[Kazan]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,113105,00.html

[Liberator]

Do you enjoy ruining people's day Kaz?

Public pressure, huh?  More like a extremist Liberal lawsuit machine.

I don't know about others, but when I buy a Super Size drink, it usually takes me a couple of hours to drink it.  I only hope the corner store doesn't get rid of their 44 ouncers.

[Corsair]

*doesn't trust Fox News to properly report the weather INSIDE the studio*

[an0n]

What a totally ****ing stupid move.

If people want healthier food: DON'T EAT FAST FOOD!

It's ****ing retarded.

All that'll happen is instead of getting super-sized fries people who want super-sized potions will just buy 3 Large Fries at twice the cost.

[Liberator]

Corsair, understand that Fox News, unlike CNN or (P)MS-NBC, presents both sides of a controversial issue and let the veiwer decide, it just seems that they are biased because CNN and others present one side as Fact.

[an0n]

.............

[aldo_14]

Isn;t a supersize coke in the Us 90% ice anyways?

NB: IIRC, the largest British McD cup is about the size of the US medium

[phreak]

yea its about 40 ounces of ice anyways.

look if you eat it at-most once every two weeks and excercise its not going to kill you.  that said, i usually get medium drinks as it is.

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Liberator
Corsair, understand that Fox News, unlike CNN or (P)MS-NBC, presents both sides of a controversial issue and let the veiwer decide, it just seems that they are biased because CNN and others present one side as Fact.

 

oh,wait.....

You're serious?

[Stryke 9]

See, this is just the sort of thing I don't give a rat's ass about. It's a business decision, it has little or nothing to do with the politics of gorging. You wanna know why they're getting rid of supersizing? An0n had it, he just doesn't realize it yet. Now they can get away with that and claim it's in peoples' "health interests"- basically using increased public awareness of the fact that their food makes you fat and sick to reap greater profits. It's not even a particularly ingenious move.


Lib: For someone who just recently was claiming that critics of Bush are "hateful bastards", your rhetorical broadsides against everybody who doesn't agree with you reek an awful lot of ignorant bigotry. Nobody loves a hypocrite, you know. And as amusing as it is to watch you descend further and further into tinfoil-hat derangment, you need to wake up. Nobody mistakes Fox for an unbiased news source. If you can really say that with a straight face, you need to start paying more attention.

[mikhael]

Originally posted by Liberator
Corsair, understand that Fox News, unlike CNN or (P)MS-NBC, presents both sides of a controversial issue and let the veiwer decide, it just seems that they are biased because CNN and others present one side as Fact.

Dude. FoxNews is the biggest conservative mouthpiece in this nation today. They're run by Rupert Murdoch--surprise--a conservative billionaire.

They're the conservative answer to the liberal CNN.


Of course, CNN hasn't been all that liberal since Bush got appointed (by those liberal activist judges in the SCOTUS )

[Drew]

Originally posted by Corsair
*doesn't trust Fox News to properly report the weather INSIDE the studio*

oh phh...

oh...lets not go into the sources Fox News got this from. YOu guys might think that the TV reporting by FN is right wing, but this was most likly ripped from someplace like the drudge report.
like every other TV news station, FN often reports reports that were reported by other sources.......

in this case

Point is, everything in that article is objective data....like *most* of their reporting.


anyway,  an0n's got this one. If ur fat, its most likly your own fault

[an0n]

I don't see why the detrimental affect McDonalds food has to people with so little will-power it's laughable, should be any ****ing concern of mine.

If I want to eat ****-loads, they'd better damn well provide me with the option to do so.

I shouldn't have the bear the punishment of smaller portions just because some fat ***** in Kentucky decided her grotesque obesity, ****ty life and abusive husband were the result of McDonalds making their food too damn tasty and NOT because she's a lazy, ugly, high-school drop-out, malcontent *****.

I'd still be pissed at this ****ing travesty even if it WAS McDonalds' fault, but the fact that this is all down to the beuracratic joke that is mockingly refered to as the 'American Legal System' makes the "Don't think about killing everyone" pill that much harder to swallow.

[Stryke 9]

Yeah, except this isn't the result of any legislation. There were lawsuits earlier against McDonalds for making people fat, most of them lost. Nothing changed. Now, all of a sudden, months after the **** hit the fan, they're changing things. Do you really think they're being arm-twisted into this all that much?

[phreak]

not really. but lawsuits do cost money, plus they can say they are trying to allieviate them problem.

[an0n]

No, I think it was the fault of the American Legal System for even letting the "I'm fat, give me money" cases FILE for a suit, let alone drag it into an actual court.

And regardless of wether McDonalds won or lost, they had to spend hundreds of thousands on a defence. I can't fault the company for trying to avoid future legal action, no matter how assured their victory is. And they're capitalist whores, so jacking up the prices is more of a cliche than a business move.

[an0n]

Damn you, Phreak.

[phreak]

i can't expound like you so one sentence seems to work for most purposes.  

on another note, i should stop going into the SCP forum, im starting to type like bobboau.  my last post needs some punctuation

[Carl]

Originally posted by Liberator
Corsair, understand that Fox News, unlike CNN or (P)MS-NBC, presents both sides of a controversial issue and let the veiwer decide, it just seems that they are biased because CNN and others present one side as Fact.

that's what i've been saying.

[mikhael]

Originally posted by Drew
this was most likly ripped from someplace like the drudge report.

Oh yes. The Drudge Report. Because that's SUCH the unbiased media outlet. Drudge is another conservative mouthpeice. He's worse than most though, since he does even less fact checking than the Bush Administration does when looking for Nigerian uranium.

Originally posted by Drew
anyway,  an0n's got this one. If ur fat, its most likly your own fault
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Amen to that. I should know. Its my own damn fault I'm a fat ass.