# Fat patient in the blood lab center **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 8, 2009, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fat-patient-in-the-blood-lab-center/513059 "2009-10-08T15:58:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![BigBertha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d78d45/32.png) [@BigBertha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigBertha)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2009, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fat-patient-in-the-blood-lab-center/513059/61 "2009-10-08T18:17:01Z")
If the Op is disgusted by fat people, theres no hope for him, thye are many and will take over soon, and then he’ll be stuck in some reeducation camp where they force feed him butter. heh. ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2009, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fat-patient-in-the-blood-lab-center/513059/62 "2009-10-08T18:20:59Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > So everyone in the world should be not only encouraged, but required, to meet whatever arbitrary standards of appearance you determine are appropriate? > Seig Heil, Motherfrakker\*. > \*Motherfrakker is not on the forbidden words list. If it were, I’d have called him something else, possibly “Actualizer of the classical Oeidipal fantasy”. Is it against the rules to call **bri1600bv** an impotent douchebag? ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2009, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fat-patient-in-the-blood-lab-center/513059/63 "2009-10-08T18:24:43Z")
> [@stuthehistoryguy](#): > > Is it against the rules to call **bri1600bv** an impotent douchebag? Well, I’m not sure the internet is a reliable medium for diagnosing erectile disfunction, but I’m not a doctor or a Starfleet officer, so I have no objection. ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2009, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fat-patient-in-the-blood-lab-center/513059/64 "2009-10-08T18:27:20Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > Well, I’m not sure the internet is a reliable medium for diagnosing erectile disfunction, but I’m not a doctor or a Starfleet officer, so I have no objection. Damn man, are you kidding? If all the spam e-mails I get are indicative of anything, erectile dysfunction is one of the easiest things to diagnose over the internet. ---
**Author:** ![bucketybuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2009, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fat-patient-in-the-blood-lab-center/513059/65 "2009-10-08T18:28:14Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Why are you capitalizing Tiger? This is bad usage, unless the Tiger is also a Realtor. Thats how I spell it. Deal with it biatch. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2009, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fat-patient-in-the-blood-lab-center/513059/66 "2009-10-08T18:28:31Z")
> [@bri1600bv](#): > > Being fat has everything to do with a bad stick. I saw them say it on a TV show we’re they’re trying to operate on a blimpo. The veins are buried under 2-3 inches of blubber. > > . Wait, guys, he saw it on _TV_! And we all know TV _never_ lies! ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2009, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fat-patient-in-the-blood-lab-center/513059/67 "2009-10-08T18:34:46Z")
> [@bucketybuck](#): > > Thats how I spell it. Deal with it biatch. Well, I for one don’t want to have to pay for health care for people who capitalize arbitrary words on message board postings. ---
**Author:** ![torie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/77aa72/32.png) [@torie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/torie)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2009, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fat-patient-in-the-blood-lab-center/513059/68 "2009-10-08T18:37:11Z")
**bri1600bv** is a comic genius. That was fun. ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2009, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fat-patient-in-the-blood-lab-center/513059/69 "2009-10-08T18:45:39Z")
You ever notice how fat people dance like _this_, and thin people dance like _this_? ---
**Author:** ![bucketybuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2009, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fat-patient-in-the-blood-lab-center/513059/70 "2009-10-08T18:50:46Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > Well, I for one don’t want to have to pay for health care for people who capitalize arbitrary words on message board postings. The nHs welcomes all people who capitalize, arbitrary or not. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2009, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fat-patient-in-the-blood-lab-center/513059/71 "2009-10-08T18:51:21Z")
> [@woodstockbirdybird](#): > > You ever notice how fat people dance like _this_, and thin people dance like _this_? The main difference is fat people dancing is hilarious! ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2009, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fat-patient-in-the-blood-lab-center/513059/72 "2009-10-08T19:15:24Z")
