Quote (InsaneBobb @ May 13 2016 06:45pm)

If you're morbidly obese, smell like thirteen animals just crawled into your clothes and died, take up 3 seats in an airplane, and are chugging a 128 ounce soda, it is absolutely necessary for me to point out what a filthy fucking smelly ass slob you are. Further, it's an employer's right not to hire and inflict you upon other employees, it's an airline's right to charge you for the three seats you occupy, and it's a movie theater's right to refuse you entrance, because you smell like a walking slaughterhouse.

Did you forget the nature of this topic, exactly? The standard, "Oh, you're 1-50 pounds overweight" bit is idiotic, and nobody cares. If you're truly some fat fucking oompa loompa who infringes upon other people with your slovenly, sluggish, filthy fucking ways, you deserve to be shunned.

Quote (Brian_D @ May 13 2016 07:09pm)

You sound like a broken record, and you are a vile person. :)

Quote (InsaneBobb @ May 13 2016 07:26pm)

Thank you.

Side note: I vote that all obese people should have a "marathon for the obese charity" to raise funding for psychological help and extra seat funding on airlines. Only those who are obese may enter, and all proceeds go directly to obese eating addicts across the nation who lack willpower to such an extent that they can't say, "I'm about to explode, maybe I SHOULDN'T eat just three more boxes of ho-hos!"

Note: Participants, upon finishing the marathon, are likely no longer going to be obese. Thus it is important to note that they will not themselves be eligible for the funds they raise.
Note 2: They may be 2 participants. Possibly.

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The rising tsunami of diabetes in Sydney's western suburbs will overwhelm hospitals within 15 years and specialist factories will need to be built to perform amputations.
This is the warning of Western Sydney Local Health District chief executive Danny O'Connor, who said the bloating of the local population over the past 20 years has created a disaster in waiting that can only be averted by urgent preventative action.
About 300,000 of the one million people living in western Sydney are conservatively estimated to have diabetes or be at high risk, with more than half the population of Auburn, Blacktown, Holroyd, Parramatta and the Hills District overweight.
"It's about the survival of the species," Mr O'Connor said.
"If we continue to consume too many calories and convert to diabetes, we will have to build factories to cut off people's toes, feet and limbs and help them when they go blind.
"Let's have a conversation about taxing sugary drinks. Let's have a conversation about what's in school canteens. Let's have a conversation about the distribution and availability of fresh foods and fast foods, and urban design generally. It's a conversation we're at least 10 years too late in having."

Quote (dothe @ May 15 2016 11:24pm)

stop worrying about hurting people's feelings > start taxing sugar and bad stuff

I must be missing the connection

if I were to fill in the blank with one of many many suggestions that would make a more logical conenction it would look something like

stop worrying about hurting people's feelings > put up billboards calling people fatasses

Quote (duffman316 @ 15 May 2016 21:58)

this is the mentality we're going to run into in with aggressively tackling obesity

http://img.ifcdn.com/images/195605ae634725561e600f2da9a4ae8ebc408b10ef1011dadf2eda013af43b46_1.jpg

these people even accused michelle obama of fat shaming in time magazine when she was trying to tackle childhood obesity :o

http://ideas.time.com/2013/12/17/michelle-obama-is-supporting-fat-shaming/

Quote (AiNedeSpelCzech @ May 16 2016 02:02am)

The thing is, this is really a thing.

As a fat bastard, I've had plenty of fat friends and loved ones. My first wife was fat. She also happens to have ankylosing spondylitis, which is an awful and painful disease that twists your spine over and which sucks shit to have. It took her until she was 28 to get diagnosed because she couldn't get any doctors to care about her back pain because she was fat.

That post isn't saying "Encourage everyone to be fat because it's awesome." It's saying "You are still allowed to exist in the world and your desire to look for potential problems with your health shouldn't be overlooked because you're a fatty." If someone's particularly fat, finding out that they're 380 instead of 410 isn't really going to change anything about a medical checkup.

Quote (AiNedeSpelCzech @ 16 May 2016 08:02)

The thing is, this is really a thing.

As a fat bastard, I've had plenty of fat friends and loved ones. My first wife was fat. She also happens to have ankylosing spondylitis, which is an awful and painful disease that twists your spine over and which sucks shit to have. It took her until she was 28 to get diagnosed because she couldn't get any doctors to care about her back pain because she was fat.

That post isn't saying "Encourage everyone to be fat because it's awesome." It's saying "You are still allowed to exist in the world and your desire to look for potential problems with your health shouldn't be overlooked because you're a fatty." If someone's particularly fat, finding out that they're 380 instead of 410 isn't really going to change anything about a medical checkup.

Quote (hATemOnkEy @ May 16 2016 03:20am)

Being fat is bad for you.

Doesn't make you less of a person and it doesn't make it ok for people to insult you, but shit's bad for you.

It be as simple as this.