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They get paid to go on those shows.
so periodically i see these shows of super fat people and how they are so big that they can barely even move and leave the house and stuff like that, and every time they eat, they chow down like 6 triple cheeseburgers and 4 buckets of fries. if they are so incapable of moving and doing crap, how the do they have the money to afford all that?
They get paid to go on those shows.
I'm sure they do, but I just wonder how before they got on those shows, they got that fat, and how they were able to afford it for so long.
You just allocate more money for food from other needs (medicine, clothing, hygiene, etc.)
Your tax dollars.
Social Security checks. You must remember, if they are obese the government considers them disabled. Thus, they dont work, they get a check every month and a nurse to come wash their ass twice a week for free.
You can thank the Americans with Disabilities Act, by Bush Sr, for the ease of getting a handicap sticker, making sure every public building is wheelchair accesible and that fat people are no longer over-eating gluttons, but people with a disease which causes disability, which means SS payments.
I'd repeal the ADA in a heartbeat.
i saw this one guy on primetime or something that had a girlfriend and was going on a date on a flatbed trailer...after i finishedi felt like cause i hadn't had a girlfriend in months
WTF is that ?
Ah, gotcha. I always wondered...
What's always baffled me about those people is the sick symbiotic relationships they maintain. Okay, they can somehow afford the mass quan ies of food, but if they can't move, someone has to be preparing and feeding them those 6 chickens for lunch everyday!!
I was watching that show on TLC about morbidly obese people (was it two years ago?)…I was rooting for that 800 lb pound guy to lose weight…I thought he was hysterical how he would negotiate for extra hamburgers & fries with his registered dietician…Then the guy died…I mean this is reality TV & I was expecting a happy ending…It took a team of fireman to load him in a specially made flatbed truck to haul him away…
I feel sad for these morbidly obese people…It is a sickness…
They don't even have to be that big to be disgusting. Here's a real sight I once saw, totally gross:
caution... This may cause nightmares...
A 300 pound plus woman.
Wearing spandex
Riding a bicycle
on cobblestone....
My God.... The waves of rolling fat from the vibration of the cobblestone...
At least she's trying to make a change.
What's disgusting to me is how ing judgmental a species we are.
Obesity is unhealthy, and often (not always) the result of poor lifestyle choices and/or a lack of discipline, but overweight people are still human beings and, as such, should be treated with a modi of respect. If she was on a bicycle, it's entirely possible that she was making an attempt to live healthy and lose weight, but heaven forbid we commend someone for taking action to rid themselves of evil fatness. Especially when the health of your precious eyeballs hangs in the balance.
It's called put down the fork!
I'm not sure how much food one has to eat to get that big in the first place. I guess if all you can do is sit around and eat, it makes it easier.
My nephew is engaged to a woman who is 5'3 and at least a deuce and a half. She has no neck and pterodactyl arms. The real problem is that he has a weak heart and has gained 30 lbs. since dating her. And he's only 22 and will have his PHD by 26.
Oh, and she's a .
There's a woman who works in my office who is so obese - she's a walking heart attack. She has a handicap sticker so she parks right outside the door; but she's so fat she has to rest on a bench in the lobby after just walking from her car to the door! Her breathing is very labored and when she walks she looks the Penguin character from Batman II! But what's really sad is that she used to be a size 4 - but she went through a nasty divorce and turned to food for an emotional crutch.
I really am afraid she's going to die one of these days just walking down the hall to her desk. My ex-husband worked with a guy who was so fat they had to get him a special chair. I don't know how anyone could find the guy attractive - but he had a girlfriend and they actually got married. Now she was pretty chunky herself - makes you wonder how in the world they could have sex?!Anyway, he died suddenly of a heart attack one day - and I don't think he was more than 35 years old - so sad.
Amen to that.
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While I agree a person trying to lose weight thru excercise and dieting should be encouraged and not ridiculed, why do think our "species is so judgemental"?
Could it be because its evolutionarily advantageous? It is said that a person's left-to-right-side symmetry plays a very unique part in what we as a species find attractive. That it is a sign of good genes.
I also find it hard to believe you hold the same standard to your everyday interactions. I am sure youre fine with obese/fat people, until they say something nasty to you, or cut you off in traffic...I am quite sure "fat " has slipped your lips more than once in your tolerant life of self-induced-conditions.
Dont get high and mighty about how judgemental we as a species are when its perfectly normal, healthy and proactive to be so. Especially when it comes to handing out pity-for-a-dime to those who suffer from conditions well within their sphere of control.
Nobody is crying for me on the sidewalks because I smoke, but I get from numerous people about the smell (for instance).
Why is it you feel there shouldnt be the same indignation for an obese person wearing spandex, with a bike seat crammed half-way into their colon, riding down a rocky surface visually detailing the icky details of poor life choices?
As long as youre not approaching her/him and saying as much (for no good reason mind you), its perfectly acceptable behavior, IMO. I, as a smoker, am treated with less respect than that.
But is it because smoking is a villified sub-section of our society and therefore allowed to be ridiculed because it is socially accpetable to do so?
Well, since the percentage of smokers has dropped dramatically since it become socially unaccetable to be so, maybe we as a society should consider obesity to be socially unacceptable.
Worked for smoking, right? Obesity is arguably more harmful to one's health than smoking, right? Should be treated the same, right?
Of course not. Smokers arent afforded "handicap" status because they cant breathe. Fat people are because their lungs, knees, ankles and heart cant handle a walk form their car to their front door.
My point is, dont get so high on yourself as to think youre above humanity's judgements. Its a tall order to seperate yourself from the pack of humans who surround you. Nearly impossible.
You're going to open up the argument that obesity doesn't harm anyone but the obese person while smoking harms others via SHS.
Unless of course you're on a boat in upstate NY.
[quote=DarkReign;3041800]I, as a smoker, am treated with less respect than that.
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seriously, when im in public it makes me feel like im hitting a crack pipe the way people look at me. like the dude says on Supersize Me - its socially acceptable to tell a smoker to stop smoking but not a fat person to stop eating. the ADA should be repealed btw...i mean how can you be eligible for a sticker if you have trouble counting money?
when you have more than a quarter of the world starving, it sure as does
it isn't because obesity is any less of a health problem than smoking...
it's that a fat person doesn't blow second hand fat in my face
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