BULLET-PROOF VESTS Don’t you hate how they make you look fat!
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Is she even wearing one? I think she’d look much more… well, less blubbery.
Not too bright are you?
Checking the mirror?
try it in a dark room. if you are a ‘dim bulb’, then like a vampire, you won’t cast a reflection.
good comeback btw
Oh no! Does this mean smart people glow in the dark? *eats uranium*
*walks into dark room*
damn!
only when they have good ideas
I’ll rephrase it for you, since intonation and inflection can’t be communicated via text…:
She’d probably look better if she were wearing one.
ah, the corset defense.
if the bpv fits, you must acquit!
Omg thats so funny…lol.
Wow I didn’t know cops could have bullet-proof vests that are that big…………yeah.
AC, I appreciate your “well done.”
Well done, Literal…. Again!
alright, now i’m convinced she’s sleeping with the moderator. this is #6 on the front page since jan 31… something’s fishy.
haha… i’m starting to agree with you…
I think FastFood has something on the moderators, and she has something
on FastFood…
Wow. Thanks.
Your secret’s safe with me. I won’t breathe a word of it to anyone…
Okay, so between this and the last posting, I suck, blow, jerk, f*ck and apparently do something with fast food to get to the front page. Oh yeah, I am wallowing in gallons of cum and slurping up trays of double-cheeses.
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Well, I guess it’s a good thing I have my career, husband, family and dignity to keep me from drowning.
Why are you saying this to me? Mine was a good-natured
ribbing. I said you “had something” on FastFood.
Look it up. I was implying that you were blackmailing him.
Get it?
“have something (or nothing) on someone”
☆
[Informal] to have some (or no) unfavorable evidence against
someone
[LINK]
I’m supposed to just know that FastFood is a person? You said I had something on FastFood, and that wasn’t meant as anything derogatory?
And you were agreeing with the nesting that I am apparently sleeping my way to the front page, no? Otherwise, would you not have posted independently?
Is this really necessary?
Back when you were Sardonic, socking as Enuff, then
Noob, I didn’t say anything, thinking you deserved a
fresh start and a second chance.
You vowed you wouldn’t post on PK again, then
changed names and avoided political discussions.
I gave you good advice then, and you seemed to be
doing well for a while. Now you’re back on the attack,
thinking you’re in charge of what people are allowed
to say on your LOL. You obviously can’t take a joke.
None of us were being serious–PLEASE!
Make no mistake now: You are waaay too dramatic
for me! For some reason, you single me out to pick
on, when I was the only one who cut you any slack
in the first place. Why didn’t you say anything to TOS
or ubr? Hmm?
[LINK] heatherjlc = Sardonic
Oh, now that’s hilarious, and your recent sudden animosity makes total sense now. If you thought that was actually me, and that my supposed histrionics existed, why did you ask me to “friend” you, and why would I deign to accept?
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I’m intrigued, but really, I don’t much care. Link away, besmirch away, say what you want, it doesn’t bother me. I am not, nor have I ever been, Sardonic, Enuff, or Noob, and I don’t even know who TOS is. And I used to have a .msn account. Not anymore.
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I am, however, heatherjlc, and always have been since I was in high school. Anyone can find that through a google search. If you chose to hijack it for your own purposes, that’s your business, isn’t it?
Check the link. It’s you, posting as Sardonic,
begging people to contact you via your email.
You posed as your daughter in a cheap attempt
to get an edge in an argument, the same way
AF used dead war buddies.
You then swore you would never post on PK
again, so we know how good your word is.
You were doing fine for a while, but now you’re
back to your old ways.
Good luck with that.
Checked the link.
Not me. Never have had a hotmail account. Did, however, have an msn.
You’re wrong, rho, and I was posting as Literal and heatherjlc on ICHC sites well before that date.
What color is the sky in your world?
It’s ironic that you tell people to RUN, don’t
walk, to therapy…
Got a mirror, S A R D O N I C???
Right. Say whatever you need to feel better.
Take good care now.
You’re either delusional or you think the rest
of us are stupid or both.
How many heatherjlc’s do you think there
are on PK, who are also drama queens?
You were doing well there for a while. You’re
a good candidate for therapy.
Test
heatherjlc@msn.com
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I won’t talk to you anymore, either.
[LINK]
Here you are, as Noob and as Literal, on
January 14th, with the same avatar as
you had when you were Sardonic.
Time to teach you a new word: PWNED!!!
Rho “Maigret” Rho pulls the goods again!
Good morning, Unc.
I’ve linked a little ditty to start your day off
right!
What was the point of all that?
No idea.
Damn being out of work I miss all the good stuff by sleeping in.
@LG: I don’t know why she lied about it, but,
as I said above, she’s either delusional, or
she thinks we’re all stupid, or both.
Anyway, if you’re not familiar, Sardonic was
the one who arrived at PK a while back,
managed to everybody off in short order,
then socked as her daughter to try to garner
sympathy. When all of that failed to work,
she claimed she was going to leave PK and
never return.
At first, I tried to talk her down. She seemed
like an intelligent person, and it seemed that
a little coaxing could possibly get her to
settle down and play nicely.
When she came back as Literal (after going
through a bunch of socks), she displayed a
similar pattern/bio, but there was no need to
question her because she seemed to be doing
okay. At some point I convinced myself that
it was silly and I was just being paranoid.
Despite that, when the avatars came up, she
checked out to be one and the same. It still
didn’t make sense to call her out until she
started pulling crap again.
Anyway, one of her posts above was late to
show up, so I just now saw it. In it, she
indicates that she’s not going to speak to me.
Perhaps she will keep her word this time.
Somehow, in her twisted head, I’m to blame
for her earlier rantings, sockings, and recent
rantings, without which I wouldn’t have
called her out.
Of course, I’m going to draw fire. At first
(before she reappeared as Literal), it seemed
as though “no good deed goes unpunished.”
With more deliberation, it now seems to be a
lesson on choosing friends wisely.
2nd paragraph:
…managed to *piss everybody off…
Lot of howling loon monkeys out there… and we seem to meet them one by one…
Considering your record of inflammatory posts under a variety of names, I can certainly see why you react so negatively to someone engaging in something similar to troll hunting.
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Don’t worry – I think you might be too obvious for rho to bother with you.
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I, otoh, am bored enough to feed the troll. :p
they’re called jokes… which apparently you’re having trouble grasping right now.
Test.
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Hehehe….
You know, the camera adds 10 lbs…..not 100.
she may have 10 cameras on her
Maybe she ate a camera…
Good heavens.
Is that a big ol’ turkey leg she’s holding? What, is she at the Ren Faire?
And it looks real good too… Damn, now I am hungry.
I’ll split a turkey leg with you. Like I said, I can’t eat a whole one by myself.
Deal. *noms*
I tend to wonder what crap they’ve fed to make a turkey bigger than a five year old child…
did you see the kid that was born recently that weighed 14lbs? [link]
Holy crap, that’s a big baby! Although if that’s his mom standing next to him, she’s not a tiny little person herself.
I pushed out an 11 pounder (my third child)…each one was a pound heavier than the one before…thank God for Tubal Ligation…don’t think I could go for a 12-plus baby…
Wow. My biggest was 10 (the 4th) but I had the same experience of each one being bigger than the predecessor. Did yours get later, too? My first was early, the second was pretty much timely, third was late, 4th was WTF-get-born-already late! And I’ll second the thank God for tubal ligations, much as I love my kids, 4 is plenty. And I’m not giving up The Sex.
Amen on the sex!!! Mine were all within a week of the due date…but the labors went quicker (thank god)…11 hours with my daughter, 4 hours with my first son, 2 hours with my second son…unfortunately on the last (and biggest), the epidural didn’t take…I tell all my expecting friends who want the “natural childbirth experience”, the breathing is good, but THE DRUGS WORK!!! TAKE THE EPI-BY-GOD-DURAL!!!!!
I know I’ll be getting the epidural. My Dad got his knee replaced at our local hospital which I fondly refer to as the ‘Band-Aid Station’ and his epidural wore off two hours after he came to. They didn’t fix the problem until six hours later. I screamed the faces off of all of those damn nurses. Noobs.
*grumbles*
No kids yet, but once I’m out of college, that’s next on the list!
Do yourself a HUGE favor & get married first. Having a hubs there to share the loads (and blame!) is probably the best thing you can do for yourself & the kid.
Confession time: I never could do an epidural, because I’m more chicken about the idea of a NEEDLE IN MY FREAKIN’ SPINE
than about childbirth. The whole idea makes me cringe and shudder. (Only thing worse would be seeing a clown come after me with intent of sticking a needle in my spine…)
We share the fear of clowns. I had mono for an entire summer, so needles are no sweat with me. It’s a legitimate fear though, don’t get me wrong. I have to have hydration and blood taken three or four times a week. I got down to around 85 pounds (I’m 5’4) and it was bad. I’ll take needles over that any day.
That IS bad! We’re about the same height and I know if I weighed 85 pounds…yeah. That’s scary. On a more humorous mono note, I had it in high school (not as bad as yours, for sure!) and passed my recovery time reading The Stand for the first time. Possibly not the best choice when your symptoms are somewhat similar to the superflu. I can take needles in my arms or other body parts no problem, just very touchy about my spine and eyeballs. I have a friend who’s having to have injections in her eyeballs and that would…I’d have to be knocked out or something.
DO NOT HAVE ONE! I had one, not by choice. My daughter was 7 weeks early and breech, so had to have a C-section. *yay for gross scars* They told me it wouldn’t hurt, my experienced obstetrician would be performing it. Riiight. Then came the burning, excruciating pain. They let a med school kid do it! She was 19, had never done it before! I was her ‘hands-on’ test! She got nervous and hit a nerve in my spine. Couldn’t walk without falling for nine days. Legs kept going numb. I’m fine now, but if I have to bend at my back, say cleaning the tub or working on my car, my legs go numb, shooting pain in my stomach, etc. At least I didn’t have to pay my doc for the surgery, since he didn’t do it, and f’ed up.
Lynn had one with both of our boys. They helped and didn’t have complications. *shrugs*
I had one, and not a single complication yet. I loved the way my toes went numb first, and it traveled up to my waist. Then it went away in reverse. I didn’t even feel the first needle that they used to numb the site of the epi.
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Epi is my frin!!!!
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P.S. I had a C-Section too. What’s up with your scar? Mine is pretty much gone, and this was only 8 months ago.
PK ate my post.
*trims down post*
They let a 19 year old near your spine? I would think one would need more education than a 19 year old can achieve before administering drugs via someone’s spine.
Oh my god there it is. Shocking.
