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 Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 4:43 pm
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Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 5:13 pm
its not like its going to pass, even the guy in the article who wrote the bill says its not going too.
there has to be better ways to tell your people to lose weight. if that representative gets a second term, then THATS stupid.
i thought there was a city mayor that went on elen to help promote healthy eating and losing weight.
makes more sense than insulting your state with a bill saying they should never wear the red dress ever again.
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Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 9:04 pm
I don't really see that much of a problem with it.
I mean, I think it's a somewhat weak attempt at raising awareness, as well as easy to misunderstand when only given a limited amount of information. And it's stupid to put a bill into effect you know won't pass instead of one like... creating a rec center for the city that doesn't cost $250 or whatever it is per year in Mississippi... I know I've kept from joining my local one... even though for a year that's a semi-reasonable price... to let go of all that money at once is hard to take. Maybe a bill to urge companies to give more benefits and assist employees in bettering themselves. I think it'd be awesome if the Macy's I worked at had an employee weight room or discount gym membership... but they don't as far as I've seen.
But it's true, while the south is lovely and full of the most beautiful people I've ever seen, we're also full of more larger people... probably because here in the south everything is sweeter... I know when I got to New York I was not so surprised by the rudeness as I was the painfully un-sweet soda I was greeted with. People told me how much more polite the south is, not how our food is packed with extra yummy sugar.
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Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 7:06 am
The Dread Pirate Ghosty
But it's true, while the south is lovely and full of the most beautiful people I've ever seen, we're also full of more larger people... probably because here in the south everything is sweeter... I know when I got to New York I was not so surprised by the rudeness as I was the painfully un-sweet soda I was greeted with. People told me how much more polite the south is, not how our food is packed with extra yummy sugar.You think New York is bad? Try coming to New Jersey and the area I live in. My area is "You have to be into sports or look good for beauty pageants." To a guy here if you are overweight you are considered ugly and the but of everyones jokes. Housewives are the worse with their fake hair do's, boob jobs, and orange skin with the, "You'll never look like this." THANK GOD! Though those kinds of girls are looked at as beautiful while I'm ugly and awful to look at. So living in New Jersey is maybe the worst place for someone like me. My parents are thinking of moving down in the south and at first I was like, "It's too far." but now I think I will, for New Jersey just makes me feel awful how people pick on you because you are bigger then others. haha Thought I should rant..
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Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 8:36 am
Shampoo_0405 The Dread Pirate Ghosty
But it's true, while the south is lovely and full of the most beautiful people I've ever seen, we're also full of more larger people... probably because here in the south everything is sweeter... I know when I got to New York I was not so surprised by the rudeness as I was the painfully un-sweet soda I was greeted with. People told me how much more polite the south is, not how our food is packed with extra yummy sugar.You think New York is bad? Try coming to New Jersey and the area I live in. My area is "You have to be into sports or look good for beauty pageants." To a guy here if you are overweight you are considered ugly and the but of everyones jokes. Housewives are the worse with their fake hair do's, boob jobs, and orange skin with the, "You'll never look like this." THANK GOD! Though those kinds of girls are looked at as beautiful while I'm ugly and awful to look at. So living in New Jersey is maybe the worst place for someone like me. My parents are thinking of moving down in the south and at first I was like, "It's too far." but now I think I will, for New Jersey just makes me feel awful how people pick on you because you are bigger then others. haha Thought I should rant..
Her fiancee never acted like that, but I imagine if most people see my friend, with her hair down to her waist... maybe longer... they would make fun of southerners, too. Or at least my friend, she looks a bit wacky.
We landed in New Jersey when I went to New York and oh my god, I thought our taxi driver was going to kill us. They drove over the speed limit, swerving around a police car that was turning... God, I was scared.
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Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 11:42 am
but as this forum was started, this countries social status and judgement of plus sized people is repulsive
not too long ago i saw an weight loss commercial that made me want to never watch tv ever again (not that ive been an avid viewer for about 4 months now mind you)
it showed 2 women in an elevator 1 small 1 larger (like id guesstimate shes chubby at best) and these 3 men walk in, then the smaller woman passes gas (not using the preschool term) and all the men AND the skinny woman look at the bigger woman, then it shows a little text
"fat people are treated unfairly, lose weight now @ (insert schmucky company name here)"
disgusting
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Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 7:54 pm
Social status and judgment of most people in general is repulsive, though. If you're too skinny, too fat, average, you're not good enough.
