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This is one of the most incoherent posts I have ever read. You made an unusual assertion in your initial post without backing this up with data or even troubling to provide the reader with an explanation as to what you were talking about. You then follow that post up with the above quoted post where you begin by rambling about molecules, again without providing a coherent explanation, and then launch into a tirade of abuse. Pull yourself together, apologize for the abuse, assume that we know zero about what you are talking about, and then lead us through it, point by point, from start to finish. This is how to improve your communications skills.

I guess it's unsafe to eat politicians, too.:faint:

Yep, the Dame is right. Check it out. My doc loves the machine and I don't like it at all. I prefer the treadmill; I guess it reminds me of life.:phanvan

What I hate are scratchy labels. I end up cutting all the labels out of my clothes as soon as I get them home. Even the so-called designer brands have cheap labels which irritate my skin. :huggie: I remember when I was a kid my mother's clothes had beautiful satin labels sewn into them. Why can't the manufacturers do that today?:lost1.5lbs: I am certain that they have the technology.:heh:

My favourite places for walking and browsing and shopping are along Queen Street West - I like to start at University Avenue and then walk west for quite a long distance - and the Bloor Street West area, including Yorkville and the Manulife Centre. There is some very good eating on Bloor past between Spadina and Bathurst and there is Book City which is one of my favourite discount bookstores. On that strip of Bloor Street you will find a number of Japanese restaurants, a good Thai restaurant near Bathurst (on the north side of Bloor) and a great Lebanese restaurant, Laila, on the south side of Bloor. If you walk further west the street gets a little less interesting but there are a lot of Korean restaurants and if you walk far enough west you come to my street which is just past Dufferin Avenue. There is also a store that sells stuff, including some pretty neat silver jewellery, from around the world. This store is also on the north side of the street. I forget the name but you can easily recognize it by all the neat stuff in the window. The rich part of Bloor Street is the part just west of Yonge. It is fun to walk around in order to window shop. And window shopping is what it is since none of those stores cater to anyone other than wealthy normos. Even the Winners on that strip doesn't have a plus size department. I did buy a great pair of boots and a fabulous bag there, though. There is, however, a Hudson's Bay on the north east corner of Bloor and Yonge. Queen Street West is interesting. When you walk past Bathurst Street the street becomes a weird mix of ugliness and furniture stores; some of these sell trendy modern furniture, some antiques, and some sell furniture from exotic places. My favourite store is Jalan - they sell exotic stuff - and over the years I have bought a lot of stuff from them. Down on Queen Street West you will also find a lot of clothing stores for young people, for Goths, etc. If, when you are walking along Queen Street, you turn south on Spadina and start walking towards the lake you will find a Winners' store. I am a real fan of these stores. They are great for recreational shopping. You never know what you will find on sale and the pickings seem to vary store by store. Getting to all these areas is actually really easy. The core of Toronto is a grid. A subway runs up Yonge and another runs along Bloor. All the other street names I have mentioned are subway stops: either streetcars or busses run from these stops. To make proper use of the system it is crucial that you get a transfer after paying your fare. In the subway stations there are transfer machines which are found on the other side of the entrance just after you pay your fare. On streetcars and busses you have to ask the driver. If you want to meet up with me or if you have any questions, let me know. Oh, and then there is Chinatown, another neat place.

Green is good.........

radioactive sheep? :paranoid OR sheep from outer space?

I like the bumper stickers. Thanks for posting them.

Why do you people worry about poor people scamming the system? Any poor person who does manage to get away with this stunt will never, ever cheat the system of anywhere as much as those corporate swindlers whom we all treat kindly.

I got banded this September at TLBC. I am planning to expense this on my income tax under medical.

Yep, whazzup?

The Moses Chimp! Hahaha Maybe the artist was making a clever comment on the evolution-creation debate! I would have loved to have seen that sculpture. Here is an interesting website: http://www.godisimaginary.com/video1.htm

I did the whole Last Supper thing for a week before I got banded. :hungry: :hungry: :hungry: :hungry: :welldone:

Good luck newbies! Good luck from Green.

:welldone: What little fat guy in white coat??? Please explain to Green. She's old and she's blonde, you know.:cool:

Oh, the tragedy, the tragedy!:cry

Well, if Persist wants some kind of absolution or to give a simple explanation why doesn't Persist post on this thread instead of giving you a private PM, Kat? She has undoubtedly hurt Wonder by these harsh and thoughtless posts and she has certainly irritated a number of other individuals who are engaged in Wonder's current situation. As for yourself, what did you handle the wrong way? I don't see anything wrong.

I have always had gay friends and I come from parents who were, as we now say, gay friendly. In the case of my mum, this was no surprise for she was a bohemian Brit. In the case of my father it was very surprising; he was east European and very, very macho but he was also a Jew and he viewed homosexuals as occupying the same space as Jews did during the Holocaust. He figured that you were born a Jew, you were born homosexual and that is the luck of draw; why, then, should you be persecuted by others? I have since come to realise that my father's attitude was quite unusual. The more prevalent attitude of those who are oppressed is to come home and (metaphorically speaking) kick the family cat or dog. This seems to be how human psychology oh so often works. Those who are oppressed often do not acquire empathy with others who are similarly oppressed but seek to get their own back by acting in the role of the oppressor as soon as they are able. The blood bath reported by TOM is truly appalling. I have heard from friends and have also read that this business of coming out is infinitely worse for people of colour. Their home communities are much more rooted in the values of the macho. I have a number of gay Muslim friends who live in Paris and in Canada who have chosen to estrange themselves from their families; they are unable to come out to them, you see. From what I have heard Black communities are not cool to homosexual members. As an example: Canada, my country, wanted to ban entry to a popular Jamaican singer last summer because some of his songs were explicitly homophobic.

What offends me about these infomercials is that these scam marketers are preying on a vulnerable group of individuals. If any of this crap actually worked, it would not only be all over the media headlines, our own doctors would be urging us to buy this sh!t. Of course this is not the case but overweight people are vulnerable to snake oil merchants because of our own feelings of self-loathing and desperation. I would like to see the Food and Drug Administration folks clamp down on these pedlars. I would also like to see them become more engaged in the claims made by companies that sell cosmetic skin cremes. I have heard that most of these claims are false. Ageing is, of course, the other area in which we are vulnerable and are likely to easily part with our dollars.

Yep, that is what I was saying in my overly wordy fashion. *blush*

I envy you. I want to go, too. Have tons of fun.

As for the above comment that the U.N. condoned Hitler's behaviour prior to World War 2, the United Nations did not exist at that time. It only came into beginning after this War and was born out of a global desire to stop further wars. It was felt that this could be achieved through creating a formal environment where all nations would come together in order to negotiate. It was hoped that the United Nations would be more effective than the League of Nations which it replaced.

Oh, I wear jeans all the time. I have black ones and blue ones. Green loves jeans but they have to be tapered in at the ankle. Flared ones make me look like a colonial lampshade from the rear end!

What is boot scootin'?

I usually wear black pants or jeans in the winter. In the summer I always wear black or white capris. I wear flat soled shoes, usually a walking shoe or sandal, or ankle high boots. I am fond of colourful foot wear. The ankle boots are tomato red and my other boots look like the kind that wrestlers wear. I have two black leather vests, one is quilted leather. In the summer I wear a lot of baggy linen stuff, usually white. This is because it gets very damn hot and humid up here. But no, no cowboy boots although many years ago I used to have a pair in lavender leather! They were pretty cute.