The proto-teabaggers at America’s oldest wingnut web forum have carefully considered this whole “obesity epidemic” thing — and they’ve decided it’s all a hoax. If there are so many obese people everywhere, then wouldn’t everybody be fat? Oh, everybody’s fat? Okay then, well riddle them this: If people are fat, and liberal women like Michelle Obama are trying to tell fat people to eat less servings of chicken-fried steak and two-liter bottles of Mountain Dew every day at breakfast, lunch, snack, dinner, dessert and “fourthmeal,” then isn’t it much more likely that people are really obese because of a secret “infectious source” that the government should get out of the way to let government scientists solve, in a medical laboratory somewhere? Join us for a mystical voyage through the logic channels of the Free Republic.
- The non-existent obesity epidemic is just another excuse for those who want to control our lives to get our permission to tell us how to live. Too many people are willing to go along with what the “experts” say when it comes to health. Whenever “everybody knows” something is true, that is the time to question it.
- First, I do agree that folks talking about the obesity epidemic are trying to control our lives. But I don’t agree about that there isn’t an obesity problem. It exists, but life-style changes won’t fix it. There is reason to believe that there is an infectious source to some of the obesity problem: see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infectobesity …. It’d be nice if the politicians would stop worrying about obesity and let the scientist work on the problem.
- Hey, I’m in shape. (Round is a shape.)
- The young are flat out fat, because their parents cannot say NO to anything their little hearts desire. I have 5 children, 4 of them are borderline morbidly obese. They lived with their mother most of their lives, and she pampered them, fed them the most fattening things I could imagine. If you are familiar with “Schwans” food delivery, you know how rich and sweet their products are. Want a treat, have a 400 calorie popsicle, or a couple of soda pops and a candy bar. When I was younger, if you wanted a candy bar and pop, you bought it yourself, out of your own money….and that money did NOT come from mom or dad. Meals were served three times a day, and you ate then, or starved. We were kicked out of the house in the A.M. to play, or get stuck cleaning or mowing the lawn, picking weeds, or even painting a fence. TV was shut off all day.
- 1 out of every 3 women at my large corporation, are not just overweight… they are rotund and obese. With all that blubber, they look to me, like Walruses. and yet, 60 minutes does a piece last week about hunger in America… so which is it? I think it’s fat… America is fat..mostly due to junk food diets, soda pop, and television.
- This is an attempt at linkage. AIDS treatment costs a lot of money and is going to cost more. AIDS is linked to behavior. They’re trying to say that catching AIDS is the same as being obese. They’re just trying to justify the behavior and the cost.
- 25 years ago you could go 30 days without seeing a 250 lb women. Go to any shopping center today, and it won’t take 30 seconds. A 300 lb housewife buckling the stands at my niece’s soccer games is commonplace. At 350 I rarely bat an eye. You’d expect a sense of shame, but instead find them strutting in miniskirts and knee high boots. At Wal Mart, when they asked me “paper or plastic?”, I assumed it was for a barf bag. I’d venture to say in the last 25 years, the average weight of a housewife has doubled, if not more.
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Infectobesity is the new big-boned
25 years ago you could go 30 days without seeing a 250 lb women. Go to any shopping center today, and it won’t take 30 seconds.
Yep, they are usually at the Victoria's Secret Stash of Oreos.
umm, gross.
Just thought I'd say you're funny, Barbara_i. You make me laugh.
Thank you! I appreciate that more than you could ever know.
"The proto-teabaggers at America’s oldest wingnut web forum have carefully considered this whole “obesity epidemic” thing — and they’ve decided it’s all a hoax."
The last time I shopped at a Walmart was outside of New Orleans in 1998, the smallest adult size they had was extra-large.
Hey I wear XL from time to time…not only fat people like those…and XL sadly isn't for fat people…I've seen shirts go up to XXXL or even XXXXL…felt like a tarp covered my body and I'm 210! I like that these flabsters are doing the usual right wing thing…blame everything on someone else. Yes, it's Michelle Obama's Milfy fault because she wants to control their lives. Hey, since this is the first time since Jackie Kennedy anyone who isn't drunk or insane could or would say "I'd hit that" (and not be gross ironic black humor, either) talking about FLOTUS…is there a new designation? Like maybe….a FLif? Hey, that works…first lady I'd fuck…FLif.
Sure, XL ain't overweight or obese.
If you are seven foot two inches tall..
Or a woman and over 5'9". I swear to god, they make most clothes for fucking midgets. And my husband is 6'9". The XLs and XXLs are too wide, but still too short in the sleeves and torso.
