Nine cars deep at the Chick-fil-A drive thru

As there should be a test to see who should qualify as a parent there should also be a test to see who is allowed to join LetsRun and post on this board.

fmr wrote:

barryn237 wrote:

And they are alot more advanced in technology, medicine and social issues than the USA so your cave comment doesn't fly.

Please give us some examples of how they are more "advanced" in any of those areas.

no doubt. i'm sure they're nice countries, and some areas of america are full of fat lazy people, but this statement is a little funny. i haven't researched the question, but i have a hard time believing those countries have done 1/2 as much (even per capita) to drive advances in technology and science as america. please cite your sources, or do away with the silly claims.

as a side note: i go to the gym most mornings, and the place is full of the "lazy" americans so many of you like to bash before 6am. it's also a block from an organic grocery store that is full of the "fat" americans stocking up with ridiculously healthy foods every day. just wanted to point out that not everyone is in the fast food drive through. our country is much bigger than most western nations, so there is a much wider variety of people with many more opportunities to live different lifestyles. but i have lived in a number of places where there is a huge emphasis on fitness and health.

it would be nice if educated people would stop throwing around the fat/dumb/lazy american generalizations, and that might in turn reduce the snaggle-tooth english, gay eurotrash, smelly foreigner sterotypes that americans are fond of.

Junior Achievement wrote:

I think a really good idea would be to have a restaurant where the booths are cars. You even have to open the door to get in. It has a radio you can listen to and a microphone to place your order. You could even spray the smell of car exhaust around. And the best part is that you can just throw your trash out the window. Wait, no, the best part is that if you put a dollar in the slot the windshield will display the streets of some exotic foreign city where you can drive around running people over while you eat. Yeah, that would be cool.

Have you ever heard of a drive-in? Sonic? Have you ever watched Happy Days?

Nicely said. I am always amazed at the dearth of fat people in fast food restaurants. Media and even the scientific community would have us believe that if you eat fast food you will be fat. In reality, the problem is that the food is just unhealthy. Of course if you pose eating as a health issue and not an appearance issue you erase a visual index with which you can judge others, which our society cannot tolerate. Thinking that you're better than other people is apparently an American right.

The fat/dumb/lazy american typology is not only a generalization, I would argue it is a Barthesian myth.