This is a letter submitted to me by a reader of the site. His opinions and questions are in the normal teal, mine are in orange.
1. i believe there should be a rehabilitation camp for all fat people. stop eating, go on a diet, and get on a little workout plan. simple shit here. students at schools should not have to run countless laps wasting away learning time just so the politicians can say they are helping the fatasses, who somehow always still remain fat and just as unhealthy.
The running laps thing was always amusing to me, too, because the fat people were the ones that didn't run. They showed up with doctor's notes excusing them from it, or just walked and endured the anger of the teacher for holding up the class. I wouldn't say put them in camps, though. I would take them to a slaughterhouse, and let them watch from the beginning of the process to the end. I think that after the very beginning where the cow's throats are slit to kill them "humanely", most of the lard asses would be seriously considering vegetables. Getting back to the running, I actually had an experience once of what I think it would be like to be fat. When I was a sophomore in high school, I contracted a relatively rare rib infection that makes the tissue in between your rib swell up and become very tender. Walking was a little painful, but I could tolerate it as I have a pretty high threshold for pain. Turning my body to the side or running, however, were horribly painful; so much so that it would take my breath away. Of course, it had to come right at the time when we were supposed to run the mile for Phy Ed. I knew about the running two days prior, so I called and made an appointment to see him on the day of the mile, at the time I was supposed to be in that very class. The day comes, and early in the morning, I get a note sent to class saying that my appointment was canceled because there was a car accident, and my doctor had to go treat the victim. I get to Phy Ed, and tell my teacher the situation, even showing her the note that I had received that morning, proving I had at one time had an appointment. Her answer? You're shit out of luck. She forced me to run the mile. I actually walked most of it, because whenever I started running, I couldn't breathe, and had to stop when I was out of air for another breathe. I finish in twelve minutes, two minutes faster then the fattest people in my class. I go to the doctor the next day, my ribs so swollen from running that you can actually see black and blue through my skin. My doctor was pissed. He sent a note back with me to my teacher saying that if I wasn't allowed to run the mile again when I was healthy, and given a very sincere apology, that he would be very happy to be a witness in a lawsuit against the school for the torture that I endured. My teacher stood me up in class, apologized to me in front of thirty people, and had me run it again two weeks later, when I ran it in a little over six minutes. But that pain that I went through is what I imagine it is like to live in an extremely obese body. Tissue constantly swollen and aching, not allowing you to do some of the most basic human functions. That is where my prejudice against fat people was formed. Anyone that would voluntarily suffer that horrible pain for something as simple as eating is a fool.
2. why the fuck are HS students required to take 12 years of English? our own fucking language? this is bullshit. if you are not good enough to spell most of the basics words used in writing and speaking then you are an idiot. english should not be required after say 9th grade or so.
The really sad thing is that after twelve years of it, most people still cannot properly speak or write it. I would agree, make the shit voluntary after 8th grade, and separate it into different sections. Literature and writing, with a short prerequisite grammar class before either. Lumping it all into one class suppresses the creativity of writers, and frustrates people who are strictly readers.
3. drugs should be legalized because: they cause crime...a true fact is that Amsterdam, a place where drugs are legal, had only 2 murders in a single year. compare this to New York with hundreds of murders (known fact), most of which involved drug selling. using drugs should be like using alcohol: drug and drive and then you are a fuckhead. using drugs are personal DECISIONS, not crimes. by legalizing them, this would also give the government more tax money to waste, and less to spend when real taxes come around.
Roughly half of all crime committed in our country is drug related. Free people who had simple possession and transporting convictions, and our prison overcrowding situation disappears. The problem is that the government has spent so much money to convince everyone how bad drugs are that they have turned the drug war into nothing more than a public relations issue. People think it's bad because they've been told for so long that it is bad, by who else but...the government.
4. why are seatbelts required? if i do not want to wear a fucking seat belt and risk getting hurt then fine. in an owners manual the car company should make a: wear seat belt at own risk piece so they cannot be sued by idiots.
Once you reach 40 mph, seat belts do nothing more than strap you into an out of control roller coaster. Arguing against that, I can understand. I have been in car accidents, and I am a big believer in using a seat belt in conjunction with an air bag. Not to protect me from myself, but to protect me from others. I trust in my own actions, but not the actions of others. Just see my rant on cell phones for proof of it. I wear a seat belt because I am a good driver, and I don't want to get killed by a bad driver.
5. why is the drinking age 21? it is a fact that more people are killed each year by cigarettes then alcohol and all other drugs combine, yet the age for them is 18, the same age one can vote and die for THEIR COUNTRY, THE PEOPLE WHO SAY THEY CANT ENJOY ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES. plan and simple bullshit here folks.
