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   So now we're having protests about "size discrimination," or "sizeism," as it's being called by one of 30 people who are protesting about it

05 May 2012 04:10 PM   |   7445 clicks   |   Iowa City Press-Citizen
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IamKaiserSoze!!!    [TotalFark]  
Yeah, while it's hard to change your race or gender (well actually you can I guess) you can get unfat.

05 May 2012 12:08 PM
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dahmers love zombie    [TotalFark]  
OK, folks, listen up. There is a fairly huge (heh) difference between "we don't hire size 9's as models because ew, fat", which is stupid, and "Ma'am, it's entirely possible that if you use this stripper pole, it will break, you will fall, and you will die", which is being logical.

I figure we should adopt something like a "150% rule". You build aisles, seats, dance stages, stripper poles, Sybians, double-ended-dongs, and mopeds to work for people UP TO 150% of the average size user. So if the average size person right now weighs 180, design everything to fit people up to 270lbs. and that's it. Everyone else, either lose weight or do without. That would cover a ridiculous majority of people, while only "discriminating" against those who have really taken the time and effort to pig up. Like, for example, me.

See, I'm a fatass because I like laying on my bed and reading Fark. I can also, if I want to, go "waah, waah, waah, I've got severe lumbar and cervical stenosis with cord impingement so I can't lose weight, waah waah", but that's what we refer to as bullshiat. Of COURSE I could lose weight. It's called "eating less". Even if I try to convince myself that I can't get a Shake-Weight and do wankersize while walrusing around on my bed, I could still diet. And despite the pathetic mewling of the "thyroid sufferers", there is a very simple metric regarding weight, and it obeys the laws of thermodynamics. More calories in than burned = weight gain. And the old canard about metabolism has been proven to account for very, very little of the delta in weight gain between people. Us fat farks eat more calories AND we are less able to estimate accurately how many calories we've eaten. Same thing with portion size. Once you're "fluffy", you actually can't accurately identify healthy portion size, nor will you choose healthy portion size. Can we force ourselves to change that? Sure. But hey, it's sure easier to play victim of "sizeism", isn't it?

05 May 2012 12:20 PM
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Snarcoleptic_Hoosier    [TotalFark]  
So the new rule is "Mo' Fat Chicks"?

05 May 2012 12:24 PM
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MaudlinMutantMollusk    [TotalFark]  
She sounds... upset

05 May 2012 12:27 PM
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Man On A Mission    [TotalFark]  
Downloaded a calorie app to my phone and discovered I was way off in my estimates.

By sticking with the calorie goal (2,100 a day), I was able to drop 10 pounds in five weeks. No extra exercise (ride a bike a few days a week for a few miles), either. Biggest change was to stop drinking pop. I had NO idea just how many calories ever regular can of Coke has, much less the biggie size at the drive-thru.

So, no, I really don't have sympathy for the obese. Stop eating so much and you will weight. It's really as simple as that.

05 May 2012 12:39 PM
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Man On A Mission    [TotalFark]  
Will lose weight, I mean.

/ dyslexics of the world, untie!

05 May 2012 12:40 PM
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Donnchadha    [TotalFark]  
Man On A Mission: Will lose weight, I mean.

/ dyslexics of the world, untie!


I just accidentally a dozen doughnuts

05 May 2012 12:43 PM
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Darth_Lukecash    [TotalFark]  
Man On A Mission: Downloaded a calorie app to my phone and discovered I was way off in my estimates.

By sticking with the calorie goal (2,100 a day), I was able to drop 10 pounds in five weeks. No extra exercise (ride a bike a few days a week for a few miles), either. Biggest change was to stop drinking pop. I had NO idea just how many calories ever regular can of Coke has, much less the biggie size at the drive-thru.

So, no, I really don't have sympathy for the obese. Stop eating so much and you will weight. It's really as simple as that.


Im 10 pounds overweight . I've been as high as 25 pounds. It's a struggle for me, because of many issues. Depression, work scedual and more.

