To all my skinny brothers and sisters..

At least they didn't start throwing up, "you're so skinny" jokes...



Does anyone know any?

 

Don't go there, bro :frown:

 

With hotwater here, I might've already brought the fall of Hipforums.. I was joking... seriously..

 

You caught me I came back. ia m pretty over it by now. thati s the cool thing about me I get over things pretty fast. But I am not going to talk to hotwater for awhile just till I am completely cooled down. I understand you meant nothing by it. and I understand your point. Hope today is going well for you. I am just sitting here drinking some tea, and letting my daughter try to braid my hair.

 

To play devils advocate, he stated what many in society believe. That is exactly how many people view this or their opinion on this and how they deal with this issue.

While it is not the view or opinion that I have, I also know that no amount of type or talking will change what someone does not want to hear or does not agree with my views.

Some of his points are valid for a person who just does not care about being fit. They do not apply to all, and there in lies the issue.

For some it is medical issues and for other even limitations that make doing what is a given, as in exercise, doable.

The old saying of do no harm to me is the point. I do not want to make anyone who has an issue on either side of weight feel any worse than they already do. They do not need to be told.

Instead, I will just do what I can in my own world and anyone who steps outside of what I will accept, will not be a part of those that I would trust in my circle.

Image issues are not just those of the person who has a problem, they are issues of those around them who feel they need to make comments. The comments are the image issues of those with the answers for everyone else. Never works well in life to have the answers for someone else.

 

I love your wisdom, heat, this is very true! and makes me like you even more!

 

Oohhh, good point.

But at the same time: Those pressures have been pushing me to work off my sides.
Whereas, love handles are not particularly unhealthy: working them off is making my whole body more healthy, and making me feel better overall (I have a pec-shaped chest for the first time in my life )
If society, including fat jokes, and Hollywood's fit-as-possible male stars, has pushed me to work out - great!

 

Thank you for the lovely compliment.

You have your tea and let it go, just as in real life! I am going to go out and prune my tomato plants before they topple over!

Have a great day!!

 

Good luck

After the blight last year ruined most of my tomato plants (as it slowly spread across most of the northeast corridor) I decided to take a year off from planting


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Dear hotwater,

hey man. Cool jokes this thread

a heads up tho.. Some of those fatties do take life a little too seriously. I mean, it would only take a minor plot change for this to happen again..

http://www.hipforums.com/newforums/showthread.php?t=271949&f=51

you didn't seem to think it was too funny, but maybe I misread your posts.
The GOOD NEWS is... That it looks like if this were to happen, you would not be legaly responsible...so that's a good thing!
I mean, this IS pretty unlikley...but...you might want to start thinking of some preteen suicide jokes...just in case

sincerely,
loztphoghts

 

Also you guys.. Thankz for posting in this thread... It's given me a lot more to think about than I thought it would.

 

Holy shit, I remember that.

But I read about it on my one teen forum... suicide jokes started.

 

That sucks man...
My point is that when you send hate, (even if you don't consider it hate) more hate is usualy born, it may be directed back at you, but if there's some truth to it people will often direct it at themselves.

cmon people now...
Smile on your brother.
Everybody get together,
try and love one another right now...

 

Nah, they were funny

But if you aren't doing it hatefully, it isn't hate.

If someone takes an apple, and makes it into applesauce, you can't go blaming the tree.

A joke is someone making happiness. If that joke makes you uncomfortable - you shouldn't attack them! That's starting the hate, if you ask me.

 

So... 9/11 jokes aren't hateful?

Edit: I guess you have to define 'hate'... I guess I would consider it hateful to point and laugh at a midget, and tell a hurtful joke, even tho it's just a 'harmless' joke.

 

depends on the audience.

 

No, they aren't.

This was a few years ago, mind you, but one of my brother's friends tested the girl he was dating by saying "that's the way the tower topples" instead of "that's the way the cookie crumbles", and when she laughed at it, he knew it was someone he could spend the rest of his life with.

But also, I love love love love love stupid Polish jokes - and I'm 7/8ths Polish.

Jokes aren't to be taken seriously, else they wouldn't exist.

Some jokes make people uncomfortable, and I understand that; but it's not fair to attack the people that are using jokes to make themselves more comfortable.

 

right, that's it, next person to suggest that I bum sheep

I am going to burn your house down.

 

you bum sheep.

*period, paranoia and shotgun...i'm good.* GAME ON!

 

k.. I guess it's probably a matter of opinion. I honastly don't think an occasional fat joke is that bad, but if you purposly do it in order to hurt someone, or call a recovering anorexic fat, I think that goes beond an inocent joke. Once again man, that 13 year old was egged on by people who thought they were just having fun.. IMO, there's a difference between a funny/offensive joke and sadism.

P.s. My early post wasn't meant as an attack, If nothing else, maybe it would make people look at this from a different perspective... If not.. Then whatever

edit: ok.. This is probably my last comment on this, I don't feel like debating right now.

The difference between ok and not ok (to me) would be your brother telling that joke, and telling that joke to someone whose dad died in the attack.