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Community Forums / The Lounge / Re: Blonde will make thin ....Here we go again !
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on: September 03, 2015, 09:03:37 PM
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Ant I'm in to an awesome stretching routine now and it's doing wonders for me. It's fast becoming an obsession and I could go on about it more than you go on about plants  I was reading up the other day about some of the German Companies manufacturing plant based meat replacement products. Some of them look like they might actually taste like meat!! Have you come across these at all in the UK at a reasonable cost? There was a grilled chicken one that looked like it would make quite a nice vindaloo...... My stretching routine atm is 30 secs hold on most stretches available. Takes me ages but i feel great after. On the fake meats. I think they will be great for those transitioning from meat, but I question their health especially as they are likely to have oils that no one should really be consuming. Without going off on one and I won't again on this thread unless seriously provoked lol, the closer you get to whole foods the better, with these artificial ones, they are likely to still be bad for you. I think these synthetic meats are the future though as raising animals for meat is unsustainable and is the biggest contributor to CO2 emissions, being over double the effect of the emissions caused from every vehicle.
Back to the stretching routine. I find it amazing too. It really does make you feel outrageously more limber and you feel it immediately if you slack on the stretching for just one day. Seems that way. The fact that it takes 22g of plant protein to feed a cow and produce 1g of beef protein (figures from memory so may be miles out but you get the drift) doesn't bode well at all. The cows are eating all the plant protein just to supply us with burgers that we crave. Why not just eat the plant protein ourselves (and maybe share a bit with those folk in the poor countries) and then sack the cows? Ethically it's just so wrong but unfortunately steak just tastes too good  | Click to see full-size image. |
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Community Forums / The Lounge / Re: Syria, Migrants and Online Comments
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on: September 03, 2015, 08:56:14 PM
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I don't want to debate about how servicemen are treated post service, especially with someone who is not objective about the whole thing. I would like to make some crude comparisons though.
A policeman, a serviceman, an NHS worker, an MP, a binman and a traffic warden.
These groups all serve the public intrest, they do so going in knowing what is likely to be asked of them, what the positives and negatives are, they are all paid for there service. Why is one group suddenly more deserving after the cease their employment?
Compare this with someone who has had their entire life destroyed, the very society they have spent their whole lives in no longer exists, they have fled from probable death in most cases and all they want is some help to get started and then to join in with our society and make new lives, get jobs, raise childen, pay taxes.
If there is only enough money for one of these people then I am choosing the refugee over the former public servant.
Ptsd and mental illness would be my reasoning. I'm aware it affects more than just people from the military (well I imagine police officers/fireman/emergency response can suffer from it and I've read some awful stories about what emergency service operators have heard). An mp would earn more and have much better job prospects too. It's an awful situation and the UK just aren't pulling the weight we should. Find a way to get some more of ax off the corporations instead of letting them hand it off to shareholders. Maybe not subsidise rail companies who then go on to hand out dividends to shareholders. Ok so MP is at bottom of the list, I would probably agree with that. I would imagine though a serviceman would have some money saved up at the end of his/her service, I believe they often receive housing/housing help and leave the military with varied skill sets which enable them to seek skilled employment post service. Pretty sure traffic wardens don't get that so for the moment I'm going refugee>traffic warden>service personnel>MP's Are you actually serious with this post ? |
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Community Forums / The Lounge / Re: Syria, Migrants and Online Comments
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on: September 03, 2015, 12:31:57 PM
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@ Tom ... I did not say that we shouldn't I merely asked should we feed and house them !! @ tikay I've no doubt we will cope @ boshi Are armed forces fight for fundamental human rights....yes @ everyone....... DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY OF OUR EX SERVICE MEN AND WOMEN ARE HOMLESS AND HUNGRY RIGHT NOW  Yes we should help refugees and no we shouldn't let them starve .....but shouldn't we be helping our own first I think that is a separate issue. Equally disgraceful that it is not being addressed but I don't see it as one first then the other. They should be parallel. On a side I don't know how many there are? I would guess around 2500 in the UK? Almost 4 times that in ex service personnel alone stu ! Lee, why does it have to be one or the other? I see some very hateful and vile propaganda from some sources that try to play this card that we can't help one group because another is also in need. Can you show me one iota of evidence that suggests helping a refugee diverts a single penny from helping ex-service personnel? On a tangent, did you sign this petition https://www.change.org/p/foreign-secretary-william-hague-protect-all-afghan-interpreters-who-served-alongside-british-troops-and-give-them-opportunity-to-resettle - or should it only be UK-born personnel who deserve help as a priority? If you think this petition is right, then think about each individual who has been forced from their home in Syria into the threat of starvation and a very uncertain future. Each of them will have a story, each will have a life. Just because they weren't born on an island off the north-west coast of mainland Europe doesn't mean they are less deserving of help. Don't you think their plight is desperate and needs action immediately? Boshi please don't associate my view with those vile propaganda as you call it ! My personal view is we should first look after the people who have put their lives on the line to protect this country and the people within it I am not saying it's one or the other ! |
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Community Forums / The Lounge / Re: Syria, Migrants and Online Comments
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on: September 03, 2015, 10:56:19 AM
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@ Tom ... I did not say that we shouldn't I merely asked should we feed and house them !! @ tikay I've no doubt we will cope @ boshi Are armed forces fight for fundamental human rights....yes @ everyone....... DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY OF OUR EX SERVICE MEN AND WOMEN ARE HOMLESS AND HUNGRY RIGHT NOW Yes we should help refugees and no we shouldn't let them starve .....but shouldn't we be helping our own first I think that is a separate issue. Equally disgraceful that it is not being addressed but I don't see it as one first then the other. They should be parallel. On a side I don't know how many there are? I would guess around 2500 in the UK? Almost 4 times that in ex service personnel alone stu ! |
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Community Forums / The Lounge / Re: Syria, Migrants and Online Comments
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on: September 03, 2015, 10:10:08 AM
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@ Tom ... I did not say that we shouldn't I merely asked should we feed and house them !! @ tikay I've no doubt we will cope @ boshi Are armed forces fight for fundamental human rights....yes @ everyone....... DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY OF OUR EX SERVICE MEN AND WOMEN ARE HOMLESS AND HUNGRY RIGHT NOW Yes we should help refugees and no we shouldn't let them starve .....but shouldn't we be helping our own first |
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