Fuck people are getting morbidly fat in this Province. Saw a lady on the bus yesterday- easily 400 lbs plus – couldn’t properly sit in a seat but had to kind of lie in it… naturally she had a cane… almost fell out of her seat once (or oozed out) when the bus mad an abrupt turn.
These people should not be allowed health insurance… I have no sympathy for them… they are a blite on society. —Double wide fat to be tied
This article appears in Sep 30 – Oct 6, 2010.
I once sat next to a very large lady on a plane. She had to squeeze into the arm rests and of course some of her body spilled over the side. She noticed I was uncomfy, looked at me and went “Oh I’m big boned, my hips won’t fit” … … no you’re not big boned … you’re fat.
Ever hear about the 800 lb woman who wants to be 1000 lb. She was on a talk show and when she was asked about her mobility she said, and I quote “movement is not my thing, I like sitting still, I see people playing tennis and I think that’s just way too much work” … absolutely ridiculous!
The result of all this obesity will be the herds of motorized mobility scooters taking over the earth and shattering our health care into itty-bitty pieces with their multiple complaints. Self-control seems to be as passe as good manners these days.
Screw bike lanes soon there will be a lane just for motorized mobility scooters.
The ultra cows are often out grazing at McDonalds, or roaming in the potato chip aisles at Superstore. Worse yet are the cows that wear those stretchy yoga pants and you can see their asses chomping the fabric.
I went the metro centre for Copperfield…paid over $100 a ticket for floor seats and when I arrived to my seat it was already being half used by the larger lady who was suppose to be seated next to me. When I went to sit down she said “thank goodness your small because they don`t make these seats big enough”…. I didn`t have the heart to say anything and had to share my seat through the whole show. 🙁
I honestly don’t see *that* many fat people around. Maybe I’m just not where the fat people are.*shrug*
OMG someone bitching that everyone is not like them. Go fuck yourself, these people pay taxes like everyone else. Maybe we shouldn’t give health insurance to athletes that injure themselves in their pursuits or to people who jump out of airplanes or hell, anyone who goes on a plane because man wasn’t meant to fly. And let’s not forget the military, police, and firefighters who purposely put themselves in harms way. Or even better arrogant fucking assholes like you OB.
Ya, but those people are actually doing some good things, whereas fatties take up space and get in my way.
I see these lard arses all over downtown Halifax…..men and women and it amazes me they have jobs at all. I am sure HR managers look for ways to exclude these folks from sucking on the health benefit coverage. Oh wait, I think they are call-centre cattle grazing at the Phone Farm!
theres a woman that regularly rides the same bus as I do and she’s so wide she takes up 2.5 seats. Once the side fascing seats were all full and she couldn’t even fit in the one remaining front facing seat.
I don’t get how people can LIVE with themselves at this size. Its disgusting, horrifying and people who are in their twenty’s shouldn’t have to use a cane to get around.
call me a bitch, but I refuse to move out of my seat because someone is too fat to fit.
As a large person of 260 lbs give or take I’m 6ft 1″, I have a physical job, we hump a lot of gear . I am what I am. I dive, I swim, I canoe, I like photography as a hobby esp. nature, I have a garden each year, I make my own salsa, chowchow, stewed tomatoes, dried peppers etc. I do my own firewood and the saws may be gas or electric but you still have to physically move all that wood ( I go through 5 cords of hardwood each winter , to suppliment my oil fired boiler) I have always been a big guy & while I don’t take up 2 seats on the bus, the last time i was on one I found the plastic seats uncomfortable & somewhat narrow. While that was awhile ago. All the clothes I own then still fit now.
There are many people who have physical as well as hormonal problems which is why they are so big… it isn’t all just lazy people, but there are many who definately have questionable diets …people with undiagnosed thyroid disorders, like a friend of mine who recently found out & has lost a quarter of his size under a doctors care . Still I still don’t understand why these people bother you so much ?
You need to mellow & instead of becoming upset, be happy its them & not you !
It’s mostly lazy people.
wow more, that was quite the diatribe…mouse ears cubed. ob would you rather imperfect stupid bags of mostly water stay in their caves?
