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old school.
i never realised how many stupid, retarded and mentaly deranged people there was until i joined twitter.
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tradie
Two brothers have been charged after intervening to protect a young mother and her children during a violent altercation at a Woolworths in Victoria.
The individual... cornered the young mother and her terrified young children while they were just trying to shop.
'As the mother and her crying children screamed in fear, [Clint Mulcahy] stepped up to intervene and shield them from harm. Standing right beside him was his brother, Michael.
'Michael didn't go looking for trouble, he simply stepped in to stand guard, keeping bystanders and other shoppers safely out of harm's way while the chaotic situation unfolded.'
So of course, retarded law enforcement charged the good men that protected the woman & children from harm.
https://t.co/sqqCG9BLA7 via @DailyMail
Jeremy Clarkson made Β£144 farming a thousand acres in his first year.
In year six he lost five thousand.
His own words to his land agent: dispiriting enough to clear a hundred and forty-four quid at the start, and here we are six years on, down five grand. The harvest had been projected at thirty-seven thousand profit. Weather and prices took it.
Now look at what that thousand acres has behind it that yours does not.
One of the best land agents in the country. A farm manager who has worked that ground since he was a teenager. A farm shop with a queue down the lane, a pub, bestselling books, more than a quarter of a million in subsidy across three years, and a television production paying for the entire thing to be filmed.
It is the most commercially advantaged thousand acres in Britain, and the farming still loses money.
That figure should end every conversation about British agriculture, and it is the one number that never makes it onto a campaign graphic. Not the glyphosate. Not the pig housing. The margin.
Because everything people object to on a farm grows straight out of it. The field pushed to the very edge. The hedge that came out because the government paid to have it removed. The shed instead of the yard. The supermarket contract signed below cost because the alternative was no contract. Nobody intensified out of malice. They were priced into it over sixty years by a policy that decided cheap groceries mattered more than a countryside, and by a retail sector that kept the difference.
Britain now grows around sixty per cent of its own food. More than a third of British farmers are past sixty-five.
The man with the Amazon cheque cannot make a thousand acres pay.
The seventy-year-old with three hundred and no film crew is doing it anyway, and being told by people who have never sold a tonne of anything that he is the problem.
Nobody profits from telling you the body heals itself. So nobody tells you.
Your taste buds are new every 10 to 14 days. The tongue reading this flavour is a fortnight old.
Your stomach lining rebuilds every 3 to 5 days. Last week's gut is already gone.
Your skin turns over every 4 weeks. You grew a whole new surface this month.
Your white blood cells renew in days. Tonight's immune army was not on watch last week.
Your red blood cells retire every 120 days. Four months, and the entire fleet is replaced.
The fat built into your cell membranes turns over too. Years of stored seed oil can slowly be walked back out.
Your liver just gets on with regenerating. It holds no grudge about the bad years.
Your skeleton rebuilds over roughly ten years. The bones made in the worst years are not the ones you finish with.
Every one of those rebuilds is made from what you feed it.
Feed it meat, fat, sunlight and sleep, and it builds you strong.
Feed it sugar, seed oil and the sofa, and it builds you soft.
The body you will have next year is under construction right now.
What you give it today is what it builds you into.
Patient: "What are the side effects of the statin?"
Doctor: "Some people get muscle aches. Usually mild."
Patient: "And if I get them?"
Doctor: "We'd add naproxen for the pain."
Patient: "Does naproxen have side effects?"
Doctor: "It can irritate the stomach. Reflux, sometimes an ulcer. So we'd add omeprazole to protect it."
Patient: "And omeprazole?"
Doctor: "Long term it lowers your magnesium. Your B12 as well. We'd top those up."
Patient: "With more tablets."
Doctor: "Magnesium, and B12 if the bloods come back low."
Patient: "And the magnesium does what?"
Doctor: "Loosens the bowels. Loperamide settles that."
Patient: "That's six tablets. I walked in with no symptoms."
Doctor: "Could be seven. The statin can raise your blood sugar. We'd watch it, maybe start metformin."
Patient: "And metformin?"
Doctor: "Upsets the stomach. Lowers your B12."
Patient: "We already did B12."
Doctor: "Round we go."
Patient: "Is a single one of these treating something I actually feel?"
Doctor: "No. But your numbers will look excellent."