Yep, I hate short people. If only there were a way to blame them on Michelle Bachmann…
Really? I seriously doubt those are the only ways…besides, Shaq is 7'2" and his shirt size is so large it's a state secret. But yes, I understand people who are kind of small in size tend to think anyone who wears a larger size is fat, yes I get that and it's cool…we're all entitled to our own opinion even if that opinion comes from a place of ignorance. But you can take my word for it…XL isn't for fat people…in fact most guys who aren't short and/or effete in build wear XL. When you're around say 6'1" if you're wearing shirts larger than XL…you're probably fat tending toward obese which is XXXL. That's been my experience…take it or leave it.
1 out of every 3 women at my large corporation, are not just overweight… they are rotund and obese.
At yet somehow this mental giant has managed to be sued for sexual harassment by the exact same percent of women at his workplace.
Yes and probably even more ironic the teabagger casting aspersions here is probably a few sizes north of Orca himself. I mean unless you're immature or kind of an asshole you won't be mocking people at work for being fat. Damn, kind of stated a redundancy, didn't I? If you're on free republic you're kind of an asshole to begin with…so, carry on. It's a really strange country we live in when most of those obnoxious "no fat chicks" bumperstickers occupy the bumpers of big, fat assholes…but such is our right wing, eh?
Haha those people are crazy! There's no such thing as "housewives" what are we living in TV-land haha GIMME BACK THAT PIZZA
americans aren't fat they are just morbidly rubenesque.
We really have to find a sexier euphamism for "morbidly".
Obesity isn't in the Holy Bibble. It's made up by science dweebs, like radiation.
HOW DA FAT GET DERE?
Case closed, libtards.
How can they be fat and have pin-like heads? You can't!
Bacon cheeseburgers are forbidden by Leviticus, where's the protesters outside Hardees??
Corn syrup and hydrogenated fats must be in the Gospel of Rush Limbaugh…
Statistics is [sic] best understood today as a form of political rhetoric.
That's right, Teabag McGee! And facts are best understood as liberal bias. Also.
Statistics is [sic] best understood today as a form of political rhetoric.
Damn, that is an amazing quote. How did they pack that much stupid in one sentence, with only one usage error? They didn't misspell anything, just botched the subject-verb agreement? Is this really lifted from Redstate?
Borrowed (without the [sic]) directly from our corpulent compatriots at Free Republic.
The whole thread is a mixture of admitting they're fat, claiming an obesity epidemic doesn't exist, random nutty quotes like that, and "keep your government hands off my cheetos"
They're ace entertainment if you ignore the fact that they can vote.
Meh. "Statistics" as a subject takes a singular verb. "Statistics" as data takes a plural verb. "This semester, I took Statistics, which is really hard." "The statistics are compelling."
And I know: f*^2k me, for the grammar-porn.
I'm going to upfist you because you're right, but in the context of the original sentence that seems as if it should be plural.
Reasoning-
as subject: "Statistics is a hard course" rather than "Statistics are a hard course"
as rhetoric: "Statistics are used to blind people with science" rather than "Statistics is used to blind people with science"
Then again, I'm just some fucking guy.
I wish Ken would take the rest of the day off before I have to kill myself. We'll see who's yucking it up then!
keep fucking that fried chicken, freepers.
All-you-can-eat buffets are veritable hotspots of infectobesity.
i believe the word is foci….and gravy is a thick, delicious vector.
I would've gone with "heatri dishes", but I'm kinda agarphobic.
hey blood, no need to be sheepish around here.
The truth is that the folks at Free Republic are pretty much in to fatties.
That's the only group that would date them in high school.
The proto-teabaggers at America’s oldest wingnut web forum have carefully
consideredconsumed this whole “obesity epidemic” thing…Fixed your typo, Ken.
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Little Debbie's not fat. Case closed.
Of course "Little" Debbie is not fat. There is reason to believe that there is an infectious source to some of the so-called obesity problem of "Little" Debbie: see http://en.conservipedia.org/wiki/How-Liberals-Mad…
Man why is that man so obsessed with housewives I don't even
Chubby milfs is his thing, OK? Don't hate.
"Whenever “everybody knows” something is true, that is the time to question it."
Wow, is that some kinda teabagger zen shit or what?
Haha. It's one of those questions that cannot be answered with rational thinking, like "Why would someone pick Sarah Palin as their running mate?"
Or, "When a wingtard opens their mouth why does their brain shutdown?"
Or "Does it t'you?"
It's also the sort of selective iconoclasm that lends credibility to nonsense like Holocaust denial, vaccine avoidance, and Libertarianism.
Well put. It's some kind of cargo cultish magical thinking.
"If I subscribe to this ideological mishmash which really only benefits the exceptionally rich, that makes me a business starter and job creator, even though I don't make more than $35K at Jiffy Lube."
