Posted on 02/01/2008 4:38:48 PM PST by freemike
FEBRUARY 1--Mississippi legislators this week introduced a bill that would make it illegal for state-licensed restaurants to serve obese patrons.
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YES!! Thanks for reminding me of the title.
“without turning sideways”
???
I thought fat people were thicker front to back than they are side to side! So what good would turning sideways do?
I don’t like the width rule. I think a person should be allowed to be as big as they can get so long as they have the muscle and cardio capacity to haul that girth around swiftly. I’d put them on one of those motorized stairclimbers that look like mini escalators and turn it up fast for about one minute, or maybe 30 seconds would do. If you can keep up with it on high speed for a minute, you are allowed to be fat. Obviously pregnant women and nursing mothers would have to be exempted.
It’s kind of an inside joke. An old friend of mine had an aunt who couldn’t go through doors in her house without turning sideways.
Amazingly wide hips?
Probably that plus some extra padding.
“You NEVER KNOW why a person appears unusually heavy.
There are certainly exceptions, but if you spend any time in a Walmart, start looking at what is in the carts of gravitationally-challenged people. It will answer a lot of questions.”
Sure, you can see people buying a lot of “junk food.”
Maybe the guy who sits at work all day but still eats three squares is “morbidly obese.” Is he less moral than my niece, who eats and then barfs? She is nice and thin.
Or my acquaintance, who eats lots of junk food, publicly and unashamedly, but is still thin for some reason.
You’d look at my niece or my acquaintance and think, hey, they are healthy, stable, normal, self-controlled people. But you would be wrong.
You’d look at the morbidly obese guy and say, “what a pig.” But maybe he’s not really a pig.
I saw this yesterday. Some fools still think that millions of dollars are being spent and made with the anti smoking movement so that they don’t have to be annoyed by smoke, not to coerce smokers to quit the habit that displeases the State.
If Gubmint is paying for the healthcare costs through Medicare and Medicaid and SCHIP , they have a vested interest in reducing their costs.
Welcome to Socialism. This crap won’t pass, but fast food taxes will as a start somewhere.
With apologies to every 300 lb fat women with cell phones on FR...if I had a dollar for every annoying fat woman on a cell phone who complained about my smoking in a bar....
Schadenfreude is priceless. Shut up and get on the boxcar!
Except that there are all the holier than thou’s who completely blame being *fat* on eating habits.
I read something somewhere that proposed that some overweight people are actually in better condition than thin people because they know they are overweight and work at doing what they can about it by eating right and exercising, thus making them more fit than the skinny person who lives on junk food and doesn’t do anything.
I have two daughters. One is skinny as can be, can eat anything she wants, and gets a reasonable amount of exercise because she knows it’s important. Her sister is a good 30 pounds heavier, eats the same, runs track, and has trouble keeping weight off. They each take after a different side of the family in physique and apparently metabolism.
Blaming it strictly on eating habits is an easy answer.
Boy are you dense! It’s not about who eats more than you and weighs less than you. You adjust your own personal food intake and activity level to make your own weight appropriate. If you have to eat 10% less than someone else in order to maintain a healthy weight, then so be it. Just shut up and do it.
If one person has to study twice as hard as another to pass trigonometry, do we tell them it’s ok to fail because they aren’t getting it as easily as others? OF COURSE NOT!
Well, maybe you would. But if you did, I’d criticize you for that too.
No kidding. Speaking of dense, you missed the whole point. I never said you didn't.
But I guess if you want to criticize someone for something because you missed their point, you do have to make stuff up.
I was sure this was some kind of humorous post.
God almighty,it is real .
Madness reigns supreme.
You are right,it started in the sixties and the decline progressed from there..
I loved the fifties,yet they seem to be the butt of jokes all the time. Personal responsibility reigned,along with a good dose of “Mind your own business”.
I think she is reaching in her feed sack.
Of course it is, for exactly the reasons you state, some people just don't want to "think" about anything.
My mother and her sister were very similar as your daughters. Other than when pregnant my mother never weighed more than 125 in her life, and was close to 5'11". Her older sister, OTOH, always had to struggle with her weight even though she was always the more athletic of the 2. My aunt was never fat, but never looked like my mother either, she's just a big woman.
She will be 75 this month and we enjoy sharing recipes for all sorts of things, including jellies and cookies, and send each other our latest concoctions........my mother passed away a year or so ago.
The only people who are experts on how easy or simple it is to lose weight, are the skinnies, those who never had to fight it. I should know; I used to be one and I had the same snotty attitude.
I had a high metabolism and could eat any thing and any amount of any thing I wanted, and it never showed. I had kids and those days were over. I eat better now than ever and exercise and still fight to not gain weight and lose it if I do.
I understand where you are coming from, and generally agree with you.........BUT.......
There are some of us skinnies that have the opposite problem, we are unable to gain no matter how well or poorly we eat. In October of ‘06 I was told to put on at least 20 pounds. I put on 6 within 6 weeks, which was a great start, or so I was told. I still weigh the same as I did then, more than a year later.
Many of us skinnies sympathize because of the opposite problem. Unfortunately there seem to be nearly as many who don’t understand a problem like mine as there are who don’t understand yours.
I can see your point of view. My skinny daughter would like to put on a few, but can’t. What she especially hates is that she knows people look at her and think “anorexic”. But she’s not. She doesn’t have that emaciated or wasted look. She was born that way and hasn’t changed since. I have baby pictures of her and all you see is arms and legs. 21 “ long and 7 pounds. It’s always be 90% for height, and 10% for weight. She made it up to 50% just before she started walking. Once she walked that was over for good.
However, being skinny is still more socially acceptable than being fat. Doctors generally don’t ride skinny people about their blood pressure, cholesterol, diabetes, etc. They’re not condemned for the burden they put on the health care system even though they may have all those problems anyway.
I’m willing to donate a few....
Small minds shouldn’t be entrusted with too much power.
There are many intelligent, patriotic, knowledgeable, citizens in this country with an abundance of good ole common sense. Why do so few of them run for gov’t office???
Nevermind...I know a number of reasons, but it still frustrates me no end.
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