I didn’t know she was there, they had my head in one of those magical braces to keep me from turning over, and I was on my side facing away from her. My male indian doctor was talking to me throughout the ordeal and then I heard a very female ‘oh shit i can’t do this’ and I was like….um, who was that? his daughter, one of those indian child prodigies who graduates when they’re like 4. She had two years of college prior, and it would have been TOTALLY different if he had even asked me if it was okay for her to even be in the room.
As for the scar, froo, it’s not very visible, but it’s just not loverly like it used to be and i’m totally self-conscious about it, like I should have a purple heart and a war story lol. I’m one of those lucky people that can’t get a scratch without scarring. Just kill me now lol
Two years of college doesn’t seem like enough time for anyone to learn the placement of a needle into a spinal chord.
That’s because it’s not… nowhere near.
Is this another HHNF fabrication?
I had epi’s for both births. 1st time was a one-dose-at-a-time number, but the anethesiologist (sp?) was phenominal..I didn’t feel a thing! (Until it wore off. Ouch) 2nd go round was continous drip, but the anesthesiologist that time wasn’t too skillful & the needle hurt a little going in. Both births went well & I’ve only two awesome teens & a disgusting web of strechmarks left.
From my one semester of poultry science, they basically feed poultry a carefully crafted diet designed to get the maximum growth out of the animal from nutrition alone. Kinda like how Americans and Europeans are huge compared to your stereotypical Asian folks (Yao Ming notwithstanding)
It’s electrolytes, natural growth hormones, and craploads of feed, coupled with no exercise and genetics.
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*more than one semester*
Don’t they keep the lights on them all the time so they will eat
more and sleep less, or am I about to be sent to Snopes?
They don’t leave the lights on all the time. They have pre-set numbers of hours based on the age of the bird. Some growers will in fact grow their birds in under almost no light (.5 candles) in order to keep the birds from freaking out. It’s a genetic thing, mostly, as far as the freaking out goes. Some birds are more prone to it than others.
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Anything else?
You have told me in the past, but I have forgotten, and
I think (given the economic times) it bears repeating:
What is the best value (meat for the money) form of
chicken to buy?
(I will write the answer down this time.)
Whole bird chicken. It’s a pain in the butt to debone, but it’s a better value for your money. If you want to buy a ‘taken-apart’ chicken, I’d suggest whole legs. They’re a little more expensive per pound than leg quarters, but, with a leg quarter, you’re paying for the weight of a back that you won’t be able to eat. Breast meat is the worst value, with the possible exception of a boneless thigh. Too much work goes into deboning it, and they charge a crap load for it.
*takes notes* Thank you!
I hope a lot of people read your post because it
will help them save $$$!
Cooking a whole chicken also gives you the best flavor(IMO). The bones lend a lot of flavor to the meat as it cooks. It also tends to be much, much more moist and juicy than boneless, skinless, tasteless chicken breasts.
You just have to season the breasts correctly and cook them in liquid.
Or fry those babies. Mmm. Crispy deep-fried strips of chicken breast with some ranch. Hungry now.
Deep fried is the way to go. Although, you can bread and deep fry damn near anything and it will be delicious. I bet even the dust bunnies under my sofa would come out nearly edible.
mmmm Deep fried Dust Bunnies….
Mmmmmmm, deep fried deep fried drippings…….
I may have to get out my lemon breasted chicken again…
And call me soft heated if you must, but I
don’t buy intensively reared chicken, nor do
I buy pre-packed chicken legs… eating
battery hen meat really isn’t a good deal.
The amount of female hormones they pump
those suckers with isn’t healthy for humans.
I also dislike the fact you can often see the
brown patches of of the excrement burns in
the flesh… it’s like finding a tattoo on pork
that reads ‘Mum’…
So, organic and free range or not at all.
I’m not squeamish about meat, since I’m a
nose to tail carnivore, but when it comes
down to wilfully unpleasant conditions
simply to turn a profit, then I baulk.
It depends a lot on where you get your chicken, as far as ammonia burns go. The growers are usually held to certain standards, but you have some idiots in there.
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Is there some sort of limitation on female
hormones given to chickens? Is there any
data on how much is harmful to humans?
*is suddenly suspicious of food*
Asda (that’s UK Wal*Mart), and a number of other ‘reputable’ supermarkets.
These days I buy local where possible.
And no, there’s no data, but I stopped eating stuff I knew had any female hormone feeding since I happen to own a prostate I’m very fond of…
Hormone use in chicken is illegal in the US.
According to froofrou, who is in the industry,
the use of “natural growth hormones” is
standard in the U.S.
‘natural growth hormones’ fall under the same category as HGH. It’s still considered ‘natural’, although in some ways it’s cheating.
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Most of what is given them is electolytes and copious amounts of feed, plus, as I said, the genetics of the line are such that you can grow a 6-8lbs chicken in 6 weeks. It used to take up to 20 weeks to get that. Of course, if you’re not careful, you can grow them so fast that they outgrow their own organs, and die, but that’s an occupational hazard.
An occupational hazard for whom? The chicken? Her occupation is to die anyway… I’m afraid I don’t understand…
I get the sneaking suspicion that the job
description involves living long enough to
reach a killable size. This is all very freakish
to me now. I don’t eat red meat, so I eat
more fish and fowl than most people.
I hope it’s okay to glow in the dark…
and have silver specks in your blood…
Could be; also could be some other type of event. Probably a county/state fair. Don’t they have smoked turkey legs at yours? They’re pretty awesome, although I can’t actually eat a whole one myself.
I agree diss, these are standard county/state fair food here in Wisconsin. I love turkey legs, they go great with deep fried cheese curds! I can eat a whole one easy, and I’m not a big guy. 6′ 135.
Damn, eat two, ya beanpole!
(We weigh about the same. I’m not as tall.)
Why oh why do people not use metres???
And why don’t feet come in nice round numbers that -oh, I don’t know- divide by 10?
I have two feet! That’s a round number.
Six feet’s about 1.8 metres, AC. And 135 lbs is about 65 kg, so what he’s saying is he’s on the skinny side. Does that help?
You’re not a big guy?
At 6 feet tall?
Are you a member of a super race or something?
He’s tall, but not big in width. 135 pounds is 61.236 kilos by my calculation. Nothing wrong with that–I like a slim dude!
How you doin?
Just fine, thanks!
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You?
Hahah AC. I guess 6′ is kinda tall, but I’m not a 250lb muscle bound linebacker, I’m a scrawny nerd. Oh well. It’s getting to the point where most of the single guys my age have huge beer guts. So I guess I’m looking better and better all the time (hopeful thinking).
speaking as a 6’4″ 225lbs guy… (for all you metric people that’s 193cm and 102kg) you should eat more turkey legs… you’re making the rest of us look bad…
Don’t feel like a fatty or anything, my hubby’s 6’7″ and weighs 305, with a small amount of pudge. It’s all about how muscular you are.
*blinks* I’m 6′ 3″…
Loves me some tall guys. Hubby is 6’3″ as well. Makes me feel short, considering I’m slap average in height.
I now realise that I really don’t know many tall people….
Just means that the Isles are a land of midgets…
Are they in danger of crushing Stonehenge?
Aaaand there goes my coffee…
Average UK height is about 5’9″ now… we tend to have a lot of Pict blood sloshing about in the mix, and that keeps us short compared to some places.
Pict=short? Then how come my son is 6’5″?
German=blue eyes? Then how come I know a brown-eyed one?
but just the one eye, right?
The other is covered by a patch…ARRGH!!
Since I have little idea of what you are, that bit
of a statistic means something between slim and
nothing…
So UF, Pict blood? I thought you were just Angles and Saxons and Britons so far south…
And what about Normans or whoever it was that 1066 was to do with?
You think a blood line dies out on our little island? It may get more dilut, but it’s still there…
No, I didn’t say that. I just didn’t realise the Picts were as far south…
There were picts in Wales and Cornwall…
here feel tall… i’m 5’1″.
*froo is now taller in comparison unless she’s really freaking short*
You’re not short, you’re petite.
I always thought that at 165cm (5’4″ ?) I was pretty tall for a girl, but that was before I realised I was conversing with giants…
According to the CDC, average height for a U.S. woman is 5′ 3.8″, for a U.S. man, 5′ 9.3″, so for here you’d be average. Which raises the question why in the heck women’s clothes all seem to be sized for someone who’s 5’8″ or so.
Shorter women can shop for petite sizes, and, for
the rest, it’s easier to hem or cuff than it is to
stretch, I’m guessing.
I still firmly believe that women’s pants should have freakin’ waist and inseam sizes, like guy’s pants do. And while it’s true that you can make them shorter, but not longer, it seems like if the average woman is 5’4″ or so that at 5’3″ I shouldn’t necessarily have to shop for short sizes…but if I don’t, then all the jeans are about 4″ too long. Mainly I just get annoyed because apparently women are supposed to come in three standard heights (short, medium and tall!) while guys can buy jeans that are the right length to begin with. Stupid clothing manufacturers…
Wait, 5’3″ is average? Nevermind about me being average. I’m tall
5’7″ So why can’t I wear ‘tall’ jeans?
The U.S. has a large mix of nationalities, so the
height statistics include Asians, Latinos and Natives,
who, in my experience, tend to be shorter than the
Euro-mix. The average Euro-whatever female
height in the States is probably somewhere around
5′ 6″ or 5′ 7″.
Well, CDC data’s linked….
Table 19 — Females 20+ years, all ethnic groups, average is 63.8″, Non-hispanic white average is 64.1″, Non-hispanic black average is 64.2″, and hispanic average is 62″, so there’s some ethnic variation but not enough to bring the average up to what you’re suggesting.
Thank you for that. I can see where my
experience would be off, based on the
particular Euro-blend prevalent in my area.
I’ve always considered my height to be
average, but evidently I’m a giant.
Graceful, imposing, statuesque, even!
I just think of myself as slightly below average.
165.5 is the average for Sweidh women.
Wtf. Swedish*
Oh, and 179.4 for men. So that’s … 5′ 5.2″ for women, and 5′ 10.6″ for men. unless my converting is buggered.
I am rather fond of shorter women, taller women, cuddly women, and boobs in general. Lynn is only 5′ 3″. I’ve never dated any tall women then again no tall women ever seemed attracted to me. I try to be a equal opportunity lover of curves and feminine wiles.
/ramble
Hm. I should’ve gone to more fairs during my exchange year there, apparently. :/
oh hell no. the ren fes (at least the american version) should be avoided like the plague, lest ye be branded a friendless nerd living in moms basement for life.
“lest ye be branded a friendless nerd”
Too late! … Well, no, not really.
