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youngopinions@aol.com wrote:
> Amazing, the interesting articles one reads while surfing the web.
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> http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/04/04/122448.php
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> by  Andy Marsh
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> I've been reading a lot of stories lately about obesity and how the
> rest of the world is picking on fat people. Poor babies!
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> Look, I understand that in some instances obesity can't be helped. I
> also don't believe that the majority of obese people fit into the
> category of "it can't be helped." I just don't get it. I mean, I'm not
> very active. I eat bullshit snack foods all the time; it's called the
> munchies. I don't exercise very much. Ok, I play golf, so I don't
> really exercise at all. I even have an electric bicycle. Even with all
> these things going against me, I'm still only a few pounds overweight!
> How the hell do you get to the stage they call obese?
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> When I looked up obesity on Wikipedia, it told me that this "disease"
> is very rare in wild animals and pretty common in domesticated animals.
> The reason? Domestic animals tend to be overfed and under exercised. In
> other words, if obesity is a problem, try eating less and exercising
> more. Sounds pretty simple to me.
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> A couple of weeks ago at BC, I read an article about fat people having
> trouble getting hired. The way I read the article and the comments that
> went along with it, the writer got on his tilt because his mother told
> him that fat people couldn't get hired for good jobs. Of course, the
> discussion that followed brought up smoking and every other thing that
> employers should be using as hiring criteria, but really didn't discuss
> the problem of hiring the obese and the associated costs.
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> Today I opened the editorial section of my paper, like I do every day,
> and read a letter from someone whining because their feelings were hurt
> over a picture in the paper last week showing two therapists sitting in
> one oversized wheelchair. The person that wrote the article whined
> because it sent a negative message. What was the message, you ask?
> According to the letter to the editor, the message is that two normal
> sized people can fit in the same space as one fat person. Somehow the
> person that wrote that letter doesn't realize that I don't need a
> picture to figure out that two of me can fit where one of her can fit.
> I usually get the picture when he/she walks by my table at Quizno's and
> blocks out the sun for a minute or two.
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> Why is calling attention to the obvious politically incorrect? Why is
> saying things like, "You should have to pay for two seats on the
> airplane if your ass takes up two seats," a bad thing? I've noticed
> those wide-load wheelchairs at the airport too. You know what that
> means to me? It means that some poor sorry bastard (possibly me) is
> gonna get cheated out of half his seat on the plane because someone
> else needs two and a half seats. I'd bet that if they just showed a
> picture of that wheel chair without anyone in it, none of us would have
> known that the thing was designed for someone with an ass two axe
> handles wide. Maybe they should have just put a really, really big
> person in it instead. Then all the fat folks wouldn't be offended by
> it. I'd think they'd be more offended by the normal sized wheel chair,
> saying things like, "Why do they make these chairs so small?" or "Don't
> they know that us 'normal' sized people can't fit in those child
> seats?"
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> Maybe it's not the big seat that's really offensive. Maybe it's the
> little seats that are offensive. Think about it for a minute. If
> medical supply companies knew the size of Americans, they'd naturally
> make bigger chairs to accommodate all the fat asses in this country.
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> The person whining in the paper asks, "Would you similarly insult a
> gay-lesbian group in a photo?" Maybe they were really trying to! Maybe
> the two therapists shown in the picture were lesbians? But they were
> skinny lesbians!
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> I'm here to say that from now on, PC is forever BS! No more PC BS.
> Ever! We're gonna call fat people fat, lazy people lazy, stupid people
> stupid. We're gonna include religious whackos and secular shitheads in
> this group too. When we do this, there will be no return name-calling,
> no playing the race card or the PC card anymore. The PC card has been
> removed from the deck and has been burned at the stake.
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> I usually try to be a nice guy. I've tried to learn that thing they
> call tact over the years. I'm getting better at it, but it still really
> kicks my ass sometimes. I mean, I've never made a comment to anyone in
> front of me at Burger King that ordered two Whoppers and a diet coke.
> I've never made a comment when I heard one woman ask another, "Does
> this make me look fat?" I have made a comment if I've been asked myself
> (yes it hurt), but never to anyone I didn't know. I yell through my car
> window at idiot drivers. Sometimes I even roll the window down. But,
> for the most part, I try to behave. It's just sometimes I get so tired
> of listening to anyone other than me whine, it just drives me crazy!
> I'm here to tell you, I have some comments to make, too.

We need a special tax on these blubber butts!

John
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