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Travelog: Sin city

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
I have never visited Vegas!

I don't gamble, I adore beautiful women, (but they scare me), and I cant stand canned shows like Cirque De Soleil, as they have poor plots and just fabulousness of European and Chinese athletes squeezed into unrealistic superifical tales that don't make sense!

Still, I received and offer I could not refuse. A majestic 10 room hotel suit with its own gymn, massage room and hair salon and a champagne-packed chauffeur driven viagra class limousine to get there and all expenses paid!





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Asher Kelman: Los Vegas: Welcome!




Right be the carousel, even before one's luggage arrives, one is tempted to use the slot machines. Not me, I cant imagine throwing my money in that contraption! At least I want some peanuts or candy!




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Asher Kelman: Los Vegas: Arrival Invitations






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Asher Kelman: Los Vegas: Arrival: Baggage Claim and Slot Machines!




I was stunned that there was gambling immediately in the airport by the baggage claim and onwards!




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Asher Kelman: Los Vegas: On Arrival Obsession!


However, the majority of the folk, it seems, are not arriving to gamble, at least here. Ordinary families returning home, workers back from a biusiness meeting, folk arriving for a conference by the thousand! Lots of cogs make the city tick!



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Asher Kelman: Los Vegas: On Arrival: Another Mission!
 

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
When they say, "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas!", add to that your money! The airport and fleets of buses from mid-America disgorge tens of thousands of humans with money. But that money stays there too!

So the smart folk, only bring what they can afford to lose while they have every kind of fun one can imagine. It's all within reach of the average working person and it is a great place to let loose

Asher
 

Doug Kerr

Well-known member
My first visit to Las Vegas, Nevada (here in New Mexico we always say it that way since we also have a Las Vegas here, much different) was probably in the early 1960s. I went to attend a standards committee meeting that was held there, probably because one of the members was headquartered there (and "hosting" the meetings rotated among the members).

At the time, the main hall of McCarran Field (as the airport there was always spoken of at the time) was carpeted in a bright gold colored carpet. And of course as you entered there were slot machines everywhere, and garish signs about various attractions of the city, many of them featuring pictures of curvaceous young women in what some at the time would have called "scanty dress".

After I debarked from my flight at a gate on one of the "finger" concourses (which themselves were fairly drab), I saw that also walking along toward the terminal proper was a family who, it might be inferred from their dress, were Old Order Amish or members of some similar sect.

When they got to the main hall, and saw the bright gold carpet, and the slot machines, and the signs, you could see from their expressions that they were horrified, as if coming suddenly upon a revelation of Sodom and Gomorrah!

The bright gold carpet has since been replaced by something more—durable.

Best regards,

Doug
 

nicolas claris

OPF Co-founder/Administrator
#Scary #horrifying #not my world #Ican't understand #pure exploitation of humans #sad world…
I could continue, but who cares?
BTW Asher, good catch and report!
However, I don't understand one of your sentence… why/who is the viagra for? The chauffeur? the limousine?
 

Charlotte Thompson

Well-known member
Asher

You have arrived "sinfully " and well. I too have been twice on my late husbands client all paid everything was amazing! I do not gamble either but did try slots for awhile. I too was amazed @ all the gambling places that never stopped. I loved the shows and the food. Caesar's Palace was our place then.
I really like all the metaphor in your photos. Most liked 2 especially. You sinful thing, you!

Charlotte-
 

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Nicolas,

Since I met you, I have admired your conscience. To me it represents the essence of some drops of nectar France got in exchange for the blood spilled in the terror of the French Revolution. I see that, (product of horror), as one of the major guiding and most valuable contributions of human history, to have Paris refine and promulgate by force, "A concept of the dignity and rights of man".

I felt that Los Vegas was designed as a "honeypot" to exploit mid-tones of the worse of man, (greed and waste), to gather money for the illusion of being "just wealthy enough to risk" and waste hard-earned resources that can buy food, books and more.

