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Bacon is much more dangerous than Spam

Rude....and more rude.

You want dangerous cooking, I once saw a guy cook a hog using a pool cue as a spit, over a grill made from a shopping cart with a fire started by gasoline, while he was blind drunk.

Or any type of deep frying,grease pops.
I never could eat spam,the texture and the saltiness,ewww.

Let's all go to Canter's Deli in Las Angles.

Whats wrong with what I said? Really? Give me specifics. I'd really like to know what you are so mad about regarding our disagreement over this. I really would. I'm NOT being sarcastic here. I'll gladly explain what I mean if you'll just tell me what upset you. I probably don't mean anything nearly as mean as you think I do. Really. Please tell me.

I'm not eating anything from a fire started with gas.I won't even use lighter fluid,the smell gags me.Ive seen people start fires with stuff like that,only cause they don't know how to really start a fire

Sorry guys..... I had to leave work and get home. Then I have to go to sleep to get up at 6:30 and do it all again.

1. Arthur Avenue is in the Bronx, and easily accessible via the 5 train

2. Cabs are expensive in NYC, but not nearly as expensive as they are in London.

3. I'll have to look up Lundy's; I think it's closed, though.

4. Parts of Harlem are becoming gentrified--but there are still pockets of the "true" Harlem

5. Taking the subway is a breeze compared to what it was in the 1970s, when "Saturday Night Fever" was filmed. There
"scratchiti" rather than graffiti. I used to sit just like John Travolta in 1977, on the RR (now running on the N line).
Kids no longer go into the conductor's car to announce the stops. The back cars no longer host pot parties.

6. Most of NYC is quite safe, actually. There still remain some unsafe pockets--but not nearly as many as 30-40 years ago.

You folks have a nice evening.

Do they serve Spam? Chocolate covered?

I saw a recipe for chocolate covered bacon.

Well, there's the mom-like lectures you like to give me, as if you are the only person with life experience and personal wisdom and any sort of emotional intelligence at all and the rest of us are just children who need to "grow up" and just see everything the way you do, 'cause it's best, name-calling like "Doublemint Twins".

We get it, you disagree, but you don't just disagree, do you? You target people with inflammatory language, just the sort of inflammatory language that you know will bother them, and you do it all on purpose because...well I'm not sure why...because you like to needle people, to illicit an emotional response from them? Because you think you're teaching them some sort of important life lesson, or teaching them to grow a "thicker skin"? It's wholly unnecessary and it makes you look like a jerk, from where I'm standing. Actually, not just a jerk, but a person who prides themselves on how much of a jerk they can be.

And then you say that you just "tell it like it is". No, you just tell it (whether it is or isn't) like a jerk...

Well it is summer vacation, I'll probably have a fishing story myself if things go as planned.

This is the gourmet tip: Soak your spam in milk for a few hours before cooking. That leaches out the salt.

Words have a huge effect people.

I'm reminded of a novel titled The Book Thief; it stresses how powerful words can be, as seen in Nazi Germany, where the book takes place. If you think about it, words can kill. Hitler was a gifted orator, but he used that talent for evil and brainwashed a nation. Words do hurt. They drive people to think terrible things, and in consequence, do terrible things.

Of course, nothing anyone could post here could cause that kind of chaos, but:
Earlier today, another member mentioned a bad experience she had with another Wrong Planet member years ago?she ended up in a mental hospital because of the trauma it caused her.

Whoever said "sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me" was utterly wrong.

Thanks for explaining your view to me. I appreciate that, really. You didn't have to do that, but I was serious when I asked so I'm glad you did. I'm really not trying to needle anyone, I use a lot of descriptive words and phrases and names when I'm being nice too, that's just how I speak. I actually know of a few ugly phrases that I could have called them if I was trying to be ugly, I used "Doublemint Twins" because they spout the same stuff and to me it's got about as much substance as gum. Them being two females kind of made the name right for it. It wasn't ugly meant. I love descriptive language. I'll use it when I don't have to, just cause I like it and hope others like that style too. I'll inject what I feel is humor, or dark humor into a tirade with the hopes of taking the edge off. I don't know if you have ever seen me REALLY rip somebody a new one on here, and those posts were removed asap, but when I do that you know it's mean and it's crucifying. It's mean, there is no hint of humor, no amusing combinations of profanity, nothing like that. I go for the jugular and mean to hurt, and I only do it when I feel the person has hurt someone else. That's not what I did here nor have done on this thread of the other ones of hers at all.

