Hi hi Funny picture Good idea erland

Funny and creative idea my friend....!!! Great realization....!!!!

How true. But at least it ain't from China!!! (No lead):)) Can't speak for the plate! Is all china from China?

Shadowwalker50 once told me he knew a doctor who is great at what he does, but when it comes to mechanical stuff, like program a DVD player, he's hopeless.

Excellent analogy, could not agree more, excellent capture!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's a poor man's donut!

Well this is just not right, lol. Unfortunately it does graphically express the "hole" that exists in the middle of my country. I often feel that American society is going to hell (which is run by religious fanatics, corrupt leaders, and greedy selfish citizens) in a poorly constructed, overpriced, trendy hand-basket(which was made who knows where)and I do not envy those who will see the next 60 years. I realize this description is not completely true but sadly it is not completely false either. I see the lack of craftsmanship, the lack of compassion, the lack of ethics, and the lack of tolerance all across America. We, as a country, have changed course in my lifetime. Despite our shortcomings and a lot of terrible mistakes made, we as a country, usually had good intentions and more than a few astonishing successes. I fear we do not have good intentions anymore, or at best we have an uninvolved citizenry where too few take a stand and say "I am mad as Hell and I am not going to take it anymore". Nice concept and thanks for taking a stand. BTW - You don't have to worry about your jam falling through the hole, there is no jam on the plate, lol. Lee

Excellent picture. Todd

I'm pretty much on Lee's side of the fence. However, I think we can change things if demand it from our phoney-baloney politicians. Everybody get out and vote! Write and call your elected officials. Tell them we want good government that solves America's problems, not mindless fights or laws that are made to make one party look better than the other. We need long term plans, not platitudes! (I'll shut up now.) Oh, I defied the hole in the bread and spread jam around it.

Well now you've hit the mark!.Its just the same in the UK.Can anyone tell me the sence of shutting down a factory which has stood for 128 yrs,and in the whole of its time only had one half day strike?.It gets even worse when they closed us down we had a full order book and made £30.million pounds profit. Well they did just that and moved the work to China,India,Brazil,and Mexico. And its happening all over the UK? Like Lee says God help those who are just born.Sorry Roger for hogging your thread,but I feel a little better havibg got that off my chest. See what you've started with your toast.

´d never come to the idea to worry about the state of the world, by seeing a toast with a hole. I´d eat it with or without hole. But your thoughts are right , no matter what inspired you. I don´t thing that the future behind the next four years was ever in the horizon of most politicians. And to human craftmanship: It will be needed even less in the future, it´s true that technology is replacing human work and politics have to start to deal with that. You don´t have to quote Marx or Proudhon for that, you can also take contemporary economists like Jeremy Rifkin. We have the choice today: We can change our systems of taxation (tax resource consumption and productivity instead of wage income), our waste of resources and our definition of labour or we are heading towards a world of mass unemployment (over a billion people are already unemoployed or underemployed), poverty and chaos.

Excellent commentary!!

hahaha going to get jam all over the place now lol cool shot and yes our craftmanship in every thing going down hill. I saw in a cookbook where they take bread like this and put an egg in the hole and cook it like that. Guess this what this bread was made for?

Thanks everyone! Lots of good thoughts and even a little humor always help out. I'm not a highbrow economist, or philosopher. I know that while Communism (Marx)and mutualism (Proudhon) are dead issues, they did have a few good ideas. Proudhon championed microcredit long before they handed out the Nobel prize to the Bangladeshi professor who finally put it into practice a few years back. Not that he didn't deserve it, it's a good idea. People like to work for themselves and I'm all in favor of free enterprise. Just seems that it gets less free with all giant corporations taking over by cheating, and bullying or bribing governments to see things their way. Time for the people to reclaim government from the ultra-wealthy. VOTE! VOTE! VOTE!

Hi my friend!! Awesome work once again!! XCellent!! R&R to you!!!!

whoda thunk that a hole in bread would cause such a fuss! lol... you made your point well~

Couldn't agree more! Hilarious, but in a depressing way.

Tremendous - and telling - image and insight. As one of the underemployed mentioned above I have had 3 good jobs blown away, two by the greedbags and the third by offshoring. From personal observation I have seen far too many highly skilled and dedicated professionals and craftsmen/women downsized-outsourced-offshored by the biz school boys waltzing with the whore of short term profits and temporarily reduced costs. And the politicians and their bureaucratic supporters - none of whom have ever had to survive long term in the real world - just puke up platitudes about short term pain for long term gain without realizing or caring about what kind of damage they are inflicting on individuals, communities or nations. Ace10 didn't mention it but ISO-9000 (an EU contrivance) makes it very easy to offshore any operation that adopts it. The first time I was introduced to the ISO concept it took about 5 minutes digging through it to see how easy it would be to move the company to any other place in the world - just translate the documentation into the local language. Can be easily done from a corporate office without anyone else in the organization being the wiser until doomsday arrives. Corporate management where I worked at the time was TERRIBLY OFFENDED when this was pointed out to them by dozens of employees who didn't have the necessary business degrees to understand the long term corporate benefit of conforming to such an advanced standard, blah blah, yap yap, arf arf. Then our jobs hit the fan along with the brown stuff. Next time you meet a politician pushing a great idea for the nations economy its probably safe to assume either the clown doesn't know what he's talking about or he's in somebodies pocket (check his campaign funds and friends). Its probably also safe to assume that if his face is moving he's lying. Buffalo1 has it right - get out there and VOTE VOTE VOTE. JUST BE VERY CAREFUL WHICH ONE OF THE CLOWNS YOU VOTE FOR !!!!

Ah, the proverbial 'Toast heard round the world.'

But the women still look good. How about another one of the cute young mother? The one with black hair? She is my favorite. I looked at a picture of her today, taken later, more daring, but just as enticing, and before I could comment it disappeared. Am I imagining things?