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To: Mr Rogers; Califreak
Guess I’m odd.
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No. That’s called being young. Fatness was a sign of fertility and affluence less than 100 years ago. You are an ignorant baby by measure of human preferences over the ages. Only very recently has fatness become the pariah it is today. The California aberration has spread to mainstream America and from there into the world. I am a skinny, hairy, pasty, balding, white male by the way.

21 posted on 09/21/2007 10:12:27 PM PDT by mamelukesabre
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To: mamelukesabre

“I am a skinny, hairy, pasty, balding, white male by the way.”

5’ 6” and 165 lbs. My name is Fat @ss Barbie! LOL!


26 posted on 09/21/2007 10:16:09 PM PDT by Califreak (Go Hunter!)
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To: mamelukesabre
That’s called being young.

Actually, I'm 49. 100 years ago, some extra weight was called 'looking prosperous', and it was considered desirable. After all, it was the wealthy that looked like that.

However, carried to excess, it was always considered ugly...and many of the people waddling our streets and riding in carts inside Wal-Mart would have once been considered freaks from a carnival show.

Fatness is NOT considered a pariah - can't be, since it is more common than thinness.

62 posted on 09/22/2007 7:23:10 AM PDT by Mr Rogers (I'm agnostic on evolution, but sit ups are from Hell!)
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