Perspective on the Obesity "Epidemic"

[Peregrin Toker]

You have GOT to be shitting me.

You have GOT to be shitting me.

You have GOT to be shitting me.

Along comes CNN to make me very angry.

What the holy flying fuck of doom?

As someone who has a somewhat low weight considering my height (I'm 68kgs heavy and 183cm tall), I feel this to be incentive enough to start an Association For The Advancement Of Lanky People (AALP)... or at least one of many reasons. Kinda like the Anti-PETA Anti-Fascist League, but with a different agenda.

I'm serious about it.


Well, anyone here who feels that lean folks like me are being treated unjustly by society (directly or indirectly) can just add a AALP to their sig, regardless of their actual physique.

[Elfdart]

Whisky Tango Foxtrot. Full-figured fitness instructor? You're not fit, how the fuck can you profess to teach it?

I hate the term "full-figured". It's so fucking stupid; are they suggesting that someone like Kathy Ireland has an incomplete figure? I guess they prefer it to "fat", but it's simply wrong. It's just one of the myriad literally incorrect but politically correct terms that we've become saddled with.

I always thought "full-figured" was supposed to be a polite way of saying "big tits and ass" -the kind of chick appreciated by those of us who have large hands. Kate Winslet comes to mind. If it's a euphemism for "FAT CHICK", then ideed it is a bullshit term.

[Zoink]

After university I started biking heavily because I realised that my desk job would be bad for my health. In university I walked about an hour a day minimum (not for exercise, to save money ) and went to the gym occasionally. I've been 136 lbs for most of my life, but there is more to good health than being skinny.

I've also recently increased the amount of paintball I play to at least once a week. Running crouched through the forest for 3 hours gives your legs a good 'burn'. First game of the season usually leaves me crippled the next day, lol

Need to find something to do in winter though, thinking of taking up regular swimming.... hmm.


PS: I tried one of those 'Extreme' whoppers at Burger King yesterday, and boy that was tasty!