We Should Ban Obesity

[RandFan]

Originally Posted by Eyeron

Credibility is not very important to me.

I like you Eyeron. I like you a lot. I like your passion. Further, and perhaps most importantly, you've demonstrated a willingness to be gracious and show humility. You remind me a lot of me when I came here... jesus that was a long time ago.

Sadly that potential is wasted if you are not willing to be intelectually honest and strive for objectivity.

I wish you all the best. Perhaps some hard knocks here in this forum will do you some good. I've little time for you though if you are not at least willing to try and grow.

Best of luck to you. Sincerly.

[Eyeron]

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Sadly that potential is wasted if you are not willing to be intellectually honest and strive for objectivity.

With which I am and do many times. But I either get ignored or people troll me or get upset at me for some reason or another. It's also very hard for me to keep up that kind of thing at all times when people are trolling me and ridiculing me or getting upset at me for some damned inane reason.

But I also like to make people laugh too. This world needs more laughter. Everybody's becoming bogged down in oversensitivity and political correctness.

And no, hard knocks teach me more about the people themselves rather than forcing me to get in line.

And what you've just told me does tells me that I must only argue in a serious, linear and humorless fashion and that I must only argue things I support and believe in. And I must do this all times no matter what. And anything else means that people won't respect me.

Added:

But one my my biggest rules is this:

I will be fair to people who will be fair to me.

If people are not fair to me then I will just throw it out the window.

[parky76]

Originally Posted by Eyeron

Credibility is not very important to me. .

talk about honesty. i give you points for that.

[lionking]

Okay, eyeron, do you think obese people should be "banned" or not? Because many posters here think you do and have responded accordingly.

If this was not a serious thread, perhaps you should ask it to be transferred to Humor.

[Eyeron]

No, I do not think they should be banned, but I would like to see a lot more effort into encouraging people to lose weight and the creation of national wide camps that an obese person can go to to go to lose weight that can be paid through their health insurance.

And I don't believe it should be moved to humor because I was trying to make a real point with this thread, but it got lost because people couldn't get past the style of the post and I couldn't remember now what I was trying to say. After all, I have to be a good little robot and make my posts in a serious, and completely humorless manner from now on and I can only argue things that I support and am interested in. Boy, I sometimes wish I was on a serious drug like Ritalin. Maybe then I could meet people's expectations of how they think I should be for them.

[parky76]

Originally Posted by Eyeron

Boy, I sometimes wish I was on a serious drug like Ritalin.

hmmmm....

[Earthborn]

Originally Posted by Eyeron

Because despite the flippant manner in which I presented it, there is often a real point o the statements I make.

Perhaps often, but apparently not this time.

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Being intelligent people, you should be able to know how to get past style and see what's truly there.

Being intelligent people we know how difficult it can often be to get a message across, even if one is not deliberately obfuscating it.

[Earthborn]

Originally Posted by Eyeron

But I also like to make people laugh too.

Then write something funny.

[EverLastingGodStopper]

Originally Posted by Earthborn

Then write something funny.

It's funny because fat people are fat.

[bluesjnr]

Originally Posted by RandFan

I've not read the thread so I appologize if I'm redundant.

1. When did we "ban smoking"?
2. How does one ban obesity?

I honestly don't know what you are talking about?

Originally Posted by RandFan

Really? Do you advocate Eugenics?

Eyeron, I hope this is simply youthful exuberance. This type of philosophy has not been good for humankind. History does not stand you in good stead.

Originally Posted by RandFan

What about the rest? What about handicapped individuals? Mentally retarded? Habitual criminals?

Humanity could use logic to artificially select. At the very least we should sterilize fat people, and the weak.

Has the thread been godwined yet? If not then let me...

Originally Posted by RandFan

What if this doesn't make me happy? What if obesity is how I persue happiness? People who are injured in auto accidents from recreational driving put a strain on resources. Why shouldn't we ban recreational driving? Swimming? Motorcycles? Sky diving?

Originally Posted by RandFan

? I'm confused. So fat people shouldn't be allowed into building?

What does this have to do with not allowing people from smoking in buildings?

Are these camps like the re-education camps of Mao or Pol Pot?

What about people who drink alcohol? Shouldn't we increase the sin tax and force anyone who drinks in excess in FEMA camps? What if people aren't cured? Should we euthanize them?

Originally Posted by RandFan

Originally Posted by lionking http://forums.randi.org/helloworld2/...s/viewpost.gif
Eyeron admitted in #52 he was trolling.

Originally Posted by RandFan

I did the exact same thing. Which is why I simply quoted lionking who was kind enough to let me in on it.

And I. I whom is the bastion of................... Oh Goodness I can't be bothered!!!!!111!!!!!!1111!!!!!! to infinity.

RandFan gets his ass pwned.

[quarky]

We should also ban huge body builders. These people need lots of food to push weight around in a gym. And they look intimidating. They should be lifting rocks and bags of cement.

And mega-babes. I'm sick of them and their fake boobs. Do you know how much it costs to become a mega-babe? And for what? To make middle age guys feel awkward in front of their wife and kids at the beach?

American's houses got obese, too. Its embarrassing. The obese cars, at least, are falling out of fashion. But there's a new ship that's 5 times the size of the Titanic. Its obese.

[RandFan]

Originally Posted by bluesjnr

RandFan gets his ass pwned.

Fair cop. It happens.

[Foolmewunz]

To everything there is a season and a proper sub-forum...

Or something like that - it must be true, the Good Book says it's so.

Eyeron,

I dunno, frankly.

As satire, I'd give you about a 60 grade. While, you certainly had enough people taking the bait, it was just so obviously a parody that I deducted forty points for ham-handedness.

Just as to why anyone would've continued had they read your comment about "not being in the Constitution", I don't know, but many may have missed that throw-away line. I know I've glossed over posts in heated threads before, and I think that a lot of folks are like me - we've kinda learned to rely on posters to self-police and post parody in FC or in Humor.

[ingoa]

Title of the OP:
We Should Ban Obesity

Simple solution:
Change the measure of the body mass from kilograms to metric tons. Keep limit for obesity at 30. Et voilà!
Obesity gone.