The New "Am I the Only One" Thread

Oh haha...Stare I mean XD

yes, must be that Kryptonite. Zapping my brain functions

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Am I the only one who thinks the government in "Logan's Run" was on to something potentially useful?

*feeling extra cynical today*
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Was I the only one as a little boy who, when watching Disney's Robin Hood, would fast forward through the "Love Goes On and On" sequence almost everytime because it was "mushy" and "boring" and "dull" and "lovey-dovey"?

Honestly I used to fast forward through the whole movie; never really grabbed me for some reason, lol.

I don't think I've ever even seen Robin Hood. If I have, I probably didn't like it or else I would remember at least seeing it :/

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I liked it enough that for years I had Robin Hood sheets on my bed. And a bit of a thing for foxes. Which may or may not have influenced my taste for redheads...

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Am I the only one who's sick of people with NO knowledge of the obesity problem coming up with the dumbest solutions possible, all while ignoring the real problem and thinking that they can solve the problem in 2 months?

I've said it a million times. There are socioeconomic factors to this NO ONE wants to deal with, not to mention the business structure that has employees chained to their desks all day, forcing them to come in early and leave late. Addressing those issues could really solve the problem, but NOOOOoooOOOO! We have to ban sodas and candy because of finger wagging nanny state legislation that does nothing. Prohibition doesn't work.

Further more, is soda really contributing the to problem all that much? I mean, what needs to be happening is that people need to be exercising, not drinking four ounces less of soda.

No, you're not. People need to stop pressuring people into losing weight, when you harp on them to do it, that's not going to make them want to do it any more, it's only going to make the situation worse... it's like with smoking, when you pressure someone into quitting, that's going to make them want to smoke all the more, like four years ago, the doctor told my dad if he didn't quit at this rate, he'd only have like five more years... and guess what? He still hasn't quit.

With myself, I've had doctors who were real buttholes about the whole thing, I once had a doctor who didn't even give a crap if I was sick or ailing, all he wanted me to do was lose weight... I could have been on my death bed, breathing my last breaths, and all he would say is, "What are you doing to lose weight?" My previous doctor on the other hand, was a much more compassionate fellow who took the time to really get to know his patients and work with them on a level where he spoke across to you and not down to you, and it's because of him, with just a little struggle, I've managed to lose 21 pounds over the past year or so. His was a tragic loss, he touched a lot of lives.

We are sedentary. Some by choice. If there's anything that should be illegalized to help people lose weight, it's...


TEH INTERNETS!!!



That's the X-factor we're overlooking. That lack of being able to go outside and do things because we can get them online by sitting on our butts. Legally and illegally. Why go out to a store when you can just buy something through hours of looking stuff up and typing credit card numbers that can easily get stolen? Why go out to the movies when you can wait 4 months to get it streamed or find a crappy Russian subtitled illegal version of the movie that could very well get you in trouble? That's right. We've become so lazy that we can't even get out of the house to sit down.

But that's behavior we can change. The scary stuff is what we can't. A workforce that values "productivity" over everything else. Even though if you're stuck at a computer working for hours, you're goofing off a thick majority of the time. Sweating over the fact that your boss might catch you looking at porn at work isn't a valid weightloss technique. Give all workers an hour or recess. Heck, let them go out to lunch like they used to do 30 years ago.

And the schools. Let's leave the fact that they feed kids grade Q dead circus animal meat they have to deep fry to make remotely edible. We can't have recess anymore. and for 2 reasons. We have to teach to the tests so schools can get funding. Not to mention loading our kids with way too much homework in an attempt to compete with countries that have different cultures than us. And the worse, second reason... you can't do anything because everything's either considered sexual harassment or a lawsuit waiting to happen.

Doctors, as much of a butt as they can be, at least have a right to tell you about your health. Not the government, not some tofu eating Whole Foods "I'm so much better than you because I have more money than you" dink, not someone else's parents.

There are 3 things wrong with how others deal with helping people help themselves...

