By: Ben Thare

Ben Thare — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 18:01:38 +0000

Scott, are you saying there is too much…um…trash in Texas? :o

By: Katharine

Katharine — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 01:10:11 +0000

scott, paddle faster, you’re surrounded by banjos.

By: fatkid

fatkid — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 01:08:21 +0000

Scott, sounds like a slice of red velvet cake might do you some good! Hasty generalizations sound like familial traits for you and your’n. Nobody loves like family after all! (cue banjo).

By: scott

scott — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 16:02:37 +0000

In July, I was amoungst some morbidly obese family members, their friends and many neighbors at a “church/family reunion/gathering” near Burnet Texas. Basically, everyone was overweight, the majority what I would call disgustingly obese, sweating and panting, complaining of the heat (it’s always hot in the central Texas summer…they acted like it was something new). “Lordy mercy it’s hella hot” – it had been about the the same temp for weeks and overall a cooler summer than many in the past. Being 155 lbs..I was basically a freak and had many “cute/joking” comments made about my weight, living in California, etc…that I should eat more, “gonna fatten you up”…etc. I heard endless arguments and rants, how Obama is ruining everything – causing their misery, how the gays are going to ruin society with their SF Weddings, how God needs to be in schools and in government, what the “damn liberals” where up to, etc, etc. They were worried about the mexicans, the muslims. *Nobody (of course) mentioned obesity and the health care crisis it will cause. Not one person mentioned what the future holds for all the obese kids (they were all fat, all swimming with teeshirts to hide themselves). These kids will have a lifelong battle with weight, health and possibly mental bodily issues.
The gathering ended with a dumpster filled with trash (no effort in the area for recycling)..endless bags of chips, cookies, boxes of pastries, plastic bottles of cokes, etc.
I think its a disease, a very selfish one and should be categorized with alcoholism and drug abuse. These people seem to me to be the quickest to judge and jump on others, but will cram their lifestyle, desires and needs down anyone elses throats. The genes that code for efficient fat strorage and how they control brain chemistry…its like an organism within an organism and the complexities of it (physiological and psychological) are baffling.

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