Yet somehow that makes them all rugged individualists (perhaps porky individualists, if the rallies are anything to go by), and all liberals are lockstep-marching sheep intent on stealing freedums.
It actually makes my brain hurt.
Fuck I gotta get me a jerb at Jiffy Lube.
LIEbrul elitist "scientists" created a secret infectious superbug to make us fat and contaminated our nation's vital corn syrup supply with it? I KNEW IT!!!
I thought corn syrup WAS the secret infectious superbug making everyone fat. Or is that an evil librul elitist myth too?
". With all that blubber, they look to me, like Walruses. and yet, 60 minutes does a piece last week about hunger in America… so which is it?"
Both, actually. The diet of the poor tends to heavy on starch – cheap calories. Sugar, too. You can pay $1 for a cheap cheeseburger or two bananas. Our government subsidizes unhealthy food.
This "issue" is remarkably similar to man-made climate change. And tobacco smoking before that. Government interference, the science isn't clear, etc. It comes down to the old (gramting that sadly there aren't any new ones) Groucho Marx joke "Who are you going to believe? Me or your eyes?"
There's also this thing where exercise became a luxury item for working adults sometime in the last 20 years; nobody ever really bothers to balance that side of the equation, but it's probably a pretty significant factor as well.
So those jet contrails are actually whipped cream?
You got some studying to do…
Join us for a mystical voyage through the logic channels of the Free Republic.
Uhhh… no thanks.
"Hullo, friends, I'm Bob Hind…"
Sounds like a lot of people trying to justify putting "normal size, weight" on their online dating post.
But, remember, these are people who think Rush Limbaugh and Chris Christie are a little on the thin side.
Whenever “everybody knows” something is true, that is the time to question it.
So the Bible is a fraud after all.
Paradoxically, only in US America. In places where nobody believes it, it actually is true.
All gays are pedophiles.
Same-sex marriages are a threat to traditional marriages.
President Obama is a socialist Muslim that wants to take all the money from the whites and give it to the browns.
All Muslims are terrorists.
Probably the first thing a Tea Bagger has posted on the Internet that I could actually agree with.
America's shitty eating habits have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO with subsidies to ADM and other producers of crap that manages to be cheap to make, full of fat/starch/sugar, and incredibly profitable. PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE LOBBYISTS BEHIND THE CURTAIN!
(Did I do the caps-lock right?)
That's message plays before and after every PBS and NPR show, right?
In Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman make Famine, the Horseman of the Apocalypse, into an executive for a fast-food/agribusiness conglomerate. He's particularly proud of developing foodlike products that simultaneously cause obesity and malnutrition.
Ahab, Ahab!!! I Think I found a whole pod of white whales for you…
Avast! Thar she hoverrounds!
logic channels of the Free Republic
fat fish meet exercise bicycle
As the spouse of a 375 pound 5'-6" Southern Girl, I can tell you how it happens: 5 pounds a year. Why: fatty high calorie foods taste good and exercise is inconvenient and painful. Also EVERYTHING in this Country is an occasion for food: happiness, sadness, celebration, lamentation, boredom, frenetic activity, social gatherings, and solitude. Five pounds a year over 31 years and there you are. We are fast becoming a Nation of artery-clogged, lardass slobs. The Cherry on top of this turd Sundae: losing weight and keeping it off is one of the hardest things in the world.
you are a good man sir.
I'm sure your wife wouldn't exactly be happy with you giving us her stats…
I'm sure you are correct, however, she does not read Wonkette or even my tweets and rarely visits my fb site. I offer my story and her stats primarily as a cautionary tale to younger readers that might think it won't happen to them. It can happen to anybody. It is a slow, insidious process; one's metabolism is working 24/7, for or against us, our choice. I intend no cruelty or disrespect to my wife, I assure you. She herself reveals her condition every time she leaves the house. It isn't easy for her, but she seems helpless in its grip. I frankly live every day as if I'm watching a train wreck. She has made herself the poster girl for every horrific disease available, from breast cancer to heart disease. Maybe I'm writing this in hopes she will read it and finally wake up to the very real danger of her condition. I battle my waistline daily. I am ten pounds over my fighting weight of l65 and it is a brutal and tiresome struggle, I can assure you. Count your blessings if you've been spared this challenge.
"Infectobesity"
So much for personal responsibility. Again.
Didn't you get the memo? Personal responsibility is only for others, especially the poors, the Democrats and the browns. It is not for Freepers. Or Sarah, or Michelle, or Newt.
AIDS is linked to behavior.
I think we should go over there and explain the difference between a disease vector and the idea behind disease causation. If we're just reasonable and kind they will understand our logical point and make a change in the way they see the world!
