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epoptika Elite user Florida 477 Posts |
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On 2010-06-13 08:57, Al Angello wrote: :lol: Destiny, Cruise is definitely high on my list of people who need killing . Fat people, short people, then comes smokers and people who don't like Ohio... |
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ed rhodes Inner circle Rhode Island 2885 Posts |
Cruise could be six feet tall and still be annoying enough to get on people's list!
"...and if you're too afraid of goin' astray, you won't go anywhere." - Granny Weatherwax
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Al Angello Eternal Order Collegeville, Pa. USA 11045 Posts |
I remember when Pat Paulson was running for president they asked him how was he going to deal with the rising numbers of unemployed. Pat thought about it for a minute and said we should shoot 500 bums a week.
Al Angello The Comic Juggler/Magician
http://www.juggleral.com http://home.comcast.net/~juggleral/ "Footprints on your ceiling are almost gone" |
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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts |
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On 2010-06-12 10:23, Skip Way wrote: Ahhh, the sound of more money being taken out of my paycheck to pay for people to teach other people's kids not to be fat. Vote No on Proposition U300LBS. Eat less, eat better; move more. Or don't. But if parents and/or kids can't figure that much out, the motivational speakers can do it pro bono.
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts |
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On 2010-06-12 13:45, gaddy wrote: And yet millions of Americans ARE pretty healthy. They exercise. They make better shopping choices. In every city in the country. Somehow, they find a defense. They watch the same TV commercials, they see the same billboards, and they exercise their freedom of choice more wisely. Does anyone here not understand this?
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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stoneunhinged Inner circle 3067 Posts |
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On 2010-06-13 13:05, LobowolfXXX wrote: I think some do not, but I'm not sure. I remain indignant over the popcorn scandal of the mid 1990s. This is no lie: the last time I went to a movie in the US, there were three people in front of me sitting all together, obviously attending the movie together, EACH with a family sized bucket of popcorn. And this was in a theater where the family sized bucket gets free refills. It would seem that some people go around demanding a nanny, thus inviting the nanny State. Scary. |
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Tom Cutts Staff Northern CA 5926 Posts |
Kevin:So what are you going to do about these fat people in Ohio who train their kids to eat junk?
Skip made a really positive and constructive post. Not surprising but folks would rather complain about stuff instead of fixing it. It is exactly the same thought process which you are whining about. People would rather eat what is easy and fulfills their psychological needs rather than their dietary needs. Even when presented with the better answer they will choose to eat what they are used to. No surprise it ends up being what they teach their children. More and more these days people would rather just complain about stuff because it is easy and fulfills their psychological needs. When presented with the more constructive action of something they can do to try and fix the situation, people will display a wonderful array of reasons to not take action or just completely ignore the suggestion. Sometimes they even take shots at those who are trying to fix something. Actually doing something is not easy, but every time someone opts to just complain they are feeding their mind junk. And their kids learn to feed off that same mind junk, just like kids learn to eat junk food. L7 baby, take a square action plan, change the world. |
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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts |
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On 2010-06-12 11:46, Tom Cutts wrote: This is kind of an interesting post to me; it really brings home the notion of different perspectives. I guess the notion of after school programs certainly is "doing something about it," but the whole idea of "How can my kids/neighbors/neighbors' kids ever get skinny if the school won't provide a program?" is much more aligned with ideas about what constitutes whining. It doesn't take a village to go on a diet.
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts |
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On 2010-06-13 13:15, Tom Cutts wrote: Why on earth should anyone other than "these fat people in Ohio" do anything about them, let alone at public expense. They have brains. They have friends. They have relatives. In the 21st century in the USA, they have access to all sorts of nutritional and dietary information. Bad choices don't constitute a public emergency.
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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Tom Cutts Staff Northern CA 5926 Posts |
The village is providing junk. Jamie Oliver's show shines a light on the possibility for schools to provide healthy more natural foods for less than the processed junk which is easy for them. What needs to happen is both the product and the knowledge need to be changed. New habits need to be formed. New dynamics need to be built. Tear down the Burger King and put in a Farmers Market.
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Tom Cutts Staff Northern CA 5926 Posts |
Quote: Who said anything about an emergency? Is an emergency the only reason to change teaching in schools? I'd be the first to say there is an educational emergency displayed by the lack of education being delivered to children these days.
