Random thoughts 1: Just Sayin'

[Gori the Grey]

Am I the only one here who thinks that Michael Wolff looks and sounds like a character played by Mike Myers ?

Yeah, he looks exactly like Mr. Evil. I'm surprised Trump hasn't tweeted about it.

 

[Takhisis]

Because El Donald is of Scottish descent, as is Mike Myers' character in Goldmember.

 

[Ryika]

Life of a snake must really suck. Imagine having to rob around on your belly all day, and feeling like you're going to suffocate whenever you eat.
Well... now that I think about it, it's probably much like the life of a really, really overweight person, just that you can actually move. So I guess you can do worse than be a snake.

 

[Synobun]

Life of a snake must really suck. Imagine having to rob around on your belly all day, and feeling like you're going to suffocate whenever you eat.
Well... now that I think about it, it's probably much like the life of a really, really overweight person, just that you can actually move. So I guess you can do worse than be a snake.

That hasn't been my experience as a morbidly obese person.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

Snake life doesn't sound so bad.
Every time you move, your genitals rub against the ground.

 

[Ryika]

That hasn't been my experience as a morbidly obese person.

Morbidly obese isn't really a very precise description, and can be a lot of things, from just being very overweight to a degree that it is likely to cause severe health issues over time, but otherwise being able to move mostly freely to... literally being unable to leave your bed because your bones can't support your body anymore. I was thinking more about the latter.

 

[Synobun]

Oh, okay. Yeah, I'm not 800 pounds. Yet.

 

[Cassius Critzer]

Commenting on body size, it seems, is acceptable bigotry. How peculiar. It seems arbitrary. Who decides who is overweight? Deciding the worth of another, on an arbitrary basis, has been used as a pecking order. For example, breast size.

I think this is extremely ridiculous and devoid of merit and illogical.

 

[Synobun]

Who said anything about bigotry and deciding the worth of another?

 

[Cassius Critzer]

Life of a snake must really suck. Imagine having to rob around on your belly all day, and feeling like you're going to suffocate whenever you eat.
Well... now that I think about it, it's probably much like the life of a really, really overweight person, just that you can actually move. So I guess you can do worse than be a snake.

This post implies a really overweight person is worse than a snake.

Based on demographics in America, 100 million people fit into this category. Based on the Body Mass Index, at least 75 million are obese. That seems weird to compare obese people with snakes. Am I missing something?

A person can be twenty pounds overweight and be considered obese by the BMI.

 

[Synobun]

A bit of a reach, although I guess it takes knowing @Valessa first before you can read past the bait.

 

[Cassius Critzer]

A bit of a reach, although I guess it takes knowing @Valessa first before you can read past the bait.

Hardly as then she followed with the second worse example. That kind of obesity is so extreme and rare and indicative of severe mental illness like extreme clinical depress or it could be physical like a massive tumor.

How strange a series of posts.

 

[Ryika]

That kind of obesity is so extreme and rare

So? Does "really, really overweight person" not imply an extreme case? How many 'really' do I have to chain together to make that impression on you?

 

[Takhisis]

I'd suggest ignoring him, Valessa.

 

[Cassius Critzer]

So? Does "really, really overweight person" not imply an extreme case? How many 'really' do I have to chain together to make that impression on you?

Do you think that such discrimination is logical? Coupled with your second post, a pattern emerges, of bias based on size and affecting millions.

 

[Borachio]

Morbidly obese isn't really a very precise description,.

I thought morbidly obese literally meant it was a condition likely to shorten your life.

But I learn it's taken to mean a BMI over 40, or sometimes 35.

Seems fairly precise to me.

(Incidentally, and as a by the by, and neither here nor there, I lost a few inches in height after hip replacements and a vertebrectomy and just general old age and decrepitude, and some nurse practitioner told me I was slightly overweight because my BMI was 25. The cheek of the woman!)

 

[Cassius Critzer]

If we could get people to lose weight, by a defined process, to make medical milestones, then heath insurance would plummet in cost. Similarly, if we could get verifiable blood testing showing compliance in taking routine medicines at a therapeutic level, then health care cost would dramatically decline.

Just as clean water was the most vital aspect of improving public heath, lack of exercise, sedentary behavior, being persistently overweight puts terrible stress on the structural integrity of the skeleton and heart. 75% of patients who are on routine medication do not take them in a manner to ensure therapeutic levels. So they have poor efficacy.

It really is very simple to fix, but very intrusive as it means being medically evaluated in a slightly different manner. If effect, you would be paid to stay healthy, versus universal coverage by detached unmotivated patients.

I believe the average number of prescriptions by retirees is five. Thus if five medicine are not taken in proper amounts, their heart medication, for example, is inadequate.

For mental illness and medications, the compliance is very poor. The same is true for medicines to treat infections.

The most expense is on the end of your life. The health costs in young adulthood are minor save pregnancy and accidents like broken bones.

 

[shadowplay]

Few foods combine better than hazelnut and chocolate.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I swear, some of the stuff in my Garry's Mod folder is beyond explanation

Spoiler :

 

[Broken_Erika]

I swear, some of the stuff in my Garry's Mod folder is beyond explanation

Spoiler :

Geez Gordon, when i told you to go frak yourself, i didn't mean it literally!

 

[Ryika]

I told them: Once you allow homosexuality, self-love will be next, it's a slippery slope.

But they just would not listen.