First Ever
I don't know how I feel about myself starting a Blog seeing as I can't stand these things in general. Then again, most of what I’ve seen involves “whoa is me” whininess painted with bad English and lazy abbreviations (when you type LOL are you really LOLing? I didn’t think so.). I weighed the pros and cons of the whole thing and decided that I need something that will get me writing. I'm such a lazy shit and I need a little push. So here it is; I’m so proud I could hang myself.
Last night I watched an episode of 20/20 that I had taped from Friday. I usually don’t watch 20/20 because I’m not eighty years old, but they ran a promo on meal replacement bars and shakes and how they’re “not all they’re cracked up to be.” It had my interest because I’m using meal replacements to help drop some 25 pounds of beer, pizza and no will power; I want to make sure that I’m not getting screwed.
The show started with its typical story that takes up the first half hour about a woman who’s abused, or missing or one of those other silly things that women do. I fast-forwarded thru this so I really have no idea what the details of the story was, but I’ve seen them a thousand times before and have long since been desensitized to the plight of the abused woman or her husband that just wants some quiet time.
Next was an excellent story by John Stossel about trial lawyers. His thinking was, hey, if John Edwards is running for vice president, perhaps we should see how trial lawyers make their millions and how it effects us, the consumers. To paraphrase it all, lawsuits are increasing the costs to consumers and also putting some people’s lives in danger because doctors, pharmaceutical companies and others are afraid of being sued. When the report was over, Barbara Walters has to open her stupid mouth and say how that segment reflected Stossel’s views and not necessarily those of her or the show. I was hoping that Stossel would jump on the desk and shit on her head before bludgeoning her with his “world’s greatest dad” paper weight he got last father’s day.
Finally, came the story that got me interested in the first place. The meal replacements. Do they not have what the labels say they do? Do they contain some kind of poison? Perhaps they give people stomach cramps and diarrhea because they’re made with Mexican water. Any of those would be better than the angle the show went with. Ready? They don’t taste like real candy bars or chocolate shakes. That’s it? That’s it. This woman doing the “report” stumbles toward the camera like a From Dusk Till Dawn vampire talking about the taste of these meal replacements like we didn’t already know this. Oh yeah, and they’re not as satisfying as a milk shake. This thing put me in several different levels of pissed off all at once. I can’t believe I wasted my time with this bullshit.
For the record, not all meal replacements taste bad. My current favorite is EAS Myoplex Lite Chocolate Chocolate Chip Crisp. And no, it’s not as satisfying as eating a cheeseburger. If you thought it would be, you deserve to be pushed out of a moving vehicle and into a cactus.
Last night I watched an episode of 20/20 that I had taped from Friday. I usually don’t watch 20/20 because I’m not eighty years old, but they ran a promo on meal replacement bars and shakes and how they’re “not all they’re cracked up to be.” It had my interest because I’m using meal replacements to help drop some 25 pounds of beer, pizza and no will power; I want to make sure that I’m not getting screwed.
The show started with its typical story that takes up the first half hour about a woman who’s abused, or missing or one of those other silly things that women do. I fast-forwarded thru this so I really have no idea what the details of the story was, but I’ve seen them a thousand times before and have long since been desensitized to the plight of the abused woman or her husband that just wants some quiet time.
Next was an excellent story by John Stossel about trial lawyers. His thinking was, hey, if John Edwards is running for vice president, perhaps we should see how trial lawyers make their millions and how it effects us, the consumers. To paraphrase it all, lawsuits are increasing the costs to consumers and also putting some people’s lives in danger because doctors, pharmaceutical companies and others are afraid of being sued. When the report was over, Barbara Walters has to open her stupid mouth and say how that segment reflected Stossel’s views and not necessarily those of her or the show. I was hoping that Stossel would jump on the desk and shit on her head before bludgeoning her with his “world’s greatest dad” paper weight he got last father’s day.
Finally, came the story that got me interested in the first place. The meal replacements. Do they not have what the labels say they do? Do they contain some kind of poison? Perhaps they give people stomach cramps and diarrhea because they’re made with Mexican water. Any of those would be better than the angle the show went with. Ready? They don’t taste like real candy bars or chocolate shakes. That’s it? That’s it. This woman doing the “report” stumbles toward the camera like a From Dusk Till Dawn vampire talking about the taste of these meal replacements like we didn’t already know this. Oh yeah, and they’re not as satisfying as a milk shake. This thing put me in several different levels of pissed off all at once. I can’t believe I wasted my time with this bullshit.
For the record, not all meal replacements taste bad. My current favorite is EAS Myoplex Lite Chocolate Chocolate Chip Crisp. And no, it’s not as satisfying as eating a cheeseburger. If you thought it would be, you deserve to be pushed out of a moving vehicle and into a cactus.
