Fat Acceptance Movement / Fat Girlcows

Fliddaroonie said:
You're kidding, right? Something like 10% of the tax-payer funded NHS budget goes on treating beetus and obesity related disease and injury. We give lardbarges free-at-point-of-service LAP bands and stomach stapling to "help" them lose weight. Fatties are given free gym membership paid for the NHS

We spooge away a metric shit ton of £££ on keeping these people alive, when all we need to go is allow GPs to flat-out tell people "you are too fat. Here is the number of calories you should be eating, buy some digital bathroom and kitchen scalers, download and use MFP and get on putting down the damn fork"

But they can't. They have to coddle and placate them because god-forbid we hurt their feefees. worst thing that's ever happened is the explosion of fat-arse tarp stors selling clothes for them. It just enables them. Used to be once you got past a certain size, your options were severely limited which was an incentive for some people. Now that's no longer there and people who were seen as overweight a few years back are way, way slimmer than a lot of the butterballs you see rolling about your typical high street.
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Ah fuck, well at least this girl's fibro (and at the clinic it seems other fatties) isn't being taken seriously. Neither is her "autism" or other bullshit self-dx shit. Guess she's so unlikable even the UK has no time for her. In theory I will say the free weight loss help is good, if it was effectively used it could save the NHS a lot of money in the long run. But I guess that requires these idiots to want to put in the effort to lose weight. Makes it even worse for them to stay fat though. At that point it's entirely due to them being lazy it seems if the resources are free and right there in front of them. I feel sad for being optimistic here though. Socialist healthcare can't afford to waste time and money on these people who created their own problems
 
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Candidae said:
Ah fuck, well at least this girl's fibro (and at the clinic it seems other fatties) isn't being taken seriously. Neither is her "autism" or other bullshit self-dx shit. Guess she's so unlikable even the UK has no time for her. In theory I will say the free weight loss help is good, if it was effectively used it could save the NHS a lot of money in the long run. But I guess that requires these idiots to want to put in the effort to lose weight. Makes it even worse for them to stay fat though. At that point it's entirely due to them being lazy it seems if the resources are free and right there in front of them. I feel sad for being optimistic here though. Socialist healthcare can't afford to waste time and money on these people who created their own problems
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Aye, individual GPs have a lot of scope in whether or not they swallow the BS fats come out with.

And the thing about free-at-point-of-use weight management is it relies on patients getting their heads out their arses and managing it themselves to a big extent. When you've got HAES and the tumblrtards spreading so much false information and a belief that weight is "genetic" (it's not, shit habits are familial and handed down through the generations, fats usually have shit relationships with food that start in infancy, say with parents using food as a reward, viewing it as a "treat", not cooking properly, etc) plus a disability benefits system that allows them to eat themselves into immobility and live off tax payer funded benefits? It's a recipe for disaster.

Bradford has some of the highest rates of type two beetus in the country :/ And type two juvenile didn't exist a quarter of a century back. Shit's depressing, you know?

Crunchy Leaf said:
Hertfordshire banned the obese and smokers from getting non-urgent surgeries in 2017, though, apparently.
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They certainly did, and the outrage has been huuuuugggggggeee.


Personally I'm in favour of it. Fats and smokers have way poorer clinical outcomes post op and tie up resources which could be used elsewhere. Even smokers who give up or cut down just before and after the surgery show a marked improvement.

It would be great if more NHS local authorities would do this, in my opinion. I get pissed having to walk through the clouds of smokers clogging up the doorways and paths at my local Hospital when I have to visit there.Between that and eatbeast Nurses, no wonder the NHS is crumbling
 
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AnOminous said:
Maybe they should try being a little less huuuuuuuuge themselves.
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Perhaps. Though if you take a look around the average hospital in the UK (I can't speak for other countries as I've not been in hospital abroad) but the Nurses are for the most part overweight, if not massively fat. With examples like that working in the healthcare system, it's no wonder patients are ballooning.

i'd love to see upper weight/BMI limits on NHS staff of all types, cleaners, BoH Admin, Nurses, Surgeons, etc. Can't promote good health if you can't manage your own. And I know the HAES community likes to say "being fat does not mean poor health" but it does. At best it reflects an unhealthy attitude towards food
 
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Fliddaroonie said:
Perhaps. Though if you take a look around the average hospital in the UK (I can't speak for other countries as I've not been in hospital abroad) but the Nurses are for the most part overweight, if not massively fat. With examples like that working in the healthcare system, it's no wonder patients are ballooning.

i'd love to see upper weight/BMI limits on NHS staff of all types, cleaners, BoH Admin, Nurses, Surgeons, etc. Can't promote good health if you can't manage your own. And I know the HAES community likes to say "being fat does not mean poor health" but it does. At best it reflects an unhealthy attitude towards food
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Nurses and other medical folk tend to fat here in the US as well. Many smoke like chimneys That they feel they can lecture one about weight loss and smoking cessastion while one is at the docs office is both enraging and entertaining. Doctors here tend toward trimness, but not always. I know cardio surgeon who is huge and you would think he would know better.
 
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simulated goat said:
Nurses and other medical folk tend to fat here in the US as well. Many smoke like chimneys That they feel they can lecture one about weight loss and smoking cessastion while one is at the docs office is both enraging and entertaining. Doctors here tend toward trimness, but not always. I know cardio surgeon who is huge and you would think he would know better.
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Aye. I've never been okay with the Nurse I see smoking telling me not to. I have more respect for the ones who admit quitting is hard, or better, that they do it because they enjoy it.

