# Dream On, Fattie!! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 3, 2003, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dream-on-fattie/166162 "2003-04-03T09:17:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![torben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5daacb/32.png) [@torben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/torben)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2003, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dream-on-fattie/166162/101 "2003-04-04T10:54:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jesseboy \* > \*\*You people are fucking pathetic!! And you are a fucking dumbass! What’s your point? Oh wait, to have a point you’d have to have a fucking clue. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2003, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dream-on-fattie/166162/102 "2003-04-04T11:27:28Z")
Well, I take back what I said about the OP being facetous. Sure, he thought he was trying to just pull our leg, but this time, his ineffectual disclaimers (“water seeks its own level”) tipped his hand. A part of him really believes this bullshit. Oh well. I’m sure that many women that jessieboy would find attractive would not consider him on their “level”, since they actually are looking for someone with a sense of good taste, tact and compassion. ---
**Author:** ![Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aslan_of_Narnia)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2003, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dream-on-fattie/166162/103 "2003-04-04T11:45:20Z")
The thing I don’t get is why **Jessieboy** keeps on (paraphrasing) basically saying “Hey, it was a joke! Get a sense of humor!”\* when almost everybody thinks he’s a trolling moron and saying “Joke!”\* won’t change anything. **JessieBoy** It’s not a very funny joke to some people and no matter if you post saying it was a joke over and over again, it won’t (likely) change their mind about you in this thread. So please, give it up. \*Note, this are not direct references. I’m not misquoting him, just giving the gist of what he said. ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2003, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dream-on-fattie/166162/104 "2003-04-04T12:28:34Z")
True, it’s not a very funny joke, but the thing that is getting people disgusted with jessieboy is how he keeps on digging himself in deeper, and deeper. He just can’t let it go. Had he simply said from the beginning, “Hey, joke. Sorry y’all didn’t get it” and left it at that, many of us would have reacted differently. But he kept on adding more comments about those fat people, and water rising to its level, blah blah blah, and now we’ve all got his number. Whether he is joking or not, it doesn’t matter now. It’s obvious that he still really believes this shit, at least somewhat. Nice. ---
**Author:** ![Trion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2003, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dream-on-fattie/166162/105 "2003-04-04T13:49:39Z")
Good job **jesseboy**. Why don’t you tell us “It’s a joke” a few more times. That _always_ makes it funny. > [@](#): > > Besides, let’s be honest: Water seeks, and finds its own level. Yes it does. Usually in the catagories of intelligence and emotional maturity. Which makes me think you should me looking for dates at Chuck E. Cheese’s. Nimrod. ---
**Author:** ![Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aslan_of_Narnia)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2003, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dream-on-fattie/166162/106 "2003-04-04T13:53:54Z")
I think that **jesseboy’s** next post in this thread will show if he’s a troll or not. ---
**Author:** ![Hamadryad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6de8d8/32.png) [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2003, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dream-on-fattie/166162/107 "2003-04-04T14:14:30Z")
You know, the first piece of spam I got _during_ the WTC/Pentagon attacks was from [FlyCheap.com](http://FlyCheap.com), with great deals out of Boston and Washington, DC. The piece of me that wasn’t horrified giggled like a little schoolgirl. However, I was not fucking brain-damaged enough to think that anyone else would share my amusement. Unfortunately, I can’t call the OP anything involving the words “fuck,” “anus,” “ass,” or “shit,” as any of these terms would imply that he’s either fun, useful, or both. I’ll imply that he must have been born before 1973…or he likely wouldn’t have been born at all. