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Peach or Nectarine?
Smoooooooooooooooth! (Nectarine) 2 (28.6%)
Fuzz, fuzz, baby! (Peach) 3 (42.9%)
Whatever, as long as it's sweet 'n' juicy! (Either) 2 (28.6%)
You actually like them? You freak! (Neither) 0 (0%)
We're sorry lara, all is forgiven! (You suck at polls!) 0 (0%)
Total Votes: 7
Silly Debates...; We need answers to them too!
Topic Started: Jul 29 2007, 01:02 PM (545 Views)
Krazy
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Well, just a bit of summer fun. They call summer the silly season for newspapers because there's nothing much going on and so they fill them with silly stories. So in that ever-so-tenuous link, why not a thread on some of the more silly debates. This was was "inspired" because I have some nectarines at the moment and they are very delicious, but would I be just as happy with peaches? That is the question, and hence this very important debate. :lol:

Before you start thinking, oh oh, Krazy's done a backflip out of sanityville and landed in wacky town, I am quite alright thanks.... ;D

Option 5, is a bit of a joke on PBG, but I will be crestfallen if anyone feels the need to choose it.
"Well, ‘course dis one’s betta! It’s lotz ‘eavier, and gots dem spikey bitz on de ends. "
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Regullus
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I lean towards peach for fresh fruit but nectarines (I think) are better for cooking and desserts. I actually prefer a nectarine cobbler to a peach cobbler. There's a link, I'm sure everybody has a dessert like this but it might be called by other names. If you haven't had some type of cobbler, you really haven't lived. Almost any fruit will work.
tempus_teapot
 
I'd like to add that at this point I have taken my Spider Jerusalem action figure and tied his wrist to my Cassidy (from Preacher) action figure just so I can work out which positions are feasible with them and which aren't.

Read that and weep, internet. Weep!

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lara
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I'll have you know that I have not done any polls here, so there is no proof that I suck at polls in this cafe! Besides, we all know Gleeman sucks worse at polls than I do.

If it's fresh, peach or nectarine is fine, although I've had more ripe-off-the-tree peaches than nectarines, so I do lean slightly to the peach side of the argument. If it's been picked green and shipped for days, it's not very good either way.

We're going to B.C.'s Okanagan Valley in a week. It will be apricot season, and the end of cherries, and maybe the beginning of peaches, and I don't know what else (but I hope for goodness). My mom-in-law has an apple orchard across the back fence from her house; Gordon's childhood friend's family is full of fruit growers and he couldn't resist planting his back yard with peach trees.

Mm mm good.
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Eral
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Nectarines don't have fuzz. It's simple, really.
Also, it's a lot easier to say than the Nevar-thingy in Morrowind. :lol:

Umm, lara, sweetest :wub:, you do need to work on your polls. Not exactly incivise. :lol:

EDIT: I was going to add a comment here clearing up my mistaken belief as to who is responsible for this poll, but it is now further down.
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Bex
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Nectarines are sublime. Peaches, I like, but not nearly as much.
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LizDiggory
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Joe
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Mmm, fuzzy peaches.
In the shadow of the light from a black sun
Frigid statue standing icy blue and numb
Where are the frost giants I've begged for protection?
I'm freezing
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Bex
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I had been intending to post this randomly, but I now actually have a non-random place to put it. Spiffy.

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I belong to one of those families that does not speak to or see its members as often as we should,
but if someone needed anyone to fall on a sword for her, there would be a queue waiting to commit the deed.
-Min Jin Lee
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lara
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We got peaches at the farmer's market last week. I think I'll get more tomorrow.
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Krazy
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Yeah, it's a shame that the peach stone that I grew into a tree is not bearing fruit. I think for the first time this year it grew blossom, so we were hopeful.
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Krazy
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Looks like the Peach win by the skin of their fuzz.

Anyway, I was going to say if you have silly debates then suggest them.