With no violence, and planned budget, this vice is a marvelous mechanism for milking aphids of their inner juices, but without deaths and guilt!

Yes, it's astonishing for a culture in the 21st Century! But, I have only touched the surface. It is far more complex than that.



#Scary #horrifying #not my world #Ican't understand #pure exploitation of humans #sad world…
I could continue, but who cares?

Exactly!

Those who measure what freely they dispense on to felt-covered card tables and into the mouths of slot machines, (AND enjoy some apparent thrill), great for them. For me, enjoying a glass of a fine Bordeaux with friends, is a better yield for my money. I have no interest in mass movements of any kind as I want to wander around and find flowers and fragments of wood that tell stories. Still I like observing the untrained impulsive behaviors of ? s!

Tragic, as mass-movements risk leading us to "beliefs" instead of objectivity and thus both Donald Duck and Trump becoming our reality!




BTW Asher, good catch and report!
However, I don't understand one of your sentence… why/who is the viagra for? The chauffeur? the limousine?


Wait till you see the viagra-class limousine that was sent to greet us, and you will get it! Even T. Rex couldn't beat this one! ??

Asher
 

Antonio Correia

Well-known member
Your photographs are good samples of the ambient...

I would never go to such a place unless all expenses paid, like Asher.
That will never happen to me and that is good thing.
Nor my world, oh no...

Slotmachines ? No way :)

More to follow ? The room, the viagra car and so on ?... Is Wendy with you ?
 

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Of course, Antonio, I would not go without Wendy. Actually I had no wish to go and had to be peersuaded. Still, it was an eye opener to the behavior or masses of people obsessed with ideas of "entertainment". I think it could be realted to the allure of mass movements be they voters, sports fans, Star War fans or various religions based on magcal thinking and pure fantasy. This affinity for infectious ideas based mostly on created facts, is likley more dangerous to us than "Global
Warming".


Now you would be interested in the glimpses of other kinds of thoughts. There is a sense that although you might come here to let loose and have indulgent "fun" of your taste, consider these other ideas which impact our value as a society.

1. Protecting Children and espcecially women from trafficing


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Asher Kelman: To Catch Yor Eye: "Public Request to be Alert for Trafficked Youths"






2. Protecting the Public from being bewildered with over abiundant choice.

After all, poor grandmother may have come to see visit her family in the suburbs or there's a teenager obviously alone.



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Asher Kelman: To Catch Yuor Eye: "Guides"





3. Showcasing Art Los Vegas Schools and celebrating healthy childhood


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Asher Kelman: To Catch Yor Eye: "Children's Art"






4. Showcasing major business conferences that draw thousands from all over the planet.


While I was there, 43,000 software specialists migrated to this one location to get updated on the offerenings of the world premier data storage & management company, AWS. Here, in giant conference halls folk learn about the latest advances and also a myriad of high tech companies offer companion products and tools that help integrate and leverage AWS storage and security in small business, enterprise and worldwide applications. These were probably the most fit and alert denizens to wander through the airport. They were focused on their tasks ahead. The conference provides directly and indirectly about 180 million dollars to the local economy, helping to pay tens of thousands of households, and finance municipal services. In addition, it tends to elevate and diversify the economy of Los Vegas from just entertainment.

What's heppening here is not just "business", but rather the maintenance and refinement of information mining, deriviatives and security on which our modern society depends. No hospital, airplane, car, pharmaceutical factory or corn farm can manage without it! And few cities can host 43,000 attendees in one location like this! So Kudos to Vegas for that!....Congrats to AWS!



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Asher Kelman: To Catch Yor Eye: "Amazon Web Services - "Reinvent""




5. Advocating for causes to protect the planet and threatened species.


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Asher Kelman: To Catch Yor Eye: "I Am Not Medicine"



...and then there's art.


So considering the term, "Sin City", yes, it fits, but, as you can see it's complex and their are many more aspects to the nature of Los Vegas. But it is still far, far worse than the impression from just arriving at the airport.