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But smoked turkey leg just sounds so yummy! And after all, Steve writes that it’s “standard county/state fair food here in Wisconsin.”, implying that it wouldn’t just be renaissance fairs, I think.
True that. Our county fair features all kinds of noms, including
turkey legs. I haven’t seen any ren-fest-looking attendees at
our fair, but, truly, haven’t made an exhaustive search. They
may hang out at the hog calling or cattle judging areas…
You would have more fun if you worried less about being cool.
At least eat more roasted boar…
Precisely, though when I realized it was just another mall but with dress up and a few floor shows, I lost a lot of interest in it… Then again, I always was a bit of a killjoy when I find that I need to carry a couple grand on me to have a proper measure of fun or anything to show for my time there.
Just left Medieval Times
someone please tell me she’s not an LA sheriff…
She’s not an LA sheriff… ok?
i deserved that. thanks fester.
Deserved? No… I thought you perhaps needed assurance… doesn’t matter if I have no idea at all
hey, when are you going to get a gravatar like the rest of us cool people?
When it stops being cool or he musters enough give-a-damn probably.
lol.
so… here’s a complete tangent:
my brother has a nifty little quote generator for his email signature and i thought you and UF would appreciate the quote that just came…
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Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
— Oscar Wilde
I dig it muchly.
Seconded. Good quote.
Oscar wilde has the best quotes, and as we all know. “quotation is a suitable substitute for wit.”
I like Kurt Vonnegut and Mark Twain for quotes,
but there’s no denying the charm of Yogi Berra,
either.
I didn’t bother with a gravitar since I am idle…
My first guess would be that she’s one of our local sheriff’s deputies here….you’d be amazed how many of them look exactly like that.
I can hardly believe nobody has mentioned the punctuation fail yet?
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What am I not seeing?
Arguably, “Don’t you hate how they make you look fat” is a question and should have a question mark instead of an exclamation point. I don’t think it detracts much.
Ah. I see.
I didn’t really take the statement as a question. It seems far more emphatic than that. Yer Mom down below seems to have a take on it, as well.
I sometimes use question marks on statements to show my questioning confusion despite that I am making a statement. Then again, that doesn’t make it right, just saying.
Question marks on statements? That’s unpossible.
I can hardly believe you don’t know what you’re talking about?!?!?
Idiot.
I believe questions aren’t supposed to end with an exclamation mark.
Can something be a statement phrased like a question?
You know my sister? The nice one? She’s like in 10th grade? Well
she, like, talks on the phone? Like all day?
Like, omigawd?
You need to come to Australia.. You can be talking to someone and that slight inflection at the end of every sentence makes everything sound like a question.
Or talk to any young female south of the Mason Dixon line in the US. And 1/2 of the teenage girls north of it as well. Sigh.
Or come to Norway. The sing-songing is already odd, but the upward tilt on the end of every statement is downright confusing for a Yank like me.
Nah, come to Cork! We can make “Hello” sound like a question!
You can also make it sound like Caaahrrk.
If it aint brogue don’t fix it.
Will all pun duelists please Ulster their weapons……
Isn’t “Caaahrrk” more a Boston pronunciation?
Ah, they must have stolen it from us! Well, you know, imitation *is* the sincerest form of flattery
I can too, when I answer the phone :p
Ahoy hoy?
Ha ha…go to Japan, where the only indication that a statement is a question is that it ends with “ka”. No upward inflection, and when they’re talking fast it’s easy enough to miss the ka…
Of course the language has been failing since WWII and increasingly you’ll hear the upward inflection at the end of questions. It’s considered poor form, but what can you do when everyone watches American TV?
Ah yes, Norwegians are even worse than Swedes on that. I think that’s why Norwegian often sounds so friendly to my ears – it’s as if every statement is also a question, leaving everything more open for discussion.
Einsturzende Neubauten!!!!!!
Forgive my lack of umlauts.
I forgive! Here, have a trema: ¨. I have a few to spare.
Oh thank you. I don’t have the keypad attachment for this laptop.
ü should work?
Oh, for the love of sanity… I am so stupid sometimes, I wonder how I manage to get out of bed without getting my toe stuck in my nose.
“& u u m l ;” without spaces is what I typed. Which of course becamse the ü. Duh.
Laptops and keypads sold in the U.S. don’t
have all the cool punctuation yours does.
Yeah, I didn’t type the ¨for that one, I was just being rather dumb.
Ååååh. :p
Oops! Lack-of-refresh fail on me!
So you’re saying I can’t type “ü” and make an umlaut?
I guess not. Sad.
Einsturzende Neubauten!
It needs a semi-colon as well.
ü
hake.com/gordon/w3-spec.html#2.17.2
is a list of (probably all) those nifty character codes.
WOOT WOOT!!!!!! or should I say “wüt wüt”?
Hahahaha just kidding.
Thanks!
For a little while it was hip and cool to put “ö” in various names. (Motörhead, Mötley Crüe”, etc.) The band “Tröjan” is the most hilarious. It means “the sweater” or “the shirt”. :p
Spinal Tap has their umlaut over the “n”.
I really, really, really need to see that movie. Hell, I use Spinal Tap references without even having their context. :p
Aren’t they!
Holy shit, she’s thicker than a whole case of snickers.
Isn’t there is a physical fitness test fot police personel?
Assuming she’s a cop, and not a ‘rent-a-cop’and even if she is, many in some places, once you’re on the job there’s no standard for maintaining fitness
Now THATS equal opportunity employment in action.
…Central!!! Suspect is escaping on fCentral!!! I lost them in thCentral!!! I need a paramedic! Officer down…
LOL…
Holy Cow! This Lady is thicker than a case of snickers!
Don’t you hate how fat-phobia makes you look like a raving jackass?
Wah, WAH! TOO SOOOON after my fat reduction surgery!!
You maded funs of chubby people … BADDDD!
Is that a clogged artery in your pocket or you just happy to see me?
don’t you hate how being a raving jackass makes you fat?
Hey, we aren’t all fat!
Yeah… just look at MySpace, the pinnacle of truth telling.
charro, i love you… can i have your babies?
How awkward would that be? I suppose I can put my eggs in your uterus.. Oh, ok. If I accidentally breed, you may keep the baby.
I love you too.
One of my best friends asks if he can have my baby all of the time. He’s odd… has tourettes (sp?)…. you know.
This thread is relevant to my interests…
Accidental breeding?
Women going at it…
Ohhhh.. But I can’t “accidentally breed” with a woman.
Uh, honey, I think the turkey baster broke.
*chuckle* Yes, exactly.
I’ll never be able to have lesbian sex again.
Damn
I know. How sad.
There goes my evening entertainment…
I have ginger!
The evening might be salvaged after all…
… and slivered, slathered, and slimed.
That costs extra.
@PP: Your comment was made all the more…
uh…poignant with your avatar.
*tingle*
funny thing about very large people is that they use the belt to hold the fat, and not the pants! Pants are hold by the fat.
Don’t you hate when shallow body-snarking comments make you look callous and ignorant? I do.
Asshats.
OMIGOD …. why dont’ you go on a diet?
She’s a COP, you dumbass. She needs to be able TO RUN after criminals. It’s part of the JOB!!!
You’re the asshat.
She’s not a cop… she’s a security guard on a very extended lunch break!
I worked at a thrift shop in a poor and scary part of town, long ago when I was a teen. The beat cop in the area was bigger than this lady, and we learned fast that *we* had to subdue anyone trying to steal stuff, ‘cos it would take him forever to get to the shop. ::sigh:: Nice guy, just not too quick on the hoof.
Oh, boo-fscking-hoo. We make fun of everyone here and I, for one, am not about to discriminate against overweight sheriff’s deputies by leaving them out.
“and I, for one, am not about to discriminate against overweight sheriff’s deputies by leaving them out”
.
seconded.
.
all those in favor?
Aye.
Aye!
Aye. Aye aye aye.
and the ayes have it…
.
motion passed.
Aye aye aye. As a former Sheriff’s deputy I double aye ya
Aye.
“Aye” says this lardass
“I, for one, am not about to discriminate against overweight sheriff’s deputies by leaving them out.”
`
Yeah, but if you’re going to be an overweight sheriff’s deputy, you are REQUIRED to wear a Smokey the Bear hat and mirrored sunglasses at all times. It says so in the movies.
Phbllttttt.
(The sound my hat makes, flopping about on my ass.)
not really. but i do love it how comments from the offended indicate obvious relation to the demographic in question.
fatass.
not always… if someone comes out with bull about a soulless republican who’d sell his mother for glue, I’ll say it’s bull… and I loathe all political animals withthe same intensity.
I’m sure you’ve NEVER had ANY negative stereotypical thoughts about ANYONE just based upon thier looks. Like the woman on the corner wearing a stained tank-top and cutoff demin shorts smoking a cigaretter? What comes to mind? Or an obese person sitting at an all-you-can-eat buffet? Or the dyed blonde with implants sitting next to her 60 yr old husband in a Mercedes? Or the fast-food worker who looks like he hasn’t shaved or showered since his interview last month?
STFU, you’re guilty too
and now we all know you’re fat, because you got all ‘bleeding-heart activist/therapist’ on us.
Can you please just go away?
Aw, you want wishes to come true. It’s so idealistic and sweet of you. :/
Nah, I just hoped maybe she’d just fizzle out like a bad fart…
She’s been being relatively sane. Give her a chance. I think the HHNF bashing has more or less been enough…
Ok…based on your advice, I’ll lighten up…
It has gotten rather old.
To quote Papa Chester: blah blah blah
Precisely, it is a lot of effort to not ignore somebody and move on.
Who said that?
Just kidding you know I love you.
Likewise, of course. Speaking of love, how much longer before your fella is home?
He’s not coming home. I’m going there.. and the answer is “eventually”.
Oh but I am going there next Friday so THANK GOD I’ll be able to get some.
Make sure to get your shopping done the day before. You want it fresh.
Hahahaha thanks for all your good advice.
An honor and a privilege to help in any way. ^_^
THANK YOU! At least this time I had a point.
You’re welcome, life’s too short to carry on quarrels…
Mmmm carrion squirrels
Yes I might think something but I don’t say it out loud and I sure don’t publish it on the internet and then try to justify my snarky, mean and thoughtless mob mentality behaviour by saying “all the other kids do it… “
Answer this question.
Is she fat? If you answer yes, or even think of answering yes, then WTF is your problem?
No one here said she was less of a person for it. She’s fat. Apparently it’s a pejorative in your mind. That sounds like your problem doesn’t it?
 
If you said she’s not fat, you’re blind and/or a lier.
