Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Childhood Obesity Foundation;
Obesity rates in children have almost tripled in the last 25 years. Approximately 26% of Canadian children ages 2-17 years old are currently overweight or obese.
Saskatoon Wal-Mart Parking Lot;
Lickmuffin @11:43 – I have hypothyroidism too; have had for over a decade. I’m not overweight. If this really is a thing for you I recommend adding some dessicated thryoid – about 5-10% of your total – to your synthroid/levothyroxine. Takes forever to see an endocrinologist so if you’re curious see if your GP will write you a scrip.
Here’s the company that makes dessicated thyroid for the Canadian market: http://thyroid.erfa.net/
I’m not a big endless-solutions-to-imaginary-problems person (not being a lefty), but I’m also looking into getting a fluoride filter.
brtinsky said: “Parts of AZ has this along with the disabled parking along with fuel efficient car parking.”
I look forward to parking the F-250 in the fuel efficient car parking. It takes up about a space-and-a-half, so the communication is well and truly delivered.
Like you though, I usually park waaaaaay off at the back. Because all the reeeetards most likely to slam their door into my paintwork are clustered right up next to the store.
Know the enemy. ~:D
I see this differently.
The fact these reserved spots exist has nothing to do with laziness or obesity.
I see it as a condemnation of just how self-centered, arrogant and uncaring the average driver is today(fat or skinny). A primo spot is obviously more important to many than navigating the lot safely without mowing down little children. Anyone here who actually gets off their self-rightious, pimply fat ass to walk anywhere would see how the average pedestrian is considered not much more than a traffic cone to be swerved around these days.
Don’t get me wrong, I watch a new crop of preferred parking signs go up every once in awhile and wonder when middle-aged, single white guys like me will only be allowed to park in back.
But don’t attack fatties when the reason these particular spots exist is to give parents a fighting chance to get their kids to the front door alive.
I always enrage passengers by parking out on the perimeter, but it’s due to laziness – i find it easier to park and walk a bit than drive around looking for a good spot. (Try explaining that to your carload…)
It’s also because I’ve usually been driving a nice car that I don’t want scratched or dented, or a POS that might require popping the hood to replace something from my trunk load of spare parts and batteries. Like most artists, I must work in solitude, away from ridicule, or advice.
Of course, the Childhood Obesity Foundation is another scam in the same way as Y2Kyoto and AGW…..follow the money.
How is it that some people have to have a victimhood association for whatever reason, why don’t they join some sports club? There maybe one reason, lack of victimhood appreciation from the athletic crowd.
There is no excuse for fat children except in case of illness. To acquire victimhood status for parents because of their own laziness is in many cases the aim.
Many times you can see the fattest kid stuffing his / hers face with icecream.
Then you have Oprah that will have assorted wise people telling the big ones that there is nothing wrong with that. As it is, maybe not, then stop complaining.
the average pedestrian is considered not much more than a traffic cone to be swerved around these days.
That’s why I always grab a shopping cart before I really start the walk to the store.
Some jerk/jerkess tries to treat me like a traffic cone and “ OOPS! did your car hit my cart?
Sorry, I guess I didn’t see you any better than you saw me…what with the speed you were travelling and all.”
I don’t have a problem with certain allowances for parents with really small children. Once the kid is old enough, however, he can stretch his legs.
If obesity is such a concern, rescue a dog and make the kids walk it.
Lickmuffin: I’m not about to agree that obesity and stupidity go hand in hand. I know quite a few fat people who are very intelligent. Conversely, I know many thin people who are remarkably stupid.
However, your comment about ridiculing smokers and drinkers being verboten and criticizing the obese being acceptable is exactly ass-backwards.
I’ve yet to see the obese being subjected to the criticism and nagging that smokers, and to a lesser extent, drinkers are subjected to. It’s not yet fashionable to ostracize the obese. But it probably will be in time.
like with gorebullwarming, one needs to “see” the methodology before one can see how relivent the stats are
Aarons right.
I gave up on Kates site when she let that @#$%^&* take over and ban anything that wasn’t in his opinion acceptable. The funny thing about that was when I walked away he left shortly after.
To bad this was at one time the best site on the web. I wonder Kate do you regret any of that?
If your large vehicle uses twice as much fuel as the “small car” you should be able to use two of their spaces. Fair is fair!
I have entirely different take on parking lots.
I actually take pride in the condition and appearance of my car. I park as far away from the ignorant masses as I can. It’s kind of funny. When I come out, there is always two or three other nicely kept vehicles in close proximity to mine.
As for being over weight? Depends on what standard is used. If the moronic BMI system is used then at 180 Lbs and 5’10” I am over weight. And not just barely. In almost 47 years I can guarantee you no one has glanced at me and thought “what a tub of lard!!”. Sure there are obese and morbidly obese folks out there.
Rose, you have the mega F-250 as well? Is it not the pinnacle of happy motoring?
There really is nothing quite so satisfying as sitting two feet off the back bumper of a Smart Car or a Prius at 100K on the 403 and watching Greenieboy sweat bullets.
I’m thinking of getting a bumper sticker made up that says “If you can read this you’re going too slow.” Printed backwards and mounted in the center of the front bumper. And maybe teeth for the grille. Big white ones.
Phantom, there is a guy around the corner from me with the F-650!!
Never even knew such a beast exisited until I came around the corner and saw it all painted up to advertise his pizza joints.
Truely a beautiful beast!
