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From: ChelseaTractorMan on 21 May 2010 08:24 On Fri, 21 May 2010 11:09:00 +0100, "Brimstone" <brimstone(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >In the 1700s people walked 4 to 5 miles to do a full days hard physical >labour and walked home again. you want to go back? -- Mike. .. . Gone beyond the ultimate driving machine.
From: boltar2003 on 21 May 2010 08:48 On Fri, 21 May 2010 11:09:00 +0100 "Brimstone" <brimstone(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >In the 1700s people walked 4 to 5 miles to do a full days hard physical >labour and walked home again. And most of them died of exhaustion or disease in their 40s and 50s. Your point is? >People today have become lazy and do things simply because they have the >tools to do so without thought for the consequences. Twas ever thus. Most of britains forests were cut down for firewood and building materials over the last few thousand years thanks to a tool known as the hand axe. B2003
From: Dave Plowman on 21 May 2010 10:19 In article <52qcv51okgngtnl9o87k3cmfkue0ggf27a(a)4ax.com>, ChelseaTractorMan <mr.c.tractor(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote: > >How many meals can you eat? How much "variety" do you need? It's not > >necessarily an improved diet. > I want as much variety as I can get. You can eat junk food from a > supermarket or you can eat intelligently, its up to you, not them. > With the old corner shops you had minimal choice of often stale goods. The 'corner' shops round here have largely gone. Replaced by specialist food shops - delicatessens and small bakeries, etc. They seem to coexist with supermarkets quite nicely. -- *Pride is what we have. Vanity is what others have. Dave Plowman dave(a)davesound.co.uk London SW 12
From: Dave Plowman on 21 May 2010 10:21 In article <85nc6nFn9gU34(a)mid.individual.net>, Adrian <toomany2cvs(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Our town (c.7,000 population) has a supermarket, a smaller supermarket > (with butcher), a convenience store, a butchers, a fishmongers, two > newsagents, two chemists, a large DIY/homeware shop, a bank, a building > society, four hairdressers, two indian restaurants, a chinese > restaurant, a chinese takeaway, a pizza/pasta restaurant, two dentists > (both accepting new NHS patients), a library, two doctor's surgeries, a > vets, a carpet shop, a florists, a bookshop, an optician, two dry > cleaners, a post office, three estate agents, a sports shop, a kids > clothes shop, a pet shop, a (local hospice) charity shop, a bakers/tea > shop, three deli/ cafes, a travel agent, a furniture shop, a bathroom > showroom, two gift/ knick-knack shops, a beautician, a photo > developing/printing shop... Crikey. Do you deliver leaflets part time? ;-) -- *You are stuck with your debt if you can't budge it* Dave Plowman dave(a)davesound.co.uk London SW 12
From: ChelseaTractorMan on 22 May 2010 06:42
On Fri, 21 May 2010 13:57:50 -0700 (PDT), Squashme <squashme(a)gmail.com> wrote: >And obese people in shopping malls >are unpleasing to the eye. you think there's as requirement to be pleasing to the eye? Are you into eugenics or something? -- Mike. .. . Gone beyond the ultimate driving machine. |