1 in 6 Americans are hungry!

[CAP1]

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Well Duh! We're on a diet! Hello!

the people/organization paying for thagt billboard....if they're so concerned over hungry americans......then stop putting up billboards, and use the money to feed hungry americans.

[Scotch]

I'm sure the billboard generates more donations than the $80/mo they're spending on it...
Good advice though.

[PFactorDave]

Hmmm...  We have one group saying 1 in 6 are starving.  Another group that says 2/3rds of Americans are obese.  My math skills have that leaving only 1 in 6 Americans that are neither obese nor starving.  I don't believe it.  I think that there must be some really fuzzy math at work in the calculations that generate these numbers.

I find it difficult to trust what people say as they hold their hand out and ask for my money.

[CAP1]

I'm sure the billboard generates more donations than the $80/mo they're spending on it...
Good advice though.

billboards are that cheap?

i actually think they're significantly more expensive than that, if only based on the fact that there's one that is mounted in someone's back yard, near the shop i used to work at. this allows it to be seen on rt42......and rumor has it that the owning company pays them somewhere in the ballpark of $1,000/month to have it there.

[dedalos]

See Rule #4

[Pigslilspaz]

For the most part that stat is true. A lot of folks that are impoverished do have to either become obese and die of heart problems or eat a whole lot less. This is due to the fact that the only cheap food there is will blow you up like a friggin blimp (MickyD's, BK, etc.) and the stuff that is good for you is priced like luxury in comparison. I've honestly had to live with that choice for a bit over a year, and it's not an easy choice considering I was doing wrestling and track throughout that time (read: need a high calorie intake) and my family has a HORRIBLE history of heart problems. (A lot of heart attacks/strokes and there is not one fat person in my family.

This is not a laughing matter at all. I think a lot of the stuff on these boards is funny but this just crossed the damn line. Why would you make fun of someone who is suffering not because of their own choice? Trust me, almost nobody chooses to be poor/below the poverty line. Would you make fun of a kid with cancer? No.

IN

[Scotch]

billboards are that cheap?

i actually think they're significantly more expensive than that, if only based on the fact that there's one that is mounted in someone's back yard, near the shop i used to work at. this allows it to be seen on rt42......and rumor has it that the owning company pays them somewhere in the ballpark of $1,000/month to have it there.

I guess it would depend on the area. I called a 1-800# one day while driving down I-5 after seeing a 'put your sign here!' billboard. That's only for leasing the space though. Making the billboard probably costs a few hundred. But I imagine that's still a small amount to what they're raking in. Hopefully at least some of it is being used honestly.

This thread is still in poor taste. 

[PFactorDave]

A billboard in a good location here in Central Illinois runs about $5800 per year.  Included in that price is monthly graphics changes, so you can put a new design up every month.  I used to do the graphic design for a billboard that our church leases, and that was the cost a couple years ago.

[Getback]

Some of you folks don't have a sense of humor I see. When I look in the mirror and I look around me I don't see people starving. I see people with real weight issues. The website I use has some real horror stories. They wanted to amputate one girls legs off because she couldn't get blood to them because she was so heavy. She's since lost over 100 lbs.

I took a friend to the hospital the other day. I looked around and most everyone was morbidly obese. I was at walmart the other day and an obese woman with her young obese daughter were both in electric carts. Now that stuff is not funny at all.


I still think the original post was pretty darn funny and got a lot of laughs on the calorie counter website I use.

[CAP1]

This thread is still in poor taste. 

agreed.

[CAP1]

Some of you folks don't have a sense of humor I see. When I look in the mirror and I look around me I don't see people starving. I see people with real weight issues. The website I use has some real horror stories. They wanted to amputate one girls legs off because she couldn't get blood to them because she was so heavy. She's since lost over 100 lbs.

I took a friend to the hospital the other day. I looked around and most everyone was morbidly obese. I was at walmart the other day and an obese woman with her young obese daughter were both in electric carts. Now that stuff is not funny at all.


I still think the original post was pretty darn funny and got a lot of laughs on the calorie counter website I use.

you wanna talk weight issues?

i'm 6'2, and weigh 160. i take a 31" or 32" waist pants, with 36" inseam. do you know how hard it is to find a pair of dress slacks(for my cap corporate uniform) in that size?

[Penguin]

you wanna talk weight issues?

i'm 6'2, and weigh 160. i take a 31" or 32" waist pants, with 36" inseam. do you know how hard it is to find a pair of dress slacks(for my cap corporate uniform) in that size?

So are you fat or skinny?  How much of that weight is muscle and how much of it is blubber?

-Penguin

[CptTrips]

Simaril had some good leper jokes if dead baby stuff ain't your bag.

Yeah, I've gone thru times in my life when I literally had no food.  I don't just mean missing lunch.
I lived.  Its a great motivator.  Very few thing will educate you to the true value of a buck that quickly.

,
Wab

[Getback]

you wanna talk weight issues?

i'm 6'2, and weigh 160. i take a 31" or 32" waist pants, with 36" inseam. do you know how hard it is to find a pair of dress slacks(for my cap corporate uniform) in that size?

I'm 6' and weigh 288. I was up to almost 400 lbs. at one time. When I started a serious diet I weighed 350 and that was just 6 mos. ago.

[CAP1]

So are you fat or skinny?  How much of that weight is muscle and how much of it is blubber?

-Penguin

you're joking, right?