politically correct

[dirtydeeds]

its getting worse

we are SO obsessed with high fat diets that full fat milk is now being advertised

as under 4 percent fat

for goodness sake 4 percent is so low in fat its stupid

 

[neoshed]

that's probably a EU directive

 

[Administrator_JSVN]

That's 4% metric.  The imperial equivalent is 100%.

 

[Woodenfish]

When I read the news from many European countries I gather that many of the people there have had it with this political correctness's immorality and prejudice's and a rebellion is forming.

When I see the local news from within the US, it appears to me that our home-grown, enemy within-elitist's, PC mumbo-jumbo is spewed forth ad nauseam and we accept it without question.

There certainly seems to have been a paradigm shift between our two cultures, but I will not be participating.   ;D

 

[CharlesWilson]

When I see the local news from within the US, it appears to me that our home-grown, enemy within-elitist's, PC mumbo-jumbo is spewed forth ad nauseam and we accept it without question.

Not all of us. The thought police haven't gotten to me yet.

 

[ROb McGilp]

Here in Aus, there is a move in schools to ban the use of terms like Mum (Mom) and Dad, Parents, boyfriend, girlfriend, so that "partners" is the only way "seniority challenged junior type people" (students) can refer to one's "house sharing senior others".

 

[Woodenfish]

Partners? Partners? 

That sounds like your children are under control of homosexual militants???

I hope this isn't taking to well with the masses.

 

[Ned]

Here in Aus, there is a move in schools to ban the use of terms like Mum (Mom) and Dad, Parents, boyfriend, girlfriend, so that "partners" is the only way "seniority challenged junior type people" (students) can refer to one's "house sharing senior others".

The strange thing about those advocating diversity is that given a chance, they enforce sameness, denying any difference.

Ned

 

[gasman]

But there is another side of the coin..... 4% fat contains 4g of fat for every 100 g (which is just less than 100 ml). So if you drink half a litre of that every day that is an extra kilogram of fat in your diet every 7 weeks compared to if you have fat free milk
Just realised I have used entirely SI (metric) units in this whole post which means that 90% of the forum are struggling with conversion to imperial etc - sorry!

 

[dirtydeeds]

your information is wrong and will not help anybody trying to learning about the metric system

most of the metric units we use on a daily basis are "derived" from SI units

the SI units are the agreed international method by which anybody on the planet can make a reference from

the english and american inch are (aparantly) different by a tiny tiny amount, one of our schollars here will no doubt tell us how or why it came about

but a metre is measured by the speed of light traveling in a vaccum for a specified length of time, ie there is no difference all countries can meausre it and they all come up with the same result every single time

 

[mhch]

For those having time and/or interest in historical details:
http://www.cftech.com/BrainBank/OTHERREFERENCE/WEIGHTSandMEASURES/MetricHistory.html

 

[Michael Kellough]

but a metre is measured by the speed of light traveling in a vaccum for a specified length of time, ie there is no difference all countries can meausre it and they all come up with the same result every single time

But...what if you plugged two vacuums together in series?   

 

[John Stevens]

The strange thing about those advocating diversity is that given a chance, they enforce sameness, denying any difference.

That's a funny, ironic observation, Ned.  Back during the Cold War, I was a founding member of a campus organization that was dedicated to nuclear disarmament.  For about six years (before and after that) I was a vegetarian, and I took the opportunity to attend some vegetarian conventions.  Worked three years in the natural foods biz and got involved in the local chapter of the Sierra Club.  I was thirty years old before I realized that the people I met through the peace movement, vegetarianism and environmental movement were the most closed-minded, intolerant, authoritarian, angry people I'd ever met.    :

Regards,

John

 

[dirtydeeds]

dont even get me going on "animal rights activists"

those who believe that not only is it right, but it is their moral duty to kill human beings, to "defend" the rights of an animal

as always with the intollerant................... their rights are more important than anybody else on the planet, their victims ONLY have the right to a violent death

just to confuse the issue, i believe that causing deliberate suffering to any animal (or human being) is wrong 

 

[nickao]

Okay dirtydeeds now you got me going(I agree with you).

If you have to kill an animal to eat or to clothe yourself what's the big deal.

I am not so sure about killing an animal for just fun. All my hunter friends eat  the deer or Pheasant they kill, although some do display the deer heads on their walls. I think its fine and actually helps the over abundance of deer and pheasant we get around here.

Killing a rare species is wrong, especially when so many other animals as a whole can be helped with hunting.

I can not stand when my friends talk about their pets like they are human. I do not care how much you love your dog, don't even mention them in the same breathe as my kids. And my sick F*** friends do that all the time. When their dog got sick and it was 4500.00 to save her, they put their loving family member down. My sons surgeries cost over 480,000.00 and I did not say put him down. Why, because he is not a pet!

Pets are pets not humans and though I love animals the sickos that compare them to a humans and put them before human needs are ridiculous.

Nickao

 

[Carson]

My wife is an environmental scientist, I'm an amateur naturalist, so I've run into all sorts of the fringe element lunatics :.
That being said, I was also raised in rural area where hunting, fishing and raising your own meat was a way of life.
I still hunt and fish....

Years ago at work related barbecue for my wife and her colleagues, my daughter who was then about five or six proudly
repeated something I had once said in jest....
"All God's animals have a place...
right next to the mashed potatoes on my plate".

You could have heard a pin drop.

I really didn't want tofu-veggie burgers anyway.

 

[joraft]

"All God's animals have a place...
right next to the mashed potatoes on my plate".

You could have heard a pin drop.

That's a very funny story, Jim. You never know what kids are going say, or where, or when.

The photo in your avatar is pretty small, but is that a pair of very pretty Shetland Sheepdogs?

John

 

[greg mann]

The strange thing about those advocating diversity is that given a chance, they enforce sameness, denying any difference.

That's a funny, ironic observation, Ned.  Back during the Cold War, I was a founding member of a campus organization that was dedicated to nuclear disarmament.  For about six years (before and after that) I was a vegetarian, and I took the opportunity to attend some vegetarian conventions.  Worked three years in the natural foods biz and got involved in the local chapter of the Sierra Club.   I was thirty years old before I realized that the people I met through the peace movement, vegetarianism and environmental movement were the most closed-minded, intolerant, authoritarian, angry people I'd ever met.    :

Regards,

John

Take any large group and you'll have a pretty well proportioned distribution of whatever characteristic you want to measure. I think the conundrum in this case, John, is that those characteristics are not what you EXPECT from those groups, so it registers even more strongly. Take heart, I have run into a few "closed-minded, intolerant, authoritarian, angry" red meat eating war-mongerers in my time.

 

[Brice Burrell]

.........Take heart, I have run into a few "closed-minded, intolerant, authoritarian, angry" red meat eating war-mongerers in my time.

Have we met? Just kidding guys.

 

[ROb McGilp]

...but I think we should all support land rights for gay whales!!