I think Americans would be better off if we were more like Europeans and Canadians.
You can't be overweight and healthy? Fucking news to me. I played water polo for an hour and a half this afternoon. What did you do?Uzique The Lesser wrote:
post of the year.Roc18 wrote:
I know overweight people who are perfectly healthy.
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
-Frederick Bastiat
Feel free to move to Canada, Turquoise.Macbeth wrote:
I think Americans would be better off if we were more like Europeans and Canadians.
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
-Frederick Bastiat
I know people and football players who's BMI are over the average and are healthier than me. You can be medically overweight and healthy. Just like you can be skinny and healthy like I am.Superior Mind wrote:
If you are overweight you are not perfectly healthy. The word overweight implies that you are OVER normal.Roc18 wrote:
Well all I know is the actions of a few shouldn't affect the whole. Make laws that specifically target morbidly obese people, although i believe that someone is entitled to eat unhealthily just like someone is entitled to smoke a cigarette whenever they want. There is a difference between being fat and obese and having an eating disorder. I know overweight people who are perfectly healthy.
Candy is as serious as crack or heroin.
not be at increased risk of heart disease and diabetes, that's what. just sitting here. oh and i lifted weights. i'm going for a jog in the morning, too, as part of my thrice weekly cardio. you know, normal, average, not-overweight person stuff. hahahaha.Jay wrote:
You can't be overweight and healthy? Fucking news to me. I played water polo for an hour and a half this afternoon. What did you do?Uzique The Lesser wrote:
post of the year.Roc18 wrote:
I know overweight people who are perfectly healthy.
I ran five miles a day in the army, did a million pushups, and weighed 240. BMI cutoff for 'overweight' at my height and age is 207 pounds. I haven't weighed 207 since I was 17 years old.Roc18 wrote:
I know people and football players who's BMI are over the average and are healthier than me. You can be medically overweight and healthy. Just like you can be skinny and healthy like I am.Superior Mind wrote:
If you are overweight you are not perfectly healthy. The word overweight implies that you are OVER normal.Roc18 wrote:
Well all I know is the actions of a few shouldn't affect the whole. Make laws that specifically target morbidly obese people, although i believe that someone is entitled to eat unhealthily just like someone is entitled to smoke a cigarette whenever they want. There is a difference between being fat and obese and having an eating disorder. I know overweight people who are perfectly healthy.
Candy is as serious as crack or heroin.
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
-Frederick Bastiat
we're not talking about the BMI, which is unreliable in extreme/specific cases. nobody is saying american football players are going to die soon. we are talking about obesity. overweight as a result of too much body-fat. not over-weight because you are a champion weight-lifter. jesus christ you are thick.Roc18 wrote:
I know people and football players who's BMI are over the average and are healthier than me. You can be medically overweight and healthy. Just like you can be skinny and healthy like I am.Superior Mind wrote:
If you are overweight you are not perfectly healthy. The word overweight implies that you are OVER normal.Roc18 wrote:
Well all I know is the actions of a few shouldn't affect the whole. Make laws that specifically target morbidly obese people, although i believe that someone is entitled to eat unhealthily just like someone is entitled to smoke a cigarette whenever they want. There is a difference between being fat and obese and having an eating disorder. I know overweight people who are perfectly healthy.
Candy is as serious as crack or heroin.
i think you are in denial, jay, if i'm honest. in all your pictures you post the "i'm not fat, i'm big boned!" talk looks about as convincing as when cartman delivers the line.Jay wrote:
I ran five miles a day in the army, did a million pushups, and weighed 240. BMI cutoff for 'overweight' at my height and age is 207 pounds. I haven't weighed 207 since I was 17 years old.Roc18 wrote:
I know people and football players who's BMI are over the average and are healthier than me. You can be medically overweight and healthy. Just like you can be skinny and healthy like I am.Superior Mind wrote:
If you are overweight you are not perfectly healthy. The word overweight implies that you are OVER normal.
Candy is as serious as crack or heroin.
I'm reminded of mandatory seatbelt laws first being introduced and the same justification was used for resisting it on the basis of "I can do what I want". It's that sort of person who equates our societys "freedom" with "being able to whatever I want".
People always quote the BMI index when they talk about people being overweight. That's why I scoff at their statistics.Uzique The Lesser wrote:
we're not talking about the BMI, which is unreliable in extreme/specific cases. nobody is saying american football players are going to die soon. we are talking about obesity. overweight as a result of too much body-fat. not over-weight because you are a champion weight-lifter. jesus christ you are thick.Roc18 wrote:
I know people and football players who's BMI are over the average and are healthier than me. You can be medically overweight and healthy. Just like you can be skinny and healthy like I am.Superior Mind wrote:
If you are overweight you are not perfectly healthy. The word overweight implies that you are OVER normal.
Candy is as serious as crack or heroin.
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
-Frederick Bastiat
That's because it generally works...
The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
~ Richard Feynman
~ Richard Feynman
All I know is if I can't get an XXXL Soda at McDonalds because of people who can't control themselves I'm gonna be pissed.