Dude, it’s a humour site, isn’t laughing at her pejorative enough for you?
Pk is much more that a humor site.
the humor (note the lack of the letter ‘u’ in that word – fester, we’ve got one of yours here)
.
the humor, or sometimes lack thereof, sets off other discussions.
rarely are the better discussions about the actual captioned picture.
I’m an Aussie. and yeah i concur on that last point
same thing, just the criminal edition
…with better animals.
Thanks rho, I have scared you guys before talking about our spiders
…
Criminal edition… pfft!
We’re just cooler.
YW, of course!
OMG covered the giant bats, too. The spiders would
be a little less scary without the element of surprise,
possibly.
“We’re just cooler.”
If it weren’t for the criminals in my family tree, there
wouldn’t be much to talk about. One of my great uncles
was a bootlegger, and the other one was a farmer. My
granddad was a cobbler.
Guess who had all the great stories?
Spidees are wayyyy too good at surprise.
But they are such amazing little engineers, I can’t help but be fascinated by them
Apple or Cherry cobbler?
Elderberry, if Unc is to be believed…
“There was this one time I had to make shoes for ….”
Cement shoes?
“…and that stitching is trickier than it looks…”
i know, have you seen the koalaroo, the kangaburra or the duck-billed dingopus?
and they all bounce upside down to give birth through the pouches in their feet!
ha! check out my URI, too cute.
They’re less cute when soaking wet!! So adorable.
i dunno, they are having a lot of trouble with regular bunnies
How can she pass her department’s fitness requirements? I can’t imagine her being able to get over the obstacle course or run a mile or do any of the other things that police officers are supposed to be able to do.
i don’t think she could… she’s probably a desk officer… notice the stripes on the sleeve…
if you think she’s bad check out this SFPD guy… [link]
He must love that night stick…
he takes it home with him every night…
For some alone time with the over sized firefighter…
wow. now there is a mental image…
what do you think they use the fire pole for?
To see who can ride the bigger hose, of course…
I’m so turned on right now
If I only had this effect when I actually wanted to… Oh the power I would have.
…stripes make her look fat…
No, vertical stripes are ‘slimming’
oh, damn…
First, join the department. Second, eat ’til you’re fat. Third, blame your “bones” and scream discrimination when you’re no longer able to follow orders.
bwhahahah even better…’it’s baby fat’
Uhhh, you’re 30 and everyone around you lost thier baby fat when they were 5.
Ya think? My baby fat came from making babies. 17 years on & I’m still battling it!
And with this lame fat joke, Pundit Kitchen just jumped the shark….
Something the subject of the picture would, sadly, be unable to do herself.
FTW!!!
let alone ill-tempered sea bass.
your happy days reference has fallen on deaf ears.
PK jumped the shark, which was then immediately eaten by the morbidly obese cop.
Um, you’re new here, aren’t you?
You think?
F’n caretrolls….
If we’re Brits, what does that make the Brits?
Sad?
LOL!! Sad, crowded, and likely to initiate a civil war over the
spelling of color/colour, flavor/flavour, etc.
I giggled more at this post than at the lol. (Sorry, Literal, but this outcomedied it.)
Brits? No, I’m an American jerk, thank you.
Wild snorlax spotted!
Gyrados use Bite!!!
I mean… I have no damn clue what you are talking about.
Snorlax used Gun. Foe Gyrados has die….fainted!
Damn… I knew I should have fed it more def up candy…
Brits? There’s more than me here? Bugger me with a fence post and call me ‘Ruprecht’…
*grabs gloves and Hazmat suit*
Gothic metal post, picket fence, or barbed wire fence post with a bit of wire left on it?
Ummm… There’s me…
I have socks older than you…
I wasn’t talking about age, I was talking about being British…
I forget to count children… sorry.
Wouldn’t calling a Scot a Brit be like calling a Canadian an American?
Britain =/= England.
Being called English is HORRIBLE. However, we are, technically, British. (Although most folk do prefer “Scottish”)
Thanks for the clarification.
…a sgian dubh is a wee knife kept in a Scotsman’s sock or an Englishman’s back…
I wish I could remember the rest of that bit. It was a parody of the Molson “I Am Canadian” ad; it ended: My name is Alastair, and I. AM. SCOTTISH!
Oooooohh damn you… You know exactly how to annoy a teen…
You weren’t ever a teacher, were you?
Oh you know the fest is an equal opportunity annoyer.
How old does she have to be before you call her British?
Does she have to wait for you to get rid of your old socks?
And are those PK socks or actual socks?
My, what hosiery insight you have!
Reading the list of recent comments on the right?
Death Rho Death Rho Death Rho …
Alright, I’ll stop posting then…?
No silly, then it will be that awful boat ashore
song in the round.
I am glad I can make the difference between annoying song and capital punishment.
Thank you for adding a little death to the
world. That’s going to sound funny, isn’t it?
Least I have a purpose.
All I’ve got is a sea otter.
I can certainly eel you on that disappointment. It’s a whale of a thing…
Best squid while you’re ahead.
or is it the italians?
@Iowa: I’m floundering for an answer…
Yes, they do.
Well my last name is French…
Hosiery. Pretending to be more than one person on the internet is just insane.
Lots of wear left in them…
Keep up your pedicures and AC may never become a Brit…
heh heh heh…
Ruprecht…
Hm… My husband couldn’t get a job with the sheriff’s department after he got out of the army due to his back injury, even though he was able to pass the physical tests without any problems. And these are the people who get hired? Awesome.
Just remember… Life is fair.
“Life’s not fair; it’s just fairer than death, that’s all.”
That’s cool. I got rejected for a government job close to home bcause a raving bulldike applied and they told me, without stuttering or sugar-coating anything, that the government is required to hire a certain amount of ‘special interest/minority employees’. Boy did he have his foot in his mouth when I said, ‘that’s funny, I’m bisexual, but since I didn’t gain 50 lbs and chop my hair off and dress like a biker to a professional interview, I didn’t get hired. Should I have put “Big Lesbian” somewhere on my applications?’
I got the job. She was a crappy welder anyways.
Her head is too small!! Photoshop?
Twit.
it’s called “MySpace face”
hot face, wtfugly body
take my pic for instance lol
Nah, it’s the 5 lb turkey leg that makes her head look small.
You’re the ONLY one who mentioned her race. So, who’s racist? And ‘while’ we’re at it, she’d be a big broad even if she were white. And I’m not British. That in itself is bigoted.
So what does fat-bashing have to do with politics?
Then again my favorite post here was the one about the pope kicking it into hyperdrive and that’s not very political either – but at least he’s a political figure.
THis site’s called “Pundit Kitchen, LOL News and LOL Politics Fun.”
She got her fat ass on the news, thus she is fair game.
Quit crying, fatass.
God, you just have to be stupid, don’t you?
Wow, thanks for the name of the site – I couldn’t figure it out. And if she’s on the news only because she’s eating while fat (clearly not allowed) that’s not “news.” I didn’t say she wasn’t fair game, I asked what fat-bashing had to do with politics.
I guarandamn-tee you half the people here laughing and pointing are fat too – if not more. That’s a given. But adipose tissue isn’t a character flaw, so whatever.
Keep crying, fattie!
I don’t really see how this fits into the news category, though. Perhaps it
would have been better suited for Fail Blog.
Not a fail. Unless fat people aren’t allowed to eat or have jobs.
Actually, I’m finding myself agreeing with you… And I imagine, in a different mood, you would get the majority agreeing (there was some extensive discussion regarding that over the gal who was sitting in a fast-food kitchen sink a while back).
But I’ve also that PK folk don’t seem to like anyone telling them that they shouldn’t find something funny. And even less so if the person stating that has been previously arguing in a very hostile tone…which you have been in other comment threads. It makes you a less-than-persuasive source of argument, I’m afraid. Actually, I’m in a bit of shock, finding that I agree with something you’ve wrote, given that your writing is a combination of Howard Stern and Karl Rove…
To defend myself, I clarified below. Annie is implying that my
“fail” comment was aimed at the woman being fat, which it was
not. Anniee failed by assuming my intention, but we can get that
business ironed out: She’s still getting used to us.
In that case, I apologize for jumping to the wrong conclusion.
No problem. It’s easy to assume that everybody’s sniping
when the tension gets high, and, for my part, I didn’t make
myself very clear at first.
Wow. You’re dangerously close to espousing the most leftist liberal ideology possible here. It’s okay for a police officer to be so out of shape that she is unable to perform her duties, and we should support her choices whether she refuses to confrom to departmental physical standards or no?
Don’t tell me I’m wrong. If someone snatched your child at the fair she is apparently at in uniform, you’d expect her to respond in an appropriate manner and thus, whether on duty or off, apprehend the criminal. You believe that this person, in the shape she is in, could do so?
I don’t. My friend, who is a deputy sheriff and attempting to get back into shape to conform to departmental standards, would agree.
I’m saying you honestly don’t KNOW what shape she is in by the mere presence of fat. You can not gauge someone’s health, fitness level, or character by their body type. It may be that she is out of shape and it may be that she is not; the picture is silent on the matter. You also do not know if she is able to perform her duties. Not by a picture.
And I can understand your being annoyed; I’ve ragged on a bunch of your pictures already; but it wasn’t intended to be some vendetta against you. I have a feeling none of the ones I make are going to end up on the front page, you know?
I will confirm the size/fat/fitness issue, as there is a girl at the office who would be considered not just overweight but quite obese. This girl can play baseball like nobody’s business, and doesn’t get a pinch-runner ‘cos she does all her running. She also participates in long-distance runs. But she’s still fat. She’ll nevertheless outlive me ;_;
I’ve been cross-country skied into the ground by a couple of women who were only a size or 2 smaller than the lady in this picture–and I was in my late 20′s and as fit as could be at the time!
And FTR I would be considered socially liberal – libertarians generally are.
I know that about libertarians. I’m dating one. We tend to see each other’s point
about taxes, health insurance and the like–but we don’t agree!
I think PK is where they put the pics that don’t really fit anywhere else. Having said that, I think Anniee’s statement above puts her firmly in the ‘bigot’ category.
froo, i rushed over here as soon as i saw your comment on facebook. it’s not too terrible… yet.
What in the HELL? **I’M** the one who didn’t approve of the fat-bashing and I’m NOT the one who made fun of the fat woman, and **I’M** the bigot?
Ok you’re totally just f*&^ing with me, right? You can’t POSSIBLY be serious? 99% of the people on this thread are bigoted against fat people you moron. I’m not one of them. I am, however, bigoted against morons who can’t see what’s in front of their faces. Like you.