Fat people are so soft. I like to nuzzle into them for warmth.
I see a heck of a lot of obese 13 and 14 year old girls… oh wait… no, they’re pregnant… never mind.
I went to the mall in dartmouth for the first time in years (I’m an independent retailer kind of guy, other than BR) and wow. *barf*. I think I was borderline panic attack in there.
I totally understand that everyone is built different and everyone has their own journey that got them to where they are. I choked up at More storey a little…and I agree with Bro Tim a little too. People who smoke shouldn’t get health care either (and I’m working on quitting…for the last 2 years!). But I can’t stand seeing an obese mom and her 2 obese children at the grocery store packing up on chips and pop or at McDonalds large sizing their food. We should try and be good examples for our kids and teach them to make healthy choices. I give my 3 year old sugar…but in moderation. No one’s perfect…but we should all try and make an effort.
I have to agree with the OP. While it’s true that some cases are due to genetics or hormonal disorders (as stated by More), for the most part the culprit is a bad diet combined with the complete absence of physical activity. Most people living in urban areas (roughly 85% of the population) have static jobs, too. Our grand parents didn’t need to go to the gym, because they were farmers and their entire work day was a work out. Not so much anymore…
If you think the obesity epidemic is no big deal, consider this: for the first time in history, the average human life expectancy has recently gone down. Type 2 diabetes occurences have increased drastically, and conditions normally observed on patients in their 50s and 60s are now a found on teenagers and 20-somethings in much greater numbers than ever before.
As long as we don’t reinstate a mandatory, minimum number of hours spent on physical activity in our schools, and as long as junk food and pop is sold at only a fraction of the price of fruits, vegetables, water and healthy juices, this problem is not going away. Some are even debating the possibility of making seats wider on commercial airplanes to adapt to this new demographic group…if we make obesity “normal”, then all bets are off.
I recommend the documentary “Food Inc.” for those interested in this topic.
“fast food nation” is a great read too, but not quite the same topic
You’d have to hold a fucking bazooka to my head before I’d eat the prefabricated chemically-enhanced ‘edibles’ from the Fat Food Chains. How people can exist on that raccid, nutritionally void shit is a real melon scratcher. The best I can figure is that they’re too fucking lazy to make anything from scratch. And when the ankle biters start whining they’re hungry, what does Momma Beluga do? Take the little ADHD freaks to McCraps for their daily jolt of shit and sugar. Feeding this sludge to kids on a regular basis is abuse.
i never cared much for creepy clown food, murder king whatever, but after watching super size me…that shite is never ever going down my word hole
brendon 195 – if you need a good place to spot the porkers, choose any WalMart – preferably one with a famous fast food restaurant inside. It’s like watching walrusses chowing down.
people get married in wallymart too…tres romantic
http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/?p=19472
pedo much?
Ahhhh. P.O.W. – Eases the pain.
THERE’s the link we’ve all been waiting for. Thank you zZz. I can now feel better about myself after laughing at POW.
Nobody can do fat like the Yanks.
As a health care professional, I have taken care of more than my share of these morbidly obese people. More often we have to rent “beri-care” beds because they simply don’t fit in normal hospital beds which are designed to hold up to ~350lbs. I have had patients who could not recieve the health care they needed because they just could not fit into a CT scanner or an MRI.
It is disgusting to look after these patients. For one, the men usually have sores all around their stomach and genitals because they simply cannot find their penis to urinate properly and end up just urinating all over themselves. They all just smell sour despite all efforts to bathe them several times a day.
It takes a ‘crew’ of five or six people just to turn them in a system of already short handed nurses. We put them on life support because.. they are too fat to breathe on their own!! Its just repulsive. They all have high blood pressure, diabetes, and sleep apnea along with all the other health problems that go along with killing yourself with food.
Stop blaming genetics and thyroid disorders for obesity. You don’t inherit the need to hoover extra large pizzas, double big macs etc. That is a choice. The majority of the morbidly obese people I have admitted to hospital have normal thyroid functionality however they have destroyed their pancreas, heart, circulation, skin etc with their lifestyle choices.
