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Nullus Anxietas |
Not so fast: Is it True that Overweight People Live Longer? TL;DR: Some evidence suggests that overweight people live longer, but the evidence is suspect. A study published in JAMA suspect? Say it ain't so! "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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| Little ray of sunshine  |
Many people can't see beyond their own horizon. It is a danger ALL of us face. We often think that if it doesn't suit us, personally, it won't suit anyone else, either. I am sure you are right about giant national advertisers. They work very hard to do actual research on what advertising works. Hiring Rapinoe won't work on me, but it probably works well on a lot of buyers Coke wants to bring into the fold. I try to be aware of my own blinders, but it is hard. Some people don't even realize they have blinders on at all - they can't think outside their own box. The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. | |||
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| Little ray of sunshine |
You are probably right. But in the context of this thread, it isn't Victoria Secret's job to encourage healthy living. It is Victoria Secret's job to enrich its shareholders by selling more underwear. And if that means putting fancy undies on chubby girls in ads, that is what it is going to do, and what it should do. The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. | |||
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In related new, sales of "No Fat Chicks" bumper stickers are down. ____________________ | |||
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| Lawyers, Guns and Money  |
  I'll take it...
Exactly. Businesses exist to make a profit. Period. As Milton Friedman was famously quoted to have said, "The business of business is business." "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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Info Guru |
 “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” - John Adams | |||
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Oh hails naw......  I ain't quite that f*c*ing WOKE yet!!!!  "If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24 | |||
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| Official forum SIG Pro enthusiast  |
If the argument that these companies have hired professional advertisers who have taken the pulse of America and that’s why were seeing these types of commercials is true. I can only assume that the average American has a gay person in a mixed race relationship and possibly suffering some sort of head injury while taking prescription pills whose side effects are far worse than whatever ails them. I think the argument is probably correct to a degree and makes me wonder what the future is going to look like when people are already dumber and reaching levels of idiocy that I thought were only theoretically possible. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The price of liberty and even of common humanity is eternal vigilance | |||
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Quit staring at my wife's Butt |
My wife was the manager at our local store 25 years ago. Those were great days, and yes I have video's and tons of pictures.  | |||
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I don't care how long overweight vs. obese people are expected to live. It's a quality of life thing. I work in final expense life insurance and last week was one of those weeks where every single person I wrote was an insulin diabetic (onset after age 40) and none were particularly overweight. One had had a toe amputated. I do not want to ever have to prick my fingers, inject insulin or worry about amputations, to say nothing of looking or feeling out of shape. There are a ton of issues that come with being overweight. They may take a while to catch up with you, but they do catch up. | |||
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Tinker Sailor Soldier Pie |
Is that Victoria's Secret ad poster for real? ~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan | |||
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I Deal In Lead |
I looked around the net and it seems like it's a hoax. VS does have overweight models in some of it's ads as well as trans models, but nothing quite that bad. Close, but not quite. | |||
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| Big Stack |
There could be a business opportunity in here. Start a lingerie company, and basically use VS's old playbook. Hire the tall, thin, attractive models, do the flashy fashion shows. Do all the heavy national advertising / marketing of such. Then we'd see who actually sells more. Oh, and much like S&W was spun out of American Outdoor Brands, VS is being spun out of its parent company, and being forced to go it alone. https://nypost.com/2021/06/21/...s-name-amid-rebrand/ | |||
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| Nullus Anxietas |
Seems unlikely. Then again: I've seen a lot of things over the last few years I'd once have regarded as unlikely. So who knows? "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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| Info Guru |
My assumption was no, but given their new direction it was definitely plausible! “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” - John Adams | |||
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| The Whack-Job Whisperer  |
DAMN! I hope that ad isn't for real!  7+1 Rounds of hope and change | |||
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always with a hat or sunscreen |
The Vomit Comet has struck VS! Certifiable member of the gun toting, septuagenarian, bucket list workin', crazed retiree, bald is beautiful club! USN (RET), COTEP #192 | |||
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