# Heeeeeeeeey FATTIES **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 5, 2010, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heeeeeeeeey-fatties/531465 "2010-03-05T21:17:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 19
**Author:** ![ivn1188](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e480ec/32.png) [@ivn1188](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivn1188)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heeeeeeeeey-fatties/531465/361 "2010-03-07T02:03:18Z")
Yet, it’s ok for extreme fatties to say “I’m big and beautiful and hot as hell”? I mean, there’s a double standard here. Oh, I forgot – it’s because you still feel superior to the fatty, but not the mean hipster kids. ---
**Author:** ![you\_with\_the\_face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ecccb3/32.png) [@you\_with\_the\_face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/you_with_the_face)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heeeeeeeeey-fatties/531465/362 "2010-03-07T02:05:22Z")
> [@ivn1188](#): > > No, he will not even care how hot she thinks she is. He doesn’t care because _he actually just doesn’t care_. There’s truth in this statement. Along these lines, it makes me wonder exactly why **Shots** or anyone else cares enough to rant about a nonspecific subset of fat people who entertain delusional excuses that of no palpable consequence to anyone except themselves and their waistbands. Don’t get me wrong, I’m as much in the “eat less, excercise more” camp as the next skinny person, and I also know how costly obesity is on a societal level. But I’m too busy taking care of my own diet and fitness to give a rat fuck about what’s going on in the head of someone struggling with their weight. Most people I know who are overweight don’t blame their condition on genes or any other uncontrollable factors, so I don’t think the OP’s juvenile attempt to “educate” the fatties about their lazy, slovenly ways is going to do anything except make her look rabidly assy. (And I don’t mean that literally.) Can I also say how amused I am by the way **Shots** busted out this OP as if she had some new, eye-popping knowledge to drop on our heads? Seems she had some kind of epiphany by looking at some pretty slides at work or something, but the whole genetic explanation for obesity stopped being credible um…about 30 years ago when the whole fucking epidemic started. Next thing you know, **Shots** is going to start demanding skeptics of the germ theory to start explaining why so many people in the same households get the flu every year if evil spirits are to blame for our maladies. ---
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heeeeeeeeey-fatties/531465/363 "2010-03-07T02:06:07Z")
> [@ivn1188](#): > > Yet, it’s ok for extreme fatties to say “I’m big and beautiful and hot as hell”?. Sure it’s ok as long as they don’t then add something like “and all you skinny bitches are ugly and stupid and look like 12 year old boys!!!” ---
**Author:** ![CircleofWillis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/54ee81/32.png) [@CircleofWillis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CircleofWillis)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heeeeeeeeey-fatties/531465/364 "2010-03-07T02:12:09Z")
> [@ivn1188](#): > > **CircleofWillis** is out of cialis, so he’s a little cranky. Why must you be so mean!? Because when virgins speak of their “experience”.. and, no, Yahoo chat, a fresh box of Puffs and the economy bottle of Jergens doesn’t count… as if speaking for all, I tend to get testy, Cialis notwithstanding. ---
**Author:** ![tacoloco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tacoloco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tacoloco)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heeeeeeeeey-fatties/531465/365 "2010-03-07T02:15:05Z")
> [@ivn1188](#): > > I’m sure that you and the other socially inept guys nailing or aspiring to nail hoagly chicks will agree. Like I said, denial is a strong, strong force. Please post some pictures of what you’re banging, because I’m pretty well convinced that you aren’t all that either. Here’s you: [IVN](http://img.wonkette.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/fat-blogger.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Rumor\_Watkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@Rumor\_Watkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rumor_Watkins)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heeeeeeeeey-fatties/531465/366 "2010-03-07T02:17:22Z")
> [@tacoloco](#): > > Please post some pictures of what you’re banging, because I’m pretty well convinced that you aren’t all that either. > > Here’s you: > > [IVN](http://img.wonkette.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/fat-blogger.jpg) wait, I thought you fatties thought that being fat wasn’t a bad thing and was not a good way to insult others? ---
**Author:** ![Trepa\_Mayfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Trepa\_Mayfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trepa_Mayfield)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heeeeeeeeey-fatties/531465/367 "2010-03-07T02:18:43Z")
> [@Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](#): > > \ > > My advice: Take control of your life. Take responsibility for your actions. Find out what’s preventing you from doing what you want to do and work around it – or right through it. Don’t make excuses: find reasons and overcome challenges. > > And don’t take anyone on the internet seriously. The opinions of some chick in yellow socks have on effect on my fucking life, and since I know for damn sure my life is a hell of a lot happier, more fun, and fulfilling than 90% of the people out there, I could give two shits about what anyone else thinks. > \ Oddly enough, I think you and Shot From Guns are saying the same thing, just from opposite directions. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heeeeeeeeey-fatties/531465/368 "2010-03-07T02:20:54Z")
> [@tacoloco](#): > > Please post some pictures of what you’re banging, because I’m pretty well convinced that you aren’t all that either. > > Here’s you: > > [IVN](http://img.wonkette.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/fat-blogger.jpg) Hmm…looks like he’s a defense attorney. ---
