Dosn't Coke still have de-cocainized coca plant? I thought that was like their "super-de-duper secret that will ruin us, so lets try to keep it hush hush" secret.
I understand the point you're trying to make Sown Carcinogen, but I gotta say your examples are pretty bad... perhaps you should have mentioned purely non-functional cosmetic things like jewelry.
A vehicles runs. Its gears, wires, chips, motor etc is all there for a reason, to make the car operational, its really the only reason those things are there. They arn't glued on to just look pretty. Glasses also serve a real function and have real technology behind them (to shade light from your eyes, or a real perscription to help you see), and the same with clothes... they keep your bits hidden and helps keep you from the elements (cold, getting sunburn, bug bites etc).
Steampunk tends to be pure aesthetic value under a thin veil of pseudo-technology. Its sort of contradictory in its nature. A love of old style technology while lacking it completely (for the most part). Again, I understand the point you're making. Its for looks only, I get it. Still, again, if that were my interest I'd probably insist my stuff works (perhaps like that one fellow who makes steampunk style computer keyboards. Style that actually DOES something at the same time.)
It isn't easy to put down the fork? Hell yes it is, you just have to be willing to do it. How the heck would I know? Top weight: 240 Currently: 132
I put down the effin fork and I got off my ass and started moving. I stopped going "but but but it r harrrd!" and just freakin' did it. Excuses make me angry. Stop being so darn weak.
Its interesting in an artsy way... i guess. I'm not sure what to make of the lion door knocker on the knee, perhaps theres a tiny squid who's rented it out and wants advance notice when people come calling.
Just from a personal POV though...If my life passion was a sub-gere of mechanical oriented science fiction I would probabably focus on making my creations functional (or at least make the various gears and knobs turn.)because it would just bug the heck out of me otherwise.
I guess I don't "Get" steampunk. Its all a bunch of junk. None of it does anything. Wires go nowhere, tubes hold nothing, gears don't turn, tubes carry no liquids... its just pure non-functional junk for the most part. How is that cool? It dosn't DO anything...
Hot Spicy Noodle Soup (Nong Shim) is my fav and has been for many many years. :) Unfortunately I'm on a diet now... so hopefully someone out there makes a shirataki noodle ramen someday.
Sorry, its going to take more than the OPINION of 2,500 moms. This whole study sounds shady to me. I don't condone spanking, I also don't condone psudo-science.
(Just messing with ya. :P)
I thought that was like their "super-de-duper secret that will ruin us, so lets try to keep it hush hush" secret.
A vehicles runs. Its gears, wires, chips, motor etc is all there for a reason, to make the car operational, its really the only reason those things are there. They arn't glued on to just look pretty.
Glasses also serve a real function and have real technology behind them (to shade light from your eyes, or a real perscription to help you see), and the same with clothes... they keep your bits hidden and helps keep you from the elements (cold, getting sunburn, bug bites etc).
Steampunk tends to be pure aesthetic value under a thin veil of pseudo-technology. Its sort of contradictory in its nature. A love of old style technology while lacking it completely (for the most part).
Again, I understand the point you're making. Its for looks only, I get it. Still, again, if that were my interest I'd probably insist my stuff works (perhaps like that one fellow who makes steampunk style computer keyboards. Style that actually DOES something at the same time.)
How the heck would I know?
Top weight: 240
Currently: 132
I put down the effin fork and I got off my ass and started moving. I stopped going "but but but it r harrrd!" and just freakin' did it. Excuses make me angry. Stop being so darn weak.
Just from a personal POV though...If my life passion was a sub-gere of mechanical oriented science fiction I would probabably focus on making my creations functional (or at least make the various gears and knobs turn.)because it would just bug the heck out of me otherwise.
Unfortunately I'm on a diet now... so hopefully someone out there makes a shirataki noodle ramen someday.
This whole study sounds shady to me. I don't condone spanking, I also don't condone psudo-science.