There is no solution.
 

I am actually worse than everyone thinks. You see, I would never be outwardly rude, mean, disrespectful, whatever to anyone on the street and would similarly never allow my offspring to do such things. I am one of those contemptable people who just stews in it. My sister and father are both fatties and I have in the past caused them pain and regret it because I should have offered constructive criticism rather than nasty comments. I firmly believe that people should be who or what they want so long as they do not hurt other people. It is not the being fat that is so much the problem as is the attitude that comes along with it. It is not only fat people who have this attitude issue but they ar a good example.

Fatties generally do not consider how their extra girth impacts those around them, they think we need to make concessions for their lack of self-control in the eating department. Be fat if you want, but don't push it on me by sitting in half my seat and then acting like it is anyone's fault but your own. I don't smoke unless I am in an area that permits smoking and even then I am aware of my companions and others around me and may either move away from them or not smoke at all if the situation would prove annoying (although I don't always extend the same courtesy to non-snokers who choose to sit in the smoking section rather than wait for table in non-smoking and then make comments and fake cough, etc.). And the current push by fatties to have things like Oreos outlawed because they cannot control themselves is just like how television has bowed down to the parents who refuse to control the viewing habits of their children and would rather have good adult shows taken off the air, neutered or moved to a later time slot so the rest of us cannot enjoy them.

Attention Hockey People
 

And quaint little places in the US close to the border where football is queen (can't be king until you win the big one and going to the show multiple times in a row doesn't count), the French Connection would be ashamed at what has become of their hockey team and the snow is almost as deep as the bullshit spouted by its residents but the food is good and you can always sneak a case of non-import Labatts or Brador across the bridge.

Well I guess the question is...do these people get charged more because it takes 4 orderlies to roll their fat ass over instead of 1?

There is no solution.
 

Paigow,

I have been busted a few times muttering under my breath "Lose some fucking weight" when I can't get around some fat sow walking slowly and taking up half the sidewalk. Amazingly, they seem to find it rude for me to dart around them like a car passing on a two lane highway. They're utterly oblivious to how their girth and subsequent inability to ambulate quickly slows down the entire sidewalk. Say all you like about smokers taking up space around buildings puffing away - they aren't half as intrusive and annoying as Aunt Jemima and Mrs. Buttersworth having a conversation while slowly ambling their immense rugby-ball-sized cheeks down the sidewalk.

Hey, dumb fat middle management/admin zombie porkers - people behind you are in a hurry to get back to the office - either walk at reasonable speed or get a promotion and take a cab wherever you're going. Your slow walking discussion about "the new girl" in the secretarial pool is holding back half the block.

S("The lazy skinny Homer is gone - now I'm a big fat dynamo")D

From the What the Fuck File
 

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,86759,00.html

Spree: Mother in Texas kills two young sons and injures third WITH FUCKING ROCKS!!!


What is with people? We need to come up with some sort crazy-ass person detector and kill these people before they do shit like this. Didn't anyone, her husband, anyone, notice that this bitch was turning the corner into killing your own kids land? I have a kid and he pushes my buttons sometimes but how the hell do you take your kids out back in their underpants and stone them to death? They should simply shoot this bitch and be done with it. As my father would say, this country is heading towards a shitpool on a waterslide.

From the WTF File
 

Ok this woman and Andrea Yates are both from Texas? Well it's not the heat (yet) is there something in the water?

Playboy: the video game
 

You may think I'm pissy now, but one day when you're all grown up you'll see I'm right.:P

Playboy: the video game
 

Are you calling yourself old?

From the WTF File
 

It was pretty fucking hot down here last week. It's a little better this week, but so far, I'm not holding out hope that we'll have as cool of a summer as we did last year (i.e. limited number of consecutive days over 95).

GA Book Club
 

After years of discussion about the idea, a couple GAs have decided to start a Yahoo book club. I gather they will select a book, tell people to read it by a certain time, and then discuss. It will be anonymous and brutally on topic. If you want to be invited, send an e-mail (from the anonymous account you want to register from) to gabookreview@yahoo.com .

Playboy: the video game
 

Perfect! We should go on the road...

There is no solution.
 