I have a Toyota Hybrid and a Smart Car. I like that I am not sending as much money for fuel to terrorist countries, and the Smart Car was lettered up with my business info for advertising.
London city council wanted to make downtown parking free for Prius and Smart Cars, and the paper called me to get my take on it. I told them it was the stupidest idea I’d ever heard, because TDI Volkswagons that gets 67 miles per gallon would not qualify, yet my supposedly “green” vehicles would. They just wanted to do something that looked good to environmentalist.
Man were they ever surprised by that response. They did promise to consider letting 2 Smart Cars park in one parallel spot, but never did.
Kyla, put your name on the back of your Smartie and I promise not to tailgate you. ~:D
Ontario has a solution!
If you thought you were going to drop your youngster off at the all day kindergarten, be prepared.
Ontario is planning to use the smart meter on your house to monitor the charging of your electric car. And if peak demand is required to keep the lights on, then they will ‘borrow’ the charge in your batteries to keep the lights on.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoZ3En2ERh4
Are you kidding me?
AtlanticJim re the F-650, I saw one of these done up custom in AZ. It made my F-250 look like a Hot Wheel. Some outfit in Florida makes them, four door crew cab and 6 door if you can imagine such a thing.
//www.f650pickups.com/
I want to park one in the “fuel efficient” spot. Maybe the 6 door dually long-box one. Anything worth doing is worth OVERdoing.
i always park in the handicapped parking…when i get out of the car i fake a limp with a lot of back twist….but i still move along briskly enough but not TOO briskly….only been screamed at a few times over the years when some fool sees my double time stride up and down the aisles inside the emporium………..
i only have one response to the mf-ing busybodies….but i AM handicapped pal…i’m mentally handicapped….
does this make me a bad person?
Didn’t the Global Warming Hoax and all the “Initialed Credentialed Caste” who spawned it not teach us anything?
Who decides what “overweight” is? And why are they including kids who are a couple of pounds “overweight” with obese kids?
Is someone having fun with numbers?
Is someone looking for some of that there sweet “government lucre”?
Will they be producing a movie called “An Inconvenient Weight” too?
Think about it eh!!
Mentally handicapped or not – hurry up and get out of the primo parking spot…who the heck wants to walk!
“I wonder Kate do you regret any of that?”
No.
Even without the “special” parking spots you still have the individuals that just have to dash in to the local mega-mart and have their spouse standing just outside the entrance with the motor running so the poor dears don’t have to walk across the parking lot….that is until the fire fighters show up to grab the ingredients for tonights dinner and tell them to get their a__ out of the fire lane.
FREE – filthy froggie stuff, but I can’t resist.
I am sure that Canada is similar to the US in that you need to follow the money to find out whether the statistics are right or if it is just a way to keep the funding coming in. In 2008, the latest statistics on childhood overweight from the National Center for Health Statistics at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. They showed that since the childhood growth charts were redesigned nearly a decade before, there had been no statistically significant change in the percentages of young people at or above the 95th percentile (labeled as “overweight” and some are now calling “obese”).
This is significant because prior to 1999, the definition of “overweight” and how it was measured changed, as did surveillance. Even the NHANES surveys were redesigned several times. That makes it especially challenging for the public to readily see what’s happened and exactly how much children have grown. The last statistical change that helped to accentuate public perceptions of an epidemic was when new child growth charts were issued in 2000, using BMIs rather than heights and weights (instantly placing nearly two-thirds of children in higher percentiles, despite no increase in their actual weights). An epidemic of obesity was declared by Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson on March 9, 2004, launching an aggressive government campaign and massive funding to address a purported crisis. This was followed in 2005 by the Surgeon General Richard Carmona making the epidemic of childhood obesity a national priority and anti-obesity initiatives went into high gear.
(A mere 5 pounds makes the difference between a six year old being considered normal weight or obese.)
Before we take it as a given that science has proven obesity to be a deadly crisis requiring a massive reorder of our society, it’s critical to understand the difference between science and marketing. Few consumers realize that most of what we hear coming from the CDC isn’t from the scientists at the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), but from CDC’s various marketing divisions. It’s important to understand the difference.
In 2005, after CDC scientists published the CDC’s own national data and nearly brought down the government’s entire war on obesity, a press conference was hastily called to, as then director Dr. Julie Gerberding said, “translate our science more effectively so that we avoid this kind of communication in the future.” [The CDC’s evidence had shown that, instead of being deadly, obesity (BMI 30 to
Sorry, erased part of it: The CDC’s evidence had shown that, instead of being deadly, obesity (BMI 30 to
john begley at March 4, 2011 9:19 PM
I believe as you say you may be mentally handicapped, but that’s no excuse for using a handicapped parking spot. Shameful.
look wendy…..i’m sick and i need help….i know this and my family knows this…and we don’t need you making me feel worse than i do….that’s just MEAN…if you’ve got something constructive, something helpful to say to contribute toward helping me heal then fine…but just getting up on your high horse who must be wearing stilts and castigating me doesn’t serve any purpose…it just makes me angry and resentful….where’s your humanity wendy ?
and i’ll have you know can change…i’ve successfully broken the habit of stiffing the blind newspaper vendor on my corner…….it took a number of years of course but real change doesn’t come overnight eh?
Isn’t it plain to see ??? That these facts prove we need the government to do something……….
What did people do to park all these years since cars or buggy’s, before they introduced selective parking with fines?
More leftist scams turned into sucker punches.