's. We all drank a lot of pop when we were thirsty.