Here’s a quote from your post above:
“I guarandamn-tee you half the people here laughing and pointing are fat too – if not more. That’s a given.”
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You just called all the posters here fat because they’re posting here. You’re a bigot.
Bullspit. It’s only an INSULT if you are bigoted against fat people; I am not. The fact that you take that as some kind of bad thing shows your own bigotry, not mine. It is a simple fact that the statistical likelihood of a given online group (except one such as pro-ana) is that it will contain a good number of fat people (just like the public at large.) It is just a body type. Unfortunately people are made to feel like there’s something wrong with them for having the “wrong” body type. But that’s your hangup, not mine; don’t visit it on me.
I take it as ‘some kind of bad thing’ because you are assuming that at least half the people here are fat, and there is no way you can possibly know that. Therefore, pointing out something you’re speculating, especially when that speculation is unwarranted, unprovable, and mean, makes your statements in and of themselves bigoted. On top of that, you haven’t managed to have a conversation yet that doesn’t devolve into you calling people names.
Nonsense. It’s the same principle that homophobics are usually closeted homosexuals. People who mock fatties behind a screen are at least half the time fat themselves – even if it weren’t a statistical likelihood that plenty of people here or in any particular group are simply going to have that body type. It just stands to reason and common sense.
There is nothing “mean” about this fact – so what, they have the body they have, who cares? But it is especially mean for closeted homosexuals to persecute open homosexuals just as it is particularly mean for fat people (who ought to know better) to persecute and mock pictures of fat people. It’s also pretty hypocritical. And they know who they are; and they know that most people know that a substantial number of people who mock fatties online are themselves fat – they just buy into the societal expectations and beauty myths, and hope they don’t get ‘caught’ being fat themselves.
I like how you’ve managed to distill down the hatred into several specific groups: homophobes are certainly gay themselves, fat people always mock other fat people, and the lady who doth protest too much must therefore
be a bigot. Try not to assume the motivations of others, and you will learn a lot. Ask, don’t conclude.
Yes, I’m sure that if I just asked the fat-bashers “Are you fat?” they would be entirely honest LMAO. Or perhaps this is the ONLY all-thin group online outside pro-Ana sites. Get real. You made a mistake, that’s all there is to it. You thought I was putting the group DOWN by mentioning that there are surely plenty of fat people here, but in fact I was doing no such thing. You are prejudiced against fat, and maybe it hurts to find that out.
We’re not talking about how many fat people post here. We’re talking about how many fat people YOU think post here, which isn’t the same thing. You brought the argument that at least half the people here ‘pointing and laughing’ MUST be fat, so you need to argue that point if you want to prove it. Instead, you try to distract everyone from the statement at hand: that you are a bigot for assuming that the people here are a certain way based on statistics that you have made up in your head ‘based on common sense’ and applied to everyone here. You then went on to add that homophobes MUST BE gay themselves, which only added another level to your bigotry.
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Anniee, dear, people here (such as Rho, IowaSucks, and Charro) have been trying to help you out here, and you keep slapping their hands away and saying you can do this on your own. You’ve come across as fussy and confrontational in every conversation you’ve ever had on this site, and you need to calm down. When you get back what you give out, it pisses you off, so you need to learn to take it as well as dish it out if you ever want to be respected and listened to.
Anniee451 didn’t call anybody fat, but stated a likely probability
given current medical definitions of fat and the demographics of
the population at large. No pun intended. For instance, while I stated
in one post that I was not fat it would have been more accurate to
say that I am not morbidly obese. I am most likely considered fat.
As a matter of fact, **I’M** not the one who suggested the picture was a FAIL – I in fact, said it was NOT a fail. So where in the HELL are you getting me as the bigot?
Aim it at your idiot terrier friend, rhorho. She’s the one who said the picture was a fail. She’s the one who apparently thinks fat people aren’t allowed to eat or have jobs. Duhhhhhh
Didn’t see your post as I was posting mine. Where does all of
your rage come from?
I’m sorry, but that’s INFURIATING – **I** came out **against** the fat-bashing, and she calls ME a bigot? What. the. F&^%?
That wouldn’t make YOU mad? Seriously?
I’m not mad at you, and you have called me a bunch of bad
names and accused me of a lot of stupid things untruly.
How is it any different when it happens to you?
I don’t deny that entirely, but I’d be a lot more inclined to not loathe your presence if you didn’t follow behind every person who follows ME around to deliver insults, cheering them on at every turn. And you’ve most certainly made your fair share of false claims against me in the process, which are more than annoying. It does go both ways; I wasn’t really aware of you until you started cheering Fister and Co. so lustily as he follows me about with his d*&^ hanging out.
It’s a simple matter of when I get to PK. I only post
every now and then in the day, and post more in
the evenings when I’m finished working. Your
perception is possibly a little skewed, and you seem
to have a selective memory. I have posted under
you in the past, as I have tonight.
You’re relatively new to PK, and you have started
off roughly. Most of us did, too, so no bigs. When
you get answered *in kind* it makes you angry,
so, assuming you don’t like to be angry, the solution
is to lose the *attack* tone.
Try posting without name calling, and you’ll see
better results: I promise*. “Name calling” includes
ad hominem attacks against political figures and
people on PK.
*Promise does not include Unc, of course–lol!
I’m not so sure. My post here consisted of “What does fat-bashing have to do with politics?” followed by the statement that my favorite post here was the one about the pope in hyperdrive, so maybe they aren’t all political. The immediate response was to call me fat (as a pejorative) and stupid.
So I don’t really believe that I’m responded to “in kind” as a rule – though of late I’ve rather figured since I’m going to garner such nasty responses anyway, I might as well go in with an eye to having fun and saying what I feel like. Which is what I’ve been doing the past few times I’ve come; and it’s been less stressful than getting frustrated – though admittedly it’s silly to get frustrated in the first place, even if people act like choads.
I’ll have to modify my promise, then. People
develop opinions of others here, based on
past conflicts, agreements, etc.
If you drop the false accusations, name-
calling and other forms of ad hominem
attacks, you will *begin* to get more level-
headed replies.
Your initial question brought a response that
PK is for politics and *news,* and your
reply, iirc, included the word duhhhh, or
something similar. (The fact that the photo
isn’t news either got dropped along the way
somehow.)
I’m offering all of this as a suggestion. You
seem smarter than most of the righties, but
you’re having growing pains right now, I
hope.
@Anniee: Curiosity here, where exactly did you get called fat?
I ran across it, further up. Captain Obvious
told her to “Keep crying, fattie.”
Hehe, yeah – a singularly ineffective method of insulting someone who doesn’t find adipose tissue to be a horrific thing, but he tried
CINO
@Unc: Conservative In Name Only? Directed
at Captain Obvious or Anniee? Anniee is
Libertarian, so I’m confuzzled. It’s not even
certain that I got the acronym right…
Woah. Nerd-rage! Everyone take cover!
I brought a flame shield and brownies, Steve.
So…I go away to a conference for a day and HHNF comes back…OHHHHHH!!!! Thant’s right!!! This is a FAT picture…Can I join you under the shield? mmmmmmm…brownies
It’s a magical shield that can fit as many people as needed.
Also I brought magical brownies in addition to the regular ones…
*enters in disguise, leaves ginger to be found, leaves quickly*
Oooh *noms brownies*
Thanks charro!
But of course dear.
*holds out plate*
Would you like a magical brownie as well?
Yeah, they make everything look all sparkly!
*noms*
*waves hand and watches with fascination*
I can SEE the music!
it’s all they have left
their fear-mongering, race-bating, hate-spewing doesn’t work too well any more, so they just get angry.
Meanwhile the topic of the thread and half the comments on it are hate-filled and bigoted. Nice going.
and the other half are hardly Proust…
I personally don’t find fat jokes funny… but the
success of the Klumps indicates folk do enjoy their fat,
Black, and farting funnies…
(for the record, I do find fart jokes funny…)
It depends on who’s doing the farting and in whose general direction, for me. I don’t find fat jokes particularly funny, either, but I don’t think there needs to be this kind of furor over the pic or the caption, either. Don’t like it, don’t comment, and move on. At least, that’s how I avoid high blood pressure, ha ha.
I think you’re right. At first I was thinking fail blog, but it’s okay for
her to eat on the job if her company and the event holders say so.
It doesn’t look like she’s at the ready for any serious guard duty,
though. Maybe she’s on break, and there weren’t any seats available.
The poster below had the best idea – a thought bubble saying “I wonder if this bpv makes me look fat?” would have worked better, been less nasty, and been funny.
That would have worked better than this one, surely. Few
people seem to understand poster format.
I’m still scratching my head over what this is even doing here.
It’s not news or politics.
*shrugs* Oh, well.
I’m the poster you’re referring to and I don’t think it would have been ‘less nasty’. you’re saying that because it would have given the ‘impression’ that it was the fat woman herself thinking it about herself, when in reality, it’s still the poster who wrote it who said it. no difference.
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i was simply pointing out that it was a misuse of the poster format and was worded awkwardly. fat is still fat. if you see it as a pejorative, you do.
if you don’t you don’t.
if you see it as humorous because there’s no way in hell that someone who is that out of shape should be an active duty cop, then you see that as well.
I possibly didn’t make it clear earlier, but I agree with you.
It’s the poster format and the awkward wording, in addi-
tion to the fact that it doesn’t fit the PK category.
Well, they can’t all knock ‘em out of the park, right?
rhorho, my comments above weren’t directed at you. they were directed at
anniee451. no issues here with anyone. we all have opinions (which apparently affects maths too [from another set of posts])
Oh, I know you weren’t replying to me, but I wanted
to be clear, because I replied Anniee’s post *about*
your post.
This is a fun situation. It’s not usual that so many
posts are generated by agreement.
I didn’t upload this photo — it was already here, and I capped it.
And as far as the poster format goes, what is awkward about it? There’s a colon stop after the first phrase, and then an explanation.
So … what is awkward, then? I asked in another post for clarification, and thought I received it, and submitted appropriately.
FWIW, I wasn’t planning on submitting this one. It was a private joke between my friend Dena and I, and I didn’t realize it would end up here. I saved it under my user name.
It is, in the context it was created, hilarious.
I’m only providing these tips because you asked,
so don’t jump me, okay?
In the lower sentence, “they” refers back directly to
the subject. The sentence below should be about
the subject without referring to it directly. Also,
the all-caps thing is bad. Also, the sentence should
have ended with a question mark.
[LINK] Four of the posters here are in bad form,
so you aren’t the only one.
Oh, and about the photo. I’m not saying you
uploaded it. It’s simply not about either news or
politics. I’m not sure why the mods put it here.