You can carry a gun and die for your country, but you had better not drink alcohol, because you're far more dangerous with booze than a gun, apparently. Bring it up and watch the government throw a big book of statistics at you.
6. why do women always fucking complain? don't they realize that all men want to fuck them equally, some just cover up better? apparently not ("Jim is such a nice, caring guy"). maybe, but he still wants to fuck you, which in your woman opinion makes him a jerk.
I disagree with this one. There are some girls that I am nice to that I don't want to fuck. Those ones are usually the dumbest ones, and I'm nice to them so that I can laugh at them behind their back later.
7. condoms should be ribbed on the inside too.
Yeah, just what most of us need, something to make us shoot our load even faster. If you need help coming, either your girl is damn ugly or you're blessed with a gift that many of us would kill for.
8. what the fuck is up with children's tv shows? homosexual purple teletubbies bouncing around singing songs? what does this teach americas youth? to be gay and fucking stupid. some other examples include pokemon, digimon, barnie, and all the other bullshit.
I've thought about this one before. I think that I've already did something about teletubbies, or thrown a couple of references to them in somewhere. It amazes me that these shows are making Sesame Street seem downright intellectual, when half of the Sesame Street episodes are over a decade old. Look back at what you watched at a child, though, and you'll feel a little bit better. Transformers, G.I. Joe, Thundercats, He-man, Voltron. Same shit, different presentation. The one that really stands out for me was the Smurfs. What the fuck was up with them? One girl amongst a colony of men? If that wasn't a subliminal message to girls to be sluts, I'll eat my mouse.
9. why do we have still speed limits? i'm not talking about places where it needs to be at a certain level, i mean the open highway. germans, who generally are smarter than the average american (who is a complete moron), have the autobahn, which is essentially what our freeways should be like. the germans can get places faster and don't have to put up with speeding tickets. go as fast as u want, just drive safely. the facts are, a person going 75 is probably going to die when they flip over and are hit by a semi.
I hear that Montana doesn't have speed limits on their freeways. But do you really want to move to a state with more guns than people?
10. what is up with people doing dumb shit then suing the person who is not responsible and winning? fat bitch spilled coffee on herself and gets a million. FUCK THAT. some skater goes and hurts himself and sues because "there were no signs saying i couldn't skate here" so not only does someone lose money for something not their fault, but they put up signs so no one else can skate. fucking idiot judges.
Our legal system is broken. We all know that. When you run your country based on a document written before the invention of pretty much everything, can you really expect it to apply today?
11. just a question here, but in the constitution where is it that is says a person may not swear in front of a child? just wondering.
My sentiments exactly.
12. why are extraordinarily fatty foods sold? HELLO, HEART DISEASE IS THE NUMBER ONE CAUSE OF DEATH IN MOST PLACES. yet its ok to still sell some fatass more poison for his arteries. IDs should be issued for fatasses so that they can not buy overly fatty foods they don't need, just as criminals are given jail time to be corrected.
Some people choose to kill themselves in ways besides using a gun, knife, or pills. If they're willing to provide jobs for others in the process, I fully support them. Once less idiot, and one more job for someone to occupy.
13. why using alcohol and cigarettes requires an age limit. the simple fact is kids who want these will get them anyhow, so nothing we do will stop them. i do think there should be an age limit, but more like 15.
In European countries where people are raised with wine as a staple, alcoholism is a fraction of what it is in the US. Cigarettes fall under the same banner as any other drug for me, which calls for legalization across the board.
14. why cant there be fights in all sports like in hockey?
Other sports are arrogant and think of themselves as "classier". Just read my bit on this one.
15. high school should be more like college. there is no needs to know the parts of an animal cell. there is no need to known what a compound predicate modifier or any of that bullshit is. and there isn't a need to know what happened 100 years ago. yet we still learn the same bullshit again and again through 12th grade. instead, all classes should be electives and treated like college classes. that way college could simply be eliminated, thus saving 4 years of ones life. however, there should be yearly tests like English and say up to Algebra to make sure all students aren't complete dumbshits.
There should definitely be more technical classes applied, so that kids with no college aspirations can learn a skill so that they are able to support themselves immediately after high school. I think that if high school curriculums were redesigned, you could structure colleges like technical schools, with only job related courses over a two year period being required. Most people that I have talked to found high school far too simple to prepare them for college. The people that found high school difficult would know much earlier that college is too much of a stretch for them,and be able to redirect themselves while still under the protection of their parents, both financially and emotionally.
16. why are we required to learn a second language? if foreigners want to move here, learn English. the end.
The global economy is coming. Will America be prepared to meet the challenge and excel, or will we be trapped by our own arrogance? English is enough for most of us right now, but will that always be true? I have no idea. No opinion. Time will tell.
I want to thank Tim for contributing, if you'd like to email him, he can be reached at yourgonadieclown@yahoo.com.