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Interestingly enough, I was already working on this before I saw a fluff news story about people campaigning that Santa Claus, being a role-model to kids, should have a healthier-looking body. I doubt that'll fly myself.
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This PC garbage gets more irritating every year. Since when do kids want to emulate Santa's body type? His lessons of charity and being generous to others were the important part, at least that's what I thought the point of him was.
Just you wait, come 2008 they'll be throwing ire at the Easter Bunny for encouraging kids to be furries :P
Really cute pic by the way.
Just you wait, come 2008 they'll be throwing ire at the Easter Bunny for encouraging kids to be furries :P
Really cute pic by the way.
Is that from the story where he's being told to say Ha Ha Ha instead, cause I read that was false because the training center for Santas said they NEVER told any of their Santas to not say Ho Ho Ho, but if the situation deemed it, to use a lighter laugh because a booming Ho Ho Ho would scare the kid. Lemme get the article.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/chri.....mas/hohoho.asp
http://www.snopes.com/politics/chri.....mas/hohoho.asp
I still think santa should be fat and fluffy he always have been and will be in kid stories unlss the USA goes and changes them -.-
But still I think he should stay fat and fluffy and tell children to eat healthier and tell them if they do they get a extra spaciel gift for Christmas every year. It would or should help keep them healthy until the years coem where they stop believeing santa.
But still I think he should stay fat and fluffy and tell children to eat healthier and tell them if they do they get a extra spaciel gift for Christmas every year. It would or should help keep them healthy until the years coem where they stop believeing santa.
This definitely reminds me of the news story that came up from Australia saying that the "Ho ho ho" has been banned just because it sounds too much like someone saying Hoe.. That is just stupid. No one even thought of it until someone opened up their stupid big mouth. It gets worse when someone got fired just because he wouldn't stop doing the traditional laugh. Hilarious artwork in anycase! I am sure thats what every kid is going to say about Santa if they see him fit. They'll prolly say something like, "Since when did Arnold Schwarzenegger become Santa mommy/daddy?" lol
Historically, being "fat" has been a big big sign of health. It meant you had enough food and that you were a successful hunter, or gatherer.
also many of the Pseudo scientific methods, charts and studies that have been used to tell how heavy someone if before they are deemed "obese" are flawed or not even intended to determine ones health.
Take the body mass Index, the man who invented it was doing a study, he needed a way to categorize people into groups for his study. He could of easily used hair color, hight or anything else. He chose this index that he invented, and it was never meant to say your healthy or not.
Rant almost over, I just want to add this one thing. Fat is actually beneficial to our bodies in the right amounts, and it takes allot for someone to become unhealthy for having to much, Fat guards against many diseases, and women tend to store up more because after puberty, their bodies store it up in preparation for pregnancy, and guess what boobs are made of? FAT! Dieting actually puts your body into a survival response thinking your starving it, were it stores up all the fat you eat, thats a big reason people balloon up after going off them.
Bah big rant, sorry if it's annoying and if I wanted to I could go on and on, this is just the tip of the iceberg of the double standards in our society about size, but I'll just sum it up by saying it's gonna be fine whatever shape and size you are, just exercise and eat right, if your still a blimp then be a happy blimp :P
also many of the Pseudo scientific methods, charts and studies that have been used to tell how heavy someone if before they are deemed "obese" are flawed or not even intended to determine ones health.
Take the body mass Index, the man who invented it was doing a study, he needed a way to categorize people into groups for his study. He could of easily used hair color, hight or anything else. He chose this index that he invented, and it was never meant to say your healthy or not.
Rant almost over, I just want to add this one thing. Fat is actually beneficial to our bodies in the right amounts, and it takes allot for someone to become unhealthy for having to much, Fat guards against many diseases, and women tend to store up more because after puberty, their bodies store it up in preparation for pregnancy, and guess what boobs are made of? FAT! Dieting actually puts your body into a survival response thinking your starving it, were it stores up all the fat you eat, thats a big reason people balloon up after going off them.
Bah big rant, sorry if it's annoying and if I wanted to I could go on and on, this is just the tip of the iceberg of the double standards in our society about size, but I'll just sum it up by saying it's gonna be fine whatever shape and size you are, just exercise and eat right, if your still a blimp then be a happy blimp :P
Actually, Santa Claus wasn't categorized as fat or thin until the 1931 advertising campaign Coca-Cola did featuring the artwork of Haddon Sundblom. Until 1931, Santa was depicted as fat, thin, tall, short, gangly, with long hair, with short hair.... In short, Santa Claus wasn't fat until he started drinking Coca-Cola.
Another interesting point, curious to know what made St Nicholas a saint?
The one I find most prominent and the one that supposedly brought him into favor with the church was a miracle performed in either Athens or France. A butcher was murdering small children, pickling them and selling them as meat. St Nicholas had a dream about the murders so he killed the butcher and prayed to God until the children came back to life and danced joyously with him naked through the streets.
