People are stupid: Dealing with childhood obesity

We can all agree that childhood obesity and obesity in general is constantly becoming a bigger (pun intended) problem in our society, what we don’t all agree on is the ways to deal with it. I’ve already talked about how us adults can deal with it a little bit here but what about stopping the problem before it becomes a problem? How about stopping it while the obese are still children so they don’t have to battle with it once their older?

Logically the people who should front this initiative are the parents, but can they really? Isn’t it partly the parents fault in the first place? You can’t pretend to care about your child’s health and constantly be feeding them mcdonalds happy meals.

So I think since the mass majority of parents are simply to incompetent to to their children out of obesity the only other place that could really do it is the school system.

The schools in the areas I live in have made some steps towards this end. By some steps I mean they have stopped selling pop, which is a step, but much much more has to be done. The only real difference now is that since the school only sells juice and water the kids have to walk for 10-15min to get some pop, which is exercise, so it is slightly helping them. This only works until the kids are maybe 16,17 years old when they can then drive for the pop. Also many kids have gotten into just buying 24 can cases of pop, storing it in their lockers and selling them to make roughly 50-75% profit, which is pretty successful for a 15 year old. I’ve heard that even the teachers will partake in this black pop market. So effectively all getting rid of pop has done is taken a source of income away from the already dreadfully underfunded school system, but more on that later.

Here is what I purpose: Make Phys ed class mandatory all the way from kindergarten to the end of high school. And not just the mandatory that they have now where they are forced to go from k-grade 10 and get marked on their participation more then anything. I mean make them need the credit or class to advance to the next grade in school, and make them have to pass tests that will need them to be in at least half decent shape. Imagine being held back a grade because you are required to run for 15min straight and couldn’t do it? This kid would feel just horrible about themselves and be forced to continuously repeat that grade until they can pass the phys ed test. But also set certain numbers of push-ups or sit-ups, arm hangs, the possibilities are endless and kids will be forced to keep in ok shape in order to progress through school.

Lets put this in prospective for a minute. Johnny fat fuck has a 200 point IQ and has been accepted to whatever school he wants to get into, wouldn’t it be a shame if he didn’t graduate high school because he can’t run for a half-hour straight? With no other classes to worry about he could dedicate all his time to getting in shape, hopefully noticing how much better he feels and sticking with it for the rest of his life. And kids would like it, playing sports like soccer could become almost homework because of the conditioning it would give you, running around the park could damn near be called homework.

I know that this system would have problems and generally plain out be rejected by people with concerns such as:

“The school system is too underfunded to place a program like this in place”
Trust me I know, the school system would need much more money to afford all the people repeating grades and classes until they get in good enough shape to move on, higher taxes would be needed, and during the current economic crisis nobody wants to hear that, but in the end aren’t your children worth it?

“Our son Johnny fat fuck is a genius, he should be able to advance despite his weight problem”
If he was so smart wouldn’t he know how to keep his weight in control? Its as simple as watching what you eat and maybe exercising sometime, looks like he has some things left to learn.

“Our child was held back and instead of it motivating him to try harder to get in good shape he has become depressed and is just eating more”
Put him on depression pills or just don’t let him eat even more, be parents for fucks sake.

“This program is mean and unfair, you can’t discriminate against my child for their weight problem”
This isn’t discrimination, it is mandatory for your kid to be in half decent shape to advance through school. You don’t see retarded people with high school educations, it isn’t because they are discriminated against, it’s because they don’t have the requirements to advance,just like your son Johnny fat fuck. Luckily for you your son isn’t retarded, just fat, he can work it off.

Negative criticism can be the more powerful way to change how somebody acts. If somebody does something wrong and you say “You did that wrong, but its okay you’ll do better next time” where is the motivation? If somebody does something wrong and you say “Why did you do that? Are you retarded?” The person can think to themselves “I’m not a retard, I shouldn’t do that again.” This system could motivate children in the same way.

People are stupid: Weight loss

Fighting getting fat, everybody is doing it, so many people go about it in retarded ways.

“I’m on a diet, so I’m having a diet coke with my super sized big mac meal.” Good on ya, your only eating like 900 calories in your meal now. First thing recovering fat people need to realize is to avoid mcdonalds, bk and any other fast food place all together if they want to get their lives together and start to lose weight.

