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It sounds obvious but certain countries seem to need the hot coffee warning. A UK friend messaged me from Disneyland Florida yesterday with message 'Its unbelievable the amount of people in electric buggies, its almost as if 25% of population have given up on idea of walking'.

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To be clear, the hot coffee warning is there because a particular McDonald's franchisee elected to keep their coffee at boiling levels and then serve it to unsuspecting customers at the drive-thru. This practice resulted in extremely serious burns to the genitals of the woman who famously sued.

I take your larger point, but I feel your example is one better suited to Seinfeld or a comedy act.

Just to add to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald%27s_Restau...

One of the most misunderstood cases in american history and the misunderstanding means that many states created laws to limit exposure which IMO is extremely bad for the average american.

Yep, its really sad how people think of the hot coffee lawsuit.

For a quick lightish hearted overview in video form: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9DXSCpcz9E

WALL-E world?

In my experience a large percentage of people that are fat are in a scooter and most of the older people are either on a scooter or in a wheelchair. It definitely makes one deja vu to WALL-E. If everyone was in a scooter they would have to limit admissions even more, it's built to accommodate scooters but not for everyone to be in a scooter, yet. The fireworks show would be a total traffic jam without the mobility of walking. I used a fitness tracker last time I went and a full day at Disneyland/California was about 16 miles of walking.

Those places ought to require a doctor's note with a legitimate medical problem (not just obesity) in order to use a motorized scooter.

It's always so nice when the FPH shows up. Thanks.

What's FPH?

Fat People Hate, in particular /r/fatpeoplehate which had to move to https://voat.co/v/fatpeoplehate.

The commenter of course launching it as an ad hominem at you.

No, not ad hominem because I'm not rebutting OP's argument, only expressing my distaste the sentiment.

It's such a casually nasty thing to say, "We ought to make (easily identifiable group X) (do something obnoxious/humiliating, not to mention impractical)," that I don't like to let it pass.

Great movie. Luckily, someone has made a correlation between sitting on your arse in front of TV all night and ones future mobility, what a long shot hypothesis, we could be saved...

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