that's fucking crazy
That's like a full tank of gas
( Lisette von Falcon, Wed 30 Jan 2013, 19:37, 2 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

I wish.
A full tank for me is almost eighty quid.

We're about £5 a gallon over here...
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Wed 30 Jan 2013, 19:39, Reply)

ohmygod
That's mental
( Lisette von Falcon, Wed 30 Jan 2013, 19:43, Reply)

So ... now that we've adjusted your concept of "expensive" ... remind me again why you lot are all simultaneously feeding and starving yourselves to death?

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 30 Jan 2013, 19:46, Reply)

That's not really an adjustment
How many people there have cars? We don't have a public transport system like you lot do
Car payments are anywhere from $350-600 that's one to two pay checks for most people
( Lisette von Falcon, Wed 30 Jan 2013, 19:51, Reply)

The rate of car ownership is pretty much the same in Europe as in the US.
I'm not sure what you mean.

Your original argument was that people ate shite because anything else was "insanely expensive". Things are typically more expensive in Europe but people don't eat nearly as much shite.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 30 Jan 2013, 20:06, Reply)

Have you SEEN the Iceland adverts?

( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Wed 30 Jan 2013, 20:16, Reply)

No. I don't watch ITV.
Is it pertinent to the conversation or are you just an unusual flirt?
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 30 Jan 2013, 20:18, Reply)

People on low incomes (and with no inclination to cook)
tend to eat over processed shit because it's cheap and easy.


you know, like your mum.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Wed 30 Jan 2013, 20:23, Reply)

My mum is retired and in the middle of building a house so I made her a bunch of canned meals and some confit of duck.
So you're basically right.

I'm still not sure what this has to do with the fact that the world's last superpower and the wealthiest country on the planet has a population that is eating itself to death with cheap shit.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 30 Jan 2013, 20:25, Reply)

you implied that while America did that, WE didn't.
I'm just pointing out that quite a large proportion of the UK actually does.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Wed 30 Jan 2013, 20:30, Reply)

No I didn't.
I suggested that the US is profoundly worse. Which it is. I have no idea why anybody is defending the pretty horrific fact that a quarter of a billion of the wealthiest people on the planet are eating themselves to an early grave with tasteless sugary pap. It isn't defensible.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 30 Jan 2013, 22:48, Reply)

Tell me about it.
I worked out when I first got my car that it was $3.15 a gallon.
Even back then my American friends thought that was expensive.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Wed 30 Jan 2013, 19:49, Reply)

A full tank of petrol over here is about £100.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 30 Jan 2013, 19:41, Reply)