05 May 2012 12:53 PM
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Darth_Lukecash    [TotalFark]  
I'm just saying, that food intake and exercise, is the definite key, there are genetic/enviromental/phsycological issues present.

05 May 2012 12:56 PM
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AbbeySomeone     
What a fat, whiny AW.

05 May 2012 01:15 PM
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Chariset    [TotalFark]  
Wow, she looks so angry. She must have reason to suspect she wasn't hired because of her weight, or she was denied health insurance...

*click*

...she was told not to dance on stage at a bar? That's what this is about?

05 May 2012 01:18 PM
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The My Little Pony Killer     
For all the Farkers in here struggling to lose weight, I am willing to take a pound or ten (or fifteen) off your hands.

/beanpole
//wouldn't it be great if that could happen?

05 May 2012 01:30 PM
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cheap_thoughts     
As a land whale myself, I applaud her efforts. While my physical fitness is probably better than most peoples (who probably have to be at the gym in 26 minutes), my metabolic disorder (shut up, it's real, look up PCOS) makes weight loss a slow, seemingly impossible process. So while some people are on the bigger side, not all of us deserve the ridicule or stigma attached. I'm capable of doing anything and everything a thinner person does, and probably better too!

Gotta go! MY CAT WANTS SNUGGLES

05 May 2012 02:11 PM
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brap    [TotalFark]  
Don't ever change U of I, don't ever change.

05 May 2012 02:29 PM
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Three Crooked Squirrels    [TotalFark]  
"The goal is just to show people how many people are standing behind me . . . "

Maybe if she stepped aside, we could see just how many people were behind her fat ass, amiright?

05 May 2012 02:45 PM
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AbbeySomeone     
Three Crooked Squirrels: "The goal is just to show people how many people are standing behind me . . . "

Maybe if she stepped aside, we could see just how many people were behind her fat ass, amiright?


hahahaha
The people behind her are young college students looking for an attention bringing cause to participate in.

05 May 2012 03:05 PM
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Mugato    [TotalFark]  
Damn subby, your mother tells you everything.

Oh, we're talking about fatties. Nevermind.

05 May 2012 03:06 PM
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Because People in power are Stupid    [TotalFark]  
Women are the biggest "size-ists" there are.

Ladies, you know what I mean.

05 May 2012 03:06 PM
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God Is My Co-Pirate    [TotalFark]  
Man On A Mission: Downloaded a calorie app to my phone and discovered I was way off in my estimates.

Which one? I could use something like that.

05 May 2012 03:07 PM
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Mugato    [TotalFark]  
Wait, don't bouncers keep people out of clubs based on appearance all the time? So the mistake was letting her in in the first place?

05 May 2012 03:13 PM
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Man On A Mission    [TotalFark]  
God Is My Co-Pirate: Which one? I could use something like that.

MyFitnessPal. Very nice free app.

05 May 2012 03:14 PM
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Mugato    [TotalFark]  
Man On A Mission: By sticking with the calorie goal (2,100 a day),

Damn, I could never eat that much in one day. What do you mainline entire liquefied chickens?

05 May 2012 03:16 PM
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alwaysjaded    [TotalFark]  
Man On A Mission: God Is My Co-Pirate: Which one? I could use something like that.

MyFitnessPal. Very nice free app.


Yea, that thing is pretty cool. I couldn't understand why I was eating once a day and I was gaining weight. After it told me I was going into starvation mode, I adjusted and lost 3 pounds this week. Handy little app.

05 May 2012 03:37 PM
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gameshowhost    [TotalFark]  
Mugato: Man On A Mission: By sticking with the calorie goal (2,100 a day),

Damn, I could never eat that much in one day. What do you mainline entire liquefied chickens?


That's not a lot of calories for an adult male. I'm only 160lbs and I need ~2000 cal/day to keep from steadily withering away (I used to require much more, back when I used to do mass training).

05 May 2012 03:39 PM
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generalDisdain    [TotalFark]  
Is it wrong I want to rent a hot dog/pretzel cart and go to these protests?

05 May 2012 03:57 PM
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sharkbeagle     
Americans spend about $64 billion dollars in extra gasoline required to lug their fat asses around.

