Homeless Diet?

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  • Timshel_
    Timshel_ Posts: 22,834 Member
    Wet newspapers and McDonald's wrappers are not edible. You might want to find some common sense and not just listen to anything you hear. I'm pretty sure this is just a joke someone was trying to get you to believe.

    lol.
  • mank32
    mank32 Posts: 1,323 Member
    i was homeless once.

    NOT a fan of making fun of the homeless. :mad:
  • vtmoon
    vtmoon Posts: 3,436 Member
    I hear the best thing about the homeless diet is the wet newspapers, cause from what I understand you also absorb the news with the nutrients.
  • sullus
    sullus Posts: 2,839 Member
    Family Guy covered the homeless diet ...

    {At Quahog Soup Kitchen}
    Meg: Ugh, a soup kitchen dad? Isn't there any other place we can go?
    Peter: We're homeless Meg, this is where homeless people go.
    Brian: Well it'll just be good to get some food in us.
    Woman: Hi and welcome to the soup kitchen. I'll just start you off with a basket of pizza crusts and apple cores.
    Oh and we do have one special today, it's an avocado pit with a little bit of avocado still on it and that comes on a ripped pair of boxer shorts.
    Peter: Now I'm trying to decide between the tossed spaghetti on a newspaper & the half yogurt with a balled up tissue in it
  • jofjltncb6
    jofjltncb6 Posts: 34,415 Member
    i was homeless once.

    NOT a fan of making fun of the homeless. :mad:

    *sigh*

    When I was ten years old, my father was crushed by a tree. Luckily (and perhaps miraculously) he survived, but was told he would likely never walk again. I still very vividly remember standing at his bedside with the realization that it was now my responsibility to support the family. It was one of only two times I've seen my father cry.

    As a result, I do not find jokes that involve falling trees to be particularly funny...but if I found where someone posted a joke about it in the CCF&G section of the forums here, I wouldn't feel compelled to inform them that jokes about falling trees aren't funny. They aren't funny *to me* because of very specific reasons that are relevant *to me*. That doesn't change whether or not a joke is funny to other people.


    (In the next chapter of my book, "In Defense of Comedy", we'll cover the two most important, but mutually exclusive questions: 1) Is it funny? and 2) Is it an appropriate audience?)
  • mank32
    mank32 Posts: 1,323 Member

    *sigh*

    That doesn't change whether or not a joke is funny to other people.

    Funny jokes are funny. That is never the issue.

    Making funny jokes about ppl who are suffering from some of the most difficult condititions the human experience has to offer just makes you self-servingly NON-COMPASSIONATE.

    There is nothing wrong with my sense of humor. it's my sense of compassion that is wounded when i see/hear ppl taking the piss out of those who need it the most. i'm not telling anyone to stop. i'm just telling u ur a louse for doing it.

    Go ahead and flame me. tell ME to stop. I'm just the one advocating respect and compassion here.

    Do you have a chapter of retard jokes in your book? Nevermind. I'm not interested in reading it anyway.
  • Mother_Superior
    Mother_Superior Posts: 1,624 Member
    Is this similar to the freegan diet?
  • jofjltncb6
    jofjltncb6 Posts: 34,415 Member

    *sigh*

    That doesn't change whether or not a joke is funny to other people.

    Funny jokes are funny. That is never the issue.

    Making funny jokes about ppl who are suffering from some of the most difficult condititions the human experience has to offer just makes you self-servingly NON-COMPASSIONATE.

    There is nothing wrong with my sense of humor. it's my sense of compassion that is wounded when i see/hear ppl taking the piss out of those who need it the most. i'm not telling anyone to stop. i'm just telling u ur a louse for doing it.

    Go ahead and flame me. tell ME to stop. I'm just the one advocating respect and compassion here.

    Do you have a chapter of retard jokes in your book? Nevermind. I'm not interested in reading it anyway.

    That you would put homelessness above other situations is an insult to those who have endured those other situations. I expect someone who has endured a physical assault to be offended by your insolence...or someone who has suffered a premature death of a parent or sibling, or God forbid of a child, to be outraged by your insistence that homelessness is worse than their situation.

    Or did you not consider that other people may have had other life experiences than you when you made your own self-serving post indicating where "the line" is drawn *for you*?

