This is a perfect time to show my favorite map of all time, obesity through the years (which is way better than the map of Middle Earth, that obese people prefer):
As much as I despise the laxity of etiquette for the customary social graces, the obesity epidemic is definitely the worst feature. Being obese in public is rude.
How do so many people get fat that fucking quickly? Do they not have a part of their brain telling them things like 'three burgers is an excessive lunch for someone who works in an office'?
mrswdk wrote:How do so many people get fat that fucking quickly? Do they not have a part of their brain telling them things like 'three burgers is an excessive lunch for someone who works in an office'?
Watching television provides a clue. Right after a commercial telling you how much of a demon smoking is, there is a McDonalds commercial. One is a socially unacceptable vice and one is socially acceptable. IMHO, Ronald McDonald has done more damage to public health than Joe Camel could even if he tried.
That would be a good celebrity death match or epic rap battle.
I suppose you could influence penalties on health coverage dues based on people who were not meeting requirements for maintaining some standard of controllable fitness (and I think in the past this has been implemented to some extent or another) but you would have to have it clearly defined on the legal level of what those standards are not to mention potential ethical complications.
Maxleod wrote:Not strike, he's the only one with a functioning brain.
strike wolf wrote:I suppose you could influence penalties on health coverage dues based on people who were not meeting requirements for maintaining some standard of controllable fitness (and I think in the past this has been implemented to some extent or another) but you would have to have it clearly defined on the legal level of what those standards are not to mention potential ethical complications.
What right does the government have to force upon you its own form of health care and then demand that you live in such a way as to suit its financial needs?
That's like saying you have free speech, but only if the government likes what you're saying.
the same right it has to force upon you its own form of arbitrary morality and then demand you live in such a way as to suit its existential needs, presumably.
had i been wise, i would have seen that her simplicity cost her a fortune
strike wolf wrote:I suppose you could influence penalties on health coverage dues based on people who were not meeting requirements for maintaining some standard of controllable fitness (and I think in the past this has been implemented to some extent or another) but you would have to have it clearly defined on the legal level of what those standards are not to mention potential ethical complications.
What right does the government have to force upon you its own form of health care and then demand that you live in such a way as to suit its financial needs?
That's like saying you have free speech, but only if the government likes what you're saying.
Like I said. Ethical complications.
Maxleod wrote:Not strike, he's the only one with a functioning brain.
JamesKer1 wrote:What right does the government have to force upon you its own form of health care and then demand that you live in such a way as to suit its financial needs?
Or to force upon you a system of rules and laws and then demand that you follow them.
WAKE UP PEOPLE. This is the fault of the multinational food conglomerates. It is the stuff they are putting in our food, and the growth hormones they are feeding the animals.
We are an experiment of the corporations. We get fatter, die younger, birth rates increase, more money for the conglomerates to suck out of us due to the higher turnover. Also, the crap they are putting in the food gets cheaper and cheaper which also relates to more money for them and poorer health for the general populace.
warmonger1981 wrote:WAKE UP PEOPLE. This is the fault of the multinational food conglomerates. It is the stuff they are putting in our food, and the growth hormones they are feeding the animals.
We are an experiment of the corporations. We get fatter, die younger, birth rates increase, more money for the conglomerates to suck out of us due to the higher turnover. Also, the crap they are putting in the food gets cheaper and cheaper which also relates to more money for them and poorer health for the general populace.
warmonger1981 wrote:WAKE UP PEOPLE. This is the fault of the multinational food conglomerates. It is the stuff they are putting in our food, and the growth hormones they are feeding the animals.
We are an experiment of the corporations. We get fatter, die younger, birth rates increase, more money for the conglomerates to suck out of us due to the higher turnover. Also, the crap they are putting in the food gets cheaper and cheaper which also relates to more money for them and poorer health for the general populace.
I would have put Sabotage, or maybe DaGip. You're slipping princess.
warmonger1981 wrote:WAKE UP PEOPLE. This is the fault of the multinational food conglomerates. It is the stuff they are putting in our food, and the growth hormones they are feeding the animals.
We are an experiment of the corporations. We get fatter, die younger, birth rates increase, more money for the conglomerates to suck out of us due to the higher turnover. Also, the crap they are putting in the food gets cheaper and cheaper which also relates to more money for them and poorer health for the general populace.
I would have put Sabotage, or maybe DaGip. You're slipping princess.
notyou2 wrote:Who is that other conspiracy guy. Has an avatar with a guy with 70's glasses and a mustache, and his signature is airforce one and illuminati stuff.
Don't remember off the top of my head. But jay and xtratabasco were big conspiracy nuts too. Jay I think simply left, while xtra was originally banned for posting increasingly racist comments. And a few years later was unbanned, and was still posting conspiracy stuff.
notyou2 wrote:Naw, it wasn't either of them. The guy's signature was a plane with Dick Cheney's head flying into the World Trade Centre or something like that.
notyou2 wrote:Naw, it wasn't either of them. The guy's signature was a plane with Dick Cheney's head flying into the World Trade Centre or something like that.