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That's a very good question.

It harks back to primitive man, when we were not only the hunter, but also the hunted. As you all know, eating carrots improves your eyesight. Well, carrots were not readily available tens of thousands of years ago, so man evolved to synthesize carrot in the pancreas. This gave us better night vision to enable us to hunt at night, thus avoiding the apex predator: the sabre tooth tiger. (It also allowed us to hunt wooly mammoth much more effectively)

Of course, the prduction of carrot must be very well regulated in the body, and excess carrot must be discarded, otherwise it can cause other complications (ever seen someone who's taken too many tanning pills? It's a derivative of the same chemical that gives us night vision). In order to rid the body of excess carrot, the body would periodically purge this excess (as well as other toxins).

As manking evolved, he learnt that these toxins could be expelled from the body by ingesting other chemicals which they brewed from fermented vegetable matter. This also had side effects, such as making said men do strange dances, and engage in group hugs with members of other tribes they had never before met. Unfortunately, excessive exposure to these self made chemicals had the effect of diminishing their night vision to such an extent that they almost lost all vision entirely. This was later termed as "being blind drunk", and fortunately is only a temporary affliction.

Of course the meaning is still with us to this day, and so are the carrots.

Even if one has never eaten a carrot, those pieces of carrot still manifest themselves whenever the body has to rid itself of harmful chemicals and toxins.

Hope this clears things up a bit.

Edited by warps

geebus......what a thread....lol

what no one mentioned is that third party...covers the persons and thier hospital bills. you need to make sure you get third party property to cover other peoples cars........and no. you cant claim existing damage to a car. so just getting insurance then claiming wont work at all. they will want dates etc and details and you wont be able to talk your way around it.....lesson learnt. get insurance straight away. there is no reason not too, it takes a few minutes over the phone. if you cant afford the insurance on your Liner then dont buy one in the first place.

your gonna have fun chasing that cab driver up and making him pay...sucks to be in your shoes.

Edited by boiracer

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