I've always wondered why there ar overweight homeless people

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edited April 2008 in A Moving Train
I've always wondered why there are overweight homeless people....

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  • harmless_little_f***
    harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    'You invited 12 people, only one came, and that was only cus you gave him a 2 dollar bus token.... a 2 dollar bus token can get him a bottle of vodka.'

    It's all true. I work for a homeless charity and many of them just don't want to work. Not all, but most.
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  • LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun
    LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun Posts: 6,097
    that mountain of pizza looked good...
  • 3inputchick
    3inputchick Posts: 845
    Mental illness sucks.
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  • blackredyellow
    blackredyellow Posts: 5,889
    The cheapest, most accessible foods are usually the worst ones for you.... plus all of the alcohol doesn't help.
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  • darthvedder81
    darthvedder81 Posts: 688
    I volunteered at a Salvation Army shelter a few years back working in the "food warehouse" (a enormous room with 15 thirty-foot 4 level shelves all full to overflowing). We actually had to throw out hundreds of pounds of expired food.
    So this life is sacrifice...
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  • Kel Varnsen
    Kel Varnsen Posts: 1,952
    RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:
    I've always wondered why there are overweight homeless people....

    It is a good question. I have always wondered why sometimes you see homeless people with keychains full of keys (like on their belt or something). If you have no home what are you locking up that you need so many keys for?
  • darthvedder81
    darthvedder81 Posts: 688
    blackredyellow wrote:
    The cheapest, most accessible foods are usually the worst ones for you.... plus all of the alcohol doesn't help.

    Not true. You can get plenty of nutrition from relatively inexpensive canned and non-perishable items. If all you do is eat 49 cent hamburgers, then yes, you'll have a problem. People are just too lazy to cook or shop around.
    So this life is sacrifice...
    6/30/98 Minneapolis, 10/8/00 East Troy (Brrrr!), 6/16/03 St. Paul, 6/27/06 St. Paul
  • blackredyellow
    blackredyellow Posts: 5,889
    darthvedder81 wrote:
    Not true. You can get plenty of nutrition from relatively inexpensive canned and non-perishable items. If all you do is eat 49 cent hamburgers, then yes, you'll have a problem. People are just too lazy to cook or shop around.


    but we are talking about homeless people. Most of them aren't very good at making the best decisions in life.
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  • LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun
    LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun Posts: 6,097
    spam is cheap.

    back in my fat days my food bill was cheaper than it is now.
  • puremagic
    puremagic Posts: 1,907
    It could be the amount of clothes they are wearing that makes them look fat or it could be because the body actually gains weight while going through slow starvation.
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  • darthvedder81
    darthvedder81 Posts: 688
    puremagic wrote:
    It could be the amount of clothes they are wearing that makes them look fat or it could be because the body actually gains weight while going through slow starvation.

    Is this kind of like how colder temperatures can also signal "Global Warming"?
    So this life is sacrifice...
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  • darthvedder81
    darthvedder81 Posts: 688
    blackredyellow wrote:
    but we are talking about homeless people. Most of them aren't very good at making the best decisions in life.

    Maybe we need a Department of Catering to prepare nourishing quick meals for everybody? We have to do something! Won't somebody think of the children!
    So this life is sacrifice...
    6/30/98 Minneapolis, 10/8/00 East Troy (Brrrr!), 6/16/03 St. Paul, 6/27/06 St. Paul
  • puremagic
    puremagic Posts: 1,907
    darthvedder81 wrote:
    Is this kind of like how colder temperatures can also signal "Global Warming"?


    No, it's kind of like mistaken swollen body parts for being fat. Swollen being sick and dying, fat being healthy and why don't you have a job.
    SIN EATERS--We take the moral excrement we find in this equation and we bury it down deep inside of us so that the rest of our case can stay pure. That is the job. We are morally indefensible and absolutely necessary.
  • brain of c
    brain of c Posts: 5,213
    darthvedder81 wrote:
    Maybe we need a Department of Catering to prepare nourishing quick meals for everybody? We have to do something! Won't somebody think of the children!

    i won't say.......mmm...children.......i won't
    d'oh!!!!!!

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  • prljmngrl
    prljmngrl Posts: 320
    hahahaha that video is awesome! They dont WANT to work. It's really very simple. The truly "mentally ill" who end up homeless is miniscule. The majority are just lazy and refuse to "conform" to society and its rules.
  • angelica
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  • LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun
    LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun Posts: 6,097
    working does suck.
  • 12345AGNST1
    12345AGNST1 Posts: 4,906
    there are plenty of retarded people that have jobs, why the fuck dont these people?
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  • Commy
    Commy Posts: 4,984
    3inputchick wrote:
    Mental illness sucks.
    well said, and fitting, in a homeless thread.
  • Commy
    Commy Posts: 4,984
    12345AGNST1 wrote:
    there are plenty of retarded people that have jobs, why the fuck dont these people?
    I would suggest you google schizophrenia.

    Its fucked. These people do really well at first, at a new job. But as they take in all the information from their surroundings-as other people filter out things that are meaningless-people with schizophrenia actually focus on those things that are irrelevent. Its hard to explain, but it definitely prevents them from being succesful at any long term job. They can only last so long before the stimluli literally becomes overwhelming. Throw in the fascist boss and you're pretty much fucked.

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