> [@bri1600bv](#): > > I’m not an asshole at all. I don’t like being inconvenienced and forced to pay money for people or even looking at people, frankly, who are too distusting, passive and useless to control their eating/exercise habits. > > If we want to move toward a more advanced/progressive society, we need to forcibly curb this behavior. The easiest way is to just not pay for it. I totally agree. It’s outrageous, the way certain Internet posters are too useless and disgusting to control their attention-whoring habits. I don’t like being inconvenienced and forced to read illiterate and obtuse ravings that appear to have been typed up by an infinite amount of monkeys. If we want to move toward a more advanced/progressive World Wide Web, we need to forcibly curb this behavior. The easiest way is to just not feed the trolls. ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2009, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fat-patient-in-the-blood-lab-center/513059/73 "2009-10-08T19:21:42Z")
Now, now. The OP didn’t need an _infinite_ amount of monkeys to type. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2009, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fat-patient-in-the-blood-lab-center/513059/74 "2009-10-08T19:40:28Z")
> [@Lightray](#): > > Now, now. The OP didn’t need an _infinite_ amount of monkeys to type. A dozen monkeys. Twenty-five minutes. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2009, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fat-patient-in-the-blood-lab-center/513059/75 "2009-10-08T19:46:31Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > Is this a whoosh or parody? I’m not good at figuring out these things, and I need to know whether to laugh or flame you. Either way it will probably end badly. ---
**Author:** ![Gukumatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/74df32/32.png) [@Gukumatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gukumatz)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2009, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fat-patient-in-the-blood-lab-center/513059/76 "2009-10-08T20:03:02Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Pay it forward, please. > > Go clownify **Starving Artist** in the Stupid Republican Idea for the Day thread. **Mod’s Note** : I’m not stepping in on whether this thread is a troll or not, but cross-pollination of Pit threads and dragging in unrelated people in a negative sense isn’t really good form. Not that it merits a warning or anything remotely like that, especially when it’s as mild as this, but it certainly doesn’t belong here. Unless **Starving Artist** is well known to hate fat people with the fury of a thousand suns, of course. There isn’t a Rule on this, of course, and if you feel I’m singling you out unfairly, I’d be glad to talk the matter over with you in a PM. - Gukumatz ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2009, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fat-patient-in-the-blood-lab-center/513059/77 "2009-10-08T20:10:05Z")
> [@Gukumatz](#): > > Unless **Starving Artist** is well known to hate fat people with the fury of a thousand suns, of course. Nobody was fat in the 1950’s. That’s the problem with liberals, you see. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2009, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fat-patient-in-the-blood-lab-center/513059/78 "2009-10-08T20:15:12Z")
> [@Ichini\_Sanshigo](#): > > No it doesn’t. My arms are like twigs and every time I’ve gotten blood drawn, it’s been a nightmare of trying to find the vein. Correlation does not equal causation. Just because some people with a healthy weight can have difficult veins has no relation to the difficulty added by layers of fatty tissue. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2009, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fat-patient-in-the-blood-lab-center/513059/79 "2009-10-08T20:19:32Z")
> [@Gukumatz](#): > > **Mod’s Note** : I’m not stepping in on whether this thread is a troll or not, but cross-pollination of Pit threads and dragging in unrelated people in a negative sense isn’t really good form. Not that it merits a warning or anything remotely like that, especially when it’s as mild as this, but it certainly doesn’t belong here. Unless **Starving Artist** is well known to hate fat people with the fury of a thousand suns, of course. > > There isn’t a Rule on this, of course, and if you feel I’m singling you out unfairly, I’d be glad to talk the matter over with you in a PM. > > - Gukumatz Are we really going to start enforcing keeping Pit threads on topic? I mean, you are basically saying we should only insult people in relevant threads, right? This’ll be interesting, in a February/March 2009 way… (Not that I _inherently_ disapprove…) [SIZE=2]ETA: Ya know, I think I’m gonna copy this over to an ATMB thread. [/SIZE] ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2009, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fat-patient-in-the-blood-lab-center/513059/80 "2009-10-08T20:20:22Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > “Actualizer of the classical Oeidipal fantasy” Consider this stolen. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fat-patient-in-the-blood-lab-center/513059.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fat-patient-in-the-blood-lab-center/513059.md?page=5)