David Thompson walks you through the latest in leftist quantum re-imaginings.
Or, for those of you who prefer shorthand, imagine the physics behind, say, second-hand Twinkie thighs.
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Maybe they were inspired by the passive undereaters of North Korea?
It should probably be noted that the very same cocksuckers suggesting this are the first to attack packaged food manufacturers for price increases by package-size reduction. You peel away the layers, and there’s always Marxism at the core with these people.
Gotta love that line about making “Family Attractions junk-food free zones”
I want to see anyone propose banning funnel cakes from County Fairs.
tar, feathers, some assembly required.
Tar is an evil hydro-carbon. And feathers? Would you drive the feathered species to extinction? Earth hater!
Of course, there could be a boom in illicit cake, cookies and rice-krispie-square sales.
Will the nightly news be running video tape of SWAT raids of unlicensed home kitchens containing dessert cookbooks and bags of sugar?
So we’re all Cathy now.
So, I passively haul my fat ass to the car, passively drive it to the supermarket, passively fill up my cart, passively check out and pay for it, passively drive back to my house, passively put the food on the shelves, passively open the package, and passively stuff my gullet.
Is that the exhaustive list, or have I missed any other activities that I passively have to go through before this junk food magically finds its way into my belly?
Makes me want to do some passive overdrinking.
It’s amazing, because my kids eat chips and drink soda and make cookies about every other day. Not a one of ’em is fat. And, neither can I drive them to endless, expensive sports activities – they each get ONE.
It’s a mystery. I bet it’s because I’m white and educated.
Speaking of twinkies, I still have yet to try one of those deep-fried jobbies. I’m dying to.
Tomorrow I’m running a 10 mile race in Flint on a bad foot. Wish me luck. I think I’ll pack twinkies in my energy belt.
I take it “energy belt” isn’t a euphemism for beer gut (which is what I’ve long called mine) in this instance Carin, right?
LOL. No. I’m a wuss, and I have a hard time going past 7 miles (and not feeling like crap) w/out some sort of snack.
I know they say you can do it – go 10 miles w/o a snack. Maybe the treat is a psychological thing. Of course, I’m not that young anymore, so I like to think I need the extra umpf.
I take it “energy belt” isn’t a euphemism for beer gut (which is what I’ve long called mine)
I prefer emergency floatation device, myself
Fortunately bacon is not junk food.
I gotta say, there’s no doubt Americans are getting bigger in general and fatter in particular. Passive over eating never crossed my mind though, I guess ya gotta have advanced degrees to figure that shit out.
I mean, I always thought an abundance of cheap tasty food was part of the equation, but only as a variable. Along with more sedentary leisure time(where TV is a prime culprit), more work saving gizmos(like microwaves, power tools, dishwashers and the like), engineered food crops and injecting hormones (pdf. on ear implants) into beef and poultry, and so on.
None of them alone would be a problem, but all of them together, along with any kid even thinking about playing tag getting shot up with Ritalin, and you might have an explanation.
What to do about it is a tad more complex than battling passive overeating is what I’m getting at. It’s like saying passive driving is responsible for highway deaths. It says everything and nothing.
Amartya Sen looked up from his reading and said “Oh? Of course they did.”
What I don’t understand is that my kids play video games and watch tv and eat junk. More than I’d prefer. but none of them are fat. They’re mostly in pretty darn good shape.
What I’m saying, is that kids have to be doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING AND EATING TOTAL JUNK all the time.
As for adults. Meh. People make shitty food choices and are soft and lazy. They’ve got a million excuses why they can’t do this or that exercises. I could care less if someone is overweight, just don’t give me any song and dance about some injury or slow metabolism or whatever.
OWN IT. Then we’re cool.
Passive Overeating Deniers!
Like you’ve never walked through a mall food court and gained 5 pounds.
How do you passively eat in the first place? Just walk around with your mouth open and hope for the best?
(Waitaminnit, opening your mouth is performing an action. So you walk around with your mouth closed and hope for a miracle.)
I think there was an episode of South Park that explained how, Golem.
Come to think of it, I think the very same episode explained what the authors of this study are doing.
Just exactly
I’m guilty of passive overeating. Fortunately, I’m also guilty of passive overexercising, so it balances out.
