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>>>i will again come back with the segment on public schools. if
>>>that movie is
>>>good for nothing else it shows that kids eat crap in school.
>>>why? maybe they
>>>like crap, maybe the schools didn't teach them, maybe their
>>>parents didn't
>>>teach them (more then likely) maybe their parents did teach
>>>them but there
>>>is nothing better to eat or to even try (most likely) that
>>>segment irked me
>>>so much i wanted to beat the crap out of a lunch lady.

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>>Ahhh, the typical vegan compassion again rears its ugly head.
>>You guys are just too transparent, killer.

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> wtf mate? are you refering to my impulse to slaughter a lunch lady? i don't
> know why vegitarianism and my lunch lady rampage have anything in common.


He sees it as abusing children.
He said he said he had impulse. We have many impulses. Abusing
children should naturally bring out an impulse. Feeding them junk food
he obviously considers abuse.




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>>>>I saw "Super Size Me." The filmmaker (can't remember his
>>>>name) is a
>>>>very appealing guy, and is great on camera. Somebody that a
>>>>lot of
>>>>people could imagine being their friend. And his filmmaking
>>>>style is
>>>>easygoing and something that might change minds, not the
>>>>shrill, angry
>>>>feeling you get from a lot of agitprop. Not entirely unlike
>>>>Michael
>>>>Moore in the early days, when he was making good films like
>>>>"Roger and
>>>>Me" instead of ill humored stuff like he makes now. (Yes, I
>>>>know there
>>>>were a lot of problems with "Roger & Me" but it's still
>>>>leagues ahead
>>>>of what he does now.)
>>>>
>>>>The problem with "Super Size Me" is that it's ultimately
>>>>unconvincing
>>>>self promotion. Yes, I realize the filmmaker has some point
>>>>to make
>>>>about how food is marketed, but at the end of the day the
>>>>subject of
>>>>the movie is the filmmaker himself, who is doing this as a way
>>>>to make
>>>>a name for himself. So, he basically does a stunt, in which he
>>>>deliberately tries to eat so much that he literally vomits
>>>>every day
>>>>for a month, while eating McDonald's food. Critics can easily
>>>>dismiss
>>>>what he did by staying that eating that much of anything, even
>>>>if it
>>>>was a fat free vegetable diet, would make a person ill - and
>>>>they'd be
>>>>right. So why does he do it? Because he wants to make himself
>>>>famous,
>>>>and I guess in that respect the film is successful. But it's
>>>>ostensible
>>>>reason for being is not convincing at all.
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