# Rude...overweight people **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 8, 2004, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-overweight-people/239025 "2004-04-08T20:34:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-overweight-people/239025/41 "2004-04-09T02:00:48Z")
> [@TVeblen](#): > > Now let’s go back to talking about **Giraffe’s** balls.\* > > - > > Rules suspended purely for the purposes of discussion. No, I think discussing my balls falls within the rules. After all, they affect everyone! ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-overweight-people/239025/42 "2004-04-09T02:04:27Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > After all, they affect everyone! Affectionate little bastids. ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-overweight-people/239025/43 "2004-04-09T02:23:12Z")
Kansas and Missouri both do. I finally put a semi-reasonable weight since I’ve put on a lot since high school. As for the OP… you need to lurk more, obviously. Your posting style will do nothing for you but get you ridiculed… as it did here. You making rude comments is the same as they making rude comments. End of story. ---
**Author:** ![Lazlo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lazlo/32/9678_2.png) [@Lazlo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lazlo)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-overweight-people/239025/44 "2004-04-09T02:50:09Z")
Question: Is this an example of irony or hippocracy? ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-overweight-people/239025/45 "2004-04-09T03:00:13Z")
> [@FilmGeek](#): > > Kansas and Missouri both do. I finally put a semi-reasonable weight since I’ve put on a lot since high school. So does Illinois. I haven’t had an Ohio license for years but they used to require it as well. I’m guessing it’s a holdover from pre-photo days, for identification purposes. Kinda funny, actually, because there’s a standing folk-joke about _nobody_ telling the truth about it. Mine reads 15 pounds lighter than I actually am now. It was accurate four years ago but by-gum I’m gonna get back to it! No matter, because I’d still look like a dork in the photo. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-overweight-people/239025/46 "2004-04-09T03:00:15Z")
I think “hippocracy” _is_ irony. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-overweight-people/239025/47 "2004-04-09T03:18:21Z")
> [@Lazlo](#): > > Question: > > Is this an example of irony or hippocracy? Down with the hippocracy! Power to the skinny people! (I’m sorry, I don’t know if that was intentional or no, but it was too good a setup to pass up.) ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-overweight-people/239025/48 "2004-04-09T03:22:38Z")
> [@TVeblen](#): > > No matter, because I’d still look like a dork in the photo. If it’s not one way, it’s the other. Mine looks like a mugshot. ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-overweight-people/239025/49 "2004-04-09T03:25:50Z")
Is there something wrong with a hippo-ruled society? Are you prejudiced against hippos? ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-overweight-people/239025/50 "2004-04-09T03:46:15Z")
BRN 5-4 (some ridiculously low number) F D C4 02-21-2008 EYES HEIGHT WEIGHT SEX CLASS ISSUED EXPIRES That’s what… the top of my~!!! …driver’s… license~!!! lo…oks… like~!!! ---
**Author:** ![LolaBaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d2c977/32.png) [@LolaBaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaBaby)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-overweight-people/239025/51 "2004-04-09T03:46:53Z")
> [@AntaresJB](#): > > I’m honestly curious, do they include weight on DL’s in other states? They do in Hawaii. Of course, I lied~! Do you, think I am going to get into trouble for that//?? ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-overweight-people/239025/52 "2004-04-09T03:50:34Z")
> [@Lissla Lissar](#): > > Is there something wrong with a hippo-ruled society? Are you prejudiced against hippos? Actually, a proper hippocracy wouldn’t be ruled by _hippopotamuses_. It would be more like the Country of the Houyhnhnms, from _Gulliver’s Travels_. [/pedant] 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-overweight-people/239025/53 "2004-04-09T04:09:52Z")
> [@TVeblen](#): > > So does Illinois. I haven’t had an Ohio license for years but they used to require it as well. I’m guessing it’s a holdover from pre-photo days, for identification purposes. Kinda funny, actually, because there’s a standing folk-joke about _nobody_ telling the truth about it. > Mine reads 15 pounds lighter than I actually am now. It was accurate four years ago but by-gum I’m gonna get back to it! > No matter, because I’d still look like a dork in the photo. My brand spanking new Colorado license has the weight I (heh,heh) told them I was. They seized the Ohio license I’d had for eight months, so I don’t remember if there was a weight on it, BUT, while I’m here, let me tell you, Ohio had the WORST FUCKING PICTURE I’ve EVER seen of myself! EVER. I wear glasses, and the lady had me look down (to reduce reflection) and peer up (to show my eyes) so I looked like I was plotting a mass murder, and my hair is salt-and-pepper (90% salt) and my beard is salt-and-pepper (70% salt) and they both looked YELLOW! Not blonde, yellow. I swear, I can look at pictures from when I was 19, with skanky long hair wearing a flowered shirt and bellbottoms, and I’m not 1/10 as embarassed as I was by that one single driver’s license photo. OK, I’m working myself into a fit; I’m done. ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-overweight-people/239025/54 "2004-04-09T04:24:17Z")
