Quote :

"Can you eat 71¢/day worth of food"

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"heck yea I can. Lunch alone was like $10."

LoL. I laffed.

<its funny because it calls out the ambiguous phrasing of the thread title. indy did not specify whether the 71 cent goal was a ceiling or a floor.>

6/11/2010 10:14:32 AM

yea! ...made 2 pages.





^

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"you guys realize that "only", "at least", and "at most" readings are typically determined by context, right? clearly it's easy to eat 71c/day worth of food ... hmm... I WONDER WHAT THE OP MEANT"

hmm... I WONDER WHAT THE OP MEANT
(plus, ceiling and floor aren't the only options. With no qualifiers, it suggests being exact, not an upper or lower limit...)

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"I'm all ears. Tell me how something essential for all life on this planet is bad."

Strawman. (and a highly weak and predictable one at that. Go back to the soap box, troll.)



[Edited on June 11, 2010 at 10:18 AM. Reason : ]

6/11/2010 10:15:48 AM

why is my carbon footprint important, i eat bananas every day

6/11/2010 10:17:29 AM

I suppose I could eat nothing but Ramen for a day, that'd be like less than 50 cents. However, do we have to factor in the electricity usage in that 71 cents?


CO2 concentrations have been way WAY WAY higher than they are now, to the benefit of the planet. Not really sure how that's a strawman but you go on feeling happy that you ride your bike around. If you use a car you're just a damn hypocrite.

6/11/2010 10:18:18 AM

you're talking about a guy who doesn't shower because it wastes water and uses patchouli because deodorant has harmful chemicals

6/11/2010 10:22:20 AM

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"uses patchouli because deodorant has harmful chemicals"

wat

6/11/2010 10:23:04 AM

lol, holy crap. hope i'm never stuck on a crowded bus next to him.


Did you know that if humans disappeared the banana (as we know it) would go extinct. They're all seedless...oops! (thank you history channel)

6/11/2010 10:25:09 AM

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"why is my carbon footprint important, i eat bananas every day"

http://tinyurl.com/3992shw

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"I suppose I could eat nothing but Ramen for a day, that'd be like less than 50 cents. However, do we have to factor in the electricity usage in that 71 cents?"

Nah, just the food price.

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"If you use a car you're just a damn hypocrite."

Another strawman. (You don't understand what this is, do you? It's when you assign an argument to me that I never made, then proceed to argue back against it, despite my having never made it. I never said that "something essential for all life on this planet [carbon] is bad", nor did I ever say that people shouldn't use any carbon, such that if I used a car I'd be "just a damn hypocrite". You said those things, then you commented on them as though I said them. That's a strawman, as in a man made of straw -- a fake. You constructed a fake, but act like it's my authentic argument. Stop doing that -- it makes you look stupid.)

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"you're talking about a guy who doesn't shower because it wastes water and uses patchouli because deodorant has harmful chemicals"

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"lol, holy crap. hope i'm never stuck on a crowded bus next to him."

There you go, TKE-Teg. Here's another type of strawman. He's saying things about me that aren't true, but he's acting like they are. Then you go on to respond as though it's true. You guys are good at that.

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"DISAPPEARED THE BANANA"

[Edited on June 11, 2010 at 10:31 AM. Reason : ]

6/11/2010 10:29:59 AM

considering what we just posted is very light hearted and presumptious based on statistics (for the car) I really don't give a shit.

[Edited on June 11, 2010 at 10:34 AM. Reason : CO2, however...no i'm good on that.]

6/11/2010 10:33:41 AM

That has to be referring to common commercial varieties of bananas. There are still bananas with seeds in the world, they just don't ship all that well

6/11/2010 10:34:56 AM

OK, willy nilly it is

6/11/2010 10:54:59 AM

^^yes yes, just the bananas we eat.

6/11/2010 11:08:26 AM

~

[Edited on June 11, 2010 at 11:25 AM. Reason : g]

6/11/2010 11:23:10 AM

6/11/2010 11:25:20 AM

I've eaten bananas with seeds in them before. They're really sweet compared to the usual bananas.

6/11/2010 11:27:31 AM

^
Damn, you're getting close to 22222. Yahtzee!

6/11/2010 11:32:24 AM

Plant seeds.
Grow garden.
??????
Profit.



Hunt and fish.

6/11/2010 11:35:26 AM

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"^^yes yes, just the bananas we eat."

then why did you say all bananas are seedless?

6/11/2010 11:36:18 AM

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"LoL. I laffed. <its funny because it calls out the ambiguous phrasing of the thread title. indy did not specify whether the 71 cent goal was a ceiling or a floor.> "

I had this same thought coming into the thread.
The phrase requires the use of "only"
In it's current state it is ambiguous - when you ask some one can they do something - the meaning there is "are you able" - you are essentially saying are you able to eat 71 cents worth of food - maybe what you ment to say was are you able to live off of 71 cents worth of food.

Yes I am physically able to eat 71 cents worth of food - am I able to live off of 71 cents worth of food, probably not.

Sorry Indy, but you are wrong on this one.

6/11/2010 12:37:26 PM

I dunno about 71 cents, but I just ate a HT footlong for $3.99.

6/11/2010 12:59:16 PM

That's what she said.

6/11/2010 1:00:50 PM

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"Can you eat 71¢/day worth of food"

Sure you can... Just ask the kids being sponsored in Africa... Am I right or what?

6/11/2010 1:05:00 PM

i just ate 2 bananas and drank a bottle of water that they shipped from fiji

6/11/2010 3:08:29 PM

^

6/11/2010 3:19:57 PM