# What are those unspeakable truths but too afraid to say them) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 23, 2002, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-those-unspeakable-truths-but-too-afraid-to-say-them/125262 "2002-08-23T17:15:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Essured](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Essured](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Essured)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-those-unspeakable-truths-but-too-afraid-to-say-them/125262/41 "2002-08-26T04:38:32Z")
It’s not the pants that are making your butt look big, it’s your butt. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Fred](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/db5fbb/32.png) [@Fred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fred)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-those-unspeakable-truths-but-too-afraid-to-say-them/125262/42 "2002-08-26T04:51:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mtgman \* > \*\*My unspeakable truth? The US Government has lost touch with its constituants. Democracy has failed. > > The keystone of Democracy is an informed and educated voter. This has completely failed in the US. Media conglomerates and PR firms now decide who is elected and when. In effect, the government is now decided by a handful of the policymakers for mass media. Which stories to give top billing, what types of stories to run, etc. > > My even more unspeakable truth? All the Media Conglomerates and PR firms power combined pales in comparison to the power weilded by the Federal Reserve Board. The dollar has won. > > Steven \*\* You had me, man. And then you lost me. Do you really believe that the Media decided to elect Bush? The so-called Liberal media? Hell, do you think The Media wanted Bush over McCain? I’m sorry, man, I just don’t see it. ---
**Author:** ![Jervoise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d2c977/32.png) [@Jervoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jervoise)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-those-unspeakable-truths-but-too-afraid-to-say-them/125262/43 "2002-08-26T05:20:48Z")
It’s more important to be kind than it is be honest. Most people are good, most of the time. Most people don’t deserve your cynicism. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_the\_Immortal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-those-unspeakable-truths-but-too-afraid-to-say-them/125262/44 "2002-08-26T12:56:00Z")
The “liberal media” is a myth. The right-wing status quo in the U.S. is more profitable for the media, so they support it. Not all men are created equal. There are many people who will never amount to anything useful. Some people are simply smarter, better looking, stronger, and healthier than others. God does not love you. The term “inner beauty” is used almost exclusively by shallow/stupid people. Truly “deep” people don’t need a metaphor to understand the concept of a person having merits far beyond his/her physical appearance. ---
**Author:** ![istara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e79b87/32.png) [@istara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/istara)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-those-unspeakable-truths-but-too-afraid-to-say-them/125262/45 "2002-08-26T13:25:25Z")
Yes, your bum does look big in that. Yes, the hairdresser has totally fucked your hair, and no, it won’t “wash out right” or “settle” in a few days - it’ll be crap for a month or more. Life is easier if you’re rich. Life is easier if you’re beautiful. Life is easier if you’re thin. And the biggest truth? _If you are thin, rich, and beautiful, you can fuck off because the rest of us hate you 😉_ ---
**Author:** ![The\_Ace\_of\_Swords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@The\_Ace\_of\_Swords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Ace_of_Swords)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-those-unspeakable-truths-but-too-afraid-to-say-them/125262/46 "2002-08-26T14:09:37Z")
Spelling counts, grammar less so. The relative legal and social status of marijuana vs. tobacco is irrational. People make a first impression of you based on your verbal skills, sex, body type, race, jewlery, and shoes, though not necessarily in that order. Stereotypes are endemic, and are usually to good effect. The political process is designed to discourage voter involvement. There has never been a ‘liberal media.’ The Greens:The Democrats:The Republicans::Martin Luther King:Malcom X:Segregation Color separation is key, detergent less so The teaching process is designed to encourage parental involvement, they just don’t get any. There is no correlation between the amount of money per student in public school systems and the education each student recieves. There is a correlation between that money and the cost of school construction. A culture’s repect for intelligence, education, hard work, and family correlates with acheivement, earnings, and social stability. The slavery reparations movement is a classic racist hustle. Ceding land to the indians so that they can make Casinos for the White Man is absurd karmic justice. People who inherit or win money usually wish they hadn’t. The best happiness comes over the longest term. ---
**Author:** ![ladyfoxfyre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@ladyfoxfyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladyfoxfyre)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-those-unspeakable-truths-but-too-afraid-to-say-them/125262/47 "2002-08-26T15:13:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mr. Moto \* > \*\*Life tends to be harder for stupid people. > \*\* I think that life tends to be easier for stupid people. Nearly every school in the U.S. spends enormous amounts of money to bring the underachievers up to a normal level of intelligence and capability, while us “smart kids” get what, Honors courses?, which everybody knows just means more work. I see stupid teenagers passing classes that they jack around in all day, just because they are popular or play sports or know how to suck up very well. ---
**Author:** ![furnishesq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/977dab/32.png) [@furnishesq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furnishesq)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-those-unspeakable-truths-but-too-afraid-to-say-them/125262/48 "2002-08-26T15:21:53Z")
You guys are brilliant! I wen taway for the weekend and I come back with these ownderful gems to my post! THinking about it , I probably shouldn’t have used the word “truth” but rather “what is your unspeakable opinion” – but oh well. I have another one: “While I pray that I never become disabled, or want any of my loved ones to become disabled – there are just some disabled persons who should not be working in the consumer industry because they are too disabled” “Speaking of 9/11, most politicans secretly believe it was the best thing that ever happened to their carreers” “Whoopi Goldberg and Gerrison Keeler just aren’t funny” “Most journalist think they are they news rather than just reporting it” “Old people, as a rule, are far more dangerous behind the road than young people are” “I could never understand why most war veterans want to stop flag burning. Didn’t most make terrible selfless sacrifices so a small minority of people could make such unpatriotic statements?” “Life is fair – for a few” “Pamela Anderson is rather unattractive” “For some strange reason Martha Stewart is attractive to me” “JFK Jr. had tremendous potential, but really did nothing with it – same with Lady Di” ---
