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Fat People Riding Scooters
Is it normal that I get very frustrated when I see fat people riding around on motor scooters in wal-mart? It gives me the urge to just yell at them to walk around, and maybe then they wouldn't be so fat. I mean, if you are that fat, clearly you should start walking around to lose the weight right? I am just really cold hearted, or are there other people out there who think the same way?
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No pain, no gain. Fatasses.
so yu say it's cuz other people, for calling them fat, which makes them fatter?
WELL WERE THEY THAT FAT IN THE BEGINNING?! NO
they decided to be too fking lazy to run around so they stay home and watch tv and eat chips like pigs. they got no one to blame but themselves.
i agree with sweetie07, disorders are bullcrap to make them feel better. guess what that does? MAKE THEM THINK ITS OK TO EAT LIKE PIGS AND NOT EXERCISE
My husbend likes to play a little game called "count the fat people".
In my nearby wally world (ugh... a necessary evil like taxes and Vodka) I play an even better game....We play that and "count the mullets" AND "count the people with all their teeth". And I live in CT!!!!!
FLABBERGASTING BASTARDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-Lets address the walking situation right now. They can't walk for long periods of time, and Walmart, if you didn't automatically go to the ladie's pantie section, is a very large store and can get tiring for even the healthy person to walk around getting all their 'consumer needs'. It would be hard for them to shop because they are holding a lot of weight and their legs may not be as strong as yours. Granted their 'muscles' would be able to hold up their body, so it is being 'worked out', they don't walk too often because it makes them burn tired. You doing leg presses = Their walking. So they DO need the scooters to be in walmart, and most need scooters in everyday situations because standing does take a lot out of them.
-Lets address this disorder thing and fat people nonsense. A lot of them DO have disorders, most of them psychological. The people who are morbidly obese have low self-esteem, even 99% of the people that 'make fun of their weight' feel insecure about it and this is how they make themselves feel better about it. Fat people DO eat a lot because they are more hungry. You feel 'full' due to chemical signals sent to your brain, people who are 'overweight' naturally need more of this chemical to reach their brain, and the way to obtain this is by making eating more and making the stomach more 'full'. The things you eat also inhibit this chemical, so if a lot of them (which they do) eat fast food, they might need to eat even more to feel 'full'. So mix this with low self-esteem, bad eating habits, depression, and just the sheer relief of eating = an Obese person. Obese people have increased serotonin levels after meals because its their body's way of responding to food. Serotonin makes you happy. Making them eat is giving them a break from their 'probable' depression. Its wrong for ALL of you to talk about them like if they're a nuisance or a bother to society.
-All of you are talking as if they're lazy and they're getting away with things that you cant do. Their life is probably 10x sad & depressing than yours and they are CONSTANTLY aware and reminded of their obesity. And granted, for someone to let themselves get out of hand is somewhat unfathomable, but its just evidence that they're not mentally or emotionally sound. Making fun of them, giving them dirty looks, or anything like that will just make them feel bad for something that isn't a real problem. They're not taking up space, and technically, if they 'eat so much', they're giving back to the economy more than most of you. So the economy prospers off of obese people, hence all the fast food restaurants. Governments all over the world are fighting this though with unconventional methods which seem a little drastic in my opinion. The only 'bad' thing about 'fat people' is that they're not 100% healthy, which is why the government is taking actions to stop it. Other than that, they are no different, nor do they deserved to be treated different, healthy or not.
By the way, for all you little ignorants, there are many 'diseases, disorders, syndromes' that cause people to lose and gain weight. Most diseases make you tired and enter deep malaise. Sick people are not as active as healthy people. Cancer makes people lose weight due to the chemo, almost all the other 'serious' medical problems will cause people to stay bed-ridden or extremely inhibit their ability to do extraneous work.
In conclusion, all of you people who look down upon them should be ashamed of yourselves. They're people too and their fat isn't the result of pure laziness, you honestly don't know their life to criticize. In fact, it shows that almost everyone on this site has insecurity problems because they take joy in the 'anonymous' bashing of other people which is signs that someone has deep seated personal problems which have been residing within them for months to years to lifetimes. So all of you who feel enraged when you see a fat person on a scooter, go see a therapist instead of hording with the obvious Klan members of IsItNormal. (thanks all of you who read the entire post :D)
Honestly though, I've been both fat and skinny. Up until I was eight or ten years old (somewhere around there), I was a twig. It's weird to see those old pictures of me. Whatever happened around then has made it difficult to maintain a reasonable weight ever since.
My eating habits didn't just change over night. I was eating the same types of food and similar amounts but it didn't matter. Fast forward to college and I was up to 300 pounds after my freshman year. The awful part from my perspective was that I was gaining weight while eating less than my twig friends. Of course, that didn't stop them from thinking it was my fault.
Fast forward to today and I've lost quite a bit of weight. Let me tell you though, it isn't fun and games to lose a pound when you have to be so conservative with food intake. While my twig friends get to eat until they're full (or at least satiated enough to stop), modest dieting for me consists of eating until my stomach stops hurting often times. Rarely does this get to the point of feeling full at all or being stuffed. Having a full time job makes this easier though.
When I hear twigs saying "OMFG QUIT EATING!", "PUT DOWN THE FORK!", "PLEASE DON'T EAT ME!", and other shit like that, I know they don't understand. They've never had to do a damn thing to be a twig. They just eat until they're done, consider it normal, and think that all fat people must for whatever reason be eating tons of food that they aren't. The pigs, they deserve it! Well, for whatever reason it isn't that simple for a lot of us.
Like myself, most of the people who don't get twigdom for free are probably capable of losing weight. It isn't fun, it isn't easy, and often times it hurts. There's a lot of incentive there, isn't there?
