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| | | (...) Well it looks like she is less likely to be murdered. By chance I found this: (URL) know some numbskulls don't like UN stats, but it gives us this: 1997 Homicide (male) USA : 11.8 per 100,000 England & Wales : 0.8 per 100,000 (6.8% of the USA (...) (23 years ago, 18-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | Re: More LP S P A M : (was Re: Scary Survey results about the US First Amendment) —Christopher L. Weeks
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| | | | (...) Interesting. A) Does the difference in these stats and the ones I cited suggest that one set is incorrect, or do you think the difference between violent crimes (my stats) and murder (your stats) is really that lopsided? It makes it sound like (...) (23 years ago, 18-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Scary Survey results about the US First Amendment (was a slur of a subject line —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | (...) Well it could just be those pesky UN statistics... but I just went to the Red Cross site to check on blood donation criteria and they don't want your blood if you have spent more than 3 months total in the UK or Ireland since 1980 (or 6 months (...) (23 years ago, 18-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | What's the beef? (was Spam Spam Spam etc ) (Was *not* Spam & Chips) —Scott Arthur
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| | | | | | Perhaps you may have been here long enough to catch "mad cow disease"? Does your brain feel a little spongy? :-) I have not eaten beef more than ~12 years now due to BSE. Needless to say I have never eaten any beef from the USA, as it is unfit for (...) (23 years ago, 19-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | Re: What's the beef? (was Spam Spam Spam etc ) (Was *not* Spam & Chips) —Christopher L. Weeks
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| | | | | | | (...) Gosh...I've eaten beef more recently than that and I'm vegetarian. (...) There's a lot to be said for growth hormones. Chris (23 years ago, 19-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: What's the beef? (was Spam Spam Spam etc ) (Was *not* Spam & Chips) —Scott Arthur
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| | | | | | | | | (...) I wish I had the will power to be a vegetarian. Chicken & fish are just too good. I am occasionally tempted by haggis also. (...) Indeed, there are those who claim that they cause breast cancer and may be causing girls to reach puberty (...) (23 years ago, 19-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: What's the beef? (was Spam Spam Spam etc ) (Was *not* Spam & Chips) —Christopher L. Weeks
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) You could seek psychiatric help for that. (The haggis I mean.) In my strange little sense of right and wrong, no amount of goodness makes it OK, so I just don't even think about it and concentrate on plant-based nutrition. (...) Sure, but (...) (23 years ago, 19-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: What's the beef? (was Spam Spam Spam etc ) (Was *not* Spam & Chips) —Scott Arthur
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) Help is at hand for you Chris. There is a rather good vegetarian alternative. (...) Well as long as they make enough to be able to buy organic beef for there own kids, then at least a few people should be safe. Scott A (23 years ago, 19-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: How I learned to stop worrying and love the beef (was: What's the beef?) —Dave Schuler
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| | | | | | | | (...) Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous Communist plot we have ever had to face? Dave! (23 years ago, 19-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: How I learned to stop worrying and love the beef (was: What's the beef?) —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | | | | (...) No, it is third behind Orbital Mind Control Lasers and Robot Sea Monsters. They have more transferrable power I believe (but I didn't go check). (23 years ago, 19-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: How I learned to stop worrying and love the beef (was: What's the beef?) —Christopher L. Weeks
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) Fnord! (23 years ago, 19-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: How I learned to stop worrying and love the beef (was: What's the beef?) —Scott Arthur
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| | | | | | | | (...) Have you ever wondered why I only drink distilled water and rainwater, and only pure grain alcohol? Great script. Great cast. Great film. It is just a pity SK never made a sequal. :) Scott A (...) (23 years ago, 19-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | Re: What's the beef? (was Spam Spam Spam etc ) (Was *not* Spam & Chips) —Scott Arthur
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| | | | | | (...) For those who are interested: The Demise of Democracy? (URL) 1980, Europeans were horrified to discover that 2 and 3 year old children were reaching puberty. They traced the problem to growth hormones injected into animals. By the mid 1980s (...) (23 years ago, 19-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | Re: What's the beef? (was Spam Spam Spam etc ) (Was *not* Spam & Chips) —Christopher L. Weeks