Do I think I'm right? Of course I do. Then again, everybody usually thinks they are right don't they? I got to be the way I am over time, and formed the views I have over time, just like everybody else and of course they are from my experiences. I've had a lot of experiences, many good, lots bad, some totally insane and others terrifying. I suffered a lot to get to the point where things people do and say can be like water on a ducks back to me, and I learned a lot in the process and I do try to tell those things to others who seem to at times have the same misconceptions about life that I used to. I'm sure I come across like an old lecturing mom, but that's because that is exactly what I am and I don't lecture you or anybody else just for the hell of it, I do it because I think maybe somebody will get what I'm saying and they can benefit from the hell I lived and easily learn what I had to learn the hard way. It's not such an alltruistic thing nor is it like me giving you milk and cookies and a pep talk. I don't know why I feel the need to do that, except for the fact that I'm good at fixing things and giving advice to other people but I make a mess of everything for my own self. Maybe I do it so I feel that my pain wasn't wasted or something, I don't know. I'm no shrink. It's not just here, I see crap in every day life that drives me freaking insane, and I usually speak up over it if it's possible.

I've found that in my life I catch more flies with dogshit than I do with honey or vinegar, so thats why I'm like this, although honey works best for most people. I don't know why. Many times people don't listen to me and just blow me off if I try and say meekly what I mean, and so now I'm abrasive and a bit of a s**t. I also used to write an op-ed column for a small paper in the city years and years ago and I got used to making my point about issues this way. You know how those columns are. I use that style a lot.

For years and years and years of my life I was weak. I was taught to be weak and that I couldn't do anything by my mother because I was sick a lot as a kid. She was extremely overprotective of me and I was kept from any injury and slight not only physically but emotionally as well. I thought I was weak and couldn't do or deal with anything. Then I met friends who helped me and taught me I could, and sometimes they would have to make me do things but once I learned how to do them, you have no idea of the happiness I felt at each TINY LITTLE STEP and in my mind normal everyday things were HUGE ACCOMPLISHMENTS. I was eventually angry at how weak I had felt and began to loathe it. Real weakness is one thing, but the kind I felt was different and when I think I detect what I had in others I get angry all over again. I hate weakness in myself and when I see others who probably aren't weak but just think they are I want to just snatch them out of it and tell them that they can do more than they think, even if it's not as much as me or maybe it's more than me, but just try dammit. This issue got me ticked because it's not a real issue. You want to fight for womens rights and against sexism find an actual issue and I'll march side by side with you and I'll hold you up and even supply the vemon needed. But this is a couple of people getting offended because some basement dweller makes a statement about all women and it's because he couldn't get laid to save his life. That's not a women's issue. That's a personal issue for whoever got offended over it. Some dude whining about not getting girls doesn't have any impact for women, anywhere. It's being touted as an IMPORTANT ISSUE. If it was talked about like "This offends me personally and I'd like you to talk to them about it" I wouldn't have a problem with it, but it's being bitched about like it's right up there with Saudi women's rights.

I've talked all over the place and I hope I made sense. I don't dislike you, nor the two girls fussing over this. Not at all. I'm actually good friends away from the forum with people on here who I've metaphorically ripped the flesh off of before. I'll be that way in a disagreement and it's fine if somebodys like that back to me. i don't hold a grudge over that. I'm actually reasonable. I just think that blowing this out of proportion isn't reasonable.

Did they personally know eachother? I'm not about to scoff at a mental breakdown, but it seems kind of extreme for it to result from thread interactions.