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30 days
nacho:
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Rent Penn and Teller's Bullshit instead...
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Now that is a fucking eye-opening show. It should be on primetime broadcast TV every night.
Tyson:
--- Quote from: Nubbins ---Hating Super Size me is like saying "fuck CPR"? Give me a break, man.
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Hyperbole! I'm not saying they're the exact same thing.
--- Quote from: Nubbins ---It is a movie designed to FORCE you into thinking and believing what they believe about our fast food culture and it doesn't give you the chance to decide how you feel about it for yourself.
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Yeah, I just couldn't believe that the DVD included a midget that held a gun to my head. "DO YOU BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU ARE SEEING MOTHERFUCKER?" "Uh, not reall-" *BLAM BLAM BLAM*
And the audacity of those editorial writers who choose a position of an issue and only argue that side! How dare they!
--- Quote from: Nubbins ---Like I said, it's entirely possible to eat at McDonald's for 30 days straight and actually lose weight, so his entire movie is a crock. It points the finger at the wrong people if you ask me.
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So prove it. Make a movie! Heh. The McDonald's Beach Diet. Morgan ate through the menu and had doctors telling him to stop or suffer permanent damage. How would you lose weight by eating at McDonald's? Well, ok, I'm sure you could only eat McDonald's and lose weight by eating a single french fry every day, but I don't think that counts.
My older brother is as thin as a rail but he eats fast food at least twice a day (he can't cook or take care of himself, so he just buys fast food). So he may not be fat, but he's still just as unhealthy. I'd go through his list of health problems caused by his fast food habit, but thats probably invasion of privacy.
highcholesterolheartproblemshemroidsscurvybadbreathandpersistentconstipationamongothers
nacho:
Just as an aside -- That list of health problems isn't just caused by fast food. Half of them are now believed to be mainly genetic, the other half could be any of a thousand factors. Stress is our number one problem.
And: Scurvy, Tyson?
I don't think anyone's defending McDonald's here, man. It's just the shock therapy approach that, to an awake mind, is silly.
Like I said -- fuck Spurlock's experiment. The real power of Super Size me was in the interviews with little devil people.
Nubbins:
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--- Quote from: Nubbins ---It is a movie designed to FORCE you into thinking and believing what they believe about our fast food culture and it doesn't give you the chance to decide how you feel about it for yourself.
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Yeah, I just couldn't believe that the DVD included a midget that held a gun to my head. "DO YOU BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU ARE SEEING MOTHERFUCKER?" "Uh, not reall-" *BLAM BLAM BLAM*
And the audacity of those editorial writers who choose a position of an issue and only argue that side! How dare they!
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Well no, not really. Arguing one side of a multi-sided issue is one thing while pretending that your side of an issue is the only side, not even acknowledging that other possibilities exist is another. Yeah, exactly... how dare they.
The only reason you like this movie is because you hate fast food and what the fast food industry represents. You enjoy it only because you both share an idea about McDonalds and you don't care that it does it in a one-sided, prejudiced and completely biased manner. It's the same thing with Moore's giant piece of crap movie about Bush... you hate Bush so much that you're willing to turn a blind eye to the fact that it's basically a 2 hour piece of shit made up of character assasination and selective attention about world affairs.
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--- Quote from: Nubbins ---Like I said, it's entirely possible to eat at McDonald's for 30 days straight and actually lose weight, so his entire movie is a crock. It points the finger at the wrong people if you ask me.
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So prove it. Make a movie! Heh. The McDonald's Beach Diet. Morgan ate through the menu and had doctors telling him to stop or suffer permanent damage. How would you lose weight by eating at McDonald's? Well, ok, I'm sure you could only eat McDonald's and lose weight by eating a single french fry every day, but I don't think that counts.
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Okay, I take it back... maybe you are too stupid to feed yourself without someone holding your hand. McDonalds does sell salads and grilled chicken, ya know.
Let's see... there are these stories:
http://www.techcentralstation.com/090804G.html
http://www.nationalreview.com/interrogatory/whaley_200506230747.asp
Fucking hippies, all of you. Jesus... I think I'm gonna go out and buy a high powered rifle and petition to join Yotoc's fortified compound. Liberals are really starting to piss me off.
Cassander:
bah.
all you guys just need to learn to cook. it's cheaper in the long run and way healthier for you (assuming you're not cooking up 2/3 lb. hamburgers everyday). plus chicks dig it.
I tend to agree with nubbins here. I thought the movie was entertaining, but I'd already given up fast food long before. It's almost impossible to know now that it's bad for you. It's just like cigarettes. You've been told a million times cigarettes are going to give you cancer, emphysema, and rot your mouth and throat out of existence but millions keep starting up. same thing with fast food. you could make the same movie about cigarettes and have the same kind of reaction from the public as long as someone eccentric and entertaining enough was the host.
haven't seen the TV show either, but suffice it to say FX doesn't have quite the audience gravity as a lot of other channels. in the end, it's just another fish-out-of-water reality show, and any introverted soul-searching done by the people will probably be forgotten by the viewers within a day.
of course, i could be wrong and it could surge through DVD sales.
"let's see that part where the gay guy slaps the muslim again!"
"sweet!"
er, wait, or was that Real World 6?
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