Fatties get special treatment?

[archenemy]

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/health/1500AP_Diet_Obesity_Ads.html

 

No one is advocating public service announcements that ridicule fat people; experts say such spots would do more harm than good.

 

 

Hmm, I wonder why "experts" thought that ridiculing people with addictions other than food would do more good than harm?

[cj001f]

BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE STUPID

[Al_Pine]

Please define the implicit premise of your question more precisely.

 

Which people do the "experts" advocate ridiculing?

[KaskadskyjKozak]

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/health/1500AP_Diet_Obesity_Ads.html

 

No one is advocating public service announcements that ridicule fat people; experts say such spots would do more harm than good.

 

 

Hmm, I wonder why "experts" thought that ridiculing people with addictions other than food would do more good than harm?

 

not necessary to ridicule... would be cool if they made some poignant points. For example, show some cute kids asking dad to run and play catch football with them, show fat-ass dad out of breath, unable to do it, and sitting out while his kids play without him?

 

[lizard_brain]

FATTIE THREAD!

 

:tup:

[cj001f]

FATTIE THREAD!

 

:tup:

 

LOOK ITS A MORON!

 

we should put people like him on bulletainboards so people can point, laugh, and say "haha I'm glad I'm not a dumbass"

[builder206]

Yo momma so fat she has to use the driveway for an ironing board!

[foraker]

Just do what they did for smokers. For smokers, they showed what smoking did to lungs. Just show what obesity can lead to in the same stark medical terms.

[KaskadskyjKozak]

Just do what they did for smokers. For smokers, they showed what smoking did to lungs. Just show what obesity can lead to in the same stark medical terms.

 

true enough

[No. 13 Baby]

Yo mama so fat she's on both sides of the family.

[lizard_brain]

I have a cousin that's a surgeon - he says more and more often they're needing to put two operating tables together to make them big enough to hold the fatties, and it takes so much more time to do simple operations to cut through all that fat and sew it back up again.

[iciclespyder]

The administration likes fat people. They need big cars and air conditioning. It's all part of the plan to sell more oil.

Edited October 22, 2007 by iciclespyder

[JayB]

Anything that clearly assigns both the agency and responsibility away from inanimate objects that are eaten, to the people who choose to eat them in quantities that result in obesity would be a welcome step.

 

The fact that we've taken some steps towards transferring agency away from the people putting food in their mouths, and towards the food itself is not a terribly good sign.

[cj001f]

So transferring agency to Nicotine for smoking was not a good sign?

 

Simple statements about personal virtue are rarely effective in producing change amongst people - their only product is a sense of smug selfsatisfaction in the utterer

[tvashtarkatena]

Just do what they did for smokers. For smokers, they showed what smoking did to lungs. Just show what obesity can lead to in the same stark medical terms.

 

Damn straight. Show a pair of lungs with bitch tits hanging off em.

[KaskadskyjKozak]

 

we need these guys put in charge as health czars:

 

 

[RuMR]

everybody's gotta pick on the fat kid...i'm gettin' sick of it!

[KaskadskyjKozak]

everybody's gotta pick on the fat kid...i'm gettin' sick of it!

 

sorry.

[fenderfour]

I don't get any special treatment.

 

... except at restaurants. People tend to hide their fries.

[lizard_brain]

I hear so much stuff from people that say they can't lose weight. But when I look at what they're eating, and how much of it...

 

I sat down in the break room to eat my lunch with two gigantic women at a place where I was working some years ago. One of them said 'Is that all you're gonna eat?' I wanted to say 'If I ate as much as you, I'd be as fat as you', but working for the state at the time, I could have been fired in a second for not being completely PC.

 

I just shrugged. 'Yeah.'

[builder206]

Just in the last week or ten days I saw an article that said people who lost weight and kept it off had all sorts of different approaches to food but the one common factor across the entire sample was regular, vigorous exercise.

[JayB]

So transferring agency to Nicotine for smoking was not a good sign?

 

Simple statements about personal virtue are rarely effective in producing change amongst people - their only product is a sense of smug selfsatisfaction in the utterer

 

Who is talking about virtue here? What anyone chooses to do to their own body is their business, whether that's inhaling smoke or five helpings of curly fries and washing it down with 64-oz Slurpee.

[cj001f]

I hear so much stuff from people that say they can't lose weight. But when I look at what they're eating, and how much of it...

 

I sat down in the break room to eat my lunch with two gigantic women at a place where I was working some years ago. One of them said 'Is that all you're gonna eat?' I wanted to say 'If I ate as much as you, I'd be as fat as you', but working for the state at the time, I could have been fired in a second for not being completely PC.

 

I just shrugged. 'Yeah.'

 

Case in point JayB

[ashw_justin]

Is it education or counterpropaganda? The airwaves are bloated with misleading food marketing on a scale so immense that it's interesting to imagine how many people's diets would completely change if television ceased to exist.

 

If there is anything good to come of impending fuel shortage, it will be that the humans may rediscover the ancestral arts of generating their own body heat and providing their own locomotive energy. That is, after they have razed all of the McDonald's to the ground in search of their precious burgers, fries, soda, and ice cream.

[JayB]

Really?