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[waverunner234]

Specialty of the Netherlands: RAW haring (fish)

[essence]

cream tea, from a cow

[essence]

I do like the best of your fish from places like Goode.

[gnadfly]

We haven't had mad cow disease either.

OK, what's double cream? BTW, you're free to make steak tartar in the privacy of you own home.

[essence]

Image pouring single cream over her breasts, and then imagine double cream, the double cream is much thicker.

Clotted cream will stay on her erect nips until it melts away, better grab a bite now.

I'm fealing randy.

[JD Barleycorn]

Grew up on a farm. The steak on your plate at night was walking around just that morning. Ditto for the green peas (though they were't walking around) and wilted lettuce salad with bacon bits (that came from a piglet we raised by hand).

Of course we also went hunting once in a while.

[Chica Chaser]

Originally Posted by waverunner234

You're right, many problems can better be handled for smaller groups of people. The US could much better utilize that if they would let go of everything that could be handled at the State level.

For a thing like Universal Health Insurance, they make it very simple. They don't force people to buy health insurance, but there is a mandatory % withholding on all income to pay into it. ON ALL INCOME, Salaries, Other Compensation, Unemployment money, Social Security, Welfare, Sick Leave money, ALL INCOME up to certain limits has withholding for health insurance. That's 50%, the other 50% is paid by who ever issues the paycheck.

Correct, virtually all day to day programs having a direct impact on people should be controlled at the state level.

Interesting concept on healthcare. Except of Canada I am pretty ignorant on how other countries handle healthcare.

[dilbert firestorm]

Originally Posted by waverunner234

Just a few examples, no where in the world except in the US can you buy milk that you can hold for more than 2 weeks. Same with bread. In other countries they sell bread that's left over for half the price next day because it is old. Here they put a load of chemicals in it and it's good for 2 weeks.
Cheese, Christ didn't know cheese could taste so bad as American "processed" cheese. But it explains why cheese from abroad is so popular.
If that was not so expensive no one would buy American cheese.
You should taste the difference between a burger from McDonalds in the US or in Europe. In Europe they can't get away with the shit they sell here.
There are lots of imported foods here in the US, do you think you can find imported American food in Europe? No you can't find it because it's not there.

don't the europeans have laws on foods stuff? I think they have laws banning food that have hormones, and certain other chemicals.

[waverunner234]

Originally Posted by gnadfly

We haven't had mad cow disease either.

Really?
First I wanted to answer this with: maybe not, in the US, mad people disease is much more likely.
Then I googled it.
Just google: how many people died of mad cow disease and you'll find how wrong your answer is.

[waverunner234]

Originally Posted by Chica Chaser

Correct, virtually all day to day programs having a direct impact on people should be controlled at the state level.

Interesting concept on healthcare. Except of Canada I am pretty ignorant on how other countries handle healthcare.

One thing is clear: A specialist in the US can easily make $1 M per year. In the EZ it is less, but believe me, it's enough.

I have had a number of specialist visits in the recent past because of 2 total hip replacements and what amazes me is this:
If I have an appointment with my orthopedist (who has done an excellent job both times by the way), I see him on average less than 4 minutes, say another less than 3 minutes for his nurse and 5 minutes for the receptionist.
That is a charge of $30 copay + $195 charged to my insurance company.
The surgery takes about 2 hours. The orthopedist charge was total over $3K + over 2K for the guy that kept me asleep.
That's separate from the $65,000 my insurance company was charged for a 3.5 day stay in the hospital.

This is where the real problems are.
Healthcare should never be commercial, thats why the Government has to be involved.
We all know the joke about the headache pill that costs $25 in the emergency room.
Well guess what, it's not a joke, it's a core problem of the US healthcare system.

[Whirlaway]

The arrogant presumption of liberal who thinks his world view and life experience is superior to the rest of us "hayseeds ".

Originally Posted by essence

I feel sorry for y'all. You don;t know what double cream is, you have never poured it over a rounded breast and licked it up, you have never had strawberries and proper cream, you have never had scones and cream and proper strawberry jam.

You have never had fresh squid, not frozen, and made it into a paella the same day as it was caught.

Shall I go on?

But I must admit your high class steaks do taste good.

[waverunner234]

Originally Posted by Whirlaway

The arrogant presumption of liberal who thinks his world view and life experience is superior to the rest of us "hayseeds ".

You got it right WW just for one time.
I certainly think that my way of life and world view and life experience is far superior than yours in particular.

By the way I'm surprised that you even have a world view, or are you referring to the view that the US media specially creates for you?
Your view is probably limited to what Texas gives you?

How's Perry doing back there in TX?
Ashamed of himself as he should be? Or the big mouth of the guy he wants to be?

[Sexyeccentric1]

Originally Posted by IIFFOFRDB

Louie, Greece will well come you. You will have it made over there.

Greece is in it's financial debacle because they never raised taxes nor updated a budget to bring revenue in to pay for all those social services. The officials from what I read were afraid to raise taxes that would have helped them tremendously and also from what I understand they hadn't raised taxes in a very long time.

You can't keep giving out money to these programs if you don't have the revenue coming in for it.

From what I also understand their was a tremendous amount of misspending and mishandling of their government funds and officials there were not held accountable for it.

We haven't raised taxes in a long long time and we need to. In fact the taxes we pay are the lowest since the Reagan days.

[Sexyeccentric1]

By the way those food pics look really good..yum!

[BigLouie]