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Ingredients :
  • chocolate (from the Dominican Republic)
  • sugar (sugarcane from where? Hawaii maybe?)
  • cocoa butter (from chocolate, perhaps grown somewhere else processed at a factory perhaps in the US)
  • milk fat (non-organic so most likely from factory farmed cows somewhere in the states)
  • soy lecithin (wherever somewhere "around the world", the US probably)
  • vanilla (from somewhere tropical)
  • lemon essence (whatever the **** that means)
  • coffee beans (again, from somewhere thousands of miles away from where this product will be sold to stupid yuppies who think they're "making a difference")

Written on the back of the wrapper :

PROVIDING SUSTENANCE FOR SUSTAINABILITY

Made exclusively with organically grown cacao from the Dominican Republic and organic fruits, nuts and spices sourced from around the world. Delicious proof that sustainability and good taste go hand in hand.
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So sad. For every one person serious about sustainability there are a hundred tools who swallow crap like this (pun intended) without a second thought.

I mean we're all hypocrites and tools in our own way (myself for Amazon.com for example) but at least I don't deny it.
 
azzaman333 said:
Why can't parents ever take responsibilty for their kids obesity? It is NOT McDonald's fault your kids are fat, its your fault you idiot.
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It's hard for parents today, they get such mixed messages.

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(just posted on the funny pix thread by puglover)
 
Some people should just go to hell. And never come back. People just think they're so great, and they can just .. .. .. .. .. someone over and get on. Wait until they get out in the real world, and realize no one gives a flying .. .. .. .. .. about them. Then they'll come yapping and moaning back for sympathy, and I'll tell 'em to .. .. .. .. off.

Lesson ladies and gentlemen, don't screw over the only people in the world who genuinely give a crap about you, it comes back and bites you in your lazy, good for nothing arse. Damn .. .. .. .. ..
 
I waited 1 hour and 20 minutes in a restaurant for the second plate to be served to me... Great, considering how often I can afford eating in a restaurant. :rolleyes:

Some people near me came 15 minutes later than me, ordered more than me and finished while I was still waiting for the second thing... A friend of mine started yelling at the waitress... so she brought us the food in 10 seconds!! :lol: So my food was just waiting there 5 meters away from me, behind a bar, for more than an horu while she was talking with random guys and laughing. Then the owner came and tried to convince me nothing was true... maybe he thought I was both blind and stupid.

At least in the end I took satisfaction in humiliating the owner in an argument which he started, using his own stupid arguments. Oh and that waitress got 0 tip... not only did she give us a deplorable service but she also called her owner to come and explain us how stupid we are. In fact we paid with money as small as we could, using even coins that are worth something like 2 euro cents. :p
 
Michigan sucks colossally. I used to be satisfied with just leaving Detroit, but I need to evacuate this state. There's no jobs, no one likes anyone and the atmosphere seems to be getting more and more bitter.
 
Trajan12 said:
Michigan sucks colossally. I used to be satisfied with just leaving Detroit, but I need to evacuate this state. There's no jobs, no one likes anyone and the atmosphere seems to be getting more and more bitter.
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It's funny to, because I know it sucks, it sucks where I live. But I'm on the west side, and my parents, both being realtors, and knowing the housing market and such, say (along with everyone else familiar with Michigan) that it's really like two states. The bad; west of 69, and the horribly horsehockey; east of 69.
 
:lol:

I guess it's that recently was my first time actually being outside of Detroit for a long period of time in Michigan. And everything seemed so much better that it would just be a step up. Then I realized that while the grass might be greener in other parts of the state, in most places it's pretty damn brown.

But I couldn't even sell moving from Detroit. Imagine leaving the state. :wallbash:
 
Speaking of Detroit...

DETROIT - In another blow to the Motor City's tarnished image, Detroit pushed past St. Louis to become the nation's most dangerous city, according to a private research group's controversial analysis, released Sunday, of annual FBI crime statistics.

The study drew harsh criticism even before it came out. The American Society of Criminology launched a pre-emptive strike Friday, issuing a statement attacking it as "an irresponsible misuse" of crime data.

