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Some notes on fat people

prole-art-threat [Edit] [Delete] 34 replies 14:36, 24 October '07

Its 'funny' isn't it that if you go back 100 years or more, being fat meant that you were affluent and successful - you wore you wealth depending upon your girth or something and all the poor looked like "skinny raggamuffin urchins" (NME gayspeak for older men into young boys). NOwadays its the other way round - the uppity middle class/financially stable are JOG JOG JOG NO I COULDNT POSSIBLY EAT ANOTHER PUMPKING SEED SORRY OUT OF MY WAY IM JOGGING ON THE SOUTHBANK LISTENING TO NO ANGEL, whereas the proles are just wolfing down shit as though the whole world of food is a shelf and their mouths are some sort of trolley and they're playing supermarket sweep but with infinite time 'on the clock'.

Funny isn't it?

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  • Hilarious.

    You fat bastard.

    Royter-Hatfood | 24 Oct '07, 14:37 | X
  • it's the same as being tanned and being pale as fuck

    sarkyfox | 24 Oct '07, 14:38 | X
    • how?

      ..

      JacobJones @sarkyfox | 24 Oct '07, 14:48 | X
      • i don't think they indicate class, though

        it strikes me that two types of people pursue a suntan and they are at opposite ends of the income spectrum and people in the middle are less likely to bother.

        JacobJones @_vikram | 24 Oct '07, 14:53 | X
        • the thing is though

          very rich ladies are just as likely to fake a tan as those with sod all. you see just as much fake tan in knightsbridge and belgravia as you do in enfield.

          whereas i think middle class people don't bother.

          JacobJones @_vikram | 24 Oct '07, 14:59 | X
          • fuck knows

            what i'm saying is that i think that if you plotted income v tendency to fake tan it would be an inverse-bell curve type thing.

            JacobJones @Jack_El_Biscuit | 24 Oct '07, 15:07 | X
            • he's right, I did a dissertation on this

              I've plotted these numbers before. Will upload some detailed stats later.

              ConcentrationFace @JacobJones | 24 Oct '07, 15:11 | X
              • haha

                JacobJones @ConcentrationFace | 24 Oct '07, 15:16 | X
            • that's precisely

              what i was saying ... that the numbers rise at either end of the income spectrum.

              JacobJones @Jack_El_Biscuit | 24 Oct '07, 15:15 | X
              • i should have said

                'are less likely to bother'

                JacobJones @Jack_El_Biscuit | 24 Oct '07, 15:21 | X
              • yes

                Like when the girl in 'Brick Lane' wonders how poor people can be fat in this country.

                Elaina_Casoolare | 24 Oct '07, 14:38 | X
              • well its a different type of fatness

                isnt it?
                you get fat differently by eating organic roast beef than by eating chips, non?

                alcxxk | 24 Oct '07, 14:38 | X
              • yes there's being 'pale and interesting' and 'pallid and hopeless' isn't there?

                Fat people have to have specially made coffins as well, so there's some Kudos involved then.

                prole-art-threat @_vikram | 24 Oct '07, 14:40 | X
                • there is nothing funnier

                  than watching bad things happen to fat people

                  Parsefone | 24 Oct '07, 14:44 | X
                  • ^ POTW

                    Orwell noted in 'Coming Up For Air' that it would be practically vulgar for a far person to 'fling themselves down in paroxyms of agony' and that fat people are only really there for comic relief. A bit harsh I thought but nevertheless it made I laugh.

                    prole-art-threat @Parsefone | 24 Oct '07, 14:46 | X
                    • What do expect from a pencil thin 'Commie'

                      that was played by an alleged Kiddie-fiddler on BBC television?

                      Bundoz @prole-art-threat | 24 Oct '07, 14:57 | X
                • What of?

                  prole-art-threat @wishpig | 24 Oct '07, 15:08 | X
                  • ...

                    Failure.

                    Stealthy @prole-art-threat | 24 Oct '07, 15:12 | X
                    • Skinny people stink

                      - of death.

                      Bundoz @Stealthy | 24 Oct '07, 15:14 | X
                    • I saw a good episode of Ricki Lake

                      once where someone had to live with a fat person for a day. They had to wash under the flaps of her belly twice a day to prevent fungal growth.
                      When the remote control got lost it was eventually found in one of the ladies' thighs.

                      doctornovocalcords | 24 Oct '07, 15:12 | X
                      • Those fatties will eat anything

                        But seriously, ewwwwwww!

                        DanielKelly @doctornovocalcords | 24 Oct '07, 15:13 | X
                      • and then Rikki went on the diet...

                        Silentcommand @doctornovocalcords | 24 Oct '07, 15:17 | X
                    • Is it true

                      than in some (undeveloped?) parts of the world today, fat people are seen as more sexually desirable as it makes them appear wealthy? Sorta like what you're saying it used to be like here in the Wicky Wa Wa West

                      dove_from_above | 24 Oct '07, 15:15 | X
                      • ...

                        Not exactly. Certain Pacific islands and a couple of places in West Africa, they like their women fat. Partially because having a bit of a load denotes that any children will be healthy and happy. And partially because they're freaks and that's how dey roll.

                        Stealthy @dove_from_above | 24 Oct '07, 15:17 | X
                        • ...

                          So in conclusion: Yes, exactly.

                          Stealthy @Stealthy | 24 Oct '07, 15:18 | X
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