Mega Thread The Random Thoughts Thread Part 1

[Steve Dore]

Citizen Cane - Following the death of the leader of a sugar cane growing commune the members scramble to discover the whereabouts of his missing watch.

 

[Eddie Dingle]

Lying High - A bunch of stoners talk shit whilst off their chops thinking they are on a plane but they are on the roof of edgies house.

 

[Eddie Dingle]

Uno - A pregnant teen tries desperately to find the secret to life, her missing wild draw four card.

 

[Janus]

If we're going to make some rich guys richer, i'd like it to be via free healthcare as opposed to the usual Coalition methods.

Its not "free" healthcare. It's universal healthcare. If you're paying taxes, your money is paying for it. The only people it's free to is those that don't pay taxes - the poor, the unemployed and children.

When I go to get a blood test, I'm surprised that I don't have to pay anything for it. To me, that's wrong - unless everyone is getting blood work done, I'm quite happy to pay $5-$10 for the service. I don't expect something for nothing.

When something is viewed as being free, it has no value and is taken for granted. That's why you get losers with colds and flu clogging up public hospitals with their bullshit because they don't want to pay the gap to see a GP.

I'd rather see preventative measures like lowering the obesity rate by introducing a "fat tax" for people using Medicare services - if your fat percentage is over 25% you have to pay 10% extra for everything. This nation is sick because we've got too many people addicted to a sedintary lifestyle, eating fast food and not exercising enough. I promise you, if you hit people in the hip pocket the same way the government does for tobacco - all the health care problems would disappear because beds would be given to those who are actually sick through no fault of their own rather than self-inflicted conditions.

Of course, the government doesn't help when they are advocating low fat diets but not really explaining that they mean Omega-6 fats that are toxic to the body and not the Omega-3 fats that actually help increase muscle, burn fat, make you smarter and increase immunity. Another reason why supposedly "healthy" (according to the bullshit BMI scale) get sick easily, and those that think eating high carbohydrate and sugar foods that are advertised as "low fat" actually get worse because their body is no longer able to process it.

Take that fat tax and make it so that everyone has free access to a dietician to go along with universal healthcare, and presto - problem solved for like 70% of Australians.

 

[Magus]

Its not "free" healthcare. It's universal healthcare. If you're paying taxes, your money is paying for it. The only people it's free to is those that don't pay taxes - the poor, the unemployed and children.

When I go to get a blood test, I'm surprised that I don't have to pay anything for it. To me, that's wrong - unless everyone is getting blood work done, I'm quite happy to pay $5-$10 for the service. I don't expect something for nothing.

When something is viewed as being free, it has no value and is taken for granted. That's why you get losers with colds and flu clogging up public hospitals with their bullshit because they don't want to pay the gap to see a GP.

I'd rather see preventative measures like lowering the obesity rate by introducing a "fat tax" for people using Medicare services - if your fat percentage is over 25% you have to pay 10% extra for everything. This nation is sick because we've got too many people addicted to a sedintary lifestyle, eating fast food and not exercising enough. I promise you, if you hit people in the hip pocket the same way the government does for tobacco - all the health care problems would disappear because beds would be given to those who are actually sick through no fault of their own rather than self-inflicted conditions.

Of course, the government doesn't help when they are advocating low fat diets but not really explaining that they mean Omega-6 fats that are toxic to the body and not the Omega-3 fats that actually help increase muscle, burn fat, make you smarter and increase immunity. Another reason why supposedly "healthy" (according to the bullshit BMI scale) get sick easily, and those that think eating high carbohydrate and sugar foods that are advertised as "low fat" actually get worse because their body is no longer able to process it.

Take that fat tax and make it so that everyone has free access to a dietician to go along with universal healthcare, and presto - problem solved for like 70% of Australians.

Poor smokers are still gonna smoke. Poor fatties are still gonna eat. Raising the tax on luxury items does little to deter people from using abd abusing.

 

[edgie]

Janus is a nutritionist now

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[Steve Dore]

Janus is a nutritionist now

Janus is an extreme optimist

...... Take that fat tax and make it so that everyone has free access to a dietician to go along with universal healthcare, and presto - problem solved for like 70% of Australians.

 

[LukeSA]

Obocop... fighting crime on the mean streets with the sounds of smooth jazz.

