Okay. I used to defend obese people and the still accepted derision of them….ie. name calling, etc….but I am getting to the point where I am losing sympathy and patience with them. In the last several weeks I have sat down on the bus next to people that literally take-up one and a half seats worth of space….but it’s not just that….it’s the scarey number of them walking with canes because their knees are messed-up from the excessive weight or even worse the ones that can no longer walk and are in motorized wheel chairs….these people need to smarten up….or at least be taxed on their goodies….I no longer accept that it is glandular or genetic…..it is what it is….people with little or no self control at the trough.
—tired of ultra fatties
This article appears in Jan 7-13, 2010.
Hear! Hear! If you take up two seats you should pay two fares!
There have been a few times where I’ve had to stand the entire bus trip because several wide load women have taken up the entire two person sideways seats. At the end of a long, tiring day of work the last thing I want to see is three massive women taking up six seats on a packed bus.
create a bylaw, why don’t you? Sad.
I don’t really care what size you are in life, people are free to make their own choices, but please don’t try to squeeze in to the empty seat between two other people if you can’t fit. I don’t like your ass sitting half-way on my thigh, thankyouverymuch.
Honestly, how could anyone let themselves get SO fat that they end up riding a fatmobile because they can’t walk? I can see being overweight or even slightly obese, but…I have PCOS which makes it a nightmare to lose weight and I have a tendency to gain a lot if I don’t watch what I eat/take my medication, and even in order for ME to get up to a point where I’d need a fatmobile I’d have to eat a fuck of a lot of food. I stuffed my gob all Christmas and I only gained around 2 pounds over the entire month of december…I can’t imagine eating like that on a regular basis (and more). After a month of over eating I feel pretty blah (still)!
I mean SERIOUSLY, how much do these people eat to get so fucking fat????
Oh I don’t know…after standing outside in the frigid weather at a bus stop for over a half hour, I was surprisingly happy to snuggling into the wee space between two rather large women…they smelled like fresh bread and sugar…and I was toasty warm in no time at all
= )
Be grateful, OP, that it isn’t summer – those same lardtubs will be releasing their cascading mounds of exposed, dimpled flesh that could very well engulf you.
HKM, you’re lucky. The last time I was in that situation, all I could smell was cheese. Not good cheese. Goat that died and relaxed its sphincter in the hot sun kind of cheese.
omfg i have a special hate for fat people on motorized fatmobiles; there fuck’n terrors coming up behind you on the sidewalk and if you don’t move in 1.4 seconds they’ll blast you with there fog horn; omfg they could cause postage in me!
Okay, I gotta admit…had it been summer, there is no way I would have squeezed into that spot. Being suctioned to a sweaty stranger would not be good. First, there’s that whole what if she gets up to leave first and I am dragged up out of my seat while attached to her thigh. Or, if the suction does breaks, the loud slurp noise would be rather embarrassing. As well, working all day in clothes that were soaked in another person’s goat-cheese sweat would be rather gross–especially when they dried and chaffed.
Hockey stick !!! Toss it under their wheels and watch them try to go !!! Best thing ever !!! Or suggest the jenny crack diet to them – and now you make money selling them crack while watching them lose 300 lbs in two weeks !!! Just a suggestion .
I was on the bus one day when this XXXXXL woman got on; she actually made the bus sway when she got on/off. I actually felt sad for her.
As much of a cop out it is, I put a good portion of blame on society. There’s so many conflicting statements out there; like “be yourself and as long as you like the way you look, it’s okay” and “to be beautiful, you have to weigh 100 pounds and fit into a size 0 pair of jeans”. Top this clusterfuck of mixed messages/self-esteem issues off with a healthy dose of fried, fast, and delicious foods, you’ve got a weight problem.
That said, I can’t understand why anyone would allow themselves to get that large and not consider their health. I’ve always struggled with my weight, and especially recently because I have a sometimes crippling arthritis in my right knee (unlike Groundskeeper Willy, I did not get this crippling arthritis while playing Space Invaders) and my weight always complicates matters. So, I try to keep the weight off by being active, however, that can be difficult given how my knee feels sometimes. I can totally relate to how somebody can get that heavy. It can be an interesting dichotomy.
i still don’t understand how you get morbidly obese; i’m a recovered alcoholic, gambler,druggy,smoker;dirtbag you name a vice and i’ve done it in spades shit i’m 191 and should be 170; i just don’t know how fat you have to get before you say fuck it and give up completely!