> [@This Year's Model](#): > > My brand spanking new Colorado license has the weight I (heh,heh) told them I was. They seized the Ohio license I’d had for eight months, so I don’t remember if there was a weight on it, BUT, while I’m here, let me tell you, Ohio had the WORST FUCKING PICTURE I’ve EVER seen of myself! EVER. I wear glasses, and the lady had me look down (to reduce reflection) and peer up (to show my eyes) so I looked like I was plotting a mass murder, and my hair is salt-and-pepper (90% salt) and my beard is salt-and-pepper (70% salt) and they both looked YELLOW! Not blonde, yellow. I swear, I can look at pictures from when I was 19, with skanky long hair wearing a flowered shirt and bellbottoms, and I’m not 1/10 as embarassed as I was by that one single driver’s license photo. Yep, that sounds like my Ohio license, all right, minus the beard. (Only because I’m female, mind, though such details were obscured by the pure hideousness of the photo.) The clerk growled at me, “Don’t smile!”, so I looked both sinister _and_ embalmed. Lizzie Borden, perhaps, suspect with either buggy whips or axes. With that ugly mug, who’d even bother with trifling things like weight? ---
**Author:** ![agiantdwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8c91f0/32.png) [@agiantdwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/agiantdwarf)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-overweight-people/239025/55 "2004-04-09T04:38:46Z")
I’m going to write a dissertation analyzing the OP. It is truly worthy of deep thought. ---
**Author:** ![Tentacle\_Monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-overweight-people/239025/56 "2004-04-09T04:45:35Z")
Just a theory as to why the OP has so damn many line breaks. He/She/It has a low monitor resolution, and is using hard returns at the end of the line in the message box. Apparently, He/She/It hasn’t lurked quite long enough to infer that around these parts, we use a little thing called “word wrap”. At least He/She/It doesn’t use ‘u’ for “you”, ‘r’ for “are”, etc. But the Pit is a spectacularly bad choice for one’s first post, perhaps second only to GD. I’ve lurked for YEARS, and I’m still loath to go there. ---
**Author:** ![Lazlo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lazlo/32/9678_2.png) [@Lazlo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lazlo)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-overweight-people/239025/57 "2004-04-09T06:46:30Z")
> [@Tengu](#): > > Down with the hippocracy! Power to the skinny people! > > (I’m sorry, I don’t know if that was intentional or no, but it was too good a setup to pass up.) 😉 Lazlo, who does know how to use a spell checker. ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-overweight-people/239025/58 "2004-04-09T07:06:45Z")
> [@Left Hand of Dorkness](#): > > Actually, I agree with the OP. Rudeness is rudeness, and it’s perfectly legit to rant about rude comments on your size, whether that size is big or little. The word “skinny” is NOT a complimentary word: it’s one step above scrawny. I think when used by and about women the word “skinny” usually _is_ intended as a compliment, or at least a value-neutral word, like “long” in “Wow, your hair is so long!” In most cases people probably don’t mean to be insulting. Sometimes they do (when I was a 5’7" 115 lbs. teenager I got my share of truly mean-spirited remarks), but often not. Of course, commenting on other people’s physical appearance for no reason is still annoying and stupid, even if the comments are neutral. I’m sure women with long hair get sick of hearing about it all the time too. I’d rank such remarks up there with jokes or comments on people’s names – they’ve surely heard it before countless times, and even if what you want to say is perfectly innocent it’s going to be irritating from repetition alone. ---
**Author:** ![kung\_fu\_lola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f4b2a3/32.png) [@kung\_fu\_lola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kung_fu_lola)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-overweight-people/239025/59 "2004-04-09T07:15:18Z")
Waaah! Waaah! I’m 5’7" and under 120 pounds! Feel sorry for poor little me! Waah Waah! Waaaaaaaaaaaaah! ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-overweight-people/239025/60 "2004-04-09T07:56:19Z")
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