The 14th annual "City Crime Rankings: Crime in Metropolitan America" was published by CQ Press, a unit of Congressional Quarterly Inc. It is based on the FBI's Sept. 24 crime statistics report.

The report looked at 378 cities with at least 75,000 people based on per-capita rates for homicide, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary and auto theft. Each crime category was considered separately and weighted based on its seriousness, CQ Press said.

Last year's crime leader, St. Louis, fell to No. 2. Another Michigan city, Flint, ranked third, followed by Oakland Calif.; Camden, N.J.; Birmingham, Ala.; North Charleston, S.C.; Memphis, Tenn.; Richmond, Calif.; and Cleveland.

The study ranked Mission Viejo, Calif., as the safest U.S. city, followed by Clarkstown, N.Y.; Brick Township, N.J.; Amherst, N.Y.; and Sugar Land, Texas.

CQ Press spokesman Ben Krasney said details of the weighting system were proprietary. It was compiled by Kathleen O'Leary Morgan and Scott Morgan, whose Morgan Quitno Press published it until its acquisition by CQ Press.

The study assigns a crime score to each city, with zero representing the national average. Detroit got a score of 407, while St. Louis followed at 406. The score for Mission Viejo, in affluent Orange County, was minus 82.

Detroit was pegged the nation's murder capital in the 1980s and has lost nearly 1 million people since 1950, according to the Census Bureau. Downtown sports stadiums and corporate headquarters — along with the redevelopment of the riverfront of this city of 919,000 — have slowed but not reversed the decline. Officials have said crime reports don't help.

Detroit police officials released a statement Sunday night disputing the report, saying it fails to put crime information into proper context.

"Every year this organization sends out a press release with big, bold lettering that labels a certain city as Most Dangerous, USA," Police Chief Ella Bully-Cummings said in the release.

"It really makes you wonder if the organization is truly concerned with evaluating crime or increasing their profit," said Bully-Cummings, who noted the complete report is available only by purchase. "With crime experts across the country routinely denouncing the findings, I believe the answer is clear."

The mayor of 30th-ranked Rochester, N.Y. — an ex-police chief himself — said the study's authors should consider the harm that the report causes.

"What I take exception to is the use of these statistics and the damage they inflict on a number of these cities," said Mayor Robert Duffy, chairman of the Criminal and Social Justice Committee for the U.S. Conference of Mayors.

The rankings "do groundless harm to many communities," said Michael Tonry, president of the American Society of Criminology.

"They also work against a key goal of our society, which is a better understanding of crime-related issues by both scientists and the public," Tonry said.

Critics also complain that numbers don't tell the whole story because of differences among cities.

"You're not comparing apples and oranges; you're comparing watermelons and grapes," said Rob Casey, who heads the FBI section that puts out the Uniform Crime Report that provides the data for the Quitno report.

The FBI posted a statement on its Web site criticizing such use of its statistics.

"These rough rankings provide no insight into the numerous variables that mold crime in a particular town, city, county, state, or region," the FBI said. "Consequently, they lead to simplistic and/or incomplete analyses that often create misleading perceptions adversely affecting communities and their residents."

Doug Goldenberg-Hart, acquisitions editor at CQ Press, said that the rankings are imperfect, but that the numbers are straightforward. Cities at the top of the list would not be there unless they ranked poorly in all six crime categories, he said.

"The idea that people oppose it, it's kind of blaming the messenger," Goldenberg-Hart said. "It's not coming to terms with the idea that crime is a persistent problem in our society."

The report "helps concerned Americans learn how their communities fare in the fight against crime," CQ Press said in a statement. "The first step in making our cities and states safer is to understand the true magnitude of their crime problems. This will only be achieved through straightforward data that all of us can use and understand."

The study excluded Chicago, Minneapolis, and other Illinois and Minnesota cities because of incomplete data.
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I get tired of your crummy Michigan commercials with the Full House actor.
 
When they try to steal my bucket

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azzaman333 said:
There should be a parenting/stupidity test which parents are required to pass before having kids.
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That would also help to solve our population problems
 
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