archenemy Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cj001f Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE STUPID Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al_Pine Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 Please define the implicit premise of your question more precisely. Which people do the "experts" advocate ridiculing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaskadskyjKozak Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lizard_brain Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 FATTIE THREAD! :tup: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cj001f Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 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" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
builder206 Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 Yo momma so fat she has to use the driveway for an ironing board! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foraker Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaskadskyjKozak Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No. 13 Baby Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 Yo mama so fat she's on both sides of the family. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lizard_brain Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iciclespyder Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 (edited) 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayB Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cj001f Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tvashtarkatena Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaskadskyjKozak Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 we need these guys put in charge as health czars: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RuMR Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 everybody's gotta pick on the fat kid...i'm gettin' sick of it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaskadskyjKozak Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 everybody's gotta pick on the fat kid...i'm gettin' sick of it! sorry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenderfour Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 I don't get any special treatment. ... except at restaurants. People tend to hide their fries. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lizard_brain Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 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.' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
builder206 Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayB Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cj001f Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashw_justin Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayB Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 Really? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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