Well, thanks for that, and now that I know what I am doing wrong I will double my submissions and bring out my “A” game to make sure I am conforming to the format so I can end up making everyone LOL, and then discuss the topic at hand at lenght, on the front page.
take what either of us, or anyone else says with a grain of salt
you’ve obviously figured out the magic formula. you give ‘the people’ what they want because you keep getting to the front page so assuming that’s the goal, you’re doing something right.
Or someone right….
1. I’ll agree completely with the first statement.
2. the second statement is fine except PK doesn’t provide a lot of fnit options, and the all caps makes it easier to read – honestly.
3. let me change that to that it should be a statement and not a question. maybe something like ‘BPV’ [newline] ‘Yeah, they’re what make you look fat’ or something along those lines.
i think the poster format works better for a larger concept, not an individual.
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i like this one, i think i voted for it – at least if i say it i would have.
like i said below somewhere, i just think it would have worked better as a thought bubble instead of the poster format
fnit=font
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fnit? i like that word, what can we make it mean?
Okay, except “they’re” refers back to BPV.
Otherwise, good idea. I also prefer the
declarative over interrogatory for this one,
but have seen some philosophical questions
used well in the format. I understand the
font choices are limited, and the font size
can’t be increased, iirc.
fnit = snit fit? Great word!
true, ok, i suck, IowaSucks, we all suck
fnit – snit fit, maybe
i was thinking maybe some grotesque bodily function that doesn’t already have a name. maybe it could stand for the economy? that’s kind of grossly oozing right now.
Hey, as long as we’re making things up,
there could be a definition #2, yes?
How about a fart (which is a truly rude
sounding word) coming from a kitten, or one
of those sweet little old ladies playing bridge
or having tea? …a *cute* fart, if you will.
I disagree (and I most definitely do not see fat as a pejorative, even though some brainiac is trying to call me “fat” as an insult – uh, yeah, that doesn’t work when someone doesn’t think fat is an insult) because the joke THEN would have been on the fact that most of us buy into the societal expectations of beauty and question themselves and their bodies because of socially accepted norms. We all know how that feels, and it would have been more of an “I know how she feels” kind of laugh as opposed to laughing AT her for being fat.
So no, I don’t agree.
But don’t worry, next time you have a good idea I won’t bother telling you; the well is obviously poisoned already. Pffft.
Ok, cool.
On all counts.
No problem – by the way, I just noticed the bit about being out of shape – what makes you think she’s out of shape? For all you know she might lift weights, be strong as an ox and very flexible. There’s no way to tell just by the presence of adipose tissue. Really, there isn’t. Hell, I know a 250 (or more – she’s size 3x) lb woman who competes in triathlons and tons more fat people who do yoga and have all sorts of rigorous exercise regimens, hiking, weightlifting, swimming, etc. Not to mention football players, who are strong as hell. I would probably want this cop on my side in a fight as opposed to a tiny little wisp of a woman who had to call in male reinforcement – she doesn’t look like she’d need much help.
i did not say she was weak. i said she was out of shape, and she is. It is not healthy, and do not try to pretend that it is. Many other things including being underweight are also not healthy, i know, but we’re talking about
her, not you.
she is not going to chase anyone. she’s not going to wrestle anyone, she’s going to pull her gun.
Well, you don’t rightly know if she’s out of shape. You can’t tell that just by looking at someone. {link} – and while you’re there, do click on the “But Don’t you realize fat is unhealthy?” post, and after that check out junkfoodscience dot blogspot dot com and read the “obesity paradox” series. I realize you said not to tell you, but I’m telling you anyway. You don’t know her health, her habits, her diet, or whether she’s in shape just by looking at a picture.
I’m guessing that the woman in the picture may be Samoan. For the benefit of those who haven’t been to the left coast, Samoans as a group tend to be very large people, with jet black hair and tawny skin tones. The crew who moved me into the house where I live were Samoan. They averaged about six foot five, and were about as wide as they were tall — I mean these were BIG guys. I don’t think they had zero body fat, but on the other hand, someone who is strong enough to pick up a solid oak dresser in two hands and lift it straight up over his head probably couldn’t fairly be called “out of shape”, either.
My (rather large) brother likes to tell the highschoolers he teaches that he may be fat, but all that fat has some serious muscle underneath in order to carry it around. In other words, don’t mess with me or I will snap you in half and stuff you into your desk.
Ye Gods… we’re at the far end of the Bell Curve today!
An excellent post Ms McPhee
If that was to me, thank you.
Indeed it was… for a while you were showing as AnnieMcPhee
Ah, yes, I ran a fat acceptance blog for some months as AnnieMcPhee, wherein I participated in the fat acceptance movement. We eventually fell out because election fever took everyone over and there were also other irreconcilable differences over such things as gender feminism; however, I give the fat acceptance movement much credit for bringing certain issues to the fore and expounding upon them very well. Junkfoodscience was the scientific and medical heart/backbone of the movement, though, and that blog stands as testament to the bad science and bad policy being enacted against fat people. I’m not trying to diss Literal here, either- it was just a LOL – I just do wish that if we were going to make fat jokes that the joke wouldn’t be “lol your fat” and would actually be a joke. If you check out Melissa McEwan, she and I are of course diametrically opposed politically and feministically, but she posts pictures of her fat belly and proudly so – we need more of that
What might not come across sometimes is that libertarians (of my sort anyway) are generally socially tolerant. Some people call that “liberal” heh. It’s when fiscal issues come to the fore that the problems happen.
So, live and let live isn’t Saren gas to you?
Of course not; live and let live is essential. Social tolerance is the order of the day. It’s economic coercion that sets my teeth on edge, not people living as they see fit socially. Color, size, other social beliefs? Those belond to the people living them. What’s Saren gas? Something bad, I’m assuming lol. I’ll look it up if I have to, but since you mentioned it…
It’s one of the easier ‘homebrew’ nerve toxins… not nice…
I think one of the reasons we’re locking horns is that the bald ‘conservative’ brand involves social conservatism of a particularly ugly, theocratic, sort.
I’m a fiscal, small govt., conservative, with a strong anti-monopoly and anti-cartel streak.
Is it related to the sarin gas “made famous” in the Tokyo subway?
Same stuff… I just have a stupid today…
Ugh sounds horrid. No, live and let live is my motto; hardly any kind of poison gas lol. Social issues – people can live how they want so long as they harm no one else or encroach on others’ property or persons. In an ideal world of course.
Amen.
I think we agree…
Hehe it was bound to happen sooner or later, eh?
Indeed…
I’m getting a bible, a pump action and digging a shelter…
I miss all the good threads…
I didn’t read this poster as very nasty. I chuckled a bit simply over the absurdity in the notion that it’d be protective clothing that caused this woman to look obese.
But then, I’ve never really understood what could be funny about people’s weight.
Danbala, you have been decent to me, so don’t take this the wrong way – fat people prefer to be called “fat” rather than have their bodies medicalized into “obesity”. I kind of look at it the same way as I do “midgets” or “dwarves” – they prefer to be called “Little People” and it doesn’t cost me anything to call them that instead of the other terms, so I do. Perhaps we could accord fat people the same respect. They aren’t maladjusted sociopaths who need to be medicalized; they’re just people with different body types. Oops – me too! Hehe. Fortunately I’m inured to fat insults due to the efforts of tireless fat acceptance bloggers and workers. So I figure I can point this out without any ire.
Ah, I had no idea that there were any underlying differences in the words, I was just trying to vary my language a bit – using the same word over and over gets so boring. I’ll keep your point on this in mind in the future.
Thanks! I knew you would try to understand.
One of the problems is the over politicisation of medicine, with media coulture that vaunts being pre-pubescent over health…
This body-bmi obsession is pretty interesting. I know I am probably not leading a healthy life, at all, but right now my body doesn’t put on weight. So, looking at me, I look “normal”. On the inside I bet I am far uglier than a lot of people who get grief because their waist is too many inches, or whatever.
So, to my point: Recently the media here has changed the focus from “fitness” to “wellness”. Semantics, but in this case a fairly significant change, I believe. The “diets-to-lose-weight”-articles have changed to “diets-to-feel-well”-articles. I like it, I want to get good ideas on how to (fairly easily) make sure I feel as well as I can.
How does “overweight” work?
Over WHAT weight? Over WHOSE weight?
It kinda works like that.
Aah, of course. I’ve been overweight myself. Over the weight where my knees started to protest and my stamina didn’t keep up with my “luggage”. Still, BMI-wise and all that, i think I was in the “all’s well”-zone. So yeah, thinking about it even from my own perspective, I see what you mean. (I think.)
You know your own body best; so must do what you feel is necessary. I do hope you won’t undertake drastic measures such as starvation (most diets) or stomach amputation to meet your goals, though. There are often many other methods to feeling better without such destructive means.
Nah, I (my mother has often mused on why this came to be) have a healthy relationship with food. It’s just nicotine, caffeine and alcohol that I’m too fond of…
) I didn’t go back to my “feel-good weight” through dieting, I got a divorce instead. ;p
LOL – I can’t beat that one
(Well, unless I talk about absinthe and I ain’t up to that one right now.)
@ Danbala: Yeah, a divorce can be a great way to get rid of about 185 punds of ugly fat with the stroke of a pen! LOL. Been there.
@dissimilitude:
My body returned to the shape it “should” have when my life got the shape it should have, though.
Hah, I didn’t even think about that angle to it.
@Anniee451:
Absinthe is really great. I’m a sucker for the aniseed taste (and licorice and salmiak and stuff like that), so me + a bottle of absinthe = Certain Disaster(tm).
Thankfully my (current) life partner is as devoted to the stuff as I am, so I never get too drink too much. He takes half all the time. The bastard. ;p
i am fat but have no problem with being called obese, personally. While I am clinically diagnosable as obese. When I’m not in the boundaries of that, then just fat works.
It’s not a fail either.
Here precious — have a double wahburger with a side of cries!
A double Wahlburger would be perverse…
I don’t like burgers. Only those cooked on my own grill at home.
The best weight-loss exercise in the world?
A vigorous push away from the table.
Except study after study shows that fat people eat basically the same as anyone else – a few have eating disorders and overeat compulsively but the majority eat normally, like everyone else. There is no known way to make a thin person permanently fat (even with massive intake) and there’s no known way to make a fat person permanently thin. These are just body types; not a cause for mockery. Link.
Well, THAT’s a depressing article. Think I’ll go have some pie.
I know from personal experience that this is not true.
