demagogue on 9/7/2008 at 17:37
These kinds of stories usually annoy me.
If you care about the problem, then you talk about the problem ... the economics of poverty and famine, what needs to be done, is it being done or not. I have a textbook on it sitting on my floor right now and it's bigger than my head ... well, it feels like it.
If the best argument you can muster is unrestrained eating by a few dozen people ... whatever. (Yes of course it's ironic, and it's almost irresistible not to want to out-irony it in return.) Even in terms of lobbing irony grenades, the best you can probably expect is emotionally riling up a bunch of "activists" into breaking McDonalds' windows or getting signatures supporting some incoherent paragraph. The problem deserves better than that.
edit: I guess the comedy angle of it falls a little flat with me because I know people actually ready to break McDonald's windows when they hear things like this, and they give you that look like "well, what are you doing about it?" ... and I think to my self, "uh ... something."
SubJeff on 9/7/2008 at 17:37
Quote Posted by D'Juhn Keep
it's simply the fact that it's a real story that could easily be an Onion article.
For sure. But do you really think The Times gets this?
Perhaps I'm not giving them enough credit.
dj_ivocha on 9/7/2008 at 17:50
Quote Posted by Starrfall
What the fuck is corn-stuffed caviar?
Quote Posted by madwolf
Fish eggs stuffed with some kind of cereal based product at a guess.
Mind I'm no cook...
I don't think you'd WANT to be the cook who had to stuff all those fish eggs, however small each dish might have been. :o
nuckinfutzcat on 24/7/2008 at 11:15
Pardon Me for being blunt but I was expecting a discussion on a different type of fatty, Oh well. Bye !
