So your contention is that Spurlock outright lied and falsified evidence in his movie.
In which case, don’t you think that McDonalds would just SUE him?
However, McDonalds has NOT sued him, despite the fact that the movie’s been out for some time; don’t you think that suggests your contention is idiotic? If not, why not?
Also, I thought it was a pretty good movie, and I have no interest in bashing McDonald’s, therefore, you’re a dumbass.
–p
Yes, I can understand disagreement about that. What I don’t understand is why this:
must follow.
And Spurlock’s Dr. was just as baffled, but the results were right there. You may suspect it was a lie, but that just comes down to you choosing not to believe it.
Well, you brought it on yourself. “Death-spike industry”… that’s fuckin’ hilarious. Your steadfast defense of the analogy (calling it “perfect”) and then your abrupt abandonment of it made the situation hysterical. I’ve seen more bravery from cockroaches when the bathroom light turns on.
[Khan]I’ve done more than kill you. I’ve ridiculed you. And I wish to go on… ridiculing you.[/Khan]
I didn’t abaondon it! I still think it’s perfect satire; it’s a perfect analogy in the satirical sense.
And pizzabrat has STILL not answered any of the questions on the previous page. Even when posters like nyctea asked nicely.
And that cross you keep attempting to nail yourself to in your last few posts is…well, I really have no words.
“They just don’t understaaaaand me!”
There aren’t enough rolleyes in the world.
I’m no expert but couldn’t his liver damage have been caused by his body simply not being capable of processing a sudden shift in his diet? If that is the case, it wouldn’t have mattered if he was eating at McDonald’s or homemade burgers, fries, and apple pies.
Yes. They are called morons. And sadly, being morons, the world will never be safe for them.
Besides the fact that they’re (IMO too) heavily regulated, tobacco and alcohol companies are honest enough to sell their wares as adult recreational products. Recreation by definition has to be consumed in moderation, unless you’re a carefree layabout. If ads started portraying families enjoying a breakfast of cigarettes and whiskey, then I’d have a problem.
I never called fats and sugar evil. Nor have I calories. I know you asked this before I specified my problem with McDonald’s products, though.
I just threw two words together, but yes, I like pizza. Pizza is not necessarily a fast food. In fact, most pizza places make your food to order from scratch; that’s the opposite of fast food. Besides, where I eat pizza, the cheese is cheese, the dough is dough, the sauce is sauce, and the toppings were all once living.
There, lezlers. Sorry I couldn’t get around to every post in this four-page thread immediately.
Apology accepted.
[sub]Psst! And what you just did there? What, with the pretending that I was riding your ass for failing to respond to four pages of posts immediately when in reality you know damn well people would think you were ignoring posts made on the 2nd and 3rd pages since you were answering posts on the 4th almost immediately after they were posted? Yeah, that’s one of the things irritating people in this thread. Honestly, there’s not a “we hate pizzabrat” secret society banding together to flame you. It’s stuff that you’re doing that people find highly annoying, that’s causing the flames. Maybe if you’d stop being so knee jerk defensive (ah, the irony) and actually started listening to what people are telling you, you wouldn’t get flamed so hotly, so often.[/sub]
You know, there is some truth to the saying “when everyone seems to be disagreeing with you, maybe it’s you who’s wrong.” Not always true, but usually a pretty safe bet.
The toppings on a burger were also once living. What do you think McDonald’s puts on their burgers… moon rocks? Scrap metal?
Can Animal 57 really be considered living?
–p
(just kidding!)
Not exactly moon rocks, but in the cheese there’s sodium phosphate, sorbic acid, and sodium citrate. In the pickles there’s alum, polysorbate 80, calcium chloride, and sodium benzoate. And in the bun, there is calcium sulfate, calcium carbonate, calcium silicate, ethanol, sorbitol, polysorbate 20, sodium stearoyl lactylate, ammonium chloride, ammonium sulfate, calcium peroxide, ascorbic acid, azodicarbonamide, and calcium propionate. I’m not a biologist, but those don’t sound organic at all.
Satire by definition involves irony and exagerration, which is contradictory to the idea of a “perfect” analogy. Besides, there’s no randomly-placed ‘spike’ in McDonald’s food which will kill the unwary without warning. By your analogy, someone who sat in the chair without knowing its nature could be killed without warning. How, exactly, could a person who was previously unfamiliar with McDonald’s food drop dead after eating a Big Mac?
I don’t know if anyone saw it, but my dad reads Men’s Health magazine and there’s an article by the guy from Super Size Me.
And while I still think he’s a moron, he even says, that it’s okay to eat at Mickey D’s once or twice a month. However, he also said he doesn’t feel like eating there again for a while.
Gee, I wonder why.
Anyone with a shred of intelligence would know about the spikes. And your hypothetically person could be led by ads to mistake a Big Mac and its cousins for food, and decide to eat them as fully balanced meals throughout their lives, making them socially dead when they balloon up to unattractive levels.
You have made no progress in unfucking your brain over the course of a 4-page thread. You really deserve some kind of trophy.
You’re clinging to your prejudices with the tenacity of a Special Sauce stain on a leather dashboard after a bumpy drive-through.
Cicso has it right, though. You need to seriously unfuck yourself.
This the one? Of particular note (other than “Today, I still eat burgers (although not McDonald’s), but probably just once a month.”):
Even he admits his body wasn’t ready for the sudden change in diet! Again I ask, could this have had anything to do with his liver damage?
A better analogy would be an extremely comfortable, lovely sofa that OVER TIME, if sat on constantly, would lead you to become obese, cause high blood pressure and put you at risk for heart attack and/or stroke.
Not an instant death spike. There’s no fucking benefit to those sofas. (Don’t tell me they’re “cheap”-plenty of stuff is cheap and doesn’t have a benefit)
Like she said, a better analogy would be a regular old sofa.