Comments on: Find a new icebreaker http://lamp.dailypennsylvanian.com/thespin/2007/03/27/find-a-new-icebreaker/ The opinion blog of The Daily Pennsylvanian Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:17:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Dr Gillian McKeith http://lamp.dailypennsylvanian.com/thespin/2007/03/27/find-a-new-icebreaker/#comment-434 Dr Gillian McKeith Wed, 28 Mar 2007 05:44:45 +0000 http://lamp.dailypennsylvanian.com/thespin/?p=228#comment-434 Fat talk is a good thing. Maybe eventually the message will get through that being fat is unhealthy and may well eventually lead to death. Lose the fat, get healthy, become more attractive, feel better about yourself. It's a no brainer. Fat talk is a good thing. Maybe eventually the message will get through that being fat is unhealthy and may well eventually lead to death. Lose the fat, get healthy, become more attractive, feel better about yourself. It’s a no brainer.

]]> By: . http://lamp.dailypennsylvanian.com/thespin/2007/03/27/find-a-new-icebreaker/#comment-433 . Tue, 27 Mar 2007 22:16:51 +0000 http://lamp.dailypennsylvanian.com/thespin/?p=228#comment-433 "Let's make public self-criticism taboo, one dining hall conversation at a time." Let's not. Some people are capable of speaking in a self-deprecating manner or about topics most consider inappropriate without worrying that they're offending the thought police and without any malicious intent either. The problem is not that some think inappropriate thoughts or say things that never should be said but that many others are thin-skinned. “Let’s make public self-criticism taboo, one dining hall conversation at a time.”

Let’s not. Some people are capable of speaking in a self-deprecating manner or about topics most consider inappropriate without worrying that they’re offending the thought police and without any malicious intent either. The problem is not that some think inappropriate thoughts or say things that never should be said but that many others are thin-skinned.

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