I am always amused by pseudo-intellectuals declaiming that corporations are not responsible and accountable when the reality is the exact opposite. Corporations are the most accountable institutions in modern society.
For example, the speech of corporations is strictly regulated and if found false, the fiduciary officers and even the board of directors can face criminal charges and be personally exposed to civil law suites.
On the other hand, anyone can criticize a corporation for any reason and even if they are found to have intentionally lied about the corporation, they can’t be held accountable by anyone in any fashion. (Slander and libel only apply to individuals, that is why “activist” and like always talk about the corporation doing this or that and not the named CEO.)
In all the political and social debates out there about corporations, only the people in corporations can be held accountable for what they say and do. Activist, academics, journalist etc can just make stuff up all they want…and they have repeatedly.
I mean, you’ve got anti-fracking activist out there claiming that fracking could cause earthquakes but that is scientifically literally of the same order of energy magnitude as claiming that a flying insect could knock over skyscraper. Yet, they rake in the dough, destroy people’s jobs and investments (little people by the way) and just skate off to the next profitable lie.
I’ve begun to adopt the position of not trusting anyone I can’t sue if they lie to me. If someone can profit by lying and face no consequences, eventually they will no matter how nobel they may have begun.
Since you seem to be adamant about your position, I will not attempt to refute your claims. However, the comment above is referring to amount of work put in and not accountability.
some bizarre popular diet thing in america during the 80s or something was that there are four “shapes” of bodies: apple(which is bad because you’re a fatty), pear(which means you have a fat ass but you’re fine everywhere else) hourglass(which, for some reason, means that you have a shapely bum and breasts/pecs) and carrot(which means you’re just skinny.)
Body shape not a diet thing but rather a measure of the relative risk of the pattern of disposition of the fat that you have. It’s just more obvious for the fat people than on the relatively thin.
Apple shape is bad regardless of the amount, because the fat is disproportionately built up along the upper abdomen which is a pronounced cardiac risk. IIRC, every pound of excess fat on your gut has a five fold effect on risk of stroke or heart attach compared to fat elsewhere. It’s particularly associated with high cortisol and metabolic disorders.
Pear shape and hour glass only apply to women. Pear shapes have large hips relative to their breast size while hourglass shape has both breast and hips relatively balanced. Health wise, both are not to bad. Even when carried to near extremes. Fat outside the abdomen doesn’t have much of a health risk.
Both indicate the natural and optimum deposition of fat intended to support a pregnancy. Hour glass shape is the optimum which is why it is one of the few cross cultural indicators of feminine beauty. Marylin Monroe would be a modern example of the classic hour glass shape.
Carrot shape only applies to men and really means broad shouldered and narrow hips which indicates relatively little body fat at all and a low cardiac risk (although it presents other kinds of risk because your body has no emergency reserves.)
The latest research indicates that it’s best to hit 65 “comfortably plump” with fat spread more evenly all over the body. When you get old, something is going to hit you and when it does, that fat will keep you alive.
My grandmother hit 65 and always carried something a little extra. She survived breast cancer and a broken hip in her late 80s.
Panel 4 took me an extra second, but it did make me make that weird half-snort noise that comes from trying to suppress a laugh in the office. Great one!
Exactly what I was going to say, except that I’m at home after work, so I can guffaw away!
And stairs be darned! I eat right, jump rope, lift weights, and box, and I’m still 40 pounds overweight. It doesn’t matter as long as I can hit things with boxing gloves on when I’m frustrated 🙂
Haruki Murakami’s “What I Talk About When I Talk About Running”. Murakami san writes about how running made him a writer and the parallelism between being a runner and writing. Maybe mr Huber can find something useful from those insights of a fellow artist. On the other hand, would you recommend any retro vg ? cheers and lettuce
I read of a woman who climbed a gym’s stair-step machine for about half an hour and thought she’d climbed enough stairs to get up the Empire State Building, when Suzy Snowflake perked over and congratulated her on burning off enough calories for a small apple.
At that point I realized that exercise for weight loss is pretty pointless unless you do it as a full-time job.
Not really on topic, but posting here because otherwise you’re unlikely to see it: in https://www.bugmartini.com/comic/a-chirstmas-cacophony-act-ii/ you’re missing a full stop after “slimer” in the second panel. Not all that important, but still, I figured I should mention it.
Yeah, I must have read past that without seeing it about a dozen times by now, really. Although it’s not like I was obsessively rereading your comics instead of doing actual work or anything, because that would be sad, and I’m an engaged and enthusiastic worker.
In the first panel, I read “…I’m still a big fat blueberry mass…” #-)
Perhaps I should mention that I currently have breakfast.
It’s been said that a majority of weight loss depends on your diet. Time to ease off on the deep fried Twinkies!
Has someone been playing Civ IV recently?
Nope. Are there a lot of eggplants in that game?
Naw, just a Leonard Nimoy saying (when a certain research had been completed):
“Corporation – noun: an ingenious device for attaining individual profit without individual responsibility.”
Well, egg-plant on MY face…
I am always amused by pseudo-intellectuals declaiming that corporations are not responsible and accountable when the reality is the exact opposite. Corporations are the most accountable institutions in modern society.
