BFR 75 Today

[peter w]

An addendum to that is the I never referred to Big Ron as Big Fat Ron

[Lizz]

As for the fat people well I'm sorry but in all but a minority of examples it's a self-inflicted condition which is highlighting someone's greed, lack of respect for themselves., and lack of respect for others. I have no sympathy with obese people as they are saying 'look at me I'm greedy'. I hate the avaricious lifestyle that they have indulged in and see them no better than other sections of society that are selfish and contemptible.

I'm pleased you qualified your post with 'in all but a minority of cases'. Illness can cause weight gain, some of which are not easily/quickly diagnosed - research thyroid disorders. I remember seeing Stan on TV saying how much weight he put on during his cancer treatment. I don't believe overweight people are saying look at me, I'm greedy. If anything, I'm inclined to think they're not overly educated about nutrition, but not knowing the full background, I'm not comfortable making a generalisation about them.

[saunders_heroes]

As for the fat people well I'm sorry but in all but a minority of examples it's a self-inflicted condition which is highlighting someone's greed, lack of respect for themselves., and lack of respect for others. I have no sympathy with obese people as they are saying 'look at me I'm greedy'. I hate the avaricious lifestyle that they have indulged in and see them no better than other sections of society that are selfish and contemptible.

This is the most spiteful post I've read on here for a while.

[OzVilla]

As for the fat people well I'm sorry but in all but a minority of examples it's a self-inflicted condition which is highlighting someone's greed, lack of respect for themselves., and lack of respect for others. I have no sympathy with obese people as they are saying 'look at me I'm greedy'. I hate the avaricious lifestyle that they have indulged in and see them no better than other sections of society that are selfish and contemptible.

This is the most spiteful post I've read on here for a while.

Agreed. I had been agreeing with alot of peters posts but he's just lost me now.

I'm part of a couple of Business Associations here. A few months back, a personal fitness trainer I knew and had respected was speaking to the meeting about staff motivation and exercise. He basically said fat people got whatever ills came their way and deserved it, and moreover he was disgusted his tax dollars were going to be spent on their hospital treatment. We had several overweight members present. I was shocked then and still am now.

People should have the right to their opinions but stereotyping and prejudice are totally unacceptable (unless towards Chelsea fans).

[Chris Smith]

As for the fat people well I'm sorry but in all but a minority of examples it's a self-inflicted condition which is highlighting someone's greed, lack of respect for themselves., and lack of respect for others. I have no sympathy with obese people as they are saying 'look at me I'm greedy'. I hate the avaricious lifestyle that they have indulged in and see them no better than other sections of society that are selfish and contemptible.

This is the most spiteful post I've read on here for a while.

Isn't it just.

I work with a number of people, mainly women, who are tied to the desk by the job they do. They then go home and have homes and families to take care of. Add to that the hours spent commuting where are they supposed to find the time end energy to fit in the exercise that will help them lose weight?

Most overweight people are not the chronically lazy or greedy or those with medical conditions but those with busy lives who are trying to do their best.

[Sam Smith]

As for the fat people well I'm sorry but in all but a minority of examples it's a self-inflicted condition which is highlighting someone's greed, lack of respect for themselves., and lack of respect for others. I have no sympathy with obese people as they are saying 'look at me I'm greedy'. I hate the avaricious lifestyle that they have indulged in and see them no better than other sections of society that are selfish and contemptible.
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The above post displays all the prejudice, intolerance and ignorance of any of the prejudices now fortunately challenged by our robust equality laws. You clearly don't understand why so many people are obese nowadays and greed is merely one of them. I hope you never face the same level of ignorance and intolerance you have just shown.

[Damo70]

I would never say anything horrible about fat people. However, I make a specific exception for the obese family next door to me, 'The Golightly's'. A family of noses and the most unsociable, miserable bunch of moaners you could ever meet. And I don't say that because they are noses. The couple the other side dislike them even more than the wife and I do and they couldn't care less about football.

[Tony Erdington]

look everyone has a right to be what they are, and some gravitationally challenged people are so through no fault of their own, and well the others are helping the recovery, with all the snickers bars and dough nuts that they buy, But I take exception to my fellow poster having to live next door to a nose, that is far beyond the pale.

[Damo70]

He is a typical nose as well. Wears the shirt, puts blue and white Christmas lights all round the front of his house and stopped going when they went down.

[Dave Cooper please]

I'm sorry, but trying to equate inequality towards fat people with racism is a completely wrong, generations of overweight people haven't had to fight for equality and generally speaking people aren't murdered for the size of their bellies.

