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OK Steve B, obligatory (appreciative) groooan-
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Both with Jackie - and Danielle.
It's even more recent that researchers have started to factor in ancestry (e.g. people of Polynesian descent really do have denser/heavier bones, and more of a propensity to add body fat from fats & sugars paticularly.)
The more *blame* is taken away from the whole obesity equation, the better. Information, and education - and support- work. Blame doesnt. -
Sorry, - Kyle. This was the time when the more lavish your treatment of significant media figures meant, the more airtime/column inches etc. you got. That's probably a dead gamble now-
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20thC thinking eh Kayle?
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Oooo Jackie! My Mum & I judge ALL black forest cherry cakes by the early 1980's James Cook version! We've hunted equivalents round the world (and v. seldom found 'em...}
My standard is - how do they do fish? Raw, and/or cooked? Mary's is beef fillet.(Since I dont generally eat meat, I cant comment on that.) Both of us agree on any place's eggs benedict (we cook excellent versions, ourselves. It does help to have own-grown spinach, and the neighbours' totally - not just free range but anarchical- eggs.) Our dessert is as, above- -
Mmmm, chewable, good for breath & teeth - I'd go there.
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Hey! You've got an edit button!
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Did a *lot* of travelling that involved staying in hotels & motels in the
1980s and 1990s (all of it in 1st-world countries.) Some of it was over-the-top grandiose (The Mayflower in Washington, where my mother asked for a large bed (she's not a small woman) and got a single bed that measured *3.050* metres across - yep, I'm the kind of weirdo that travelled with a tape measure.)And some of it was breathtakingly nasty (the motel we stayed in, in Utah, that had a sign in the shower "Do not wash your dogs in here." Someone had clearly not only ignored the sign, but failed to remove doghair and turds from the place...the toilet still had that paper thingy on it, but the cleaner just didnt want to do anything about the shower...)
And then there was the wonderful YHA-equivalent in Boston: we were met by a hunchbacked dwarf (I kid you not) who gave us the tiniest towels (less than facecloth-size) & teeniest packets of soap (think 2 gumsticks) I've ever encountered, and wanted $USA payment before she gave us the keys-only she wasnt sure they were the keys, so gave us 2 each...well, no probs with that. The 3 of us staying there, Marian, my mother, & self, all had separate single rooms. My mother was woken by a highly civilised rat which pattered along the footrail of her bed, but desisted from further invesitigation. (This visitor was mitigated by a grey squirrel outaide her window next morning.) Both Marian and I were woken by the same poor bloke - who had been given the keys to our rooms. He was African (by accent, not African-American) and he opened the door & yawned - which is when I sat up saying WTF? Seeing only teeth & eyeballs (I always leave my contact lenses in overnight when I travel.) His startlement was equal to my own...then he went along to try his other key - which opened the door to Marian's room...May I add that I received some of the best hospitality ever in the USA too?
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Oooo, fascinating...I *might* be able to ressurrect my G4 ibook? I'll try! And thanks-
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Really liked the article, thanks Brent!
liam - interesting interpretation: for statisitcal purposes. I understand "none" goes into the not-religious/ atheistic basket, and "n/a" into the 'chooses not to answer" file...statisticians, please?