For example, the speech of corporations is strictly regulated and if found false, the fiduciary officers and even the board of directors can face criminal charges and be personally exposed to civil law suites.
On the other hand, anyone can criticize a corporation for any reason and even if they are found to have intentionally lied about the corporation, they can’t be held accountable by anyone in any fashion. (Slander and libel only apply to individuals, that is why “activist” and like always talk about the corporation doing this or that and not the named CEO.)
In all the political and social debates out there about corporations, only the people in corporations can be held accountable for what they say and do. Activist, academics, journalist etc can just make stuff up all they want…and they have repeatedly.
I mean, you’ve got anti-fracking activist out there claiming that fracking could cause earthquakes but that is scientifically literally of the same order of energy magnitude as claiming that a flying insect could knock over skyscraper. Yet, they rake in the dough, destroy people’s jobs and investments (little people by the way) and just skate off to the next profitable lie.
I’ve begun to adopt the position of not trusting anyone I can’t sue if they lie to me. If someone can profit by lying and face no consequences, eventually they will no matter how nobel they may have begun.
Since you seem to be adamant about your position, I will not attempt to refute your claims. However, the comment above is referring to amount of work put in and not accountability.
So, according to panel 2…it’s better to be shaped like a carrot than an eggplant…?
Hokay…if you say so…
Heck yeah! Look at that carrot’s broad shoulders and trim waistline.
some bizarre popular diet thing in america during the 80s or something was that there are four “shapes” of bodies: apple(which is bad because you’re a fatty), pear(which means you have a fat ass but you’re fine everywhere else) hourglass(which, for some reason, means that you have a shapely bum and breasts/pecs) and carrot(which means you’re just skinny.)
Don’t ask me. I don’t understand either.
Body shape not a diet thing but rather a measure of the relative risk of the pattern of disposition of the fat that you have. It’s just more obvious for the fat people than on the relatively thin.
Apple shape is bad regardless of the amount, because the fat is disproportionately built up along the upper abdomen which is a pronounced cardiac risk. IIRC, every pound of excess fat on your gut has a five fold effect on risk of stroke or heart attach compared to fat elsewhere. It’s particularly associated with high cortisol and metabolic disorders.
Pear shape and hour glass only apply to women. Pear shapes have large hips relative to their breast size while hourglass shape has both breast and hips relatively balanced. Health wise, both are not to bad. Even when carried to near extremes. Fat outside the abdomen doesn’t have much of a health risk.
Both indicate the natural and optimum deposition of fat intended to support a pregnancy. Hour glass shape is the optimum which is why it is one of the few cross cultural indicators of feminine beauty. Marylin Monroe would be a modern example of the classic hour glass shape.
Carrot shape only applies to men and really means broad shouldered and narrow hips which indicates relatively little body fat at all and a low cardiac risk (although it presents other kinds of risk because your body has no emergency reserves.)
The latest research indicates that it’s best to hit 65 “comfortably plump” with fat spread more evenly all over the body. When you get old, something is going to hit you and when it does, that fat will keep you alive.
My grandmother hit 65 and always carried something a little extra. She survived breast cancer and a broken hip in her late 80s.
Turned 102 this year and still going.
Panel 4 took me an extra second, but it did make me make that weird half-snort noise that comes from trying to suppress a laugh in the office. Great one!
Exactly what I was going to say, except that I’m at home after work, so I can guffaw away!
And stairs be darned! I eat right, jump rope, lift weights, and box, and I’m still 40 pounds overweight. It doesn’t matter as long as I can hit things with boxing gloves on when I’m frustrated 🙂
Took me slightly longer: I misread “goo” as “god”…
Haruki Murakami’s “What I Talk About When I Talk About Running”. Murakami san writes about how running made him a writer and the parallelism between being a runner and writing. Maybe mr Huber can find something useful from those insights of a fellow artist. On the other hand, would you recommend any retro vg ? cheers and lettuce
I read of a woman who climbed a gym’s stair-step machine for about half an hour and thought she’d climbed enough stairs to get up the Empire State Building, when Suzy Snowflake perked over and congratulated her on burning off enough calories for a small apple.
At that point I realized that exercise for weight loss is pretty pointless unless you do it as a full-time job.
Eggplants are berries. For me that’s hard to believe.
Oh yes, and strawberries are nuts?
Not really on topic, but posting here because otherwise you’re unlikely to see it: in https://www.bugmartini.com/comic/a-chirstmas-cacophony-act-ii/ you’re missing a full stop after “slimer” in the second panel. Not all that important, but still, I figured I should mention it.
Thanks for the heads up! Wow. A four-year old typo!
I actually see all new comments first, so I would’ve seen this if you had posted it with that strip. You can also email me any found typos.
Yeah, I must have read past that without seeing it about a dozen times by now, really. Although it’s not like I was obsessively rereading your comics instead of doing actual work or anything, because that would be sad, and I’m an engaged and enthusiastic worker.
So, you’re saying Adam missed his period after Slimer? How about the excess comma after “three” in panel 4 of the same strip?
If you can describe your shape with a fruit or vegetable, you can take solace in knowing that you’re not out of shape.