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| Thread ID: 100519 | 2009-06-11 04:01:00 | Close up last night | SolMiester (139) | PC World Chat |
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| 781297 | 2009-06-11 04:01:00 | Have to say I agreed with the Doctor, you cant get fat unless you eat MORE than you need. Then we had the fat American (remember the one who had trouble getting into the country) whinging how un PC the Dr was..........waaaaaah! |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 781298 | 2009-06-11 04:22:00 | I really don't agree with PCness. Stuff is what it is, and making nice ways of saying things is ridiculous. Why do fat people take offence at being called fat? | sammo450 (13626) | ||
| 781299 | 2009-06-11 04:34:00 | Don't forget - it's not the individual's fault. It's our fault that people are fat. Obesity Action Coalition director Leigh Sturgiss said the condition should be blamed on environment rather than the individual.www.nzherald.co.nz What happened to personal responsibility? I can't believe the taxpayer was funding this organisation. |
somebody (208) | ||
| 781300 | 2009-06-11 04:35:00 | Why do fat people take offence at being called fat? It's derogatory. Fat people know how being fat affects their health and probably their social lives, and having people point out the obvious and/or mocking them will hurt their already low self-esteem. A lot of the time it's not their intention to get fat, of course. It's just a basic instinct drive for a living organism to continue eating as long as food is available. Back when we were still very hairy and lived in caves without that primeval mentality you'd starve to death. I'm still against immigrants who have a high-risk health coming in this country, though. Unless their entire family is here or something, which is cruel to leave one person out from a family. |
qazwsxokmijn (102) | ||
| 781301 | 2009-06-11 04:41:00 | It's derogatory. Fat people know how being fat affects their health and probably their social lives, and having people point out the obvious and/or mocking them will hurt their already low self-esteem. A lot of the time it's not their intention to get fat, of course. It's just a basic instinct drive for a living organism to continue eating as long as food is available. Back when we were still very hairy and lived in caves without that primeval mentality you'd starve to death. I'm still against immigrants who have a high-risk health coming in this country, though. Unless their entire family is here or something, which is cruel to leave one person out from a family. Then how come we're not all fat? A lot of us can control that urge to eat and know that in modern times, we dont expend so much energy as we use to through manual work like hunting and farming etc so we balance our diets in such a way. Its pretty disingenuous to say "oh, we eat like like its 1200AD but work likes its 2009" |
beeswax34 (63) | ||
| 781302 | 2009-06-11 04:49:00 | Then how come we're not all fat? A lot of us can control that urge to eat and know that in modern times, we dont expend so much energy as we use to through manual work like hunting and farming etc so we balance our diets in such a way. As I put in bold, it's an individual's ability to control the urge to eat that determines whether he or she would overeat or not. Plus the lifestyle an individual has. Exercise, back-breaking slave labor, etc.....not that the latter is a lifestyle. :p |
qazwsxokmijn (102) | ||
| 781303 | 2009-06-11 04:58:00 | Then how come we're not all fat? we dont expend so much energy as we use to through manual work like hunting and farming etc so we balance our diets in such a way. But some of us are more active than others. And, your activity levels can change too. I used to walk a lot, lots and lots. Now I can't. Since then I am fatter than I was then. Yes I should eat less, but when you've been eating normally then have to halve it suddenly, that can be hard to do. I used to, dieting made me snarly. So now I'm just fat. What the hell, I'm not 21 anymore........ |
pctek (84) | ||
| 781304 | 2009-06-11 05:20:00 | But instead of taking offence, why can't they just say 'yes I am, is your life so pathetic that you gain satisfaction from making others feel bad?'. | sammo450 (13626) | ||
| 781305 | 2009-06-11 05:36:00 | But instead of taking offence, why can't they just say 'yes I am, is your life so pathetic that you gain satisfaction from making others feel bad?'. Don't make any comments like that until you've walked in their shoes. How many people can say that when they've been degraded? Doesn't have to be about being fat; it can be anything, like being crippled, stupid, making mistakes, anything. |
qazwsxokmijn (102) | ||
| 781306 | 2009-06-11 05:37:00 | But instead of taking offence, why can't they just say 'yes I am, is your life so pathetic that you gain satisfaction from making others feel bad?'. In my view it is not polite to call people anything even if they are. I smoke cigarettes and some people object because they say I am damaging my health or damaging their health or both. I hope that all people drive a Toyota rather than a Holden or Ford. Why? Just because I use a Toyota and everone has to do what I do because I am perfect I don't think. |
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