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I keep an eye on the cost of bacon.
It is one of the 4 food groups. 
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It's also an economic indicator.
Along with Antimatter and Dark Matter they've discovered the existence of Doesn't Matter which appears to have no effect on the universe whatsoever!
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Is it time to go long or short on pork belly futures? 
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You got me there I only eat it. 
Along with Antimatter and Dark Matter they've discovered the existence of Doesn't Matter which appears to have no effect on the universe whatsoever!
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JimmyRopes wrote: Is it time to go long or short on pork belly futures?
Neither: it's time to go Nom-nom-nom while we can still get some!
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Quote: It is one of the 4 food groups
The other three being Pizza, Ice Cream and Chocolate.
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You forgot Coffee.
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That is a drink, not food.
Interesting fact: In Bavaria, beer is classified as food.
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Forogar wrote: That is a drink, not food.
Forogar wrote: beer is classified as food.
I rest my case... 
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Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I was thinking more along the lines of barley, hops and malt, but pizza, ice cream and chocolate sound good too.
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Hi,
Just a bacon related initiative on [Kickstarter]
With friendly greetings,
Eric Goedhart
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Bacon Hagelslag coming to a store near you.
Have you ever tried mixing the bacon and the chocolate Hagelslag on toast?
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Quote: Have you ever tried mixing the bacon and the chocolate Hagelslag on toast?
Hi,
No I wouldn't dare
With friendly greetings,
Eric Goedhart
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Now that I am thinking about the combination I will have to try bacon, chocolate and banana in a toasted sandwich.
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It's not that bacon has gone up, it's that the value of your money has gone down...that's what happens when you print and spend a trillion dollars.
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I might have to start a bacon exporting business. My bacon at the local costs $7.99AUD per kg. Translated for you that is $3.30USD per lb.
Got to love living in an agricultural country.
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I blame the latest NAPA radio ads that have the line "a plate of bacon with a side of bacon smothered in bacon". What's that rumbling sound?
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I blame Nascar. They have bacon Magaritas and the people love them.
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... after-thought ... I watched the final this morning, scrolling through the stream pretty fast (except for Poland) ... now I feel a bit guilty about posting this rather gloomy old-man's take. Yeah, it's a human event that made a lot of people happy (I think), and inspired good feelings (I hope). I was struck again by how much the Netherlands excellent song (compared to the others) seemed like the two performers had just stepped off the stage of the Grand Ole' Opry in Nashville, Tennessee, and the Hungarian entry could have been a hip-hip/soul homeboy from any American inner-city. ... So, mea culpa.
I made the serious mistake of watching the two EuroTrashVision semi-finals. I had never seen ETV before, never read anything about it, had only a vague that it was a bunch of Euro countries competing every year musically. Yes, I am (by choice) that disconnected from pop culture on every continent and hemisphere. And, beginning in November of last year I broke a six-year television fast to sign-up for an on-line streaming service that gets me the BBC channels, the ITV channels, and a few others.
Naively, I thought, perhaps I'd hear performers singing in their own native language, perhaps have a chance to hear some music using ethnic instruments.
Never did I dream that I would hear the worst of the world's what I call "Happy Meal" music, a mongrelized blend of blues, rock, soul, pop, hip-hop, night-club-pseudo-operatic, and the usual shouting, screaming, blasting through dense layers of synths and sound-effects to thundering drums. Okay, I did, I think, in the Armenian Montenegrin (?) entry, hear a lovely sound of a single-reed a little like the Armenian Duduk, but, could have been a synth playing a sample.
Almost all the songs in English ! uhhhh ... what about national pride ?
I did enjoy the Polish entry with the sound-track turned off: thanks for the lovely twirling maidens in traditional dress, superb visuals, and very special thanks for the lovely young ... exceptionally well-endowed ... woman simulating washing clothes in a way that gave "rub-a-dub-dub" a whole new meaning for me !
I admit I enjoyed some of the remarkable visuals ... when I wasn't having seizures from the strobes and visual fireworks, punctuated by belching pinnacles of fire.
The vocal abilities/qualities of the singers were, for me, barely perceptible given the din they were entombed in.