"…go over there…"
Do I have to get up from the couch? Can I bring my cheese fries?
how many calories are there in a cheetos covered dick?
If you ask a woman: 10.
If you ask a guy: 790.
Oddly enough, they will also have similar relative estimates of length and girth.
Yeah, that's what I was driving at. (The woman is honest about how many cheetos could be involved, the guy not so much.)
Sorry. Ate so many Cheezee-poofs that I sort of missed the subletly.
Mmmmm, cheez.
I thought it was the other way around.
Salted rat or non-salted rat variety?
Enough.
"I’d venture to say in the last 25 years, the average weight of a housewife has doubled, if not more."
Sure, statistics can make anything look bad. The bright side is that, due to ever greater numbers of women working outside the house, the aggregate weight of US housewives has remained essentially unchanged.
Ohhhhhh. It's some sort of cosmic ratio at work.
"in the last 25 years, the average weight of a housewife has doubled"
while
'in the last 25 years, the average intelligence of a rightard has halved"
I love math.
The 'Bronze Ratio?'
"I'LL KEEP MY CHEESEBURGERS, BEERS AND CHEETOS. YOU KEEP THE CHANGE!!!"
Does this mean you don't want your fried ice cream?
Yet another vile liberal myth exposed!
The obesity epidemic myth now takes it's shameful place alongside global warming, evolution, being born gay, context, Jews not killing Jesus, and the benefits of fluoride.
You lose again libtards.
You forgot the "myth of the Holocaust".
Though now that conservatives outright lie about the Nazis not being a right wing organization, they might finally agree that the Holocaust happened.
Yep. Obummer caused the Holocaust. They say he is Hitler/was Hitler/um, I don't know, sorta like Hitler/um, you know.
This is irony, right? I can't tell anymore.
I see thumbs down troll homed in on this thread like a sandwich bag full of high fructose corn syrup buried in the bottom of a trash can. Should we act surprised?
HFCS goes in, downfisting goes out.
I was up to 101 P-ness points for all of five minutes today. It's so completely silly to even care but I got a little sad when I dipped back down to 98. Stupid troll is stupid.
Pee goes up, pee goes down. How da pee get there in the first place? You can't explain it.
P-ness goes up, P-ness goes down. You can't explain that. How dit get dere?
If obesity is real then why come it snowed so durn much? Huh? Libruls can't esplain that. It's all just a big conspiracy so them rich scientists can sponge off are taxes.
I've never heard "why come" before. I now plan to use it to begin every other sentence when I speak to conservatives.
I'm not sure if I coined that or if it's something I've actually heard before. Either way, I love saying it.
from movie Idiocracy. Doctor : "Why come you got no tattoo?"
"Why come" is a common interrogative mix-up, mostly for children beginning to learn the rules of the language.
Ah, so it's a schema for toddlers who haven't learned the difference between what, why, how, etc just like they would likely refer to any four-legged animal as a dog or whatever four-legged animal they learned first. No wonder it sounds like something a teabagger would say. Toddler, teabagger, same difference.
"why come" is the new "mayhaps".
My favorite is, "My stupid kids are fat and it's their mother's (mothers'?) fault."
Yeah and the best part is when that phrase "their mother" appears you know that this smooth operator is a master of successful relationships and controlling the output thereof.
What the right dislikes about MEchelle OBMIdrama telling us that we are fat. She has a huge weight problem herself, and her youngest wee WON is fat with a double chin. She is ignoring her own overweight problems just like both of them are ignoring the country is getting in worse shape every day because of them and their puppet master unions. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NWL_haHArY
I used to date fat, ugly women. Now, I only date overweight, unattractive women. Progress. Also, anyone else getting followed by our newest troll? Some anti-union fatty, no doubt.
me! my first follower!!!!!!!! i'd fuck him in the ass but my dick isn't long enough to get to his anus.
Probably a WalMart greeter or sumthin'.
Me too! (About the follower, not the dick long enough part.)
I was just in London and Paris and saw very few obese people. People weren't all thin but very few real fatties(the 2 i saw were security people in stores). SO I think the Freepers are right- it must be a plot by Michelle which has made the Walmart people 300+ pounds
When I went to Paris, I think I saw one actual fat French person. Otherwise the only fat people I saw were at the tourist locations, and speaking either English or German.
Sure blame America first, just like a liebrul.
I meant to reply to this thread but my fat comment slid downpage.
Gravity will do that.
Yep, when I was in France I could walk up to any fatty and just start up a conversation in English, just like it was a Wal-Mart.
People in big cities tend to be thinner. Because they walk to places.