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lara
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Well, I'd suggest the ones we have at PBG about the nature of humanity and the reasons we have wars are inherently silly...
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Eral
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In my tiredness after a hard day thinking carefully before I speak and looking over my shoulder for Boss No.3, I note I blamed lara for this appallingly bad poll. I apologise profusely lara.
Krazy, I love a silly debate myself. But I am going to have to ban both you and lara from creating any more polls based on discussions from PBG. At PPG we had extremely high standards for polls, and to be brutally honest, I can see why. I am grateful to :tsog: and Sim for imposing these standards, and think it is time for them to Godzilla PBG and end this scourge.

Really.

That being said, I like the inventive way votes were recorded. Top marks to LizD for the President's song.
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LizDiggory
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Eral
Aug 3 2007, 07:43 PM
At PPG we had extremely high standards for polls, and to be brutally honest, I can see why. I am grateful to :tsog: and Sim for imposing these standards, and think it is time for them to Godzilla PBG and end this scourge.

Then what do you have to say about these polls at PPG from yours truly?

Liz's PPG Poll

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Krazy
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Eral
Aug 4 2007, 01:43 AM

Krazy, I love a silly debate myself.  But I am going to have to ban both you and lara from creating any more polls based on discussions from PBG.

:blink: :huh1: Nobody says I suck at polls on PBG... Still I acknowledge LizD as my superior in this area.

However, I'm deeply hurt and offended... :'(

Goodbye cruel, cruel world, you are too much for me to take.

*/wrist*

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Regullus
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I didn't think Krazy' polls sucked. I thought it had some zippy choices.

You know, LD, I don't remember seeing your polls before. Very odd. I'm irresistably drawn to polls, it seems so unlikely I missed them. I'll blame my forgetfullness on pregnancy and the first year of motherhood.

I know I've made polls but the only one I kinda remember is the LoN poll which I lost. :angry: :'( I don't care what the rest of you - LD, Eral, Bex, - thought, :rooster: I liked the poem ranks. However, I mainly remember the poll for the inaugurational appearance of the pot stirrer smiley.

I hope the old/new computer or a disc of its contents returns at some point, it contained a nice selection of smilies and possibilities for new ranks, as well as my trial css for this forum and of course all Lily's pictures from her first year and half of life. :penguin: :badmood: :angry: :rooster:

Eral, you need to make a poll. I would but I can't think of anything.



tempus_teapot
 
I'd like to add that at this point I have taken my Spider Jerusalem action figure and tied his wrist to my Cassidy (from Preacher) action figure just so I can work out which positions are feasible with them and which aren't.

Read that and weep, internet. Weep!

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Krazy
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Aww shucks, thank you Reg. :)
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lara
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It wasn't an award-winner, Krazy, but I'm all for a little silly, so you've got my stamp of approval, too.
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The New Public Enemy
tempus_teapot
 
I'd like to add that at this point I have taken my Spider Jerusalem action figure and tied his wrist to my Cassidy (from Preacher) action figure just so I can work out which positions are feasible with them and which aren't.

Read that and weep, internet. Weep!

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Eral
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Thread hijack?

Bottled water. Once upon a time restaurants would pour you a glass from the tap, for free. Now you pay for a plastic bottle of it. I think we can see the real reasoning behind it. :ph43r:

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lara
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Yes. I just finished a bottle of water that I bought only because I had no cup to fill with tap water. How silly is that? Why don't I have a cup? Well, I did, but it was full of tea and I wanted water and tea at the same time. Even sillier.

*hangs head in shame*
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Nibsi
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You disappoint me Lara.
-Nibby
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I drink San Pelligrino (glass bottles) or tap water at home. When I'm out and about I may buy a bottled water when I don't want a soda, a juice or other flavored drinks.

Here in the US there is an outcry against bottled water due to the plastic waste. The San Francisco government has banned bottled water for its government employees and Chicago is talking about taxing bottled water.

Why not put a tax on all plastic bottled drinks or all plastic containers? It seems sorta mad to go after water. First, water is very healthy, much healthier than any of those other drinks. Two, 50% of the population is overweight. Three, its a 30 Billion dollars a year business that employs people and pays taxes. If the plastic waste is so bad, why not require an alternative material?

