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FolkGuitar

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  1. It's just a computer glitch. If you refresh the page a few times, the 'Out of Stock' message disappears and the price shows up.

     

    This does NOT seem to be the case for many grocery items from Italy, which have been out of stock in all the supermarkets for the past 6 months!

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  2. 15 hours ago, stubuzz said:

     

     

    Salt packets are available from any pharamcy.

    What is the difference between salt from a pharmacy and salt from a supermarket?  NaCl will be NaCl regardless of the vendor.

    I suspect buying salt from a pharmacy will be drastically more expensive and no different in chemical structure.

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  3. Once the holiday is over, where do all those cops who were manning the roadblocks go?

    You never see them on the streets, only at the roadblocks. They must have some tasks to keep them busy, other than stopping bad drivers.  We occasionally see a few high-ranking police making a photo-op tour of walking streets, but that's about it. Maybe one or two making rounds of guesthouses to check names and data of the last night's check-in.
    Where are they and what are they doing the rest of the day? We never see them!

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  4. I've noticed that many people 'start' to be old simply because they reached a certain number of years. "Now that I'm XY years old I'm going to give up all my fun, and spend my days in an easy chair with a beer dreaming about the past."

     

    Certainly, physical health plays an increasingly important role in what we can and can not do as we age, but to give up living because we reach a certain age that someone else thought should be the end is foolish!

    As Richard Bach said so well in his book; "Defend your limitations, and sure enough, you own them!"

  5. 3 hours ago, Woke to Sounds of Horking said:

    So sick and tired of this New Age bullship.  Blame the victim?  Heck, why not?

     

    Defend your limitations, and sure enough, you own them.

     

    4 hours ago, BarBoy said:

    environment has a lot to do with happiness and contentment, at least for me.

    I mean, if one had a choice, one would likely choose to live in a nice big house with a private pool next to a turquoise lagoon, basking in the noon sunshine alongside 5 young thai maidens vs living in a trailer park in Michigan in the middle of winter, with your granny...

    No?

     

    Certainly... but that doesn't mean it's going to make you happy.

     

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  6. It's not as if we haven't discussed this before...

    If you want to fix your heart, fix your body. No meds needed.
    Stop eating foods that are bad for your heart.

    No... it's not easy. It requires self-discipline.

    But the difference might just save your life.

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  7. With all the road construction going on around the Old City, the traffic congestion could become a real nightmare!

    Entire sections are blocked off, exits closed, unpassable surfaces, etc.

     

    But thankfully...

    ... we can turn on the radio or read the local newspaper to find out which roads are blocked off today so we can avoid adding to the crush by taking alternative routes and not creating traffic jams!

     

    Oh... wait...

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  8. 10 hours ago, ericthai said:

    and should we do the same ( since smoking  is an entirely personal choice ) deny any  medical insurance claims with health problems arising from smoking for people that drink Alcohol? what about people that drink too much soda or eat too many snacks and get overweight. Should we hold medial care from them too? 

     

    Perhaps not 'deny' them, but certainly put them at the end of the treatment timeline.  All self-abuse should be identified as such, and be far more costly to treat, maybe even help subsidize costs for those whose health problems were not of their own making.

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