**Author:** ![D18](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@D18](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D18)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-those-unspeakable-truths-but-too-afraid-to-say-them/125262/49 "2002-08-26T15:40:52Z")
William Poundstone was right about Cecil. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-those-unspeakable-truths-but-too-afraid-to-say-them/125262/50 "2002-08-26T17:57:01Z")
Malthus was right, too. ---
**Author:** ![Fred](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/db5fbb/32.png) [@Fred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fred)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2002, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-those-unspeakable-truths-but-too-afraid-to-say-them/125262/51 "2002-08-27T01:06:13Z")
Disabled people aren’t special. They are human beings just like everybody else. But disabled. ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2002, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-those-unspeakable-truths-but-too-afraid-to-say-them/125262/52 "2002-08-27T02:16:53Z")
1. On their deathbed nobody ever wishes they spent more time at the office. 2. Money is the cheapest way to pay for something. ---
**Author:** ![Genseric](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Genseric](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Genseric)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2002, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-those-unspeakable-truths-but-too-afraid-to-say-them/125262/53 "2002-08-27T04:35:49Z")
Pauly Shore is _not_ funny. Prime-time TV is filled with unwatchable dreck. Jeffrey Dahmer got what he deserved. O.J. Simpson murdered his ex-wife and Ron Goldman. Craig Kilborn is a smarmy, arrogant, no-talent hack. Gandhi always wanted a 12 oz. ribeye. Shirley MacLaine is a total fruitcake. Keanu Reeves is not a very good actor. Most politicians are self-serving hypocrites. ---
**Author:** ![Rodd\_Hill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3ab097/32.png) [@Rodd\_Hill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodd_Hill)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2002, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-those-unspeakable-truths-but-too-afraid-to-say-them/125262/54 "2002-08-27T04:49:28Z")
**jinwicked** said: > [@](#): > > but I gotta admit that Laura Petri was hot You could say that Laura Petri was quite a dish! My contributions: Stupid people are breeding faster than smart people. Everything causes cancer. No matter how many megavitamins you take, how often per week you go to the gym, or how many high colonics you endure, you are going to die. ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2002, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-those-unspeakable-truths-but-too-afraid-to-say-them/125262/55 "2002-08-27T06:06:57Z")
As I can testify from a decade of fighting weight, and only recently succeeding… There is only one way to lose weight - stop eating so much. Stop buying into diets, gym memberships, videos, fat-burner pills, uppers, downers, in-betweeners, books, and every single fad drink that comes your way. Stop making excuses about being too busy, “the kids demand fast food and I have to eat it too”, “my husband/wife/parents force me to”, etc, etc. Track your calories, and eat less. And yes, it is harder than kicking a drug addiction. In fact, it is one of the hardest things you can ever do, for some people. You will suffer, and you will feel like dying, for weeks on end. And this is why most will fail. But the fact remains…stop eating so much, and you must lose weight. The First Law commands it, and it will be so. Yes, your body will fight you by changing your metabolism. You can fight through it, and the energy level will return. For me, I had to feel like absolute shit for a solid month. But it does, and must, work. If you cannot do it, it does not mean you are a bad person. If you don’t want to do it, it does not mean you are a bad person. On the absolute contrary - whatever weight you are: you are who you are, and people should - no, people _must_ - love and appreciate you for being you. And remember, you are “people” too. Love yourself. But _if_, I repeat, _if_ you want to lose weight, or are ordered by your physician to do so, there is ultimately only one real, surefire way. You know it, I know it, we all know it, so stop making excuses. Stop spending untold $$$ making scam artists richer, and start taking control of your life. ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2002, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-those-unspeakable-truths-but-too-afraid-to-say-them/125262/56 "2002-08-27T06:23:40Z")
**Jack Dean Tyler** was RIGHT! :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Genseric](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Genseric](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Genseric)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2002, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-those-unspeakable-truths-but-too-afraid-to-say-them/125262/57 "2002-08-27T06:52:29Z")
The “Good Old Days” are a load of crap. Things are better, on average, now than they’ve ever been. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2002, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-those-unspeakable-truths-but-too-afraid-to-say-them/125262/58 "2002-08-27T11:30:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rodd Hill \* > My contributions: > > No matter how many megavitamins you take, how often per week you go to the gym, or how many high colonics you endure, you are going to die. \*\* And when you die, you are probably going to be a dribbling, incontinent imbecile, because Alzheimers is on the rise, folks! Just one of the many consequences of living to a ripe old age! ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2002, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-those-unspeakable-truths-but-too-afraid-to-say-them/125262/59 "2002-08-27T12:01:00Z")
“Friends” and “The Simpsons” are two of the worst television shows ever. Jay Leno is the most annoying person in the world. Neighbors should have the right to stone those neighbors who don’t mow their grass at least every two weeks. (Next door neighbor bought a brand new riding mower a month ago and has **YET** to use it. Gimme some rocks now!) ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2002, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-those-unspeakable-truths-but-too-afraid-to-say-them/125262/60 "2002-08-27T12:35:20Z")
Money can buy happiness. Odds are, you’re not fat because of a glandular condition. You’re definitely not big-boned, either. In _any_ situation, regardless of the field or stated system of organization, a small number will become leaders and the rest will follow. Corollaries: 1. Regardless of what they say about democracy and equal rights, a large percentage of people want to follow someone who tells them what to do. 2. Most people getting involved in causes are just following their friends Star Wars was good, but c’mon, people. Most things just aren’t anyone’s god-damned business. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-those-unspeakable-truths-but-too-afraid-to-say-them/125262.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-those-unspeakable-truths-but-too-afraid-to-say-them/125262.md?page=4)