05 May 2012 04:14 PM
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Dow Jones and the Temple of Doom    [TotalFark]  
To be fair to her, it's physiologically impossible for many Hispanic women to lose weight. It's a rare condition called "permanent burritosis" and it usually begins around puberty and peaks by the time they have their 8th or 9th child. Last year I participated in a 5 meter fun run to raise awareness, but there still isn't a known cure. Sad.

05 May 2012 04:15 PM
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Karma Chameleon     
imagemacros.files.wordpress.com

/my first "oblig" I think

05 May 2012 04:15 PM
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NIXON YOU DOLT!!!!!     
dahmers love zombie: OK, folks, listen up. There is a fairly huge (heh) difference between "we don't hire size 9's as models because ew, fat", which is stupid, and "Ma'am, it's entirely possible that if you use this stripper pole, it will break, you will fall, and you will die", which is being logical.

I figure we should adopt something like a "150% rule". You build aisles, seats, dance stages, stripper poles, Sybians, double-ended-dongs, and mopeds to work for people UP TO 150% of the average size user. So if the average size person right now weighs 180, design everything to fit people up to 270lbs. and that's it. Everyone else, either lose weight or do without. That would cover a ridiculous majority of people, while only "discriminating" against those who have really taken the time and effort to pig up. Like, for example, me.

See, I'm a fatass because I like laying on my bed and reading Fark. I can also, if I want to, go "waah, waah, waah, I've got severe lumbar and cervical stenosis with cord impingement so I can't lose weight, waah waah", but that's what we refer to as bullshiat. Of COURSE I could lose weight. It's called "eating less". Even if I try to convince myself that I can't get a Shake-Weight and do wankersize while walrusing around on my bed, I could still diet. And despite the pathetic mewling of the "thyroid sufferers", there is a very simple metric regarding weight, and it obeys the laws of thermodynamics. More calories in than burned = weight gain. And the old canard about metabolism has been proven to account for very, very little of the delta in weight gain between people. Us fat farks eat more calories AND we are less able to estimate accurately how many calories we've eaten. Same thing with portion size. Once you're "fluffy", you actually can't accurately identify healthy portion size, nor will you choose healthy portion size. Can we force ourselves to change that? Sure. But hey, it's sure easier to play victim of "sizeism", isn't it?


Ummmm...you sound....uh.....fat?

05 May 2012 04:15 PM
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not_an_indigo    [TotalFark]  
If there's a Lane Bryant near them, they'd be making some serious bank.

05 May 2012 04:15 PM
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Mr. Potatoass     
Christ, not these bloated coonts again.

05 May 2012 04:16 PM
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cats4rent     
poor little fat girl. well maybe not so little.

05 May 2012 04:17 PM
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Whatthefark     
generalDisdain: Is it wrong I want to rent a hot dog/pretzel cart and go to these protests?

hehehe.
I was thinking that someone should set a bunch of concession stands with nothing but carnival style food. That protest would be over in the time it took Sweaty Betty and her orbiting protestors to waddle across the street.

05 May 2012 04:17 PM
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skinink     
Who cares about size? It's not the size of the boat, it's the motion in the ocean. Yea, so I may be hung like a fruit fly but I don't need Viagra to help me out. And if any woman ever complained about my size it's not like it was to my face. My penis was never a punch line in the bed room so as far as I'm concerned small is not necessarily bad.

05 May 2012 04:17 PM
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mikdeetx     
Ah crap...now I need another cupcake after reading that rant.

05 May 2012 04:18 PM
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kab     
Sweet, another fat thread. Superiority complexes all over FARK just breathed a sigh of relief.

05 May 2012 04:19 PM
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ha-ha-guy     
If I recall correctly isn't it the gender ratio for college attendance ~60/40, with women as a majority. So basically college educated males can afford to screen the fattest and most annoying girls from the dating pool. Basically this girl seems hell bent on ensuring she gets screened out.

