Playboy: the video game
 

http://money.cnn.com/2003/05/12/comm...yboy/index.htm

I was going to post this to one of the tech-geek boards, but it seemed more at home here, as it will, of course, contain nudity.

Maybe you should call the Texas Rangers and report that he's harboring a state legislator in his house. That should get them bashing down the doors real quick.

There is no solution.
 

All I know is, if this stupid Oreo ban succeeds because some people suck them down like industrial vacuum cleaners and then are surprised that there are negative health effects, and I am thereby deprived of my rare craving for a single-serving mini-pack from my local junk food emporium, I will be seriously, seriously pissed off. :box:

Force Hostess Sno-Balls off the market, and there'll be absolute hell to pay.

In other words, suck it up bondo-boy, consider the money lost and a lesson learned -- next time deal with a professional. There are certain things I will not buy from people whose "place of business" I am afraid to visit - medical/dental care, auto repairs (can you say "hot parts" or "you've come to pick up your car, what car, I don't know you") and children or pets.

Playboy: the video game
 

Yeah, this about sums it up: ""Nudity can be done very classy, "

Attention Hockey People
 

You are so right. Bob Probert, Dave Semenko, Tony Twist, Clark Gillies, Jody Shelley - bunch of pussies.

You buy children? :shock:

Fatness and Health Problems
 

That's nothing to be proud of: in my experience, medical families have the worst health care because they always self-medicate and self-diagnose and feel the same about doctors as you do. (Although it is very convenient when you forget a prescription while traveling.)

Anyway, I was amazed that our doctor did not advise the OddMan to alter his diet, stop smoking, or stop drinking. Well, she does want him to stop smoking, but she didn't give him a hard time about it.

So maybe it wouldn't be as bad as you think.

Attention Hockey People
 

GWNC, you gotta understand that most people do not know that most NHL teams have only 1 or 2 "Americans" on the team. I think it may be that what was meant was "National Hockey League-style hockey is more aggressive than that which is played elsewhere on the planet." Although I do not wish to take liberties with the intention of another.

Speaking of great aggressive Canadian sports -- I HEART CURLING! I was pissed that they showed so little of it so late in the day during the Olympics. Growing up I was able to watch early on weekend mornings and I miss it.

There is no solution.
 

Are you some sort of paigow tribute sock? You are like a really rabid version of me and say things even I wouldnt.

"Coupling" Comes to NBC
 

Your use of "yard" is telling. Americans don't garden. They landscape. There's a huge difference. Americans say "low-maintenance" when in reality they mean "zero-maintenance," but there is no such thing as a zero-maintenance landscape. I would watch each American Ground Force heartsick that the whole thing will go to pot (unless literally; that would be interesting) within two weeks.

Let's get something straight here. I wish to dispel the notion that "Are You Being Served?" was in any way funny. It was not. How many times will an audience laugh at a blue-haired dowager talking about her "pussy"? Unspeakable. Horrid. Maybe it produced shock laughs in 1972, but there's no excuse for it in 2003. Only the blindest form of Anglophilia would delude one into thinking this show was funny.

well, you know, some people adopt from some "questionable" people/places. I would never do that.

There is no solution.
 

That's cute, Mr. Churchill, but I don't believe you - about the stopping smoking thing, that is.

I am fine with a tax on junk food - I think it's a great idea, in fact. At the grocery store it never fails - the most junky processed food is found in the baskets of those who look like they subsist wholly on junky processed food and have never heard of fresh fruit. But banning overweigh people from public? You're either being sarcastic and I'm not reading it well today or you're just a meanie.

-T(looking to put on 25-35lbs by Thanksgiving)L ;)

edited to add: or you're Paigow pretending not to be Paigow fucking with me again.

Fatness and Health Problems
 

I have maybe 15 family members that are physicians, and NONE of us go to the doctor on a regular basis, even those of us who should. And especially those of us who should know better. We were lucky as kids if we got decent care when we fell and hurt ourselves. Each of us has a scar that probably should have required stitches or further care, but we were lucky to get bandages (and in one rather famous incident, rubbing alcohol and duct tape). Even my mom's broken arm a few years ago got a "are you sure you need to go to the ER?" from my physician father. Unless we required a respirator, we were never deemed sick enough to garner much sympathy from those who were qualified to make decisions about our heatlh care.

I think it's because the health care professionals in our family take care of the sickest people, in ICUS and the like, so our problems are generally pretty minor in comparison. Also, until a few years ago, generally everyone in a physician family got the benefit of professional courtesy, so physicians didn't want to take too much advantage of their colleagues by sending their kids over for every scrape and bruise, so physicians didn't send their family members out to others unless it was absolutely necessary. These days, because of Stark and anti-kickback legislation, it's a lot harder to take care of someone without sending a bill.

Of course, when it is absolutely necessary, we do get the very best care possible, and we can also benefit from parental guilt, when it's clear that we should have been seen earlier.

