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Why don't I ever hear these complaints about other hams?
I never hear people complain about:
1. The amount of junk food other hams eat 2. Smokers at hamfests Junk food is a staple at club meetings and Field Day. At my club's meetings, you can always find plenty of salty potato chips (not the low-salt Pringles Right Crisps), coffee cake, glazed muffins, sweet rolls, and other unhealthy food. There is always plenty of soda pop to drink. True, apple pie snacks and cookies are junk food too, but at least they taste good. Kentucky Fried Chicken and donuts are served at each of our annual Field Day weekends. I am the only ham radio operator who complains that other hams eat too much junk food. As a Morse Code testing opponent, I hate to say this, but junk food seems to be an EVEN MORE sacred tradition than Morse Code tests. The trend has been towards reducing Morse Code testing requirements, but I see no sign that the junk food tradition is ready to head off into the sunset. People complain about hams with body odor at hamfests, but I can't remember reading anyone complaining about smokers at hamfests. I don't notice people's body odor - I don't run around sniffing everybody. But the foul tobacco smoke spreads like wildfire. I don't think body odor can spread 10-20 feet away very easily. Hmmm, I see a great idea for a compromise on the Morse Code testing issue. The anti-Morse-testing side complains that the Morse Code test is unnecessary. The pro-Morse-testing side complains that removing the Morse Code test will make it too easy for people to become licensed. I propose that we replace the Morse Code test with health requirements. The replacement license requirements will be: 1. Your Body Mass Index (http://nhlbisupport.com/bmi/bmicalc.htm) must be below 19. Of course, if I gain 5 pounds this fall and winter, I'll have to revise the cutoff upward to 20. 2. No smokers may earn ham radio licenses. 3. No club is allowed to serve soda pop, donuts, glazed muffins, or potato chips with more than 135mg of sodium per serving. 4. At all club Field Day events, vegetables must be served for dinner. Hey, these requirements would make it nice and challenging for people to earn their licenses. We want our hams to be healthy. Too many are afflicted with obesity, heart disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and other health problems. We won't give licenses away - hams will need to cut the fast food, junk food, and tobacco out of their lives. This will be quite a challenge given how sacred the Kentucky Fried Chicken, soda pop, and donuts are. Jason Hsu, AG4DG |
Assuming that your post is serious and not intended to be humerous, Jason,
I'd say that you should be careful not to neglect your mental hygene. Eating right and staying away from tobacco is nice, but it won't ultimately do you any good if your thinking is toxic. I don't smoke, but I would gladly take up smoking as an alternative to becoming another miserable, obnoxious member of the PC-police. There's probably only one hope for you now, Jason, and that is to buy yourself a pack of Chesterfields or Luckies and fire one on up on your way to "Golden Corral" to take advantage of that all-you-can-eat buffet. "Smoking section, please!" Charles Brabham, N5PVL "Jason Hsu" wrote in message om... I never hear people complain about: 1. The amount of junk food other hams eat 2. Smokers at hamfests Junk food is a staple at club meetings and Field Day. At my club's meetings, you can always find plenty of salty potato chips (not the low-salt Pringles Right Crisps), coffee cake, glazed muffins, sweet rolls, and other unhealthy food. There is always plenty of soda pop to drink. True, apple pie snacks and cookies are junk food too, but at least they taste good. Kentucky Fried Chicken and donuts are served at each of our annual Field Day weekends. I am the only ham radio operator who complains that other hams eat too much junk food. As a Morse Code testing opponent, I hate to say this, but junk food seems to be an EVEN MORE sacred tradition than Morse Code tests. The trend has been towards reducing Morse Code testing requirements, but I see no sign that the junk food tradition is ready to head off into the sunset. People complain about hams with body odor at hamfests, but I can't remember reading anyone complaining about smokers at hamfests. I don't notice people's body odor - I don't run around sniffing everybody. But the foul tobacco smoke spreads like wildfire. I don't think body odor can spread 10-20 feet away very easily. Hmmm, I see a great idea for a compromise on the Morse Code testing issue. The anti-Morse-testing side complains that the Morse Code test is unnecessary. The pro-Morse-testing side complains that removing the Morse Code test will make it too easy for people to become licensed. I propose that we replace the Morse Code test with health requirements. The replacement license requirements will be: 1. Your Body Mass Index (http://nhlbisupport.com/bmi/bmicalc.htm) must be below 19. Of course, if I gain 5 pounds this fall and winter, I'll have to revise the cutoff upward to 20. 2. No smokers may earn ham radio licenses. 3. No club is allowed to serve soda pop, donuts, glazed muffins, or potato chips with more than 135mg of sodium per serving. 4. At all club Field Day events, vegetables must be served for dinner. Hey, these requirements would make it nice and challenging for people to earn their licenses. We want our hams to be healthy. Too many are afflicted with obesity, heart disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and other health problems. We won't give licenses away - hams will need to cut the fast food, junk food, and tobacco out of their lives. This will be quite a challenge given how sacred the Kentucky Fried Chicken, soda pop, and donuts are. Jason Hsu, AG4DG |
