# dissin fat people and the disabled

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dissin-fat-people-and-the-disabled/695564>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 15, 2014, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dissin-fat-people-and-the-disabled/695564 "2014-08-15T00:49:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2014, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dissin-fat-people-and-the-disabled/695564/15 "2014-08-17T01:16:18Z")

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> [@slowlearner](#):
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> I can be real mean spirited towards fat people because

I stopped reading there because thats where the nonsense began.

BTW- Just a couple posts back from this same poster? This gem:  
[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=17484898#post2](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=17484898#post2)

> [@Questions about the Chinese Army](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-the-chinese-army/691391/2):
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> 1.you don’t have to gorge to go 3 days w/o food, with sufficient water a healthy person can go 2-3 weeks w/o food, I’ve done it and have watched friends do it. This is called fasting.

Credibility? Lost. Not sure what you kept yourself full of for those 2-3 weeks, but if your toothbrush has maggots, corn, and peanuts, none of us would be surprised.

> [@carnut](#):
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> I am asking slowlearner where my compassion should lie

If a bolt was driven through your brain in a horrible DIY-gone-wrong home improvement accident… and 3 doctors said your brain was just too damaged to save your frontal lobe, but you never used Luminosity… where should his compassion lie?

“Thats a horrible waste of a damn-fine ten-penny nail…”

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