If you don't have silicone, some people won't like you... if you do have silicone some people won't like you.
White males get mistreated (honestly, I thank God I was not born a male for that very reason), "minorities" get mistreated (how can women be a minority when there are more of us? Yet we are. And yes, I honestly do know how as I was explaining it to a few guys the other day), gay people get mistreated, straight people get mistreated, I have yet to find one person that isn't mistreated for one or more aspects of their life.
Instead of teaching people to be ashamed of weight and their natural God-given (or Cthulu-given, or Tom Cruise-given, Oprah-given, Buddah-given, Mother Earth-given) features, we should be teaching them to love themselves as they are... we should be teaching them to care for their bodies, as they're going to have to live with it for the rest of their life. We should be teaching everyone to respect everyone else and their differences. But even as a fat person, I don't feel I am that unfairly treated.... because I have confidence. Yeah, I might wish I was skinny and traditionally attractive for job interviews so that I wouldn't have to worry about making as good of an impression, but at the same time at least people don't assume since I'm a skinny, pretty girl that I'm stupid.
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Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 11:23 pm
The Dread Pirate Ghosty I don't really see that much of a problem with it.
I mean, I think it's a somewhat weak attempt at raising awareness, as well as easy to misunderstand when only given a limited amount of information. And it's stupid to put a bill into effect you know won't pass instead of one like... creating a rec center for the city that doesn't cost $250 or whatever it is per year in Mississippi... I know I've kept from joining my local one... even though for a year that's a semi-reasonable price... to let go of all that money at once is hard to take. Maybe a bill to urge companies to give more benefits and assist employees in bettering themselves. I think it'd be awesome if the Macy's I worked at had an employee weight room or discount gym membership... but they don't as far as I've seen.
But it's true, while the south is lovely and full of the most beautiful people I've ever seen, we're also full of more larger people... probably because here in the south everything is sweeter... I know when I got to New York I was not so surprised by the rudeness as I was the painfully un-sweet soda I was greeted with. People told me how much more polite the south is, not how our food is packed with extra yummy sugar. I agree, i'm from Georgia =/ But i think 'southern hospitality' is so dead here in Atlanta ._. Also take into consideration, we fry EVERYTHING! Chicken, candy bars, bananas...jesus, we might as well fry up some chairs and serve them with some BBQ sauce >_> In my parents house, they bake everything now. My mom and dad are VERY over weight, and im chubby, so im not even trying to say i dont need to eat less fried s**t too. I mean, being big and loving yourself is GREAT..but when you get to having serious health problems, its time to assess your health.. Love your body, love yourself, but take care of yourself..you're only given one body, one chance :3
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Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 8:24 am
PiercedPixie56 The Dread Pirate Ghosty I don't really see that much of a problem with it.
I mean, I think it's a somewhat weak attempt at raising awareness, as well as easy to misunderstand when only given a limited amount of information. And it's stupid to put a bill into effect you know won't pass instead of one like... creating a rec center for the city that doesn't cost $250 or whatever it is per year in Mississippi... I know I've kept from joining my local one... even though for a year that's a semi-reasonable price... to let go of all that money at once is hard to take. Maybe a bill to urge companies to give more benefits and assist employees in bettering themselves. I think it'd be awesome if the Macy's I worked at had an employee weight room or discount gym membership... but they don't as far as I've seen.
But it's true, while the south is lovely and full of the most beautiful people I've ever seen, we're also full of more larger people... probably because here in the south everything is sweeter... I know when I got to New York I was not so surprised by the rudeness as I was the painfully un-sweet soda I was greeted with. People told me how much more polite the south is, not how our food is packed with extra yummy sugar. I agree, i'm from Georgia =/ But i think 'southern hospitality' is so dead here in Atlanta ._. Also take into consideration, we fry EVERYTHING! Chicken, candy bars, bananas...jesus, we might as well fry up some chairs and serve them with some BBQ sauce >_> In my parents house, they bake everything now. My mom and dad are VERY over weight, and im chubby, so im not even trying to say i dont need to eat less fried s**t too. I mean, being big and loving yourself is GREAT..but when you get to having serious health problems, its time to assess your health.. Love your body, love yourself, but take care of yourself..you're only given one body, one chance :3
I still want to go there for a visit, as one of my friends loves going up there and I want to see what's so awesome about it ;;
My mom eats low-fat foods a lot, but she's constantly trying to lose weight I think. It's so true, southern culture is based around food... and especially fatty food.