"Jason Hsu" wrote in message om... I never hear people complain about: 1. The amount of junk food other hams eat 2. Smokers at hamfests i hate to break this to you jason, but these vices are not just limited to hams... may i suggest you join a health club, or maybe the sierra club, or some local vegan support group to find others of like feelings... if you insist on going to club meetings and hamfests with feelings like this all you will do is frustrate yourself and annoy others that you try to change. |
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support your ideas. Clint KB5ZHT -- -- Former New York Mayor Ed Koch, self proclaimed DEMOCRAT, SHORTLY after the 9/11 attack- "...everybody has a right to have thier own oppinion... ...i'm even a Democrat... ...but in this time of trouble, we need to show the world our resolve and we're united, and we should NOT denigrate the president." -- Tom Daschle believes in the rich paying taxes.... ....um, except for HIMSELF... http://sibbyonline.blogspot.com/2003...e_archive.html -- If you sympathize with terrorists & middle eastern tyrants, vote for liberals... -- "Jason Hsu" wrote in message om... I never hear people complain about: 1. The amount of junk food other hams eat 2. Smokers at hamfests Junk food is a staple at club meetings and Field Day. At my club's meetings, you can always find plenty of salty potato chips (not the low-salt Pringles Right Crisps), coffee cake, glazed muffins, sweet rolls, and other unhealthy food. There is always plenty of soda pop to drink. True, apple pie snacks and cookies are junk food too, but at least they taste good. Kentucky Fried Chicken and donuts are served at each of our annual Field Day weekends. I am the only ham radio operator who complains that other hams eat too much junk food. As a Morse Code testing opponent, I hate to say this, but junk food seems to be an EVEN MORE sacred tradition than Morse Code tests. The trend has been towards reducing Morse Code testing requirements, but I see no sign that the junk food tradition is ready to head off into the sunset. People complain about hams with body odor at hamfests, but I can't remember reading anyone complaining about smokers at hamfests. I don't notice people's body odor - I don't run around sniffing everybody. But the foul tobacco smoke spreads like wildfire. I don't think body odor can spread 10-20 feet away very easily. Hmmm, I see a great idea for a compromise on the Morse Code testing issue. The anti-Morse-testing side complains that the Morse Code test is unnecessary. The pro-Morse-testing side complains that removing the Morse Code test will make it too easy for people to become licensed. I propose that we replace the Morse Code test with health requirements. The replacement license requirements will be: 1. Your Body Mass Index (http://nhlbisupport.com/bmi/bmicalc.htm) must be below 19. Of course, if I gain 5 pounds this fall and winter, I'll have to revise the cutoff upward to 20. 2. No smokers may earn ham radio licenses. 3. No club is allowed to serve soda pop, donuts, glazed muffins, or potato chips with more than 135mg of sodium per serving. 4. At all club Field Day events, vegetables must be served for dinner. Hey, these requirements would make it nice and challenging for people to earn their licenses. We want our hams to be healthy. Too many are afflicted with obesity, heart disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and other health problems. We won't give licenses away - hams will need to cut the fast food, junk food, and tobacco out of their lives. This will be quite a challenge given how sacred the Kentucky Fried Chicken, soda pop, and donuts are. Jason Hsu, AG4DG |
"Jason Hsu" wrote in message om... I never hear people complain about: 1. The amount of junk food other hams eat 2. Smokers at hamfests Carl, please keep your retarded children away from your computer. Damn, don't you have leashes at the NCI® Compound? --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.516 / Virus Database: 313 - Release Date: 9/1/2003 |
"Jason Hsu" wrote in message om... I don't smoke, but I would gladly take up smoking as an alternative to becoming another miserable, obnoxious member of the PC-police. I guess the "PC police" are more evil than Phillip Morris, whose products kill millions around the world every year. Wouldn't you rather rebel against Phillip Morris? They represent everything you hate about the Establishment! Nope. The tobacco companies are great benefactors of mankind, compared to the PC police... Tobacco may poison individuals, but "PC" poisons entire cultures, causing much more damage and expense than all of the tobacco companies combined. One quick example: Irrationally afraid of nuclear power, the "PC police" has seen to it that we stick with the burning of fossil fuels for our electricity. How clever. The main problem with "PC" is not to be found in individual examples of PC actions though, but rather in the pervasive stupidity it imposes upon the entire culture. It is basically an instrumnent of deconstructionists who insist that there is no truth, there is no history, so its "OK" to lie as long as its allegedly for somebody else's "good". "PC" sees it's fullest expression in California, the cereal-bowl state. (Once you get past the fruits and nuts, the only thing left are the flakes.) Charles Brabham, N5PVL |
Quite frankly, Charles, I'd love to see all of the smokers suddenly stop.
