Comments on: Two follow-ups and a non sequitur

By: Dani

Dani — Wed, 28 May 2008 01:16:46 +0000

jazzy – you may get me as many awards as you like. Bonus points if they contain chocolate and/or cream cheese. :D

By: car

car — Mon, 26 May 2008 00:36:32 +0000

Can I add another total non sequitur? I just heard this poem on the radio, and had to share:
Teddy bear” by A.A. Milne. I was worried about where it might be going, but then the last couple of lines were awesome:

A bear, however hard he tries,
Grows tubby without exercise.
Our Teddy Bear is short and fat,
Which is not to be wondered at.
But do you think it worries him
To know that he is far from slim?
No, just the other way about -
He’s proud of being short and stout.

By: jazzy

jazzy — Sat, 24 May 2008 00:57:59 +0000

Dani, your comment is like the best thing I have read all day. Can I get you an award or something?

By: cggirl

cggirl — Fri, 23 May 2008 18:04:12 +0000

Woohoo! Ailbhe – that woman was an israeli tourist.

Is it wrong that I’m oddly proud about that?

By: Dani

Dani — Fri, 23 May 2008 17:20:55 +0000

Oh, and French fries and Slurpees. Those were my other two high school food groups.

By: Dani

Dani — Fri, 23 May 2008 17:20:07 +0000

One of these days, I need to ask a large sample of the “fattiez are bad!” cohort how, exactly, they would propose to make ME fat. Especially since the “eat 3000+ calories a day, mostly of chocolate and cream cheese, and get no exercise except walking around a small two-story building occasionally” method I tried in high school failed.

My point, of course, is that if no one can figure out how to make a thin person fat, they should STFU about knowing how to make fat people thin.

By: holls

holls — Fri, 23 May 2008 17:03:52 +0000

RE the primate study, there is a fascinating and awesome book that covers the effect in modern humans called
“The Status Syndrome”.
Totally recommend.

By: Ailbhe

Ailbhe — Fri, 23 May 2008 14:33:00 +0000

Off topic: http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSPAT25005620080522

Workers wolf-whistled at a tourist in New Zealand as she went to use the ATM across the road from their building site. So what did she do? She stripped, used the ATM, got dressed, and got taken to the police station.

By: Jackie

Jackie — Fri, 23 May 2008 14:09:08 +0000

You reminded me, I’ve been meaning to get some good Hummus for a long time, and for some reason have kept putting it off. I must get the Hummus today, or tomarrow..uh, well if tomarrow doesn’t work I guess.. j/k lol

By: fillyjonk

fillyjonk — Fri, 23 May 2008 13:41:27 +0000

Um, how about the status of women in a patriarchy?

That’s one option, but there are a lot more. It’s just not as clear-cut as with monkeys, because we have zillions of interlocking ways of being low- or lower-status. Honestly, probably all of them work in this scenario — but also all of them tend to have higher levels of stress hormones, which keeps things in the scientific realm.