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Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 4:47 pm
What is next, no serving of food to "colored folks". Opps wait that already happen.
Yeah it is horrible to think people would go that far and be so ignorant. People think it is on the same level of smoking in public. if we can ban the smokers then we can ban the fatties. Apparently if it is okay to tell a smoker they are killing themselves then it should be okay to tell a fat person eating they are killing themselves and how disgusting at them you are. Tis a sad world that is forming.
I always thought i had to worry about sexist or racist but apparently i have to worry about weight discriminators and being told that i can't eat somewhere because of my weight. grr.
Ok my angry rant is over. What they really need to do if they want to help people lose weight is to do something with exercise programs like Dread Pirate Ghosty said. if any sort of social reform is needed, its teaching people about eating healthy, not forcing our children and ourselves to finish their plates when we are not hungry, and how to properly exercise and get active. I think it is up to the person if they want to lose weight or not. I mean not eating can lead to a lot of problems with digestion and other health issues, also something called bulimia.
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Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 4:46 pm
The Dread Pirate Ghosty PiercedPixie56 The Dread Pirate Ghosty I don't really see that much of a problem with it.
I mean, I think it's a somewhat weak attempt at raising awareness, as well as easy to misunderstand when only given a limited amount of information. And it's stupid to put a bill into effect you know won't pass instead of one like... creating a rec center for the city that doesn't cost $250 or whatever it is per year in Mississippi... I know I've kept from joining my local one... even though for a year that's a semi-reasonable price... to let go of all that money at once is hard to take. Maybe a bill to urge companies to give more benefits and assist employees in bettering themselves. I think it'd be awesome if the Macy's I worked at had an employee weight room or discount gym membership... but they don't as far as I've seen.
But it's true, while the south is lovely and full of the most beautiful people I've ever seen, we're also full of more larger people... probably because here in the south everything is sweeter... I know when I got to New York I was not so surprised by the rudeness as I was the painfully un-sweet soda I was greeted with. People told me how much more polite the south is, not how our food is packed with extra yummy sugar. I agree, i'm from Georgia =/ But i think 'southern hospitality' is so dead here in Atlanta ._. Also take into consideration, we fry EVERYTHING! Chicken, candy bars, bananas...jesus, we might as well fry up some chairs and serve them with some BBQ sauce >_> In my parents house, they bake everything now. My mom and dad are VERY over weight, and im chubby, so im not even trying to say i dont need to eat less fried s**t too. I mean, being big and loving yourself is GREAT..but when you get to having serious health problems, its time to assess your health.. Love your body, love yourself, but take care of yourself..you're only given one body, one chance :3
I still want to go there for a visit, as one of my friends loves going up there and I want to see what's so awesome about it ;;
My mom eats low-fat foods a lot, but she's constantly trying to lose weight I think. It's so true, southern culture is based around food... and especially fatty food.Let me help you.. Places you MUST visit in Atlanta:- Little 5 Points or also called Moreland Ave. in Decatur
- Virginia Highlands
- South Dekalb Mall, has DDR :3
- The GA Aquarium , is now the biggest in the world! make sure to order tickets in advance
- Underground Atlanta in the summer! In the summer it has a festival each weekend, and you actually go under the city, where there used to be a secret society or something >_> XD
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Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 9:32 pm
I just have to comment on the no serving food to colored folks thing...
I went to the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute this past week. Even though my boyfriend and I paid to get in, we got all sorts of looks as we were the only white people there... like we'd pay to go there to be disrespectful, I took him so he could learn more about civil rights as they don't always teach it right up north... and it's not as personal. We went to the gift shop... and I'm looking at something else when I turn around and see him staring uncomfortably at "colored only" signs posted all over the walls.
Worst gift shop experience ever.
@Pixie: I will have to look into them, thankies :3
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