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Beef · (This post was last modified: 08-05-2011 05:35 PM by Beef.)

(08-05-2011 01:55 PM)Radical Wrote: If the studies and experiments are showing a very large quantitative improvement in performance, what is there to argue? You really need to drop the, "kids these days are spoiled and entitled brats" fantasy. It's tired and old and it's been played to death by generation, after generation, after generation now.

Fantasy? LOL

Every summer I take my kids, who are now 8 and 11 years old, to one of our neighborhood pools (a community of 1500 homes), and for every 1 healthy looking skinny kid between the ages of 3 and 15 eating fruit and drinking water, I see 9 kids who are overweight and unhealthy looking. With about half of those being grossly obese. And yet, they're sitting there by the poolside with a bag of chips, cookies, and sodas feeding their faces and begging for more.

It's not a fantasy dude. There's a massive discipline gap and a generation of parents enabling a culture of lazy fatasses.

Getting up an hour later isn't going to help it either.

**Radical** · (This post was last modified: 08-06-2011 01:57 AM by phocis850.)

(08-05-2011 05:34 PM)Beef Wrote: Every summer I take my kids, who are now 8 and 11 years old, to one of our neighborhood pools (a community of 1500 homes), and for every 1 healthy looking skinny kid between the ages of 3 and 15 eating fruit and drinking water, I see 9 kids who are overweight and unhealthy looking. With about half of those being grossly obese.

I agree that there's an obesity problem, but you have to live on the Fatty Farm to see something like that commonly.

Beef · (This post was last modified: 08-06-2011 01:57 AM by phocis850.)

(08-05-2011 05:38 PM)Radical Wrote:
(08-05-2011 05:34 PM)Beef Wrote: Every summer I take my kids, who are now 8 and 11 years old, to one of our neighborhood pools (a community of 1500 homes), and for every 1 healthy looking skinny kid between the ages of 3 and 15 eating fruit and drinking water, I see 9 kids who are overweight and unhealthy looking. With about half of those being grossly obese.

I agree that there's an obesity problem, but you have to live on the Fatty Farm to see something like that commonly.

The range of homes in my neighborhood are from about $250k to upwards of $1m with an average of about $450k. Very much dead center middle class. Very few of us are up and out the door to the highway by 6am.

And I've been to my brother's neighborhood pool in Townlake and it's the same thing. I've been to my sister-in-laws pool in Bentwater and it's the same thing. And Bridgemill, which is a community of like 5000 now, is exactly the same.

It's a freaking epidemic, I swear.

**Radical** · 08-05-2011, 05:49 PM

(08-05-2011 05:45 PM)Beef Wrote: The range of homes in my neighborhood are from about $250k to upwards of $1m with an average of about $450k. Very much dead center middle class. Very few of us are up and out the door to the highway by 6am.

And I've been to my brother's neighborhood pool in Townlake and it's the same thing. I've been to my sister-in-laws pool in Bentwater and it's the same thing. And Bridgemill, which is a community of like 5000 now, is exactly the same.

It's a freaking epidemic, I swear.

Meh. I finished highschool in the 00's. I'd say on average of about 30 kids, maybe 5-8 would be obese, with 2-3 being what I would call grossly obese. Maybe fat kids like the pool.

The Falcon Jedi · 08-06-2011, 01:23 AM

(08-05-2011 05:45 PM)Beef Wrote: The range of homes in my neighborhood are from about $250k to upwards of $1m with an average of about $450k. Very much dead center middle class. Very few of us are up and out the door to the highway by 6am.

And I've been to my brother's neighborhood pool in Townlake and it's the same thing. I've been to my sister-in-laws pool in Bentwater and it's the same thing. And Bridgemill, which is a community of like 5000 now, is exactly the same.

It's a freaking epidemic, I swear.

I dont know what fairy tale world you live in but neighborhoods with $1m homes is Above middle class.

The Falcon Jedi · 08-06-2011, 01:55 AM

Highschool football is a pretty big deal. College scouts are in the stands, parents are hoping for those athletic scholarships for their kids. Coaches want the recognition of being able to develop and produce top-quality college athletes. A lot of pressure.

Beef · (This post was last modified: 08-06-2011 02:32 AM by Beef.)

(08-06-2011 01:23 AM)The Falcon Jedi Wrote: I dont know what fairy tale world you live in but neighborhoods with $1m homes is Above middle class.

I said the average home in our 1500 home neighborhood is about $450k, and believe me, the vast majority of those folks are house-poor, if you understand what that is. Most of them have a family income of probably $100k-130k.