THIS IS WHY I’M FAT

ITEM [via Def Agent lorilori ]: Behold the terrible spectacle of food designed to throw yr health under a bus, collected for yr persusal on this site: This Is Why You’re Fat.

bluesgirly  may wish to look away now.

Sample item: The Thunderdome!



Three stacks of bacon, sausage, elk meat, onions and cheese between tortillas all topped with sour cream, two fried eggs and scallions.

The thing is, that actually sounds kinda tasty. A lot of the items on there do, at least to meat-eaters like me. And I’m hardly one to point the finger at obese people, being 50 pounds overweight myself – though to my credit, I used to be 110 pounds over. And one way I shaved 60 pounds off was to STOP EATING THINGS LIKE THE THUNDERDOME!

At least all the time. And at one sitting. Seriously, most of the dishes here I couldn’t possibly finish in one shot. A Thunderdome would last me a few days. And I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t want the rest after the first day.

Which is progress for the likes of me.

That said, there’s quite a few items on TIWYF that I don’t think I’d have wanted to try even when I was less health-conscious. Deep-fried White Castle burgers come to mind. Or deep-fried pepperoni pizza. Or the deep-fried banana split. To name a few.

Anyway, it’s a great jaw-dropping collection of things that are undeniably bad for you. But it is missing one thing: the monstrosity that is the Bacon And Cheese Stuffed Pizza Burger.



[Glommed from Def Agent puffdoggydaddy ]

It’s a giant burger stuffed with bacon and cheese with two pepperoni pizza as the “bun”.

Yes.

Nomnomnom,

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ALL I EVER GET IS A PINCH ON THE ...

And now, Donna Theodore laments her ability to attract guys who just want to have sex with her without marrying her first.

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PRODUCTION NOTE: Ignore that false start.

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WELCOME TO THE WORKING WEEK, PART 3: YR STILL F***ING PEASANTS AS FAR AS I CAN SEE

I’m not anti-capitalist by any measure (unless the measuring is being done by Sean Hannity, in which case I’m the chief of the Commie wing of al-Qaeda), but I do think that we're less than honest with ourselves about its virtues.

Capitalism thrives on the illusion that everyone has an equal shot at being a millionaire. Technically that’s true. The part they leave out is that most of us won’t make it for various reasons – a chief one being that capitalism also thrives on a cheap labor force ... which wouldn’t exist if everyone were rich.

Which may or may not explain why CEOs at places like AIG and GM get to fire the underlings and give themselves bonuses. But you can’t expect the working class to have much of a sense of humor about it, either, not for what they're paid. And you can’t blame them for seeing capitalism as a rigged game.

John Lennon understood that better than most people even back in the 60s. Some people like to discredit him with the old “self-hating rich” tag, but I never bought that one. Even if it’s true, I still think Lennon wrote one of the best songs ever about the dark side of capitalism, that shows in no uncertain terms that for all its benefits, there are still tradeoffs that may or may not be worth the price in the long run.

Doped with religion and sex and TV,

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