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- viewdrix, on 10/12/2007, -6/+559'"I was lazy this morning" said Johnson. "I'm on the way to the gym myself."'
I'm going to write something long and witty to reply to this, guys, I swear. I'm too lazy to do it right now, but trust me. Later, I'm totally going to do it. - TheWalkingDude, on 10/12/2007, -5/+309I’m sure on the weekend he uses that SUV to drive across mountain ranges and carry his kayak just like in the commercials :/
- ROFLance, on 10/12/2007, -22/+298Don't they usually blur out license plate numbers? There's A LOT of info from that picture and the little write up.. his full name, town, dog's name, license plate number, car make/model/color.. I'd feel uncomfortable knowing thousands upon thousands of people now have that info about me.
- SavageGeek, on 10/12/2007, -14/+228"When I was a kid, we didn't have wireless internet....we went outside"
Wireless allows you to go outside and still have Internet access. Problem solved. - junaru, on 10/14/2007, -4/+177Speaking of gym
http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/912/americafitnessszd2.jpg - snakesonasam, on 10/12/2007, -4/+164yeah my neighbor does that every day 3 times a day with his dog, it was kind of funny the first 3 days but now it is just plain strange
- fluxion, on 10/12/2007, -5/+160it's kinda like the people in my neighborhood who drive 2 blocks to the community gym so they can jog on a treadmill
- GawtMilk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+137People who drive twenty minutes to a gym to run on a treadmill.
- mercurysquad, on 10/12/2007, -12/+139ROFLance: And they are all coming to GET YOU! mwaahahaha.
- ICSU, on 10/12/2007, -26/+150Could also be named: Why many US citizens don't want to believe in (man-made) global warming.
- Saiing, on 10/12/2007, -13/+135@tyrannysucks
I don't know why you're getting dug down for just speaking the plain truth. Hopefully other people will have the sense to revive your comment instead of acting like jerks. Seriously, some people just digg up or down like sheep without even reading what other people say.
@defectds
What kind of idiot comment are you making. Someone who is old, and talking about how things were before we had this problem is automatically discredited? Only a kid who needs to learn some respect could make that observation (and I apologize to all the smart kids who use Digg - clearly you're not one of them). - SurrealDream, on 10/12/2007, -1/+121Who names their dog "Armani"?!
- essjay, on 10/12/2007, -2/+60Come on, the guy drives an SUV even though he's obviously in suburbia and has named his dog Armani. What were you expecting?
- stormgren, on 10/12/2007, -10/+68Yeah. All three hundred million people in America are like that. It's not a stereotype at all. Everyone loves McDonald's here, and we all go at least three times a week. It's practically the only moving we do, walking the twenty feet to the car. We eat pounds of Doritos every day. All of us.
It's not like some of us actually care about living healthy lives or anything. If it applies to thee people in ten, then it applies to everyone, right?
I have to break off now because I want to stuff my face with both hands rather than type. I'm getting hungry.
(This post was sarcasm, in case it was too subtle for some of you.) - laxmaniac3773, on 10/12/2007, -1/+57maybe the dog is just really fast
- sabor, on 10/12/2007, -2/+53This is more like it:
http://img240.imageshack.us/img240/3935/whyamericaisfatwv9modre6.jpg - 0crabby0, on 10/12/2007, -3/+47When I was a kid, our only extreme sport was running away from Polio
- DigeratiPrime, on 10/12/2007, -8/+51comment abuse (mirror) (screen capture/no flash):
http://img159.imageshack.us/img159/2325/whyamericaisfatwv9.png - Jaymoon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+42I always thought we American's were fat because we sit in front of our computers all day long making half-wit comments about other people on digg.
- Kurisuku, on 10/12/2007, -2/+42I didn't play outside because there were drive-by's in my neighborhood, I don't think my parents could afford to loan me a bullet proof vest.
Anyhow, even in neighborhoods where kids do go outside and play... and "be kids", you have to admit, there was always a fat kid (or a few fat kids, actually) in the group, regardless of how many hours they were out there playing every day. There's a lot more to it than just inactivity, it's our culture's diet in general.
Nevermind that I know many kids who have never played a game of kickball, and their sport of choice was Mario Kart growing up, and they're so skinny you can see their ribs. - voyvf, on 10/12/2007, -1/+35at age 26, i'm not an old fart, yet. but when i was a kid, we didn't have internet widely available to the masses, either. computers were available, but so expensive that only the truly loaded folks had them.
up until my mid-teens, we only had BBS's to dial into. no easy access to the internet, still, but we could send batches of information across the globe in a daisy chain fashion. things were looking up...
guess what? we moved on, we progressed. with wireless broadband, and wifi hotspots being as close as the nearest fast food joint, it's easy to stay connected, get information, look up a map, or quotation from a book, or hell, even goatse the waiter/waitress who gives you bad service.
so i am definitely *not* going to complain about our technical advancement. i like it better, now.
i do agree with you on one thing: people (adults and kids alike) need to exercise more. and apparently, a lot of video game makers agree with you, as well, seeing as they're making titles now that require you to get up and/or move. games and game machines come to mind, like DDR, Wii, etc.
the only thing in life that remains constant is change. if you embrace it, you stand an even chance of enjoying yourself. :D - robdiggity, on 10/12/2007, -11/+41My man tyrannysucks is spot-on, 100% correct. Methinks the extra-witty nay-sayers might have taken it a little too personally.