This seems as good a bitch to ask as any other- where has our darling Kay gone? There’s lots of new material today, I would have thought she’d be all over it by now…
She’s taken a long walk off a short pier, I hope.
I was just thinking the same thing lehova…after her little “you win bastards!” fit, she has yet to post anything further. Oddly the only other activity I noted after that was that she posted on her BioProfile that she “wanted to die”…
I am thinking she has just been awol due to a lack of Dorito’s and Red Bull.
I’d rather sit next to a fatty than a smelly fool.
You know you’ve really overdone it when you have a gravity well, creating moonlets from past meals. Chicken bones, wrappers, they orbit.
Would you really prefer the fatties to stand in front of you rather than sit beside you? Wouldn’t want this to happen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vwICUhGz78
Hahaha Q I love the one were the bottle throwing kids hit Phil in the gut and he belches!
qpmz… he was more off to the side than in front of….& personally I would rather them be in front, in case the driver slams on the brakes…then have them standing behind me !
try walking in their shoes asshole.big people cannot help the way they are.i have a lot of friends that would be considered overweight.male and female both.just try being them,before you start to shoot your fucking gob off next time.
Hog, there’s definitely a bigger retard. You’re at least entertaining and can make an actual contribution to the discussions!
I tells er as i sees er . Thanks lehova !!!
Hey maybe our local schitz kay went back to calgary? I’ll let you guys know if i see her ( I pass the local east village with all the crackers and cokeheads ” in it on the way to work . . I’ll let you guys know if i see a really fucked up one
simply ignore and she’ll go away.
To be perfectly blunt though, those seats are pretty tiny…
I’m no fatty but my shoulders span well over the seat requirement thus making me scrunch the entire time or trying to sit sideways/diagonal just so someone can sit beside me on those damn things.
I certainly know I wouldn’t be able to sit beside someone with my dimensions if the case arose. One of us would be half in the aisle.
I am not considered “obese” by any stretch (including my Wii Fit – lol), but even *I* have trouble not having my arse spill over a seat and a half on the bus. Another reason I bought a car.
The office chair I sit in leaves 3″ clearance for my butt on either side. On bus seats, I overlap on either side by about an inch or two. This to me says that the bus seats are small, not that my ass is big. (Unless I had a huge office chair, which I do not).
Therefore, even JLO would be hard-pressed to not take up”a seat and a half” on a Metro TransHit bus. Maybe PDG can get us the exact dimensions so you people can stop griping about “fatties” taking up space when even “medium-sized people” can’t be expected to fit into the seats…
Just a thought. Mind you, the 400lb folks eating 6 big macs at a time *should* potentially go see someone for help…
i agree gidget…my shoulders can sure pack a punch, my ass fits but there be no room for my legs
“Dunno – but it feels empty without me being the only retard !!!” I’ll agree you’re retarded. And say you’re also a douchbag that plays puppet.
the only smaller seat I can find is one at the metro centre….
holy crap-cakes… I can’t move once I’m sitting.
I feel like Gulliver in there.
I have sympathy for the obese people that were brought up that way by their parents. When I see fat five year olds it breaks my heart. These kids are most likely going to be fat though middle school high-school and all their adult lives. Habits your parents teach you are hard to break. And starting to lose weight when you’re already so big can be overwhelming. It’s fucking child abuse in my opinion.
On the flip side, I have a friend who used to be really fat in highschool. Apparently he was fat as a kid too. Pretty much his entire family was obese, they never exercised and ate pretty much all junk and fast food. He had some serious health problems because of the extra poundage and finally got sick of it. It took a LONG time but not he lost all of it… no liposuction or magic infomercial pills. Just eating right and exercise or as he fondly put it “torture”.
You know… Bulimia was invented for a reason…. Just sayin….they could eat their cake just not have it stick to their asses too….
halicowton… I’m betting half the bitchers think that’s a country in the middle-east…
Come visit Bulimia!!! we have lavish washrooms with plenty of kneeling space and extra large toilets…. and binaca built right into the faucets.
as a sound diet plan though, you can’t really beat it for shedding pounds…now if only you can stop the hydrochloric acid burning your esophageal lining every time you have something you need to purge. I suppose finding a base you can ingest prior to ‘removal’ would be a sure fire winner… certainly more popular than the next ‘Olestra’.
LOL @ zzz!
I’m slim, but my shoulders are broad and I can’t sit in those effing seats between ANY two other people comfortably