I lived in Sweden and I don't remember things like mashed potatoes, raisins, or canned fruit cocktail being offered as pizza toppings. We ate a lot of pizza too. Swedish pizzas are very thin and floppy. My favorite toppings were red peppers and garlic. I lived in a place called Västerås and later visited in-laws that moved way north to an area called Undersvik. Maybe I needed to go to Stockholm or something for weird pizza toppings.

Waste of time? No more of a waste than watching hours of TV a day, spending hours on the internet, blogging, playing videogames, or even reading tons of fiction. Everyone occupies their time in different ways. He's happy and he's not hurting anybody, so where is the problem? Though I do wonder how he pays for it all.

Weird. I could read at 2 as well. I'm unemployed (long-term, just ran out my extended benefits May 12th), only ever worked $10-$12/hour office jobs and...well, I don't care. Why so different?

Probably because of the tea partiers that somehow found themselves in government positions.

Kind of too late to do anything about this now. My two kids are out of the womb. Now no one say anything to my offspring, but here comes some anecdotal evidence. I was of normal weight for my first and obese for the second. #2 so far seems clearly smarter than #1.

And I'll be fat and choosy. Thanks. Rather be alone than with a douchebag.

We also need to do this study on fat men.

I love this. I'm literally sitting here all alone laughing like I've gone insane. I need a version of these for my three year old so I can laugh all day long. It will be good for her.

That was depressing reading the comments. Basically just too many people going "Close your legs, whores." And our access to birth control ideas aren't much better. The various methods available may mitigate some misery, but the end result is still the same - eventual extermination.

Actually for me, before the popularity of the internet, email, chatting, and texting (I don't text) I basically had zero interaction with other people. If it all went away I'd be back to hiding behind a big old Stephen King book until I could reach the solitude and safety of home. I'm not normal though. Severe social anxiety and very introverted since birth.

Personally I love that everyone is being absorbed into their own little bubble worlds. Less chance they'll try to chat with me.

I'm 5'7", 213 lbs, and I can walk a block without falling over in a fit of wheezing. I can also RUN after my 3 year old and not die. My ass bounces unpleasantly, but I can do it. I also exercise nearly every day, my blood pressure was like 102/70 last time (couple months ago when I was HEAVIER), my cholesterol is fine, I don't have diabetes, and I don't have arthritis. Come on, people. You aren't thinking.

And yeah, I take offense at "fatties" not that anyone would care. We don't seem to count as people.

As for the hospital policy, I think it is stupid but its apparently legal. With the way things are going in a few years I guess we fat people will finally lose the weight everyone apparently desperately needs us to drop because we won't have health insurance or jobs. Starvation! Awesome!

I'm fine with sharing the road with cyclists. Some people can't afford a car and it's often faster, cheaper, and healthier than public transportation. But! Stay out of the way. There was no reason for the cyclist to be riding in the middle of the lane. Stay to the side. He was being a douche. And if one more cyclist blows a stop sign and flips me off like I'm supposed to give them right of way I might chase them down and hit them on purpose. Not really, but WTF? Follow the rules.

And don't even get me started on that watch out for motorcycles BS campaign. Stop driving like a lunatic. Watch out for cars. Idiots.

I like the basket company building shaped like a basket. It would cheer me up slightly as I headed to my daily dose of 9-5 office tedium.

Palmers makes the most disgusting "chocolate" I've ever eaten. My mom gets their bunnies every year (even though I'm long from childhood). That thing goes straight in the trash.

I'll only be pleased when 100% of websites are "right bashing".

I seem to be both. I feel so special.

This is why I don't put the email associated with "social media" accounts on my resume. My name is also very common and I have all the friends I'm going to on Facebook, I could easily just change it slightly. And if someone does manage to find me, I personally don't think I post anything offensive. Though I must admit I'm not happy about this employer googling applicants thing. I have social anxiety and the internet is basically the one place I say almost anything I want.

I started out with a graphic design degree making elaborate resumes and online portfolios that apparently sucked (never hired). As I moved away from that I guess I kept my habit of "must make documents pretty" and the last interview I had the displeasure of attending the man just kept saying "I don't get why anyone would make a resume in Adobe Illustrator". He said "I just don't get it" like 6 times before kicking me out. Apparently "So I can make the text look a certain way and move it around the page" was an insufficient answer. I need to win the lottery.