- reparsed, on 10/12/2007, -3/+33Who names their dog "Armani"?!
I bet the cat is named "Gucci". - livesunexamined, on 10/12/2007, -0/+28hmm...maybe if they had to walk against the escalators.
- Elranzer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+28Oh, the irony that an article about laziness has a summary that says "Title Says It All"...
- Jofaba, on 10/12/2007, -4/+30Why are people insisting that the license plate should be blurred? Watched too many episodes of COPS? How's this for you, if you're really interested in using someone's identity for a crime:
Walk to the nearest stop sign.
Wait for the best make and model to suit your purpose.
Write down the license plate.
???
Profit! - foolfromhell, on 10/12/2007, -1/+24http://img505.imageshack.us/my.php?image=fatboypk6.jpg
This is almost as terrifying as the picture with the car.
Heh, also in the voting for best picture, looks like Digg users inflated the votes... - Cyberdactyl, on 10/12/2007, -4/+25@kurisuku
While metabolism MAY be some of the issue, from my experience, these fat people who eat 'salads' and nibble on carrots in public are closets eaters of high fat foods. - mjar81, on 10/12/2007, -2/+23No, pretentious people have someone ELSE walk their dog...
- b3mus3d, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20you get an A for effort.
- bIuebonics, on 10/12/2007, -8/+26this is the beauty of digg: you can post something factual and get dugg down for seemingly no reason and without counterpoint. I love sheep...
- jellygraph, on 10/12/2007, -6/+24the dog is called Armani...
Armani...
are you ***** kidding me - Kurisuku, on 10/12/2007, -16/+33It's weird, but all of my fat friends eat very heathily, won't touch fast food, or chips, or anything that would be "dangerous." They don't even eat sugary foods. All vegetables and rice.
My skinny friends? The skinny skinny *****? They eat Wendy's or Arby's every day, they eat Fritos like they're going out of style, they don't have a meal unless it's fried in a diner.... Taco bell is their 'healthy' snack every couple of days. Their parents never cooked for them as children, they just brought home chinese food or Costco pizza. They're skinny as rails. The fat people? They're nibbling on dry salads.
How do you even explain that *****? - caution, on 10/12/2007, -4/+21@tyranny
above you talked about the lack of technology and the fact there were less child abductions when you were a kid -- so you played outside
don't you think abductions were probably the same when you were a kid? that same lack of technology, lack of a 24 hour "news" cycle, etc just meant you didn't hear about crime as much
it was there, we just didn't get it shoved down our throats as "breaking news" when a kid got abducted, lost, or as bad as it's gotten now, a car wreck 700 miles away that caused a traffic tie-up is somehow "news"
i'm not calling you out really -- just suggesting you look at things differently (i dugg you up)
I am sickened by the photo though. It's sad. Unless the guy is disabled somehow and can't walk the dog 1-2 hours a day -- doing that with your car is just dumb. - sirmo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14The real problem in that picture is the accident waiting to happen. He could run the snout over with the back tire of the SUV.
- owen87, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14I used to work at a bakery and during that time i gained 20 lbs. I also used to smoke a lot, cigs and pot, and just eat a rediculous amount. Last spring I kind of got inspired (by a girl i liked at the time) and started getting into shape.
It is really really easy to lose weight if you want to.
1. Get Inspired. Doesn't matter what inspires you, just find something
2. Just find an exercise that you like, I suggest running and find a partner or group to do this with. Run for ten minutes every day (this is important) for a couple weeks and build up from there. Set a goal like a 5k race that you want to take part in and go from there training for it.
3. Try to eat just a little healthier, cut out the parts of your diet which are the worst for you. For example, I still go and eat fast food quite a lot, but I just get like the burger and forget about the fries and the soda. Seriously, DONT DRINK SODA, its absolutely horendous for you. I lost almost 10 lbs from just not drinking soda.
4. Just keep up with it, even if the results dont happen instantly, push yourself, add more exoricses or find new interests and have fun. If you slip a little, maybe forget to run a day or two, or accidently drink a soda or something, dont sweat it just push yourself harder next time.
Seriously, im in the best shape of my life right now, I run races, still smoke, still have a good time, but everything is easier and more enjoyable. You would be suprised how many people you can meet through all of this too, its just life-changing
oh and my icon is of one of the smiley faced cookies from the bakery, on act like a pirate day - s000, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14@kurisuku
Funny you bring that up.. The super skinny guys can eat whatever they want, I know some guy who will literally pick up a dozen krispy kremes after a big dinner and eat like 3 throughout the night- he just has to keep eating, and some others who will eat two dinners a few hours apart from each other.