I’m going to quickly summarize for all you failing recovering fat asses what you can do to actually look attractive and not gain all the weight back. I’m a recovering fat fuck myself, lost 100 pounds so far, so no comments that I’m talking out of my ass and have no idea what I’m talking about.

Drink lots of water, everybody drink water.

So for those of you who have fairly good self control, you have it easy all you have to do is follow this simple plan.
EAT LESS RUN MORE

Seriously, for most people it can be that easy, you just gotta force yourself to do it. For those of you who never really got into running and want a structured simple way to get into it use this plan couch to 5k it’ll ease you into running.

Now for those of you who can’t just simply put down the fork and are probably to fat to run we need something a little more all around for you. The daily plate. Now once you get there make a account, enter some data about yourself,set some goals and it’ll tell you how many calories you can eat everyday. Next track EVERYTHING you eat and make sure to stay under your calorie goal every day and low and behold you’ll lose weight.

Its really not that hard, so get off the couch and lose some weight already. And no more whining about ” I’m genetically fat” just do it already.

Earth Hour

Earth hour was done just last Saturday and I personally see no point in it. Sure all kinds of places turned their lights off, but in all honesty, what difference does one hour make?

Let me say before I go any further that I don’t really care about the environment or the state of the earth for one simple reason, I’m pretty sure I’ll die before it will. And even to me I don’t see the point of Earth hour. Does one hour where a bunch of people turn off their lights really make a difference at all? We as a planet need to come together and form a better solution, one that will actually work in the long run and help fix the environment, not just turn off some lights for an hour once a year and feel like we did our part and the world is a better place for it. But like I said before, I don’t really care, fool yourselves into thinking your making a difference. And yes I know earth hour is more about raising awareness then actually saving an hour’s worth of electricity, but everybody knows about helping the environment by now.

Now, for the reason I care enough to even blog about Earth Hour. So Saturday night when I got to work I was informed that I was to turn off all the outside lights for an hour. I thought this was a great idea, because we would look like we were closed and it would be a good hour, Earth Hour seemed great. About twenty minutes into the hour an elderly lady was attempting to walk from her car to the entrance and slipped on ice she didn’t see on account of all the outside lights being turned off. So now I had to call an ambulance and act like I cared about the elderly lady who had broken her arm. Overall it was still a good night and the lady falling was really funny at the time, but I just hate old people,handicapped people, retarded people and any other such group when they become an inconvenience for us normal folk.

Best part. I was talking to the lady while we waited for her cab and she mentioned how she was happy businesses were doing the earth hour thing. Guess she didn’t learn the horrible affects of people trying to make a positive difference.

People Are Stupid: Tweeting Yourself Out Of A Job

There has been a lot of talk on this site and twitter lately about a lady who said something on twitter that her new job found out about. Before I get started I’m kinda curious does anybody actually know what happened to her after her comment was found? Did Cisco just reply on the comment and that was it? Or do they actually know who she is offline and she lost her job over it? I’ll be honest, I don’t do twitter.

I’m personally a little bit shocked by this story, why do people do things like this that can have implications on their real lives on the internet? I have a friend who got fired from his job for saying his friend was a douche on facebook, and another who get suspended because she is a supervisor and could be seen in the background of a youtube video where an employee ripped a company shirt off of his back.

Why do people do stupid stuff like this? Its not like its hard to avoid by doing little things like:

-Not bashing work on anything that they will see. A big part of this problem is that people think that their bosses can’t possibly be as good at the internet as they are, when really anything you post on facebook, youtube,twitter and damn near anything else can usually be found quite easily. If your going to bitch about your work online keep it to IM or E-mail, and even then somebody could save it and show it to your bosses if they wanted.

-If your going to say something that could some back to bite you don’t have your real name attached to it. If you say something on facebook your name and picture are usually right beside, make a damn alias and then bitch about whatever you want. And no don’t use the same thing as your e-mail address, make something completely new. Thats what I did, nobody I know knows about this blog I keep.

People just need to understand that the internet isn’t private, everything you do can be archived and searched up years later, don’t post anything that could come back to bite you.
God people are stupid