Bill Maher on Fat Acceptance

@jimm619 said
You noticed the lofty oration, too?
I wish I could write like that./

@Beowulf
Don't forget modest in the extreme....
I think we should do case studies of the reasons for obesity. There might be profound underlying mental problems perhaps, just motorboating but if we could suss out why they are going obese we might find ways of preventing it.
Obesity is a medical problem with those folks getting sick earlier like the guy said, no obese 90 year olds.
I wonder what the longevity is of extreme obesity where they would go into a rehab and lost hundreds of pounds, whether that means their life expectancy goes up or is it too late even if they get down to 200 pounds from the original 500 or more.
Also, if someone is extremely obese, say a 600 pounder, and looses 400 pounds and now a svelte 200, does the flaps of skin also shrink so the flabs don't just drop out all over that person? Or would it require plastic surgery to get the skin to meet the new shape?

@beowulf said
You are not talented.

I imagine you to be the type that isn't good at anything 🤔

@sonhouse

My theory is processed foods/Fast foods mixed with a lazy culture.
Kids are not active like they used to be.

Video games and the internet didn't help.
The general consensus that kids running around the neighborhood isn't safe also had an impact.

Now as far as the skin thing...
Losing a massive amount of weight requires surgery to cut away those flaps of skin.
If you are very young it may go back in time but when it comes to severe obesity, surgery is needed.

Losing too much weight quickly can kill you.
Thomas Barnes the chess player lost 130 pounds and it killed him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Wilson_Barnes

@jimm619 said
Since everyone is aware that you
ARE ALWAYS WRONG,
I will accept that as a compliment.
I'm sorry though, I must respectfully contradict you,
as, I will admit, at times I thought I detected
a modicum of intelligence in some of your posts.

@Beowulf
Nice post, so he beat Morphy 8 times. I lost about 50 pounds by just not eating as much but my wife didn't like the result, she said I looked sick at 180 so I upped my weight to 200 still some 30 pounds off my peak and I do see the slack skin is not so slack now.

@philokalia said
The fat acceptance crowd does a few things right:

- Appearances are superficial; there are good people who are "ugly," and bad people who are "beautiful."
- Some people do suffer from actual medical conditions or other issues that prevent them from being able to really be fit
- Beauty standards do result in a lot of mental anguish especially for young women, and al ...[text shortened]... ," and, to all take some time to try to encourage our own family members to be in shape and healthy.

@kevcvs57

That's because you're gross 🤮

@beowulf said
"Their is a disturbing trend... rewritting ideology or rewriting science to fit what you want it to be"

---Bill Mayer.

Trash talking the modern Democrats.

@shallow-blue said
Erm... you do realise most of the ambling blobs are white trash Republicans, don't you?

@Beowulf
I guess you kept fit in the prison gym.

@sonhouse said
@Beowulf
I guess you kept fit in the prison gym.