Hard News: Trams, drams and scams
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The only drink that I've consumed that's harder than my Shiraz is my Bud
i'm assuming he means budweizer.
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All good bloggers are imbued with a healthy dose of cynicism and dear Russell, you are no exception! I can respect that.
However, can you respect that there are also people who subscribe to health ideals that are, I'd concede, not exactly mainstream. For one, I'd been happily ingesting colostrum and creatin, long before it became accepted good sense and at a time when research was just appearing that creatin was good for you. Remember the scare mongers then - the pronouncements from medical authorities that creatin was, as yet unproven and, possibly unsafe!
Today, 10 years later, creatin is the top selling food supplement in the market and no side effects have been reported. A recent research report even found that it was good for your heart. So, why the cynicism on palm oil?
What does that tell you about people like me? Killjoy or someone bent on staying on the right side of cutting edge nutritional research and spreading the good word?
Finally, 16 cents per post? I've probably put in a max of ten posts on this issue. Do I appear to be someone who'd be bothered to earn a paltry $1.60 or any sum for that matter, without frevent belief in the issue? Perhaps, the poor demented soul who even dares suggest that, could do with $1.60! Would that be enough for a whiff of whisky or blue veined cheese?
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Now that I'm done with my rant, let me tell you how much I enjoy reading the posts in your blog. I really do! The dry wit, the cutting remarks, the turn of phrase.... it's a real treat after a hard day's night! Maybe, whisky and blue cheese may not be such a bad idea after all.
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But the question is, why would a guy from Connecticut come along to a NZ-based blog, sign up and make his first post about palm oil on a discussion that had nothing to do with palm oil. It would have been about as relevant if he'd told us about a great place where you can buy cheap v1@gr@!!!!!11
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merc,
Robin is Major Winchester off M.A.S.H...
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Major Charles Emerson Winchester..er..Robin here. Hey, good old Major Winchester was my hero, my alter ego!
Relevance is not the issue here but, rather the exigency of the issue is. I was just trying to persuade Russell to switch track to a more important topic, palm oil and health rather than just whisky and cheese.
Perhaps, I'm just the sort to butt into a conversation and try to make others gravitate towards more important issues. Does that make me asinine or a social misfit? I dunno! Maybe, that's why I'm not that much of a party animal. A night out with my buds at a microbrewery is my idea of fun. And the Red Dog micro is simply awesome!
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Robin, I do feel flattered that you're trying so hard with us. You're certainly putting in more effort than you did here, for example:
Interesting! However, if we're into healthy living, it'd take more than just having a clean bedroom.
Check out this site www.palmoiltruthfoundation.com
It gives the real info on palm oil which is not only cheap but also rich in antioxidants and best of all, trans fat free! No wonder the Asians live such long healthy lives!
Posted by: Robin Draper | February 27, 2007 at 04:56 AM
I mean, thanks for playing and everything, but it's probably time to give up on us now.
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Russell, I'm equally flattered that you've made such strenuous efforts to trace my posts. However, how are they inconsistent with the contents of paragraph 2 & 3 of my last post? And all told, less than 10 posts, right?
In any event, I'm beginning to like you, I mean, the total pakage. Russell as scribe, whisky and cheese connoisseur, cynic and all. If I should ever be in your neck of the woods, can I call to say hello.. and perhaps, share in some of your much heralded whisky and cheeseboard. I could bring along some Red Dog...
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robin, you weren't an evangelist in a previous occupation were you? your turn of phrase is... all too familiar.
russell, i'm thinking that you can probably make a few dollars to supplement the hustle by constant product placement in your post and comments.
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The world needs people, thought leaders if you will, who sacrifice their own personal morality in order to shephard humanity towards a greater truth.
Perhaps this truth could be palm oil?
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merc,
They who control the palm oil, control the universe!
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Yes, whatever happens on these forums, the oil must flow!
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merc,
We must democratize and liberate the palm oil from those who would control supply and use TPO (the palm oil) to further their Palmist agenda!
The National Front For Foot Oil (NFFFO) has discovered hidden oils of mass destruction!
Body oils of all kinds must be set free! -
Well said Ben, well said! Ultimately, it is belief in the issue that matters. Believe. Repent and believe! Remember,
there are none so blind -
merc,
...as the drapes.
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There are none so blind...as those who dare not see
Unless, you are born again...of course, you will not see!
And, like the river, it will flow.....
And Ben, your prose is too cryptic for me!
As for Che and that bloke who sounds remarkably like my favourite automobile, are you both sure that you're not Longfellow or Wilde in your previous incarnation? Or... Dylan, perhaps
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merc,
I was a dog on The Magic Roundabout once in another lifetime. But merc is actually my nickname given to me by those who know me better than me.
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merc...or is it Dougal? I thought that you eat only sugar?
Sugar is baaad...baaad for your immune system. Try palm oil. It's rich in antioxidants, toco this and that and trans fats free too!!
Oops, I've used that prohibited & dreaded oily word of mass destruction again! Try P.O....ok merc? Try P.O!
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no more blood for palm oil.
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merc,
Oh dear, you're right, in so many ways, I feel strangely compelled to follow your hypnotic instruction, but then, nah.
I only listen to what the number plates tell me. -
Do I sense that the wheels are coming off....Stay grounded, Merc..stay grounded. That's the trouble with you intellectual types. Keep your intellectual nous for the research labs and academia.
Russell, cherry juice is a great idea for gout. Even the fresh cherries work, especially the black cherries. Just munch on a bunch. My dad swears by it and his gout was so effectively controlled, he could eat or drink anything he wanted, so long as he took his black cherries, which he'd faithfully stored in the ice box in his Chevy truck.
And, Russell get this book called "Nutrient Timing" written by some Prof. of Kinesiology from the U. of Texas. It was written in 2004 and debunks most of the crap that is written about metabolic disorders and iinsulin resistance. It is such cutting edge and ground breaking stuff that many of the leading supplement corps. have designed supplements based on the findings in this book. Apparently, the idea is to take high glycemic carbs with a bit of protein (ratio of 4:1) within a 45 minute window after intense exercise. Only low glycemic foods should be consume after this window.
This will correct the metabolic disorders that most of us eventually and you are obviously suffering from - insulin resistance and gout. And hey, MCT's are strongly advised.. I guess I don't have to tell you which oily source of MCT is my preferred choice. Instead of insulin resistance, we'd develop insulin sensitivity!
I've tried the advice and found my metabolism has skyrocketed..the great thing is that the metabolism stays high even when you're resting and sleeping!
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Hmmmmm yeah that'll be the lame book for bodybuilders that tries to push the the patent "superfood" Accelerade.
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dougal and zippy, now that takes me back
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but i must agree with Robyn G, what is this person's motivation, and why would anyone bother unless they'd had some kind of existential revelation - about palm oil? WTF?
btw Russell, i always quite liked Cragganmore as a non-afficiado, but i can't seem to find it anymore
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Robin/Major - Thanks for letting me know more about palm oil than I ever needed or wanted to know. Luckily I'm an avocado oil man me'self (insert appropriate PR declaration of interest here, as my partner actually works for an avocado oil co). Superior oil.
But of much more interest, where exactly in Auckland can we get some of these wonderful sounding cheeses? (apologies if I missed any previous advice on the matter during this thread, I kind of got side-tracked by Robin's sterling efforts).
As for whiskey, have to admit I don't really understand it - my tastes run more to vodkas - but I thoroughly enjoyed the Iain Banks valentine to whiskey "Raw Spirit", a journey to the heart of the Scottish love affair with the single malt ....... excellent.
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