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Fat People Cause Global Warming, Higher Food Prices
Stating the obvious: "Two scientists write that obese people are disproportionately responsible for high food prices and greenhouse gas emissions because they consume 18% more food energy due to their greater body mass -- and require increased quantities of fuel to transport themselves and the food they eat. 'Promotion of a normal distribution of BMI would reduce the global demand for, and thus the price of, food,' write the authors, Phil Edwards and Ian Roberts of the evocatively named London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine."
Weighing more makes us harder for the aliens to suck out of our cars, the reserves mean we'll last longer in the coming famine years, and if any skinny little vegans give us any lip, all we gotta do is sit on 'em to quash the noise...
Seriously, extreme obesity is a darwin rule in action, usually - nobody wants to breed with us, and heart disease/stroke usually kill us "early" - rather like gay marriage, if you don't like 'em, don't join 'em, otherwise, back off: It's hard enough living in a world that wasn't built for us without having some smug, self-righteous ass-hat making comments because, while normal, we don't fit average... only made the worse when it's people who want their particular outside-of-average needs respected who fail the tolerance test...
Take the 90-Day Challenge! http://rwmurker.bodybyvi.com/
He's skinny... better mobility...
Way I see it, things even out pretty nicely: Fat people are disproportionately unlikely to get laid, and therefore don't contribute to overpopulation.
GAAH! MY PRINTER IS ON FIRE!!! PUT IT OUT! PUT IT OUT!
Does this mean I'm finally in a class that the government is going to throw money at?
Oh, and I plan to live 20% fewer years than average, so it's really a 2% gain for the planet.
-Peter
So Calista Flockhart was in fact just caring for the environment? Who knew.
Full Tilt
unfortunately, according to the codified laws of debate, chapter 5, subsection 32, the charge of "straw man" is an applicable rhetorical device in any disagreement, except in the instance of arguing about a fat man. you will have to rephrase
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Dude,
:-)
NO WAY you fit in a Civic!
You know? After all this time, I hadn't noticed this! Thanks.
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
BMI needs to be replaced by RWI or residual wobble index. In this, the doctor attaches accelerometers to your body and then rocks you from side to side and then measures how long your flabby belly continues to jiggle after he stops.
What if Tetris was invented by Nazis?
We tried that, but when people find out what a normal BMI is, they just cry and eat more comfort food.
Now combining the sudo sceince of global warming with a little good old fashion scapegoating.
$ sudo sceince
sudo: sceince: command not found
Spoken like a true pseudo-literate.
Speaking as a 5'8" guy weighing in at around 135 pounds, this sounds alful facist to me.
Nobody would call me fat but replace global warmin with economic struggles and fat people with jew and our intelectual elite sound pretty much like Hitler did in the the late 1920s.Perhaps you should look up the spelling of "alful" and the definition of "facist."
Can we get back to real science before we completely destroy the world pretty please?Oh, you did not just Godwin yourself... Oh wait, you did. Might I suggest taking a few steps towards joining the "intelectual elite" before shooting your mouth off in the future? You sound more convincing when you don't have to resort to attacks based in anti-intellectualism and misapprehensions about what constitutes Fascism to defend your reasonable point about scapegoating.
No arguments there, this whole thing is preposterous beyond comprehension. What is it with people's never considering the actual marginal impact of ideas they advocate? Or even considering whether their pet project/scapegoat would have an effect within three orders of magnitude of the problem. Foolishness.
Drunk people can't possible eat *that* much.
I can see this method being inaccurate for very short people.
The most accurate test is PMR or Pie Merchant Response. In it, the subject aproaches a pie stall and an EEG is taken and compared to the EEG of the pie merchant looking at increasingly large heaps of money. Alternatly if the EEG matches the pie merchants reding when seeing images of unemployment offices, house repossessions and homeless people under a bridge, then the person is underweight.
What if Tetris was invented by Nazis?
Soylent Green.
It's the only way to deal with the explosive population growth of overweight people.
I hate people who kill conversations by invoking Godwin all the time. They're such communication Nazis!
I hate printers.
Wait, are you suggesting that a North American diet doesn't make North Americans slow and sluggish? Because, as someone who lives surrounded by the fuckers (I are American), I beg to differ.
Have you ever been to a North American mall?
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