In the Fatosphere, Big Is In, or at Least Accepted

The New York Times ^ | January 22, 2008 | RONI CARYN RABIN

[boop]

"In contrast, of the 33 746 estimated excess deaths associated with underweight, the majority, 26 666 excess deaths, occurred in individuals aged 70 years and older."

Since human life expectancy is in the 70s anyway, this is really no big surprise that most people check out around then, regardless of how fat they are. We all have to die from something.

[boop]

"Yep, makes me especially worried about Shaq. If he packs on the pounds once he stops playing"

Shaq is a big man anyway, not just in height. He must weigh in the 300s already, and definitely will get fatter after he retires. I read somewhere that the average life expectancy of NFL football players is 56.

[boop]

Just checked it. Shaq is 7’2 and weighs 325.

[Trailerpark Badass]

Being fat as one ages is no fun. I would imagine all these fat people are young and haven't yet felt the pain of disintegrating knees and hips. When they're short of breath walking down the grocery aisle and their feet hurt and they have trouble doing even the most minor physical task, I hope they remind themselves how "cool" it is to be fat.

And I say this as a 6'7" 290lb 42 year-old who needs to lose 90 lbs before I decide on knee replacement.

[dfwgator]

Most NFL players let themselves go after they stopped playing. But some managed to thin down afterwards, and it’s hard to believe when you see them that they once were linemen in the NFL.

[boop]

I don’t know if you’ve seen the movie Pumping Iron with Arnold from 1977. It shows what some of those guys look like today. A lot of them look really lumpy and flabby. Arnold himself looks pretty soft around the middle.

[Marie2]

“I’m sure you didn’t bother to read the JAMA study, so I did it for you. Here is the money paragraph”

I didn’t pretend I had read the JAMA study. Someone asked me were I got the info about underweight being more likely to die than overweight, so I gave him the info.

[Lijahsbubbe]

Fatosphere - home of the milky way.

[GnuHere]

What’s with the 3rd pic, did she get a no-smudge lipstick contract? :)

[NaughtiusMaximus]

Shut up and get on the boxcar with the smokers. Don't worry, the drinkers will soon be there to keep you company in the camp for undesirables who displease the state.

Yo! Damn straight!

[badgerlandjim]

Suck at the public teat long enough and your ass is bound to
get fat. That doesn't mean it's YOUR fault. Just another
sacrifice by one who cares.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

What do you call a 300 lb. woman at the bar with a condom in her purse?

1/2 ton pick-up with a bed liner...

[L98Fiero]

“Skinny girls got to pay.”

LOL, the anti-Quagmire.

[swarthyguy]

Put a quarter in the juke
Boogie til you puke!
-RootBoySlim.

The Romans had it right. Ingest and Vomit. Repeat as necessary.

Perhaps the answer is to have vomitoriums and make puking publicly acceptable.

[longtermmemmory]

These Fat Fetishishst need to accept the fact that fat is just plain ugly to the non-fetish super majority of the planet.

[Eric Blair 2084]

Did you read some of the blog comments? They’re pretty funny.