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wednes ([personal profile] wednes) wrote2005-04-12 07:21 pm
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Ggrrrrr...

Haven't had the urge to punch anyone in the face today?

Read this article I saw over at Big Fat Blog, and you will.

Be stunned by questions such as:

How can fat people look so happy while eating food at a posh resort?

Be amazed by such assertions as:

Most fat people used to be thin and are all very, very unhappy.

And let's not forget these little gems:

"If we pretend that the very fat are happy and just want to be left alone we may be doing them a disservice."

and

"Sex between two hugely oversized people has got to be something to laugh about..." though they generously add "...although obesity is not a laughing matter."


I wonder if they'd like my opinion on a old, bald man who dates a girl 30 years his junior.
Maybe I'll send it to them.

In other more interested news, H and I went to Borders today so I could spend my giftcard. I got a book called Cannibal Killers by Moira Martingale and a book on Albert Fish called Derranged which I guess is fitting and is by Harold Schechter. Both will surely be excellent reads. I'll probably read one after I read Lamb as I am really into this Christopher Moore.

I don't know how it happened, but this is the last day of the first round of the Jeopardy! Super Tourney, and I never saw Ken Jennings. I saw Babu and missed Eddie Timanus (lost!) and those are my 3 fave Jeopardy! champs. Of course, only one of them has sent me his autograph.

[identity profile] skryche.livejournal.com 2005-04-13 02:39 pm (UTC)(link)
What assholes. I JUST WANT TO HELP YOU YOU POOR UGLY FAT SAD BASTARDS

That said, is there anything necessarily wrong with such an age gap?

[identity profile] wednes.livejournal.com 2005-04-13 05:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Not nessesarily, I was merely pointing out that people tend to zero in on visible differences in people, such as age or weight. And that judging people based ona a single perceived difference and nothing else is rude, ignorant, and arbitrary. Combined with the condescension already present in this article and you've got two candidates for a brutal doorknob beating.

[identity profile] skryche.livejournal.com 2005-04-13 05:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah. I got ya.

Heh. "Doorknob beating".