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[Nadaka]

Someone who does it because he CAN.

Some people just want to watch the world burn.

[Euld]

I can't find the "satan is in my food processor" link that was in the WTF thread 

[RedKing]

Someone who does it because he CAN.

Some people just want to watch the world burn.

Dude, on days like this I halfway think it should. 

[Truean]

http://www.rttnews.com/2024044/obesity-is-a-bigger-problem-globally-than-hunger.aspx?type=hnr

I honestly understand that there are certain people who are just going to be overweight, because they've always been overweight. Their parents are overweight; their grandparents were overweight, and so on down the family tree.  However, it's largely lack of emotional fulfillment.

Meanwhile the portion of the world that is starving and especially the people in the food kitchens are probably completely unable to comprehend how this could be so, and I can't blame them.

[ashes]

just... 

[SomeStupidGuy]

just... 

Yeah, the continued existence of emoticons depresses me too.

[Descan]

just... 

Yeah, the continued existence of emoticons depresses me too.

* Descan slaps.

:C :C :C :C

[ashes]

never mind...

[SomeStupidGuy]

Sorry, man, I realize now that that was a pretty dickish way to respond.

[ashes]

I didn't mind. Actually it kind of made me laugh.

[Pnx]

http://www.rttnews.com/2024044/obesity-is-a-bigger-problem-globally-than-hunger.aspx?type=hnr

I honestly understand that there are certain people who are just going to be overweight, because they've always been overweight. Their parents are overweight; their grandparents were overweight, and so on down the family tree.  However, it's largely lack of emotional fulfillment.

Meanwhile the portion of the world that is starving and especially the people in the food kitchens are probably completely unable to comprehend how this could be so, and I can't blame them.

The cheapness and abundance of fattening junk food is probably a big issue contributing to this. It's cheaper to get food that's stuffed full of fats and sugars than it is food that isn't, and sugar and such gets added onto foods that really don't need it all the time because it's a way of cutting costs. It can be pretty damn expensive and difficult to eat healthy in this day and age, especially in America.

[SalmonGod]

I'm pretty sure starvation is still the #1 cause of death globally.  It helps that hunger and obesity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.  A person can be fat and malnourished.  Also, eating less food isn't going to help hungry people.  I don't think there are many places where there's not enough food to go around.  People starve because they literally have zero funding to gain access to the food that's available and going to waste, and in developed countries, cheap food tends to be fattening but not nourishing.

My sad - gushing over The Hobbit opening and the highest body count school shooting in recent memory both on the same day = a miserable day to be on the internet.

[PCpaste]

My relationship.

I'm upset because she gets angry.
She's angry because I get upset.

Endless cycle of misery.

This is how it always goes. Wonder when it's just going to stop.

[moocowmoo]

My point is that it's comparign Fucking Apples to Oranges. Yes, Circumcision is bad, NO, it is not on the same scale as female genital mutilation. I've never even heard of that view point before, hence teh rage.
He's a source
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/2012/jul/29/the-big-issue-male-circumcision
And here's some highlights from Wikiepedia

FGM is considered by its practitioners to be an essential part of raising a girl properly—girls are regarded as having been cleansed by the removal of "male" body parts. It ensures pre-marital virginity and inhibits extra-marital sex, because it reduces women's libido. Women fear the pain of re-opening the vagina, and are afraid of being discovered if it is opened illicitly.

Judaism requires circumcision for boys, but does not allow it for girls.^[23] Islamic scholars have said that, while male circumcision is a sunna, or religious obligation, female genital modification is not required, and several have issued a fatwa against Type III FGM

According to Amnesty, in certain societies women who have not had the procedure are regarded as too unclean to handle food and water, and there is a belief that a woman's genitals might continue to grow without FGM, until they dangle between her legs. Some groups see the clitoris as dangerous, capable of killing a man if his penis touches it, or a baby if the head comes into contact with it during birth, though Amnesty cautions that ideas about the power of the clitoris can be found elsewhere.^[28] Gynaecologists in England and the United States would remove it during the 19th century to "cure" insanity, masturbation, and nymphomania.^[29] The first reported clitoridectomy in the West was carried out in 1822 by a surgeon in Berlin on a teenage girl regarded as an "imbecile" who was masturbating.

Not. The. Same. It's done on PUBESCENTS in many places. It's a actual CRIME in the US, and Britain, mind you. It was even groudns for allowing Political Asylum on grounds of persecution. Comparitevely, FGM is extensive surgery, you can remove the Fore-skin simply by tying a damn string around it for three days. It isn't at all about parental rights or religion. It is a women's issue. It is done for the purpose of dogmatic patriarchalism. "She won't cheat if I cut it off!" Is what it boils down to.

FGM is worse because it's illegal? Guess what, female circumcision was only made illegal in America in 1996. It was even covered by the Blue Cross until 1977.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvX5J7lAv4g
https://sites.google.com/site/completebaby/female
http://www.historyofcircumcision.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=60&Itemid=68
http://rachelrabbitwhite.com/female-circumcision-promoted-in-playgirl-whaaat/

[moocowmoo]

And to the guy that said surgery on infant is safer than surgery on adult, how in the world do you figure that? An infant has like 10 oz of blood. The infant cannot be rendered unconscious and is thus struggling against restraints. The infant penis is way smaller and therefore it is easier to make a mistake. Also the foreskin is adhered to the glans on children... it must be ripped off of the glans before they cut it off. How do you figure this is safer than circumcising an adult?

And before people say 'derail', I'm sad today to learn that on Wednesday the German government passed a law protecting circumcision, going against the court ruling earlier this year that ruled it bodily assault.