Topic: McDonald's Tries to take on BK games

[Amodaus1]

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Originally posted by: KDR_11k
I'd start a big discussion with Bob about some of his points (e.g. minimum wage preventing job growth - as if there was any point in having more jobs that pay too little to even afford the rent) but that'd quickly violate the "no politics" forum rule.

Thats why i edited my post and said forget it.

The minimum wage comment isn't what i would have started on, more of the healthcare issue, as i will soon work in health care and not just be on rotations.

[UncleBob]

I tell ya what - go into any locally owned business and ask the owners what they think about increasing minimum wage.

Either hours get cuts, jobs get cut or prices go up... none of which is going to help the lowest paid classes.

You can't support a family on $7.25 an hour any more than you can support them on $5.15 an hour.

[Nick DiMola]

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Originally posted by: Bill Aurion
"I too hate the elitist attitude towards fast food"

I don't see what's elitist about not wanting to clog your arteries before the age of 30... =)

Well I totally agree there, the thing I was shooting for is that too many people get up on their high horse about it and look down upon people who eat fast food. It's ok to not want to eat fast food, just don't think you are better than somebody else who does.

I'm starting to notice this trend in America where select groups of people are growing obsessed with having a healthy lifestyle and as a result become very arrogant and offensive when it comes to anything health related. Some people choose to not lead a healthy lifestyle and that's ok because that's their choice; don't criticize other people's choices because it isn't your place.

(This isn't directed at you Bill, just commenting in general)

[Kairon]

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Originally posted by: KDR_11k
BTW, you vegetarianists just don't know the goodness that is horse meat!

Or dog meat!

... and us Filipino's got this awesome delicacy that seems to freak all the white people out. It's called Balut, and it's a duck egg that's allowed to develop a little bit more so that when you boil it, you open it at one end and work your way down carefully peeling egg shell to get at more good stuff.

You slurp up the juices, slurp up the yolk, slurp up the egg white, and for the piece de resistance...

you slurp up the partially developed duck embryo. It's not developed long enough for any hard parts, the bones aren't hard... the thing just melts apart in your mouth more like. Although if you're not careful you're gonna slurp up half the embryo and have to go back for the second half.

And if you get a bad Balut, then the feathers are developed... you don't want to eat one of those. Uck.

~Carmine "Cai" M. Red
Kairon@aol.com

[wandering]

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Originally posted by: KDR_11k
Then don't be a vegetarian, there's a reason the front teeth of a human aren't shaped like the side teeth.

I'll start eating meat when you renounce the censorship of art that portrays violence.

[KDR_11k]

We're not censoring art that portrays violence. We're preventing kids from buying the worst kinds of it and we're censoring art that glorifies and promotes violence because it's a threat to public order.

[wandering]

A threat to public order? Nonsense. Playing Counterstrike with blood effects turned on won't turn you into a killer, and neither will playing Manhunt. Eating meat, on the other hand, leads to very real harm and misery.  

[KDR_11k]

Counterstrike isn't banned, though.

[wandering]

No, but blood has been removed.