hey, got quite the rant for you here, we were discussing “supersize me” at work here, with the person who liked the film saying that corporations should bear some responsibility for the overeating that goes on.
Basically there is a lawsuit that wants to sue several fast food joints for making them fat. To them I say, you may as well sue them for making you fat lazy and stupid.
Does said fast food joint force you to go there?
Do they force you to buy the worst food there and then “supersize it”?
Do they force you to eat the whole meal, instead of stopping when you are full?
Do they force you to come back everyday and buy the same crap?
Do they force you to sit on your fat lazy ass all day and not excercise?
and of course this conversation reminded me of the lady who spilled hot coffee on herself and sued mcdonalds and won.
the details are quite interesting here as well.
If you stick said hot coffee between your legs, then squeezed your legs together causing said hot coffee to spill all over your crotch… it can’t be your own fault could it?
I mean let’s think about this like we are two people not in a drive thru.
I hand you a HOT styrofoam cup, you take it the hot cup from me go sit down and place the cup between your legs. You go to stand up forgetting about the cup and spill hot coffee all over yourself. You sue me for damages.
As soon as you introduce the word lawsuit into the discussion all references to ‘logical’ become meaningless. It is now a question of what is ‘legal’. Logic has nothing to do with it.
what sue ourselves?? we are the ones who make ourselves fat, lazy, and stupid. not to say that there are those out there who want to make us such, but c’mon we have a choice. we have to walk some path in life and we are the only ones who can decide what we want, well once we leave the state of being a minor. i understand how increasingly hard it is to make a decision these days, with all the marketing and advertising, but life is full of bumps and temptation.
As a testament to McDonald’s pure genius, I’ll use our local one:
In response to the people suing them, they decided to eliminate the supersize meal. It’s only med, and large size now.
But, what they did do was to introduce a “Big Kids Meal,” for big kids (or little fat kids).
So, what have they done? McDonald’s basically said, “Fine, Fat people, you win. We will accomodate you. BUT, we will get you where it counts. Your children!!! MWA HAHAHAHAHA!!”
And the adult fat people fall for it like a woman believing a man’s promise. It’s sad. By that, they care more about themselves than their soon to be fat children.
Although McDonald’s is pretty shady here, you’ve got to hand it to them. You f*ck with a big corporation, they’ll get you.
But in repsonse to your original question, these are people looking for money, and want to transfer blame for their own transgressions. The way our society is helps them do it, because everyone is against the big corporations. So screw them, and screw america for saying it’s alright.
I get the same heartburn looking at the lawsuits against the tobacco companies. I smoke and have for more years than I want to admit, but in all that time I never had a tobacco company executive put a gun to my head and force me to light up. They forgot to tell me nicotine was addictive? Bullshit. I knew what I was getting into. Gee, I didn’t know nicotine was bad for me? Give me a break. I took (take) an addictive drug that’s not good for my health. So I’m going to sue the people who sold them to me? Jumpin’ Jesus!
The only part that pisses me off, was I never got one of those big****** blondes they promised I’d get by smoking their particular brand!
wasn’t that by drinking coors light? I tend to forget as advertising tends to get lumped together in my mind.
what you should be upset about tentative is not seeing a bloody cent from all those law suits!!!
(I’m not english I just happen to like the word “bloody”)
LMAO that’s too funny. and too true. They introduced salads for the adults to eat “healthy” and then introduced their “big kids meals” (for those extra chunky kids who can’t get their fill on a single hamburger and a small serving of fries.) to fatten up the future generation. Pure genious.
Fries are the antichrist I tell you!!! (kidding btw)
These are completely people looking for money, like the chick who put a condom on her burger than tried suing mcdonalds for it.
so we have to types of frivolous extranaeous law suits. Those of self fault, and those of accidental faults. Sure the accidents are the other persons fault, but do they really need to give you millions of dollars because of the accident? in the case of death sure give some compensation to the family for the cock up. But in the case of putting a lid on too tight? come on people grow up!!!
Suing these people is just another example of people not wanting to take personal responsibility and instead blaming others. Some people can eat Mcdonalds and even supersize and be just fine. Its those who gorge themselves that have a problem.
What next, suing your parents because the genes they passed affected your metabolism?
well for them that is the beginning of the problem… food for them is an escape. First it’s the supersized big mac and fries with a large coke (a grand total of 2400 calories.) then they get home and have a container of ben and jerrys (about 1100 more calories) all the while not moving off the couch and doing some excercise to burn calories.
the real problem though is why they are eating like that. It’s completely psychological.
That sounds so awesome that I’m sure someone out there has tried it or is trying it.
