Does "gravitationally challenged" work?

[My_Teenage_Self]

I have little sympathy for people who exceed their calorific needs.

I'm a skinny guy. Working out gives me muscle definition, but no bulk. I was always called 'Skinny' at school. It's NO DIFFERENT to being called 'Fat'.

Does anyone stop kids calling other kids skinny? well, probably yes nowadays, but the point is, people are different. Deal with it, or do something about it.

 

[Chopper the ex Copper]

Just like me. I was bullied for being skinny at school and in the Army. Bodybuilding, and now general weight training and powerlifting and no one takes the pith.

I didnt have to, but instead of bleating about the injustice of it all I went and invested years of sweat and effort in doing something about it. Within the limits of your somatotype it's up to each person what they choose to look like.

 

[Neil]

Oh for Gods sake. Pretty soon it'll be illegal to say anything derogatory about anyone.

This is the beginning of the end for modern society. I give it 50 years absolute max if rule makers and do gooders artificially suppress natural selection. The faster, fitter, more able, more intelligent will no longer have any edge over others... Even one's who choose to consume more calories than they use.

Thing is, you make out the bullies and those that are derogatory to be somehow worthwhile (given your talk of natural selection) - but is that really true?

Are these people superior from an evolutionary perspective? Or just as flawed in some other aspect?

Why should the rest of society care about them, either? I'm struggling to see the mutuality or empathy, here.

To be fair this thread is about fatty boom booms, not other areas of psychological or physical inadequacy. Just lard-O's.

Consume more that the calories you burn and you will pork. Simple. No fatty US airmen were released at the end of the Vietnam war. You won't see a chubster at the end of a hunger strike.

These people do it to themselves, and if they don't like the consequences then the power is in their hands to do something about it, but the majority don't because they are undisciplined and weak willed. A simple, unpalatable fact.

It's their lifestyle choice, 'choice' being the key word. No one forces them to eat crap and/or take insufficient exercise.

So?

From an arbitrary / my perspective, religion is a lifestyle choice, too. For, um, non theists, why should those beliefs be protected if I want to be big meany-mouthed bully?

Either freedom of speech is not universal (it isn't) or some things are protected (they are). So why should most of society care whether bullies can no longer, publicly mock peoples' weight issues, or their religious beliefs - the bullies don't appear to care about some other groups, so why should people like me care about them?

And what has any of it got to do with natural selection? Where did that canard come from?

 

[highlandsflyer]

I have been bullied throughout my life for being too handsome, exceptionally bright, eloquent beyond words (), massively talented and, (although that covered it), far too well hung.

I cannot wait for the legislation to take care of me too.

 

[Neil]

I have been bullied throughout my life for being too handsome, exceptionally bright, eloquent beyond words (), massively talented and, (although that covered it), far too well hung.

I cannot wait for the legislation to take care of me too.

Reading that, reminded me of that scene with Robbie Carlyle and funky-chicken-man-from-The-Full-Monty, in The 51st State - "I meant to take care of him, not take care of him..."

 

[Chopper the ex Copper]

I have been bullied throughout my life for being too handsome, exceptionally bright, eloquent beyond words (), massively talented and, (although that covered it), far too well hung.

I cannot wait for the legislation to take care of me too.

Well, I've no sympathy. You chose to moisturise and keep your hair nicely cut, to work too hard at school.

I advise you eat lots of junk food and start using text speak immediately, and excessive alcohol consumption will address your undercarriage problem.

 

[David B]

aww come on ! They're kidding, right?
If you don't want to be called fat, lose some weight FFS.

This kind of stuff really pi..es me off.

Are those missing consonants intended to get the hopes up of the aforementioned porkers (mmm....pies....)?

There are folk who genuinely have weight issues relating to other medical conditions, fair do's. But those who just overdo the calories, are exercise-phobic and await the glossy magazines trumpeting the next available miracle diet from some snake-oil salesman in the hope the flab will drop off with zero effort, well, I wouldn't give 'em the time of day.

David

 

[silverclaws]

http://youtu.be/h1BQPV-iCkU

There is enough education out there.

As to these MP's that are trying to make fatty discrimination a crime, perhaps they would be better off getting with the programme, as the last I heard governments were trying to get people to watch their diet and exercise to ensure a long tax paying life.

But if people are happy being fat or obese, let them be that, but of those that are not happy, well, they themselves know what they have to do.

 

[David B]

http://youtu.be/h1BQPV-iCkU

There is enough education out there.

As to these MP's that are trying to make fatty discrimination a crime, perhaps they would be better off getting with the programme, as the last I heard governments were trying to get people to watch their diet and exercise to ensure a long tax paying life.

But if people are happy being fat or obese, let them be that, but of those that are not happy, well, they themselves know what they have to do.

I wonder how far the MPs' proposals will get with regard to the Ministry of Justice, given that Ken Clarke himself appears to be no stranger to the cake stand?

David

 

[Rusty Scrubber]