Smokers are forced to smoke outside.. do we force the obese to chow down their disgusting amounts of murderous food outside? Maybe we should. Maybe we shouldn’t have to be subjected to seeing the digusting slow suicide…
I wouldnt share my chair.
I understand what you’re saying, yournamehere, and you make many valid points but I see many, many health professonals that are morbidly obese. What’s with that?
It’s okay for people to be smokers, drunks, drug abusers, pricks, rapists; not okay to be fat. I don’t get it.
It’s the cost related to treat obesity – that means I’m on the hook and so is everyone else who takes care of their health. Yournamehere said it well – it’s disgusting to see someone the size of a grand piano (who has probably spawned a bunch of baby grands) who’ll end up with six people flipping ‘im or ‘er over. It’s called self-control and not many people have it these days in our instant gratification society.
shit man, leave these poor fucking people alone, or one day, you might find yourself in a sandwiched position.
Not fucking likely. My mother was morbidly obese and I had to look after her for 10 years before she went into a nursing home for dementia, along with diabetes, heart disease, breathing problems, infections and body sores – oh, I forgot the colostomy due to her rotten diet. I learned my lesson well, boyo.
Now I feel so guilty about the 8 X-ray pictures they took of my fractured leg bone years ago. 🙁 I cost the health care system so much money!
So observing fat people is more gross than sucking back DDT and tar?
Aren’t non-smokers on the hook for smokers who get cancer as well? I’m sure fat people pay the same amount of taxes as a thin person who smokes. It’s a ridiculous double standard.
Not a double standard at all – smokers pay plenty of taxes for their fix. Everybody picks their own poison, don’t they? And who says all smokers get cancer or heart disease? What about occasional smokers? Will cancer strike them down as surely as a two-packer a day? Moderation is all things is one of my favourite mom mantras. The people in my life who have died were all excessive people in their habits.
It is a double standard. ANd you choose to pay more in taxes by exercising your privilege to smoke. It’s not like you have rights by doing so. And it’s not like fat people are lesser than you because Wendys isn’t taxed to death like tobacco.
Fast food joints should be taxed to fucking death as far as I’m concerned. Smoking, like overeating is legal and neither are going anywhere yet. Not until the Storm Troopers of Righteousnes march into the city and declare offical war on all overindulgence, including the regular piss-up artists at the Palace.
It’s not their fault.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/he…
“Now line up for your vaccines maggots.” And pass the butter please.
I wonder what sort of explosion I would get if I said people with HIV, AIDS, and other STDs, should have to pay for their own health care, afterall they got it from unsafe sex. Now to be kind, those infected in vitro or blood transfusions are exempt as those who are overweight which is caused by thyroid or other medical causes.
124 is an awfully small sample size.
Shrike – thanks for the link, so now the conspiracy wankers can start – who is to blame, CIA, FBI, MOSSAD, Harper, Muslims, First Nations, Blacks. Then it will evolve into a racial issue as, supposedly, more black people suffer from porkeritis and health related issues.
yournamehere – you have my sympathy in having to deal with baby belugas.
Maybe, instead of putting in some high end condos in Dartmouth, we could contact the Norwegians and ask if they have any abandoned whaling stations so we can extract the blubber and make money. We can use the dosh to pay off the Common Concert suppliers who didn’t get paid.
Speaking of Norway….my friend went to Norway about a year ago and he said things like candy are taxed like crazy. I don’t know about fast food as he doesn’t eat anything except garlic fingers and candy but I believe he said candy was taxed an insane amount, like $10-20 dollars more than the actual candy cost I believe…my memory may be wrong though. They should do something like that here as well.
speaking of ireland…happy ivy day
Didn’t we already go through this? It costs the healthcare industry MORE to look after smokers than obese people. I’m too lazy to look up the comment — but BT I think, posted the stats and I clarified later on to show that obesity does not cost as much as smoking to treat.
