nonsense.

Like when Gandalf spent literal PAGES trying to figure out why the vibes were off in Moria and Legolas chimes in with just "it's a balrog :) that shit's evil :) we're so fucked :)" like what do you MEAN you knew already and just didn't tell him??

Or at the beginning of Two Towers when Aragorn thinks there's something nearby so he puts his ear to the ground to listen, and then like 10 minutes later is like "hmmm i hear horses" and Legolas is just like "mm yep. there are 105 blond bitches with spears" like you just let your friend put his face in the dirt and you can SEE them??

gandalf is scratching his head in moria, and legolas is thinking "oh man, the wizard noticed something off *besides* the obvious balrog that we all are aware of??"

Ilya tries to be a little more careful. Sure he bitches about her over wine to Shane and some of their friends in the PTA, but the PTA chair's son is in the same class as their daughter, so even if they manage to oust her, they'll probably still have to deal with her for the whole time their daughter is at the school and is it worth the fucking headache that would be?

But then one day he and Shane get called to the school because their daughter was caught fighting with the PTA chair's son. And when they get the full story, it turns out the PTA prince had been bullying their daughter for having two dads. And PTA chair is adamant that her precious Caden would never bully. Sure, because of their religious beliefs, they don't condone Shane and Ilya's lifestyle, but their Caden would never use that as a reason to bully anyone.

And that's when Ilya sees fucking red. He's like "Oh so you just tell Caden that Rini's dads shouldn't be together because god says so and are now surprised that he would say that at school to our daughter? Do you even fucking know how children work? Have you read a single fucking parenting book? Well, in our house, our religion is hockey and in our religion, if someone talks shit you're allowed to punch them as hard as you want."

let me explain: in america at least, the lower class have significantly worse health outcomes, even when accounting for other factors. just being poor is enough to make your overall health worse. we don’t know that being fat makes your health directly worse, like the data just isn’t there, but for a moment, pretend it does.

imagine going to the doctor with a health problem and the doctor looking at your chart and saying well, this problem will be less severe if you go up an income bracket. have you thought about becoming rich? it would really help. start by saving a little money every month.

ridiculous, right?? very few people successfully go from working class to rich, it just doesn’t happen on a large scale in society. maybe for a time you pick up some overtime hours, spend a little beyond your means, and appear rich. but eventually you burn out, your car needs to be repaired, and you return to being working class.

we do have this data: only some people can successfully lose large amounts of weight, and only a tiny fraction of people who lose that weight actually keep it off for more than a year. telling people to lose weight for their health is just absurd because they almost certainly can’t do it any more than they can double their income for their health.