Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat

[Blooie]

Singing to the choir, girl.
That question, I think-just did that form yesterday, says 'do you use tobacco products' then asks 'when did you last use tobacco products' wanting a date.
Tho I do see that the logic is valid in a sense...it's still discriminatory.

Don't get me started on the taxes.....taxation on bulk, roll your own tobacco was raised mega% about 2-3 years ago, tripling it's price.
Once they realized how many people were rolling their own to save money, they jacked up the tax to bring the price up to be close to ready rolls.
Like I said, smokers are a very easily segmented scapegoat...we are sick, terrible, evil people who should pay, pay, pay for our 'sins' and everybody else's who can't be so conveniently separated.

Glad to see they've changed that. Back in January it simply said, "Do you smoke". Might be a difference between states' setups though, so I don't know. Kills me too that now that people are turning to e-cigs as an alternative they've decided to try imposing a tax on those as well - to replace the lost revenue when we quit buying cigarettes? And some places are trying to ban the e-cigs. <sigh>

 

[cassie]

Blooie, have you and my husband been chatting??? you and he have about the same soap box. He smokes and it drives him crazy that he is taxed way more than most.

but hey, let's legalize pot!

In some states thay have legalized pot. And the states are raking in the dough.

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Your theory on somebody else doing the bidding for someone else is probably better than my Conspiracy theory.

But I just envision those lobbyists up there scrambling...trying to figure out how to handle this Backyard Chicken Boom. I saw a blurb on my Google search for BYC in the news. I think it said that in the next 5 years chickens in the backyard will be 400 fold--mostly by young adults concerned about their food.

 

[PrairieChickens]

You know the irony of the smokers paying increased premiums? Now, before I go further let me state that I am NOT out to politically antagonize anyone! So if you want to blast me in a reply, realize that I am not sticking my neck out looking for an axe, I'm just reporting. I am a smoker, but there's no point in handing me the lecture. There's not a thing you can say to me that I haven't heard a million times and even said to myself.

We checked out the health care site, looking to see what it could offer for our son and daughter-in-law, who are uninsured. There is a question about whether you smoke or not,(they don't) and if you check "yes" your premiums skyrocket. It doesn't ask what you smoke....just if you smoke. The Federal Government doesn't care what else you do - have Clem hold your beer while you try to jump your four-wheeler over a 50 foot cliff - but boy, you'd better not smoke cigarettes. It doesn't ask if you smoke meth, or crack, or pot - so smoking those things is apparently just fine. Only cigarettes. Now, I ain't always the brightest crayon in the box, but it seems to me that regardless of what the substance is, the delivery is the same. You light it, you inhale it, it goes into your lungs and replaces the oxygen that that breath would have provided and fills those lungs with chemicals. And it also seems to me that with all the warnings about the terrible effect of second hand smoke, especially to children, wouldn't you think someone would have looked into that too?

I'm not yaying or naying on the legalized pot issue. I just find it ironic that HR 499, which is a proposed resolution to decriminalize pot on the Federal level is followed by HR 501, which is the federal government's plan to impose taxes on said pot, and which gives the IRS the power to "make adjustments" to the tax as needed, while one segment of the population is denigrated, ostracized, and punished.

Okay, off my soapbox now.

I'm gonna point out, I'm a NON smoker (who is allergic to cig smoke, no less), and I find the the treatment of smokers to be ridiculous. I'm more aware than most of all the unhealthy habits our society has, and of all of them, smoking is not even near the top of the list... Yet smokers are constantly targeted for new rules and taxes that treat them like lepers or social pariahs. The only reason has nothing to do with improving the health of Americans, and everything to do with communicating to us, the citizens, that the government is "concerned" about us, that they will "take care" of us, and make sure we don't do anything dangerous.

I won't deny I'm grateful to be able to have lunch in my favorite restaurant without being exposed to cig smoke, but there's no reason smokers should have to go out in the rain and sleet and snow to smoke a cigarette on their break at work when it's a simple matter to set aside a smoker's lounge for them. Honestly, I worked several places with smokers lounges, could be sitting two feet from the door, and not catch a whiff of smoke. There was no reason to send them out into the elements.

And I know there are people who say "well, they could just quit". Technically yeah, they could. People could also stop drinking soda, eating junk food, living sedentary life styles, getting too little sleep, using household products that have been treated with carcinogenic compounds, drinking alcohol, wearing high heels, or participating in any of the myriad other unhealthy practices so commonplace in our society. If smokers should have to "just quit" their unhealthy habit, why not EVERYBODY else?

*steps off the soap box and passes it to the next person*

 

[Scott H]

This thread seems to have strayed from the title......

 

[Crickett]

This thread seems to have strayed from the title......

That's ok, eventually it gets back there!

 

[aart]

This thread seems to have strayed from the title......

I'm beginning to think that, no have always thought, that is true of darn near every thread in this entire forum lol

 

[Chickadee42]

it starts when someone posts something about ,say, insurance, and then a political argument starts and as as my Language Arts teacher would say "the whole d@#n thing snowballs"

 

[sepaditty1]

We could go back a hundred or say pages when we were talking about a bug's private parts being bigger than his body. That was a fun tangent.

 

[Cluckysnap123]

Also, I got asked by a neighbor this morning the do you need a rooster to get eggs question. Well, first off, I.DON'T.EAT.EGGS. Second of all, NO!!!! all you need is a HEN!!!