If it’s not convenient, it won’t work. Sorry, but that’s just human nature. Making fruits and vegetables affordable and convenient might help some people eat a healthier diet. Telling them “don’t drink soda” probably won’t, and it’s not like people haven’t heard that message a million times already anyway.
I do agree with his grouping of fruit juice and soda into the same category, though.
Well, I never said that. I said that I think genetics are a factor, for some people.
At some point, one simply needs to deal with it, rather than throw up one’s hands and make excuses, given the severe health effects of being obese.
Bravo! And then I guess they all meet in a restaurant, Sex In the City style, to discuss their foibles and tie all these hilarious vignettes together.
I would totally watch this show. I would propose an additional character - LilyoftheField as the zany next door neighbour. I’m not exactly sure what her plot arc would be, but I’m sure it would involve 3 feet of snow on her sidewalk.
One of them finds a slug in her salad, and thinks it’s the mother of all loogies, resulting in . . .
Resulting in curlcoat accusing the kids at the next table of spitting in the salad and convincing Stoid to work with her to pass a law making it illegal for children to leave the house until they’re 12. She’ll take it all the way to the supreme court!
Let’s hope the waitress doesn’t try to give anybody a free refill!
Do I want to know?
No. I don’t want to know. I am strong.
I’m apparently not, and I want to know.
But then ZPG Zealot pipes up her opinion that the loogie wasn’t from the kids at all – noticed that the server was of a certain “ethnic type,” and she’s sure there’s a connection between that and the appearance of the loogie. Moreover, she firmly believes that the server was definitely “overly friendly” to her. This leads Stoid and curlcoat to reconsider their legal plan of action. But all of a sudden . . .
Do a search for Springs1 posts in this thread.
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=509580&highlight=restaurant+drink+refills
She starts at post 247 and then goes bonkers. Only thread she posted on during her short stay with us. Very entertaining.
Heh - I just searched that thread out too.
Comedy. Gold.
Ha! I forgot about that. Good times.
Looking over that thread, Springs1 has kind of a similar posting style to Stoid. Long, crazy diatribes, random capitalizing, random underlining when she gets really mad. I haven’t seen her post in red yet, but I haven’t read the whole thing.
I’m more than willing to admit that when I’ve been less lazy and less gluttonous… I’ve lost weight!
I’ve known a number of people (and I am one, too) that you would’ve said “Oh, they’re just genetically big/have a high “set point”/are ‘big boned’”.
Until they started eating less and exercising more. And then, huge surprise, the pounds came off. Not right away, not without plateaus, not without sacrifice, but consistently over the long run.
That’s the ONLY thing that’s worked for me. I can read books, journal, follow fads, read threads like this… but I’d be doing myself more good if I closed the laptop and got on my bike instead.
The loogie looked up at them and shouted out: “What, I’m snot good enough for you?”
This may be a bit out of character - I’m not sure Stoid would ever reconsider a legal plan of action.
Not a significant enough one that we should be discussing it in addressing the obesity epidemic in the U.S.
Yes yes yes.
I owned a hunting dog once, but never even heard of fucking dogs. What won’t they think of next!