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To: JZelle
Nothing kills my appetite faster than to be in a grocery store and see an overweight woman with bare flesh around her middle sticking out like a half-opened can of Pillsbury biscuits.

Is there a big shortage of mirrors or what?

My biggest store gripe, especially at WalMart, concerns the huge obese women who commandeer the electric ride-on shopping carts provided for handicapped and people with medical conditions like hear disease.

Pretty easy to see how these big blobs got to be that way.

15 posted on 07/27/2006 11:29:00 AM PDT by capt. norm (Veni, Vidi, Velcro = I came, I saw, I stuck around)
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To: capt. norm

Oh dear, get ready for the pictures! I once read that baby fat "muffin topping" over the waistband of jeans is now a desirous look for a lot of young women.


18 posted on 07/27/2006 11:31:50 AM PDT by JZelle
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To: capt. norm

Well, no doubt your Adonis-like physique is more appealing, I'm sure.


20 posted on 07/27/2006 11:35:16 AM PDT by MineralMan (non-evangelical atheist)
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To: capt. norm
Nothing kills my appetite faster than to be in a grocery store and see an overweight woman with bare flesh around her middle sticking out like a half-opened can of Pillsbury biscuits.

Oh yeah? Well we get a lot of overweight, middle-aged, thong-wearing, Brazilian women at our town beach on weekends. Take that.

To be fair, there's nothing like the skinny, chain-smoking, Speedo-wearing French Canadians with little beer bellies who show up on Maine beaches in the summer.

OK, I'm going to go scrub my brain now.

21 posted on 07/27/2006 11:35:29 AM PDT by Aquinasfan (When you find "Sola Scriptura" in the Bible, let me know)
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To: capt. norm
Nothing kills my appetite faster than to be in a grocery store and see an overweight woman with bare flesh around her middle sticking out like a half-opened can of Pillsbury biscuits.

They call that Muffin Top.

26 posted on 07/27/2006 11:40:49 AM PDT by gogeo (The /sarc tag is a form of training wheels for those unable to discern intellectual subtlety.)
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To: capt. norm

"...an overweight woman with bare flesh around her middle sticking out like a half-opened can of Pillsbury biscuits."

You win the "Best Mental Picture of the Day" award!!


34 posted on 07/27/2006 11:49:16 AM PDT by Polyxene (For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel - Martin Luther)
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To: capt. norm

they should just put all the tight little clothes in a serperate room with a skinny little doorway and if your fat ass can't fit through the door you can't buy those clothes...


36 posted on 07/27/2006 11:50:58 AM PDT by edzo4
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To: capt. norm
My biggest store gripe, especially at WalMart, concerns the huge obese women who commandeer the electric ride-on shopping carts provided for handicapped and people with medical conditions like hear disease.

Pretty easy to see how these big blobs got to be that way.

40 posted on 07/27/2006 11:58:24 AM PDT by Bratch
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To: capt. norm

Wow! That post was beyond ignorant.

There are plenty of medical conditions which cause people to gain inordinate (and unhealthy) amounts of weight. Hypothyroidism, Cushing's Syndrome, Prader-Willi Syndrome just to name a few.

You've managed to cast aspersions on people whose medical condition you don't know and are, apparently, too shallow to give a damn about, because they don't look the same as you.


42 posted on 07/27/2006 11:59:33 AM PDT by Triggerhippie (Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.)
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To: capt. norm
Nothing kills my appetite faster than to be in a grocery store and see an overweight woman with bare flesh around her middle sticking out like a half-opened can of Pillsbury biscuits.

....wearing shower shoes that allow the toes to splay over the edges set off by a large tattoo of a barbed wire fence around the ankle and a dragon tattoo on the shoulder.

48 posted on 07/27/2006 12:05:25 PM PDT by Ben Hecks
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To: capt. norm
I went to Wal Mart Saturday and made a hypothesis: I figured there were at least 10 grossly obese women per normal or skinny women. I did the same for men. Results: There were 20 or more grossly obese women per skinny woman and 8 to 1 fatties per normal or skinny man. I bought my scanner to use to upload pictures for Match.com and left.

I did a search for women within 50 miles of me that had athletic, average, or slender bodies with pictures and guess what? I got no one at all in this area. I am afraid that Nomarriage.com has a point.

49 posted on 07/27/2006 12:06:29 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: capt. norm
Nothing kills my appetite faster than to be in a grocery store and see an overweight woman with bare flesh around her middle sticking out like a half-opened can of Pillsbury biscuits.

I know that some people are jumping on you like Rosie O'Donnell on a pot roast, but that's funny right there.

As you've no doubt learned, "overweight" is a very subjective term. I prefer more objective terms like "bucket butt". They more accurately describe the physique you're referring to. "Bucket butt" or "lard ass" cannot possibly be mistaken for a reference to someone with a little extra curvature to her form. (Though, it probably takes a bit of willful extrapolation to get there from your Pillsbury biscuits remark. Even more accurate terms may not prevent such a person from taking offense.)

65 posted on 07/27/2006 12:26:53 PM PDT by Redcloak (Speak softly and wear a loud shirt.)
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To: capt. norm

The history of fat: up until the 20th century most advice was given on how to get fatter.

http://www.foodmuseum.com/exfatCulture.html


75 posted on 07/27/2006 12:52:17 PM PDT by eleni121 (General Draza Mihailovich: We will never forget you - the hero of World War Two)
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To: capt. norm
Nothing kills my appetite faster than to be in a grocery store and see an overweight woman with bare flesh around her middle sticking out like a half-opened can of Pillsbury biscuits.

LOL - very descriptive with words, I see!

I've seen the kind your talking about - the 60 lb fat roll, splitting and spilling over the top of a worn-out pair of stretch pants like an overcooked brat bursting out of its skin.

Lovely creatures, aren't they?
80 posted on 07/27/2006 12:56:10 PM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Get off my lawn!)
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To: capt. norm

Pretty easy to see how these big blobs got to be that way.<<<<<<<<<<<

Not really. Many people have conditions or have to take meds which result in being overweight, which is then exacerbated by not being able to move and exercise normally. You are right that overweight people are less than attractive in tight or revealing clothing. But you are like the people who see someone parking in a handicapped space and assume if they don't have a wheelchair or cane that they don't qualify, which is ignorant. I know people who were very active and attractive until, though no fault of theirs, they became unable to do much of anything.

It breaks their heart, and your comments reinforce why.


116 posted on 07/27/2006 3:06:31 PM PDT by Mjaye
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To: capt. norm

Well, as my daddy used to say: Some should, some shouldn't.

The trick is knowing which group you're in.


117 posted on 07/27/2006 3:08:47 PM PDT by pollyannaish
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To: capt. norm

LOL...I don't know why this reminded me, but I was at Wal-Mart recently with my parents. We were looking for a broom (they just moved into a new house out here in AZ and didn't have one), and were standing there when we here this 'BEEP' noise. A lady, in her little cart, BEEPED at us. In the aisle - instead of just saying, "excuse me," (she was literally a foot away from me), she beeped! Is this what society is coming to? It was the weirdest thing...because when we moved, she said: "Thank you," just plain as day... Sigh!


131 posted on 07/27/2006 4:30:18 PM PDT by arizonarachel (Praying for a May miracle!)
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