That being said, I can totally see how someone could be 50 or so pounds overweight due to medical conditions, but…200, 300, 400lbs over weight? I find that hard to swallow. You’d have to eat A LOT to be that fat. I have PCOS so my weight is hard to control (losing is a BITCH to do without insulin sensitizing meds), but I”ve never been super morbidly obese like these people (like, 50-60lbs overweight at the most at any time) so I don’t know wtf is up with people hitting the 400lb mark and above. But, in order for me to be at a “healthy” BMI I have to eat super super super strictly. It’s a pain in the ass (esp since my ‘healthy’ BMI would make me look like an anorexic) and I’d rather not look emaciated than have a healthy bmi and a grumbly tummy all the time.
And I’m all for minding one’s business when it comes to this matter, but…I gotta say, when you’re so fat that you have to ride around in a scooter instead of walking…that’s kind of pathetic.
I’m with you, PK. I’m no lightweight – five seven, 170 lbs. but whenever I see my weight crawling up even three or four pounds, I put the kibosh on my consumption, eat smaller portions and get more active. I could not imagine stepping on the scale, seeing 300, 400 pounds and then continue to eat like a pack of ravenous warthogs.
I agree with you ladies. I struggle to keep myself at a healthy weight…but as soon as I start to hit “extra 10 lbs…time to break out the fat jeans mar” I know to cut back on the chips and dip…11pm donairs….and the mars bars. I don’t understand how people can get that fat. There’s heavy…then there’s WTF???
Alas, ’tis the season for my fat pants… seems to have come earlier this year. After a summer of running and then I start to slow down, so does my metabolism. But 10lbs is all I ever gain in the cold months… Watching the weight and trying to be as healthy as possible without becoming obsessive about it is a lifelong challenge. But it’s a fact of life in this society where the food we eat just isn’t as healthy as it should be and our sedentary lifestyles don’t help matters either.
I’m sad for those who don’t get those lessons early – “eat your veggies, go out to play, no snack now – it’s too close to bed time, have SOMETHING before you go to school, even just some cereal!, one piece of cake is lots, no McD today – I packed a picnic…” etc, etc. Those are common sense things that we all know just aren’t so common sense these days.
I seem to stay within a 20 pound range and a professor of mine a few years back said that most people usually jump around 20 pounds up and down and stay fairly consistant (whether fat or not). Since my surgery in Feb I can definitely say I’m, uh, on the “up” portion of that 20 pounds, heh. But I’m trying…especially since the majority of my work clothes, uh, are kinda tight at the moment. That’s a definite motivator since I have some really great stuff that I can’t freaking wear!
But really, when you start getting abcesses and sores in the folds of your fat rolls…because from what I’ve heard that’s what can happen, you gotta wonder what goes through the minds of these people when they have a sore infected fat roll, yet choke down that triple whopper anyway.
I seem to stay within a 20 pound range and a professor of mine a few years back said that most people usually jump around 20 pounds up and down and stay fairly consistant (whether fat or not). Since my surgery in Feb I can definitely say I’m, uh, on the “up” portion of that 20 pounds, heh. But I’m trying…especially since the majority of my work clothes, uh, are kinda tight at the moment. That’s a definite motivator since I have some really great stuff that I can’t freaking wear!
But really, when you start getting abcesses and sores in the folds of your fat rolls…because from what I’ve heard that’s what can happen, you gotta wonder what goes through the minds of these people when they have a sore infected fat roll, yet keep stuffing their faces with that triple whopper.
Sorry for the double (and now triple post) *blush*
Sidenote: wanna know what’s pissing me off now? The fact that I caught this damn cold that’s going around and I have to skip all my gym visits this week. Today was my go week after a week off to adjust to new work routine. So who knows WHEN my “thin” pant’ll fit again (or when my FAT pants won’t dig into my waist, heh).
PK I totally know how you’re feeling …my little guy has been sick a few times in the last few weeks (daycare germs) and I caught it…but I’ve been go-go-go so I haven’t been able to let it run its full course, I just feel beat and achy and cranky for the last month. I’ve cut out my late night eating and I’m going to bed early…but still bloated as hell. rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
A friend of mine who spends time in Norway from the North Sea rigs tols me a bottle of beer in a bar costs anywhere between $18.00-$22.00.
Benelyn’s been my lifeline RC.
And Halls.
And lots, and lots and lots of caffeine. heh.