Asher
 
Fascinating photos, Asher! I stopped once in Vegas in 1974 to fill the tank of my VW bug. Couldn't get out of that sleazy town fast enough.
 

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Fascinating photos, Asher! I stopped once in Vegas in 1974 to fill the tank of my VW bug. Couldn't get out of that sleazy town fast enough.

Tom,

Thanks for stopping by. I tried to learn from my visit. But I also wanted to shut my eyes so I was in conflict. Still it is an amzing observational laboratory to the best and some of the less savory in our society.

The brilliaqnce, fair mindedness, diversity, intelligance and education of the techies gives me hope for the future that forgives all the trash that's so obvious.

Asher
 

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Well, we need to get going with the chauffered tour of "Sin city". At first, one thinks one might be on a movie set or in some dydtopian dolls house, like Alice in Wonderland. As to the right and left one suddenly sees 1//2 to 1/6 scale versions of famous international buildings, from, the Empire State in New York, to the Eiffel tour from Paris.



But to start with, we had a stcked bar in the belly of the limousine and a gift package to greet us.



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Wendy Kelman: Champagne Welcome

Los Vegas 2017

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I dont drink any wines except with a tiny amount of hydrogen peroxide added, to convert the sulfite to sulfate, as I am allergic to the damned sulfite in all these fancy wines, dried apricot and some vinegars too! Beer is mostly OK!

Anyway, I scarfed the chocolates in a Hollywood second and we were on our way.

Asher
 

Jerome Marot

Well-known member
I was in Las Vegas, Nevada, about 25 years ago. For somebody who is not interested in gambling, ii is probably one of the cheapest locations in the USA and the casinos are downright baffling. I think that the "Mirage" was new at the time, complete with an artificial volcano...

But I am a bit surprised that you were able to take pictures indoor. When I was there, the inside of casinos was not to be photographed to protect the privacy of the gamblers.
 

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
I was in Las Vegas, Nevada, about 25 years ago. For somebody who is not interested in gambling, ii is probably one of the cheapest locations in the USA and the casinos are downright baffling. I think that the "Mirage" was new at the time, complete with an artificial volcano...

But I am a bit surprised that you were able to take pictures indoor. When I was there, the inside of casinos was not to be photographed to protect the privacy of the gamblers.


Jerome,

Thanks for stopping by.

Yes, there are still a lot of inexpensive hotels to cater for the major "slot-machine" bus crowds, also scores of fast food restaurants to feed them!

The gambling pictures I have shown so far, are NOT in the casinos, LOL. This is totally in the airport where one picks up luggage and unitl one exists to get a cab or limousine.

There is an area with scores of people with large ipads opr tablets with the name of the guest to be picked up in giant letters. In addition, there are a few scattered card or paper signs.

Anyway, at every turn, whatever else you might want like food, your baggage, toilet, there is a slot machine close by, in the open!

No privacy even considered. Nobody is embarassed! But that was the airport.



Later, in the entire hotel entrance floors, there are the hotel's own ubiquitous casinos and roundish tables with green felt. I didnt even realize that these were gambling tables, as there were a lot of older waitresses wearing skimpy clothes, delivering drinks to the men there. I thought this was a kind of relaxed area to get a drink and a burger. My kids pointed out that it was gambling. I'd have just missed it. Not knowing casino etiquette, I took some more pictures, but mostly slot machines.


Asher
 

Jerome Marot

Well-known member
Yes, I can imagine that there are a lot of inexpensive sattelite hotels to cater for the major "slot-machine" avid tour bus crowds coming from the mid-west. There are scores or fast food restaurants to cater to them too.


Well... It can get much cheaper than that for a much better service. I stayed in what looked like a very expensive hotel (The golden nugget), which gave a special price when you asked for a room. Apparently, it was out of fashion when I was there. Food can be extraordinary cheap as well, some casinos run specials where you only need to get a coupon stamped to get a hefty discount or something similar. The trick is that the coupon booth is at the back, so you have to pass a long line of slot machines to get it stamped. They count on most customers not being able to resist the temptation.


