Why American's so fat?

[cryptic name]

this economy is what gives people the opportunity to get that money in the first place. You take some out, you give some back.

and america is also about freedom of speech. If you want to look like a beach ball, go for it, but when people look at you in disgust you have NOBODY to blame but yourself.

why do you keep coming back to this? i've been championing self accountability the entire time. i don't care if people want to be fat, once again i'm in the opposite end of that spectrum so i don't know why you direct that at me, are you even reading my posts?

 

[Spider-Bite]

People don't need a political party to be desensitized.

My youth was spent watch cartoons, playing video games, and staying watching USA's Up All Night when they had the horror movies.

And I still have rotten.com bookmarked though it's hardly updated, and ogrish.com

I'm by no means saying that the republican party only desensitizes republicans.

I feel that the death penalty and second and third term abortions both desensitize all Americans to death.

With television it depends. I honestly don't believe that Spider-Man or even Batman Begins or X-Men have a bad effect on children as far as violence goes.

I think wrestling, and movies that glorify revenge violence desensitize people though. think of the steven seaqul movie where Seagul kicks the chair out and, punches the guy in the nuts, and breaks the guys teeth with the que ball in the towel. I think bad ass characters who act violent desensitize the public, where as Jackie Chang in Rush Hour glorifies martial arts, but I don't think the nature of the fighting desensitized kids to the concept of hurting people.

edit... When it comes to the issue of freedom of the press, or freedom of expression I am opposed to anything socialist except for ratings. Despite the fact that I wish entertainment didn't do certain things, I am opposed to taking government action.

 

[Addendum]

Since I've never committed a crime that warrants the death penalty, it's not an issue for me. If a family member was facing the death penalty, I'd ask them why the hell did they commit a crime that warrants it.

As for abortion, I have no opinion on it. I'm a guy and biologically unable to get pregnant.

 

[Spider-Bite]

why do you keep coming back to this? i've been championing self accountability the entire time. i don't care if people want to be fat, once again i'm in the opposite end of that spectrum so i don't know why you direct that at me, are you even reading my posts?

I don't want the DA to prosecute people for being fat, but I do want some social intervention. And it really bothers me that people are starving while others are so fat they need liposuction. I believe we should raise taxes on food, and for the people that would suffer because of this, they should get food stamps. We would have to modify the elligibility requirements for getting them, but I think it's a good idea. Well lower health care costs, and get money for the deficit, and good health promotes general happiness, which has an overall positive effect on society.

 

[Spider-Bite]

Since I've never committed a crime that warrants the death penalty, it's not an issue for me. If a family member was facing the death penalty, I'd ask them why the hell did they commit a crime that warrants it.

As for abortion, I have no opinion on it. I'm a guy and biologically unable to get pregnant.

This is the perfect example of desensitized. I'm not singling you out, because you are by no means alone.

But this is what I mean. Your basically saying you don't care, which is the equivalent of being insensitive. You've been desensitized.

 

[The Original Bamfer]

yeah I'm really out there handing out panphlets telling people to molest children. Hello? I support the party that will actually prevent children from being molested in the first place, rather than support the party who will just increase crime by desinsitizing people to violence over and over again with war and the dath penalty.

nice try at a cheap shot, dick head. I like his music. Do you buy gas? Does that mean you promote terrorism? Do you shop at wal mart and promote slavery?

Because I think fat people should be treated just as skinny people should... Does that mean I'm fat? I think I've proven my point.


I think we know who the real "dick head" is.

 

[Addendum]

This is the perfect example of desensitized. I'm not singling you out, because you are by no means alone.

But this is what I mean. Your basically saying you don't care, which is the equivalent of being insensitive. You've been desensitized.

Why should I care? I'm not the one who committed the crime, nor was I or a family member the victim.

 

[Spider-Bite]

Because I think fat people should be treated just as skinny people should... Does that mean I'm fat? I think I've proven my point.


I think we know who the real "dick head" is.

I'm sorry for calling you a dick head. And I don't believe fat people should be treated differently. I'm not saying deny them health care or anything like that. Many overweight people are very sad. Kids get picked on horribly for it, and they don't deserve to be treated that way, which is all the more reason kids need to be protected by the government from less than perfect parents.

I am one of those who believes society needs to raise society's children, because too many parents make too many horrible mistakes. I believe in the product of society argument. That society makes people.

That is why I tend to be very socialist, except for when it comes to the media.

I don't doubt that an overweight person wishes they had lived life differently, but it's usually very hard for people. The world is a sad place, and people like to eat. We can improve the quality of every person's life by helping them. I have come off as harsh, and that's because earlier today I was thinking about third world nations, and a lot of powerful emotion erupted in me. It's just extremely frustrating to see one nation feeding itself to death, while over a billion people are starving to death. Looking at those pictures, you can only imagine what it's like to be wasting away. The physical pain, not to mention the mental pain from looking at your arms and legs and seeing a skeleton.