On 2010-06-13 13:20, LobowolfXXX wrote: But yes, bad personal choices can lead to public issues. Grossly poor diets are quickly on the way to becoming a societal health issue. So you either educate people and help them change their habits, or you can absorb the cost of their eventual medical conditions through your insurance premiums. |
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Josh Chaikin Inner circle Kansas City 1430 Posts |
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On 2010-06-13 13:20, LobowolfXXX wrote: In some cases they can't afford it. Healthy, natural foods are expensive while unhealthy foods are cheap. A lot of personal responsibility does enter into it, yes. A number of years ago, I worked at Walmart while going to school. On occasion, I'd be called on to run a register. Disproportionately, the people buying junk food paid for it with food stamps. In the vast majority of cases, those with carts filled with chips, cookies, off-brand nondescript juices and no-name meats paid for it with food stamps. Likely, they could buy some fruits, vegetables and lean meats, but for whatever reason they didn't. Maybe there wasn't enough on their Vision card, maybe this was the best way they found. Why is it our responsibility to create healthy programs? Well, why is it our responsibility, then, to give these people money for food? There are programs to assist people to find employment and grants available to the impoverished to go back to school. Sometimes, we just have to save people from themselves. (For the sake of completeness, the solution to the food stamps for junk food problem is to disallow their use on certain items. It's already done for some things, just not others). |
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Al Angello Eternal Order Collegeville, Pa. USA 11045 Posts |
We all know that the children of these fat kids will grow up to be even fatter than their parents are now, and there is very little that we as a society can do about it. It is like the fall of the Roman Empire.
Al Angello The Comic Juggler/Magician
http://www.juggleral.com http://home.comcast.net/~juggleral/ "Footprints on your ceiling are almost gone" |
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kcg5 Inner circle who wants four fried chickens and a coke 1868 Posts |
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On 2010-06-13 13:27, Tom Cutts wrote: WE AGREE!!!!!! *clinks glass with Tom*
Nobody expects the spanish inquisition!!!!!
"History will be kind to me, as I intend to write it"- Sir Winston Churchill |
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kcg5 Inner circle who wants four fried chickens and a coke 1868 Posts |
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On 2010-06-13 13:15, Tom Cutts wrote: 5 L7 meals a day? Ok, ok- I get it. But is to mean that a person can never complain, or ask questions? I know, "be the change you wish to see in the world" and all that, but I am talking about it-and was interested in opinions, which I got. "People would rather eat what is easy and fulfills their psychological needs rather than their dietary needs. Even when presented with the better answer they will choose to eat what they are used to. No surprise it ends up being what they teach their children."---- this, in my view, could go unsaid, like all the consumer society stuff-we are not teaching a high school class here. In the walmart example-right there in the moment-should I have gone up to the woman and asked her thoughts on her kids weight?
Nobody expects the spanish inquisition!!!!!
"History will be kind to me, as I intend to write it"- Sir Winston Churchill |
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Tom Cutts Staff Northern CA 5926 Posts |
Quote: If you had a camera crew with you, I'd say "yes". It would make for better reality TV than the competitions which get air. Without the camera crew I don't believe the volume of thought out responses would be in your favor.
In the walmart example-right there in the moment-should I have gone up to the woman and asked her thoughts on her kids weight? There is an interesting show called "What Would You Do?". It plays out scenarios like you described. On a different note, did you know that the US produces 5000 calories per day for every person in the US? High fructose corn syrup is one of the main culprits and it is stealth fully used in a lot healthy seeming products like yogurt and granola bars. Always read labels and note calorie counts. |
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kcg5 Inner circle who wants four fried chickens and a coke 1868 Posts |
I wouldnt actually do it, she raises them how she sees fit... But my focus is why? Are these people stupid? If its whinning, so be it..
Nobody expects the spanish inquisition!!!!!
"History will be kind to me, as I intend to write it"- Sir Winston Churchill |
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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts |
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On 2010-06-13 15:40, kcg5 wrote: I believe there's quite a large combination of factors in play. My best guess would be that there is a correlation with intelligence, but I suspect it's a small one.
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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Tom Cutts Staff Northern CA 5926 Posts |
Would you say something to a mother who is beating her child? If yes, then why not say something to a mother who is setting her child on a pathway to diabetes, heart disease, and a host of other wonderful outcomes of obesity. The more it becomes acceptable to say to say to someone, "Wow, you really feed your kids all that crap?" the more such practices will become seen in a similar light as other abuses of children. Changing society is a slow process usually. Deciding to do nothing only perpetuates and worsens the situation.
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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts |
I know nothing informs my decision-making process like the uninvited opinions of random strangers who approach me in public.
How many of these conversations have you actually had in the past week, Tom? I mean, if you're out shopping or dining, you must see overweight kids, parents & kids with McDonald's bags, parents with kids drinking soda...what, several times a day? Conservatively, there must be well over a hundred opportunities for such intervention every month.
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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