{"id":200,"date":"2006-03-29T08:16:40","date_gmt":"2006-03-29T08:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pete.nu\/blog\/?p=200"},"modified":"2007-02-14T17:50:40","modified_gmt":"2007-02-14T17:50:40","slug":"dont-worry-im-not-really-addicted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/2006\/03\/29\/dont-worry-im-not-really-addicted\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t worry, I’m not really addicted"},"content":{"rendered":"

> A scorpion and a frog meet on the bank of a stream and the scorpion asks the frog to carry him across on its back. The frog asks, “How do I know you won’t sting me?” The scorpion says, “Because if I do, I will die too.”<\/p>\n

> The frog is satisfied, and they set out, but in midstream, the scorpion stings the frog. The frog feels the onset of paralysis and starts to sink, knowing they both will drown, but has just enough time to gasp “Why?”<\/p>\n

> Replies the scorpion: “It’s my nature…”<\/p>\n

INames have been changed<\/footnote> currently have a bag of chocolate in my desk drawer – specifically, [Minstrels][]. I feel very bad about this, because by the time I have finished this bag I will have eaten 30g of saturated fats and a whole host more crap besides.<\/p>\n

I purchased the bag in a moment of weakness, and now they sit here: taunting me, asserting their power over me. Clearly it is in my nature to purchase chocolate, but my better judgement tells me that I should refrain. I don’t want to be beholden to these seemingly innocuous little chaps, but yet I find that they call me, and I answer to their beckoning. If I could fight them, then I know that I would be a better person.<\/p>\n

But it is in my nature.<\/p>\n

Discuss.<\/p>\n

**UPDATE:** I’ve eaten two [creme eggs][] and a [kitkat chunky][] today. Does that make me a bad person? Well, obviously the kitkat does, because it’s a Nestle product, but my question was intended to come from a chocolate perspective.<\/p>\n

[creme eggs]: http:\/\/www.cadbury.co.uk\/EN\/CTB2003\/about_chocolate\/brand_stories\/creme_egg\/
\n[kitkat chunky]: http:\/\/www.nestle.co.uk\/OurBrands\/AboutOurBrands\/ConfectioneryAndCakes\/KitKat.htm<\/p>\n

[minstrels]: http:\/\/www.dooyoo.co.uk\/food\/mars-galaxy-minstrels\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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