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In other words, suck it up bondo-boy, consider the money lost and a lesson learned -- next time deal with a professional. There are certain things I will not buy from people whose "place of business" I am afraid to visit - medical/dental care, auto repairs (can you say "hot parts" or "you've come to pick up your car, what car, I don't know you") and children or pets.
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Also, avoid those people who come to your door and say things like, "I was just in the neighborhood and noticed that you need a new roof. For a mere x amount, I can put one on right now..." Really $200 is not a whole lot compared to what most people lose in these situations.

Thanks for bringing our shame here!

There is no solution.
 

Some asshole in California just tried to bring legislation that would prevent children from eating Oreos. It would be utterly Karmic for him to choke to death trying to force down an underblended kale smoothie... we can only hope.

Bloomberg should be caned for high crimes of extreme sissiness/correctness for his anti-smoking campaign. His clueless limousine do-goodery will fuck us all soon enough. Next it'll be bars without alcohol. Hell, they've already eliminated drinking at lunch - its grounds for termination in most places.

I'm repulsed and disgusted by the fat as much as the next self-important vain guy, but lardass and Ms. Lardass have their place, at the bar, next to the smoker and the boozehound. People should be allowed to do whatever the hell they like to themselves. I still can't figure out whay we can't use drugs we buy which get us really high for recreation, but we can get drugs legally which help the weakest and self-absorbed of us deal with reality. Someobody should take these prozac junkies and expose them to marijuana. Give that snivelling bitch in the psychiatrist's chair rambling about her "inability to connect" with others a mirror full of blow and a bottle of Dom. She won't need drugs for a few days after that. Oh, and that kid of yours who keeps telling you he knows it all - give him five hits of strong acid. He'll come back realizing just how little he knows about life, and if he doesn't, feed him a mushroom omellette.

S(a lot of people need a fat slap across the face)D

Playboy: the video game
 

Note to Lawyer Pissness, I did not bring this quote.

There is no solution.
 

I have to say that I am not but I will take that as compliment if you will permit me to. I believe that you are selling yourself short if you think that I would say anything that you would not -- your rabidity (new word?) is something peons like myself can only admire and aspire to.


"Well, I am no slouch myself you know."
"Don't sell yourself short, Judge, I'd say that you're quite a slouch."

Attention Hockey People
 

You have just earned yourself a special place in my heart. What a great game curling is. Rivals Quidditch for the most fun you can have with a broom and a bunch of rocks.

Fatness and Health Problems
 

I always ask my wife's dad about medical care. I had a friend recently who was diagnosed with a condition whereby his liver produces too much iron. He told his young doctor how much he drinks and his doctor freaked and told him he was an alcoholic and would die if he kept drinking any booze.

I asked my father in law about this since he trests patients with blood conditions. He said "Stupid young doctor - she's full of shit". His advice - drink all you like within reason. The damage done by iron overproduction and the damage done by booze are two different animals which do not work in concert.

Caveat: Her family all say stop smoking immediately to every smoker they see.

I think it's hysterical. I've been following this for three days now, and I'm glad that someone is finally growing some backbone in the legislature. Plus, it's been awhile since we've had legislators on the lam. At least this time, they made it out of the state.

There is no solution.
 

You might want to try switching to downers there SD....

There is no solution.
 

Actually, I read a couple of more posts and have decided that you are the demonic cyberoffspring of Sebby and myself, except I dont kniw that our kid would be into Nascar and Thrashers (whatever those are). This is a mighty high form of compliment. Save me a barstool and I will see you at Happy Hour. I got the smokes. Sebby will bring the one hitter.

I love the old Killer B story, but 51 legislators is probably too much to squeeze into one garage apartment.

There is no solution.
 

Agreed. Any of youse touch my Oreos, and I kill ya. Any of youse touch my stuff, I kill ya.

K(you can keep the snowballs. I hate coconut)E

Edited before posting to keep my post as short and non-substantive (mirroring LFM) as possible :)

There is no solution.
 

Being what is considered a casual smoker, I have actually quit for years at a time and even today with having taken up the habit again average less than 5 per day and never smoke before sundown. I am confident that I could walk away.

Perhaps you are correct and I did insert some sarcasm to make my point. I also have a mean streak and low tolerance for people who will not take responsbility for their actions.

Of course, most of really gross fatties are too big to get out of the house so we only have to contend with the "normal" fatties. My biggest problem is not with the fatties themselves but with their attitude and excuses. Most smokers I know are polite about it and will ask before lighting up and will generally not impose their smoking on others unless it is permitted by both the establishment and their companions. Fatties blame their situation on everyone and want the world to change for them. Fatties do not apologize to you when they take up half your seat on an airplane or in a movie theatre -- they sue the airlines and the movie houses for not making the seats big enough. Fatties do not apologize when they squeeze into a seat at the table behind you and smash you into your own table until you cannot breath -- they blame the restaurant for putting the tables too close together. Fatties sit in restaurants and alone order as much as everyone at your table combined and sluppily inhale all of it and then want healthcare when they cannot walk or breath. Finally, fatties stuff their faces with a whole bag of Oreos in one sitting and then want the cookies banned so that people who can control themselves and enjoy a couple of Oreos now and then cannot because the fatties don't want to exercise any self-control.

