America: What can we do to get even fatter?
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Dead Winter
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DreamNeonBlack
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Yeah, here I am using my jaw muscles like a sucker. Just make the food in IV form so I can lay around and eat at the same time.
Dead Winter
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You could also have a sensory chip embedded in your brain to change the channels on the tv pseudo-telepathically. Why bother picking up the remote control? And getting off the couch to change the channel? Heresy.
DreamNeonBlack
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Dead Winter
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DreamNeonBlack
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Well, very little that I have noticed. Other than the price of everything soraring higher. First gas/oil, now it has trickled down to the rest of the utilities. Last year was a 50% increase in my electricty. Thats right, 50%.
I love how they managed it also, get this story. First my power company not too long ago had said it cost too much to make electricty, so they will just buy it. Then shortly after that they said if they didn't raise prices by 50% they would go out of business. Then they posted record profits for the quarter after the price increase.
NOW they just said that is cost too much to BUY electricty so they are going back to making it. How is that for bullshit.
Yesterday I recieved a BS letter from the water company saying that since they have done such a super job providing us with clean water they need to " recoup " by increasing the price by about 25%. I couldn't believe how much crap they were slinging. I should copy it and post it for the sad laugh it is.
Other than that it is business as usual.
I love how they managed it also, get this story. First my power company not too long ago had said it cost too much to make electricty, so they will just buy it. Then shortly after that they said if they didn't raise prices by 50% they would go out of business. Then they posted record profits for the quarter after the price increase.
NOW they just said that is cost too much to BUY electricty so they are going back to making it. How is that for bullshit.
Yesterday I recieved a BS letter from the water company saying that since they have done such a super job providing us with clean water they need to " recoup " by increasing the price by about 25%. I couldn't believe how much crap they were slinging. I should copy it and post it for the sad laugh it is.
Other than that it is business as usual.
Dead Winter
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Wow, that sucks man! Here, electricity is really high because Italy purchases it from surrounding countries. It's usually around 60 or so euros a month, which they bill you every two months.
Health care is decent, if you can get through the rivers of paperwork to get it done if you're a foreigner. They give you a health care card from the state and that's that. You pay a small co-payment if you go to the hospital, but that's it. Their health care system is actually pretty decent here.
We buy our fuel by the liter here, and right now it's about 1.15 euros per liter for gasoline. There are 4 liters to a gallon, more or less, so calculate the difference between euros and dollars and you'll come up with about 6 dollars a gallon for gasoline. That's the biggest gripe with people here. 60% of it goes to taxes as well.
Health care is decent, if you can get through the rivers of paperwork to get it done if you're a foreigner. They give you a health care card from the state and that's that. You pay a small co-payment if you go to the hospital, but that's it. Their health care system is actually pretty decent here.
We buy our fuel by the liter here, and right now it's about 1.15 euros per liter for gasoline. There are 4 liters to a gallon, more or less, so calculate the difference between euros and dollars and you'll come up with about 6 dollars a gallon for gasoline. That's the biggest gripe with people here. 60% of it goes to taxes as well.
DreamNeonBlack
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Yeah, I've heard about Europe's gas prices. but didn't they always have higher prices than the U.S.?
It is just making really hard on me, living alone, to pay my bills.
It is just making really hard on me, living alone, to pay my bills.
Dead Winter
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Yeah the prices here have always been higher due to the socialized system, but that's just an excuse. It's really just lining the pockets of the politicians and industrialists.
The good news is that it kinda evens out. The cars here go much, much farther on much less fuel for the most part due to their compactness. It also depends on how you look at things. Every two years or so you have to have a check done on your car that includes everything but body cavity search, and it's mandatory by law. You also have to pay a road tax every year depending on the size of your engine. Mine is like 165 euros a year, which isn't too bad. A Porsche would pay about 300. The mandatory car check is really good though because before anyone sells a car, it has to be thoroughly inspected by a certified mechanic and must adhere to the strictest of rules; therefore, you know you're not buying a piece of shit and you can't get fucked.
The good news is that it kinda evens out. The cars here go much, much farther on much less fuel for the most part due to their compactness. It also depends on how you look at things. Every two years or so you have to have a check done on your car that includes everything but body cavity search, and it's mandatory by law. You also have to pay a road tax every year depending on the size of your engine. Mine is like 165 euros a year, which isn't too bad. A Porsche would pay about 300. The mandatory car check is really good though because before anyone sells a car, it has to be thoroughly inspected by a certified mechanic and must adhere to the strictest of rules; therefore, you know you're not buying a piece of shit and you can't get fucked.
Reminiscence
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Lord Foul
I don't spank men
"Bacon Salt is a zero calorie, vegetarian, kosher certified, seasoning salt that makes everything taste like real bacon."
Right there on the front page of the website, man.
Chromatose
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Jeff-Loomis-fan
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wow im moving to italy...here in holland its costs 1.45 euro per liter...
and if you are driving on the highway it costs around 1.54
no wonder my bank account is getting smaller and smaller
Reminiscence
Oblique and Nebulous
I know a story that people in norway put sponges soaked in rubbing alcohol under their armpits so the alcohol enters their blood stream and they can get buzzed off that because alcohol is so expensive there.
Malergion
Complex pain
Instant Fat:
1) Get a stick of butter
2) Coat it in molasses and refined sugar
3) Wrap it in bacon
4) Glue the bacon on with lard
5) Fry it
6)Eat
1) Get a stick of butter
2) Coat it in molasses and refined sugar
3) Wrap it in bacon
4) Glue the bacon on with lard
5) Fry it
6)Eat
