[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

Originally Posted by EVOLghost

quick question. The Martian Chronicles by Bradbury is a collection of short stories right or not?

Yes, but they are sort of interrelated so they can read like a loosely organized small novel. They are indeed individual short stories, many published decades apart, but they are compiled together with a bit of continuity. I adore Bradbury, but I must admit it gets a bit redundant after a while. In fact, that's precisely what makes short stories so nice, you can enjoy what you like most about many authors without having to inevitably deal with what you don't like.

My Bradbury quote written on my wall (yes, literally), "It was enough just to be able to create this place, to be able to say I did it. To say I nurtured a medieval atmosphere in a modern, incredulous world." ( 'April 2005: Usher II')

[floatingslowly]

Originally Posted by Coworker X

we use computers, but we don't use our brains; at least, I don't.

get the fuck out.

[Derek]

 

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[Inhuman]

I went out and voted for my country today! Looking forward to the results and fingers crossed for no Harper majority.

 

Originally Posted by alteredcourse

Hehheh.

The cigarettes in cuba are wonderful tasting. And there are no chemicals, they cant afford to use em

To each their own. I lived in Cuba for 6 months and we always smoked the imported Lucky Strikes, since Cohiba cigarettes were so harsh and made from scraps. There was one or two brands that weren't bad though.

[EVOLghost]

fuck, I have to stay up and finish a paper and finish some homework too(that I should've been doing last week). Ugh. Finals tomorrow. and I have. to .st aty. up all night.

[floatingslowly]

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[EVOLghost]

done with this semester. Fuck all y'all I'm goin' to bed.

[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

its not that I care,
truly
but to that girl,
with sharp teeth
who climbs at the walls
and pulls me down..

well
here's my
new address, 665 oh.. I forget

There's all, your evidence,
now take it home,
and fuck with it

now

so write down
that's what you get
so get it and write down
that's what you get
so get it and write down
that's what you get..

[knox]

so this magazine today claims that scientists keep discovering the evils of sugar and that it could be the cause of a lot of diseases including cancer. How long till they ask restaurants to hide their cupcakes?

funny that it also claims that the amount of smokers (at least here) has been decreasing while cancer is going up. heavy drinking is increasing too, easy to understand why.

why does my brain store all this useless stuff?

[knox]

Originally Posted by Nefeli

^ because you use it well and bigger space is created, in order to store things. if you were finding them useless, you would forget about them after awhile. (anti-lol).

what was more weird to hear, was the correlation between milk consumption and cancer. that milk can enhance cancer cells..
there is some debate of how true that is of course.

all i can say, its that best is to eat from everything and if possible from different producers. so you get little amounts of different poisons inside you and not added amounts of the same poison.
(not that i do that).

it's an ongoing debate.
every sector of the society likes to focus on smoke and alcohol but it upsets me that there is no regulation forcing anybody to show me in a box of cookies "this contains this, this and that which can be really bad for you".
about milk, i'm lactose intolerant so it is always bad for me. doctors tend to not recommend it to sick people, especially with infections. They claim it could be because all of the added hormones they give to animals, the cancer thing.

my head is big, so there's a lot of space.

[knox]

oh and by the way
help out:

http://www.allout.org/brazil?utm_source=All+Out

[Pookie]

Originally Posted by afonso

Oral sex is now the main cause of most types of oral cancer. Who's ready for that moral cry?

According to the American Cancer Society -
"The main causes of oral cancer include the following:

• tobacco use (80 to 90 percent of oral cancers are caused by smoking cigarettes, cigars, pipes, chewing tobacco, and dipping snuff)

• alcohol use

Other causes of oral cancer may include the following:

• leukoplakia - a condition characterized by a whitish patch that develops inside the mouth or throat.

• erythroplakia - a condition characterized by a red, raised patch that develops inside the mouth.

