You must be at least this thin to ride this car.
Call me twisted but that story is both concerning and hilarious! It's concarious! Or hilarierning, even! Irresponsible parents are now feeding their children so much that not only are they at risk from heart disease by the time they're five, they're so fat that their kiddie seats can't keep them in one place in a car accident.
Apparently childhood obesity is concentrated in low-income families in the US. It's odd, because a hundred years ago, poverty would have led to children who were too skinny. Look how far we've come!
Even better, this lady says that the children being too fat for the car seats is the manufacturers fault. "As the number of obese children in the United States increases, it is essential to develop child safety seats that can protect children of all sizes and shapes," wrote study author Lara Trifiletti of Ohio State University in Columbus. "We hope that the results of this study can be used to influence future products brought to market."
You know, if they walked instead:
1) They wouldn't be so fat.
2) They wouldn't ever move fast enough to injure themselves
3) Global warming, the destruction of the rainforests and all that crazy hippy shit that they talk about here at work.
4) Less traffic, so the kids who aren't fat, and can therefore ride in a car safely, get to their destinations faster.
5) Less reliance on oil in the US (and the UK, we've got fat kids too), so they can get it all from Canada (or the North Sea in our case), saving transportation costs and (insert cheap shot at Iraq war here).
6) They'd get plenty of fresh air, just like their parents and their grandparents, they'd learn to appreciate the outdoors, they'd start playing games outdoors instead of GTA: San Andreas, they'd get an imagination, passion for life, a happy disposition that doesn't need anti-depressants, and they'd start to appreciate everything they have much more. They'd just become better people.
I propose that any parents with kids who are 'clinically obese' have their driving license revoked. It's for everyone's good.
Apparently childhood obesity is concentrated in low-income families in the US. It's odd, because a hundred years ago, poverty would have led to children who were too skinny. Look how far we've come!
Even better, this lady says that the children being too fat for the car seats is the manufacturers fault. "As the number of obese children in the United States increases, it is essential to develop child safety seats that can protect children of all sizes and shapes," wrote study author Lara Trifiletti of Ohio State University in Columbus. "We hope that the results of this study can be used to influence future products brought to market."
You know, if they walked instead:
1) They wouldn't be so fat.
2) They wouldn't ever move fast enough to injure themselves
3) Global warming, the destruction of the rainforests and all that crazy hippy shit that they talk about here at work.
4) Less traffic, so the kids who aren't fat, and can therefore ride in a car safely, get to their destinations faster.
5) Less reliance on oil in the US (and the UK, we've got fat kids too), so they can get it all from Canada (or the North Sea in our case), saving transportation costs and (insert cheap shot at Iraq war here).
6) They'd get plenty of fresh air, just like their parents and their grandparents, they'd learn to appreciate the outdoors, they'd start playing games outdoors instead of GTA: San Andreas, they'd get an imagination, passion for life, a happy disposition that doesn't need anti-depressants, and they'd start to appreciate everything they have much more. They'd just become better people.
I propose that any parents with kids who are 'clinically obese' have their driving license revoked. It's for everyone's good.
Perhaps this is all part of evolution Darwin simply hadn't thought of; survival of the thinnest?
I find the sheer ridiculousness of people both amusing and depressing.
Yes, manufacturers should cater to 'big boned' kids (surely they will soon, God bless capitolism) but quite how someone can stand up and say "it is essential to develop child safety seats that can protect children of all sizes and shapes" without at least metioning that parents that are actually concerned about their childs safety should be sorting out the obese issue. These kids are probably going to die a lot sooner than their healthy counterparts from fat related health issues so what difference does one more life threatening risk make? Their parents are either not actually concerned about their childs safety or have not got the intelligence to see that it's a problem.
Obesity is the perfect demonstration of how Westerners take little to no responsibility for their actions and simply expect to be bailed out by science at the last moment. Well, that or the individual doesn't have the intelligence to identify it as a problem.
Posted by
Anonymous |
Tue Apr 04, 08:57:00 am
how fat?
http://www.recessmonkey.com/index.php/2006/04/06/belly_advertising
Posted by
Ben |
Fri Apr 07, 03:48:00 pm