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wOZfromOZ · Joined: 01 Feb 2003 Posts: 272 Location: Shanghai

Subject: Final word on nutrition and health

For those of you who watch what you eat... Here's the final word on nutrition and health. It's a relief to know the truth after all those conflicting medical studies.

1. The Japanese eat very little fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or Americans.
2. The Mexicans eat a lot of fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or Americans.
3. The Japanese drink very little red wine and suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or Americans.
4. The Italians drink excessive amounts of red wine and suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or Americans.
5. The Germans drink a lot of beer and eat lots of sausages and fats and suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or Americans.

CONCLUSION: Eat and drink what you like. Speaking English is apparently what kills you.

wOZfromOZ Idea

Roger · Joined: 19 Jan 2003 Posts: 9138

- The Chinese eat too much greasy foods, yet hardly any of them
grow fat!
- The Chinese eat rice three times a day, and never suffer from
constipation!
- The Chinese drink hot water most of the time, yet they do
sometimes get drunk!
- The Chinese often eat ice-cream in mid-winter, yet no Chinese has
been reported as morphing into a snowman!
- Chinese never eat soup, they drink soup every day - and they
get really thirsty!
- Chinese drink Chinese tea, yes, but they also EAT instant coffee
with a spoon!

Seth · Joined: 05 Feb 2003 Posts: 575 Location: in exile

The Chinese do take their exercise very seriously. I knew plenty of 70 - 80 year old men who ran a few kilometers every morning, an old habit from the labor camps during the cultural revolution.

Anyway, anyone remember reading where heart attacks in England jumped 25% when England lost to Argentina in the world cup a few years back? Anglos just need to chill, I think.

dan · Joined: 20 Mar 2003 Posts: 247 Location: shanghai

seth is right: Anglos need to take it down several notches. in america many people are overzealous and even fanatical about "leisure time". now there's an oxymoron for you.

Anne-Marie Gregory · Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2003 2:11 pm Post subject: SARS

We've been issued with multipacks of Ban Lan Gen Ke Li herbal medicine to help prevent SARS. The picture on the pack looks suspiciously like a pot leaf. It's pellets of something ressembling Milo and tastes like Ovaltine if you make it up with hot milk...now if only my FAO could be persuaded that real coffee prevents SARS....

chog · Joined: 20 Mar 2003 Posts: 15

Anglos (sic) need to take it down a notch.

Do you mean British people?
English people?

If you are going to come out with crass comments,a little accuracy would be appreciated. I'll leave the abuse you deserve to somebody else,but speaking as a non-anglo (sic) I find your comments dull, boorish and quite representative of Americans as a whole.

By Americans I mean non-anglo (sic) males from the mid-west with nothing better to do than write facetious rubbish.

PS I'm French and therefore not too fond of English/British/ Anglos but in the current climate of hate/aggression/nationalism I think we should all 'take it down a notch' and not write crap on public noticeboards.

PPS My English appears to be better than yours.

I rest my case.

Freaky Deaky · Joined: 13 Feb 2003 Posts: 309 Location: In Jen's kitchen

Chog (the frog?) - I think it's YOU that needs to chill. The comments that you took so much offence to were surely written tongue firmly in cheek. I'm English and I understood the comments to be a joke, because the English are known for their fine sense of humour. Unlike our European cousins. Give my love to Chirac!!

chog · Joined: 20 Mar 2003 Posts: 15

So next time my class say that all British and Americans are warmongers I'll agree . . . .because it's funny. . . . .

I think perhaps you miss the point.

Next time they say that all Americans are fat and loud, i'll knowingly smile and say nothing. . . .because it's so funny.. . . .

Next time they say all Frenchmen are beret-wearing, bike riding casanovas, i'll laugh and say nothing because . . .

I'm sure you will agree that stereotypes like these help nobody. So why tolerate them outside them the classroom from people who should know better?

vive la difference!

Freaky Deaky · Joined: 13 Feb 2003 Posts: 309 Location: In Jen's kitchen

chog · Joined: 20 Mar 2003 Posts: 15

If that is the best French joke you've got, then you've obviously never been to France. . . .

I still think I have a legitimate point. This is a message board for sensible ideas related to the world of ESL. I don't think making unfounded remarks about cultures/nationalities is really the way forward.

Sure I can laugh about this sort of stuff with people I know and UNDERSTAND,putting it on public noticeboards is not a very smart idea. If you don't agree ,wait until you read something really unfounded about your culture/nationality/race/religion and then see how you feel. Nip it in the bud before it gets started.

Maybe that's just me

Hamish · Joined: 20 Mar 2003 Posts: 333 Location: PRC

chinasyndrome · Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2003 8:28 am Post subject:

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Bratty · Joined: 11 Apr 2003 Posts: 9

get a grip is all i can say.... laugh at yourself, or laugh at someone..

don't take things personally... otherwise you'll die early.. Laughing

Seth · Joined: 05 Feb 2003 Posts: 575 Location: in exile

How did I offended a French guy by saying Anglo? I'm confused. Most of the native-English-speaking world are of Anglo-saxon descent, that's why I used Anglo. Many may not have descended from English families, but they've adopted the culture several generations back. There are certain aspects of Anglo-saxon culture that differs from other cultures, such as French culture. Therefore, it's a reflection on Anglo culture that may be the reason there are higher percentage of heart attacks in English-speaking countries. There has to be SOME reason, after all. So there you have it.

I'm very Anglo, by the way, although I do have some Irish in me! I know plenty of Irish jokes, because we all know Irish people are stupid.

wOZfromOZ · Joined: 01 Feb 2003 Posts: 272 Location: Shanghai

Dear all
I think you should all breath in some more vinegar and go back to the first post.............

............as china Syndrome said, we're in a job that can take it's toll - a good laugh can beat STRESS !

.....and to the French fella,
Mate, we Aussies are a bunch of yobbos hey,(thick skinned bunch of idiots!) ...... a bunch of no hoping bloody incompetants who couldn't organize a bloody chook raffle hey!
.....But mate we 'can take the piss' ..................
- something you obviously cant !! Typically French I've travelled to about 45 differnt countries in my life and your nation would havce to RANK ("rank" alright) as the most arrogant, obstinate and self loving people ever!) I hope the Yanks give you pricks an economic hiding in the months ahead!!!

wOZfromOZ