I'm not a smoker, but I hate those people too.
Is the Oreo legislation (and related suits like McDonalds) really being pushed by fatties or overzealous plaintiffs' attorneys looking for the next big (no pun intended) thing - used to be phen-fen.
Rather than suing the manufacturers of fattening foods they should pass legislation expanding powers of child protective services to fine parents who feed their kids crap and allow them to watch tv all day without any physical exercise.

Spam
 

Has anyone else noticed a reduction in spam to hotmail/yahoo coinciding with the recent news/lawsuits?

Usually I have about 30-35 non-personal messages in my hotmail account when I get to work in the morning (even with the filter set pretty high). Recently, the number has decreased to about 15-20.

From the WTF File
 

Or, at the risk of causing a religious flame war - perhaps something in the church. Both apparently devoutly religious and believed God told them to kill the kids. Now Andrea Yates had a history of depression (although voices not so much). No info on this one.

Playboy: the video game
 

Damn. That was very good.

From the WTF File
 

From what I know, this one was just plain psychotic.

There's a reason they put these people on suicide watch when they come out of their psychosis.

From the WTF File
 

If Yates' religious fanatic community hadn't told her her only purpose in life was to breed and obey her husband despite her documented severe post-partum depression and psychosis, she could've stopped having kids and gotten treatment so her kids' lives would've been saved. Can't tell yet with this one but isn't hearing voices from God a symptom of schizophrenia (which may coincide with a symptom of sincere extreme religious belief, but which I assume ultrareligious types would aver is not the same thing)?

AI
 

Anyone else see Josh Gracin on Fox and Friends this morning? He is kind of a goofy little shit isn't he? Supply clerk? In the Marines? Marines are supposed to kill people, not file fucking purchase orders in triplicate. Sheesh. At least his wife looked better than when they showed her that last night on AI -- maybe the Fox people helped her out a little bit.


edited in another attempt to spell his damn name right

They actually need to ban this?
 

Getting a forked tongue may soon be outlawed near you:

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/nati...Splitting.html

Who the fuck does this? Do they ever want to hold a job in their entire lives anywhere outside a Goth bar?

I support their right to grotesquely mutilate themselves into serpentine freaks, but this seems like one instance where it might be really, really wise to listen to what your mom says.

They actually need to ban this?
 

Shit, one of those stories ya gotta sign-up to read. Well, on a positive note perhaps if the person with the forked tongue could independently move both forky things (one up and one down and vice versa) it might, um, be useful?

Spam
 

I've noticed a reduction in the amount of spam and a corresponding reduction in my penis and breast sizes, my earning potential, and my inkjet supply.

The reduction, however, is not as great as was the increase in spam to my hotmail account after MSN rolled out MSN 8 with improved (i.e., not free) spam protection. At that point it seemed like Hotmail just let the spammers loose in an effort to drive me to MSN 8.

They actually need to ban this?
 

One guy claims to be able to do just that. He also listened to his mom, who gave him the $500 it cost to have his tongue sliced on three occasions by a razor, without anesthesia.

They actually need to ban this?
 

I don't even want to think about why his mom gave him $500 to give his tongue such magical powers.

They actually need to ban this?
 

I would gladly pay if my eldest son wanted to cut his tongue out.

Double if it were without anesthesia.

(Okay, not really, but . . .)

Spam
 

:rofl:

hotmail's antics drove me to yahoo!, which is happy to offer me improved spam protection, also for a price. although I seem to have settled into some sort of spamguard equilibrium, with nearly all spam getting filtered by one of my 100 blocked addresses/domains.

hotmail does, supposedly, ban any user from sending more than 100 emails in a day to cut down on outgoing spam.

Tongue splitting
 

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Well...they are from Kentucky.:P

They actually need to ban this?
 

Okay, listen to your non-possessed-by-Satan, non-sociopathic, non-incestuous mom. Have that guy's mom dosed heavily with Thorazine and promptly evaluated by professionals.

They actually need to ban this?
 

Does anyone personally know someone who has done something permanent and prominent like fork their tongue, tattoo their face, put heinous spacers in their ears, etc.? I don't, although my younger spinning hippie sister does. The ones she knows are legitimate job-free and not sober enough ever to understand the concept of regret.

I wonder how many people do something like that and truly do regret it. You never really see "old" people with that kind of crazy stuff (unless they are the "old" people who do that kind of stuff to the youngins) -- which leads me to conclude that the type of people who do permanent prominent art to their bodies don't live long enough to regret it.

