Fashion Board 3-5-04 to 4-6-04

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Heart disease kills 700,000 people a year.

Drunk driving kills 17,000*. These numbers have stabilized and even dropped.

*and that number is from MADD, which I know has greatly exaggerated it.

Every one of the 17000 was as dead as any of the 500000. Atti's point would be That just because there are more dead fatties doesn't make each worse then the DD- each drunk driver is as bad/ actually worse.

Not bob driving drunk taking the lit. liason from Pig's from the tit bar across State line is as bad as the dozen sober people eating donuts in theTim Horton's he drives by.

So fat is bad to talk about, but Robins are pretty. Today I saw a Robin eating a worm. Did anyone see a robin or another bird today? how's the weather there?

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
"Suicide." Homicide.

Apples. Oranges.

But those "homicide" numbers have dropped drastically b/c of legal deterrents.

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Yeah, but fat people bitch when airlines make them buy two tickets when their lard-ass bodies spill over into a second seat.

In contrast, I have yet to hear a drunk drivers' lobby demand special driving lanes. Which, come to think of it, might be a good idea if you could figure out how to enforce their use.

And further to the point, not all drunks get into their cars and drive home. That had to be the most ignorant thing Atticus has ever said, and he doesntt seem prone to ignorance. He is pretty strong on the Jesus, maybe he shoudl stick with that.

[AnotherSarcasticSock]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Yeah, but fat people bitch when airlines make them buy two tickets when their lard-ass bodies spill over into a second seat.

In contrast, I have yet to hear a drunk drivers' lobby demand special driving lanes. Which, come to think of it, might be a good idea if you could figure out how to enforce their use.

They could be padded like the bowling alleys when little kids go.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
In contrast, I have yet to hear a drunk drivers' lobby demand special driving lanes.

No, they just take the damn things, all of em, from about 1:00 a.m. to 3:00 a.m. every weekend.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Yeah, but fat people bitch when airlines make them buy two tickets when their lard-ass bodies spill over into a second seat.

In contrast, I have yet to hear a drunk drivers' lobby demand special driving lanes. Which, come to think of it, might be a good idea if you could figure out how to enforce their use.

I just spilled my manhattan....

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by AnotherSarcasticSock
They could be padded like the bowling alleys when little kids go.

You could use fat people!!!!

(But not the ones with glandular conditions or genetic predispositions.)

[bilmore]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
And further to the point, not all drunks get into their cars and drive home. That had to be the most ignorant thing Atticus has ever said, and he doesntt seem prone to ignorance. He is pretty strong on the Jesus, maybe he shoudl stick with that.

I think his point is, or was, or should be, that unless the hugely overweight person falls on you, it's not your problem, whereas the drunk usually is.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
And further to the point, not all drunks get into their cars and drive home.

And not all fatties get in your way or drive up your health insurance costs. To the contrary, when they die of heart attacks at 55, they save health ins. and social security plenty of money.

But I'll suggest for atticus the following retort:

Let he who is without [self-destructive] sin cast the first stone.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I just fat-bashed because this lady I worked with had very unusual hips and left grease on my friends files, and because Flower was being racist.

You were being classist.

Which is not the same things as being classy.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
You could use fat people!!!!

(But not the ones with glandular conditions or genetic predispositions.)

Jonothan Swift just got a modest boner.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by bilmore
No, they just take the damn things, all of em, from about 1:00 a.m. to 3:00 a.m. every weekend.

Not me, brother. I make it clear that we're cabbing it or someone else is driving, because I'm not. I drove shitfaced a lot in high school and thinking about it now gives me shivers. I won't get near a fucking car when I'm drinking. You lose your goddamned license for a year in this state if you get caught. Fuck that.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by me
stuff about projection

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I said I deride people without self control. I don't merely say "You're fat, you suck." Every one of my examples has been of a person who I observed overindulging and lacking any sembalnce of self control. I would never judge a person merely on appearance. Its when I see them on their fourth donut that the visceral distates enters the picture. By the way, as you know, my peeves are hardly limited to fatness.

And I have been fat in my life. I hit 210 in college. My family unmercifully made fun of me. It worked like a charm. I lost 30 lbs in a fucking hurry.

Say no more.

Economists, like Burger, assume that people act rationally. Why don't you assume that fat people are capable of exercising self-control, and eat until the marginal Cheeto is no longer worth the marginal weight-gain? Maybe someone who eats four donuts really likes donuts. In your case, the answer apparently is that you have your own issues about food and weight, and you are projecting your own issues onto the ample sides of the fat people you see. Just remember, the first step towards resolving this issue is admitting it's there.

I would suggest that your family's reaction, while effective in some respects, had its costs, too.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
But those "homicide" numbers have dropped drastically b/c of legal deterrents.

If I take two oranges away, how many apples are we left with?

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Jonathan Swift just got a modest boner.

That's a cute name for it. Not perfectly descriptive, I hope.