A local business was using a plastic type container made out of potatoes, I'm sure there are other types or how about require the bottles to be recycled. Have specific trash containers for water bottles throughout buildings and cities.

Also, cities and towns do have problems with water source. My hometown, a bucolic area with low population, the public water source was contaminated with e. coli. I wasn't affected, we have well water from a different source.

I think to villify water is sorta silly. I think if you want to target waste in the US, you must target businesses but not to destroy the business but to improve practices. Businesses, in my opinion, are the true trash hogs.

McDonald's and all the fast foods, coffee places, used to use styrofoam containers, they don't, because they were pushed to find less damaging types of containers. As far as I know ( :unsure: ), mainly due to consumer pressure.

Here's another example, my mother gets a minimum of 10 lbs of mail, six days a week. We have tried in the past with no effect to get the mail reduced, on the other computer I had a website that swears it will reduce unwanted mail in three months but I don't know if that works. You think my mother wants 10 lbs+ a of mail a day?

At this point she is on every mailing list in existence. It's horrible that amount of mail. It tortures her six days a week. I'm sure there is a way to reduce this waste. It's not my mother producing this waste, its businesses. Another recent example would be the iPhone bill.

Another riotous waste is magazines. There's this big fat glossy magazine called Vanity Fair, recently did a Green issue, so preachy. I wondered, as I held the special double issue just what this magazine's effects were on the environment.

I'm not suggesting banning anything, I merely suggest there are alternative ways of reducing unnecessary waste and picking on bottled water perhaps should not really be on the top of any clean up agenda.

Hence, I think the great bottled water debate is a fitting contender for silly debates.
tempus_teapot
 
I'd like to add that at this point I have taken my Spider Jerusalem action figure and tied his wrist to my Cassidy (from Preacher) action figure just so I can work out which positions are feasible with them and which aren't.

Read that and weep, internet. Weep!

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Bex
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I don't know of any authentic way to reduce junk mail via email. As far as I know, there are one or two mailing addresses you can send a request to, or so I've read.

I was shocked (shocked!) on a visit to the US that there were no deposits on drink cans and bottles, so people just threw them out. We pay 20 cents for 2 litre and larger bottles, and 5 cents for anything smaller, which you can get refunded when you take the bottles to a depot. Most people consider that worth the trip once they've built up a fair amount, or they'll donate them to a bottle drive. If you put your bottles in the regular recycling, they get picked out at the sorting facility to collect the refund (which I believe now goes into the city's coffers, though it used to go into the sorters' Xmas party fund), unless one of our legion of homeless people liberates them before collection.

Magazines are pretty much so fat because of all the advertising, which in turn is why they can be so cheap. If compare Vogue with your average mountain biking magazine, for example (or guitars, or cars, or probably even an issue of Dog Fancy), you get 3-10 times as much magazine (depends on the month; March and September are extra huge because of the new fashion collections) for half to a third of the price. Vogue has a lot more advertisers. My mom buys fashion magazines, and I get them when she's done. Pretty much all of them have done a green issue in the past year, and many of them have a regular column on green consumer choices. At least some of them printed their green issue on recycled paper stock, which they do not normally do because of the (surprise!) higher cost.

I still don't understand why recycled paper costs more (though not substantially more if we're talking a box of computer paper from Staples), when you consider that it's actually much cheaper to pulp waste paper than fresh trees. I mean, think about the machinery involved for a second there.
I belong to one of those families that does not speak to or see its members as often as we should,
but if someone needed anyone to fall on a sword for her, there would be a queue waiting to commit the deed.
-Min Jin Lee
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The bottle deposit varies by state. Another good point, instigate a federal bottle deposit.
tempus_teapot
 
I'd like to add that at this point I have taken my Spider Jerusalem action figure and tied his wrist to my Cassidy (from Preacher) action figure just so I can work out which positions are feasible with them and which aren't.

Read that and weep, internet. Weep!

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