There are a gazillion articles about why French people aren't fat, and pretty much none of them bother to mention that a) the French use almost no high fructose corn syrup; b) they don't allow livestock to be injected with growth hormones; c) they don't add 5 cups of sugar to every dessert they make; d) they generally don't address emotional problems through ice cream, soda, and Hostess Ding Dongs; e) they aren't afflicted with the axiomatic American equation "big=good"; f) they have affordable, accessible health care for everyone; and g) good taste still matters.
Fat is freedom. Thin is communism. Everyone knows that! It's just one of the evils of socialist health care.
How many Weight Watcher points per serving of freedom?
What "infectious source" causes people to be this fucking retarded?
Fox News & Clear Channel Corp.
Christine O'Donnel?
Yes, what changed my eating habits permanently was looking at the nutritional information on the backs of boxes, soda, etc. It's fucking amazing how ridiculous the levels are…a single can of soda is like 15% of your daily carbs…which isn't bad except most Americans consume 4-5 of those a day. Then you have meals like Chicken Alfredo which are over 100% of your saturated fat content per day…in a single serving. Yes, it's all a hoax fatties…not that feeding ones self 200-300% of your daily carbs, fat and saturated fat content per day is why you look like you just ate a herd of elephants or anything. Keep up the denial of the obvious wingnuts and keep telling us about "personal responsibility" being a deep principle of yours. I heard cognitive dissonance is supposed to hurt, like cause headaches…is that why they're so angry/dumb? Just cannot think from the pain of all that contradictory bullshit floating in there heads?
Right, even though in reality I probably have a 38 inch waist all of my jeans say I'm a size 34. It's not because Americans are fat slobs that would rather be deceived than admit that they're fat slobs, nope. I wear a size 34 because of my awesome metabolism and my rigorous routine of never willingly exercising, ever.
I live in Toronto and Canadians are much more health conscious, in fact a recent study found health more important to them than sex or anything else. The food and menus are similar (although portions in restaurants are smaller here) to the US and so are the jobs (mostly desk jobs) and while there are fat Canadians and their numbers are increasing – nowhere near as many. The stats back this up and I make numerous trips to the U.S. each year and there is an obvious difference.
As Lost_Teabaggers and our lovely FLOTUS point out education helps some people. As far as the peeps at Free Republic and Rush and the rest maybe it's a form of natural selection.
Hey downfister. Every time you click the button I imagine anal sex with various female right-wing politicians. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK
you see more fatties in paris now than you ever used to before. when I worked there in 2003 my boss lamented that it used to be when you saw a heavy hitter that it was always an american, but now you see french ones…oh là là, hèlas,,,
The combination of processed foods and sedentary life (they used to dance and have affairs and stuff, ride bikes and tranny hookers in the bois d' boulogne) means that yes, even the french have slipped down the slippery slope along with us yanks, limeys and krauts. It must pain them sorely. As for me, as the nom de plume infers, orb shaped and ornery, but I don't think it's a virus/corn syrup conspiracy that got me there. It was food, some of it good even.
yeah it's still nowhere close to approaching us, but the change is noticeable. They do have crap food there now so in some cases it might be just that.
It used to strike me how the parisians would all haul ass through the metro stations in the morning, walking up escalators and shit, which americans would never do. But then I realized they just want to make the next train, and I didn't know jack about american subways so what do I know.
I've noticed it that in my 40 odd years I've gone from wearing a large to a medium to sometimes a small, without losing any weight. It's like the clothes are gettin' fatter! Mebee they should look into that as a crazy conspiracy. But I ain't talking 'cause that's how O'bomba gits ya!
Probably worth noting that, as American fast food, convenience food, and other Western eating habits became popular in Japan in the late 20th Century, that country's traditional high longevity began to decline, and fairly low heart disease rates began to increase. (Smoking like maniacs probably helped, too…)
# Whenever “everybody knows” something is true, that is the time to question it.
So rather than taking a good, long, hard look at what's become the standard American's sedentary lifestyle, complete with excess caloric intake, these fuckwits are going to make some shit up. "Fuck no, Bob! That answer's too easy. No, this non-existent obesity epidemic that causes me to be surrounded by fatties day in, day out is due to… Aha! …an infectious source!"
What really knocks this train off the tracks is their call to …stop worrying about obesity and let the scientist work on the problem. Scientist? No. No way. I'm calling bullshit. Ken Layne wrote this article…
They can have my KFC double down sodium and lard combo when they pry it from my cold, dead from myocardial infarction fingers.
Is it weird that I get a boner at any mention of the double down?
It's not a boner in that case. It's a chubby.
this is good news for president chris christie
But bad news for the guy who is in charge of the plumbing in the White House.
"Hey Mark, the Oval Office toilet is clogged. Yeah, again."