I was deeply saddened the day I saw the really cute guy with the GQ looks on the left side of his face and the tribal tat covering the right side.

They actually need to ban this?
 

I have a skull tattoo, but not on my face. My in-their-fifties and retired very not weird by most standards each actually got a couple of tattoos during the past few years. My dad got mom's name and then mine and my sister's on his arm -- his only regret is that he was offered a part-time to supplement the pension job at Disney World and they retracted it when he was measured for a uniform and the tattoos showed. Mom has a kitty face on her wrist and Garfield on her ankle.

I got mine when I was 16 and don't regret it. If nothing else, somebody can identify me if I am ever decapitated.

They actually need to ban this?
 

You have a strange idea of what "really cute guy with GQ looks" and "left" mean.

http://ca.yimg.com/i/ca/reuters/2003...1946976291.jpg

TM

They actually need to ban this?
 

I've seen plenty of old people with tatoos on beaches, particularly California and Hawaii. You know, the "old surfer dude" types. Old tats aren't pretty -- that black/green mush that it turns into. Of course, it's usually covering up old scraggly skin, too, that's seen too much sun. But they don't really seem to care. All they want are some tasty waves and a cool buzz, and they're fine.

They actually need to ban this?
 

Unless, of course, you're also burned beyond recognition:rolleyes:

They actually need to ban this?
 

Or a more interesting question than what pj initially posed, who actually does the slicing?

Apropos of, um, your avatar -- Dr. Nick Riviera, maybe?

They actually need to ban this?
 

You have a strange idea of what "covering" means.

Did Robin Givens' ex really get that tattoo?

They actually need to ban this?
 

Only to an extent. Finding the Sign of the Beast on your scalp will narrow the ID of your remains to that of a narrow group. The remaining gap, I'm sure, could be closed through the use of dental records.

;)

They actually need to ban this?
 

I don't have a problem with tattoos and piercings per se--hell, I have two tattoos and a navel ring myself. But no one in my daily life sees them unless they are seeing me pretty close to naked anyway. Does not affect my daily life and won't as I age.

My question was the really out there body art that actually impedes one's daily life. An old tat on a saggy hip? Who cares. No one sees it in every day life. A face tat or spaced ears? That's right out there in the open for fricking life. Normal piercings close or become far less noticable over time if allowed to heal. Spacers do not--the skin is stretched and looks rEcockulous (IMHO).

They actually need to ban this?
 

What particularly bewilders me about "tribal" tattoos is people getting tattoos from tribes they've never seen nor heard of, like my beloved cousin. You're a goddamn WASP who has never set foot outside a gated community; what tribe?! Traders of Wall Street?!

They actually need to ban this?
 

This is an interesting illustration of an argument I made on the Politics Board. Basically, the term "victimless crime" is meaningless as applied to stupid things you do to yourself that have permanent consequences, like huffing. When you do something to ABBA 2003 that will have an effect on ABBA 2023, whom you've never met, you're engaging in an act with moral repercussions, because you're saddling ABBA 2023 with the consequences. This doesn't always mean "victimless" crimes should be illegal, or that tattooing is appropriately classed as a victimless "crime," but it helps us to understand why some things are taboo even when we consent to them on any given individual day (e.g., incest between adults, in the case of the Politics Board). The consequences are too lasting for society to allow it, even if society values the individual freedom to harm oneself.

I agree with ABBA that the other thing to consider is that tattoos look really good only on taut, tan, young flesh. Tattoo parlors should have pasty cellulite simulators.

They actually need to ban this?
 

I have a friend who used to belong to a . . . social club out west, and he had the insignia tattoo'ed across and all around his neck, well above collar height.

He's now older, wiser, and clubless, but has had trouble (obviously) because of this. He has looked into removal (colors are still vivid, and the removers say they can't get it all out), and finds dress shirts with higher-than-normal collars, but it still shows. He's a stockbroker now, and he needs to meet with cients if he wants to grow, but he's sort of stuck at the talk-to-them-on-the-phone stage because of this.

He says he ALMOST got the facial tat, but, as he says, he "just missed that trainwreck."

Tatoos
 

What I usually see are the tatoos on the side of the neck. I think women gang bangers get this and teenagers trying to look "cool." What they don't seem to understand is that this pretty much limits your occupational pool to kitchen worker, Tower Records or night janitor.