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I saw "Fast Food Nation" yesterday

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    Le centriste
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    I liked the movie. I think it is a good depiction of what America has become.

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      I liked the movie. I think it is a good depiction of what America has become.

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      Ryan Roberts
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      A loud mouth leftist journalist with a harridan of a vegan wife promoting Subway at the expense of McSatans while being heralded as an anti capitalist champion? Oops, wrong film :)

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        A loud mouth leftist journalist with a harridan of a vegan wife promoting Subway at the expense of McSatans while being heralded as an anti capitalist champion? Oops, wrong film :)

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        Jorgen Sigvardsson
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        Regardless of what this journalist says, Subway subs rock. :cool: McGrease doesn't. :)

        -- Kein Mitleid Für Die Mehrheit

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          A loud mouth leftist journalist with a harridan of a vegan wife promoting Subway at the expense of McSatans while being heralded as an anti capitalist champion? Oops, wrong film :)

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          Le centriste
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          If you don't agree with what is in the movie, then you can keep on your diet of daily Mickey's Big One.

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            A loud mouth leftist journalist with a harridan of a vegan wife promoting Subway at the expense of McSatans while being heralded as an anti capitalist champion? Oops, wrong film :)

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            Stuart Dootson
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            Nah - that was Super Size Me - Morgan Spurlock - he had a vegan fiancee (now wife), any way.

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              If you don't agree with what is in the movie, then you can keep on your diet of daily Mickey's Big One.

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              Ryan Roberts
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              Why would I want to? It's vile slop.

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                A loud mouth leftist journalist with a harridan of a vegan wife promoting Subway at the expense of McSatans while being heralded as an anti capitalist champion? Oops, wrong film :)

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                Le centriste
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                Ryan Roberts wrote:

                Oops, wrong film

                :doh:

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                  I liked the movie. I think it is a good depiction of what America has become.

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                  Stan Shannon
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                  MP (2) wrote:

                  I think it is a good depiction of what America has become.

                  I know you want to blame everything on Bush, but actually, it is more of a dipiction of what we have always been.

                  Modern liberalism has never achieved anything other than giving Secularists something to feel morally superior about

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                    Nah - that was Super Size Me - Morgan Spurlock - he had a vegan fiancee (now wife), any way.

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                    Red Stateler
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                    Stuart Dootson wrote:

                    that was Super Size Me

                    Speaking of that... At the end of the movie, they stated how many pounds of sugar that hippy consumed in the course of one month. I forget the figure, but it seemed ludicrously high. I went to McDonalds' website and found that in order to consume that much sugar, he would have to consume something like 8 extra-large milkshakes per day...And that's their highest-sugar item. Eating big macs, it would be something like 30/day. In the end, the math just didn't add up and, since he never actually gave details of what he ate, it can be assumed from the sugar figure that it was an absolutely ludicrous amount. Of course, regardless of what or where you eat, if you eat that much, you're going to get fat. The moral of the film was..."duh".

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                      MP (2) wrote:

                      I think it is a good depiction of what America has become.

                      I know you want to blame everything on Bush, but actually, it is more of a dipiction of what we have always been.

                      Modern liberalism has never achieved anything other than giving Secularists something to feel morally superior about

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                      Le centriste
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                      The one to blame here is not Bush, it is the corporate culture that you have become. Anything for profit, whatever it takes. Bush is just a by-product of corporate America.

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                        I liked the movie. I think it is a good depiction of what America has become.

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                        Diego Moita
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                        I didn't see the movie, but fast food, overeating and obesity are a global trend. It is not only in America and not only on the rich countries. This thing didn't happen before just because food was more expensive by then. Some months ago I saw a survey from World Health Organization saying that the number of overweight people has surpassed the number of undernourished in the world. The same is happening here in South America. Like any other animal, people are genetically coded to eat as much as they can and to not waste energy. This makes sense in a wild, Darwinian struggle for survival. But in a world with cheap food and machines to do all the hard work the results are obesity. Anyway, it is good to keep things in perspective: better obesity than hunger.