And bad news for the KFC off 14th St.
"Mr. President, I'm afraid you've depleted our double-down reserves…again. You go now…you here 4 owa!!!!!!!"
Uh oh, they have discovered our plan to force them into a diet of lightly salted rat dicks.
Maybe it is just a culture war thing, but seeing the use of "pop" in place of the correct soda is always annoying; I'm not surprised to see the Freepers doing that.
If I didn't like you, I'd downfist you for that comment. Pop vs. Soda is regional; it has nothing to do with politics. http://popvssoda.com:2998/…
I agree, like, totes, says the native "pop"-using midwesterner who lived in "soda"-consuming NYC for several years.
Regional difference, friend. I grew up saying "pop" on the West Coast, but had a sojourn on the East Coast where it was all "soda", all the time. (Confusing and strange!) Don't even get me started on Southerners/Texans and their "coke" for all varieties of carbonated HFCS.
Mr. Fatale says: pie, (as in pizza pie, instead of just saying pizza), and CREAM cheese (New Yorker!).
But I really lose it when he pronounces "humid" as "yoo-mid!"
At 350 [lb.] I rarely bat an eye.
It takes too much effort.
breakfast, brunch, elevenses, twelveses, lunch, apres-lunch, tea, st.mathew’s meal, dinner, supper, midnight feast, 2am snack
Sounds like your typical Hobbit meal plan to me.
This diet is not recommended for Mogwais.
".and that money did NOT come from mom or dad. "
Bullshit…bullshit..motherfucking BULLSHIT… I consider myself one of the elders (or at least younger elders) here, and I can tell you that if we couldn't get something by whining, begging, making deals, we fucking well stole the money from our mother's purse. Who is this asshole kidding?
Thank you DBD. Of course we got the money from our parents. Where would you want your young children to get money from anyway? Strangers in vans? Dealing drugs? The collection plate?
Creepy Republican Congressman?
a-fudruckin'-men. when a kid WANTS something, he or she will get it, be it through whining, wheedling, chore-whoring, treachery, slavery, or even outright theft, because KIDS ARE SOCIOPATHS until the cruel onset of adulthood forces them to give a shit against their will. also, this is why republicans are perma-juvies.
We may be the first country in the history of civilization where the poor die from eating too much. But the system is self correcting. In thirty years, today's cemeteries will be over-run with ten-foot earthworms and become valuable garden plots for the surviving vegans.
true story: a more literal translation of Nietzsche's famous proverb reads "he who stares for-too-long at the wingnut-colon will find the wingnut-colon staring back at him".
And Nietzsche was never wrong for long.
In true republitard male fashion they don't have a problem with fat people, they have a problem with fat WOMEN.
Honestly, what the fuck do these idiots think? "Hey, Barbie stayed slim all these years, how come my wife can't do it?" Eat shit and die fucker.
My husband is overweight and I have a problem keeping on weight. He exercises and I eat. Do I ridicule him? No. Do I love with all my heart and soul? Yes. I love him for him not because of his body shape.
Now republitards… belly up to the bar at the Golden Corral and pile on your heart disease, because you can't die soon enough for me. Batshit ignorant motherfucking bastards.
So there.
Ding ding ding! You nailed it.
Thank yo.
I used to be a regular at FreeRepublic. It got to me so badly, I walked around half pissed off at the world for the rest of the day. I decided to stop. I stopped for me, for my wonderful husband, and for our pets.
I love my Andrew so very much and when anyone attacks fat people I go a little crazy in protect mode. Weight is a daily conversation in our home. I run on the OMG she's thin side (been hospitalized too). I eat. I do not snarf and barf, or refuse to eat. I eat. My metabolism is really high. Andrew's isn't. He fights weight constantly. He plays baseball, hockey, basketball, tennis, racquetball, swimming, skiing, very into athletics but still heavy. I could give a shit about athletics and I'm painfully thin.
Sorry, more info than you cared to know. My Bad.
Not bad at all! I'm one of those people who have to work out a lot to keep from ballooning up, so I can relate to your husband. I also had a roommate who, like you, was always struggling to put weight on. Genetics can be a bitch.The bottom line is that we should all strive to be healthy, whatever that means for us individually.
The crazy part about the Freepers is that they're so invested in making the quest for health into an EVIL SOSHALIST PLOT that they're willing to overlook basic science and logic. And of course, name call like a bunch of sweaty insecure 15 year-olds.
Perhaps. But they cannot deny the obvious stupid epidemic.
Actually, thanks to the Dunning-Kruger effect, they're pretty much compelled to.
Republitards are the ass lickers of the pig world.
