2146: Welcome to Bollyweird

[Keith]

"Random milkshake peppered..."

WHAT CAN I TELL YOU?! I EAT CONSTANTLY!!!

[The Girl]

I hope you get checked out and don't just assume that because you're skinny these foods are not affecting you very negatively.

[invader]

Originally Posted by Keith

Just between us, you can lose a few.

Couldn't we all?

[Keith]

Sure.

Right, buddy?

[robotparker]

Originally Posted by The Girl

I hope you get checked out and don't just assume that because you're skinny these foods are not affecting you very negatively.

I actually had my once-a-year Obamacare wellness check some months back and everything seems to be hunky-dory. I figured I would at least have some blood pressure issues. I remember saying, "what? really?" when my GP said it was "perfect." But even I gotta admit there's no way I can drink this much sweet tea and not be hurting myself somehow. I'm sure one day I'll wake up with some new kind of diabetes that the word has never seen before. But until then: You Only YOLO Once!

[lalalemon]

Originally Posted by robotparker

I have this weird gift where I can eat as much as I want and it doesn't seem to affect the shape of my body at all. I'm 32, 5'7", and I don't think I've ever weighed more than 130 pounds. I never realized how lucky I was a 20-something until I got older and all of my friends started getting heavy and talking about calories (whatever the fuck those are!).

Here's my diet if you're curious:

- For breakfast: sugary energy bars and coffee with loads of flavored creamer
- At least a gallon of sweet tea throughout the day
- Lunch options: burritos, quesadillas, and nachos (I get them free from my job!)
- Dinner options: canned chili, frozen pizzas, and/or microwaved pot pies
- On fridays, I like to treat myself to a pint of Ben and Jerry's and a Bertolli's Meal For Two (eaten solo of course)
- Random milkshakes peppered throughout the week

And for exercise: drive everywhere and ask for help if you need to lift something. Try it!

You're insides are rotting.

And you are probably a great example of the "skinny-fat" phenomenon.

[Mattman]

Keith, your incredulity towards other countries and your inability to understand foreign exchange rates are very funny, for a guy who has traveled outside of America occasionally. I wasn't sure if you were hamming it up, when you told your guest that his country of 1 billion people should just divide their currency by something to make it a USDollar.

If this is your approach to India, Vietnam would figuratively make your head explode. Quite the opposite to when America last visited Vietnam in great numbers, where the head explosion-thing was literal.

While we do not have any religion or custom - based behaviors that would stretch your comprehension, like animal reverence or death/imprisonment for public shows of affection, this place would be SO off your scope. USA it is not.

• The currency - the Dong - is 21,500 to 1 USD. So a trip to the supermarket to buy $50 of groceries would be over 1 million Dong. (snigger "he said Dong")
  
• All animals can be eaten.
  
• Public urination is commonplace and nose-picking seems almost compulsory.
  
• Saigon, a city built for 1/2 million people, now has 18 million people and over 12 million motorbikes. All motorbikes appear to move in random direction. Population of Vietnam is 90 million, the majority of whom are rural.
  
• The language, although it uses western letters, is almost impossible for westerners to speak.

Most expats who live here love it, so despite the short-list above, it has a lot to commend it. There is almost no "inner-city" crime, although bag-snatching is becoming common, the climate is pretty good - warm to hot, all year round and the people are very friendly. There are beautiful beaches, wonderful countryside and interesting cultural history. Unlike some countries, the indigenous population (which is a combination of regional tribes and cultures from right across Indochina) has not been wiped out by settlers.

If any listeners are coming this way, I am happy to provide advice on where to go, in Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam.

[Keith]

You're right. I have no interest.

People are very friendly during the common purse-snatching? You put that in the same sentence!

I don't love that long time.

P.S. Vietnam would probably rather you weren't their spokesperson.

[John Galt]

Such a good show

[robotparker]

Originally Posted by lalalemon

You're insides are rotting.

Thanks, doc!