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In the Fatosphere, Big Is In, or at Least Accepted
The New York Times ^
| January 22, 2008
| RONI CARYN RABIN
Posted on 01/23/2008 5:22:10 PM PST by Eric Blair 2084
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To: Eric Blair 2084
"They argue that Americans are not that much larger than they used to be and that being fat in and of itself is not necessarily bad for you."Bull. When I was in grade school, there may have been one or two (although I only remember one who had a glandular disease) obese children in the entire school, which meant pretty much half of a county. Now the one or two number actually applies to thin children. Anybody seen the parking lot of your local Wal Mart lately? Fat folks everywhere.
To: Eric Blair 2084
May be we really live in a six dimensional phatosphear. Where ronald and that burger king with a crown fight it out for the power over eternal fatnation.
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posted on
01/23/2008 5:43:54 PM PST
by
kinoxi
To: Diana in Wisconsin
Usually, I find you grating and annoying, even though I rarely disagree with you...but I have to give you credit; that was a good line. ;)Then I might have to change tactics if you didn't find that grating or annoying. If I haven't pissed everyone off, than I am doing something wrong.
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posted on
01/23/2008 5:44:49 PM PST
by
Eric Blair 2084
(Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
To: Eric Blair 2084
Ummm...is blobosphere taken?
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posted on
01/23/2008 5:44:58 PM PST
by
Dad x 3
To: Eric Blair 2084
To: Dad x 3
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posted on
01/23/2008 5:50:35 PM PST
by
Eric Blair 2084
(Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
To: littlehouse36
Don’t remind the Fred supporters about the metamucil line from Huck. He wants his voters.
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posted on
01/23/2008 5:51:43 PM PST
by
Eric Blair 2084
(Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
To: ASOC
Fatgrrl I know a woman who has that license plate, and she is a beaut! (and she knows it too)
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posted on
01/23/2008 5:52:25 PM PST
by
editor-surveyor
(Turning the general election into a second Democrat primary is not a winning strategy.)
To: Eric Blair 2084; Lijahsbubbe
Blogs written by fat people and its fine to use the word, they say have multiplied in recent months, filling a virtual soapbox known as the fatosphere, where bloggers calling for fat acceptance challenge just about everything conventional medical wisdom has to say about obesity. Smart, sassy and irreverent, bloggers with names like Big Fat Deal, FatChicksRule and Fatgrrl (Now with 50 percent more fat!) buck anti-obesity sentiment.
With names like that their soapbox ought to be called the blob-o-sphere. Sheesh.
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posted on
01/23/2008 5:54:54 PM PST
by
Ezekiel
To: Diana in Wisconsin; Eric Blair 2084
I feel a Freeper romance brewing....
haha
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posted on
01/23/2008 5:55:30 PM PST
by
ovrtaxt
(In my fantasy world, the Dems run a Zell Miller/ Lieberman ticket...)
To: Eric Blair 2084
We are seeing fat people paying the price (literally) for their fat - buying two seats on an ariline for example. At some point this economic model will be expanded to things like healthcare. They may not like it, but I don’t know how our health care system can afford American’s ‘lifestyle choices’ moving forward. Besides there is nothing cool or hip about being obese.
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posted on
01/23/2008 5:56:12 PM PST
by
steel_resolve
(If you can't stand behind our troops, then please stand in front...)
To: kinoxi
That clown Ronald and the Burger King have deep pockets. Get on the bandwagon of "public health". Sue the bastards. You can make a fortune.
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posted on
01/23/2008 5:56:13 PM PST
by
Eric Blair 2084
(Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
To: steel_resolve
I thought you were off the nanny state ping list :-)
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posted on
01/23/2008 5:57:03 PM PST
by
Eric Blair 2084
(Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
To: Eric Blair 2084
NY Slimes headline fatosphere. Not mine. The stupidoldmediasphere admiring the lame-name-o-sphere.
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posted on
01/23/2008 5:58:54 PM PST
by
palmer
To: Eric Blair 2084
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posted on
01/23/2008 5:59:22 PM PST
by
kinoxi
To: ovrtaxt; Diana in Wisconsin
I’m sure Diana is very lovely. I tell my 3 year old daughter to avoid men like me (she can’t date until she is 45)...it’s nothing but trouble.
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posted on
01/23/2008 6:03:13 PM PST
by
Eric Blair 2084
(Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
To: Eric Blair 2084
That’s good advice. I tell my 10 year old daughter to avoid men like you too.
:^)
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posted on
01/23/2008 6:04:38 PM PST
by
ovrtaxt
(In my fantasy world, the Dems run a Zell Miller/ Lieberman ticket...)
To: ovrtaxt
Bwaaa-Haaa-Haaa! I already have a husband that is grating and annoying, LOL! He stole my heart years ago, so Eric doesn’t stand a chance.
Besides, Eric’s young enough to be my son, and I’ve already raised three boys. I’ve served my sentence in Mommyville! ;)
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posted on
01/23/2008 6:07:37 PM PST
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
To: Eric Blair 2084
lol, I am just projecting a market reaction to what appears to be an unsustainable siutation. I mean if you went out and tried to get insurance, you’re obviously going to pay more if you’re a 66 year oldwith a history of heart disease than if you’re a 25 year old without so much as a broken bone. WHy should this be any different?
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posted on
01/23/2008 6:08:59 PM PST
by
steel_resolve
(If you can't stand behind our troops, then please stand in front...)
To: Eric Blair 2084
Yep, same as me- I’m skinnier but I probably smoke more to even things out. I’ll probably end up like all of my aunts, uncles and grandparents who tragically passed away at the tender age of 90 to 105.
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posted on
01/23/2008 6:09:41 PM PST
by
Squawk 8888
(Is human activity causing the warming trend on Mars?)
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