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am_Unition  ·  3719 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Sugar

Actual dialog yesterday:

Me: "Did you see the new John Oliver bit?"

Girlfriend: "No, what's it about?"

Me: "Sugar."

Girlfriend: "OK, what about it?"

Me: "Don't eat too much."

Girlfriend: "Well... yeah, duh."

And that's the problem. Usually Oliver covers little-known or at least newly arisen issues, but this episode was like beating a dead horse. Americans more or less accept that their sugar addiction is slowly killing them, they just don't seem motivated enough to do something about it.