Well Halloween is approaching and in thinking about Halloween I figured out something really ironic about the US.

OK so the US wants people to not be obese and such and they try to have all this stuff to prevent obesity in the citizens of the United States.  Here's the ironic part:  Each of the major major holidays in this country are based around eating.

 

Halloween:  Eat lots of candy

Thanksgiving:  Huge meals

Christmas:  Gifts and meals

Birthday:  Gifts and Cake and ice cream

Valentine's Day:  candy

Easter:  candy

4th of July:  huge cookouts

 

I guess Americans are destined to be somewhat obese because our traditions are dictating so?  Sorry this is just random thinking on my part.  You are welcome to post on this.

It's exactly the same here in Finland, so holidays everywhere make people fat. Nice, aint it?

 

Oh, I forgot. We don't celebrate Halloween, we celebrate the "day of the holy" instead. That involves no treats or eating, just remembering the loved ones that have died.

Edited October 22, 200620 yr by Relentless

Well i'm going to compare Canada to Slovakia  ;D

(edit: Well it is the same but methods or styles are different)

 

Halloween:

1) Trick or treat heres your snacks  ;D

2) Uh we don't celebrate it (or I think they don't from what I can remember)

 

Christmas:

1) Here buy our stuff from the malls and give them to your family and friends.

2) Ah yes here just be nice to one another and celebrate it with gifts and real Christmas spirit without the fake North American feel  If you want you can drink as much as you want 

 

Birthdays (Little biasness but true):

1) Gifts, cake, anything you get is yours and how much people like you.

2) Gifts, cake/treats, beer, wine, PARTIES!, and ah yes you get cool treats no matter how popular you are 

 

Names Day (applies to some or most parts of Europe)

2) Celebrate it as much as you want 

 

Valentines:

1) heres your card or candy and if people don't like you you don't get love

2) Same ^ or possibly more gifts

 

Easter:

1) Candy

2) Uh we got these little slappy rods that you hit people in the rear with so everytime you slap them lightly you get free gifts and treats (possibly beer) and have a blast of your life  ;D (I think this goes here since i'm still trying to relearn what I forgot)

 

Hmm.....ya......I think I'd rather be in Slovakia then US/Canada since i've been here way too long  Besides I have more fun over there anyhow even if i'm half tourist and have citizen (don't have citizenship).

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, sweets...

 

I have a fast metabolism so I don't have to worry about that stuff....yet...

 

It will all catch up to me tho...

Edited October 22, 200620 yr by Jedi Master Tofu

I'm lucky though: I have braces, and one of hte great "No!"s is that I can't have any kind of candy at all. So, I'm set.  ;D

MUHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

 

I get mine a couple of months... :-\

MUHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

 

I get mine a couple of months... :-\

 

WELCOME TO HELL! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

 

(Actually, they don't hurt that much. I've had them on for about 3 months and het only time they hurt was when they first put them on and when they put springs on...your teeth just ache for about a week and you can't have a lot of good food, unfortuanantly...)

Oh well, they say mine should only be on for 1 1/2 years at the max...gotta be optimistic!

 

MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

That's my line, damnit!

 

Anyway, they say I have mine for as long as 2 years or as short as 1 1/2...but seeing as 3 mos. have gone by I think it's going to be only a 1 1/2 yrs.

That's my line, damnit!

 

 

I'm the one who said it first!!! ;D

 

MUAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

 

Well, I wish you good luck and very little pain. One of my friends has had them on for 3 years now.... :-\

Oh snap...3 fooking years? That must suck, lol.

 

Well, I wish you good luck and very little pain as well. 

You don't get to have bubble gum and sweets, what else?

No hard or soft candy at all. No bagels, pretzels, hard cereal (like Honey Bunches of Oats), popcorn, the list goes on lol. They'll give you a list of all the things you can't have.

so anything that gets stuck inyour teeth.... :'(

Basically, anything that tastes good you can't have. But, some things you can have. Most things you can't, though.

It looks like 2 mosters are going at it in pic 9 or 10 of your avatar SWM... ;D :

SHHHH! Don't tell anyone of this....it's part of evolution, deal with it! You'll "do it" someday! EVERYONE WILL!

I assume you want me to edit that post?? Or do you want to do that yourself... ;D

Nono, it's fine the way it is, lol.

 

Anyway, uhm...yeah.

Well Halloween is approaching and in thinking about Halloween I figured out something really ironic about the US.

OK so the US wants people to not be obese and such and they try to have all this stuff to prevent obesity in the citizens of the United States.  Here's the ironic part:  Each of the major major holidays in this country are based around eating.

 

Halloween:  Eat lots of candy

Thanksgiving:  Huge meals

Christmas:  Gifts and meals

Birthday:  Gifts and Cake and ice cream

Valentine's Day:  candy

Easter:  candy

4th of July:  huge cookouts

 

I guess Americans are destined to be somewhat obese because our traditions are dictating so?  Sorry this is just random thinking on my part.  You are welcome to post on this.

 

Might want to get back on topic lol...

Irony...irony...oh!

 

Example of Irony: JMT getting all the girl's attention.

 

 

()

So it would be ironic if I got a girl's attaetion...

 

 

oh, welll.....so?? : ;D

Edited October 22, 200619 yr by Jedi Master Tofu

Took you long enough, lol.

 

Ironic would be like Santa appearing on Christmas Eve.

Santa is fat...I don't see how he can fit down those chimies...

Santa is fat...I don't see how he can fit down those chimies...

 

Of course he can, he's Finnish! Only Finnish people are stupid enough to get into a house through the chimney pipe and stubborn enough to ram themselves through.

 

If he was Swedish though, he'd be going through the back door... ehehe... get it? Back door? Swedes?