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Firefighters use forklifts to rescue the obese
Telegraph ^ | 4-13-12

Posted on 04/13/2012 5:40:51 PM PDT by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

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To: RedinaBlue
I think we had obese people 50 yrs ago...but our obese now are immensely larger....

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...

21 posted on 04/14/2012 3:52:57 AM PDT by cherry
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Sometimes, when struck by a bout of the blues from advancing middle-age, a stroll thru Walmart is often temporarily curative.

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.  ;-)

22 posted on 04/14/2012 4:11:33 AM PDT by tomkat
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23 posted on 04/14/2012 4:19:34 AM PDT by abishai
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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.


24 posted on 04/14/2012 4:31:52 AM PDT by newnhdad (Where will you be during the Election Riots of 2012/2013?)
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To: CatherineofAragon

foodstamps, welfare, disability payments for starters..


25 posted on 04/14/2012 4:34:31 AM PDT by newnhdad (Where will you be during the Election Riots of 2012/2013?)
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To: CatherineofAragon
When I was a kid, I NEVER saw people that big. Now I see them all the time. What happened?

Food stamps.

We have the fattest poor people in the world.

26 posted on 04/14/2012 8:12:22 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: fatboy

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.


27 posted on 04/14/2012 12:56:40 PM PDT by Yorlik803 (better to die on your feet than live on your knees.)
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To: the invisib1e hand

go figure...


28 posted on 04/14/2012 3:53:38 PM PDT by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
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