I get that fat people, along with gingers, are bullied at school, but then again just about everyone is bullied at school at some point. I wasn't fat or ginger so in the absence of anything else I got punched because I was on free school dinners. "Take that you poor bastard."

[Louzie0]

 Brian's original point about fat people being the target of casual prejudice, not recognised as such because it's a laugh...

I'd cite jokes about a gorgeous woman with a fat friend and being lumbered (sic) with the FF on a lad's night out. They've been told for centuries, probably.
By definition the gorgeous woman is slim. At least! But with amazing assets.

That's something every young girl can aspire to. Instant popularity. But her genes have to deliver in so many ways apart from a sensible eating regime and near starvation if she isn't that sensible.

As for fat boys, well, instant ridicule as well. Unless he ends up like OddJob and adds menace and a homicidal hat trick.

It's a crazy world when completely averagely proportioned actors (on the slim and good looking side) are being digitally enhanced for longer legs, let's face it.
I'm with Brian. Who decided that taller and thinner is better?!
Crap for the propagation of the human race. We're gorgeous in our infinite variety.

[E I Adio]

Not adding anything to the debate I realise, but it occurred to me that in my youth, whilst it was normal and inoffensive in this country to use the N word, contrarily it was unacceptable to use the word 'black' in relation to a black person, whereas 'coloured' was ok. It's always fascinating to see how language usage changes over time and in this case the US civil rights movement was probably the prime mover, since the N word had a completely different and horrible subtext, especially in the Southern States.

I wonder what words will be next.

[Louzie0]

Not adding anything to the debate I realise, but it occurred to me that in my youth, whilst it was normal and inoffensive in this country to use the N word, contrarily it was unacceptable to use the word 'black' in relation to a black person, whereas 'coloured' was ok. It's always fascinating to see how language usage changes over time and in this case the US civil rights movement was probably the prime mover, since the N word had a completely different and horrible subtext, especially in the Southern States.

I wonder what words will be next.

Yes I remember when the linguistic shift happened.
It was driven by the politics of the Civil Rights movement in the USA. I have to say, completely justifiably.

And for younger posters on here, we are all coloured.

[peter w]

As for the fat people well I'm sorry but in all but a minority of examples it's a self-inflicted condition which is highlighting someone's greed, lack of respect for themselves., and lack of respect for others. I have no sympathy with obese people as they are saying 'look at me I'm greedy'. I hate the avaricious lifestyle that they have indulged in and see them no better than other sections of society that are selfish and contemptible.

This is the most spiteful post I've read on here for a while.

Maybe I need to qualify what I'm saying here as it seems to be lost in probably my translation. It's not fat people per se that I talking about. It's obese people. And not just every obese person but those of chosen through their own greed to get themselves into the situation. There is always some reason, and for some people some very real traumatic reasons why weight gain may be the result, again it's not that general group of people I was targeting on.

Apologies to all for any unintended offence but my focus is on the greedy people who have selfishly got them into a position that they need the State's help and are seemingly doing nothing about the situation themselves. That's level of greed I dislike and my crude earlier post didn't really make that clear at all. So for that, again, apologies to all.

[Louzie0]

As for the fat people well I'm sorry but in all but a minority of examples it's a self-inflicted condition which is highlighting someone's greed, lack of respect for themselves., and lack of respect for others. I have no sympathy with obese people as they are saying 'look at me I'm greedy'. I hate the avaricious lifestyle that they have indulged in and see them no better than other sections of society that are selfish and contemptible.

This is the most spiteful post I've read on here for a while.

Maybe I need to qualify what I'm saying here as it seems to be lost in probably my translation. It's not fat people per se that I talking about. It's obese people. And not just every obese person but those of chosen through their own greed to get themselves into the situation. There is always some reason, and for some people some very real traumatic reasons why weight gain may be the problem, again it's not those people I was targeting on.

Apologies to all for any unintended offence but my focus is on the greedy people who have selfishly got them into a position that they need the State's help and are seemingly doing nothing about the situation themselves. That's level of greed I dislike and my crude earlier post didn't really make that clear at all. So for that, again, apologies to all.

I appreciate that you were talking about people who 'don't have any control.' They are greedy.
I think that, actually that may be lots of us.

Overeating is a symptom, and can be mistaken for other symptoms, like those connected to chemotherapy, for example.

But overeating may also be saying, I am unhappy. I have no idea how to make this better but this feels good.

Being fat might be, I have an under active thyroid which has ambushed me, so no idea, never happened before.
It could also be, a genetic predisposition to a certain build, god, what do I do, not a perfect shape.
I just think that you may be lumping a whole lot of people into the same self-absorbed category.

Doesn't mean that we don't enjoy a pizza, though!