 

[Papa G]

Poor smokers are still gonna smoke. Poor fatties are still gonna eat. Raising the tax on luxury items does little to deter people from using abd abusing.

This graph doesn't show the impact of humungous price rises in the last couple of years. I gave up 3 years ago and I am shocked at how much cigarettes cost these days. Cost is a massive driving factor.

 

[Janus]

Janus is a nutritionist now

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Not me - I'm channeling my friend who is a PT

Janus is an extreme optimist

You'd be surprised at just how many health problems can be traced back to lifestyle choices. The human body - whether you believe it was designed or adapted to the environment over millions of years - is a masterpiece of engineering. For example - if you are deficient in iron, the body starts craving things that aren't food like dirt, clay and ice. Why? Because before the invention of refrigeration, those three things were only to be found in top soil - where massive amounts of iron are found. Plants can suffer from iron deficiency too, see.

And that's where animals that eat plants get their iron from. So it's a cycle

So your body is basically saying "**** this, I need iron bad right now. Don't care if you get sick, we'll deal with that later...go straight to the source and chew on some dirt!"

 

[Steve Dore]

This graph doesn't show the impact of humungous price rises in the last couple of years. I gave up 3 years ago and I am shocked at how much cigarettes cost these days. Cost is a massive driving factor.

Where I work about 5% of the people on staff, the higher paid employees, smoke, while about 20% of the wages employees smoke. Anecdotally it would seem that the people who can more afford are more likely to see the benefits in quitting.

 

[Steve Dore]

.... You'd be surprised at just how many health problems can be traced back to lifestyle choices ......

Actually I wouldn't be surprised at all

My optimism comment was purely aimed at the part of your post I quoted, that giving people free access to dieticians is going to improve the eating habits of the people who have the worst eating habits.

 

[Janus]

Where I work about 5% of the people on staff, the higher paid employees, smoke, while about 20% of the wages employees smoke. Anecdotally it would seem that the people who can more afford are more likely to see the benefits in quitting.

I would say that's because they don't need the "buzz" of nicotine to deal with the rest of the shit in their lives. It's a statistical fact that in a recession, alcohol and tobacco consumption increase because people want to escape their problems.

 

[Grave Danger]

Porkies - desperate politicians stop at nothing to get elected. Title comes from a 'house of ill repute'.

 

[Doctor Feel]

Anus - A movie about a man whose name says "Anus" when the preceding J is removed from his name.

 

[Janus]

Anus - A movie about a man whose name says "Anus" when the preceding J is removed from his name.

And the tag line would be - "Always talking shit!"

 

[Lagooner]

Anus - A movie about a man whose name says "Anus" when the preceding J is removed from his name.

Hey play nice Doctor Eel!

 

[Magus]

This graph doesn't show the impact of humungous price rises in the last couple of years. I gave up 3 years ago and I am shocked at how much cigarettes cost these days. Cost is a massive driving factor.

Depends on your priorities and how much importance you place on being able to smoke. Some people value it a lot, unfortunately more than what is best for them and their kids.
There's still a huge amount of people out there that use what's bad for them regardless of any consequence. Not everyone is equal in that regard. I just don't see how slogging people, many of whom are already of a low socio-economic background is going to make them all of a sudden care about their health and want to see a dietician.

All that aside, there's a shitload of money to be made by the pharmaceutical companies. Keeping people sick is profitable to some.

 

[Doctor Feel]

Ineption - a group of mind hackers who attempt to steal information from peoples subconscious and fail spectacularly.

 

[JimmyBeerCans]

Anyone know a fix for a asus laptop that's stuck in a repair boot loop?

 

[Doctor Feel]

Anyone know a fix for a asus laptop that's stuck in a repair boot loop?

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

 

[Portmanteau]

Oldeneye - James Bond bumps into old work colleague, who he previously thought dead, yet doesn't initially recognise him due to degenerative ocular health.

 

[Portmanteau]

Sand By Me - a group of pre-teen friends go to the beach.

 

[Portmanteau]

Satch - members of various football panel gangs fight over a satchel of rare units in Melbourne's inner northern suburbs.

 

[Doctor Feel]

0 First Dates - A mental patient with a degenerative memory condition gets no dates, because reality.