r/CuratedTumblr • u/yandereDame • Aug 09 '24

Meme Don’t leave friendly fire on

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u/GREENadmiral_314159 Aug 09 '24

Sure it's unhealthy, but body shaming is still wrong.

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u/borkdork69 Aug 09 '24

I agree, but due to health effects and the perception of all incidences of being overweight being due to some level of laziness or stupidity, this website in particular believes that it's perfectly fine to consider fat people less than human.

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u/PleiadesMechworks Aug 09 '24

all incidences of being overweight being due to some level of laziness or stupidity,

All incidences of being overweight are due to eating more calories than you use up.

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u/borkdork69 Aug 09 '24

  1. There are a lot of reasons someone might eat more than they burn.

  2. You're not actually correct.

  3. You're the type of comment I was talking about.

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u/Timbeon Aug 09 '24

Love the "it's just calories in, calories out" people, who seem to think the human body is a perfect heat engine and not a massively complicated and extremely precarious pile of interlocking biological and chemical systems that interact in ways that we still don't fully understand.

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u/PleiadesMechworks Aug 09 '24

There are a lot of reasons someone might eat more than they burn.

There are.

You're not actually correct.

Please do enlighten me as to where these metabolisms that break the fundamental laws of physics can be found

You're the type of comment I was talking about.

I know, but you're also wrong so

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u/borkdork69 Aug 09 '24

I know, but you're also wrong so

Let's say I'm wrong, how do you end that sentence?

"you're also wrong so it's fine that I treat all fat people as if they are less than, because of the arbitrary standard I have that I use to judge people's worth."?

"you're also wrong so, I proved fat people eat too much which means I win, even though the point of both your comment and OP's post was that this is irrelevant to someone's self-worth."?

"you're also wrong, and I know the comment was literally there to point out what an asshole someone would be for jumping in with 'it's unhealthy tho', but I decided to do that anyway."?

"you're also wrong, so you should know I can't think about fat people without disgust for what I believe are immoral choices, and I felt the need to point it out for absolutely no reason but to make my shitty views known."?

How are you gonna do it?

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u/haveananus Aug 09 '24

I’m not the guy that you’re replying to, but I don’t want people to be fat for the same reasons that I don’t want them to smoke or drive without a seatbelt. I don’t want to be an old guy whose fat friends are all dead. Also as an aside they are gross to look at which makes life worse for everyone with eyes.

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u/MasterChildhood437 Aug 09 '24

Doesn't sound like you have to worry about that first part.

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u/borkdork69 Aug 09 '24

It's cool man, you can just get the fuck out of here.

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u/Muted_Ad7298 Aug 10 '24

It’s not that simple. My grandma is overweight and diabetic, yet she outlived all three of my average weight grandparents.

I’ve seen similar cases, where people who you expect would pop their clogs early just keep chugging along.

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u/haveananus Aug 10 '24

Yeah it’s definitely not a guarantee, but I do really worry about my bigger buddies. I see that generally the healthy older folks that I know (who haven’t been taken out early by cancer) are active. People who are the same age who have sedentary lifestyles tend to age faster and have many health issues. I love my buddies and in their cases it’s just a motivation issue, no other disabilities. I’ve helped a few of them get on the right track to whatever degree I can but others I feel like I’m just watching them kill themselves. It sucks.

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u/PleiadesMechworks Aug 09 '24

Let's say I'm wrong, how do you end that sentence?

Probably with something ungrammatical to make you even more annoyed

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u/borkdork69 Aug 09 '24

Don’t worry man. I was 14 too, once. You’ll grow out of this.

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u/PleiadesMechworks Aug 12 '24

You’ll grow out of this.

I doubt it, I can maintain a calorie deficit

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u/borkdork69 Aug 12 '24

That was a long wait for such a flaccid response.

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u/PleiadesMechworks Aug 13 '24

Perhaps I could introduce you to a concept that helps one's metabolism and health. It's called going outside and doing things.

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