I'll tell you one of the things I've enjoyed though as I get older. After childhood, even the "free" twigs begin to gain weight. It's funny because they've never had to deal with it before and they will sometimes start freaking out about it. Many of my previously skinny friends from high school are now concerning themselves with what they eat, just like I've had to for over a decade. Welcome to the club.
The sad truth of the matter is that by 40, twigs are a rarity. Most of them become normal or fat themselves. This is the time when those who were the targets of cruelty growing up get their revenge if they want it. :)
Life's a bitch and nobody gets out alive.
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Oh, but about the scooters--yeah, that's annoying. About the time someone can't stand up anymore without it hurting, a reasonable individual would see a doctor. If you can't f'king walk, there is a problem. I never let my weight get even -remotely- close to being a scooter jockey. Of course, I was blessed with having as much muscle as about any two normal people. Lift 400 pounds? Sure! :D Anyway, ignoring it and continuing as before is just being lazy. I feel no sympathy for such people unless they have an unusual condition that truly DOES make their weight out of their own control.
They're fat fuckers because they eat too much. End of the debate.
How many obese people live in Africa or the poorer regions of the Asian sub-continent? Why is that?
Being fat is more a lifestyle choice than a medical condition and just because big Sally cries after stuffing her face for the 5th time that day, doesnt suddenly make it a condition she can't overcome...
Are you f*cking crack? How come there were no morbidly obese people back in the middle ages (except maybe kings)? I don't see lot of somalis having this "can't burn fat problem". I hate people that stick up for the lazy. "it's not their fault, no really, it's not"
F********************************CK YOU!!!!!!
i'm fat but i don't help it, i'm always trying to exercice
I've never seen fat people on scooters before but I think fat people should be made to pay double poll tax (they get ill more often so more ambulance calls and they have more refuse to collect because they eat more). They should pay for 2 tickets on the bus or plane if they swamp over onto the other seat even by a centimetre. Telling me they have more serotonin when they eat is stupid, exstacy opens the trapdoor for serotonin but theres millions who don't go off their head on pills on a daily basis. Hell even a rape and murder spree would get the juices flowing but even I only limit that to weekends.
no, but seriously, all jokes aside, good for you. at least your doing something about your weight, and even if your not losing weight, at least your maintaining a steady weight and not gaining any more weight.... i use the word weight too much :P
uuuu nothing but a town of wannabe fashionista freaks.......Chi towns my place for sure
dont you just want to push them off it and take it
they wont be able to catch you
Why do all the fat people hang out at Wal-mart anyway? It's some sort of conspiracy nobody will ever understand (unless you're willing to convert to the 'fat side').
you should seriously just like drop something right in front of their wheel and leave like you didn't notice like a box of cereal or something really heavy or a spool of thread or string to get all caught up.
When I was at school I was just plain fat and people picked on me about it but now i'm the one who's got it good :)
but yeah i do actually wanna say get the fuck up and walk around to hhehe
i knew that loose weight it was really "hard" things but still depends they owns.
i agree that what you said. they sould be stand up walk for few minutes it's better then none try and just sit, on scooters.
really hard imagination about the fattiness in their fat bodys!
1)enviornmentally, location of where someone lives
2)psychological, how one copes emotionally; mentally
3)family history
4)economically
5)utimately it is one's own choice to be the way that they are physically and mentally because the truth is if noone is going to do for you then you must push yourself harder and motivate yourself even if you don't want to run or walk or take that extra mile, because it's not what you want sometimes. It's all about balance in one's life.
so the fat people/ old people with scooter get to go on first. so this fat person rides his thing to the bus then stands up walks onto the bus and then makes the bus driver drive the moter scoot on too the bus. im like OMG!!!!
Fat ppl, go lose some weight because if I go overseas, I don't want a whole bunch of bony french folks thinking i am lazy and eat fried filth because it's quick and cheap, like a whore.
there i said it.
So...some fat people Do need to use some kind of help to get around.
Otherwise, I agree with you.
I think you should seriously think about what your putting before you say overeating is the cause of all overweight people
-Lets address this disorder thing and fat people nonsense. A lot of them DO have disorders, most of them psychological. The people who are morbidly obese have low self-esteem, even 99% of the people that 'make fun of their weight' feel insecure about it and this is how they make themselves feel better about it. Fat people DO eat a lot because they are more hungry. You feel 'full' due to chemical signals sent to your brain, people who are 'overweight' naturally need more of this chemical to reach their brain, and the way to obtain this is by making eating more and making the stomach more 'full'. The things you eat also inhibit this chemical, so if a lot of them (which they do) eat fast food, they might need to eat even more to feel 'full'. So mix this with low self-esteem, bad eating habits, depression, and just the sheer relief of eating = an Obese person. Obese people have increased serotonin levels after meals because its their body's way of responding to food. Serotonin makes you happy. Making them eat is giving them a break from their 'probable' depression. Its wrong for ALL of you to talk about them like if they're a nuisance or a bother to society.
Now for "OMFG!!1! Loooossseeerr get off ur ass fattie!!"
They are annoying, those fat f**ks in scooters, they are always in your way driving there little scooters. Walmart should only let people with handicapped parking permits use them. Of coarse I'm sure these fatties know how to get fake permits. FAT f**kERS!!!
Can you see the context diffence? I think that we should do something for people to actually simulate being fat, mabey that with make them shut the bloody fuck up. Seriously, I'm not obese in any way but really. There are many, MANY disorders that prevent people like that from losing any weight at all, so 99.99% of the "Fat" population can't even help it. So fuck off. Bastards.