Heavy Hitters!

by **LiberalJim** on Mon Oct 15, 2007 10:59 am

Jerry wrote:
ApewithGun wrote:[Oh come on Jerry....my fat butt isn't going to kill YOU but your smoking can and will kill ME.

OK genius, I'm going to try to explain it to you one more time:

Let's say I'm in a Mexican restaurant bathroom that only has one toilet. Let's say that after 3 bean Burritos I've decided to make room for more. The small room is now as fragrant as a porta-potty during Regatta. YOU walk in.....

Do you....

A... Leave immedietly

B.. Stand there and breath deeply until I'm finished

C.. Call talk radio and post on message boards about how your nostrils were abused?

People like you would choose "C". People like you would walk into a business that allows smoking and BITCH about it!

The moral to this story is to stay the hell away from places that you dont like! Whether it's porn shops... casinos... cigar stores... or stinkin bathrooms!!

As Ape said there is a difference between the effect of being around fat people and being around a smoker.

You are missing the point. In your argument about methane release from a mexican restaurant customer vs. a smoker. It is not the smell only that is the issue. Sure, I am probably not going to stick around to smell your farts, but it won't kill me if I smelled it forever.

However with second hand smoke from cigarettes, that will kill you just like if you had smoked them yourself.

by **TimeEnuf** on Tue Oct 23, 2007 10:17 pm

I have seen this argument from both sides. As a smoker, I weighed a 100 pound less than what I have as a non smoker. Whether I was carrying around the extra hundred pounds or not, I honestly didn’t feel that much different either way.

My height and frame made me either a tall skinny person, or a large tall person. I could cope with my day to day activities either way.

I refuse to condemn the smokers, and I understand where the over eaters are coming from.

My guiding light has been, live and let live. I am happy with me and my life, and I wish the same for every one else in this matter.

As my boss, recently said (age 62, as he took a drag on his cigarette) “Hell, if I had known I was going to live this long, I would have quit a long time ago.”

Although I have not smoked regularly for 10+ years now, I do still find my self making my way out back of the office from time to time....... to hang with the smokers and join in on their conversations and laughs.....and take a deep breath now and again.

by **TimeEnuf** on Tue Oct 23, 2007 10:28 pm

BTW... I love mexican resturants

by **minnie** on Thu Oct 25, 2007 12:50 am

The truth is we would all be better of if we quit something we do that is bad, be it eating wrong, smoking, drinking or whatever. BUT since I like all that stuff and I am a grown up and I have an understanding of what the dangers are...I do not need anyone to tell me what not to do. If people don't like what I eat thay can eat something else...if they do not like smoke stay away from me when I smoke and if they don't like drunks well................. :?:

I guess they are just boring after all :lol:

Gillipo · by **Gillipo** on Thu Jul 03, 2008 8:39 pm

Interesting topic. I just had to post this reply.

I'm a fairly large boy myself, have been all my life. I don't knock smokers. I don't knock heavy eaters. In short, I don't throw stones. Like someone else said, everyone has their vices. To each their own.

Someone very close to me passed away not too long ago, due to lung cancer. This person smoked their entire adult life. Roughly 50 years. Shortly before he passed, I went to visit him in the hospital. A painful visit, needless to say. In an effort to put me at ease over my visible discomfort, he looks up at me, and in between breaths, muttered, "Damn, I wish I'd had more ice cream."

So, do yourself a favor if you smoke. Enjoy a blizzard or two in between smokes. You'll thank yourself.

Highland · by **Highland** on Fri Jul 04, 2008 9:54 am

Childhood obesity is the latest panic-inducing epidemic to come to public attention. It causes untold medical problems, we hear, from diabetes to heart disease. So who is responsible for resolving the problem?

A bill was introduced during the 2008 session of the Mississippi Legislature to forbid restaurants from serving anyone who is obese.

According to March 2008 news reports from Scotland, social workers in that country have threatened to remove overweight children from their parents.

As far as we know, West Virginia officials aren’t (yet) considering those rather extreme approaches to dealing with the obesity “crisis.” But short of posting State Police in grocery stores and residents’ kitchens to guard against the purchase and consumption of “unhealthy” food, what role can and should the state play in actually improving the physical health of its young residents (not just their self-esteem) without wasting money and duplicating existing programs?

Should the governor appoint a Secretary of Common Sense to tell people not to eat so much and to get more exercise? Might the state acknowledge that individuals are responsible for their own actions (and the consequences of those actions), and that parents really are the only ones responsible for raising their own children?

Both the state and federal governments seem intent on spending taxpayer money on creating programs without regard to whether they actually work or whether identical “healthy living” programs already exist. The Associated Press reported in March, 2008, that Gov. Joe Manchin has requested $350,000 for the following year to put an interactive video game, “Dance Dance Revolution,” into all of West Virginia’s middle schools. ...

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CallmeSue · by **CallmeSue** on Wed Oct 08, 2008 7:46 pm

I have thought for a very long time that this obesity epidemic was in prepartion for a future time of famine.

Heavy Hitters!

Fat people... YOU"RE UP!

Re: Fat people... YOU"RE UP!