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xiphiasThe only reality TV I've ever watched has been the PBS stuff -- 1900 House, Manor House, Frontier House, 1940 House, and Colonial House. Okay, also Rough Science.
Something that occurred to me is that in all of those shows (except Rough Science, which is doing something different) every single person on it lost weight. Even the lord and lady of the manor in Manor House. And were therefore healthier at the end of the shows than the beginning.
Boy. We Westerners have a truly impressive degree of gluttony. Even the upper-class rich parasite classes ate less, and exercised more, than we do.
Something that occurred to me is that in all of those shows (except Rough Science, which is doing something different) every single person on it lost weight. Even the lord and lady of the manor in Manor House. And were therefore healthier at the end of the shows than the beginning.
Boy. We Westerners have a truly impressive degree of gluttony. Even the upper-class rich parasite classes ate less, and exercised more, than we do.
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Date: 2004-05-28 03:03 pm (UTC)I was going to reply to this and go off on a huge rant about eating disorders and the abuse of food not being the same thing as gluttony and la la la, but I suspect the sheer craptastic excess of my day is making me more sensitive to this than I might be normally.
Hell, I've had enough poison spread around to me today. No sense turning around and doing the same bad thing to you.