# collinsc, you have revealed your deficiencies.  Allow me to assist you.

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [February 23, 2004, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/collinsc-you-have-revealed-your-deficiencies-allow-me-to-assist-you/230620 "2004-02-23T05:42:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2004, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/collinsc-you-have-revealed-your-deficiencies-allow-me-to-assist-you/230620/21 "2004-02-24T07:53:13Z")

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> [@collinsc](#):
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> Again, you’re right, I do find fat disgusting. If someone wants to ask me how I feel about it, I will tell them. You asked, I answered.

What the fuck does that mean?

Someone posts a general thread asking for opinions and that gives you the excuse of being a colossal asshole? Let me guess, are you one of those “No offense, I’m just being HONEST” bastards, who doesn’t care about hurting other people’s feelings, because they somehow ‘deserve’ being insulted because they don’t fit your standards of how people should look or behave?

If someone has a problem or a strong negative association with a particular topic, as you obviously do, maybe it would be best to stay out of those threads? If someone posted a picture of themselves in a prom dress, and some jackass took the opportunity to say “The plunging neckline makes you look like a cheap whore, I disagree with women showing as much skin as they do today”, we’d be flaming him, too. Grow the fuck up.

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**Author:** ![elf6c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c57346/32.png) [@elf6c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elf6c)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2004, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/collinsc-you-have-revealed-your-deficiencies-allow-me-to-assist-you/230620/22 "2004-02-24T13:47:40Z")

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> [@Stoid](#):
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> Do you object to the word “bigot” as I’ve used it here?

Yeah, its a bit of a stretch. Normally the word is used to reflect religious or racial persecution.

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> bigot
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> \Big"ot, n. [F. bigot a bigot or hypocrite, a name once given to the Normans in France. Of unknown origin; possibly akin to Sp. bigote a whisker; hombre de bigote a man of spirit and vigor; cf. It. s-bigottire to terrify, to appall. Wedgwood and others maintain that bigot is from the same source as Beguine, Beghard.]
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> 1. A hypocrite; esp., a superstitious hypocrite. [Obs.]
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> 2. A person who regards his own faith and views in matters of religion as unquestionably right, and any belief or opinion opposed to or differing from them as unreasonable or wicked. In an extended sense, a person who is intolerant of opinions which conflict with his own, as in politics or morals; one obstinately and blindly devoted to his own church, party, belief, or opinion.
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> To doubt, where bigots had been content to wonder and believe. --Macaulay.  
> Source: Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

I believe the term you may be looking for is “asshat”, “shit-for-brains” or the like.

As to the topic, carrying enough extra weight to be classified as obese is certainly not good thing in any way, nor something most people choose willingly. The fact this person was out running should be applauded and encouraged. People with weight issues who exercise should be looked upon with favor IMHO, not jokes. They are at least trying.

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