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2003, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dream-on-fattie/166162/108 "2003-04-04T15:01:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jesseboy \* > You think i should give her a chance just to be _nice_? What is this, fucking courtesy class? I would be lying to myself and it would be unfair to her. You should date only those you feel like dating (assuming they are willing to put up with you as well, of course), and if that means you only date slender women, or only blondes, or only women of Japanese descent, or only women with Brooklyn accents, be my guest. Though I don’t really expect you to have any dates anytime soon other than your hand and some Internet porn. I don’t think you, or **Clint** , or **TaxGuy** , can find one person here who as said anything to the contrary. That straw man has already been abused until the stuffing has fallen out of him, 'kay? The problem is your “the nerve of her, even _thinking_ of trying to get something going with me” attitude. First of all, it says that you believe that fat people are somehow inferior to the rest of humanity. That’s pretty repulsive on your part, I admit, but if you kept quiet about it, you might be tolerable company for bona fide human beings. But more to the point, as others have pointed out, you believe that their inferiority is so universally obvious that they ought to recognize it and ‘mind their station,’ so to speak: that fat people should implicitly recognize thin people as their betters, and not aspire to romances with us folk of normal weight. As you said, _after_ claiming the whole thing was a joke: > [@](#): > > Besides, let’s be honest: Water seeks, and finds its own level. Are their exceptions? Of course…but they are the minority. I can’t see much difference between your ‘joke’ and your serious statements. > [@](#): > > You may now return to your regularly scheduled bashing… Why bother? You aren’t even worth the effort of thinking up creative new insults. ---
**Author:** ![Feynn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecb155/32.png) [@Feynn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feynn)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2003, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dream-on-fattie/166162/109 "2003-04-04T15:33:09Z")
jesseboy - I’ve gotta say I was giving you the benefit of the doubt for a little while there… If water seeks it’s own level, how do you explain how a total assclown like yourself manage to seep in here and foul the waters? Just wondering, that’s all. ---
**Author:** ![Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aslan_of_Narnia)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2003, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dream-on-fattie/166162/110 "2003-04-04T15:48:24Z")
psst… what the hell is meant by ‘water seeking it’s own level’? ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2003, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dream-on-fattie/166162/111 "2003-04-04T16:08:11Z")
In this case, “water seeking its own level” refers to how a walk through the ocean of **jesseboy** ’s soul would scarcely get your feet wet. ---
**Author:** ![DwGrumby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecc23a/32.png) [@DwGrumby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DwGrumby)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2003, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dream-on-fattie/166162/112 "2003-04-04T16:14:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Hamadryad \* > > I’ll imply that he must have been born before 1973…or he likely wouldn’t have been born at all. 😃 Hamadryad, can you _imply_ a little harder for me, please? 🙂 (I was born August 19, 1972) ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2003, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dream-on-fattie/166162/113 "2003-04-04T16:36:08Z")
**jesseboy** is either trolling or terminally clueless. Either way, I don’t want him around here any more. And on a personal note, **DrLizardo** knows the way to a person’s heart. ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2003, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dream-on-fattie/166162/114 "2003-04-04T16:37:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Aslan2 \* > \*\*psst… what the hell is meant by ‘water seeking it’s own level’? \*\* It’s kind of like the old birds of a feather line. It means that like attracts like, that people of the same attitudes, or preferences, or “worth” tend to come together. In this case, it means that people stick in their own weight class, as the OP so eloquently put it. As for the protestations that it’s just a joke, I think the lady (or in this case, the asshat) doth protest too much. Even if it had been a joke, it would have been a seriously unfunny one. If I’d started a thread about how some black guy had had the audacity to think he had a chance with me (“He wasn’t pitch-black, but he was still pretty dark”), I’d have my ass handed to me on a plate, and deservedly so. Saying, “Oh, it was clearly a joke, you black people are all so over-sensitive” wouldn’t exactly fly, now would it? People would be pissed, regardless of their race, and they’d be right when they called me a racist, a stupid shallow asshat, an ignorant, misaimed handjob, or any other evaluation they wished to offer.Some things are just offensive and assholish, plain and simple, whether you’re a member of the target group or not. ---
**Author:** ![CrazyCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CrazyCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrazyCatLady)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2003, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dream-on-fattie/166162/115 "2003-04-04T16:39:32Z")
D’oh! That was me above, not **Dr.J**. (Damn that man for wanting to use the computer in his own home.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dream-on-fattie/166162.md?page=5)