Damn, Ken, I thought you had read through some of the comments in Free Republic and selected some of the most insane. But when I glance at them it looks as if you grabbed several in a row, almost (or completely) at random.
People who comment on that site must be competing over who can be the most stupid/crazy/lame.
How fat was she? She was so fat, when she wears heels she once struck oil. How fat was she? She was so fat, she made the band skip. How fat was she? She was so fat, smaller fat women orbited around her. How fat was she? She was so fat, when she sat on the rainbow Skittles came out. How fat was she? She was so fat, the alligator on her shirt was real. How fat was she? She was so fat, she had her own zip code. How fat was she? She was so fat, when I told her I wanted pigs in a blanket she jumped into bed. How fat was she? She was so fat, her belly was the first perpetual motion machine. How fat was she? She was so fat, when she took an elevator it had to go down. How fat was she? She was so fat, you didn't walk with her you walked among her. How fat was she? She was so fat… She was so fat… She was so fat… Ugh… I can't do no more…
Oh yes, those fuckin' fat bitches at my jerb are disgustin'!
*adjusts moobs*
How come they're all so damn fat, hengh? Get on a treadmill, you cows!
*places towel on lap to soak up pannus sweat*
Folks talking about people getting shitfaced drunk & driving are trying to control our lives. As a patriotic 'Murican I have the right (written in the New Testament by our Founding Apostles) to ignore elected authority, legal statutes, and common sense to engage in behavior sure to shorten my life. And then post about to my fellow wingnuts.
Glad someone else was thinking about Rick Berman and his astroturfing against drunk driving laws (as well as any effort to try to fight against obesity).
These fat fuckers just need some space cocaine. They'd be thin as rails in no time. Or dead from heart attacks.
CoTang. The nose candy of the astronauts.
There used to be a billboard near Times Square that showed a woman shoving a chapstick-looking thing up her nose with the caption "SNIFF YOURSELF THIN".
I know what I thought they meant, but really?
Troubledog loves chicken-fried steak. The for-real version, genuine legitimate chicken-fried steak where they dredge a tenderized hunk of cow through seasoned flour and fry that motherfucker up, not this assembly line Tyson-frozen portion controlled corporate chicken-fried steak bullshit you get most of the time.
Mmmmhh – luvs chicken fried steak done like that – like I said I live in Canada and I've never found it on a menu here or biscuits and gravy or peanut-butter pie – gawd I miss that stuff.
I have lost 20 lbs in 4 years, but I'm sure that's just a coincidence.
so yeah. this is like the catnip for wonkette column.
I canceled some plans for the night just for this.
Walk into any Cracker Barrel, and announce – "$1000.00 for anyone who can tell me the color of their own shoes before I count to 3"!!! Every fatass in there would have to ask their dining partner…
This reminds me… remember the woman who wrote—I think it was an op-ed to a newspaper on how the food police were BS and they're her kids and if she wanted to feed them McDicks every day of the week it was her right to goddammmittt!
Maybe this will all backfire when they all die in a 3 year span from MI's or diabetic comas. The the libruls will rule!!! Fuck Yeah
Freepers are so cute when they attempt to wax philosophical.
i'm pretty sure Infectobesity (the "fat virus") will end up a 'proven condition':
1. the invisible hand of the market works that way
2. the market is huge (every pun intended)
3. being thin is hard and for most people – even including americans – requires Effort.
Infectobetes will be the new Restless Leg Syndrome.
Hah…notice how these wingnuts only pick on fat women because they all worship the world's fattest man who sits in his Florida sweat-atorium/ shut-in complex chomping oxycontin and cruising boy prostitute websites while telling them all day long what to think. This same big fat fuck picked on Michelle Obama's figure recently, which was hilarious to behold. It's kind of funny when you think of how many fat assed, soon to be (if not already) scooter driving (Limbaugh probably already has one, only he's so vain it's a titanium re-enforced golf cart with a Lamborgini engine just to pull his fat ass at 10 mph, mind you) white guys inhabit the GOP. Just another example of rampant conservative hypocrisy?
Linkage?
Jimmy Dean Breakfast Links, probably.
Oh man, the perfect opening for this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4RNb3tt0LM
Does anybody remember the Weekly World News? I used to buy it all the time, for the hilarity, not for the news. I still have a pile of them on my porch. Each one has at least a dozen comedy plots in it.
Anyway, the WWW was famous for having Professors from some University that no one's ever heard of spouting out some ridiculous theory or discovery. To hear the WWW tell it, they were the only news organization with enough integrity and grit to find the stories every one else was ignoring.
I always took it as a big laugh. Sometimes I would shiver to think about the morons that would actually believe this shit.
