Fattest in 1922 versus Fattest today
 

https://i.imgur.com/LBTwAKw.jpg


Chronic lifestyle related illnesses are the largest drain of resources on our medical system.

i lik being a drain... :thumbsup

And here I thought you just liked what goes down a drain... The drain of a toilet :1orglaugh

But seriously,

I'm just picking on the overweight at the moment because an obese black woman threw a
fit and tried to cause trouble for me. When she found out that she couldn't report me for
being prejudice against her weight problem... She played the race card instead.

I won't be able to get that horrendous pic out of my head for a long, long time.

a perfectly healthy human being and we must give away our remaining money and freedom to protect him from the covid flu

"1922 fat" is super normal today.

Lazy people, workout needed

yeah my brother's a doctor, he consistently brings up three things as the major contributing factors in the cost of american health care:
1) more than half his time is spent on obese people with expensive chronic conditions
2) massive administrative departments with all the grift that entails
3) fear of malpractice litigation leading to doctors always recommending the most cutting-edge expensive treatments even when they're really not necessary

Kind of puts the entire Covid fiasco in perspective.

Cool story bro.
You probably took a shit and got mad because the shit looked and smelled like you.

:2 cents:

a lot of it comes down to portion size and food choices. people used to eat more fruits and veggies and it wasn't normal to eat an entire bag of cheetos as a 'snack'

granted the poor dude in the right pic is an extreme, but yeah, food choices and portion size

I don't know if the dude on the right will ever be able to regain some semblance of a normal weight, prob would need a gastric surgery or something. what a horrible way to live :(

Sales tax on food should be based on how fat you are. Bingo.

There was some ideas to add special tax on fast food and generally unhealthy food, but it was opposed for some reason. But that would be key, as usually bad food is very cheap hence the reason why people buy it massively.

that would be a wicked idea, provided the proceeds are used to subsidize the cost of fruits, veggies and lean meats and fish

will never happen, but a fantastic idea nonetheless

portion size is a whole other issue...

North Americans are so fat compared to peeps in every other nation I've lived in or visited

it's cuz they eat crap, drive instead of walking, and eat enough crap food for two peeps for every meal

from what you describe it sounds like you're the one with the problem :/

Yep, and there is one example - cheapest food which you can buy when you enter some store is bag of chips - which is like some sort of symbol of unhealthy , full of carbs, sugar and salt. Idea of transferring tax money to reduce cost of healthy food would work but politicians don't have balls to do it.

Someone else's problems are not my problems. So overweight, drug addict or whatever
their situation might be.. I'm not going to lose sleep worrying about them.

I look at people and the world's problems with the same philosophy that I have when I'm
sailing across the ocean.

ie: I only worry about staying afloat, keeping my crew safe and getting us where we're headed.

I've got a serious problem with that because I'm fed up being penalized for the bad decisions
that other people make.

Why am I constantly having to pay extra because I'm successful? Why am I expected to help fix someone
else's mistakes?

After all, I make poor choices all the time and I never go crying and asking others to fix
my screw ups for me!

crazy ....

go to walmart, 75% of the people you see are overweight

I don't think you read (or understood) a word of what Klen and I were discussing. namely a strategy to build healthier North American societies where y'all currently have overweight kids with type 2 diabetes

no tax increases for you unless you'd rather eat cheetos and bologna instead of say, an orange or a salad or a nice lean chicken breast. in our plan the latter would actually be subsidized by a tax on crap food

s'all good though. good luck in your future dealings with fat or Black people, know it must be difficult for you :upsidedow

All get the vaccine, mask up and stay in lockdown to save his life!
And don't dare to get sick, he needs 3 hospital beds and 8 nurses for some years, but is vaccinated.
He took the vaccine not for himself, but to protect you!

I get where you're coming from.
You're a nice person that just wants the best for others and that's very admirable.


However you're talking about a sin tax and pornography isn't considered to be virtuous.
Governments fuck everything up that they touch and you only need to look back at
the Covid fiasco to see how incompetent they are. So I will NOT SUPPORT any form of
government taxation or regulation because ultimately it's going to cost me more money
and handicap me in business.


With regards to social problems,

I'm an alcoholic (18 years sober) and I can honestly say that no one forced the booze
down my throat. I can equally say that despite all the people that tried to get me to stop
that that it was only me that got me to quit drinking. Believe me that the only person
that can fix anyone's problems are yourself.

• No amount of government rules or taxes can fix obesity (or addiction, etc)
• No amount of money can fix obesity.
• No amount of healthy food can fix obesity.
• No amount of education can fix obesity.
• No amount of sympathy can fix obesity.
• No amount of family or friends can fix obesity.

So when it comes to fat people it means that until they decide to lose the weight and get
healthy.... They're going to stay fat.

The solution isn't to change the way the world sees them... It's that they have to chose
to change the way they see themselves.

huge congrats on your sobriety. keep it up!! :) :)

I'm glad we can be civil even though we disagree so fundamentally

thanks for the kind words as well

in your post I loved your closing line: It's that they have to chose
to change the way they see themselves.

beautifully articulated and can apply to so many things

peace and have yourself a wicked day

Well, i suppose you could view it that way, but again , the fact is anywhere else in world when you go to store, there is no XXXXXXXXXL version of food, only normal size.

LOL You haven't lived in Saudi Arabia.
Trust me that there's no shortage of people needing size 60 pants in Saudi Arabia.

