#6 How is it that the obese don't seem to understand the nature of their disgusting size and how the rest of the world is not designed to handle their blubber. On average, obese people use much more of everything than normal sized folks. They also eat a lot more and shit a lot more. The sweat profusely and often have body odor. God help you if sit beside one on an airplane.
Are you a medical doctor? My wife is obese and her weight gain (and retention) is from the medication she takes. I weigh 165 pounds and I eat twice as much as she does and I know for a fact she isn't 'cheating' seeing as I do all the shopping AND cooking in this household. Some of y'all act like it's a choice, but I can assure you it's not. Do you think obese people enjoy being looked down on? Seriously?
I have been considered fat my entire life. At the age of 17, when in football playing shape, I tried to enlist in the U.S. Air force. At 6' even, weighing 210, and solid muscle, they wanted me to weigh 165 pounds. Hell, my skeleton is heavier than that. I note that at that height and weight, I had scholarship offers, to play football from a couple of small colleges. And no doubt that they would have helped me put on another 10-15 pounds of muscle. Does any thin person, or even a normal sized one, actually think that those of us who are overweight don't know it, and need someone to point it out to us? Like, " Oh, thank you, I never knew, now I can do something about it?" I am about 40 pounds to fat. I tried every kind of diet, except for the ones that are obviously dangerous, like the cabbage soup diet, or the grapefruit diet, etc. I even had a gastric bypass, around 15 years ago. That was helpful, making me more likely to live to see my grandkids grow up. And I have kept off the 100 pounds that I lost. It is just this last 40-50 that I have a hard time getting rid of. My wife had the same thing done, but 1vyear prior to me. She lost over 220 pounds, yes 220 pounds, and has never gained a single pound back. But the surgery is not an easy fix, and if you go into it thinking that it will be, don't have it, until you fully understand what it takes, and your relationship with food. I got some counseling a couple years after my surgery, and learned some things about myself, such that I might not have needed to have the surgery, since a lot of my issues with my weight went all the way back to my childhood, and seeking my parents approval. There is more to it, of course, but that is the quick version. So before you judge someone on the way that they look, get to know them. Then if you reject then, you can say that at least you gave them a fair chance, and you will be amazed at how many people are actually very smart, king, full of life and fun, and actually very pretty. You just don't notice due to your judgemental attitude. So before you judge someone try first to establish a rapor. Then if you want to step away from them, go ahead, you can say that you tried.
I remember when I was ~14y/o 245lbs and attempting a single pushup or running more than 400ft made me want to puke in a bush. I wanted to go join the military and knew I couldn't in my current state so I opt to fix it. I doubt people pay attention to their flab until they realize it is hindering them. Telling people they are fat is counter-productive and they need to realize on their own that they are fat as well has have an intrinsic desire to change.
I didn't want anyone's comments or prying eyes so I quietly cut back and kept slightly hungry while hustling calisthenics. I watched my spare tire shrink month by month and several months later, someone at church commented on my weight loss. Somewhere along the way, I got into bodybuilding and applied that knowledge. My dad purchased the used equipment I had picked out on craigslist after I had demonstrated good diet for months. (Christmas)
I got lazy in recent years but I'm back in my personal gym since I'm going back to school next year and good circulation, sleep, looking good, etc, all helps with cognitive function, socialization, self-confidence, networking, etc. Few want a fat & nasty next to them.
Sidebar -- The guy I bought a plate tree & weights from got free gym membership because his wife worked at the gym. I recall asking him what if he couldn't go to the gym anymore but I don't recall his answer. A year or two later, the Wuhan hysteria strikes and he's probably kicking himself in the ass; more-so if he remembered my question. Never sell your tools or means of production. I still use the equipment my dad purchased for me 10+ years ago, on-top of the stuff I've added to it.
Well, JWest and any others that think they are better than everyone else STFU and pay attention to your own shortcomings or differences. Do you want someone insulting you because you are not handsome enough, strong enough, smart enough, tall enough, funny enough, or athletic enough? What about your misshapen ears, nose, chin, fingers and toes? What about your nose that’s too long or too short? You may be thin and be headed to Hollywood with your undeniable dashing looks, but you sound like a rude and thoughtless ass.