If this contest represents Euro culture (and, I don't really believe it does), then I think the USA has indeed conquered Europe: the worst of American "culture" and music, that is. All of the hormones and none of the musicality.
Taken as farce, as what the great Russian literary critic Bakhtin would have called a manifestation of "carnivalesque" ... yeah ... it works, I guess. I just hope it's not a preview of the particular Hell I am undoubtedly bound for.
Well, that's just another nail in the coffin of my curmudgeonhood, I guess.
“I speak in a poem of the ancient food of heroes: humiliation, unhappiness, discord. Those things are given to us to transform, so that we may make from the miserable circumstances of our lives things that are eternal, or aspire to be so.” Jorge Luis Borges
modified 11-May-14 0:00am.
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So...you didn't like it? 
I have not watched it in years, but the language thing has gone back and forth. ABBA had their big break with Waterloo in 1974[^] and I know they later changed the rules, so the performers had to sing in their native language. I guess they changed that back again (I am not really up for studying the history of their rules right now  ).
The reason the songs end up being pop culturish, is because it is a contest and they are trying to win. To do that on a continent as diverse as Europe, you need to present a song that is easily digested by citizens of other countries. English becomes the goto language since everyone are used to hearing that.
Soren Madsen
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Hi Soren,
Well, I wouldn't say I disliked it, but it reminded me of the (many) aspects of contemporary American culture (my own) that I consider abominations  Clearly, some contestants (a few) did sing in their own languages.
If there was anything that fascinated me about the contests, it was the visuals, and I kept thinking about the possible complexity of the software and programming that controlled/synchronized all those screens, and the special-effects. I am going to try and find something on the web about the technical aspects of the show, and I'd really enjoy seeing a documentary on that.
The social scientist in me wonders what I'd find if I examined the "Top Ten Hits" tunes of the finalists' countries, and analyzed the extent to which, over time, the countries most popular songs were in the native language, or in other languages. Of course, there are the super-stars and groups whose popularity is world-wide, which often has to do with the international music business, and marketing dollars. Thinking about that drives me 'Gaga
I believe there are many very talented musicians from many Euro countries who really can sing and play, and whose song lyrics, in their own native language, are very creative, whose songs are wildly popular, and I didn't see people of that level in any of the contests. For me, the duo from the Netherlands were about as close to high quality as I perceive it. That may simply reflect the structure/whatever of EuroVision which I am blissfully ignorant of.
cheers, Bill
“I speak in a poem of the ancient food of heroes: humiliation, unhappiness, discord. Those things are given to us to transform, so that we may make from the miserable circumstances of our lives things that are eternal, or aspire to be so.” Jorge Luis Borges
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I didn't actually know Denmark won last year (maybe I had been told and it just seeped out of my brains ). I found the list of winners[^] through the years. They probably changed the "native language" rule after Ireland won four times in the 90's. 
Regarding the cultural aspect, I remember back in the 80's and 90's when they had to sing in their native language, there was a core of singers, bands and songwriters that took part year after year at the Danish contest. There would obviously also be new faces each year, as well as the occasional well established and popular band taking part, but the show always had this familiar feeling to it.
I would not say that the winners always represented the Danish culture, I would even say that most performers that participated would from that point on be considered "Eurovision performers" - it was (is?) its own musical genre like Rock, Pop, Country & Western, etc.
I don't know if it is the same way in the other countries and I have been removed from it for 13 years, so things could be different now.
Soren Madsen
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BillWoodruff wrote: If there was anything that fascinated me about the contests, it was the visuals
You did mention young well endowed Polish girls stimulating you by washing clothes. 
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BillWoodruff wrote: very special thanks for the lovely young ... exceptionally well-endowed ... woman simulating washing clothes in a way that gave "rub-a-dub-dub" a whole new meaning for me !
TMI 
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Sawasdee Khrup, Khun James,
Would you like me to run my Lounge messages by you for a pre-post morality check ?
yours, Bill
“I speak in a poem of the ancient food of heroes: humiliation, unhappiness, discord. Those things are given to us to transform, so that we may make from the miserable circumstances of our lives things that are eternal, or aspire to be so.” Jorge Luis Borges
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