I'm in this boat too. I know I don't maintain a normal weight because I'm particularly virtuous or have incredible willpower. I'm also not that selective about the foods I eat or when I eat them. I've always been convinced that some physiological mechanism is at work and that it's related to heredity in some way.I'm normal weight, but I know enough folks with serious weight problems to believe that some of it must be due to differences in metabolism or true food addiction.
I'm not saying that self-control and discipline don't have something to do with it. I'm just saying that for some people it's much easier and they don't need that willpower because they don't have that craving to overeat for whatever reason. It's obviously much harder for people who do.I think it's some of both. I used to be a lot heavier than I am today, so if there's a "fat gene" I probably have it. I also believe that I was addicted to high-calorie foods and especially to sugar-loaded drinks, so there was some of that too. It's not hard for me to maintain my current weight now though, largely because when I overeat I know it and don't find the feeling at all pleasant. When eating enough to cause weight gain makes you feel like crap, it's pretty easy to not do it.
Exercise helps too... in moderation of course. My tendency these days is to overdo that instead of eating, which is not necessarily a good thing since I tend to get minor muscle injuries rather easily. Old age creeping up, I suppose...
pet peeve: people who push the button for the crosswalk signal and then cross the street anyway and don't wait for the signal. If you didn't need the crosswalk signal, then don't tie up traffic.
umpires that are too stupid to recognize their mistakes.
There are two kinds of people in this world, those who hate umpires and those who are umpires. I am one of the latter. But we must remember that at its core, sports are entertainment and the mistakes of umpires add to the entertainment value of the event. That is why I am opposed to the video reviews of official calls in sports. Let the mistakes stand and let the fans who hate the call as well as those who love the call revel or stew in the memory of the spectacle.
"Traffic engineers".
In almost every instance, a 4-way stop sign works better than the "solutions" these people sell.
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Having somebody in line at the gas station spend 15 minutes buying lottery tickets while I stand there forever behind them trying to buy a pop.
Lottery = A tax on people that can't do math.
Really, 1 in 13,000,000 odds aren't good. You are not buying a dream. No one has to win. Getting struck by lightning, twice, has better odds.
Lottery = A tax on people that can't do math.
Really, 1 in 13,000,000 odds aren't good. You are not buying a dream. No one has to win. Getting struck by lightning, twice, has better odds.
Sure, but with Mr. Murphey being himself, if we put Yield signs up in place of Stops, I'd bet people would actually STOP more than yield.So stupid, it makes sense...Sorry, I HATE stop signs. I do recognise they have a place...but they are way over used, if you ask me. In fact, I'd say we need a new sign...something that conveys "slow down and look...if anybody's there give way. If not keep on trucking". I suppose a Yield sign does that...but you never see those at 4 way intersections. I think a 4 way intersection with one way having Yield signs would work pretty good.
The main reason I hate stop signs is the mechanical side of my brain just loaths shaving off all that inertia. I spent money making that momentum. If it puts nobody in danger I'd just as soon like to keep it!
I'd say we need a new sign...something that conveys "slow down and look...if anybody's there give way. If not keep on trucking".
That's what a yield sign is. That is also what a roundabout does.
Yield means self centered snot doesn't have to give way to anyone.
Roundabouts, america, ha, it's like russian roulette with a gatling gun, only dangerous.
Stop signs, yield signs, roundabouts, and full traffic signals all have their place. Some are great for low traffic volumes (Stop signs). Some excel under medium traffic (roundabouts). But neither of those is worth a darn in truly heavy traffic where the traffic signal rules the day...IF... it is coordinated with the other traffic signals in the area.
Stop signs, yield signs, roundabouts, and full traffic signals all have their place. Some are great for low traffic volumes (Stop signs). Some excel under medium traffic (roundabouts). But neither of those is worth a darn in truly heavy traffic where the traffic signal rules the day...IF... it is coordinated with the other traffic signals in the area.
I've been in roundabouts in horrible traffic in England, France and Australia where they are prevalent and people know how to use them, they are my favorite by far over lights and signs.
I can't believe the EXACT SAME numbers racquet that the mob ran and was chased down by the government is now used by the government to shake down the poorest and dumbest among us. Amazing we voters allow it.
Somewhere in the eastern US (must have been NJ), I encountered a roundabout with yield signs in the circle giving the entering traffic the right of way
Hey, that's nothing, here in Taxachusetts there is a rotary with traffic lights!
Somewhere in the eastern US (must have been NJ), I encountered a roundabout with yield signs in the circle giving the entering traffic the right of way
New Jersey highway department is either run by retards or sadists. Where else do you find stop signs on freeway entrance ramps? (sig alert signals don't count as the traffic is basically barely moving when they are on)
Come to Montana, the speed limit used to be "Reasonable and Prudent" which was not disliked.
Come to Montana, the speed limit used to be "Reasonable and Prudent" which was not disliked.
In Missoula, stops signs are optional... They put them wherever they feel like it. After moving here, you figure it out "the hard way". The idea is to keep people terrified and always guessing so that they'll creep around town at 5MPH. The reality is, not everyone is participating and sometimes 2 non-participants meet each other in the middle, the person to the left gets the blame.
Bbbut it's 'for the children' or nature or any of the other fluffy reasons the lottery money is supposedly earmarked for.