I agree. It’s not body types. It’s will power and metabolism. I’m a bit chubby myself, so I know how hard it is to lose the weight, considering I should be weighing in at 175 and I pull up to a hard 250. So, life is just that: life. If you can’t laugh at yourself, laugh at someone else…
Well the science is not coming back in your favor there, sorry. As to metabolism; there is the principle of diminishing returns – a person who cuts down to 1200 to lose X pounds then has to cut down further and further to keep losing and maintain – this is just medical science. Even with gastric bypass surgery where you literally eat starvation level calories (500 or so a day if you’re lucky) the average person either only loses about half the extra weight or they regain within a few years without upping caloric intake (diminishing returns again.) There’s a reason that of people who lose a significant amount of weight (75 lbs or more) 98% of them regain it at or before the 5 year mark. 98% – random chance ought to account for better success rates than that; not to mention that you can’t possibly claim that ALL of them are just unmotivated, undisciplined pigs. Most people want to lose weight very badly due to societal pressures and hatred. Link to a medical blog that has a TON of information.
Also, Rethinking Thin by Gina Kolata or The Obesity Myth by Paul Campos are excellent places to start. It might be time to stop punishing yourself for an unreachable goal and start enjoying life and accepting yourself. Just a suggestion.
And yes, people need to be able to laugh at themselves.
It’s nothing about science. I can run all I want, it doesn’t mean I’m going to lose weight; and if I do, I’m not saying it’s going to magically stay off. Yes, I would love to lose a few pounds, but, my knees deserve better than the punishment I’m putting them through. As for being with a skinny person, I’m sorry, but if I’m going to be with a guy, he has to be a teddy bear. I’d be afraid if I was with a skinny guy…. I might break him.
LOL – no one says you should be with a skinny guy – and you’re right, you can run all you want but there’s no guarantee of keeping weight off (the statistics are insanely against it happening long-term, much less permanently – same as trying to make thin people fat.)
Pcflamingo – ENJOY your pie and don’t let the article depress you; let it set you free from unreasonable expectations and constraints! Be as healthy as you can at whatever size you’re at, and don’t buy into the hype, that’s the thing. Most definitely don’t buy into the self-loathing. That never helped anyone. And don’t punish yourself with useless starvation (there isn’t a diet in existence that doesn’t meet the qualifications of *starvation* according to the starvation experiments conducted by Keyes. Don’t forget diminishing returns. Stay healthy where you are, GET healthy where you are, if you can. NOT that ill health is cause for discrimination against you.) Mental health DOES count in “health”, too, don’t forget that. Try to enjoy your life and even your food – fat people have to eat too, and there’s no reason they shouldn’t enjoy it.
Hugs.
@ Carme
It is more than will power. I was sick for several years with gallbladder disease. And because I wasn’t absorbing the needed fat-based vitamins and such, my body was malnourished (frequently anemic), and my appetite was increased (for foods with lots of healthy fat), and I gained weight. I tend towards athletic in build, outside of those few years. After the surgery, I quickly ‘right-sized’ in both appetite and in BMI/form.
And having a friend who is fat from both emotional and genetic causes, I have observed that when her emotional status is well, she eats normally–but she only becomes LESS fat, not non-fat. Biology is more powerful than you think!
Genes may play a role. I take big issue with the weight loss study in the beginning. There is a reason the subjects bodies reacted as though they were starving. THEY WERE. Six hundred calories a DAY is far from adequate. If you want to lose weight and keep it off, you CUT something like 300 calories a day from your average daily intake. Not go down TO six hundred a day. At that level, no, you WONT keep it off.
You show me results from a study where a person lost 1-1.5 pounds a week, by cutting 300-350 calories a day, eating sensibly, and regained it, and I’ll buy the crap that fat people will always be fat.
I think it would have worked better as a thought bubble, as in:
“I wonder if this bullet proof vest makes me look fat…”
but apparently this person knows something about the brain of those who vote, ’cause he/she seems to get an awful lot of captions posted here.
Makes one wonder if it’s only Iowa that sucks, hmmm…
You know, I think that might have actually been pretty funny. It’s a very good idea.
i don’t even think she need kevlar! she got all that fat…they’d have to shoot her, then shoot her again and again in the same spot, so the bullet would hav to hit another bullet to do any damage!
lolz…sorry if i offended anyone…
No you’re not o _o
“Dear god, if you can’t make me skinny, please make EVERYONE fat.”
-from a nice kittih somewhere.
calories in>calories out=fat
Hence, the best way to loose weight is to either take in fewer calories, or find ways to expend more calories.
Put her on bicycle patrol and see what that does for her.
For the love of god, people, knock it off! This is a LOL, and was only meant as such.
This was a direct quote from my very chubby cop friend Dena, with whom I work out, regarding her body armor.
We were laughing about how it makes her look fat, and I told her that her fat makes her look fat, and my fat makes me look fatter.
Chill, you guys. It’s not a societal statement, it’s my fat friend and I laughing at ourselves as we try to get back into the shape we used to enjoy.
And yes, it is a huge problem for her to be overweight as a cop. We had kids, and had careers, and it got in the way of our college figures. We’re working on it, but we can totally make fun of ourselves.
Take a lesson. Sheesh.
I think it’s still kinda mean. All I would say is sometimes people who are bigger do tend to laugh at themselves, but it’s a defence mechanism, not any real enjoyment of joking about their size.
And yes, before you say it I am a bigger girl, not huge but I’ve always been that way no matter how fit I am, even when playing craploads of sport. I’ll laugh if someone makes a crack about being fat including me in it, but I don’t usually find it funny.
There are funnier people out there to laugh at than the tubby ones -it’s not really clever, sorry.
I would also add that i don’t think people would be so mean if it wasn’t a chick, but I think I’m going to get yelled at for saying that. s’true though
Completely true…
I got slightly flamed (ages ago) for saying a similar thing….
If you can’t laugh at yourself, RUN, don’t walk, and get therapy now.
Laughing at youself and your foilbes, with family and friends, is the key to a long and happy life.
I did have a reply to this but i think it got swallowed. All i was saying is there’s much more to it than you’re allowing for.
And I’m not big for lack of exercise, despite what you might assume.
Laughing at yourself is one thing, but I’m much happier to laugh at myself on a witty joke (I’m sorry but the caption didn’t really take much thought) rather than a simple haha you’re fat.
Of course it didn’t take much thought, and I never said it was witty — I said it was a direct quote from a cop friend.
Read, and laugh at youself. You’ll be much happier.
I saw the quote, I was saying that maybe you were misreading the reaction.
I don’t think we’ll be able to agree on this..
And stop telling me to be happy, just because I don’t like people laughing at other fat people doesn’t mean you know anything about me.
honestly i’m kinda resigned to my size. I just need to fix my back which is screwed from playing so much hockey.
The same point I keep making is that I’m happy to laugh at myself.
I Laugh at FUNNY THINGS.
I do hope you can become more than resigned – there is such a thing as “Health at Every Size” that focuses on eating as healthily as possible (so as to avoid deficiencies, for one thing), exercising regularly in a pleasant and productive manner, the exercise that fits in best with your lifestyle and abilities, and accepting yourself just as you are, without feeling bad about it. Your body type is what it is; there’s nothing to be ashamed of for it.
But I agree, I laugh at funny things, even if I’m the target
I LOVE good jokes, believe me. The pope going into hyperdrive? Had my sides freaking splitting on this site. So did a lot of things. (Including left and right-side humor.) Good luck with your back, by the way. If you don’t mind me making a recommendation, gentle and effective stretching to give the spine flexibility is often the key – as well as stretching to elongate the back thigh and calf muscles, which pull on and compress the lumbar region, causing pain.
Good luck.
Ah Anniee, you’re good. thanks for the advice.
You are right about being healthy – Also, BMI isn’t always an accurate indicator…
Lumbar strength is where I’m going for, so it stops CLICKING!
Thanks for being thoughtful
Do check out the BMI project I link to (behind my name on this post.) While I had a rough time at times getting along with the leftists in the fat acceptance movement, they were right more often than not when it came to this topic.
Also, junkfoodscience formed the scientific/medical backbone of the fat acceptance movement, and it’s shocking the amount of information available there. I went through a crippling and life-threatening illness (undiagnosed for many years) but in seeking help I did come across a lot of information about curing back pain – the main thing is that your spine is supposed to be flexible, and those back leg muscles/tendons can compress the lumbar region and also cause pain. So I did learn that pleasant stretching (it shouldn’t hurt) can work absolute wonders for such pain and I do wish you the best with that.)
The link on this post leads directly to the BMI project, and it’s a real eye-opener!!! These aren’t unhealthy, out of shape people – and it’s as I say, just basically an eye-opener all around. Should you find yourself lost in self-loathing or not being able to deal with your own body type, there really IS help all over the net available for you from people who either are fat or who are in the business of evaluating the medical evidence about it. You need not feel bad or apologize for your body type – you are who you are and there’s nothing wrong with that
I’m beyond glad if I could encourage you a little bit on these issues.
really cool site – some very interesting pics there…
I must say I admire your dedication to this cause! you’re very passionate
I guess with my own body what I mean is I know where I should be to be healthy, I’m not there right now, but i’ll never be small.
I wouldn’t want to be anyway
Well, you may need to adjust your idea of what is healthy for you based on your age – it’s a pretty well established fact that we put on weight until our 60s, and then when we start shrinking, it’s a sign the end is coming. (I know that from working in nursing homes if it wasn’t common sense anyway.) Perhaps your health can be good at a larger size right now and for the next some-odd years, and shrink when your time comes. I don’t know; you know your body best.
Glad you enjoyed the BMI project; I thought it was pretty darn cool myself.
If you want a tad more encouragement, check out the link I have up now. It’s a PSA for your body
Nice stuff. And also, thank you for the kind words; I DO appreciate them.
Gah, sorry wrong link. Fixed it here. Jeesh!
Very nice link; I enjoyed the video.
I dunno…I think slipping on banana peels is pretty darn funny.
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O’doyle rules!
You all can justify it every which way you can think of, but making fun of someone because they are fat is mean.
Why?
it’s unnecessary and pretty juvenile. Do you really value the “skinny” characteristic of someone that much?
It’s called “the human condition.”
You can laugh about it, or you can cry about it.
Your choice.
This isn’t about skinny. Heh.
i addressed my question to Lisa Christensen, because i don’t think she would have been able to articulate an answer. it’s easy to say something is mean without being able to justify it.
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why do you ask me if i value skinny? even if my simple ‘why’ did mean i was ‘anti fat people’, it doesn’t mean i’m -pro skinny people’.
please find any post of mine up here where i picked on the woman in the picture or called her names or anything else that might lead you to the conclusion that i was being mean to her.
k fair enough, pardon my assumption. What I mean is that it’s as mean as laughing at anything because it’s different.