 

[Spider-Bite]

Why should I care? I'm not the one who committed the crime, nor was I or a family member the victim.

Before I continue, I have to ask, and please be serious.

Are you just trying to get me going, or do you really feel like that?

edit.. I have to continue and say this, because I can't resist it. If your that insensitive that you don't care, then there isn't as much stopping you from being the person who will one day commit the crime. You can benefit yourself from caring about others.

I personally am a very emotion person. This may come off as weird, but I've literally cried a few times just thinking about pressing issues in the world. I'm an extremely sympathetic person. I have deep sympathy even for people in the middle east who would kill me without a second thought. I have very deep sympathy for illegal immigrants even though I want the border secured. I want them stopped, but I can't help but feel for them, trying to live a better life. I have sympathy for everybody, even murderers whom I never want released from prison. I wish we would have helped them in life before they committed the murder.

 

[Addendum]

Before I continue, I have to ask, and please be serious.

Are you just trying to get me going, or do you really feel like that?

edit.. I have to continue and say this, because I can't resist it. If your that insensitive that you don't care, then there isn't as much stopping you from being the person who will one day commit the crime. You can benefit yourself from caring about others.

I personally am a very emotion person. This may come off as weird, but I've literally cried a few times just thinking about pressing issues in the world. I'm an extremely sympathetic person. I have deep sympathy even for people in the middle east who would kill me without a second thought. I have very deep sympathy for illegal immigrants even though I want the border secured. I want them stopped, but I can't help but feel for them, trying to live a better life. I have sympathy for everybody, even murderers whom I never want released from prison. I wish we would have helped them in life before they committed the murder.

I do admit that there have been a few people I would rather see dead, a couple specifically by my own hand. Then I weigh the relief I'd get from those individuals not breathing to the consequences of my actions (such as jail time, legal fees, court costs, and possibly the death sentence). In the end, I figure it's just easier to remove myself from their presence and forget they ever existed.

I haven't lost sleep over anything I've seen on the news. Ever. And since '78, there has been plenty that others may lose sleep over.

 

[SuperFerret]

On the topic of the Death Penalty, the only thing that bugs me is the 'cruel and unusual' part. It should be more cruel and unusual, then maybe it'd be a deterrent.

 

[Honey Vibe]

Dear God, that opening post was stupid as hell!

1. Americans are diet-freaks. They are joining gyms, diet plans, home fitness programs, and everything else you can imagine by the hords.

2. The American people give of themselves to international charity, and demand that their own government give even more on top of that. Americans are increasingly joining the international grassroots movements, and sharing their homes with foreign spouses. They donate billions of tons of food to the international community every year (perhaps to further detriment, but that's another thing). Stop BLAMING Americans for every horrible thing that goes on in the world, and wake up to the fact that horrible things are caused by several people -- some more than others, NAMELY the brutalizing governments of Djibouti, Sudan, Ethiopia, and North Korea.

3. I am thin.

4. I am black.

 

[Super Kal]

at least you have the opportunity of being thin... not everyone is that lucky.

 

[Honey Vibe]

at least you have the opportunity of being thin... not everyone is that lucky.

^That's another thing. Not everyone is the same size, and not all standards of "beauty and health" around the world is "thin"!

This thread is so flippin' annoying!

 

[Colossal Spoons]

Disgusting

 

[gregtestagent]

This vid is a little corny (no pun intended) but it gives you the gist of this issue.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8455755083854163833&q=genetically+altered+food&hl=en

 

[heypapajinx]

because McDonalds just TASTES so damned good.

 

[cryptic name]

I don't want the DA to prosecute people for being fat, but I do want some social intervention. And it really bothers me that people are starving while others are so fat they need liposuction. I believe we should raise taxes on food, and for the people that would suffer because of this, they should get food stamps. We would have to modify the elligibility requirements for getting them, but I think it's a good idea. Well lower health care costs, and get money for the deficit, and good health promotes general happiness, which has an overall positive effect on society.

that's giving the government too much power in my eyes.

 

[gregtestagent]

It's like I'm watching Ghostbusters. Ray: "It's the Stay-Puft Marshmellow man"

 

[terry78]

because McDonalds just TASTES so damned good.

Why do chubby kids always wear garish hats?

 

[Master Chief]

And why do their arms look like they've been elastic banded?

 

[heypapajinx]

Why do chubby kids always wear garish hats?

haaahahaahahahaahahaaa!
i couldn't stop laughing at this comment!
out of everything wrong in this picture you ask about his hat!?!?
classic.
thank you for the side splitting humor.t:

 

[heypapajinx]

And why do their arms look like they've been elastic banded?

that's muscle definition.

 

[The_Dark_Knight]

that's muscle definition.

lmao t:

 

[BT18]

somebody mentioned Howard...