Then there are those people who actually have a glandular problem. Like if their thyroid is dead.
Same thing if they were malnourished unto the point of semi-starvation as a kid. Body will respond by sucking every last molecule of nutrition out of everything.
I know someone who was starved as a kid, real starvation, and has a dead thyroid. She lived off of 300 calories or less a day, walked 20 miles a day, lifted weights, full excercise routine, and lost... 200 pounds over 3 years. Eating 300 calories or less a day, only 'cheating' at Christmas, Easter and her birthday where she went hog wild and maxed out 1000 calories each day.
As soon as she wasn't able to walk or lift weights, weight came back on. Still eating 300 calories a day.
My second brother was told by the National Guard to lose weight. At the time he was 5-4 and 210lbs. Not long after, he began having health problems. During a doctor's appointment he mentioned the dieting. The doctor told him to stop. He was less than 3% body fat. Missing two meals could have killed him. For me, it's a bit different. When I graduated highschool, I weighed about 135. I'm 6-3 and back then ate like a horse. These days I have a package of pop tarts for breakfast, no lunch, and a regular sized supper. I started that diet four years ago when I was 285. I'm down to 283. My job is operations and maintenance. I walk between two and five miles per day at work. It's a big building.
One of the best (normal people) descriptions of hypothyroidism I’ve ever heard/read was in Patrick Taylor's “Irish Country Doctor” series (the first one I think).
Not even vaguely “judgemental” but whatever medical/medication reason there ‘will’ be a ‘calories’ related aspect (even if minor) – calories in/calories used cannot (definitively) lead to an increase in weight – and that’s the crux, people read the “a man ‘needs’ 2000, a woman 1500, calories a day to survive, minimum” and forget that even “sedentary” is a vague/self-defined term (I’m 6’ 5”, 17 st and following a serious injury I maintained body weight for two years, with severe mobility restriction, on 1000 a day. More and I would have ballooned).
Sounds to me (major assumptions in play here) that if it ain’t calories it’s … water retention (it can only be ‘that’ or, as in Taylor’s book, a pile of “Nutty Slack”). That is something your doctor should be able to do something about. Reduce that effect and I suspect some of the (entirely unrelated to weight) mobility issues will become … ‘easier’.
Just sayin’
From my (6-5, 17 st remember) perspective … the world is designed for (being PC) small/short people (I sometimes feel like I’m either living in Oz, or Charlie's Chocolate Factory) and I ‘may’ forget at times with (predictably disastrous, but always hilarious – for everyone else – results).
I would have thought that a fork lift like that one would have some overhead protection. Those bags of sand falling from that height on your head is gonna do some damage.
He was trying to pull that tree out. LR out rigger wasn’t fully extended because he’s too close to the house. Outrigger then broke through a cistern/septic tank. That’s my story.
#7 What is it with women and ladder skills? Once, just once, a female telephone worker called dispatch for assistance on her job. Something that needed two persons she said. She needed the ladder moved. #9 and others today. This is why you always check to see that the contractor is fully insured, especially if heavy equipment is involved.
Insured, and your house and family are NAMED INSURED before the work starts. Also the contractor that hired the crane.....Cause somebody's buying a new house, and the homeowner and his insurance company shouldn't have to pay.
But if you Don't confirm insurance BEFORE the work starts and an accident like that happens, they'll right that crane, pack it up and disappear totally never to be seen or heard from again. And a brand new company with a different name will show up on the Web pages.
#9 is a "Boom Truck" not a real Crane. Friend of Mine has a Yuuuge Manitowoc Crane, that can lift 600 Tons on the Short Boom. He uses it mostly to build Concrete Precast, and Cast-in-Place Wall Slabs, usually with a "Luffing Jib" Attachment That thing must have 50 Load-Sensing Transducers, everywhere, and if it even gets Close to any Limit Load or Tipping, the Computer makes it just Stop, and then you can only Move in the other Direction.
