[quote]MaximusB wrote:
The problem is that this process has already begun. People have found this comfort level with being not just fat, being ridiculously infested with pure lard with no desire to move other than to and from the fridge. Their idea of a bicep curl is bringing the fork to their mouths for yet more destruction. It will only get worse, as this generation of children are expected not to outlive their parents.[/quote]
Coincidentally, if this generation of children is not expected to outlive their parents, it might even itself out … maybe they’ll die without procreating thus ending this cycle of lethargy. We can only pray
I HATE OBESE PEOPLE, I seriously fucking do. When I see one of these motherfuckers walk into my store and buy coke/candy/garbage I feel like cursing them the fuck out and spitting in their face
[quote]beachguy498 wrote:
I saw an article in the NY Times a while ago regarding the burden that obesity puts on the health care system.
Since it is linked to diseases like diabetes, the hospitals are overwhelmed with people that are unable to pay, but can’t be turned away for treatment. Medicare picks up some of it, but not enough to make a difference.
I’m fairly fat tolerant and cut people some slack if they’re contributors to society. The reality is, how many 350 and 400 lb people do you see that make it to 70 or 80 years old?[/quote]
Actually I read a recent study that looked at the cost to society of being fat and decided that it was actually cheaper for insurance companies to insure fat people over a lifetime then it was to insure non obese people, for the point you mention at the end.
Basically, fat people don’t cost that much because they die young, before they can get old enough to develop cancer, Alzheimer’s, etc. Most 80 yr old people don’t contribute to society, but cost the medical system tons of money w/ nursing homes, expensive cancer treatments, hip replacements, take tons of prescription medicine.
A quadruple bypass surgery might run 40000$, but that’s cheaper than putting someone up in a nursing home and paying for a bunch of prescription medicine for a few years. Not exactly the most ethical standpoint, but interesting nonetheless.
[quote]challer1 wrote:
beachguy498 wrote:
I saw an article in the NY Times a while ago regarding the burden that obesity puts on the health care system.
Since it is linked to diseases like diabetes, the hospitals are overwhelmed with people that are unable to pay, but can’t be turned away for treatment. Medicare picks up some of it, but not enough to make a difference.
I’m fairly fat tolerant and cut people some slack if they’re contributors to society. The reality is, how many 350 and 400 lb people do you see that make it to 70 or 80 years old?
Basically, fat people don’t cost that much because they die young, before they can get old enough to develop cancer, Alzheimer’s, etc. Most 80 yr old people don’t contribute to society, but cost the medical system tons of money w/ nursing homes, expensive cancer treatments, hip replacements, take tons of prescription medicine.
A quadruple bypass surgery might run 40000$, but that’s cheaper than putting someone up in a nursing home and paying for a bunch of prescription medicine for a few years. Not exactly the most ethical standpoint, but interesting nonetheless. [/quote]
The problem is most 80 year old people contributed vast amounts more than the younger fat people who are milking the system. The 80 year olds have earned the right to be useless from the years of work and sacrifice they’ve put in.
Yeah, I never said it was particularly ethical, or that I agreed with it, but it’s something to think about. Insurance companies will definitely be thinking about it. We argue that we should get a good health discount for going to the gym, but we might end up paying a good health tax for living too long!
[quote]ouroboro_s wrote:
Holy smokes. It stuns me how some people can really work the system. It doesn’t just apply the the fat clan in England. It applies to families all over North America who have lived on some type of assistance for generations and seem to have every angle worked out.
I almost feel sorry for the kids because that is likely the only life they will ever know; one in which they will have no self respect living in perpetuity off the handouts from others. How do they even begin to figure out how to live a different life if that is all they have ever lived?
As an aside: can obesity really cause epilepsy? That’s a new one on me.[/quote]
I Totally agree on your point of where they learn it.A few years ago I went fishing up north with a buddy of mine who lives up there.(we were on holidays)Anyway while we were getting set up he points over to a group of three guys doing the same thing,now this is on a wednesday,workday.So he say’s to me,look at those fuckin’ useless turds.It turns out that the youngest one is 20 yrs old,his dad beside him is 40,and the oldest guy,grandpa,is about 60.All on WELFARE!.They can fish all day but not work.Nice work grandpa, you raised oxygen theives.
In the late 1700’s England instituted the Workhouse or Poorhouse system to house and employ people in poverty. If you were poor, you had no choice but to go there.
We should replace this system with mandatory Fat Farms. The obese are sentenced to a routine of boot camp and instructed on proper, healthy eating, while being constantly humiliated for being a drain on healthcare, unemployment and welfare. They will not be released into society until there is proof of remorse and rehabilitation.
This would be cheaper and more efficient than welfare, and save the US trillions in healthcare dollars and unemployment, while eliminating the obesity problem from society.
It’s funny, my uncle says the reasons why my cousins cant get a job is because they are “fat” (well they are comparable to that fat family), and no one wants to hire them. What a lazy excuse.
A “chip buddy” is french fries smashed between two slices of buttered white bread, so I assume a bacon buddy is similar. Trying to think of something less healthy to eat… trying… nope. Better off eating paste or dirt.
