[DomusAlbion]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Dreamtwister', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('DomusAlbion', ' ')I liked it.

[Pablo2079]

Thanks for the post. I also enjoyed it.

It makes me think of those little fast food/gas islands int he middle of California along I-5. Nothing for MILES AND MILES... and then suddenly an exit. Clustered aroun the exit is 2 or 3 gas stations to choose from, a motel, a Dennys and then three different fast food joints. (Plus a couple palm trees thrown in to remind you of where you are...)

How far do these employees travel to work here?

[Dreamtwister]

[cualcrees]

Whoa! That picture pretty much sums up all that's wrong with the world...

[pedalling_faster]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pup55', 'I') stand in line behind a black man. He is about 5-7 and about 400 pounds, wearing a black T-shirt and knee-length shorts.

[Dreamtwister]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('cbxer55', 'G')ad, those kids are gross! You sure they are not from Oklahoma?

[FloridaGirl]

Yea, I've started thinking that maybe I should take a video camera and film a grocery store with the huge variety of bountiful foods and film my drive to work and include the plentiful gas stations with no lines. All to show people in the future of what it used to be like.


Last weekend, I had a different kind of experience at a McDonald's. The line for the drive-through wrapped around 2 sides of the store and yet I walked inside and went right up to the counter. I can understand handicapped people and someone with small children using the drive-through, but otherwise it's just pure laziness. I bet those same people complain about the price of gas.

Seeing cars just idling is my new pet peeve.

[memmel]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pup55', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '6'). What the Hell am I (pup55) doing in this gin joint?

[wisconsin_cur]

I just can't help to wonder about the population explosion that will be experienced by possums and other scavengers in a few years...

yuck! It will be a good couple of years to avoid going near any former centers of human population...

[sciencegirl]

Fat people at McDonald's, Hot Damn who'd a thunk it.

[JJ]

last year I saw three women get stuck in the aile of the grocery store where it work. They were very embarassed trying to get around one another. (the isles are only about eight feet apart). If it wasn't so disqusting, it would have been hilarious.

It occured to me one day that the reason I see morbidly obese people all day long in the grocery store is that the healthy people never come there.

one day I said to the store director, you know, we're no different than a bartender selling alcohol to an acoholic; she said "no, Jay, you're safe...you work in produce...."

[TheDude]

Dreamtwister beat me to the pic of the grossly obese kids jamming their maws.





Last time I was in a BK (quite a while!) they had charts up showing you exactly what you were...eating. You'd need to be a chemist to ID some of this stuff.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', ' ')McRib Bun:
Enriched flour (bleached wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), water, yeast, high fructose corn syrup, contains 2% or less of the following: yellow corn meal, salt, partially hydrogenated soybean and cottonseed oils, canola oil, soybean oil, dextrose, sugar, calcium sulfate, cultured wheat flour, wheat gluten, ammonium sulfate, monocalcium phosphate, ammonium chloride, cellulose gum, diastatic malt, calcium carbonate, soy flour, deactivated dry yeast, dough conditioners (may contain one or more of the following: ascorbic acid, enzymes, sodium stearoyl lactylate, azodicarbonamide, calcium peroxide, guar gum, distilled monoglycerides, DATEM, mono- and diglycerides, ethoxylated mono- and diglycerides, calcium stearoyl lactylate), calcium propionate and sodium propionate (preservatives), soy lecithin. CONTAINS: WHEAT AND SOY

[pedalling_faster]

from Michaelangelo's "David" to Rodin's "the thinker" to DVD's like this
http://www.ballisticpublishing.com/dvds ... /index.php
( it's a set of detailed photographs of a muscly guy in a Speedo, used by visual effects artists as a "reference body" for when they're drawing in (mostly) 3D ), i would say the bodies of normal fat people have been overlooked by the art world.

when will CGSociety.org have seminars in how to draw real people ? for example, those chubby kids in the pictures above.

let's see some more pictures of normal Americans. top, front, & right side views would be helpful.

[frankthetank]

Good post pup. I hope you enjoyed your meal.

[pup55]

Perhaps Sciencegirl will approve of the following:

Here is my total dietary intake for the event:

actual usda recommended
Fat 16 30
Cholesterol 0.17
sodium 0.7295 1.3
carbs 54.5 45-65
fiber 2
protein 13 56
phosphoros 0.0615 0.7
caffeine 0.0345
Calories 435 2100

I went in for a grease infusion, and it was "mission accomplished". The item I had was 14% fat by weight.

[mmasters]

How about a visit to the shopping mall!

[emeraldg40]

Oklahoma??? Try Texas if you want to see the fatties. Makes okies look like slim jims

[sciencegirl]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'P')erhaps Sciencegirl will approve of the following:

Here is my total dietary intake for the event:

actual usda recommended
Fat 16 30
Cholesterol 0.17
sodium 0.7295 1.3
carbs 54.5 45-65
fiber 2
protein 13 56
phosphoros 0.0615 0.7
caffeine 0.0345
Calories 435 2100

I went in for a grease infusion, and it was "mission accomplished". The item I had was 14% fat by weight.

[AirlinePilot]

pup55,

Excellent stuff. I have far better instances of waste and horror though. just hang around airports for a while or maybe sit in a line of thirty or forty aircraft waiting for takeoff some time and just watch.


I'm 5' 10" and weigh just about 180. I'd like to get back down to 170 or so.

My personal Micky D's prediliction is Big Mac's. Maybe one every few weeks or so.

[BigTex]

I believe that Americans are unconsciously fattening themselves up for an economic and social hibernation.

There is something peculiar about any society in which the least prosperous are the most overweight.

Life is too easy if someone who is living below the "poverty line" is overweight.

To be truly poor, it seems like you ought to be undernourished and hungry all the time. After all, what is poor except a lack of food, water and shelter?

Since water in our society is virtually free, and many poor people are fat, unless they are homeless I don't know how they could even be described as poor.

Maybe they are poor in the "self actualization" area.