I think if she saw this herself she’d be horrified.
It is my opinion that making someone feel that way about themselves is mean and unnecessary. I’d say she feels bad enough about being overweight without people pointing it out to her and giggling.
NP
she might be horrified and she might not be. she might not have any personal issues with being as large as she is. she knows she’s fat. she might prefer it, some people do.
anyway, i agree with what you’re saying, i just didn’t think that the poster Lisa Christensen would have been able to justify her statement.
lucky for her you came along
danke, and I agree to some extent I’m assuming she’d be unhappy about her weight, but even if she wasn’t, perhaps having people laugh at you is enough to give anyone image insecurity, you know?
bah, i hope she doesn’t see it anyway. hmm.
And I am throwing criticism as someone who hasn’t made a lol…
Cause it’s funny to make fun of fatties. I should know, I’m 5’11″ and 380 pounds. Rotund defines me fairly well, but people usually go for Fat @$$hole. And I am. I make fun of fat people, myself included, because it is funny as all hell. When I breath, I jiggle all over, and when I think, I sweat. If you don’t think that’s some funny sh!t, you need to get your funny-bone looked at. It’s not like poking fun at fat people means you hate them. It’s all a matter of perspective. If one say, I suddenly found a LOL of myself here, going to town on some chocolate cake, I would strive to be the first poster, call myself a fatty, and invite everyone to have a laugh with me, at me.
Nothing wrong with fat jokes or gay jokes or race jokes, so long as they’re funny. “She’s fat! He’s fat!” doesn’t count as a joke; when the joke is presupposed by the mere existence of fat.
If you want to make a joke, make one – if it’s good, people will laugh. Though I do know some people who are so mortified by their own fat that they get upset at the mere mention, much less jokes about it; so not everyone finds it funny. But that’s sad, and if they could get past the cultural hatred surrounding their bodies, perhaps they could laugh more easily. It is rough when people go so far as wanting you to have your stomach amputated in order to conform to a false idea of what is and isn’t an acceptable body.
The line on ‘funny’ is different with different people. I’ve heard a room go down with laughter over a joke that I knew was bigoted. It depends on your audience, life experience, and a bunch of other things as to what is funny. I think that saying a joke is funny if people laugh is a really narrow way to look at it, and can get you beaten to a bloody pulp if you use that theory in the wrong neighborhood.
A joke can be bigoted and funny. Hell, Redd Foxx was one of the funniest joke-tellers I’ve ever known and a lot of it was bigoted and nasty and so forth. That’s actually the point I was making – a lot can be forgiven IF the joke is actually clever and funny. But “lol your fat” is no more a joke than “lolyour black”, you know? It has to have a bit more thought.
This poster wasn’t the perfect example because there was at least the bit about bullet proof vests; but it could have been more meaningful and funnier if it had been a thought bubble and a question, as another poster pointed out.
“I think that saying a joke is funny if people laugh is a really narrow way to look at it”
Yes, but still it’s how it is. There is no objective way to measure “funny”. A horribly racist joke against jews will be funny to the people at a neo-nazi meeting. Abstruse Goose is hilarious if you’re nerd-inclined. All one can say about a joke is “I can not find it funny, in any way”. That is not the same thing as it not being funny. (Alas.)
Well ok, IowaSucks. Perhaps I misspoke. What I meant to say is that picking on one particular fat person, like the one individual in the picture, is mean spirited. Something that bullies, the immature or perhaps just someone who is insensitive or thoughtless would do. Thanks for giving me this opportunity to clarify; very thoughtful of you.
meglet already had you covered, and did a fine job of it i might add, but no problem
I make fun of many things, including an incredibly obese person in uniform nomming on a turkey leg. And before you ask, I’m fat myself. Actually, I’m clinically obese. And I still find this humorous.
This isn’t really funny at all. :\
Sorry, I guess the mildly overweight don’t think pointing-at-fat-people-for-fun jokes are raucously hilarious like the folks who run Failblog do.
It’s also grammatically incorrect.
How did this get through?
There is no god?
Just a pigasus
Invisible Pink Unicorns….
and of course His Noodly Appendage
Brit? No, we told the British to GTFO back in 1776, as far as I’m concerned you can feel free to do the same.
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That said, I can think of worse things to be than British. Moronic for example.
Maybe it’s an acronym. BRIT…hmm. Big Repellant Internet Trolls? No, must be something else. Maybe it’s got nothing to do with PK and she’s having problems with her Brita water filter?
If we’d wanted to keep the colony, we’d have used someone other than the Earl of Sandwich, who we knew was a cretin…
Though I can’t say the king at the time was any kind of genius either…
Is this a polite, diplomatic way of saying he was a syphilitic git? Not that Prinnie was any giant of letters either.
The king at that time wasn’t really much more than a puppet… by 1776 we’d got them to the point that they really didn’t make policy decisions… He was a handy hate figure for the Colonists, but you’d do better to blame the Government rather than the King… TBH, I’d have made MPs of the Revolutionary council…
She’s a brick….house! She’s mighty, mighty!
“…and lettin’ it all hang out…”
I agree. And fat jokes are so easy and none original. And, in this case, funny.
You must admit, that the existence of an obese police officer destroys the entire nature of a police officer’s job.
Can she properly fulfill her job requirements?
I doubt it.
But I am sure, those of your nature, would scream discrimination if there was a fitness requirement for the job.
I dunno. I think she could beat an ass with the best of ‘em. Catching ‘em would be hard for her, but that’s a whole lotta woman armed with a gun, a taser and probably a baton too.
And if she puts her whole ass behind the swing on that baton, she will do more damage than a gun…
I’m probably going to hell for it, but I just LOLd
“the existence of an obese police officer destroys the entire nature of a police officer’s job”
What? What does this mean? I am quite willing to accept that I am daft for not understanding, but … I just don’t. Can you explain this in another fashion?
I think most people just think too much, which totally ruins the moment ^.^
yup, thinking is usually what starts all the trouble. if only we could all turn off our brains and be like the chtistians and the jews and the muslims etc
all of the worlds troubles would disappear
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ahhh, stupidity, take me away…
Totally! The less we think the less we worry!
Mob mentality, just go with the majority
I bet you’re fun at a lynching…
Not really… I just go for the food…
no one here has a sense of humor.
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we all make fun of people. whether or not we admit to ourselves and others is a personal thing.
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so, stop overloading the pk servers with your bs.
waa
I am, for some reason, thinking this post was meant to nest as a reply to some specific post?
We had server trouble off and on for about an hour today.
During the time I was on earlier, from 1300 to 2000, dr Tinycat was all I could see apart from “home” and “upcoming”, so, yes, we did.
This trouble was after that trouble, because I remember your other
post to that effect. They’re tinkering with our reality–Noes!!!
Yeah, there seems to be all sorts of issues, which really is what I’d expect from any site of this magnitude (and the relatively small resources I imagine there to be. I mean, compared to the neatly controlled sites of huge-ass corporations.). Anyways, to go back to the basics, so to speak, I was mostly wondering where ubr’s response was really supposed to be.
ubr can tell you, but, venturing a guess, it would fit under
Mao’s comment.
What exactly does an “ass” company produce? Are there small ass companies?
FWIW, Im a fatass and I LOLd at this. Get over yourself.
While I do not support “……”‘s post, I still must say (because I’m compulsive like dat) that “I manage to do X, so you should to” is just not a very good argument. :p
The the basis of Evangelical religion… “I manage to believe the most
improbable and down right contradictory things, and so should you’
Actually, that sounds like most political people’s arguments too.
Yeah, I think it’s common in all walks of life. Actually I think an even more problematic issue might be its uglier sibling “I don’t like this or think like this, so people who do, must be sick and wrong”.
Yeah, I see where she says that, but I can’t find specific laws or regulations, just that “growth hormone use is illegal.” Maybe it’s something that stimulates growth hormone secretion. *shrugs* I eat only the expensive stuff that specifies “no hormones or steroids” et cetera. Now I’m wondering how bad the steak I eat is…
So they can inject them with the wringings
of somethings endocrine system… That’s
ok then…
@LOL: Evidently you weren’t around at the time.
It would take all day to link all of the raging,
meltdowns, dramatics and sockings. I wouldn’t
have drawn fire from her if I hadn’t tried to be
nice to her in the first place, so lesson learned.
Don’t worry about getting on my bad side.
@Danbala: Thanks! I didn’t catch LOL’s post
until just now.
Hi Literal, Sardonic, etc. Found another sock, I see. Whatever.
If you think it’s Literal or whatebver why are you responding?
Crybaby!
LOL!
Ooooo — somebody made me sad on teh innertubbies !!
Wah! Look how I cna detectivate and show everybody how I was wronged!
Don’t you have something better to do with your time, like maybe experiance life?
Took a while to come up with your second part…
I’m not as smart as you are, probably
ROFLOL!
Found it! Your right! HaHa! Feel better now?!
Yes its me! Its me its me ha ha hee hee its me its me!
LULZ its me!
There are 5 or so with this avatar on this one post. Crappy annoyance.
Crycrycrycrycrycrycrycrycrycrycrycrycrycrycrycrycrycrycry.
Boo hoo!
I liked you. Whaaaaat did you do with that clever person?
There never was one… it’s always been a retard.
*curious*
If this is the email she used it could easily be someone else.
Yeah it’s just someone who found her email.
DID NOT!!
LULZ IT”S ME ITS ME MEMEMEMEMEMMEE!
How dare you say its not me! YOu should be ashamed troll troll!
Call the troll patrol!
HAHAHAHA!
since she published that mail address, not beyond the realms
However, based on everything else, I’m not really likely to cut slack
Just another socking retard… nothing to see here…
More wahburger with your cries, circus freek?
LULZ!
If anybody cares and would like to do the same, I wrote a note to the web site today at ihasahotdog+contactus@gmail.com Here it is…
Hi there.
I find the caption on Bullet Proof Vests http://punditkitchen.com/page/6/ is offensive. No I’m not fat, black, a police officer, nor do I eat meat.
It’s not OK to make fun of people just because they are fat. Or just because they are fat and eating. Or even fat, eating and in uniform.
Also, and just as important, there is nothing political or newsworthy about it. What is it doing here?
I recommend this web site to people all the time (I work in a library)but since I have seen this and all the comments written I have stopped. And I go to the lolcats site less often. It has made it seem ugly to me.
I really hope you will consider deleting this item. Thanks.
Lisa Christensen
wow, the most comment’s i’ve ever seen on a picture about….a fat cop eating a turkey leg……
and you start talking about babies..?
—that takes skill.