# Ask the fat guy! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 28, 2001, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-fat-guy/84393 "2001-09-28T22:17:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![jane\_says](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/47e85d/32.png) [@jane\_says](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jane_says)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2001, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-fat-guy/84393/61 "2001-10-03T02:06:47Z")
Excellent, funny, witty thread. I got me a big old fat guy at home, too. Which leads to the following: **Mouthbreather** : I sure as hell hope you are not my husband. Let’s see…6’3" - check. 280 - 300# - check. Permascowl - check. Shaved head - check. Ebay shopper - check. Mouthbreather - check. Wonderful GF - WTF??? You’re married. I mean, my husband is married. Do you have any idea how much trouble you’re gonna be in if I find out you’re pretending to me an unmarried fat guy? ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2001, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-fat-guy/84393/62 "2001-10-03T02:15:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SqrlCub \* > \*\*Hey Jayjay. 😉 /me blows kisses. Did Art ever finish remodeling bearidise? > > HUGS! > Sqrl \*\* You’re a Bearidiser?! Going to the Halloween event? _insert hopeful smiley here_ Art is still in the process of remodeling but things are much more cleaned up at the moment. Another round of wall-knocking is coming up though, and he’s skipping an event sometime toward the end of the year because he’s going to be getting heavy into demolition again soon. ☹ But Halloween is a go. If you want to discuss Bearidise, you can e-mail me…I don’t want to take over **essvee’s** thread. E-mail’s in the usual places…profile and mail icons right down there. 🙂 {{{ **sqrl** }}} jayjay ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_The\_Bold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/41988e/32.png) [@Dale\_The\_Bold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_The_Bold)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2001, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-fat-guy/84393/63 "2001-10-03T02:44:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Miller \* > \*\*When you hear the term “plus-sized,” do you have the sudden urge to hurt someone? God knows I do… \*\* It’s a funny thing about life, how “plus-sized” sounds like an insult, but “super-sized” sounds so inviting. ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2001, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-fat-guy/84393/64 "2001-10-03T14:27:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jane\_says \* > \*\*Excellent, funny, witty thread. I got me a big old fat guy at home, too. Which leads to the following: > > **Mouthbreather** : I sure as hell hope you are not my husband. … Do you have any idea how much trouble you’re gonna be in if I find out you’re pretending to me an unmarried fat guy? \*\* I am not pretending to be fat! Now, on being married…I’m going to have to plead the fifth… And I said I wanted CHICKEN POT PIE for dinner last night!!! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2001, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-fat-guy/84393/65 "2001-10-03T14:53:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by vivian \* > \*\*ummmmm…i do have a question. > now, i am a black female, which will explain why i am asking this question: > > what’s going on with fat white people’s elbows??? why do they look greenish-grey all the time? i have yet to see an average joe/jane fat white person with clean looking elbows… \*\* I’m a fat guy too (6’4" about 310lbs.), but my elbows are not greenish-grey, either! More or less the same sickly pink as the rest of me… where are you seeing these greenish-grey elbows, **viv**?🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2001, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-fat-guy/84393/66 "2001-10-03T16:27:21Z")
**essvee** , I don’t care about your size one way or the other. I do like your political views that you express here. Your brain & heart are in the right place, that’s all that matters. I really love ya, man. \ ---
**Author:** ![Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/soul_brother_number_two/32/3515_2.png) [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soul_Brother_Number_Two)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2001, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-fat-guy/84393/67 "2001-10-03T18:27:00Z")
jomo mojo, thanks for your kind words. back at ya, man. this thread has turned into a veritable love-in, and i am digging it. so, in that spirit… special to dale the bold: dale, i wish to sincerely apologize for my shameful piling on in that thread over there, you know of which i speak. im sorry, man. super size IS extremely inviting, because of all the extra fries, but i can never come close to finishing the gi-normous half gallon of soda pop that also comes with. in general, i am always astonished when i see someone, fat or no, blithely suckin down a 46 oz big gulp, or bucket o’ coke at the movies, et cetera. unless its liquor, i never have wanted to ingest such mass quantities of liquid, ever. need more room for chow, i guess. now i gotta a question, for my fellow fat men. why, why are we fat? why do we eat too much? im not looking for pat answers, like, we cant control ourselves. thats pretty fuckin obvious. im interested in what separates us from the slim, the obsession we have around eating bad food, and too much of it. i wasnt breast fed, and my mama didnt love me. (if i ever get a tattoo, thatll be it). even though i wasnt a fat kid, really, i have this burning need to have something in my mouth. joints and pipes, two and half packs of fucking winstons a day, buckets o’ cocktails, and mass quantities of chow. im wondering if there isnt a connection, slight as it may be. [bold]listen to me, normies: control is not the issue here![/bold] im not looking to pass the buck or assign blame to someone other than myself, rather i am genuinely interested in looking deeper than the obvious and shallow societal blaming/shaming stuff. maybe its too late in the thread, but i just thought of it. fat ladies, feel free to join in. i apologize in advance if my first lame attempt at coding fails; if it doesnt, i am a celebration! ---
**Author:** ![Tequila\_Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/41988e/32.png) [@Tequila\_Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tequila_Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2001, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-fat-guy/84393/68 "2001-10-03T19:33:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by vivian \* > \*\* > what’s going on with fat white people’s elbows??? why do they look greenish-grey all the time? i have yet to see an average joe/jane fat white person with clean looking elbows… \*\* While I am not a guy, I think I may have found the answer to this one. It’s not dirt or pigmentation, it is a shadow. My own unbent elbow appears to be slightly yellowish-grey in a mirror when no direct light is hitting it. ---
**Author:** ![Corrvin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bbce88/32.png) [@Corrvin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corrvin)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-fat-guy/84393/69 "2001-10-04T05:12:45Z")
I’m not a guy, nor am I anywhere near overweight, but I have really dry elbow skin, and when I neglect to lotion it every single day, it either soaks up dirt or something, or the dry skin gets stained, and gets sorta grayish. Then I scrub it and exfoliate it and swear that I won’t forget to moisturize it again. Roomie is a fat man sans grey elbows, and he concurs with me. He has great skin, damn him. Corr _off to scrub her face again_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-fat-guy/84393.md?page=3)