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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
And I thought they'd have moved on to alcoholics and depressives by now.
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We ARE alcoholics and depressives.
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Originally Posted by Lazyboy, from Underwear Goes Inside The Pants
"Americans, let's face it: We've been a spoiled country for a long time.
Do you know what the number one health risk in America is?
Obesity. They say we're in the middle of an obesity epidemic.
An epidemic like it is polio. Like we'll be telling our grand kids about it one day.
The Great Obesity Epidemic of 2004.
"How'd you get through it grandpa?"
"Oh, it was horrible Johnny, there was cheesecake and pork chops everywhere.
Nobody knows why were getting fatter? Look at our lifestyle.
I'll sit at a drive through.
I'll sit there behind fifteen other cars instead of getting up to make the eight foot walk to the totally empty counter.
Everything is mega meal, super sized. Want biggie fries, super sized, want to go large?
You want to have thirty burgers for a nickel, you fat mother fucker? There's room in the bag! Take it!
Want a 55 gallon drum of Coke with that? It's only three more cents."
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MixedMedia:
Call me bitter and unenlightened, but I'd be willing to bet (within 2 standard deviations seems safe) that the obesity in the United States is caused by weak-minded individuals who make poor decisions. Personal responsibility? You betcha. We have a truckload of junk food on every corner in this country and people stupid enough to call it sustenance. Boredom and complacency and the new universal god called TeeVee = pointless eating.
Genetics, physical conditions, whatever... that's sad and we deal with it but that isn't close to the main reason: eating too much garbage.
For every jerk like me that's saying, "Control yourself!" we have another person (most likely a jerk as well) that says, "It's not their fault!"
We sit on opposite ends of the continuum and continue to watch as our society kills itself with a
fuckin' spoon.