• excessive sun exposure, which, like elsewhere on the body, can cause cancer on the lip"

[Pookie]

Originally Posted by knox

it's an ongoing debate.
every sector of the society likes to focus on smoke and alcohol but it upsets me that there is no regulation forcing anybody to show me in a box of cookies "this contains this, this and that which can be really bad for you".
about milk, i'm lactose intolerant so it is always bad for me. doctors tend to not recommend it to sick people, especially with infections. They claim it could be because all of the added hormones they give to animals, the cancer thing.

my head is big, so there's a lot of space.

In the UK there are quite strict controls about listing what ingredients foods contain. Although food companies will always do their best to avoid this kind of regulation.

Although the body that monitors companies that produce food (Food Standards Agency) is one of the "quangoes" that the Tories want to abolish.

And also food has benefits - for one thing it keeps us alive. And as far as things like sugar are concerned, they are also beneficial to us if consumed in the right quantities. Tobacco is nothing but harmful. There is no "safe" amount of tobacco that we can use because the harm is accumalative.

And furthermore, if somebody stands outside a shopping centre munching on a Greggs sausage roll they are not going to do any harm to me or my children.

[Pookie]

Originally Posted by afonso

Sigh. I wasn't being serious about it, but there is a correlation between HPV and oral cancer and according to some reports it may even be replacing tobacco as the primary causative agent.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2011...t-cancer-cause

I wonder if they mean 64% of oral cancer cases in young people? I can't find anywhere else that suggests that this is the case generally.

Dr Anne Szarewski of Cancer Research UK told BBC News Online people should not panic about the findings.

"It is important to add to our knowledge about cancer causes, but I wouldn't want to give the impression this is a major issue. "Oral cancer is rare, and tobacco and alcohol are by far the biggest causes."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/3485158.stm

[Adolfo]

Sinto o cão da morte a bafejar no meu pescoço.

[floatingslowly]

I can't beleve you people are talking about mouth sex when there's a gentle clown-nun-man posted right above your heads.

shame.

[knox]

Originally Posted by Adolfo

Sinto o cão da morte a bafejar no meu pescoço.

who the hell are you?

[floatingslowly]

judging by the name, I always assumed they were a Brazilian jungle-clone.

[knox]

Originally Posted by Pookie

In the UK there are quite strict controls about listing what ingredients foods contain. Although food companies will always do their best to avoid this kind of regulation.

Although the body that monitors companies that produce food (Food Standards Agency) is one of the "quangoes" that the Tories want to abolish.

And also food has benefits - for one thing it keeps us alive. And as far as things like sugar are concerned, they are also beneficial to us if consumed in the right quantities. Tobacco is nothing but harmful. There is no "safe" amount of tobacco that we can use because the harm is accumalative.

And furthermore, if somebody stands outside a shopping centre munching on a Greggs sausage roll they are not going to do any harm to me or my children.

You may list what the food contains but there isn't a warning about how harmful it can be, especially when they don't know for sure. There isn't a warning about "we don't know exactly what effects this and that can have on your health".

The legal basis for certain lawsuits against tobacco companies was the fact that they weren't clear enough about the possible harmful consequences. Now that it is, I know what I'm doing what I'm smoking tobacco, it's clearly stated on the pack which should be my right as a consumer.

Of course food has benefits, but that doesn't mean you should be eating unhealthy stuff when there's healthy food available. In my opinion, you should do whatever the fuck you wanna do as long as you're informed of any dangers.

Munching on a sausage roll or smoking a cigarette, nobody outside a shopping centre will harm anybody who's just walking by will they? Realistically speaking. That is why they banned smoking in closed areas, because that could harm non-smokers against their will.

Or you can stay away, like we stay away from smelly people. The same cannot be said about the carbon monoxide in the air, we all have to breathe it.

and now im a craving sausage roll AND a smoke.

[knox]

Originally Posted by floatingslowly

judging by the name, I always assumed they were a Brazilian jungle-clone.

and my brain kind of though adolfo and afonso were the same person?