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From: Eeyore on 5 Nov 2006 04:48 lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net wrote: > "Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message > > > > Popular restaurants here include Chinese, Indian, Italian, Spanish, Greek, > > Turkish, Thai, Japanese, French, Moroccan etc etc ..... There's even > > Swedish food > > available ( at Ikea ! ) and you can find Swiss cooking !!! of all things > > at the > > Swiss Cente in London. More 'exotic' eating out ( rather fewer > > restaurants ) > > include Russian and Hungarian. > > Mostly the same in any moderate sized city (25,000+) in the US, plus a few > odd ones like Ethiopian (my current favorite--like a cross between soul food > and Indian). Smaller towns generally only have Chinese, Mexican (no, not > Taco Bell), Greek, maybe Japanese, maybe Indian, and maybe Thai. > > I'll go you one better. Ever had Tibetan food? When I was a postdoc at > Indiana Univ. (very small town, ca. 20,000 ex the university students), the > Dalai Lama's brother had settled there (for the excellent school of music), > and opened a restaurant. It was very nice--about like you'd expect, a cross > between Indian and Chinese. That sounds interesting. I imagine I'd like that. The most 'unusual' food I've had was home-cooked Zambian style. Very pleasant in fact. It was a bit like an oxtail casserole with lots of tomato and onion stewed well down with a bean puree. Served with something a bit like mashed potato but it's made from millet IIRC. Quite yummy actually. Graham
From: Eeyore on 5 Nov 2006 04:52 unsettled wrote: > lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net wrote: > > <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message. > >>In article <454B8F8F.58262328(a)hotmail.com>, > >> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > >>>There never have been any restrictions on what you can buy since rationing > >>>from WW2 ended in the 50s. > >> > >>It didn't end in the UK. Thatcher was still removing vestiges of > >>WWII price and labor controls when she was PM. > > > > You might actually want to listen to the citizens of the UK in this > > discussion for this data. They know what they're talking about--you appear > > not to. Or did you read in one of your books that there was rationing in > > the UK more recently than the 50s? Your assumptions again need a huge dose > > of actual data. > > > >>>You're a funny old girl you know ! > >> > >>Once in a great while I'm funny. However, I'm old all the time. > > > > That would go a long way to explain your odd worldview, and your inability > > to change it by incorporating data that contradict your assumptions. > > The really nice thing about experience is that eventually > you'll become more like BAH than you realize. I'm old > enough, and experienced enough, to laugh at you now. Really ? As the years have passed I've found I'm actually more open to new ideas. Graham
From: Eeyore on 5 Nov 2006 04:53 lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net wrote: > "unsettled" <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote in message > > > If your NHS were equitable there would be no physicians > > in private practice. > > Evidence, please. The idea is barking mad anyway. Can anyone think of any field of endeavour where there's no-one who's self-employed ? Graham
From: Eeyore on 5 Nov 2006 05:00 unsettled wrote: > lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net wrote: > > <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message > >> <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: > > >>>And yet you prefer to believe impersonal books when learning about what > >>>Islam is all about, instead of talking to actual Muslims. > >> > >>What do you suggest? > > > > > > How about talking to some actual Muslims before you make ridiculous > > statements like "they grow up in a culture of violence". > > Start by asking them about female circumcision. That's a traditional African practice not Islamic. > Then ask them > about female rights to ownership of property, female education, > divorce laws. That will depend on the laws of the country they live in. > Ask what countries females can drive in. How about naming the ones where they can't. I can only think of Saudi. > Ask them > how many western women are trying to get custody of their children > after a divorce. What's that about ? How does that relate to Islam ? > How about the practice of chopping the hand off a thief, or > hanging a family member who dishonors the family? There aren't many countries wher this is allowed. ISTRC the hand being chopped off goes way back before Islam btw. > That's for starters. There's plenty more. Do go on. Graham
From: Eeyore on 5 Nov 2006 05:12
lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net wrote: > "Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message > > > Can you get US comprehensive ( no exclusions ) medical insurance for $2418 > > regardless of age or medical history ? > > Of course not. However, since his/her employer pays his/hers, all he knows > is it's free and if we were to nationalize, it would cost him/her a paltry > extra 4 % of his/her income. Such simple-minded thinking, along with the > attitude "I've got mine, go find your own somewhere else" is what keeps us > from adopting a realistic system of health care...that and the drug and > insurance lobbies, that plant such misanthropic thinking in peoples' heads > and panders to their basest selfish emotions. I just checked out Blue Cross HMO Select ( California ). I see the cost varies according to where you live ! Visits to the Doctor still cost $25 and nothing seems to be 100% covered. Between $249 and $475 PCM for a single person of my age. Say $365 avg - that's $4380 pa ( ?2305 ) - add in uncovered costs and that's easily twice the UK NHS cost. No cover over 64 it seems ! What happens then ? Graham |