#8 Reminds me of an Independence Day party at a friends house...a guy shows up with a 'starlight' flare he borrowed from annual training with the guard.
So, we're firing off our fireworks, and nimrod goes to fire this thing. Takes the caps off, no chain. Hmmm. So, he figures out a way to fire it.
Only it's not a ground launch starlight, it's a flare designed to be dropped from an aircraft. Not much propelling charge at all: Barely enough to launch the illumination into the top of a neighbors 100 year old palm tree.
#4: Don't drag plastic bags on concrete, you dumb, lazy motherfucker! You're a big, strong, American male; LIFT that fucker to carry it to the polycart. I'm old, with a fucked-up back, and I can still manage to get my trash in the dumpster without dragging the bag and scattering my trash.
#5, no sympathy. Sick of idiots playing stunt rider on public streets.
ReplyDeleteYep. I hope that was painful and expensive.
Delete#7 - Was this taken at the Philadelphia Fire Department Training Academy? It could have been.
ReplyDeleteIf only there was some way to make the ladder smaller - fold it or something
Delete#1 No side riggers?
ReplyDelete#6 How is it that the obese don't seem to understand the nature of their disgusting size and how the rest of the world is not designed to handle their blubber. On average, obese people use much more of everything than normal sized folks. They also eat a lot more and shit a lot more. The sweat profusely and often have body odor. God help you if sit beside one on an airplane.
ReplyDeleteAre you a medical doctor? My wife is obese and her weight gain (and retention) is from the medication she takes. I weigh 165 pounds and I eat twice as much as she does and I know for a fact she isn't 'cheating' seeing as I do all the shopping AND cooking in this household.
DeleteSome of y'all act like it's a choice, but I can assure you it's not. Do you think obese people enjoy being looked down on? Seriously?
I have been considered fat my entire life. At the age of 17, when in football playing shape, I tried to enlist in the U.S. Air force. At 6' even, weighing 210, and solid muscle, they wanted me to weigh 165 pounds. Hell, my skeleton is heavier than that.
DeleteI note that at that height and weight, I had scholarship offers, to play football from a couple of small colleges. And no doubt that they would have helped me put on another 10-15 pounds of muscle.
Does any thin person, or even a normal sized one, actually think that those of us who are overweight don't know it, and need someone to point it out to us? Like, " Oh, thank you, I never knew, now I can do something about it?"
I am about 40 pounds to fat. I tried every kind of diet, except for the ones that are obviously dangerous, like the cabbage soup diet, or the grapefruit diet, etc.
I even had a gastric bypass, around 15 years ago. That was helpful, making me more likely to live to see my grandkids grow up. And I have kept off the 100 pounds that I lost. It is just this last 40-50 that I have a hard time getting rid of.
My wife had the same thing done, but 1vyear prior to me. She lost over 220 pounds, yes 220 pounds, and has never gained a single pound back. But the surgery is not an easy fix, and if you go into it thinking that it will be, don't have it, until you fully understand what it takes, and your relationship with food.
I got some counseling a couple years after my surgery, and learned some things about myself, such that I might not have needed to have the surgery, since a lot of my issues with my weight went all the way back to my childhood, and seeking my parents approval. There is more to it, of course, but that is the quick version.
So before you judge someone on the way that they look, get to know them. Then if you reject then, you can say that at least you gave them a fair chance, and you will be amazed at how many people are actually very smart, king, full of life and fun, and actually very pretty. You just don't notice due to your judgemental attitude.
So before you judge someone try first to establish a rapor. Then if you want to step away from them, go ahead, you can say that you tried.
I remember when I was ~14y/o 245lbs and attempting a single pushup or running more than 400ft made me want to puke in a bush. I wanted to go join the military and knew I couldn't in my current state so I opt to fix it. I doubt people pay attention to their flab until they realize it is hindering them. Telling people they are fat is counter-productive and they need to realize on their own that they are fat as well has have an intrinsic desire to change.