Really. Then everyone would find out what this is *really* all about. It's about money. You can't cut income taxes the way the government has without reducing spending - and they found a way to grab more money from the 25% of the adult population that smokes - and make it politically 'correct' as well! Our county found a way to sell that "future" tobacco income and raise a ton of money. Guess what? They spent it. Now Monroe County is facing some nasty decisions. New York state now charges $1.50 or $1.55 per pack plus 8.25% sales tax on that tax (at least here in Monroe County). I see a sign at the local grocery store - over $50.00 per carton plus 8.25% sales tax. Was it Alabama that rejected property tax hikes to support schools? What is happening is the elimination of support for necessary items (schools do come to mind). Unemployment has new wrinkles designed to keep folks from collecting even if they were laid off for business reasons. Yes, they now will pay for college education if you can't find a job after a year; unfortunately, there has been no funding for that since 2001! If you work for a company with a company paid pension and you are eligible to collect it, they will reduce unemployment by that amount - even if you aren't collecting it! Lovely. I was very fortunate in that I found another job within the company I work for. They have hollowed out the pension system and use the savings to hire new top managers (the new president only had to show up for work. He could quit or be fired the same day and would receive $175,000 per year for life. If he stays 9 years, he gets $1,000,000 per year for life.). Interestingly, a new store was built about 5 blocks from me. I tried it and was amazed. The groceries are the same quality as I'm used to and are far cheaper. 3 *large* reinforced shopping bags (one of which was so heavy it was cutting into my hand) cost me $38.20. Hmmm ... I wonder how the main store (Wegman's) is going to fair when folks discover this? So, Sam's club for meat and this other store for everything else as far as I'm concerned. Back to the smoking. I really wish everyone could stop smoking. You think Social Security is in a mess (you are aware that the feds have "borrowed" those funds?) now, just wait until 25% of the population starts living an extra 5 to 10 years! Many folks (non-smokers as well) live their final few years in a nursing home. The big difference in costs between smokers and non-smokers is the 5 or 10 years of Social Security that the non-smokers collect. Even a modest check of $1200 per month is $14,000 per year. That comes to $140,000 for an extra 10 years. Maybe we should pay the ball players $100,000,000 per year instead of only $10,000,000. That should fix things just fine. At least their kids will get a decent education. 73 from Rochester, NY Jim AA2QA --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.516 / Virus Database: 313 - Release Date: 9/1/03 |
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(Jason Hsu) writes: I never hear people complain about: 1. The amount of junk food other hams eat 2. Smokers at hamfests Jason, meet Vipul. Look up almost any post here by 'vshah101'. He's way ahead of you on the 'fat ham' riff. Junk food is a staple at club meetings and Field Day. Maybe where you live... At my club's meetings, you can always find plenty of salty potato chips (not the low-salt Pringles Right Crisps), coffee cake, glazed muffins, sweet rolls, and other unhealthy food. There is always plenty of soda pop to drink. When's the next meeting? True, apple pie snacks and cookies are junk food too, but at least they taste good. Kentucky Fried Chicken and donuts are served at each of our annual Field Day weekends. mmmmmm......donuts........ I am the only ham radio operator who complains that other hams eat too much junk food. No, you're not. You and Vipul should have a good time. Discuss amongst yourselves. As a Morse Code testing opponent, I hate to say this, but junk food seems to be an EVEN MORE sacred tradition than Morse Code tests. The trend has been towards reducing Morse Code testing requirements, but I see no sign that the junk food tradition is ready to head off into the sunset. People complain about hams with body odor at hamfests, but I can't remember reading anyone complaining about smokers at hamfests. I don't notice people's body odor - I don't run around sniffing everybody. But the foul tobacco smoke spreads like wildfire. I don't think body odor can spread 10-20 feet away very easily. No comment... Hmmm, I see a great idea for a compromise on the Morse Code testing issue. The anti-Morse-testing side complains that the Morse Code test is unnecessary. The pro-Morse-testing side complains that removing the Morse Code test will make it too easy for people to become licensed. I propose that we replace the Morse Code test with health requirements. The replacement license requirements will be: 1. Your Body Mass Index (http://nhlbisupport.com/bmi/bmicalc.htm) must be below 19. Of course, if I gain 5 pounds this fall and winter, I'll have to revise the cutoff upward to 20. 