1. It's all about ego. They want to tackle something and look like big heroes because they made a "difference," even though the difference is marginal.
2. Media sensationalism leads to panic. Panic leads to hasty decisions. Hasty decisions lead to bad results. We have people who don't have a scope or actual understanding of a problem, acting like it's some big Boogieman coming for them/their children who want a quick fix solution, then they freak the heck out when it doesn't work or the results aren't fast enough.
3. No one wants to take the red pill, pay taxes, or give people a working wage. The dark, gritty underbelly of the problem must always be obscured so that we can find an easy scapegoat.

Am I the only one who's easily impressed with how well British actors are able to disguise their accents in American movies? Bob Hoskins, J. Pat O'Malley, Cary Elwes, Nicole Kidman (she's Australian, but whatevs)... and I'm pretty sure Michael Caine faked a southern accent once, I don't remember...

I honestly don't mind Bloomberg's soda ban thing. I have to admit I'd have a lot of trouble giving up the habit otherwise, lol.

The government should not control how you give something up. That's the very same overreach that the right complains about (to use as fodder to let big oil do whatever the crap it wants)... and guess what? I agree with them. At least in terms of banning sales to people.

Let's face it. Anyone that thinks that a 32 0z of anything is mother's milk (even milk) is some kind of stupid that can only be described in a slur that 10 year old Eric Carman types constantly use. Yep... The R word. If you're drinking a huge cup of that every day of your life, there is something seriously wrong with you. We do need personal responsibility and for people to know that a treat is a treat and a cookie is a sometimes food. Nothing's special when you're addicted to it.

The only reason I don't drink that much soda in a sitting (unless I'm terribly thirsty) is that sometimes the high fructose corn syrup in those drinks... well... lets say it ignites something I DON'T rather much like in my digestive system.

But all and all, this is clumsy legislation. It doesn't ban the sale of multiple drinks, nor does it have any reach on sugared coffee drinks which are often more like milkshakes with coffee in them. Jon Stewart put it best. You can go to New York, get a giant pastrami and tongue sandwich which is only considered a sandwich because it has bread on it, a giant plate of wings and a giant frozen hot cocoa, but they draw the line at anything over a 16 oz drink.

One of my favorite pieces of legislation is that it's criminal to have a bake sale in schools now. Okay, I agree 100% that we need to get the snack machines out of schools and that they have to serve a higher grade of industrial slime we call meat... but the school districts need to get money they can't get from the government because NO ONE wants to have to pay their share of taxes. You're not going to get it selling carrots.

Secondly, it's a slippery slope. First it's drinks, then it's food portions, then it's candy... I don't want to have to order a fun sized Snickers the same way I'd do with a porno, and pay 20 bucks for it. Prohibition doesn't work, it causes crime. And if the government has to intervene, let's make it so parents don't have to fatten their kids on 1 dollar Banquet frozen dinners and 5 liter bottles of dollar store generic soda.

Lol, well that's a point. The soda thing is kind of a hollow symbolic gesture in the grand scheme of things.

That is really impressive, when actors can authentic voices or dialects that aren't in their natural voice. On a sort of related note, I've always found the most impressive thing when watching The Muppet Show the range of voices that everyone used and how authentic they came off. I still find it hard to believe that Miss Piggy and Fozzie and Sam the Eagle's voices all came from Frank Oz!

I've always found that really impressive. I can't even fake a convincing southern accent

According to one of our resident Canadians, a convincing southern accent would be to "talk slow" and "stretch your vowels".

At least that's how MrsPepper says I talk.

I live in the south so you would think I'd have been around long enough to do one, but no, I still sound like a northerner doing a very bad, stereotypical accent. Even weirder, I think my northern accent has gotten stronger...X_x

Australians tend to be better at disguising their accents than Brits. The latter usually end up sounding like Canadians.

The funny thing about accents is that they're ALWAYS overly exaggerated to the point where if you hear an authentic one, you can barely detect it...

Our own MrsPepper and Beauregard are examples of that: MrsPepper is Canadian, but with the exception of some pronunciation (like "sore-y"), she doesn't have a very noticable accent; pointed out moreso with British Beau (for those who remember that MC Rap he recorded for us), that he actually hit back with another recording of him faking an overly exaggerated British accent.

I think just about the only accents or dialects that are really distinguishable in reality are "big city" dialects... the New Yorkers (Brooklyn, Jew, etc), Chicago (no foolin', our land lord is from Chicago and he sounds exactly like DA BEARS), Los Angeles, etc.