Later, in the entire hotel entrance floors, there are the hotel's own ubiquitous casinos and roundish tables with green felt. I didnt even realize that these were gambling tables, as there were a lot of older waitresses wearing skimpy clothes, delivering drinks to the men there. I thought this was a kind of relaxed area to get a drink and a burger. My kids pointed out that it was gambling. I'd have just missed it.

Well... You can actually get as many free drinks as you want just by sitting in some areas and looking at the screen with the results for Keno from time to time. It probably helps if one understand what the figures on the screen actually mean, but they did not ask me.
 

Jerome Marot

Well-known member
About slot machines, I found this paragraph in an article about social media:


The #1 psychological ingredient in slot machines is intermittent variable rewards.
If you want to maximize addictiveness, all tech designers need to do is link a user’s action (like pulling a lever) with a variable reward. You pull a lever and immediately receive either an enticing reward (a match, a prize!) or nothing. Addictiveness is maximized when the rate of reward is most variable.
Does this effect really work on people? Yes. Slot machines make more money in the United States than baseball, movies, and theme parks combined. Relative to other kinds of gambling, people get ‘problematically involved’ with slot machines 3–4x faster according to NYU professor Natasha Dow Schull, author of Addiction by Design.
 

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
About slot machines, I found this paragraph in an article about social media:


The #1 psychological ingredient in slot machines is intermittent variable rewards.
If you want to maximize addictiveness, all tech designers need to do is link a user’s action (like pulling a lever) with a variable reward. You pull a lever and immediately receive either an enticing reward (a match, a prize!) or nothing. Addictiveness is maximized when the rate of reward is most variable.
Does this effect really work on people? Yes. Slot machines make more money in the United States than baseball, movies, and theme parks combined. Relative to other kinds of gambling, people get ‘problematically involved’ with slot machines 3–4x faster according to NYU professor Natasha Dow Schull, author of Addiction by Design.


So, Jerome, where does this fit into benefits for evolution of man? Is this a part of the reward system of "flirting". One winks and then gets ignored or a smile, or she swings her hair or lowers her eyes. So is gambling, perhaps related to flirting and teasing?

Or is it based on some other advantage?

Asher
 

Jerome Marot

Well-known member
So, Jerome, where does this fit into benefits for evolution of man? Is this a part of the reward system of "flirting". One winks and then gets ignored or a smile, or she swings her hair or lowers her eyes. So is gambling, perhaps related to flirting and teasing?

Or is it based on some other advantage?

Asher

Probably it is based on another advantage, as animals are quite susceptible to intermittent rewards as well. I suppose it is an efficient strategy when foraging for food.
 

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Probably it is based on another advantage, as animals are quite susceptible to intermittent rewards as well. I suppose it is an efficient strategy when foraging for food.

Unicellular organisms that are motile, move towards or away from continuous gradients of what they need or what could harm them. I do not know if unicellular organisms can detect itermittant reward or punishment as a sequence.

So I Imagine that complex circuits are required from sequential patterns you talk of. I am sure it has been studied, as whenever I ask am "original" question like this, someone has already thought about it previously and for sure there must be a lot already worked out.

I will do a search.

Asher
 

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
A lot of the featured buildings have offerings for the general masses of fleet-bus tourists going for the slot machines and dining on burgers, pizza and then taking in shows in the evenings.


A minority of arriving men find their way to the chicken ranches while others, mopre conservative, settle for a massage with a "happy ending".

Most folk are here just for a serious convention and of course to get a share of fun. That means some gambling on the machines and then trying lady luck at the tables and a share of really great dinners and shows with friends. The stars of the USA are to be found their on stage, available to wow the ordinary folk and fans who flock to see them.




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Asher Kelman: Views from a Limo in Sin City: Hakkasan

Los Vegas 2017





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Asher Kelman: Views from a Limo in Sin City: "New York, New York!"

