"blake murphy" > wrote in message
...
> On Sun, 09 Sep 2007 13:22:24 -0400, Dave Smith
> > wrote:
>
>>blake murphy wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>
>>> >Fercrissakes you whined that there isn't a butcher shop for 300 miles,
>>> >or a
>>> >millinery shop, and said that most people are in the same position.
>>> >Based
>>> >on what I have access to that is bullshit. If I have three local
>>> >butcher
>>> >shops within 3 miles of me, everyone else in town does too. If I have
>>> >access to 2 millinery stores, everyone around here does too. I suppose
>>> >there are a few people around her who don't bother with the real
>>> >butcher
>>> >shop and don't know about them and the millinery stores, and are too
>>> >dumb
>>> >to find them, they may sit around and broadcast their ignorance too.
>>>
>>> maybe so, but most of the butcher shops i see around here (d.c. area)
>>> are halal butchers. honest-to-god butchers that actually cut meat in
>>> a stand-alone store are not as common as you might think.
>>
>>What can I say, other than to repeat that I have three of them within 3
>>miles of me, and I live in a small town. If I go into the city there are
>>several more. Come to think of it, those three butcher shops are closer
>>than the nearest grocery store. For some reason, most people just don't
>>bother going to the local butcher and just get their meat from the grocery
>>store. Bear in mind that I was responding to Ward's claim that most
>>people
>>have to travel 300 miles to find a butcher shop. That is just plain
>>ludicrous.
>
> people live in different places, dave. they're not all the same as
> the place you live.
>
> your pal,
> blake


The original claim was that MOST PEOPLE HAVE TO TRAVEL 300 MILES for a
butcher shop. Let's use lots of white space to make this easy.

MOST PEOPLE live in the largest population centers, not small towns.
Otherwise, the small towns would be large population centers.


With me so far?