Should being fat be socially unacceptable

[Norm]

I would suggest that anyone who thinks that it is socially acceptable to be overweight, especially given some of the comments on this very thread, is both not overweight and incredibly blinkered.

 

[david1701]

also being fat is gross

 

[Pat "5mph"]

So this is what passes for reasoned discourse now is it? I suggest that you go and vigourously relieve yourself, and that the two gentleman who liked your post follow suit.

I think it was a joke!

 

[Hip Priest]

I think it was meant as a humerous reply - I.e. you called for tolerance so his reply showed none. I don't think he really believes you to be a preachy tosspot, or meant offence. Sarcasm doesn't always come over well online!

Thank you for attempting to explain.

It's a shame that neither the poster in question nor any of the sycophants that liked the post had the courtesy to do so.

 

[DiddlyDodds]

I cycled 5,000 miles last year and still managed to gain a stone.

Obesity is caused purely by eating more calories than you use, how much or how little exercise has little impact on waist size.

Spot on , i cycled for 3 years without loosing an Pound, cut food down since Christmas and lost 2 stone, its all about what you put in your mouth

 

[ufkacbln]

......... its all about what you put in your mouth

... and then put your fingers down your throat and throw up again immediately?

 

[theclaud]

Thank you for attempting to explain.

It's a shame that neither the poster in question nor any of the sycophants that liked the post had the courtesy to do so.

Lighten up, HP- it was vintage 3BM, and very funny. I might even have snorted. A smiley would have spoiled it.

 

[Hip Priest]

Sorry, but I didn't get the joke.

If I were to inadvertantly offend someone with a joke, I'd probably make the effort to explain. But that's just me. We're not all part of some clique that knows each other's quirks and sense of humour.

 

[yumpy]

Don't know if this has been discussed at all earlier, but in the pub last week one of our more provocative mates posed the question of whether in principle it is abusive to stock your house with crisps, chocolates and deliver blatently unhealthy diet to your kids. (This came about because someone's kid ran into another mate's kid with a scooter and when he told him off, the somewhat lighter than a ton of goose fat mother started on the 'don't you abuse my kid' verbals.)

 

[Archie_tect]

Too many parents give up on discipline and fail to instill good behaviour right from the start, and then wonder why their lives are ruined by their children. Whether it's apathy, ignorance or wierd super-liberal theory. Attitudes to food and giving fatty/sweet treats for compliance are the worst ones.

 

[rollinstok]

Off to the airport on Saturday and my lady wife is fond of her clothes and shoes. Twice now we have paid extra for being a couple of kilos over the allowance, but she still insists on taking the extra shoes.. ah well, so be it. I am 12 st and she is a midges over 8
How is it that the obese dont pay fines for the extra weight of their bodies ?
A fairer system would be to have a total allowance per person of say 120kg which includes the passenger and baggage.. sets of scales could be easily installed at check in. This would also provide a good source of amusement for the slim passengers as they are queueing.
It would also have the benefit of encouraging the obese to slim down for their holidays ( or a hefty surcharge would await ).. the resorts would also look nicer without the English White/Red Whales that are regularly to be found on the beaches eating cakes and drinking lager.

 

[ceepeebee]

A fairer system would be to have a total allowance per person of say 120kg which includes the passenger and baggage.. sets of scales could be easily installed at check in. This would also provide a good source of amusement for the slim passengers as they are queueing.

because no-one wants to see me board a plane and spend 2 weeks in the same pair of speedos?


Glad you find fat people struggling funny - what other subsections of society do you openly laugh at?