Los Vegas 2017





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Asher Kelman: Views from a Limo in Sin City: "Sex Tips"

Los Vegas 2017




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Asher Kelman: Views from a Limo in Sin City: "Lady Liiberty"

Los Vegas 2017





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Asher Kelman: Views from a Limo in Sin City: "Coca Cola Classic"

Los Vegas 2017





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Asher Kelman: Views from a Limo in Sin City: "Walgreens for the Masses"

Los Vegas 2017

 

Jerome Marot

Well-known member
The six men above the advertisements for "all you can eat fat burger" and a pharmacy and clinic looks like a parable for our times.
 

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
The six men above the advertisements for "all you can eat fat burger" and a pharmacy and clinic looks like a parable for our times.


Jerome,

You are correct. But no one is having their fingers smashed or being buried alive in the desert for defying or cheating the mob. That is history.

It is a more gentle Sodom and Gemorah! It promotes risk taking and escape from discipline. You can eat until you burst, drink until you can't stand and get erotic stimulation in a public venue without fear of social repercussions.

It's the opposite of going into the wilderness and living in fresh air and the wild. We admire the resourceful individual who can survive with just their wits, skills and stamina in some mountain range or Forrest. However, in Vegas, the folk know they couldn't have fun anywhere without fast food and Alka Selzer!

This place is the only location they can find to let loose! It doesn't hurt their careers or marriage! Yes, they are not being "elegant", but the money they waste actually supports civic services and schools in Los Vegas! That is the paradox!

Society is complex!

Asher
 

Doug Kerr

Well-known member
Hi, Asher,

Yes, they are not being "elegant", but the money they waste actually supports civic services and schools in Los Vegas!

In which regard I point out that Carla is an Alumna of Las Vegas High School. We are sometimes asked, "Which one? At the time, there was only one.

The building, in an exquisite Art Deco design, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It now houses the Las Vegas Academy of the Arts (from 1993-2014 known as the Las Vegas Academy for International Studies and Performing Arts.)

Here we see its iconic facade in 2011:

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Douglas A Kerr: The original Las Vegas High School, 2011

Go Wildcats!

Best regards,

Doug
 

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Hi, Asher,



In which regard I point out that Carla is an Alumna of Las Vegas High School. We are sometimes asked, "Which one? At the time, there was only one. (The building now houses The Las Vegas Academy of the Arts.)

Best regards,

Doug

Interesting ecology of "Sin City", just as penicillium mold grows on discarded cheese, so does education flourish on the income from gambling and indulgence!

Hmm, remember the time when you didn't need to travel. One could stay at home and sin even more and repent and then simply pay for one's "indulgence" , from a parchment catalog with prices for each trespass! Much more convenient! ?

Asher
 

Doug Kerr

Well-known member
Hi, Asher,

I am today much more concerned with the three most deadly sins, Greed, Stupidity, and Meanness, being practiced in concert in the White House, the United States Congress, and statehouses and state legislatures around the land.

And yes, I can, though the wonders of modern communication, observe the bubbling of this poisonous brew (the view spun in various directions, if I choose) from the comfort of my own desk chair.

Best regards,

Doug
 

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
You are correct, the sins of slot-machine waste and nude review lust or binge eating is a sad sight but what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas!

The White House reminds me of Crusader Fort at Bodrum, on the Aegean emerald coat of Southern Turkey, the well armed Crusaders got tired of being Hospiteliers, caring for the wounded, struggling traveler and instead used their nimble English warships and sea power to become pirates, raiding trade that passed the coastline!

Asher
 

Jerome Marot

Well-known member
You can eat until you burst, drink until you can't stand and get erotic stimulation in a public venue without fear of social repercussions.


You can get all that in Munich as well (or in any German city).

I found that you image was a parable for today's USA because, when I was there last summer, this was about all we could get as food:

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Basically, everything was put in batter and fried. I don't mind once in a while but 2 weeks of it was too much.