2. No smokers may earn ham radio licenses. 3. No club is allowed to serve soda pop, donuts, glazed muffins, or potato chips with more than 135mg of sodium per serving. 4. At all club Field Day events, vegetables must be served for dinner. HAW!!! Those'll go over big! Hey, these requirements would make it nice and challenging for people to earn their licenses. We want our hams to be healthy. Too many are afflicted with obesity, heart disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and other health problems. Take all that away, and what will they talk about on 75 meters? ;-) We won't give licenses away - hams will need to cut the fast food, junk food, and tobacco out of their lives. This will be quite a challenge given how sacred the Kentucky Fried Chicken, soda pop, and donuts are. I dunno if you're serious, trolling, or satirical, but it's funny any of those ways! Seriously, though, it's not just a ham radio problem - it's an American problem. Just look around you. Combine an aging population, cheap sugary/fatty foods, sedentary but high-stress living, and a drop in other vices like smoking, and you have a recipe (pun intended) for folks getting heavier. I'm 6' 3" and my target weight is 180. I'll let ya know when I get there. 73 de Jim, N2EY |
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writes: N2EY wrote: In article , (Jason Hsu) writes: snippage We won't give licenses away - hams will need to cut the fast food, junk food, and tobacco out of their lives. This will be quite a challenge given how sacred the Kentucky Fried Chicken, soda pop, and donuts are. I dunno if you're serious, trolling, or satirical, but it's funny any of those ways! Yeah, here we go Jim: Entry level license is the Smart!tician. Test requirements are eating no less than 3 meals of meat per week. I think you mean "no more than..." The successful applicant must also demonstrate the ability to cooko pasta in at least 30 unappetizing ways. Extra credit for recipes including Tofu. Toe food? Priveliges for the Smart!tician will be the same as the technician plus is today. Next up the ladder is the Generallyhealthy! class. Test requiremts are to show the ability to fast for a minimum of 3 days, followed by a cleansing diet of only fruit juices, in addition to the Smart!tician tests. This is as high in the service as meat eaters can go * the lone exception is noted below Priveliges for the Generallyhealthy! are the same as the Smart!tician, plus HF access in SSB only. At the top of the sprout heap is the ExtraDelicious! license. This is the epitome of both hamdom and the oh so healthy lifestyle. The ExtraDelicious! *must* be a vegatarian, specificly a vegan. At the risk of invoking Godwin's Law: Hitler was a vegetarian. I am not making this up. *The only exception to this is that medical waivers can be granted for lacto-ovarians, and in certain rare instances, for macrobiotics. These must be signed by a physician. The successful applicant for ExtraDelicious! must display the ability to be condescending onto others, to announce their vegan status to every person they meet within 45 seconds, and to be a general nuisance at restaraunts, being required to ask the waitress of the possibilty of animal products in everything in the facility, including the salt and pepper shakers. You ever hear of Edgar Friendly? The ExtraDelicious! has all priveliges, as befits the obvious superiority of this type of person. Seriously, though, it's not just a ham radio problem - it's an American problem. Just look around you. Combine an aging population, cheap sugary/fatty foods, sedentary but high-stress living, and a drop in other vices like smoking, and you have a recipe (pun intended) for folks getting heavier. I'm 6' 3" and my target weight is 180. I'll let ya know when I get there. You have to be kidding, Jim! No, I'm serious. Unless you have an incredibly small bone structure, that will be hard to attain. Back when I was running marathons, I was 178. I'm not too wild about the way "they" figure the body weight thing out either. It really has to be done more on a fat percentage thing rather than some stupid one size fits all approach. By the tables, I am considered grossly obese, and yet by the fat percentage, not. Put me in the pool, and I sink like a stone. Fat being neutral density as compared to water, allows the person to float easily, and weigh relatively less in water than a person of high muscle/fat ratio of equal weight. BMI is a better indicator, but your point is well made. Perhaps the best indicators are things like total cholesterol, LDL, HDL, resting heart rate, blood pressure, 12 minute test (how far can you walk/jog/run in 12 minutes?) rather than weight. Go figure! 73 de Jim, N2EY |
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