Fat pets

You know what I love? ........ Fat pets. Woooo bring them on.

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NEWS

So I was watching the news the other day and I was reminded of something that always kind of bothered me. The story was related to the recent story of how they now think coffee can reduce breast cancer.

This is a good finding if it is true but it seems like another one of those cases of certain products going back and forth over whether they are good for you or bad for you. The study, as I am sure you have heard, said that extensive consumption of coffee had been shown to reduce the risk of breast cancer in test subjects. Ok that's an interesting finding, but it also claimed that extensive use of coffee was shown to reduce breast size in subjects in the study. I kind of wonder if they were able to appropriately limit their variables to make this an accurate finding. How do they know that the women with smaller breast didn't just have a lower risk in general. Also what kind of relation is this anway. However, enough about the study it was the way the news set up their coverage of the story that was strange.

I'm sure you all have seen at least one of the many news stories where they try to throw out numbers about how fat our society is getting. They looooove these stories on the news. The title is almost always "Battle of the Bulge". Ha, clever play of words off of one of the bloodiest battles from World War II. Good one newscaster, your so witty.

The news always needs stock footage to play in the backround as they are reading off their story to keep the American public interested. So they run footage of so-called fat people just walking down the street. I always wondered if there was some sort of "fat people walking" stock footage bank, or if they actually say to their camera man, "Hey, go film some fat people walking down the street and make sure you cut off the heads in the video so we don't have to get them to sign off for it. You get bonus points if they have muffin tops."

"muffin top" from one such online story

These poor people are just minding their business, walking down the street maybe going to the post office, or maybe they're stopping by the apothecary. Unknowingly some creepy guy is filming them to be shown as overweight. I often thought, what if you didn't think you were that big and you were just sitting down to watch the local news. All of a sudden you see them talking about obesity and showing pictures of you walking around. That would suck

Anyway, back to the reson I got started on this subject. The coffee news story was talking about breast so it decided to show stock footage of women walking around in the backround. However, the camera was super zoomed in on their boobs. So your just walking down the street one day and not only is some guy strangely filming you, he is zooming in on your breasts with a huge news camera. I don't think that would make your day. It may make his, but not yours. Either way, kind of creepy. They could have taken a different angle. Ha get it? That was unintentional.

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I took this picture of a book I found with my phone a while ago.

Anybody see anything wrong with this picture?