Well folks, Layne has found the morons. They are the Free Republic. They reference "inectobesity " discovered by one Dr. Dhurandhar (presumably pronounced dur and dur) from the Pennington Biomedical Research Center (whatever strip mall that's in). This is the belief that obesity is caused by pathogens, not I guess, sloth and a lousy diet.
Whatever's convenient to believe.
"It’d be nice if the politicians would stop worrying about obesity and let the scientist work on the problem. "
But none of those "scientists" that believe in climate change or evolution! This can only be solved by creation science!
I do love how they can imagine that on one hand scientists are smart enough to create an completely undetectable infection that makes hundreds of millions of Americans fat, but on the other hand scientists are too dumb to figure if climate change exists.
"I’d venture to say in the last 25 years, the average weight of a housewife has doubled, if not more."
This is why I order all my housewives from Russia!
Whenever I get horny I tell Dew, that's my husband, "Fix me up another one of them baloney sandwiches, Loretty."
Also, "Patsy can't be dead; we was a goin' shopping."
Think I'll go have one of them baloney sandwiches now.
Republicans and Teabaggers aren't fat! They're husky.
Freedom-sized!
Just because Americans excel at eating does not mean you should cheer them on, assholes.
I for one am proud to live in a country where people have to rock from side-to-side because their enormous hams no longer support normal locomotion.
The reason that Republicans hate Michelle Obama's anti-obesity campaign is because it goes against their deeply held value of not giving a fuck about anybody else. Except unborn fetuses, also.
MICHELLE OBAMA ATE RIBS ONCE THEREFORE OBESITY DOESN'T EXIST.
That's the Weight Watchers discount.
Hey Freepers – apples? They're edible.
I find that the average, rock-like, supermarket apple has to be kept for at least a week, or it will seriously affect the digestive system!
Logic you are doing it wrong. But since that is the case while we are here why don't you have this healthy helping of mayo, butter and what i like to call semi real pig fat that i have created it has that down home cookin flavor to it.
This is why I'm on a whole foods regimen. Apparently, eating a whole food is still healthier than eating a half a bag of Cheetos.
BTW, the Education Committee of the Tennessee Senate is considering other legislation to screw the teachers this morning. Cover me; I'm going in.
I'm not overweight, I'm undertall.
I like the one who says his kids are fat because his wife buys them too much ice cream and lets them play inside too much. He appears to have a relationship with reality. But a non-relationship with his ex, sadly.
Things I learned this morning:
- Only women are fat or obese, in Freeper world. Whether it is an epidemic or not, it only affects women – or at least, it is only wrong and worth shaming over when it is women.
- Obesity is either the result of a government conspiracy, or it doesn't really exist and the government is trying to convince people it does because of a conspiracy.
- Obesity is ONLY caused by lazy indulgent people feeding themselves and their kids too much junk food. It is also ONLY caused by "infectious source" (bacteria)? It also does not exist. It is also caused by AIDS/being ghey.
- All women are fat, obese, lazy, bad at child-rearing and bad housewives.
- Ken has finally lost it, truly gone off the deep end, and is actually looking for logic in a freeper "article."
You want to see fatties, try Match.com. Fat = single. Single = freedom.
That's where Free Republic is coming from. Except for the ones who use Craigslist.
FreiRepublik is where the Internet dumps its garbage.
We live in interesting times when the Wonkette and the Free Republic start agreeing and NRO starts speaking truth to crazy.
why, it is quite okay to be fat, because, as all good conservatards know, being fat is someone else's problem, and it is hateful and disrespectful and possibly even SOCIAL JUSTICE to care in the slightest. in these lard-choked states of high-fructose america, guilt and shame are social controls used by one's mother to deny you all joy, and the only reasonable response is to screech back in your mother's face abut how she never loved you and why can't she just accept that you have your own life and god i hate you so much MOM WHY DID DADDY LEAVE
Well, at least the Freepers sometimes have a sense of humor, unlike our downfisting tardbutt friends from Breitbart.
And the sun's not yellow. It's chicken.
(Thanks Bob Dylan.)
What delicious irony that the father of amurrikan obesity is Earl Butz. Loose shoes and corn syrup.
I simply hate fatties. If fat was an ethnicity I would be racist against it. There should be a BMI limit to voting, lets bring old-timey voting booths back and if you can't squeeze your 64 inch waist into the booth too fucking bad, no vote for you.
Israel-first Freepers
Homeland Gestapo
It's also common in adults in some less edumacated parts of the midwest (in particular, the part I live in). And it's funny every damned time.
I'm sure it's common in the rural areas of my state (also in the Midwest) as well. Fortunately I never venture more than a mile or two from my apartment in the city so I never have to deal with those people.
You are smarter than me…
Eh, you haven't seen how crappy my apartment is.
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