DeleteI didn't want anyone's comments or prying eyes so I quietly cut back and kept slightly hungry while hustling calisthenics. I watched my spare tire shrink month by month and several months later, someone at church commented on my weight loss. Somewhere along the way, I got into bodybuilding and applied that knowledge. My dad purchased the used equipment I had picked out on craigslist after I had demonstrated good diet for months. (Christmas)
I got lazy in recent years but I'm back in my personal gym since I'm going back to school next year and good circulation, sleep, looking good, etc, all helps with cognitive function, socialization, self-confidence, networking, etc. Few want a fat & nasty next to them.
Sidebar -- The guy I bought a plate tree & weights from got free gym membership because his wife worked at the gym. I recall asking him what if he couldn't go to the gym anymore but I don't recall his answer. A year or two later, the Wuhan hysteria strikes and he's probably kicking himself in the ass; more-so if he remembered my question. Never sell your tools or means of production. I still use the equipment my dad purchased for me 10+ years ago, on-top of the stuff I've added to it.
- Arc
Well, JWest and any others that think they are better than everyone else STFU and pay attention to your own shortcomings or differences. Do you want someone insulting you because you are not handsome enough, strong enough, smart enough, tall enough, funny enough, or athletic enough? What about your misshapen ears, nose, chin, fingers and toes? What about your nose that’s too long or too short? You may be thin and be headed to Hollywood with your undeniable dashing looks, but you sound like a rude and thoughtless ass.
DeleteThen there are those people who actually have a glandular problem. Like if their thyroid is dead.
DeleteSame thing if they were malnourished unto the point of semi-starvation as a kid. Body will respond by sucking every last molecule of nutrition out of everything.
I know someone who was starved as a kid, real starvation, and has a dead thyroid. She lived off of 300 calories or less a day, walked 20 miles a day, lifted weights, full excercise routine, and lost... 200 pounds over 3 years. Eating 300 calories or less a day, only 'cheating' at Christmas, Easter and her birthday where she went hog wild and maxed out 1000 calories each day.
As soon as she wasn't able to walk or lift weights, weight came back on. Still eating 300 calories a day.
My wife can't walk 35 yards without her back giving out, so there's the lack of exercise as well.
DeleteI love people who judge others as if everything about their person is perfect....
DeleteYeah, dude. You may not be fat. Good for you. You got control of that one single thing about yourself.
You've failed on the being an asshole part thought. Still need to do some personal work.
My second brother was told by the National Guard to lose weight. At the time he was 5-4 and 210lbs. Not long after, he began having health problems. During a doctor's appointment he mentioned the dieting. The doctor told him to stop. He was less than 3% body fat. Missing two meals could have killed him.
DeleteFor me, it's a bit different. When I graduated highschool, I weighed about 135. I'm 6-3 and back then ate like a horse. These days I have a package of pop tarts for breakfast, no lunch, and a regular sized supper. I started that diet four years ago when I was 285. I'm down to 283. My job is operations and maintenance. I walk between two and five miles per day at work. It's a big building.
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Delete(Not a doctor, a nurse)
One of the best (normal people) descriptions of hypothyroidism I’ve ever heard/read was in Patrick Taylor's “Irish Country Doctor” series (the first one I think).
Not even vaguely “judgemental” but whatever medical/medication reason there ‘will’ be a ‘calories’ related aspect (even if minor) – calories in/calories used cannot (definitively) lead to an increase in weight – and that’s the crux, people read the “a man ‘needs’ 2000, a woman 1500, calories a day to survive, minimum” and forget that even “sedentary” is a vague/self-defined term (I’m 6’ 5”, 17 st and following a serious injury I maintained body weight for two years, with severe mobility restriction, on 1000 a day. More and I would have ballooned).
Sounds to me (major assumptions in play here) that if it ain’t calories it’s … water retention (it can only be ‘that’ or, as in Taylor’s book, a pile of “Nutty Slack”). That is something your doctor should be able to do something about. Reduce that effect and I suspect some of the (entirely unrelated to weight) mobility issues will become … ‘easier’.
