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  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 9,275 Member
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48545111#Comment_48545111

    but that’s too close to his bedtime!

  • ythannah
    ythannah Posts: 4,391 Member
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48540752#Comment_48540752

    For the record, I have paw print tattoos and rarely eat oatmeal. When I do it's Scottish porridge oats, not Quaker.

    Nor do my britches fall off in the kitchen. Thankfully.

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 9,275 Member
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    sooooooooo many questions.

  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 13,664 Member

    Starting with…is she a vampire?

  • Corina1143
    Corina1143 Posts: 4,593 Member

    Why does she have 2 sets of eyebrows?

  • claireychn074
    claireychn074 Posts: 1,794 Member
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48548566#Comment_48548566

    Yes that’s what I was trying to work out! 🤣

  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 36,090 Member

    I hate that "no pores" thing. 🙄

  • claireychn074
    claireychn074 Posts: 1,794 Member
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48548955#Comment_48548955

    But - but - where does it all go? Do you end up with fat feet instead? 😮

  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 13,664 Member

    I was gonna say a fat head, but considering who is likely to actually purchase these things, that may be a little impossible to tell… 😶

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 9,275 Member
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    Found in the App Store. One of the exercise series is for “Bubble Butt”. It’s got a ton of 5 star ratings for its easy 7-minute workouts, which includes a series called “Lazy in Bed”.

    BTW, a lot of those reviews are by self-proclaimed 58 year old women who sound an awful lot like youngsters. U know what I mean? 🔥🔥🔥

    I’m sure there’s no fake reviews there at all, lol. And mercifulnheavens, if you sort reviews by “most recent”…… wow.

    Anyway, I was amused by the photoshopping.

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 9,275 Member
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    ohhh so this is where all those stupid cartoon surveys must take you. Again, stellar reviews- until you check them by “most recent” sort. And yes, a lot of those reviews indicate they found it through FB.

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 9,275 Member

    There’s so many! The Fat Burning app. The No Exercise weight loss app. The Flat Tummy app. Tons of 7-Minute Exercise apps.

    I’ve gone down the rabbit hole so you don’t have to:


    behold, the Shrinking Woman app:

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    The App That Changes Your Avatar

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    The I’m So Happy My Pants are Loose app

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    the Aw, Come On Give Us a Kitten Break AI Model App

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    The Finally, One for the Guys app

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  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 9,275 Member
    edited April 4

    The AI Photoshop Pinch an Inch app (it’s a boomer thing)

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    the Lazy Chair Yoga Somebody's Gonna Get Hurt Here app

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    the Developers Were too Cheap to Hire a Real Human Underweight Model app

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    the Magical IF is Gonna Solve All Your Weight Problems app (there’s several of these):

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    the 3-Weeks Yoga Results app:

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    this is all the modern day equivalent of National Enquirer and Women’s World checkout tabloids back in tha day. People just never change, or, as dad would have said, “Stupidity is alive and well”

  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 36,090 Member

    Stupidity . . . or naiveté, hope, wishful thinking, ignorance? I'm not going to blame the victims exclusively here: There are too many well-funded cynical marketers who are out to keep people ignorant and vulnerable.

    I've said it before: If people figure out that weight loss and fitness aren't so very, very difficult and arcane that they must pay for a solution "hack" or "weird trick", the marketers are SOL. I can't blame the consumer for wanting that high-$$$ solution to be quick and easy. For the price, it ought to be.

    There are frequent posts here from people who clearly believe workouts are the route to weight loss, maybe plus "eating clean". I'm quite sure 😉 there are people here who believed that a walk or workout would wipe out the calories from a giant Mocha Frappuccino or a passel of Oreos . . . until they started counting exercise and food calories.

    Facts are eye opening. Not knowing the facts isn't stupidity, it's ignorance. A whole industry is working very hard to keep people ignorant, and keep them continuously feeding (metaphorically) at the marketers trough of nonsense. That includes the marketers hyping "all the happy, pretty people eat at our drive through and dance in our lobby" - not many fat people in the ads. And of course people are resistant to facts that imply there's effort involved. They're already overbooked, in their own view.

    No one benefits from publicizing the facts: No sales, no clicks, no benefit.

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 9,275 Member
    edited April 4

    I’m truly surprised. I thought we females got more gorgeous the more you men drank!

    After a case, they should have all been supermodels!

    Beer goggle criteria. 🤷🏻‍♀️

  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 36,090 Member

    Why do people believe exercise is what causes weight loss, or is essential for weight loss? Marketers want them to believe it. I have no idea what these people are selling, because I refuse to click, but it's an ad, so they're selling something, if only selling our eyeballs to advertisers.

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  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 13,664 Member

    More accurate would be "how much should you walk to offset that Big Mac you just ate?"

  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 9,443 Member

    or more accurate or more useful would be: How many calories would walking at moderate (slow, brisk etc) pace for 30 minutes (or x time) burn if I am a woman of 65 kg ( or a man or woman of x weight) - and then one can factor that in to daily net calories

    Whilst I think excercise is good and moving more if previously not moving much is a good part of weight loss plans - the idea that it can be quantified with no other context (like basic things: what calories you are taking in 🙄) is just silly.

    Bit like how many slices of bread can I eat to lose 30 pounds? - with no context as to other food, calorie goal, calories out etc etc

    just silly questions in isolation.

  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 13,664 Member

    Did somebody say eat bread and still lose weight??? 🐷🐷🐷🐷

  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 9,443 Member

    yes, come to the paperpudding weight loss plan! - it included toast, sandwiches, bread rolls…..

    (for the nitpickers - of course not in unlimited quantities🙃)

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 9,275 Member

    I was researching, of all things, museum exhibitions for an upcoming trip, and I got on this endless death scroll of hysterically funny ads.

    Erm…..enjoy?


    I never thought of fat this way before…..

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    Not weight related, but hey, tying cabbage leaves to your feet? Almost as good as putting bars of soap under your sheets, and tin foil on your doorknobs.

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    Hahahahahahaha!!!!!! If only there were a moisturizer for this!

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    Eye catching, and the company name is a hoot

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    those arms. They look natural, right? Just like this finger…..

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    And my absolute favorite, the one that had me laughing so loud my husband and dog came to investigate :

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    that one’s for you @AnnPT77 I knew you’d be totally in tune with the poreless look you admire so much. 😂😂😂

  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 9,443 Member

    A little devils advocate here - the cabbage to reduce pain,swelling might not be that silly.

    Certainly cabbage leaves inside the bra t o reduce pain from breast engorgement when breast milk first comes in after having a baby is a well known thing. So feasible it could help with foot pain too.

    Perhaps it is just an old wives tale or placebo effect - but I don't think so, it is too widespread and long standing for that

  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 36,090 Member

    Creepy that we're (?) now putting wrinkle cream on literal plastic women . . . .

  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 13,664 Member

    Considering how much plastic surgery some people have had, it's not impossible to be true…

  • John772016
    John772016 Posts: 213 Member
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48564818#Comment_48564818

    Those were hilarious and also somewhat disturbing….

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