And that's unusual for a surgeon. I've dealt with more than a few and they've always been slim. I've a mate who works in peds and he's a little overweight, but in that way some people get when they just work nights and their gym/sleep/eating schedule goes to shit
 
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Fliddaroonie said:
"women's" razors are more expensive because the dyes needed to make them "pretty" colours women go for are a massive PITA to work with and use so it bumps up costs.
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how does that work? how is it more expensive to put pink paint on a razor than the grey/blue/black that mens razor use?
 
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BigRuler said:
how does that work? how is it more expensive to put pink paint on a razor than the grey/blue/black that mens razor use?
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It's not a question of putting the paint on, theplastics use different dyes. The plastic resins for turquoise, purple, punk, other "girl" colours are a pain in the bollocks to use and misfires are common. Hence the higher cost to "women's" razors. But yeah, in essence you're right, but they don't have pain on them they're made form different coloured plastic
 
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I'm not sure how I feel about denying any non-emergency surgery to an obese person, but I do support denying them joint replacements. Doing a knee replacement on a fat person is like giving an alcoholic a liver transplant. And I've seen FA's complain about this a lot. There's also the issue that even for a thin person, an artificial knee doesn't last forever, which is fine if you're 70, but if you're a 30 year old...not so great.
 
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Fuel is a bad word, I guess?
 
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chops said:
When you’re so obese the word “fat” just doesn’t cover it.

Found her instagram, she's @thefatsextherapist. This sex toy company had her do an ad for them because... diversity sells butt plugs? I'm sure their sales went through the roof. NSFW, obviously.

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Look at how tiny that sex toy is when this hippo holds it. Look at how she's struggling to pose just holding one somewhere in the vicinity of her enormous ass - there's no way she could put it in herself, she can barely get anywhere close. I doubt she can even wipe properly, her hand clearly just doesn't reach that far around all the fat. And even if she could reach there just fine, there's no way she can actually insert that toy in her ass, it would get stuck between her cheeks because it's clearly too short to go past them.

How the hell is this a "sex therapist"? All I can think of is that she could cure sex addiction by tying the addict to a chair, getting naked in front of him, and jiggling.

I hate you for making me think about this, btw, and I hate myself too. I can only hope this gin and tonic will destroy every brain cell that was involved in processing this information. In the meantime, refer to my avatar.
 
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Eternal Gopnik said:
How the hell is this a "sex therapist"? All I can think of is that she could cure sex addiction by tying the addict to a chair, getting naked in front of him, and jiggling.
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Sex therapy deals with hangups abuse victims have with sex repulsion or helping women with sexual dysfunction (which 9 out of 10 times is caused by emotional issues, or stuff like that). Sex addicts would be referred to an addiction counselor because it is their area of expertise and dealing with any addiction follows more or less the same framework.
 
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Fat Pikachu said:
The answer to your question involves a very long discussion on the logistics of dyes, pigments, and colored plastics that is best served elsewhere. This slightly obnoxious video is a good primer on the subject.
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Wasn't this a feature of the those Friendly Floatees things that ended up as sought-after flotsam for trans-oceanic academic study? In 1992 a ship container full of Dollar Store level plastic bath toys (cutesy kiddicrap that Deng Ziao Ping's profit-prodigies were filling failing Midwestern malls with) got washed off an overstacked-inna-storm cargo ship and spilled its goods and guts into the Pacific Ocean somewhere a goodly way NW of Hawaii. Since then, the toys have been washing up on beaches across half the hemisphere, shipped thousands of miles by currents and conditions to wash on distant beaches. Those blue and yellow coloured are invariably only slightly faded after their decade-plus voyage but those with a red component in their colouring dye ( the ducks and beavers) have always been bleached white upon discovery.

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(And that video is worse than slightly obnoxious. Fucking useless is what it is. This manner of shite seems to have become a fashionable feature for such presentations: the quasi-robotic voice, the sciencey bits, the sense-of-sperging that is paradoxically disinterested, simplified and laboured. Good enough for the likely audience, though, right? Yeah, we told them slags.)
 
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Crunchy Leaf said:
I'm not sure how I feel about denying any non-emergency surgery to an obese person, but I do support denying them joint replacements. Doing a knee replacement on a fat person is like giving an alcoholic a liver transplant. And I've seen FA's complain about this a lot. There's also the issue that even for a thin person, an artificial knee doesn't last forever, which is fine if you're 70, but if you're a 30 year old...not so great.
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As far as I'm aware, the regulations in the UK only cover elective surgeries, not emergency ones. In the US, you're getting emergency surgery if you come to the ED and you need it even if you're 600 lbs and God help you. At least we have bariatric operating tables now. They used to have to push two normal-sized ones together and patients flopped off while repositioning sometimes.

simulated goat said:
Nurses and other medical folk tend to fat here in the US as well. Many smoke like chimneys That they feel they can lecture one about weight loss and smoking cessastion while one is at the docs office is both enraging and entertaining. Doctors here tend toward trimness, but not always. I know cardio surgeon who is huge and you would think he would know better.
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It's becoming common in the US for hospital networks to ban smoking on the premises because of chain-smoking nurses and also patients dragging their oxygen tanks outside with them to light up a cig, which could easily go very wrong very quickly. I'm aware of one network in GA that doesn't even employ smokers at all, and they do hair testing for nicotine metabolites.

Not hiring fat nurses is basically a non-starter in the US, though.
 
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