New York Soda Drinkers, REJOICE!
A judge has blocked that stupid large soda ban, you may now get your Big Gulps if you are in NYC.
http://wkzo.com/news/articles/2013/m...sugary-drinks/ |
They are now free to drink their large sodas and simultaneously b**** about the cost of our healthcare system. Kudos to them. Idiots.
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Their Hitler Mayor is going to be upset about that.
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Yea Bloomberg went a bit too far on this one. Not very many people were happy about it. I was particularly concerned with people buying multiple sodas or coffees and all the extra waste that created.
It'll never happen, Bloomberg is gone in a few months. |
Sadly, the judge did not also block Bloomberg from continuing on as Mayor. He'll come up with another idiotic notion soon enough.
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Its not the soda ban...its the actions of Fuhr Bloomberg that are getting out of hand. That is waaaaaayyyy too much government rule. And if you want that type of lifestyle, then move to NY. I don't need politicians telling me how to wipe my ass, what ear buds I can use, what type of drink I can and can't have and so on.
Government and local public service have lost sight of this and we create silly rules just to create them. At the end of the day, government should be about public works (i.e. infrastructure), public safety (police/fire/paramedics) and public fun (parks and recreation and libraries). If NY put the same amount of money ---dollar for dollar--- that they spent on this stupid soda ban into a public program promoting fitness and wellness they could have accomplished more. |
They need to pave the alleys with urnal cakes anyway. oh... The JETS Suck.
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Fuhrer Bloomberg vill haf difficult time for re-election.
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I don't drink much pop, but it's pretty stupid to try and force people to drink less just by making the cup sizes smaller. I'm sure there's much more important things NY needs to be worrying about than people drinking big gulps.
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Execute the fat people.
/Omaha |
Meth and Big Gulps. Reunited at last.
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This reminded me of prohibition. I wonder if the underground speakeasys in Manhattan were selling a variety of moonshine carbonated beverages.
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Gubbment needs to ban cheeseburgers.
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I will be honest, the first thought that enters my mind when I see an extremely fat person is "lazy".
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People with weight problems, the one group of people that can be made fun of without fear of repercussions.
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Black people White people Asians Hispanics Gay people Southern people New Yorker residents etc... Feel good about yourselves? |
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You're all over the board here. First, you seem to suggest that making comments about fat people is some how racist or bigoted and now you're dragging alcoholics and druggies into the discussion to somehow make fat people seem less lazy? |
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I really don't care either way, but the sooner that people embrace the truth, the better. On a side note, please don't associate Omaha's defiintion of fat with my own. Omaha fat: http://ts1.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.49108...67572&pid=15.1 Notorious fat: http://ts4.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.50363...90795&pid=15.1 |
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And my initial point was, and still is, that people with wieght problems are viewed as less of a person. Same way various groups (blacks, Irish, etc.) have been viewed throughout history. Are there fat people out there that are lazy slobs that would rather eat a bag of chips vs. get up and take a walk? You bet. However, people tend to paint with a broad brush. |
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That's what bothers me the most. When somebody tries to do the right thing but isn't educated enough to make the right decision because things have gotten so complicated. Or people who run all the time but don't build muscles or control their diet. |
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Soda has been linked to cancer, diabetes, heart disease, weakens teeth and bones, and most kinds contain Caffeine which is an incredibly addictive chemical... then we let them market it to children. Why is there no warning label informing you of these dangers? Cigarettes have warning labels and age requirements... but something that causes just as many health problems is totally legal. Both contain an extremely addictive chemical. It's poison. |
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I don't order or buy anything unless I look at the nut. value chart. Most people don't have a clue what that chart means. On a side note, I used to love meatball subs with cheese and jalapenos. One day I got ahold of Subway's nutritional values and about fainted. Have not had one in 9 years since. |
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There are SO many people who claim to have "tried everything", but never made a true effort to change themselves for the better. The negative perception of people who are obese is driven mostly (at least in my case) by a judgement of their personality. If you're fat and happy, then good for you, but I don't want to hear you whine about it if you're not making a concerted effort to do something about it. |
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Likewise, I am 100% opposed to the soda ban. Too much of a slippery slope for my tastes, no pun intended. |
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Congrats on your slow & steady progress getting back in shape. I understand what you are dealing with. I sit at a desk all damn day and I gain weight like nobody's business when I get lazy with exercise & diet. |
Not saying soda is a health elixir, but ANY food or drink in excess is not good. My God, could these elected pricks find something more beneficial to work on? What a waste of time and resources to enforce this crap. Health savings? Bullshit. Any cost savings are offset by the government waste to enforce the regulations. I want to make my own decisions, not let reeruned politicians make them for me. Politicians are at the same intellectual level as actors. One of the best feelings you have is when you can resist the temptation of a food you know is bad for you because YOU decided it was healthier not to eat/drink it. I want to have the freedom to make that choice and feel good about myself, not live in some Gulag/1984 society where some asshat limits my choices. How can you be happy when choices are made for you? Do you sheep love being controlled so much? People used to abhor "the man" interfering in their lives. Now they welcome it.
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Why are there so many ridiculously fat people walking around eating shit, drinking soda, smoking cigarettes, etc? What is going on that makes so many people completely neglect themselves? |
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It's not government statistics. The government isn't the sole source of statistics and information about rising health costs. That can be found from any independent source. And it's an overwhelmingly agreed fact that healthcare costs are drastically rising and will continue to do so until serious changes are made. |
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I think we should start taxing the crap out of manginas. If you are a male between 21 and 65 and cannot at the very least 3 rep 405 on bench and 585 on squats, then you get an extremely high ass daily tax until you can. Those are rather low standards and after all, its for your health and the good of those around you that you are not a complete pussy. Fairies & tinkerbells are costing us too much in health care cost every time they chip a nail and have to go to the doc to get fixed.
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gubbment needs to ban those king sized candy bars, the normal size will do.
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(lights up cigarette) |
I recall an article in the last couple years that says obesity (and related health problems) costs less long term. They die faster. Healthy people live longer and are more apt to suffer more expensive health issues in their later stages (cancers, Alzheimer's, etc.).
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I'm all about freedom. But the fact is that health care costs aren't based on independent freedom. When some lazy slob piece of shit neglects their health and it results in unnecessary care because of that person's poor health, it raises costs for everyone. If it only raised costs for that one lazy slob piece of shit, it would be fine and nobody would care if that person ate themselves to death. But when the price of their "Freedom" ends up on everyone else's health care bill, it's not about "Freedom" anymore. It's about shared cost of care. |
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This thread went from a legitimate discussion to a bunch of idiots ranting about weight and using rising health care costs as the excuse, despite the fact that health care costs rise independently of citizen obesity.
Dumbasses. |
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I said it defies logic for someone to knowingly slowly kill him/herself by shoveling garbage into his/her fat, POS face and that makes me ignorant? WTF is ignorant about that? There is nothing logical about it. I said ignorance about how to lose weight and a genetic predisposition to gain weight (the two "secondary issues" that were listed in the post to which I replied) are usually easily overcome and that makes me ignorant? I can't throw a double Big Mac without it landing on some magazine article about how to lose weight. BTW, there are about a million TV shows dedicated to education on this very topic and we all know how fatties love their TV, right? |
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I get a lot of shit in the Pictures forum for my desire to **** "thick" girls, but even so, I'd never date one. To me, being overweight is a sign of laziness as well as poor decision-making and a supreme lack of discipline. Not good personal qualities in my opinion. But to be clear, I don't "think less of fat people" and I do my best not to judge them. That is just the thought that comes to my head when prodded on the subject. |
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We know. You get a boner first. :thumb: |
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