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[trinityvixen]

Super-Size Me was fun, though I agree with feiran that the director/star was a little too annoying of a person to really rally behind him. He did manage to set up his film such that a lot of the questions I was asking to myself in ponderous wonder were answered, so, kudos to that. I give him credit for knowing the obvious questions had to be answered, and his ability to mitigate the harsh results in a realistic fashion--for instance, not damning the girl who only ordered fries at a cafeteria as a fat-chewer because she probably had a real lunch back at her seat. The guy who he interviewed, however, who thought we should heckle fat people like we do smokers? TOTAL ASSHOLE. Unlike smoking, being overweight or having a predisposition to being heavy cannot be helped sometimes--there will always be people who will stay heavier than ideal/average even with recommended diet/exercise. Smoking, on the other hand, you do to yourself. Your personality might be addictive and make it worse, but your genes did not make you more likely to smoke...

Didn't make me stop wanting McDonalds or any fast food, really. I find it funny that the McNugget is the most disgusting mish-mash of stuff and that was all I could eat for years because my older brother thought it would be funny to tell me the workers at McDonald's spat on their hands before they made burgers (just mine, naturally; his were fine), burgers that contained a fair portion of mouse heads and rats' tails. Oh well, I was never in danger of going back to nuggets now that most places have those chicken strips, which are actually meat-like under the fried skin.

What the movie did do was make me feel fat and out of shape. Playing Dance Dance on workout mode did not change this feeling, but at least I did something. I'm going to walk some this weekend and I'm going to start walking part of the way home from work when the weather is more reliably warm...

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[hslayer.livejournal.com]

I still haven't seen it, I still believe in people's free will, and I still think anyone with a name like "Morgan Spurlock" must be evil in a genuinely comicbook-esque way.

[(Anonymous)]

The guy who he interviewed, however, who thought we should heckle fat people like we do smokers?

That doesn't work anyway, because non-smokers don't smoke. Thin people still eat food. Many thin people still eat fast food. So there's no way a fit person could heckle a fat person without being hypocritical in one way or another.

[umeyard.livejournal.com]

Okay so i typed out my angsty rant and delteted it.

Some people choose to eat awful. Its not genes.
Some people are addicted to second hand smoke before they old enough to have a choice if they are raised by smokers.

And let me just say this too, i was walkign home from work the other night and some random guy walked up to me and grabbed my arm and said in a loud voice "YOUR KILLING YOURSELF AND EVERYBODY AROUND YOU! MURDERER!"...now, people who over eat and harm themselves never get assulted like that in public. Its not fair.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

These are valid points, and there's not going to be a way to reach a consensus one way or the other. No one should be verbally abused for what they do to kill themselves, period. We should definitely harass people slightly when they're self-destructing, but there should be alimit.

[cagexxx.livejournal.com]

I hear that McDonalds is selling six-packs of nuggets for $1 for a couple of weeks at most locations nationwide. I suppose any location in NYC would be kind of unlikely, though.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Haven't looked in the city, but they were selling them for $1 up in Westchester. I assume they'll sell them in the city, too. Suppose this is just to liquidate inventory?

[wellgull.livejournal.com]

Eh, probably a loss leader. Gets you in the store to buy the overpriced soda.