In a word, these fat kids are “depressed” by the world around them. And depression is no small matter to a child (or an adult, for that matter).
I actually have a very bright son who won’t move a muscle unless he is absolutely forced to.
“Move a muscle, change a thought”?
Fuck that.
To be fair, I assume passive overeating means mindlessly snacking instead of actually limiting yourself to eating meals when you’re hungry.
Insert acknowledgement of the perils in assuming here…
Uh-oh. I’m afraid to check that out.
Earth hater!
Any idea how many people the earth kills annually? How many are maimed, made homeless, and livelihoods destroyed by this restive rock?
Hate is the only logical reaction, say I.
Ace provides a pretty good explanation of how cooking has made us eat more that we need to feel sated. And about paternalism’s insidious usage vs. better usage, and the FLOTUS obsession with obesity.
Is this the first time he’s linked David?
In a word, these fat kids are “depressed” by the world around them.
Chicken or egg? There’s nothing more boosting (ego, psyche whatever)than physical activity and being in control of your body.
Back when, I think I had passive sex. But then, I actively drank a lot, so one is probably the inverse of the other.
I think passive sex is the bad kind.
You know …
“blue … I think I’ll paint the ceiling blue …”
Lee
None of them alone would be a problem, but all of them together, along with any kid even thinking about playing tag getting shot up with Ritalin, and you might have an explanation.
We watch the twin grandsons one or two nights a week … and feeding them dinner now it an exercise in trying to figure which long skinny leg they stuff all that food into..
Those [one month shy of] 9 year olds never stop moving … jumping, running, wrestling, testing their strength against each other …
If “passive smoking” refers to the inhalation of “secondhand smoke,” then “passive eating” — “over-” or otherwise — has got to mean the consumption of “secondhand food.”
So the way to lose weight is to stop watching/reading the Kneepad Media. They’re full of used food.
Someone who really wants to have fun ought to make the case that rampant obesity is caused by housewives no longer spending half the day making dinner from scratch.
Maybe they were thinking passive-aggressive overeating.
In which case, they may be on to something.
I think Abe may have stumbled across the truth. Accidently of course.
Nonetheless it’s still thoughtcrime, so we’ll have to excoriate him thoroughly.
I’ve worked hard to be a fat bastard.
Abe Froman posted on 8/26 @ 2:33 pm:
“Someone who really wants to have fun ought to make the case that rampant obesity is caused by housewives no longer spending half the day making dinner from scratch.”
Ernst Schreiber posted on 8/26 @ 2:51 pm:
“I think Abe may have stumbled across the truth”
I kinda touched on it in #14: more work saving gizmos(like microwaves, power tools, dishwashers and the like). It ain’t only housewives though, it’s everything from cigarette lighter air compressors for bike tires to cordless drills. There’s been a million inventions with the purpose of letting us spend less time working with less effort at something and everything.
It’s not something I’m saying we need to change, but rather it’s a pleasant fact of life that we enjoy a much more sedentary lifestyle than any previous generation. That’s a factor in our enlarged population, but not the only one.
You’re right, Lee. But I was deliberately sexist for the simple reason that it upsets lefties. Kind of like my stock answer in New York to women who jabber about the gap between the rich and poor is that they should marry a poor guy (or, shut up).
I passively swam 1500m, biked 40k, and ran 10k this afternoon.
Passive overeating is so absurd it could have only been coined by a leftist.
“But I was deliberately sexist for the simple reason that it upsets lefties. “
Heh, here’s how you do that*:
Back in the day, a woman would spend all her time making the house look good, dinner look good, the kids look good, and keeping herself looking good, all for her husband. Now she’s got a job, the house is a mess, take out is the rule, the kids are out of control, and she’s too tired to give a shit what her husband thinks.
Should never have given them the vote…
*these views are in no way necessarily the views of the satirist.
High school football starts tonight, which means Saturday and Sunday football is right around the corner. I am happy.
has anyone done a study on passive presidencies?
As a matter of fact newrouter, someone has.
Don’t expect it, to, you know, actually live up to the title, however.
It’s been all downhill since that unknown bastard invented the plow.
I will now attempt to entertain a third thought all at the same time.
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Blast.