Stop dancing. Just. Stop. Dancing. Seriously. You've worn it the fuck out. It doesn't do you any good, any more. Just. Stop. Dancing.
Anyone with an IQ higher than a slime mold's knows I've already answered the question in great detail. Notice how no one else is challenging my answer? Of course, anyone with an IQ higher than a slime mold's knows you don't get answers by yelling at people. Are you smarter than a slime mold, or will you persist in this?
I read the links, and Garamet has a point - but if she wears her hat just right nobody will notice. Half the poor kids are on SNAP or "food stamps" to the layperson. Great program WHEN PROPERLY UTILIZED. Correct me if I'm wrong, but X amount of food (of almost any type) can be bought. So I would think that the way to provide your family with the proper nutrition for a developing brain/body is to CHOOSE HEALTHY FOODS WITH YOUR SNAP BENEFITS. I can go into any store that accepts SNAP and find a mixture of non-healthy food and healthy food. It may be a convenience store because in the hood the nearest real store is ten miles there and back - uphill both ways! Granted, non-healthy choices might outnumber healthy, but you bet your ass they are available. Wait, that might entail READING product labels with all their high-falutin' scientifical shit. Ain't nobody got time for dat! Kids in Africa, The Sandbox, and other Third World shitholes are indeed in a position where water, food, shelter, security and transportation are very hard to come by no matter how hard the family tries to survive. So it would seem to me that the biggest hurdle to overcome regarding hungry kids here in America is SHITBAG PARENTS. That's why dirt-poor uneducated immigrant kids' brains seem to function just fine - and they will likely someday OWN the fucking stores that sell Twinkies by the 55 gallon drum to the SHITBAG PARENTS, and I tip my hat to them.
So now we have the Food Desert discussion again, as well as the "Most Americans Don't Know Shit about Nutrition" discussion.
^If you have no car and no supermarket within a mile wouldn't the best thing to do to be to WALK a few miles to get to the groceries? That would in fact seem to be an excellent way to fight obesity. I think obesity is mainly a lifestyle choice (or non choice as is a basically an inertial decision).
Try it sometime. Lug a week's groceries a mile or more. With the understanding that you're neither elderly, disabled, caring for children too young to walk with you, or the sole provider for a sick/elderly family member. Oh, and the store you're walking to, especially in your part of the world? More likely to be this: than a Wal-Mart Superstore. Not a whole lot of fresh meat and produce, though I betcha they've got Spam and 20-pound sacks of white rice.
I don't know where you dredged up the picture Garamet but I guarantee you that it is NOT typical of life in the Mississippi River delta which you are referring to.
you forgot the markup on, well, everything at those places too. Convenience store shopping is pretty much the opposite of shopping on a budget.
Yeah, I know. Wal-Mart's killed most of them. So are you willing to walk a mile or more with a week's groceries? 'cause we've all seen photos of you, and it would do you good.
If necessary. Nice of you to resort to a personal attack yet again. Why do people launch PERSONAL attacks over POLITICAL POLICY disagreements?
It seems gratuitous to point out that “more than a mile” can mean anything from 1½ miles to 10 miles or more in some areas. Then there’s weather to account for. Snow and -20-degree temps? Desert heat of 100 degrees or more? But Dayton’s willing to walk all of those with enough food to feed his family for a week, just to show that it can be done, and people who don’t do it are just lazy. Right, Dayton?
That's what you consider a “personal attack”? And less than 24 hours following only the most recent of yours against me. Where I come from it’s called “put up or shut up.” Or, in other words, Matthew 7:1-5. Don't criticize someone for what you won't do yourself. Now make another snide comment about my career, Captain Thinskin.
First, I'm not seeing it as an attack so much as "physician, heal thy self". Second, political policy? Really? Then again, I'm sure Wal*Mart and Sysco have more than a few "cousins" in the government.
Looking at that map and having been in Louisiana for three months now, I can certainly believe that. The bus system might as well not exist in most areas. I never had a clue what the term "country mile" meant until I had to drive around this area. A five mile drive in California that round-trip would be ten minutes tops is a good half-hour to 45 minute ride here. I used to talk all that shit about the bus system can be used, blah blah blah...well, no. Not in this part of the South when a good many areas don't even have sidewalks, or even the option of sately crossing the stree because there are no crosswalks for miles. Even the cab service is balls--when you can actually get one. In Sacramento or San Diego, there's a decent enough bus system where shopping is not impossible, provided one brings a trolley cart and an older child or two to help carry them. In New Orleans or Natchez....not so much.
Why? 1) I have a truck. 2) I have a car. 3) I have acquaintances with cars & trucks who would be more than happy to give me a ride. 4) I have relatives who I can borrow either a truck or a car from when necessary without limits. Not sure I understand the question.
Dayton, you have implied that it's not a big deal to obtain groceries when the four points listed don't apply. Garamet is asking you to prove it. If you can't or won't, then you're a liar.
Ah. Garamet is asking me to travel somewhere and walk over a mile one way to get enough groceries for my family for a week? I believe I'm right. But I'm not going that that much trouble to prove it. I only have three in my family. Does Garamet want me to get enough groceries for a family of 4, 5, or 6? And she mentioned being old or disabled. I guess even if I did the above she would want me to do it while limping badly. See, there is no offering sufficient proof for a fanatic.
Stop obfuscating. You said it would be no big deal to walk a mile or more each way to buy groceries. I dared you to try it. You’re able-bodied, you only have to buy for three people, you can pick a day when the weather’s nice and, if it’s really no big deal, you’ll do it just to prove how easy it is. So prove your point.
Video and/or photos of you along the route, especially the return route where you're carrying the groceries. Keep in mind that if you can't carry a week's worth in one trip you'll have to go back again within that week. In addition, a diary entry describing the event and what you learned from it. Or what Spaceturkey said - 40 lbs. total of whatever for at least a mile.
I have the weight room barbells of various sizes at the school and the track is quarter mile round (8 trips will make it two miles). Will that do? Okay, once we're back in school (out for icy weather tomorrow).
Very well. In deference to barbells being easier to manage than sacks of groceries, I'll tote two 25 lb. ones instead of 20 lb. ones. And in deference to me being young and reasonably fit, I'll carry them for both miles. I'll wear street clothes. Nothing athletic. My wife or daughter can make some pictures of me on the track and I'll link them here.
no way... barbells won't bang your knees every step of the way, or stretch out to the point of uselessness, or develop a tear half way like bags will. Four-six bags of actual groceries in that weight range, single bagged.