Attention Hockey People
 

We also had a drunken sport called broomball. Did you ever play? Sort of hockey with taped up broom, a ball, no pads or skates, on ice after midnight. Add alcohol and stir.

There is no solution.
 

And you will still be an arrogant, self-absorbed asswipe and an intolerant pox on the human race.

Just my .02

There is no solution.
 

Kafka, is this your way of telling us that you are LFM, or are you simply infatuated?

There is no solution.
 

I hate the flab overflow onto my subway seat as much as the next guy, the guy who cant fold his WSJ in half when reading it and the guy who jabs me with his umbrella. But, I hae to wonder if this blatant sizism isnt couterproductive. I mean, maybe this attitude is perceived by our larger friends and this induces self loathing, which drives them to binge? You actually seem to have downright contempt for these folks. Maybe that isnt good?

Case in point. I had an episode somewhat recently where this motherjumpin huge, and i mean huge, woman was waddling down Connecticut Ave in Dupont Circle and I was trying to walk briskly past her, passing on the left. Except she was really hard to pass bc of her size and the stupid trees that areplanted every five feet. Between them, I didnt hav e the sidewalk space. So I said, excuse me and tried to wedge my way trhough before the next sidewalk tree. She completely SNAPPED at me. So, the follwoing words flew out of my mouth without my being able to stop them "You take up too much space" (and obviously this is a personal issue for me as anyone who has read my umbrella posts would know- i hate crowded disorderly sidewalks where fast walksers cannot walk at a decent pace on the left side of the walk). I felt so awful after I said that, just horrible. And had she not been such a bitch in the first place, I woul d have apologozied, I probably drove that woman to have a gigantic steak and fries and milkshake snack.

There is no solution.
 

Nice rant. It reminded me of one of mine (which I don't have the time to find right now) suggesting that big vats of arsenic or cyanide pills be placed in maximum security prison cafeterias. If violent felons want to commit suicide, we should encourage it. If people want to knowingly eat/drink/smoke themselves to death before they become drains on Social Security and the health care system, we should encourage that too. They should also be denied tax-payer funded medical assistance, i.e. no Medicare funded transplants for people that smoked/drank their functioning organs away.

Keep it up.

Attention Hockey People
 

Oh, good lord. You're from here.

There is no solution
 

But that's not the way it's moving is it? Isn't there a facility in Portland that manufactured a large gurney and ambulance for people over 400 pounds - since previously there weren't any? Isn't it a sign that if you're too big to fit in an ambulance that maybe perhaps that is your fate?

Web Toilet a hoax
 

My brother registered www.ebathroom.com in 1996. He sold it for $1,000.

Attention Hockey People
 

Not necessarily. Broomball is also really big in South Australia.

There is no solution.
 

No doubt at the steakhouse on Pennsylvania Avenue.

TM

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Fatness and Health Problems
 

I think we are related. My Dad's cure for most injuries is to tell you to "walk it off". When my cousin broke his arm jumping down a flight of stairs, he was taken to the hospital by my aunt but his complaints about the pain where met with "shut up, no one told you to jump down the stairs, so just shut the hell up."

I am not married, but sometimes I think it would be nice to settle down and raise a dysfunctional family.

There is no solution
 

In my college years, I worked in a hospital as a nurses' aide. There were three patients that required special beds because they weighed over a certain amount. (I think the limit on the "normal" beds was 350, but I know one of the patients was in the 400s.) Story relating to one of the patients At one point one summer (late 80s early 90s), we had more patients that needed the bed than we had beds.

The biggest problem for all patients that are bed confined is bed sores. "Normal" patients who are confied to their beds will develop sores where their body weight presses down the most. Usually on their backs, their hips and their shoulders. That's why nurses turn bed confined patients every two hours or so: to evenly distribute the weight, and to make sure that certain pressure points are not overly burdened with the weight of the patient. Even with turning, the sores can develop very easily, and once they develop, they're very difficult to treat. We had one patient who was paralyzed (fortunately) from the neck down. I could literally put my fist inside the hole in his back.

Anyhow, the problem with these morbidly obese people is that they have even more weight pressing down, and it's very hard to keep the weight from pressing down on the pressure points. The beds that help prevent pressure ulcers are ususally some sort of air system, so the patient is lying on a sophisticated air mattress that presses up in the spots most likely to have pressure ulcers, and the weight isn't pressing down on anything. Of course, the heavier the patient, the more likely that weight is going to overwhelm the pressure of the air.

I'm certain that in the decade or so that I've bee out of ICUs the equipment has gotten more sophisticated, but it's very expensive, and I'm sure that they're probably needing more of it than they did back then.