I definitely out eat a lot of bigger people I'm 5'10 and weight like 125, I get really sick of the comments people make b/c they think I don't eat. This, however, usually stops after they see me eat a meal - b/c there are very few girls who can eat like I do- I do try to keep it healthy sometimes, although lately that just hasn't happened. I also have slipped into horrible exercise habits, which are pretty much none right now. I'm definitely starting to feel the effects from the bad food/no exercise thing.
People have horrible eating habits though, I can eat a lot more b/c of the choices I make most of the time. Restaurants load their food up with butter, bad oils, salt- when I finally get into my new house I plan on cooking ALOT, eating out all the time no matter if it's mcdonalds or some other horrible chain like chilis/applebees/outback or most any restaurant for that matter, will not make you healthy. When you cook at home you don't tend to put heavy whipping cream and exorbitant amounts of butter in something like mashed potatoes like these places do.
The best is when someone will order a salad to eat "better" and load it will extra ranch dressing or put fried chicken on it. They definitely need to teach kids about nutrition in high school. I think it would help many under/over eaters or at least give them the information background for when they get a little older and start actually caring about things like that. - emotecontrol, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13@ kurisuku
There is evidence that fatness is at least partially controlled by the mother's nutritional status during pregnancy. A woman who eats well and abundantly, takes appropriate vitamins, and is generally in a good state nutritionally, will end up bearing a child who will be likely to remain thin throughout his or her life. However, if the woman is suffering from deficiencies, it causes a response in the child that leads to obesity. Essentially, the child's system goes, "hey, Mom's starving. That means that the world I'm coming into is food-poor. I should store as much food as I can when I can get it, so that during lean times I don't starve to death." The fetus then develops along a trajectory that predisposes it to gaining weight, to act as a buffer against starvation.
Anyway, that's the hypothesis. There is some evidence to support it, as well as correlation that shows that following periods of starvation, entire societies produce a few generations worth of fat people. After a few generations, the effect dies down. Interestingly, it seems to be an effect that, once triggered, can have lasting effects across multiple generations. If you are a woman who was born under the hormonal situation that causes this sort of obesity, you're likely to subject your own children to it, even if your diet is ideal. It seems that it's a bet-hedging mechanism. Maybe your diet is great, but since famine or poverty has happened to your family in recent history, it's a good idea to prepare your children in case it happens again. - jspegele, on 10/12/2007, -14/+26Daddy didn't hug you enough, did he?
- fluxion, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10the dude in the article specifically stated "i was lazy". this wasnt some uber-genius using his vehicle to provide his beloved pet with a sufficient workout.
- ladyarcher85, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10@ ROFLance don't worry, they are damn too lazy to even bother lol
- discostu0987, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Looks like he could be the son of the Michelin man
- fluxion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9what you eat is quite important. but it's also a matter of how much you eat, and how much many calories you burn off.
rule of thumb:
calories in, less than or equal to, calories burned
you can eat salads all day, but violate this and you'll gain weight. if you have a low metabolism, this applies even more.
also, i was never fat, but i started eating fast food for lunch everyday for about 3-4 months and went from 135 to 160 like nothing. so it's not like pure genetics are involved here, eating too much ***** food can most certainly make you fat. likewise, i went right back down to 135 in about 2 months by eating healthy and watching my calorie intake, so eating healthy (but more importantly, not too much) can most certainly get you in shape.
it's possible your friends may be a rather unique case, some people do have naturally high metabolisms, but i have a feeling you provided pathological examples to make a point. metabolisms, for the most part, vary depending on eating/exercise habits. - ewetubing, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11@GawtMilk
I like your comments. Loved them, actually. Just one thought, though.
Given this guy's age (probably over thirty from the dress shirt and the type car he is driving,) he probably IS of the same generation as you.
Food for thought. - aphexmandelbrot, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12Since when?
Also: we aren't. - MrDys, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Except that kid's in Russia, not America: http://tinyurl.com/j5v3s
- Zackypooh, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10I think he would get extra exercise if he walked his dog intead of driving before gym, yes?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9The sad thing is that even though America is full of obese people they lose the hot dog eating contest to some skinny Japanese person.
- Awap, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11You may not be able to outrun your dog, but you should be able to run farther than it. Humans are built for endurance, not top speed. Almost any animal can out sprint us, but we can run farther without becoming exhausted or overheating. Factors such as walking on two legs (slow but efficient), no fur, and sweating give us a big advantage over other animals. There are people in the world who still hunt this way ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistence_hunting ).
Anecdotally I have seen this to be true. When I try to run a long way with my dog, he will be all piss and vinegar for the first mile or two, then he starts to poop out. Other dogs could probably do better, and I would imagine that some breeds have been created specifically for endurance (huskies), but for the most part, you should be able to tire your dog out. - skywake, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10wow.... just...
I'm speechless
did you just say dogs are getting faster? -
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