Save the whales...

[tomstampy]

http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/obesity/trend/maps/index.htm

and since somebody is going to ask, obesity is defined here as >30 BMI, and constant over the timeline-data.

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[funsocaltiger]

*sigh*

Gone are the days when people actually gave a fuck what they looked like.

[tomstampy]

"bipolar-divided" better describes peoples cares for what they look like.

30% of the population has become unhealthily over-obsessed with how they look, and 30% of the population has become obsese.

The really sad part is these two sets are not necessarily non-overlapping.

"Mamma needs a new muʻumuʻu so she can look all nice for extra-skin night at KFC!"

[funsocaltiger]

I don't know. My personal take on the situation is that it more stems from a combination of overzealous fat/self-acceptance (where "fat" and "self" are becoming more and more synonymous) as well as "player-hating" on skinny girls. It makes me sick when overweight people give skinny people shit.

[crazybetsy]

Barnes-Jewish hospital (the one associated with WashU) has special rooms with floor-level lighting, so when the patient's bulk eclipses normal room lighting, they can still see obstacles in their path. (Two problems with the logic of this. Can you find them?)

[tomstampy]

1) Fat people step on the lights and break them.

2) Who really wants to see a fat person illuminated from their 'underbelly'

3) Obese people shouldn't be allowed to have non-obese people go out of their way to design special lighting for them. If fatty had to do a situp/pushup to regain verticality every time fatty tripped over a poorly illuminated obsticle, maybe fatty wouldn't be fat anymore.

[crazybetsy]

Oooh, you found good ones. Mine were:

1) If you're that fat, you can't see the floor no matter how well-lit it is

2) People that fat who are in the hospital are definitely not walking around. Lord knows it's hard enough to get people to exercise when they're healthy.

(And a corollary to your 3): Agreed. Also, fat people are extra padded. They should be encouraged to use that bulk for SOMETHING, like a landing zone.)