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Promotion of unhealthy eating in pop culture (extensive spoilers, particularly MCU-related)
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Imagine being 60 years old and worried about the depiction of cheeseburgers in a superhero movie.
This is a thread for the ResetEra ages. Its not bad parenting. Bad parenting is hitting your child or some shit, not offering them some junk food.
Man what if Nebula had been Morgan from the future
I know that doesn't make any sense
I let one of my kids eat a cheeseburger today for lunch, am I eligible for the class action lawsuit against Marvel?
I like to partially take credit for this legendary thread because I perpetuated him to go on this rant in the spoiler thread.
OP is clearly just severely out of touch with reality. He sounds like someone who didn't get enough fast food as a kid.
Did anyone bring up that the OP also stated that parents turning the tv off while a kid was playing Fortnite was considered tantamount to child abuse?
OP
OP
I'm back at 0250 Zulu with my second batch of replies.
It probably doesn't make a lot of difference. Do you have access to a reliable source that rates burgers according to their nutritional quality?
Yes, but this is Era. Let's play the cards as they're dealt.
This is invariably what I mean. /s
They're all beef patties or approximations thereof. Or are we doing a discount on #NotAllBurgers this week?
Finally, an end to the existential pain of trying to think straight is in sight! I might seriously contemplate a wild dash for the finish line, if it weren't for my love of being alive and engaged in the whole mad frenzy of existence. But to be honest, mostly it's about the coffee.
My kids are way beyond the point where I could drive them to fast food. They're both concerned with my health. I've written here about my occasional use of McDonald's when I'm out in town and likely to miss a meal.
Well it's essentially marinated meat cooked on a rotisserie, so if eaten by itself it could be unhealthy. Point taken, but as I remarked on the other thread no children were involved.
I regret that I have not had that privilege.
You make a good point. And yet I'm still uncomfortable with a scene in which a five-year-old is offered as many cheeseburgers as they can eat. Obviously you're missing some nuance here.
It's never too late. Our lifestyle coaches await your calls.
Bon appétit.
And so we're here.
Wilkommen, bienvenue, welcome.
Fremde, etranger, stranger.
Gluklich zu sehen, je suis enchante,
Happy to see you, bleibe, reste, stay.
Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome
Im Cabaret, au Cabaret, to Cabaret
I think I've been pretty clear from the start that my intention is to syphon away from the OT a huge number of comments on this minor quibble I had about a scene in the film. A film I adore.
Been there, done that. Currently recycling the t-shirt as a cleaning rag.
Stay, together we could yet reach greater heights.
I was born in the same year as the Fortran programming language, and for that sin I can still give a clear rendition of the intrinsic type rules, the use of the arithmetic if statement, and the permitted forms of the extended do statement in the 1966 standard. Nobody under sixty has a decent excuse to either know or care what that means. Looking back, I can now clearly see the causes of my current state of senile decrepitude in the effort I invested in learning how to grapple with that language while trying to shepherd my clients in the direction of more mathematical paradigms.
Posting at 0350 Zulu
It probably doesn't make a lot of difference. Do you have access to a reliable source that rates burgers according to their nutritional quality?
Yes, but this is Era. Let's play the cards as they're dealt.
This is invariably what I mean. /s
They're all beef patties or approximations thereof. Or are we doing a discount on #NotAllBurgers this week?
Finally, an end to the existential pain of trying to think straight is in sight! I might seriously contemplate a wild dash for the finish line, if it weren't for my love of being alive and engaged in the whole mad frenzy of existence. But to be honest, mostly it's about the coffee.
OP's is gonna fuck around and make junk food so taboo that his kids can't resist it. These type of food based prohibitions don't work for kids.
My kids are way beyond the point where I could drive them to fast food. They're both concerned with my health. I've written here about my occasional use of McDonald's when I'm out in town and likely to miss a meal.
Well it's essentially marinated meat cooked on a rotisserie, so if eaten by itself it could be unhealthy. Point taken, but as I remarked on the other thread no children were involved.
I regret that I have not had that privilege.
You make a good point. And yet I'm still uncomfortable with a scene in which a five-year-old is offered as many cheeseburgers as they can eat. Obviously you're missing some nuance here.
It's never too late. Our lifestyle coaches await your calls.
Bon appétit.
And so we're here.
Wilkommen, bienvenue, welcome.
Fremde, etranger, stranger.
Gluklich zu sehen, je suis enchante,
Happy to see you, bleibe, reste, stay.
Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome
Im Cabaret, au Cabaret, to Cabaret
I think I've been pretty clear from the start that my intention is to syphon away from the OT a huge number of comments on this minor quibble I had about a scene in the film. A film I adore.
Been there, done that. Currently recycling the t-shirt as a cleaning rag.
Stay, together we could yet reach greater heights.
I was born in the same year as the Fortran programming language, and for that sin I can still give a clear rendition of the intrinsic type rules, the use of the arithmetic if statement, and the permitted forms of the extended do statement in the 1966 standard. Nobody under sixty has a decent excuse to either know or care what that means. Looking back, I can now clearly see the causes of my current state of senile decrepitude in the effort I invested in learning how to grapple with that language while trying to shepherd my clients in the direction of more mathematical paradigms.
Posting at 0350 Zulu
I don't think you understand what constitutes healthy. Your argument is extremely suspect at this point if you even have one.
OP
OP
Things have slowed down a bit. Last batch before bed time.
I lack his nuanced humour and acerbic wit. Probably due to my privations in the Great Hamburger Famine of 1962.
Why not both?
That was me. I mentioned that awful "prank" to one of my kids the other day, but since I'm senile I don't know whether they really found it appalling or were simply humouring me.
I lack his nuanced humour and acerbic wit. Probably due to my privations in the Great Hamburger Famine of 1962.
Why not both?
That was me. I mentioned that awful "prank" to one of my kids the other day, but since I'm senile I don't know whether they really found it appalling or were simply humouring me.
OP, no offense but it's coming across like you're projecting really, really hard about something incredibly minor and insignificant here.
I just meant that he really believes this — that he's not just referencing Endgame as "bait."
i desperately want this to be a troll thread, because otherwise it means that someone made a thread because they cannot fathom that sometimes context matters in words that are used
obviously you're missing some brain cells
Because its not harming my fucking child. I guess taking my daughter to Mcdonalds sometimes is bad parenting or whatever.
You'd think the kid was offered a 20 pack of Marlboro Gold's and a bottle of Jack Daniels the way the OP has reacted.
Obesity is a bad thing and we shouldn't glorfiy it. Now getting offended at character comforting a child with a silly promise at her father's funeral in a fucking Marvel film of all things is not a hill to die on OP. Fight obesity through other methods.
That's impossible. Resetera is a hivemind, we all share the same intelligence. /s
This is where I draw the line as well. OP is essentially equating feeding your child occasional junk food to physical abuse. That's beyond fucked up.
If you only feed your children junk food I could understand the argument of child abuse. Obesity is no joke. Now having the occasional Big Mac as a treat is fine. We can't expect a parent to only feed their children salads all day, every day. That's silly.
god the op is so baffling that any joke i could make about it is just impossibly difficult. like, oh my god... come on. obesity is a serious subject but a throw-away line in a marvel movie? really, this is the hill you want to make this statement on? come on. i feel bad for the kid that this person is parenting.
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