tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048715035467766557.post6719987571595460759..comments2024-03-03T04:40:39.492-05:00Comments on Fire Megan McArdle: Shortersbradhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06907349163323395529noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048715035467766557.post-56940625110468208972009-08-26T04:28:58.207-04:002009-08-26T04:28:58.207-04:00and it's not like megan...herself...is by any ...and it's not like megan...herself...is by any means thin. she is like more than 30 lbs heavier than me and i eat chocolate all day and never engage in calorie consuming pole dancing activities. magic thing called genetics she's never heard of.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048715035467766557.post-73548420878799443892009-08-25T09:52:34.190-04:002009-08-25T09:52:34.190-04:00I'm just in love with Megan's correspondan...I'm just in love with Megan's correspondant, Susan.<br /><br />"As someone who works in the entertainment industry in Los Angeles--land of the perfect body--I totally agree that government pressure will do nothing to make people lose weight."<br /><br />Jesus, a pole dancer at an airport strip club near LAX is in the "entertainment industry." As are people who make animal balloons at weddings, fetch coffee for douchebag movie producers, and make photo copies of scripts for small-rent theaters on the filthy end of Santa Monica Boulevard. Any time someone makes a claim to be a part of something as vague as the "entertainment industry," it's the first sign that they're a wannabe without a clue. No, LA is not the land of the perfect body. There are plenty of overweight people here, in and outside of the entertainment industry.<br /><br />Then there are her claims that the only motive people have for not becoming a lardass is ambition and the desire to be attractive. What a load of crap. Nobody exercizes or eats right to be healthy, energetic, feel good about themselves, accomplish things for reasons other than making money, or to have a positive mental state of mind. Nope, if it ain't gonna make me rich or get me to the top and be pretty while I'm doing it, I've got no incentive.<br /><br />Christ, Megan's readers are dumber than she is, as bubul has further evidenced from the comments. I also have to wonder, why do so many Americans feel the need to preface any story about living overseas by describing themselves as "patriotic"? I lived abroad for years and never felt like I was betraying my country of birth. If anything, I was attempting to enrich myself in the hopes of being a small part of improving it upon my return.clever pseudonymnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048715035467766557.post-10890576796951813682009-08-25T07:46:26.711-04:002009-08-25T07:46:26.711-04:00I know the type. In Paris 40 yrs. ago you could go...I know the type. In Paris 40 yrs. ago you could go to the American School (a chunk of American suburbia dropped into the Paris suburbs) receive allegedly better health care at the American Hospital & even worship at the "American" Church. <br /><br />What an empire.M. Bouffanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04519088858760760560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048715035467766557.post-16366326218884493532009-08-25T07:38:01.224-04:002009-08-25T07:38:01.224-04:00Re: Thinking Thin. I loved that email, you don'...Re: Thinking Thin. I loved that email, you don't see such high-octane bullshit much anymore and we ought to be thankful to Our Lady of teh Permanently Unsatisfied Appetite for providing it to us. And btw, don't you just love it how 'Susan' implies that being thin = sexual appeal?<br />But the best part is the (currently) last comment:<br /><i>Americans eat Chinese one night, Italian the next, Tex-Mex the next, and so on. Always something new to pique the appetite.</i><br />Yes, that's the difference, Americans eat EVERY DAY whereas us Euros quickly get sick of our shit and just stop eating.<br /><i>I know there are Chinese and some other ethnic restaurants everywhere in Europe but there are far fewer of them in Europe and the natives rarely go to them.</i><br />511 restaurants in relatively ethnicall homogenous Bratislava, of which 96 pizzerias (they count as ethnic here), 25 Asian (including Indian, Arabic and Persian), about 20-30 Hungarian/Austrian/German ones. And the friggin' Jasmine garden was full again, so there goes my lunch.<br /><i>A Frenchman or an Italian feels that life is impoverished if he/she is not enjoying a love affair.</i><br />Envious much?<br /><i>a patriotic American who has lived many years in continental Europe</i><br />Translation: a redneck who never learned the language and hung out with other rednecks all the time. I know people like that.bulbulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14505565281151328789noreply@blogger.com