I can judge someone for doing crystal meth and ruining their health. I can just some for never showering and reeking like last week's catch of fish. I can just someone for being fat, out of shape, and heading in the direction of needing a mobility scooter to get around town.

05 May 2012 04:20 PM
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exatron     
MaudlinMutantMollusk: She sounds... upset

One would almost say she has bovine spongiform encephalopathy.

05 May 2012 04:20 PM
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pxlboy    [TotalFark]  
cheap_thoughts: As a land whale myself, I applaud her efforts. While my physical fitness is probably better than most peoples (who probably have to be at the gym in 26 minutes), my metabolic disorder (shut up, it's real, look up PCOS) makes weight loss a slow, seemingly impossible process. So while some people are on the bigger side, not all of us deserve the ridicule or stigma attached. I'm capable of doing anything and everything a thinner person does, and probably better too!

Gotta go! MY CAT WANTS SNUGGLES


I shouldn't, but how *you* doin'?

05 May 2012 04:21 PM
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here to help    [TotalFark]  
Nice moo moo, Princess Jigglegunt.

05 May 2012 04:21 PM
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CavalierEternal    [TotalFark]  
"...'The goal is just to show people how many people are standing behind me...', Ramos said"

Well, if you would lose a few pounds, maybe we could see the people standing behind you.

05 May 2012 04:22 PM
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LeroyBourne     
Stupid, Dumbass and Asinine tags last seen at the OCB.

05 May 2012 04:24 PM
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generalDisdain    [TotalFark]  
Whatthefark: generalDisdain: Is it wrong I want to rent a hot dog/pretzel cart and go to these protests?

hehehe.
I was thinking that someone should set a bunch of concession stands with nothing but carnival style food. That protest would be over in the time it took Sweaty Betty and her orbiting protestors to waddle across the street.


Don't forget Cat Piss Kathy from HR. She never misses a meal.

05 May 2012 04:24 PM
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Foxxinnia     
You guys just have THIN PRIVILEGE. Thins benefit greatly from their hetero-normative position in the patriarchy. They get preferred hiring, they get bullied less, and they pay less for clothing. Thin people don't get told their body is 'a disease.' Before you say, 'Hey get thin' you need to check your privilege.

/search Tumblr for "thin privilege"
//that site is full of retards

05 May 2012 04:28 PM
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jj325    [TotalFark]  
Moo-Hoo chubby

05 May 2012 04:28 PM
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MoronLessOff     
pxlboy: cheap_thoughts: As a land whale myself, I applaud her efforts. While my physical fitness is probably better than most peoples (who probably have to be at the gym in 26 minutes), my metabolic disorder (shut up, it's real, look up PCOS) makes weight loss a slow, seemingly impossible process. So while some people are on the bigger side, not all of us deserve the ridicule or stigma attached. I'm capable of doing anything and everything a thinner person does, and probably better too!

Gotta go! MY CAT WANTS SNUGGLES

I shouldn't, but how *you* doin'?


I thought the same thing, but since you broke the ice...

How you doin'?

05 May 2012 04:29 PM
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B.L.Z. Bub     
IamKaiserSoze!!!: Yeah, while it's hard to change your race or gender (well actually you can I guess) you can get unfat.

Oh, I misinterpreted the headline. I thought this was going to be about penis size discrimination.

05 May 2012 04:29 PM
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RedVentrue     
What is the mass of these 30 people?
Would like to know the magnitude of the problem.

05 May 2012 04:31 PM
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rumpelstiltskin    [TotalFark]  
gameshowhost: Mugato: Man On A Mission: By sticking with the calorie goal (2,100 a day),

Damn, I could never eat that much in one day. What do you mainline entire liquefied chickens?

That's not a lot of calories for an adult male. I'm only 160lbs and I need ~2000 cal/day to keep from steadily withering away (I used to require much more, back when I used to do mass training).


Choking down 2100 calories a day can be a chore. It really isn't necessary to have something in your mouth all the time.

05 May 2012 04:31 PM
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John Buck 41    [TotalFark]  
Fat people problems.

IOW, go be fat somewhere else, ya fat farks.

05 May 2012 04:31 PM
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