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[theweaselking]

A complicated dance, a bite on the rump and ferocious backward kicks are all part of the wombat's lovemaking repertoire, a new study has revealed.

Until recently, there were no recorded observations of mating between wombats.

Jokes about the immense unlikelyhood of certain users whose journal name involves a wombat ever managing to mate without chemical assistance are left up to the reader.

Also,
Independent Ohio "testing company" screws up automatic marking, fails half the state's high school students, in a ringing triumph of the superiority of private enterprise by the lowest bidder over actual work by people who give a shit.

Also,
Mice created with human brain cells.

Also,
Father of 135kg 13-year-old asks for help buying winter clothes for his son, since he can't afford to. (At least he's from Texas, not Calgary)

Comments

[ed-dirt.livejournal.com]

"Father of 135kg 13-year-old asks for help buying clothes for his son, since he can't afford to."

well no shit...he spent all his money on food!

[torrain.livejournal.com]

Treatment, more like.

Still, I take your point... Tried to dig up the story anywhere else, but couldn't find it. I'm curious as to how much of the weight is height and how much is girth--even if he's 5'6"[1], I'm having trouble believing he's not going to fall over and die before the new clothes come in.
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[1] Which I understand to be abnormally tall for a thirteen-yea-old, but will be shot if I can find a reliable reference.

[waterspyder.livejournal.com]

The downside to that argument is that healthy foods are more expensive than sheap and fatty foods.

[kali-kali.livejournal.com]

But they're not.... sure, organic, non-GMO, etc. foods are more expensive, but your run of the mill vegetables (even canned vegetables would be better than junk)? Hardly.

[waterspyder.livejournal.com]

I should have also stipulated "filling". I head of lettuce is 69 cents, but not nearly as filling as a bag of chips or plate of fries. You can cook a $2.00 frozen bag of french fries and get 4-6 filling servings out of it.
Bleached bread that costs $1 with no nutritional value and is cheaper than a wholegrain $3 loaf of bread.
Kraft dinner gets you two servings at about 40 cents a serving.
Ramen is about 33 cents a serving.
These are cheap, filling and will make you fat!!

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

What she said, and:
Canned veggies will run you more than a dollar, and provide a side (half to a third of a meal each) for two people.

Kraft Dinner will cost you less than a dollar, and give you full meals for two people.

Also: prep time and skill is a factor. You've got to know HOW to make the food, and have the time to do it, and be able to do things like take it in to school for lunch. These things are not guaranteed.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

> But they're not....

Excellent. Finally, someone who can provide me with directions to a store where the milk and juice are cheaper than the Koolaid, the lean cuts of meat are cheaper than the fatty ones, and the all-grain cereals are cheaper than the Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs. Is it on the Transitway?

What they said, and a little more on the preparation angle:

He had his water and electricity cut off. That means no refrigeration, no bulk cooking that can be stored, and quite likely no stove, which eviscerates your options for preparing healthy food efficiently. If he could heat anything during that time, it was probably either through barbecue, gas stove, or a friend's help--none of which are things a thirteen-year-old child is likely to be allowed to do unsupervised.

And on the cheap and filling note:
You can get over two pounds of peanut butter (one of those large jars that would probably kill a small mammal if you dropped it on them right) for four bucks.
You can get half a pound of precooked lunchmeat (an amount about the size of my palm if you lopped all the fingers off, although you could maybe keep the thumb) for four bucks.
You have yourself and a child to feed and very little money to do it on.

The Sam Vimes theory of Economic Unnfairness applies to groceries, too.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

Yay! Wombats!

And on that note, did I mention how far behind I've fallen in my webcomics?

[ex-iocaste2.livejournal.com]

A complicated dance, a bite on the rump and ferocious backward kicks are all part of the wombat's lovemaking repertoire, a new study has revealed.

What a coincidence!