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   XPost: soc.support.fat-acceptance, rec.travel.air, rec.aviation.piloting   
   From: ratty_dew@yahoo.com   
      
   terry wrote:   
   > On Nov 25, 5:51 am, C J Campbell    
   > wrote:   
   >> On 2008-11-24 03:12:57 -0800, terry  said:   
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   >>> When did obesity become a disability?   
   >> While it is really popular these days to hate the obese and even abuse   
   >> them, the fact is that obesity is a disability. Yes, it is a   
   >> self-inflicted disability. So are most other disabilities. For some   
   >> reason some people have decided that obesity is somehow 'immoral,' but   
   >> rendering yourself a vegetable while running or biking or climbing is   
   >> not. What it really comes down to is people want to blame somebody for   
   >> the personal inconveniences they suffer. Currently it is unfashionable   
   >> to blame Jews or people with darker complexion, so these personalities   
   >> have switched to blaming fat people for their problems.   
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   > No one mentioned hate, or blaming fat people for their problems. . As   
   > another poster said if you reward people for being fat you only   
   > encourage it, bit like giving out free drugs to drug addicts.   
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   >> No, you are not sorry if you offended anyone. You offended people   
   >> deliberately. Claiming that you are sorry is just dishonest.   
   >   
   > Not  dishonest at all.  Of course I knew that a minority of people who   
   > lack a sense of humour would be offended and I am  genuinely  sorry   
   > for them that they either lack a sense of humour or have had so much   
   > political correctness drummed into them that they can no longer accept   
   > humour for what it is.   Do you really  think I didnt know this group   
   > was predominantly American? The idea with jokes like the football   
   > stadium is you substitute what ever nationality you want to poke fun   
   > at.. Down here we call it "taking the piss".  We particularly like to   
   > do it with the nationalities we consider to be our best friends,  we   
   > reserve the best ( or you might say worst )  for our Kiwi neighbours.   
   > ( New Zealanders) , but Poms and Septics are close behind.  Now at the   
   > risk of really offending you, most of us consider Murkins and   
   > Canadians to be the same thing. Get the idea...now I have just   
   > offended 20 million Canadians ( that was humour also)  so I am sorry   
   > to them also ( well sort of ). But we arent bad at hanging it on   
   > ourselves either.. but thats not much fun on an American newsgroup.   
   > Terry   
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   How do you guys not fall off the Earth down there?   
      
   What, like velcro or something? Magnets?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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