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12 year old know it all!...Not!

#42
Robroy said:
That's the thing. It's not the food. It's the lifestyle. And the REAL problem with the school lunch issue is where the edict is coming from and the total lack of authority that source has. School lunches are a local issue. Heck, school, itself is a local issue.
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Then if you don't wish to be part of the solution, quit complaining.
 
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#43
Robroy said:
ABSOLUTELY! Though I call it bias. I consider it healthy. I used to be in sales. What is called "Profiling" is a VERY useful and effective tool in all of life. It's not an end-all, be-all, but it gives you a head start on dealing with people.

And "fat people" is one of my pet peeves. It's nothing against them personally, but rather against our culture. When I was a kid, there may have been "a" fat kid in one of my classes. Have you looked around at our schools today? I've said, since I've moved to KY from Seattle, that any high school girl here that is height weight proportionate can pretty much pick who she wishes to be her boyfriend. They are the tiny minority.

This country has a serious obesity problem, and it's not just because of the food. No wonder we have a "health care crisis".
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Cool story Bro.
 
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The part that gets me is the 56 year old guy making fun of a 12 year old child thinks he deserves respect.
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Woolber said:
We'll agree to disagree. Doesn't , by itself, improve creativity.
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One of my idols is Jordan Rudess. They identified perfect pitch for him at an early age. This along with picking up tunes easily, hearing them and playing them led to an early start to Julliard. It's a tool. I am surprised that this is controversial in any way. Not everyone has it. But those that do, and use it - look out!
 
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#53
Bodeanly said:
We have a "crisis" because people are not always able to afford it, not because we have bad health care.
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Not true. I eat bulk oatmeal for breakfast. a $2 bag gets me breakfasts for three weeks. It is VERY healthy. Same with things like chicken, eggs, etc. It's very cheap to eat healthy. But there are two big problems:
1. Most poor people live in poor neighborhoods. Many of these neighborhoods are "food deserts". They are food deserts because shoplifting is so rampant that stores will not open there. I actually knew a guy back in the 1990's that had a bunch of "off price" food stores. One by one he closed the ones in the "poor" neighborhoods because he had to keep raising the prices to counter all the shoplifting. And notice I said "raising the prices"? Items actually cost MORE in poor neighborhoods. It is because of the much higher cost of doing business in those neighborhoods due to the low character of the clientele. It brings up a phrase I coined about 20 years ago: "It is very expensive to be poor in the U.S.
2. Laziness and complete absence of budgeting skills. It takes work to prepare healthy food. I know a LOT of people on some sort of government assistance (on a side note, pretty much all of them are white - which crushes another false meme). My wife and I are SHOCKED at how often they eat at McDonalds and live off junk food at home. That stuff is not only unhealthy, but ludicrously expensive. We avoid it for BOTH reasons.

All of the above can be fixed, but not by giving them more free stuff. I'll just leave it at that for now.
And if you're going to judge ANYONE when it comes to a child's obesity, you had better start with the parents.
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Absolutely. See my responses above. It's why I said I don't necessarily judge the person, but our culture. I WILL judge a person's actions, though. Even mine. This is why, after they do a bad thing, you never say to a child, "you are bad!" You say to them, "What you did was a bad thing. Don't do it again." Or something like that.
 
#56
Robroy said:
Not true. I eat bulk oatmeal for breakfast. a $2 bag gets me breakfasts for three weeks. It is VERY healthy. Same with things like chicken, eggs, etc. It's very cheap to eat healthy. But there are two big problems:
1. Most poor people live in poor neighborhoods. Many of these neighborhoods are "food deserts". They are food deserts because shoplifting is so rampant that stores will not open there. I actually knew a guy back in the 1990's that had a bunch of "off price" food stores. One by one he closed the ones in the "poor" neighborhoods because he had to keep raising the prices to counter all the shoplifting. And notice I said "raising the prices"? Items actually cost MORE in poor neighborhoods. It is because of the much higher cost of doing business in those neighborhoods due to the low character of the clientele. It brings up a phrase I coined about 20 years ago: "It is very expensive to be poor in the U.S.
2. Laziness and complete absence of budgeting skills. It takes work to prepare healthy food. I know a LOT of people on some sort of government assistance (on a side note, pretty much all of them are white - which crushes another false meme). My wife and I are SHOCKED at how often they eat at McDonalds and live off junk food at home. That stuff is not only unhealthy, but ludicrously expensive. We avoid it for BOTH reasons.

All of the above can be fixed, but not by giving them more free stuff. I'll just leave it at that for now.

Absolutely. See my responses above. It's why I said I don't necessarily judge the person, but our culture. I WILL judge a person's actions, though. Even mine. This is why, after they do a bad thing, you never say to a child, "you are bad!" You say to them, "What you did was a bad thing. Don't do it again." Or something like that.
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Whole lot of wrong in there. So many kids can't afford lunch without assistance. It's not because there are shoplifters in their neighborhood or bad planning / spending. It's because they are poor. Idiotic nonsense.
 
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#57
Michael B said:
One of my idols is Jordan Rudess. They identified perfect pitch for him at an early age. This along with picking up tunes easily, hearing them and playing them led to an early start to Julliard. It's a tool. I am surprised that this is controversial in any way. Not everyone has it. But those that do, and use it - look out!
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I had perfect pitch until age started messing with it. It's a cool parlor trick but doesn't mean you write good music.
 
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