Rik Waller - From Now

[The Curmudgeon]

Time for a rant...

Aiiiieeeee! Dear God, it's monstrous! It's hideous! It's quite possibly the worst thing you'll ever see! Ladies and gentlemen, hide your cakes and switch to widescreen- it's Rik Waller!

For those of you who don't know, big Rik was a contestant on one of those wretched pop reality talent shows (I forget which - they're all the same). And he got "famous" for two things.

1. Being fat. And I don't just mean chubby, or heavy - this guy is ENORMOUS. This guy could star in "Super Size Me II: Please Sir, Can I Have Some More?"

2. His mouth is so big, and his teeth so bad, when he sings it's like looking into the Sarlac from Return Of The Jedi. You half expect to see Boba Fett falling headfirst into there.

But I'm not here about this rubbish. Not even the idiotic British public were swayed in buying this. I'm not here to talk about Rik Waller (what is there to say? His record deal blew up and the last we saw he was on Celebrity Fat Club). I'm not here to talk about the state of music today or how reality pop is killing the charts. And there was a reason I mentioned Super Size Me.

Whilst we're here looking at Rik Waller, I would like to talk about something else - fatties.

Now, Super Size Me was a great DVD. All very entertaining, eye opening and all that, but here's what gets me: this movie didn't put me off eating McDonalds (hell, I was almost eating the furniture after watching it) and you know why? Because I know NOT to eat badly every day. I KNOW that McDonalds every day is bad for you.

But, because of simple-minded FAT people and bad parents, I suddenly can't buy everything I used to be able to when I go into a fast food restaurant.

It's true - the Super Size option has been removed. MY choices have been stripped away because ignorant tugboats eat too much. Now, say on the occasion I went to McDonalds and (for some reason) fancied a Super Size meal. I can't have it now. Is that fair? I don't think so. Just because stupid sumo's like to stuff their huge mouths with McDonalds every single day and half the world is now obese, I can't eat WHAT I want, WHEN I want.

And that, boys and girls - SUCKS. Choice is everything, and to have it removed because people can't stop eating.. well.. it's just not on. YOUR choices have been limited because of other people. Think about it.

So, uh, in conclusion, Rik Waller, terrible album, yadda yadda. Oh, and if you haven't seen Super Size Me, please do so.

[hackersanonymous]

I have to agree with the Super Size me comments.. Go buy it - it costs about £3 on DVD, and is worth every penny. Go on, sacrifice that Big Mac meal for tonight's dinner and get this instead!

The Supersizing menu removal thing... Hmmm... I hadn't really thought about the lack of choice, mainly because I don't tend to go to McDonalds.. Good point raised there, Sir..

I did find it laughable that McDonalds claim them removing the Supersize menu option had nothing to do with the film.. Hmm.. Let me rub my chin, thus...

The pondlife out there who didn't watch (or listen to) the film kind of missed the point, I feel... The idea wasn't that you simply don't select a Supersize menu option... It was to convince you not to go out and gorge yourself on burgers every day...

A McDonalds salad option doesn't really count either, as some of them contain MORE fat than their burgers! How in the HELL can you mess up a salad to THAT extent?!?

For those that say they eat regularly at McDonalds because they don't have time to cook.. Come ON... If you're lazy/pushed, then frozen meals take - ooh, 6 minutes to cook in the microwave?! That's less time than it takes to get served by the sour-faced grunts behind the McDonalds counter.


Erm, I may have veered off the point a little here - sorry!


Toodles!

[The Curmudgeon]

I am the most notoriously fussy eater in the world. To me, though, McDonalds (well, Burger King, actually) is The Food Of The Gods. Really though, it just doesn't get any better than that.

But would I have it everyday? Hell no. I don't have a very healthy diet as it is, but I just KNOW it's not good for you. So removing the Supersize option from a menu isn't going to do the people who DO eat it everyday any good. They'll just buy the same thing twice.

[Ben]

I also prefer Burger King over Mcdonalds, but I would never supersize. Because? Like The Curmudgeon said, I know it's bad for me. I actually prefer SUBWAY over BOTH Burger King and Mcdonalds anyway, and if one good thing has come out of the burger joints removing the supersize option, it's Subway expanding their menu for all the fatties deciding to gorge themselves on sandwiches instead of burgers.

Which brings up another point, two points actually.

1. How come menus change for the fatties but not for us normal (semi) skinny people? Maybe I want more variety at Subway, but do I get it until the fatties start eating there? NO I DO NOT.

2. I've seen fatties at Burger King, Mcdonalds, Culver's, Subway, you name it. The one thing that's same about all those fatties is that they order the same amount of food wherever they are, no matter what it is. Burgers, they get 4. Subway sandwiches, they get 2 footlongs. I've seen it. And tell me this: Is it just the TYPE of food that makes people fat, or is a bigger part of it the AMOUNT. I've seen some of the fat Subway regulars, and they're just as big as when they walked in there for the first time 6 weeks ago. Because of the double orders. TWO footlongs is waaaaay more than enough. And that, everyone, is why fatties remain fat.