Then, I noted that almost every advertisement I saw on TV screens or billboards was about medicines or lawyers who could help you sue your doctor. It felt like the USA was eating itself sick. And... how can I say that politely? ...many of the people we came across looked like the result of years of that diet and not at all like the 6 men on your picture. So, yes: these 6 men could make a business of being physically attractive.

Now: don't misread me. I know that not all of the USA is having eating disorders. I know that Europe is having its share of health issue as well (for example, the consumption of alcohol appears to be higher than in the USA) and I used to be thinner when I was younger myself. I am just talking about your photograph.
 

Doug Kerr

Well-known member
Here is a 2005 shot of the original Las Vegas High School building:

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Douglas A. Kerr: Las Vegas Academy for International Studies and Performing Arts, 2005

The shot was taken in connection with the 49th anniversary reunion of Carla's high school class (1956). We actually took it about a week before the reunion (we were already in Las Vegas then on another adventure). It turns out that the reunion committee used it on the cover of the reunion program.

Best regards,

Doug
 

Doug Kerr

Well-known member
Hi, Jerome,

Then, I noted that almost every advertisement I saw on TV screens or billboards was about medicines or lawyers who could help you sue your doctor.

Indeed.

It is our policy never to take medicines that are advertised on TV.

One of our physicians might say, "Well, I could prescribe for you...well, never mind."

A really curious phenomenon here is that a certain medication will be advertised one week as a product of a certain pharmaceutical house, and then the next week as a product of another. What happens is these various houses buy from one another the rights to a certain medication as they see a chance to sell it at an even higher price than did the previous proprietor, which wants to divert its advertising resources to an new, and even more profitable (at an outrageous price) drug.

It is this phenomenon that is one of the drivers of the disastrous escalation of healthcare costs in the U.S.

My personal primary physician, well aware of my leanings, points out that in many cases these expensive drugs, not more effective than the "traditional" drug, turn out to be "safer" but only in the sense that they can be taken by the patient without requiring any oversight by the physician, or sophisticated management by the patient. But they are often much more dangerous in other senses.

For example, I am susceptible to thromboses (blood clots) in my lower legs. I have had two episodes, and my physician has opined that I should be for the rest of my life on a regimen of anticoagulant drugs (often mis-called "blood thinners").

I use the traditional drug, which is much less expensive than the newer drugs for the purpose, and, according to my physician, safer if administered thoughtfully.

I measure the index of blood clotting tendency weekly (I have a nice instrument for the purpose, provided under my government-run Medicare insurance plan) and titrate my dosage pattern of the drug week-by-week (I have tablets in various strengths so I can "spell" any dosage I need for a particular day).

But, as my physician points out, "But not all my patients are telephone engineers".

Thanks for the nice shots and comments.

Best regards,

Doug
 

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
You can get all that in Munich as well (or in any German city).[/
No doubt, it all can be found, Jerome, here the difference is the scale of the excess and the public worship of such vulgarity!

More cautious folk still enjoy themselves, but in are more subtle about making public displays of themselves or gluttony!

I found that you image was a parable for today's USA because, when I was there last summer, this was about all we could get as food:

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After WWII, there were food shortages everywhere. Now we have epidemics of obesity, diabetes and hypertension due to excess of this addictive food in the West and wherever we trade!

..............and not at all like the 6 men on your picture. So, yes: these 6 men could make a business of being physically attractive.

well these fine specimens of manhood are there to entertain the women! They dance on the stage and perhaps in the lap of women stuffing $5 and $20 bills into their briefs! Good for out of work actors or off season construction workers!

....and it all works well. Folk earn a living, pay taxes and kids in school get lunch and a great education.

Asher
 

Jerome Marot

Well-known member
For example, I am susceptible to thromboses (blood clots) in my lower legs. I have had two episodes, and my physician has opined that I should be for the rest of my life on a regimen of anticoagulant drugs (often mis-called "blood thinners").

I use the traditional drug, which is much less expensive than the newer drugs for the purpose, and, according to my physician, safer if administered thoughtfully.

So, warfarin, I suppose?
 
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