Under the Roman Emperor Diocletian, Christians were heavily prosecuted. Christians, supposedly, filled the jails so much that there wasn't room for criminals (according to the church but we all know how the Romans loved making examples of criminals). Emperor Diocletian was going to have a public execution of Christians and St Nicholas offered himself up first on the condition that if his body could rise and give tribute to God after death that Diocletian would free the Christians who were to be executed that day. Supposedly, after being beheaded, St Nicholas' body rose to his feet, walked and then "fell in prayer to God."
The legends everyone may be familiar with was his piousness. He often begged alms for the poor and left bags of gold in the shoes of poor children.
Hem-hem. I feel better getting that off my chest. ^,^
Another interesting point, curious to know what made St Nicholas a saint?
The one I find most prominent and the one that supposedly brought him into favor with the church was a miracle performed in either Athens or France. A butcher was murdering small children, pickling them and selling them as meat. St Nicholas had a dream about the murders so he killed the butcher and prayed to God until the children came back to life and danced joyously with him naked through the streets.
Under the Roman Emperor Diocletian, Christians were heavily prosecuted. Christians, supposedly, filled the jails so much that there wasn't room for criminals (according to the church but we all know how the Romans loved making examples of criminals). Emperor Diocletian was going to have a public execution of Christians and St Nicholas offered himself up first on the condition that if his body could rise and give tribute to God after death that Diocletian would free the Christians who were to be executed that day. Supposedly, after being beheaded, St Nicholas' body rose to his feet, walked and then "fell in prayer to God."
The legends everyone may be familiar with was his piousness. He often begged alms for the poor and left bags of gold in the shoes of poor children.
Hem-hem. I feel better getting that off my chest. ^,^
If there ever was one word to describe Timmy....actually to describe Timmy and Tabitha, it would definitely be 'perceptive'.
Wonder how long it'll be before they claim Santa gives a bad name to the old by working long nights using outdated and inefficient transportation for little to no pay when he should be living comfortably on his retirement pension at the North Pole? Ugh.
Wonder how long it'll be before they claim Santa gives a bad name to the old by working long nights using outdated and inefficient transportation for little to no pay when he should be living comfortably on his retirement pension at the North Pole? Ugh.
I've not heard that story but I think its stupid as hell. You have had almost a hundred years of Santa as a paticular body type, songs and poems and all that rot dedicated to the ideal of a jolly fat santa, and just because people cannot think of something else to protest and bitch about, all the 'kyle's moms' out there gotta bitch about this now. Figures that holidays are not even the least bit sacred to these people.
Yeah, remind me to tell you who Kris Kringle was. But I agree with everybody, Santa will always be fat and jolly. The icon just wouldn't be the same otherwise, and how can sharing the joy of giving be a bad message for kids? Think about it, which is more scary: A jolly fat guy with an almost-constant smile on his face and rosy cheeks, or a big buffed-out brick wall with a chin so sharp it can cut glass? I rest my case. Any responses?
I will say that Spike looks cute in his costume, and Carli is just plain hot in hers. Well done, man.
I will say that Spike looks cute in his costume, and Carli is just plain hot in hers. Well done, man.
What I want to know is,
How in the world did we end up with a 'fat' santa when all the media pushes the 'barbie' image and what not...?
I can see how the image of a 'large, happy drunk' could be a good thing, but the Type II Diabetes and Thyroid problems aren't worth the excess sweets.... (Does he have Thyroid issues? I know that can cause obesity but recent research points to it being more of a diet and exercise concern, even when Thyroid medication corrects the problem).
Wow look at me typing, I really need to get the net (I am back 'online' the 18th) and spend more time writing.
So what's Sabrina been up too? (Or has the comic officially 'ended'?) I can't recall its been a while since I read through the series online....
OK for now,
Selah
How in the world did we end up with a 'fat' santa when all the media pushes the 'barbie' image and what not...?
I can see how the image of a 'large, happy drunk' could be a good thing, but the Type II Diabetes and Thyroid problems aren't worth the excess sweets.... (Does he have Thyroid issues? I know that can cause obesity but recent research points to it being more of a diet and exercise concern, even when Thyroid medication corrects the problem).
Wow look at me typing, I really need to get the net (I am back 'online' the 18th) and spend more time writing.
So what's Sabrina been up too? (Or has the comic officially 'ended'?) I can't recall its been a while since I read through the series online....
OK for now,
Selah
Love the picture Eric, lets just hope this doesn't give Carli any ideas about dressing Spike up as Turboman... though, on the other hand, tight form fitting red rubber... AHEM..
Here's a thought for you too, if an icon such as this can get in trouble for ho-ho-ho'ing... what about garden tool stores? How long before we see people picketing over a sale on garden hoes?
This is one kind of P.C. that seriously needs to crash and burn =P
Here's a thought for you too, if an icon such as this can get in trouble for ho-ho-ho'ing... what about garden tool stores? How long before we see people picketing over a sale on garden hoes?
This is one kind of P.C. that seriously needs to crash and burn =P
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