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    Image of johnivdaly johnivdaly
    12/09/09

    In reply to Fat People Can't Get Jobs, and Unemployed People Can't Get Thin
    Why are Californians skinny and unemployed?
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    12/08/09

    In reply to Fat People Can't Get Jobs, and Unemployed People Can't Get Thin
    No-name Kraft Dinner has more calories than real KD.
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    12/08/09

    In reply to Fat People Can't Get Jobs, and Unemployed People Can't Get Thin
    "we highlighted a scary county-by-county map that a commenter posted"

    I thought I posted the link to the time-lapse spread of unemployment. It was a NYT multimedia thingamabob using the same graphic. Either way, the commenter has a name.
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    Image of Hiphopopotamus Hiphopopotamus
    12/08/09

    @Uncle_Billy_Slumming: And that commenter's name was 'goetz'
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    12/08/09

    @Hiphopopotamus:

    Naw, goetz posted the same graphic from another source. My point was, though, that whether it was goetz or not, the commenter has a name.
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    Image of OHymenMyHymen OHymenMyHymen
    12/08/09

    In reply to Fat People Can't Get Jobs, and Unemployed People Can't Get Thin
    Hmm. The fattest people, the worst unemployment- all in the Bible Belt, the area ruled most consistently and solidly by the teabagging Republicans. Perhaps there's a case to be made that THEY SHOULDN'T RUN THE COUNTRY?
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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    12/08/09

    In reply to Fat People Can't Get Jobs, and Unemployed People Can't Get Thin
    I'm almost scared what data like this could be used for. Jobs eating and drinking things?! Beverage sociologists? Meat Mensa candidates?! Carnivore vs. Herbivore gladiator battles? Milkshake sip-offs? Payment for work in pulled pork?

    I predict bad, bad, days ahead. Just wait until they invent that Star Trek Food Replicator.
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    Image of quatrevingtquatre quatrevingtquatre
    12/08/09

    In reply to Fat People Can't Get Jobs, and Unemployed People Can't Get Thin
    Doesn't disregarding the ENTIRE West Coast throw off the theory? I know that statistics in journalism = shaping the numbers to suit the needs of your story, but c'mon.
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    bluebears promoted this comment Edited by quatrevingtquatre at 12/08/09 1:38 PM quatrevingtquatre was starred quatrevingtquatre was unstarred
    Image of bluebears bluebears
    12/08/09

    @quatrevingtquatre: just a small detail....
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    Image of Colonel Mustard Colonel Mustard
    12/08/09

    @quatrevingtquatre: Californians never ate before the collapse, though. Faulty metric.
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    Image of hilikusopus hilikusopus
    12/08/09

    In reply to Fat People Can't Get Jobs, and Unemployed People Can't Get Thin
    Uhoh!
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    Image of James Calvert James Calvert
    12/08/09

    In reply to Fat People Can't Get Jobs, and Unemployed People Can't Get Thin
    The 'grain belt' states in the midwest/ west (nebraska,colorado, oklahoma and kansas) have high obesity but low unemployment. The leading cause of obesity is related to the overuse of high fructose corn syrup... The US needs to stop subsidizing grain farmers and start subsidizing fruit and vegetable farmers.
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    Image of Swifter Swifter
    12/08/09

    In reply to Fat People Can't Get Jobs, and Unemployed People Can't Get Thin
    "Nothing tastes as good as employment feels."
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    Image of Dickens_Ghost Dickens_Ghost
    12/08/09

    @Swifter: i appeciate the reference - well done
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    Image of HurtsSoGood HurtsSoGood
    12/08/09

    In reply to Fat People Can't Get Jobs, and Unemployed People Can't Get Thin
    I would think if it were me, I'd have more time to hit the gym. The problem is, I'd also have more time to indulge in those things that make people fat, like snack food, alcohol, and television.
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    Image of ambitious ambitious
    12/08/09

    @HurtsSoGood: And no money for the gym.
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    Image of HurtsSoGood HurtsSoGood
    12/09/09

    @ambitious: Good points, all. Touche. Thing is, I also have to deal with the wife, and that would have me out of the house finding something - anything - to do besides sitting around looking like a lazy sack of shit so she could scream at me for being a lazy sack of shit. Depression or no.
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    Image of Lysergic Asset Lysergic Asset
    12/08/09

    In reply to Fat People Can't Get Jobs, and Unemployed People Can't Get Thin
    Colorado's new state bumper sticker: "You can never be too employed or too thin."
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    Image of PaisleyPajamas PaisleyPajamas
    12/08/09

    @Lysergic Asset: All at a cost of being too leathery for being a mile closer to the sun.
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    Image of notsofresh notsofresh
    12/08/09

    @PaisleyPajamas: Friends who live in Colorado tell me that they love going to other parts of the country because even a chubby Coloradoan is average or thinner pretty much anywhere else.
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    Image of PaisleyPajamas PaisleyPajamas
    12/08/09

    @notsofresh: Boulder Valley represent!

    The climate is sublime--dry, super sunny and relatively cool. Perfect for outdoor sports.
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    Image of notsofresh notsofresh
    12/08/09

    @PaisleyPajamas: Not this week it's not...
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    Image of Orgasmic-Chemist Orgasmic-Chemist
    12/08/09

    In reply to Fat People Can't Get Jobs, and Unemployed People Can't Get Thin
    wow, further demeaning fat people. Guess I gotta go to the gym to save my job.
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    12/08/09

    @Orgasmic-Chemist: I think a statistician would have an issue with just dimissing the "whole of the west coast", too.
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    Image of ambitious ambitious
    12/08/09

    @bowleserised: The best way to make your case is to always exclude millions of people whose existence counters your hypotheses.
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    Image of Orgasmic-Chemist Orgasmic-Chemist
    12/08/09

    @bowleserised: yeah, wtf? This article really upsets me. Being fresh and snarky is one thing, but going out of your way to be a dick is a bit lame.
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    Image of AzureTexan AzureTexan
    12/08/09

    In reply to Fat People Can't Get Jobs, and Unemployed People Can't Get Thin
    What we need is a revival of FDR's WPA program, "Bulimia For Dollars."
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    Image of sanyucat sanyucat
    12/08/09

    In reply to Fat People Can't Get Jobs, and Unemployed People Can't Get Thin
    I'd like to submit a friendly "Hello!" on behalf of my fellow fit, employed Southerners.
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    Image of Sarcastro Sarcastro
    12/08/09

    In reply to Fat People Can't Get Jobs, and Unemployed People Can't Get Thin
    Allegheny County, PA, home of Pittsburgh and employed and thin me, has low unemployment and low obesity — though it is an island hemmed in by girth and sloth.
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    Image of xyzpdq xyzpdq
    12/08/09

    @Sarcastro: Low unemployment and low obesity in Pittsburgh? Baby, I think we're living in two different Pittsburghs.
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    Image of Sarcastro Sarcastro
    12/08/09

    @xyzpdq: Look at the maps. And look at the national unemployment figures, tootsie.
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