    And just so we're clear, this post was not directed toward any homeless person. As someone so aptly pointed it out earlier in the discussion: No homeless persons were actually harmed in the creation of this thread.

    And for further clarification, I didn't even participate in the joke...but don't let that stop you from declaring your righteous indignation at whoever you can find to share your outrage with so *you* feel better about the situation.

    You don't know what I have and haven't done to better the lives of those less fortunate. And I can't understand how your public judgment of this thread has benefited anyone at all.
  • likitisplit
    likitisplit Posts: 9,420 Member
    I've been homeless too.

    In my opinion, a joke is objectionable if it ridicules the victim.

    So, don't make fun of homeless PEOPLE. Don't make fun of rape victims. Don't disparage people of color.

    However, making fun of homelessness, or satirizing rape apologists or providing a new perspective on discrimination, that can be f'n hilarious. And enlightening.

    This thread satirizes stupid diet techniques by referencing survival techniques of the homeless. I don't see how it disparages them.
  • metaphoria
    metaphoria Posts: 1,432 Member
    Sorry if I offend any rich people, but here we go...

    I'm starting the millionaire diet where I snort coke through rolled up $100 bills and drink Dom by the case. The only exercise required is yelling at your maid and gardener, and shopping.
  • weevil66
    weevil66 Posts: 600 Member
    I think you may burn more calories if you manage all three at the same time.

    eta,,,,make that manage all four. I cannot count.
  • Contrarian
    Contrarian Posts: 8,138 Member
    Sorry if I offend any rich people, but here we go...

    I'm starting the millionaire diet where I snort coke through rolled up $100 bills and drink Dom by the case. The only exercise required is yelling at your maid and gardener, and shopping.

    This hurts my feelings! :angry:
  • metaphoria
    metaphoria Posts: 1,432 Member
    Sorry if I offend any rich people, but here we go...

    I'm starting the millionaire diet where I snort coke through rolled up $100 bills and drink Dom by the case. The only exercise required is yelling at your maid and gardener, and shopping.

    This hurts my feelings! :angry:

    Meh. I can live with myself. Turns out I'm classist.
  • jofjltncb6
    jofjltncb6 Posts: 34,415 Member
    Sorry if I offend any rich people, but here we go...

    I'm starting the millionaire diet where I snort coke through rolled up $100 bills and drink Dom by the case. The only exercise required is yelling at your maid and gardener, and shopping.

    This hurts my feelings! :angry:

    You mean if you had any, of course...

    ...because everyone knows that rich people don't really have any feelings.
  • MireyGal76
    MireyGal76 Posts: 7,334 Member
    all this talk of grease is making me heave...

    :sick:
  • SerenaFisher
    SerenaFisher Posts: 2,170 Member
    I hear the homeless diet is all about location, homeless outside of a McDonald's makes you fat, homeless outside of an abandoned building? You're skinny. Location... location... location..:bigsmile:
  • metaphoria
    metaphoria Posts: 1,432 Member
    Sorry if I offend any rich people, but here we go...

    I'm starting the millionaire diet where I snort coke through rolled up $100 bills and drink Dom by the case. The only exercise required is yelling at your maid and gardener, and shopping.

    This hurts my feelings! :angry:

    You mean if you had any, of course...

    ...because everyone knows that rich people don't really have any feelings.

    Boom!
  • sweetnlow30
    sweetnlow30 Posts: 497 Member
    Make sure to grab the micky d's wrappers that are transparent from grease. Not only does the grease add flavor but it will help everything slide through, expediting your weight loss.

    Wow! That's really great advice!

    This way it works as a cleanse as well!

    This made me LOL :laugh:
  • wolfpack77
    wolfpack77 Posts: 655
    sarcastic thread is sarcastic YAAAAY!
  • metaphoria
    metaphoria Posts: 1,432 Member
    sarcastic thread is sarcastic YAAAAY!

    Sidenote:

    You've got some great definition goin on, nice work! And yes, I read your profile, I like your quote up top. :)
  • Cr01502
    Cr01502 Posts: 3,614 Member
    This thread satirizes stupid diet techniques by referencing survival techniques of the homeless. I don't see how it disparages them.

    :flowerforyou:
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