Dead: super sized obedient consumer unit molecularly bonded to couch

STUART, Fla. -- A 480-pound Martin County woman has died after emergency workers tried to remove her from the couch where she had remained for about six years.

Gayle Laverne Grinds, 40, died Wednesday, after a failed six-hour effort to dislodge her from the couch in her home. Workers say the home was filthy, and Grinds was too large to get up from the couch to even use the bathroom.

Everyone going inside the home had to wear protective gear. The stench was so powerful they had to blast in fresh air.

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It's the French paradox redux: Why don't the French get as fat as Americans, considering all the baguettes, wine, cheese, pate and pastries they eat?

Because they use internal cues -- such as no longer feeling hungry -- to stop eating, reports a new Cornell study. Americans, on the other hand, tend to use external cues -- such as whether their plate is clean, they have run out of their beverage or the TV show they're watching is over.

"Furthermore, we have found that the heavier a person is -- French or American -- the more they rely on external cues to tell them to stop eating and the less they rely on whether they felt full," said senior author Brian Wansink, the John S. Dyson Professor of Marketing and director of the Cornell Food and Brand Lab in the Department of Applied Economics and Management, now on leave to serve as executive director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion until January 2009.

http://www.corrupt.org/news/why_dont...t_as_americans

Birch's comments are right, but I would say more accurately that extroverts, whether of the intellectual or emotional type, are easier to manipulate and manipulation has become a precise science in our hyper consumerist, trend prediction/mass control grid dystopia.

Take for example the average center or right wing American's recent herd condemnation of France for her opposition to the Iraq invasion. These thousands or millions of American extroverts took their external cues from the likes of Rush Limbaugh talk radio, the writers for whom in turn took their cues from a member of the federal government who floated the now forgotten Orwelllian term "freedom fries".

[The Exorcist]

Originally Posted by cyborg

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Birch's comments are right, but I would say more accurately that extroverts, whether of the intellectual or emotional type, are easier to manipulate and manipulation has become a precise science in our hyper consumerist, trend prediction/mass control grid dystopia.

Take for example the average center or right wing American's recent herd condemnation of France for her opposition to the Iraq invasion. These thousands or millions of American extroverts took their external cues from the likes of Rush Limbaugh talk radio, the writers for whom in turn took their cues from a member of the federal government who floated the now forgotten Orwelllian term "freedom fries".

One of the worst things you can force your kids to do when they're growing up is to make them finish off their plate, even if the kids are full. I only eat what I can, drink half a can of soda at most, and change the damn channel in the middle of a show it it starts getting bland. I don't exercise, but I don't weigh anywhere near 200 pounds for a man in his 20s

[UberSwank]

Originally Posted by The Exorcist

I don't exercise, but I don't weight anywhere near 200 pounds for a man in his 20s

heh, I do exercise and weigh 220.

[The Exorcist]

Originally Posted by UberSwank

heh, I do exercise and weigh 220.

probably muscle or you consume a buttload of calories in your diet.

Are you at your target weight?

[UberSwank]

Originally Posted by The Exorcist

probably muscle or you consume a buttload of calories in your diet.

Are you at your target weight?

Lol, I am considered obese by the federal government, at 13% bodyfat. my pic was on the pic thread.

[Inventor]

Originally Posted by The Exorcist

One of the worst things you can force your kids to do when they're growing up is to make them finish off their plate, even if the kids are full. I only eat what I can, drink half a can of soda at most, and change the damn channel in the middle of a show it it starts getting bland. I don't exercise, but I don't weight anywhere near 200 pounds for a man in his 20s

Actually what kids don't finish is usually what is healthy for them. The worst habit in America is the parents that take their kids to McDonalds to shut them up.

[The Exorcist]

Originally Posted by Inventor of the Internet

Actually what kids don't finish is usually what is healthy for them. The worst habit in America is the parents that take their kids to McDonalds to shut them up.

that's another horrible thing.

Another would be to try and force your kids to eat brussel sprouts and yelling at him/her over it. That kid will never touch another vegetable in his life.

I enjoy a good apple every now and then, but how good are apples for you really?

[Hermanric and Horse]

Gayle Laverne Grinds, 40, died Wednesday, after a failed six-hour effort to dislodge her from the couch in her home. Workers say the home was filthy, and Grinds was too large to get up from the couch to even use the bathroom.

If it could not move, how did it feed? Was someone tossing in food periodically?

[Lenny]

Originally Posted by Hermanric and Horse

If it could not move, how did it feed? Was someone tossing in food periodically?

How do people become this fat? I just don't understand it. At some point people around them have to start helping them kill themselves [by this I mean continue over eating]. It is almost a form of abuse to give an obese person food!

[The Exorcist]

How did Thermonuclear get on your enemy list? I barely see you guys argue compared to everyone else