Posted on 04/13/2012 5:40:51 PM PDT by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
just like our mildly obese and moderately obese are larger....
we've as a society ratched up all our weights to what we have now...
as far as morbidly obese now, the healthcare system keeps them alive...that's why there seems to be so many of them....
what used to kill them early, now they can survive...
Not at all bustin' on Wally's, just that it's about the densest grouping of people around here on any given day.
It doesn't seem like 'schadenfreude' per se .. but perhaps a second cousin ?
Doesn't help with the creaking joints, but does make 6'/195 feel tolerable for awhile. ;-)
I had a roomie that was an EMT and she said that moving “obese” people was like trying to grab a bowl of jello with chopsticks. I just can’t imagine the smell of a person that can’t bath or get up to use the can and only eats.
foodstamps, welfare, disability payments for starters..
Food stamps.
We have the fattest poor people in the world.
When I was in Ems the fat trend was starting. But once me and another emit carried a fatty from the attic of his three story house on a stairchair on narrow stairway and all the way to the truck. Thought my guts was going to jack in the box all over the house.
go figure...
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