I've also lived in Europe and to be honest most European nations are about as
obese as Americans. You might not find XXL junk food sizes but groceries are
cheap and heavy with sauces and sugar.

Plus there's a hell of a lot of really cheap booze in Europe and highly functional alcoholism
is pretty much common culture in all the 27 European nations. And alcohol destroys
your health and it'll make you fat.

Whatabout Japan, did you lived there ?

in North America I've seen bags of chips/cheetos/all those ridiculous non-foods that are massive. like the size of a normal-sized person's torso. it's fucking crazy

in Jamaica peeps tend to eat medium portions of food, but that food is actual food. pepper pot soup, pan or jerk chicken (no oil), fish, lots of veggies and fruits. even I can eat food here. plus peeps are way more active here than in North America. same with TCI and Belize

Europeans tend to eat better too, at least from what I can recall from years ago. high-fat foods but small portions. and people actually walked

my fav food is Vietnamese, that's pretty much all I ate in Toronto when I lived there

whether one kills themselves with alcohol or a knife and fork, not much we can do (assuming no politician will ever try to make a structural difference)

sucks cuz peeps who live those lifestyles are passing them on to their kids, who will die young from obesity-related conditions like their parents will :(

I don't give a fuck what someone looks like. I just want people to be healthy and live long, strong lives

No, I just do business there. The longest I've been in Japan was for about a month




The biggest determining factor in how fat a nation's citizens are tends to be how frigging
rich the country is.

A nation's wealth is also tends to determine how miserable most of its people are.

It's just an observation of mine... But the poor nations tend to have happier and skinnier
people. (As long as they're not malnourished)

:thumbsup:thumbsup:thumbsup:thumbsup

In Mexico there is a sugar tax. I hardly notice it. Nobody using less sugar. In Holland they want to close snackbars. But i guess only small business owners will feel it, not Mc Donalds or Burger King.

Why should i pay for bad parenting? Or for someone that want to eat himself to dead.

Welcome to the P R A G M A T I S T side of the Force.

The power of the Light side of the Force is noble and the power of the Dark side is considerable.

But there is mental peace in the GREY side of the Force. Just accept that the masses are asses
and you will find peace.

Now if you want a laugh....
The fat witch called me to tell me that if I pay her $2k that she'll go away.

** WHY IS THE WORD P.R.A.G.M.A.T.I.S.T CENSORED? **

I can't do that. I really do love people, always have. not a 'virtue signal' thing, just the way I've always been. as a child I played with all my toys equally so none would feel left out, seriously

I also retract my prior statement about 'nothing we can do'. a personal example and wasn't sure I wanted to go there yesterday, but fuck it

so one of the dudes I've been seeing for over a year is pretty overweight, prob had about 30 lbs to drop. VERY outside my usual aesthetic, I like very slim, very fit men and the other dudes I see fit that physique, but this dude is just so cool I can't help but be attracted to him

he did something incredible for me recently so as way of thanks lately I've been encouraging him to actually swim when we go to the beach, when we go into town I insist he parks his car cuz I want to walk (which I do), but also to get him off his ass. he also comes over and uses my weight machine when he's on his lunch break, and whips up a chicken stir fry glazed with orange juice and tons of spices instead of oil, or just going to KFC. my role is to roll the music and chop up the veggies for him to steam (I do not cook)

also when I go over for Sunday dinners both me and his 13 yr old daughter (she's so onboard with this weight loss thing) insist no oil in the soup and dumplings have been vetoed, replaced by more veggies

only a few weeks and he's dropped about 10 lbs so far I figure; shirts that used to be tight on him hang loose, and he's had to go up two notches on his belt. both me and his daughter are committed to supporting him in this

I figure she knows I'm having things with her dad (we aren't affectionate with each other around her and NEVER fuck at their place, only at mine), but she's 13 and a smart as hell kid. she doesn't seem to mind, she has no mom, so she prob likes having a chica around I figure. we get along really well, by now she's like a niece to me. and together we're helping her dad get healthy. win/win

point is, there are ways we CAN help people accomplish things they can't alone


I have no idea what you're talking about re this woman demanding money but good luck with it, I guess?

I just tried the word too and got the hahaha thing, that's so odd. pragmatic isn't censored tho. weird

This **woman** is what got me bitching about fat people.

A black woman came into my office and she was at least 100lbs overweight.
I politely said that I might have some work for plus size ladies in about 6 months.

She flipped out and tried reporting me to different government agencies that I was being
prejudice against her because of her weight. (Playing the disability card)

That failed so she tried playing the race card with different rights groups.

Lastly I had to file a report with law enforcement because she started telling others that
I'm filming CSAM. (kiddie porn)

The fattest human EVER recorded was Robert Hughes. Born in 1926 died in 1958
He weighed in at 1,071 pounds!!!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert...259 8f46de63b

So...I would say generally speaking that people are fatter these days. But there have been fatter people in history.

But that lady in that pic that was supposed to represent fattest in 1922 was just a regular old porker.
It was a Barnum and Bailey circus ad for their sideshows claiming she was the "Biggest Woman In The World" And that pic was clipped to NOT show that she is standing next to the "Smallest Person In The World...Major Mite"
Not really representative of the fattest people of that era.
Here is that pic without the editing:
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/u~4AA...O6W/s-l400.jpg