Just sayin’
From my (6-5, 17 st remember) perspective … the world is designed for (being PC) small/short people (I sometimes feel like I’m either living in Oz, or Charlie's Chocolate Factory) and I ‘may’ forget at times with (predictably disastrous, but always hilarious – for everyone else – results).
I'm kinda surprised that Wirecutter has liberals visiting his site....
DeleteFirst thing to learn about forklifts ,the human body is not going to keep a forklift from tipping over.
ReplyDeleteI would have thought that a fork lift like that one would have some overhead protection. Those bags of sand falling from that height on your head is gonna do some damage.
DeleteI'm not a crane operator but I'm pretty sure that when the outriggers pick up you stop lifting.
ReplyDeleteDaryl
He was trying to pull that tree out. LR out rigger wasn’t fully extended because he’s too close to the house. Outrigger then broke through a cistern/septic tank.
DeleteThat’s my story.
They weren't lifting. They were trying to control where the tree fell when they cut it down.
DeleteNumber 5, I enjoy riding my Electra Glide way to much to do wheelies and stunts…. Of course now I’m 64 but 40 years ago i’de of done that shit!!
ReplyDelete#7. Yeah, I hear you roar.
ReplyDeleteThe technical term is to taco the wheel. Seems like some nut crunching thrown in for good measure!
ReplyDelete#1 wasn't square to his work. He tried to square up only after the forks were sky high. Incompetence.
ReplyDelete#5 Good
#6 Physics wins.
#7 If you're gonna be stupid, you gotta be tough.
#8 Front towards enemy.
40 years ago I did do that. Wheelies that is. Mostly on dirt bikes. Harley’s just never seemed to be balanced right.
ReplyDelete#7 What is it with women and ladder skills? Once, just once, a female telephone worker called dispatch for assistance on her job. Something that needed two persons she said. She needed the ladder moved.
ReplyDelete#9 and others today. This is why you always check to see that the contractor is fully insured, especially if heavy equipment is involved.
Insured, and your house and family are NAMED INSURED before the work starts. Also the contractor that hired the crane.....Cause somebody's buying a new house, and the homeowner and his insurance company shouldn't have to pay.
DeleteBut if you Don't confirm insurance BEFORE the work starts and an accident like that happens, they'll right that crane, pack it up and disappear totally never to be seen or heard from again. And a brand new company with a different name will show up on the Web pages.
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ReplyDelete#9 is a "Boom Truck" not a real Crane. Friend of Mine has a Yuuuge Manitowoc Crane, that can lift 600 Tons on the Short Boom. He uses it mostly to build Concrete Precast, and Cast-in-Place Wall Slabs, usually with a "Luffing Jib" Attachment That thing must have 50 Load-Sensing Transducers, everywhere, and if it even gets Close to any Limit Load or Tipping, the Computer makes it just Stop, and then you can only Move in the other Direction.
Do you get paid a bonus for each capital letter?
Delete#3 - what was that?
ReplyDelete#8 Reminds me of an Independence Day party at a friends house...a guy shows up with a 'starlight' flare he borrowed from annual training with the guard.
So, we're firing off our fireworks, and nimrod goes to fire this thing. Takes the caps off, no chain. Hmmm. So, he figures out a way to fire it.
Only it's not a ground launch starlight, it's a flare designed to be dropped from an aircraft. Not much propelling charge at all: Barely enough to launch the illumination into the top of a neighbors 100 year old palm tree.
Expensive tree, that.....
At first, I thought that may have been Evel Knegro, but I think that guy was white...
ReplyDelete#4: Don't drag plastic bags on concrete, you dumb, lazy motherfucker! You're a big, strong, American male; LIFT that fucker to carry it to the polycart. I'm old, with a fucked-up back, and I can still manage to get my trash in the dumpster without dragging the bag and scattering my trash.
ReplyDeleteSeeing stuff like #5 always makes my day.
ReplyDelete#6: I bet the audio that goes with this is fantastic.