In Today's News: Porkopolis
Today, the AP reports on a recent study on Americans’ attitudes toward overweight people conducted by the NPD Group. While still negative, perceptions of "fatties," as some prefer to be called, are less negative than they once were, say 20 years ago.
All the same, fat people still struggle to gain acceptance in a society obsessed with personal appearance. Marilyn Wann, board member of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance, complained, “Everyone thinks it’s OK to make fun of fatties.”
But. It’s still okay to poke fun at ugly people, right?
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060112/NEWS07/601120630/1009
posted by Suds at 2:49 PM
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The fattest man I ever saw was a tall man.
His head seemed to nearly brush the limbs of the tree under which he had sought refuge from the sun. Shoes as large as the boxes which contained mine upon their original purchase. He had a flowing white beard, and the kind of glasses that darken in the sunlight, not unlike those worn by child molesters or Junior High Earth Science teachers. His tremendous girth necessitated his use of a cane, one of those canes that not only supports the bearer, but appears to have it's own cane for itself. The 4 outriggers forming the base of the cane. That was a serious cane.
Since I was a small child, I could not guess at his weight, for I would have been as likely to say "that man must weigh a thousand pounds!", as I would have been to say "that man must be a thousand years old!" Estimating is not a task suited for the youth.
The main kernel of his being that will adequately convey his girth was not his shirt. Which I am sure contained a neck tag marked with quite a few X's followed by a single L. No, the reason that even a child could tell he was fat was that his oversized golf shirt did a wonderful job of covering his ample arms and chest, but the matter of hiding his belly was left up to a bath towel, stapled lengthwise to the lower part of the shirt to in some way, extend the limits of its ineffectiveness at keeping him modest.
If he hadn't been so fat, he would have commanded a regal air.
How did the cat get so fat?
Eat attack.
Plus Ham.
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Miguel was Pedro before you voted for him.
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