OMG people, just get over it!! Yes, I am a fat person, and yes I am riding a squeaky old bicycle, but is that really such a hilarious image to you that you need to do a triple-take, or give me one of those “I feel bad for the bike” kinda looks? Fuck you! I love riding my bike and I shouldn’t have to feel embarrassed about it just because you think my body size is something for you to judge or laugh at. We live in a city that is so tolerant and accepting of all types of sexualities, ethnicities, religions, opinions, et cetera. But somehow it’s still okay to judge fat people?
Fuck you! —fat person on a bike
This article appears in Sep 4-10, 2014.
A SENSE OF INCONGRUOUS JUXTAPOSITION
“I love riding my bike and I shouldn’t have to feel embarrassed about it just because you think my body size is something for you to judge or laugh at.” fat person on a bike
It isn’t so much your body size that others judge or laugh at but rather their sense of incongruous juxtaposition. One rarely sees fat people riding a bike. Bike riders, for the most part, tend to be thin and so the reaction of onlookers is the result of their sense of incongruous juxtaposition. Indeed, it has been maintained, in my view rightly, that all humour is the result of a sense of incongruous juxtaposition. I am sure you will agree.
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
Ummmm, we DO NOT live in such a tolerant city; you’re deluded there.
Try some oil for your chain so that you don’t draw unnecessary attention your way…
Agree with Meaty. Only the Agricola-North-Windsor area is “tolerant”, but even this area is only tolerant because it is stocked full of progressive trend followers.
Remember this? http://www.bestbeginnermotorcycles.com/fil…
people also yell at fat people power walking or jogging. it makes it hard on fat people trying to get some exercise.
i always have a bag or two of potentially flingable dog poop hanging off my person and i usually carry a metal walking stick, so it may discourage yahoos from hollering at me as i haul my ass up and down the trails.
‘Only the Agricola-North-Windsor area is “tolerant”‘
Sheeeyah, right *sarcastic eyeroll* After a couple of bottles of vin ordinaire just try asking the average anarcho-syndicalist what he/she really thinks of the trotskyites.
Girls, girls, I can’t breathe for the fur.
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: Ivan “The Equalizer” Sonofabitch (09/11, 3:01PM)
Do you usually drink a couple of bottles of vin ordinaire – can’t you do better than that? – before asking an anarcho-syndilcalist what he/she really thinks of the Trotskyites? Do you find that your judgement lacks sufficient clarity?
In other words, what exactly is an anarcho-syndicalist supposed to think about Trotsky? Wouldn’t you say that Trotsky was himself an “anarcho-syndicalist,” at least in comparison with Stalin? Have you thought this through? Write back soon.
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
fat people have tremendous tittays!
Well yes, Mary, this might well be true but, in the same way that your comment about having no teeth was only peripherally related to the topic of difficulties with the Halifax transit system, so now your comment about fat people having “tremendous tittays” is only very contingently related to the the current debate about the relationship of Trotsky, Stalin and the anarcho-syndicalists. You must try to raise the level of your game. Write back soon.
Oh yeah, preach honey! Lets strap on our fatkinis and take a ride! I will speedwalk tho, cuz I don’t know how to ride a bike. Check dis bitch out. Hell yeah. PHAT POWER!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6NYbl4ioGA
Then DONT feel embarassed OB. when you are out of their eyesight, you dont matter to them anymore…come to grips with that and you can go on riding your bike in peace and not have to cry about it on the internet.
therefore, montrealman must have big tittays! a pleasure as always!
Mary, do you find that thought exciting? Does it have anything to do with your time in the Seals? Write back soon with all your experiences.
OB, I sincerely think that the main reason people are staring at you is the squeeking of your bike – not your size. A skinny guy rode by me one day on a squeeky bike and I couldn’t help chuckling. It was rdiculous that he couldn’t put a couple of drops of oil on the damn rusty chain to keep it from singing out. It’s more likely your own feelings of self-consciousness that make you think that people are laughing at you because your excess weight is making the bike squeek under its burden. Oil that old bike up and nobody will even notice you gliding by. keep fit!
I was Joan of Arc in a former life.
Mary, I find that very exciting. Did it hurt badly when you were burnt at the stake? Write back soon.
Sir Lancelot saved me!