**Author:** ![bucketybuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heeeeeeeeey-fatties/531465/369 "2010-03-07T02:48:21Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > Everyone knows that and in my opinion it doesn’t carry all that much weight. Heh heh heh…😃 ---
**Author:** ![tacoloco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tacoloco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tacoloco)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heeeeeeeeey-fatties/531465/370 "2010-03-07T02:48:34Z")
> [@Rumor\_Watkins](#): > > wait, I thought you fatties thought that being fat wasn’t a bad thing and was not a good way to insult others? Very few people think being fat isn’t a bad thing. ---
**Author:** ![toodlepip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/97f17d/32.png) [@toodlepip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toodlepip)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heeeeeeeeey-fatties/531465/371 "2010-03-07T02:50:23Z")
Well, never mind fatties, I pit poor people. Stop whining about it and get some money, or something. And depressed people. Cheer up, for fuck’s sake, it’s not that hard. And insomniacs. They should just shut up and go to sleep, goddammit. And bald people. Why don’t they just grow some hair? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heeeeeeeeey-fatties/531465/372 "2010-03-07T02:55:30Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > I’m confused here, do you find it bad that \*\*Sleeps \*\*is disgusted by a open pedo? No, but harping on the issue à la **Muffin** and her thought police is. ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heeeeeeeeey-fatties/531465/373 "2010-03-07T03:42:43Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > Well I apologise if it was. But it seemed like I needed to make the point. because the person (I forget who) seemed to be suggesting that you can solve the hunger problem just by eating carrots, which to me came across as very naive. > > If all an obese person needed to do was eat carrots instead of cheeseburgers then there wouldn’t be a problem. > > The problem is \*wanting \*to eat the burgers despite \*knowing \*the carrots would be the better option. But that is a problem thin people have as well as heavy people. Almost everyone has an emotional and juvenile relationship with food. From the first time our mom gives us a cookie for being good or a sucker because we had to get a shot at the doctor, we associate food with reward and comfort. Whether you are trying to recreate the feeling of your childhood Thanksgiving or never got it other than from a Norman Rockwell painting, food is usually tied into our emotional well being in a truly dysfunctional way. (Add in the societal pressure for ‘thin’ - particularly for young women - which tends to result in an eating disorder the other direction). However, some people decide to break their emotional relationship with food - or at least control it (a girl STILL needs a bag of Oreos after a bad breakup - just not after every fruitless and frustrating first date), and others let it control them and impact their health and their lives. And, granted, some of us got a better head start from our parents (morbidly obese children make me insane). ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heeeeeeeeey-fatties/531465/374 "2010-03-07T04:06:20Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > No, but harping on the issue à la **Muffin** and her thought police is. Sorry, I don’t understand that. What do you mean à la **Muffin**. Clearly I missed something. I’m more of a lurker these days except in Baseball threads. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heeeeeeeeey-fatties/531465/375 "2010-03-07T04:25:29Z")
> [@FloatyGimpy](#): > > Sure it’s ok as long as they don’t then add something like “and all you skinny bitches are ugly and stupid and look like 12 year old boys!!!” People on the Dope have done that quite a bit in the past, though, and there’s usually a half page of posts or more before they’re called on it, if at all. ---
**Author:** ![Claude\_Remains](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/898d66/32.png) [@Claude\_Remains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claude_Remains)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heeeeeeeeey-fatties/531465/376 "2010-03-07T05:22:24Z")
Open pedo? ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heeeeeeeeey-fatties/531465/377 "2010-03-07T10:34:17Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > Yeah, there are going to be comments about fat people on the public stage. Everyone knows that and in my opinion it doesn’t carry all that much weight. But in a forum like this, where certain people go on and on about what fat, lazy (and by implication, worthless) people they are, the effect can be potentially much more harmful. To a degree it’s all in the context. > > But my comment to you wasn’t intended to say that no mention must ever be made by anyone with regard to people being overweight or fat, but just to say that I think taking the attitude that being mindful of the psychological well being of others is something worthwhile and not equivalent to “internet baby-sitting”, a term that strikes me as being indicative of a callous disregard for the feelings of others and/or their psychological well being. > > This isn’t to say that I think any mention of a weight problem is going to send someone over the edge, but I do think that particularly mean-spirited, mocking ones like **Imasquare** alluded to has that kind of potential. Protip: If you are sensitive about being overweight, don’t open the thread called **“Heeeeeeeeeey FATTIES”**! ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heeeeeeeeey-fatties/531465/378 "2010-03-07T14:24:23Z")
“Hey DUMBASS! HA! Made you look!” ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heeeeeeeeey-fatties/531465/379 "2010-03-07T14:27:52Z")
I’d wager this thread caused a measurable uptick in sales of ice cream and snack foods. Taunting chubbies is, therefore, good for the economy. That’d make it a moral imperative for any true conservative. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heeeeeeeeey-fatties/531465/380 "2010-03-07T14:53:33Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > Yeah, there are going to be comments about fat people on the public stage. Everyone knows that and in my opinion it doesn’t carry all that much weight. _ba-dum!_ _tsssh_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heeeeeeeeey-fatties/531465.md?page=18) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heeeeeeeeey-fatties/531465.md?page=20)