What was the last movie you've seen?

[MrPopo]

Quick question. Crispin Glover, comedic genius or complete psychopath?

The question implies one precludes the other.

[Exhuminator]

Been a while since I last watched it. Still hilarious, still holds up. Genius dark comedy.

[Ack]

I need to see Roar:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RmnuHTJI9U

[Luke]

FED UP

I posted somewhere here that I saw two billboards, by two two different companies. One read "1 in 5 Children are Starving" and the other "4 in 5 Children are Obese". This documentary is about the latter. I'm six foot something and hover between 140 to 150 lbs. Although I'm solid, I'm svelte. My wife is sylphlike. So no worries about us becoming obese, but we do worry about obesity as an epidemic.

I grew up bringing my own lunch. Usually a sandwich, applesauce and some carrots. Nothing thrilling. Although my wife works within the school system, we rarely talk about what's new in the cafeteria. Holy Shit. 70% of school foods are provided by one company.

Maybe that's not news to you, but it was to me.

Now here's the tricky, or possibly not so tricky part: The food vendors say that we need to provide children with choices of what they want to eat... Okay... So where is the argument of we should also let children choose what they want to learn? Hmmm? You picking up what I'm putting down?

If Yum Brands says "We don't want children growing up in a Nanny State?" how come we don't retort with what is school in the first place? This documentary goes far and beyond of accusing food companies, but never the schools. If kids have to obey a certain educational curriculum, why not obey a dietary one?

[Jmustang1968]

But they do have choice. They can choose to go to magnet schools, they can choose which classes they take, they can choose which extra-curricular activities to participate in.

Education also goes both ways. With food, you pick which and then eat it. Education is much more dynamic. Students do get to choose how involved they are, can choose which work to do or not.

[nullPointer]

If Yum Brands says "We don't want children growing up in a Nanny State?" how come we don't retort with what is school in the first place? This documentary goes far and beyond of accusing food companies, but never the schools. If kids have to obey a certain educational curriculum, why not obey a dietary one?

Speaking as someone whose kids started kindergarten this year, I think part of the issue here is dietary restrictions, which (to my mind) seem to be made a lot bigger deal of these days than when we were kids (or at least when I was a kid). To wit, when you were in grade school, how many kids did you know that were lactose intolerant (or more pertinently who were aware of it)? Gluten intolerant? In my case it was zero. I never even knew of those things existed until I was much older. In my grade school, you got exactly one meal choice and a carton of milk (chocolate milk on Fridays)! If you didn't like it - tough, pack a lunch then.

Nut (and various other) allergies were somewhat in the general public consciousness when I was a kid, but these days fear of those allergies in school is enough to raise a general panic. You basically have to go through an interrogation process to bring in birthday treats for the kids.

I suppose it is better that we are more aware of dietary considerations in school these days, but yeah it really is sort of a, "Well back in my day ..." sort of affair. In all honesty I don't think it's a reaction to "those darned picky eaters" or something to that effect though.

[MrPopo]

I think there the issue is that there's some small portion of the population that has these violently deadly allergies to food items. In the past I suspect a lot of them just got homeschooled to be able to create a safe environment. Now there's been more of a push to accommodate people, so they're coming into the public consciousness. At the same time, you've got the people who have very mild reactions to these same food items, but they see society bending over backwards for the people that will go into anaphylactic shock and die and say "how come you can't bend over backwards for me too!"

[Luke]

But they do have choice.

Which is part of the problem.

Just watch the movie please.

[Forlorn Drifter]

But they do have choice. They can choose to go to magnet schools, they can choose which classes they take, they can choose which extra-curricular activities to participate in.

Not necessarily. I really had no choice in what school I went to, nor did my parents. Nor was there much selection of classes. Our biggest choices were whether we wanted to take normal or dual credit classes (only for juniors and seniors, and there was a whopping 3) or whether to take Spanish or German. German was dropped my senior year. Extracurricular? Outside of sports, FFA, and Honor Society, we didn't have anything, and I didn't meet anybody who had other options until I hit college.

A problem comes in for rural communities, along with anyone who can't move/can't afford to move/can't afford to send their child to a school outside the district they reside in/can't get the child to a school outside the district. Too many things come into play.

On topic:
I've ran through Mad Max 1 and 2 again. Love these. Thunderdome? Ehh, its alright, not enough car action to go with the rest in my mind.

[Sarge]

Watched Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit while at home sick today. It was a'ight. Didn't hold a candle to Clancy's novels, obviously.