I weighed 240 lbs in this picture:Uzique The Lesser wrote:
i think you are in denial, jay, if i'm honest. in all your pictures you post the "i'm not fat, i'm big boned!" talk looks about as convincing as when cartman delivers the line.Jay wrote:
I ran five miles a day in the army, did a million pushups, and weighed 240. BMI cutoff for 'overweight' at my height and age is 207 pounds. I haven't weighed 207 since I was 17 years old.Roc18 wrote:
I know people and football players who's BMI are over the average and are healthier than me. You can be medically overweight and healthy. Just like you can be skinny and healthy like I am.
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
-Frederick Bastiat
hate to break it to you but...Roc18 wrote:
All I know is if I can't get an XXXL Soda at McDonalds because of people who can't control themselves I'm gonna be pissed.
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- Superior Mind
- (not macbeth)
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Don't you get free refills at most fast food places anyway?
No, it's a piss poor excuse for an index.Spark wrote:
That's because it generally works...
Anyone with any sort of muscle on their body is automatically labeled overweight.
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
-Frederick Bastiat
yeah jay, i'm not doubting you were in shape when you were in the army. 10+ years ago. now? methinks the lady doth protest too much in this debate.
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True, the problem comes when I have to leave and can't refill lol.Superior Mind wrote:
Don't you get free refills at most fast food places anyway?
Yes, I am fat now. So what? I can still outrun you in a sprint.Uzique The Lesser wrote:
15 years ago.
I live a sedentary lifestyle, I work in an office, I haven't gained or lost weight in six years. I absolutely hate, hate, hate going to the gym but will play team sports all day long every day if given the opportunity.
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
-Frederick Bastiat
the actual "problem" is that you don't seem to realize when you've had more a healthy amount of daily sugar intake, and to stop drinking just-because "it tastes good", or tickles your brain receptors, again. you don't need 4 large cokes a day. you are taking years off your life for the most transient of pleasures.Roc18 wrote:
True, the problem comes when I have to leave and can't refill lol.Superior Mind wrote:
Don't you get free refills at most fast food places anyway?
The soda ban doesn't even affect me, but unlike others, I recognize it as opening Pandora's Box regarding unelected public health officials being able to legislate the life choices of others. It's too bad that others are willing to trade their freedom away so lightly. It makes me sad.
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
-Frederick Bastiat
lol. what? you can still outrun me in a sprint? haha. where do you get this stuff from. haven't you teased me in the past about being a competitive tennis player? i've run cross-country since my school-days. i ran track 100m and 250m for my school athletics team. hahahah. why do you even bring up these pointless and absurd claims? you are fat. stop being in denial. you can "outrun" me in the same way the local bar's drawling drunk can "take someone in a fight". i have a slim body-type and carry very little weight or non-toned muscle. i am basically made for running. you are made for eating hog. it's just plain funny you assert these silly brags, out of nowhere, for nothing. it only brings your delusion into sharper relief.Jay wrote:
Yes, I am fat now. So what? I can still outrun you in a sprint.Uzique The Lesser wrote:
15 years ago.
I live a sedentary lifestyle, I work in an office, I haven't gained or lost weight in six years. I absolutely hate, hate, hate going to the gym but will play team sports all day long every day if given the opportunity.
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#YOLOUzique The Lesser wrote:
the actual "problem" is that you don't seem to realize when you've had more a healthy amount of daily sugar intake, and to stop drinking just-because "it tastes good", or tickles your brain receptors, again. you don't need 4 large cokes a day. you are taking years off your life for the most transient of pleasures.Roc18 wrote:
True, the problem comes when I have to leave and can't refill lol.Superior Mind wrote:
Don't you get free refills at most fast food places anyway?
#carpediem
#mementomori
It's a statistical index ffs, it's not a hard-and-fast rule.Jay wrote:
No, it's a piss poor excuse for an index.Spark wrote:
That's because it generally works...
Anyone with any sort of muscle on their body is automatically labeled overweight.
The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
~ Richard Feynman
~ Richard Feynman
Believe what you want man. I used to love running before the army destroyed my knees. I can still motor quite well for short distances, longer distances and I'm liable to cough up a blackened lungUzique The Lesser wrote:
lol. what? you can still outrun me in a sprint? haha. where do you get this stuff from. haven't you teased me in the past about being a competitive tennis player? i've run cross-country since my school-days. i ran track 100m and 250m for my school athletics team. hahahah. why do you even bring up these pointless and absurd claims? you are fat. stop being in denial. you can "outrun" me in the same way the local bar's drawling drunk can "take someone in a fight". i have a slim body-type and carry very little weight or non-toned muscle. i am basically made for running. you are made for eating hog. it's just plain funny you assert these silly brags, out of nowhere, for nothing. it only brings your delusion into sharper relief.Jay wrote:
Yes, I am fat now. So what? I can still outrun you in a sprint.Uzique The Lesser wrote:
15 years ago.
I live a sedentary lifestyle, I work in an office, I haven't gained or lost weight in six years. I absolutely hate, hate, hate going to the gym but will play team sports all day long every day if given the opportunity.
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"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
-Frederick Bastiat