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| | | | | | (...) That sounds pretty extreme, and like the incautious use of Thalidimide, something to be avoided. On the other hand it doesn't suggest anything about current levels of hormone injection. To tie two threads together, Flouride is a deadly poison. (...) (23 years ago, 19-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | Re: What's the beef? (was Spam Spam Spam etc ) (Was *not* Spam & Chips) —Scott Arthur
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| | | | | | (...) I can remeber the pictures. It was bad. (...) From: (URL) is substantial recent evidence that the natural hormone 17ß-oestradiol has to be considered as a complete carcinogen, concluded the independent scientists. It exerts both tumour (...) (23 years ago, 19-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: More LP S P A M : (was Re: Scary Survey results about the US First Amendment) —Scott Arthur
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| | | | (...) I think we touched on this before. I think the 1st step in understanding your stats is to know what each country defines as a violent crime *and* what proportion of crime is reported – but these factors may well have been taken into account in (...) (23 years ago, 19-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | deep frying chocolate (was Re: More LP S P A M : (was Re: Scary Survey results about the US First Amendment)) —Christopher Tracey
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| | | | (...) How would one go about making one of these? This may be more fun than the chocolate covered tofu strips... ;) -chris (23 years ago, 20-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: deep frying chocolate (was Re: More LP S P A M : (was Re: Scary Survey results about the US First Amendment)) —Frank Filz
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| | | | | (...) Well, the method I saw yesterday at the North Carolina State Fair (the friend I went with got one of these, forget which kind of candy bar she got), they had stuck candy bars on sticks, then rolled them in batter, then stuck them in a deep (...) (23 years ago, 20-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: deep frying chocolate (was Re: More LP S P A M : (was Re: Scary Survey results about the US First Amendment)) —Scott Arthur
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| | | | (...) I have never eaten one, so I do not really know. I think the trick is to cook it with such 'speed' that the middle does not melt. Just like a baked Alaska I suppose. Scott A (...) (23 years ago, 23-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: deep frying chocolate & beer (Oz Style) —Scott Arthur
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| | | | (...) Oz Style. From: (URL) Listing: Self Raising flour Six pack of XXXX One Mars Bar (frozen) Oil Method of Preparation: While drinking two of your stubbies grab one cup of your self raising flour and add some of your beer to the flour untill it (...) (23 years ago, 23-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: deep frying chocolate & beer (Oz Style) —Simon Bennett
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| | | | | (...) snipped the recipe... (...) Perhaps to make things clearer I should mention that in the US a Mars is a Topic. A US Mars is a Milky Way whereas a Milky Way in the UK is a Three Musketeers (US). Clear?!! :) Psi (23 years ago, 23-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | Re: deep frying chocolate & beer (Oz Style) —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | (...) Yes, thanks loads for that. Ever so clear Let me just add, in the same spirit: Rowley's invented KitKat. But KitKat is sold by Nestle everywhere in the world (since they bought Rowley's) except the US (where Rowley's had licensed KitKat to (...) (23 years ago, 23-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | Re: deep frying chocolate & beer (Oz Style) —Simon Bennett
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| | | | | | | (...) I think you mean Rowntree's (Rowntree Mackintosh), Larry. :) (23 years ago, 23-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: deep frying chocolate & beer (Oz Style) —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | | | (...) Right you are. Except I thought Cadbury bought Rowntree?? I heard the story at a major food client I was at 2 weeks ago and didn't write the names down. (23 years ago, 23-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: deep frying chocolate & beer (Oz Style) —Scott Arthur
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| | | | | | | | (...) I'm pretty sure Rowntree Mackintosh was bought by Nestlé. It think it was ~1990 - I was boycotting Nestlé products at the time. I am pretty sure Kit-Kat fingers used to have "Rowntree Mackintosh" written on them? Is this correct? What do the (...) (23 years ago, 24-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | Re: deep frying chocolate & beer (Oz Style) —Simon Bennett
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| | | | | | (...) I think you mean Rowntree's (Rowntree Mackintosh), Larry. :) (23 years ago, 23-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: deep frying chocolate & beer (Oz Style) —Martin Scragg
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| | | | (...) The real Oz version would differ about here: Drink another beer, realize you are down to the last beer. Forget about the Mars bar, go down the pub for some more beer. Martin (23 years ago, 23-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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