                        'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'
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                          Stuart Dootson wrote:

                          that was Super Size Me

                          Speaking of that... At the end of the movie, they stated how many pounds of sugar that hippy consumed in the course of one month. I forget the figure, but it seemed ludicrously high. I went to McDonalds' website and found that in order to consume that much sugar, he would have to consume something like 8 extra-large milkshakes per day...And that's their highest-sugar item. Eating big macs, it would be something like 30/day. In the end, the math just didn't add up and, since he never actually gave details of what he ate, it can be assumed from the sugar figure that it was an absolutely ludicrous amount. Of course, regardless of what or where you eat, if you eat that much, you're going to get fat. The moral of the film was..."duh".

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                          David Wulff
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                          Red Stateler wrote:

                          I went to McDonalds' website and found that in order to consume that much sugar, he would have to consume...

                          On the DVD release I saw, McDonalds admitted to having reviewed some of their worse products and had made changes as a result of all the publicty at the time.


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                            The one to blame here is not Bush, it is the corporate culture that you have become. Anything for profit, whatever it takes. Bush is just a by-product of corporate America.

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                            Stan Shannon
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                            MP (2) wrote:

                            Anything for profit, whatever it takes.

                            I'm pretty sure that is what we have always been. Anyone who doesn't like it, shouldn't live here.

                            Modern liberalism has never achieved anything other than giving Secularists something to feel morally superior about

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                              Red Stateler wrote:

                              I went to McDonalds' website and found that in order to consume that much sugar, he would have to consume...

                              On the DVD release I saw, McDonalds admitted to having reviewed some of their worse products and had made changes as a result of all the publicty at the time.


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                              David Wulff wrote:

                              On the DVD release I saw, McDonalds admitted to having reviewed some of their worse products and had made changes as a result of all the publicty at the time.

                              Yeah, because they feared cigarette-style, multi-billion dollar lawsuits. Check out the amount of sugar he said he consumed. It's a "fact" listed at the end of the movie. The math simply doesn't add up.

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                                If you don't agree with what is in the movie, then you can keep on your diet of daily Mickey's Big One.

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                                Christian Graus
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                                I love how easily people can be brainwashed by a movie nowadays. I talked about 'An Inconvenient Truth' with someone who literally told me 'I don't care about facts, I only care about what I saw'.

                                Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog "I am working on a project that will convert a FORTRAN code to corresponding C++ code.I am not aware of FORTRAN syntax" ( spotted in the C++/CLI forum )

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                                  The one to blame here is not Bush, it is the corporate culture that you have become. Anything for profit, whatever it takes. Bush is just a by-product of corporate America.

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                                  73Zeppelin
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                                  MP (2) wrote:

                                  The one to blame here is not Bush, it is the corporate culture that you have become. Anything for profit, whatever it takes.

                                  I don't think the U.S. is alone in this.

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                                    MP (2) wrote:

                                    The one to blame here is not Bush, it is the corporate culture that you have become. Anything for profit, whatever it takes.

                                    I don't think the U.S. is alone in this.

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                                    The Apocalyptic Teacup wrote:

                                    I don't think the U.S. is alone in this.

                                    But we certainly excel at it.

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                                      David Wulff wrote:

                                      On the DVD release I saw, McDonalds admitted to having reviewed some of their worse products and had made changes as a result of all the publicty at the time.

                                      Yeah, because they feared cigarette-style, multi-billion dollar lawsuits. Check out the amount of sugar he said he consumed. It's a "fact" listed at the end of the movie. The math simply doesn't add up.

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                                      I really don't care what their justifications are, the fact is that they modifyed their product range in 'undisclosed ways' between him making the 'film' and it hitting DVD release in the UK. Magically salt and sugar levels both come down on most of their products. Your research cannot be held as conclusive due to that alone.

                                      Red Stateler wrote:

                                      The math simply doesn't add up.

                                      Coming from you... :doh:


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                                        I love how easily people can be brainwashed by a movie nowadays. I talked about 'An Inconvenient Truth' with someone who literally told me 'I don't care about facts, I only care about what I saw'.

                                        Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog "I am working on a project that will convert a FORTRAN code to corresponding C++ code.I am not aware of FORTRAN syntax" ( spotted in the C++/CLI forum )

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                                        Le centriste
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                                        Yeah, typical bullshit. Saying somebody is brainwashed just because he agrees with what is depicted in a movie.

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                                          The Apocalyptic Teacup wrote:

                                          I don't think the U.S. is alone in this.

                                          But we certainly excel at it.

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                                          73Zeppelin
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                                          Red Stateler wrote:

                                          But we certainly excel at it.

                                          I don't know, Switzerland does a damned good job at taking my money for their profit.

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