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Varmintmist
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Dont know if you can read the white sign, but I have been passing this for a few months. I got stopped at the light this morning right in front of it so I got a pic.
The white sign reads POOR MATTER with "also" written in between smaller. The bike is about 3-4 years old. A Suzuki M90 from the looks of it. MSRP 12K, current value 7K aka cycletrader if my age guess is correct. One would think that there is about 7K available to the "poor" person in this case. It would probably put 35% down on that house.
Now, I like scooters, and if you have the right one, it can be a economical way to get to work. Like a 1975 twin. (fyi, unless he is working shifts, this bike seems to be parked here a lot more often than it is gone) Not a new production cruiser where the rear tire is going to run 200+ if you dismount the wheel yourself.
Poor in Merica
Dont know if you can read the white sign, but I have been passing this for a few months. I got stopped at the light this morning right in front of it so I got a pic.
The white sign reads POOR MATTER with "also" written in between smaller. The bike is about 3-4 years old. A Suzuki M90 from the looks of it. MSRP 12K, current value 7K aka cycletrader if my age guess is correct. One would think that there is about 7K available to the "poor" person in this case. It would probably put 35% down on that house.
Now, I like scooters, and if you have the right one, it can be a economical way to get to work. Like a 1975 twin. (fyi, unless he is working shifts, this bike seems to be parked here a lot more often than it is gone) Not a new production cruiser where the rear tire is going to run 200+ if you dismount the wheel yourself.
It's boring, and your lack of creativity knows no bounds.
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I guess a sign that said,"Worthless Llives Also Matter" wouldn't tug at the heart-strings sufficiently enough.
― Douglas Adams
And the fattest. That alone places a heck of a burden on our medical system.
Gun control laws make about as much sense as taking ex-lax to cure a cough.
Son that's somebody with nothing to do with his time but keep me in trouble with mom.
That is truth. Obesity and being poor CAN* be a symptom of the same problem- being lazy.
*not always IS, by often
-Mikhail Kalashnikov
High Fructose Corn Syrup....................
My wife went to the store yesterday and restocked our pantry with pasta and canned corn/green beans-- the pasta was 49 cents a pound and the Green Giant veggies were 49 cents a can. I buy frozen veggies when they hit $1/pound. The hams in my freezer (bone in and boneless) all cost 99 cents a pound. Same with pork shoulders-- first night it is roast pork for dinner. Some of the leftovers get shredded for pulled pork sandwiches, then the bones and skin go to the stock pot where they are simmered to make a pot of posole. Beef, chicken, and game get treated the same way. I buy and freeze my wild Alaskan salmon when they are running in the summer. Fresh fruit and veggies get bought in season-- it started with strawberries in June, cherries in July, peaches in August. Now we are into apples and grapes. Pretty soon, we will have some good oranges.
While I am obese, it isn't so much from eating the wrong stuff as it is too much of everything-- that, and I do have to plead guilty of having a sweet tooth. But it is certainly not due to the unavailability of affordable wholesome nutritious food.
You've bothered to learn how to cook your food. How many folks don't like healthy food because it "tastes bad" or has a bad texture? And how much of that is because person cooking the food doesn't know what the devil they're doing? I cooked some asparagus for some folks who said they didn't like it - they loved it! Later I had the asparagus they were used to: canned and cooked to a big pile of mush. OTOH, cheap starchy foods are easy to get, harder to "ruin" it seems, and even when overdone taste better, generally!
Don't get me started on food education in this country...
Yep, no dairy. It was made with mashed bananas.
And the no sugar? Well, it lacked refined sugar. It had molasses. And the natural sugars in the bananas.
The article linked to a non-dairy gingerbread recipe that used molasses and brown sugar. But there's no HFCS or white sugar...
Will Rogers, during the Depression: We are the first nation in the history of the world to go to the poor house in an automobile.
Cooked vegetables-- cooking them right is the key. Cooked wrong, you may as well toss them in the trash. They don't have to be fresh either-- like I said, we buy a lot of frozen vegetables when they are the right price and they are almost as good or better than fresh but are always in season, come already prepped, and usually cost considerably less than fresh. They are just as wholesome nutritionally.
You know what makes trying to learn about food so hard? Do a Google search. Natural Health News, Dr. Mercola, David Wolfe, and other blogs with tenuous connections to real data predominate. It's hard to separate the wheat from the chaff.
That's only true if you do all of your shopping at some boutique grocery store like "Whole Foods". I can run down to our local grocery store and get a huge pork loin for 15 bucks and have enough lean protein for three or four meals. And a full meal at McDonald's hasn't been $3-4 since the early eighties.
And avoid "diet" foods. They can be just as full of calories, but because they lack fat they stock them full of simple carbs, which are just as bad or worse, depending on who you listen to.
Remember when an order of fries came in a small paper sleeve?
After the wife and I chewed her out for being a ing idiot and explained the weight loss and cloudy thinking were due to plain and simply, malnutrition, she finally quit that. Now she is still into this whole "vegan/raw" type thing that has absolutely no good science to back it up. At least we got her to stop the "cleanse" though. And then she has problems making ends meet since all her food has to be "organic" and "unprocessed" (expensive).
I really think that is what it is-- people get this crap marketed to them and they lack the critical thinking skills to understand they are being lied to.
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/mypyramid-problems/
MyPlate is probably more correct. But I don't even follow that. I do like how they stress keeping out the simple carbs.
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/healthy-eating-plate/
I've cut out carbs, increased veggies and fruits, slightly upped my proteins. Worked for me. Others might have more success with something else.
Not when you put potatoes in as a vegetable and tell people to eat a LOT of them.
-Mikhail Kalashnikov