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Overweight and fed up with people who hurl abuse

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I am fed up with people who hurl abuse.  I am overweight, so I walk into work in an attempt to loose some weight.  On my journey there however, I regularly have to suffer verbal abuse from kids going to school, thugs in vans and car drivers.  Why do these people all feel that they have the right to yell abuse at me because of the way I look?

I have on occasion had food thrown at me

I am trying to sort my body out, but I don't deserve to live with this constant fear of walking around and trying to avoid people who shout insults at me because they think it's funny to see someone overweight .  They forget all about it once they have driven past me or turned the corner.

I do not forget the incident however because it's actually very hurtful.  I have on occasion had food thrown at me, have been told to "f*** off" and had insults such as "fat bastard" yelled at me from car windows and I'm sick of it.

Verbal abuse and obscene gestures People everywhere regardless of their weight, size and body shape deserve to be allowed to live their lives as they wish without persecution.  I don't go around insulting other people no matter who they are or how distasteful I find them.

Live and let live I say.  I just cannot understand how it is that some people seem to think they can say whatever they like to complete strangers.  Whatever happened to common decency and simple politeness?

By: Nick


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Ray

Ray

Reminds me of an incident when I was in my 20's. A guy called me a fat c*** as he drove past but, unlucky for him, the lights changed and he had to stop. I see him lock his door as I approached his car. I punched his wing mirror off and started kicking his door screaming at him to get out and call me that again. He just sat there looking away and couldn't drive away fast enough when the lights went green.
16/08/20 Ray
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anon

anon

Gerbil burble .
22/10/14 anon
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Stalag's Gerbil

Stalag's Gerbil

"My problem was with your judgemental (Sic) self satisfied attitude."

My dad isn't the above at all, he is a very kind and generous person who really looks after me, spins my wheel when I am lacking in energy, leaves the light on at night cos I don't like the dark and when he visits the local food-bank takes as much as will go in his car so that the fatties can't get their hands on it and make themselves even fatter, how kind can you get!
I see a Nobel prize in the future for my dad.
22/10/14 Stalag's Gerbil
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anon

anon

Except that it wasn't satire .
22/10/14 anon
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Stalag14

Stalag14

SATIRE:
the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc.

a literary composition, in verse or prose, in which human folly and vice are held up to scorn, derision, or ridicule.
22/10/14 Stalag14
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anon

anon

I don't eat crisps myself. I cook from scratch and try to eat a healthy diet. My problem was with your judgemental self satisfied attitude.

Please tell me how a person in this country who chooses to buy a potato instead of a bag of crisps is any way helping a poor person to afford more food
22/10/14 anon
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Stalag14

Stalag14

"Yes, there are people in the world who don't have enought (Sic) to eat. It's because they are poor, not because someone else eats too many crisps!"

A poor person can buy a few potatoes (pennies) but not a few bags of
crisps (6 X 25gram bags for £1.30) that's about four potatoes.

So..... to carry it to its illogical conclusion, by stuffing your gob with crisps you are depriving a poor person of the potatoes that they COULD afford.

"If you are concerned about poverty then do something to help them."

Who said I was concerned about poverty? not me.

Please watch "secret eaters" all will be revealed.

More rubbish generated by Stalag's computer, think I'll put it on auto-type.
22/10/14 Stalag14
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grumpyoldwoman

grumpyoldwoman

Ooops, sorry, just spotted the typo a nanosecond too late. Disguise.
22/10/14 grumpyoldwoman
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grumpyoldwoman

grumpyoldwoman

mmg, I rarely comment these days because so much rubbish is posted.

However, regarding your theory; I think a computer would spell and punctuate better!
Unless the poor writing is part of it's diguise of course.....
22/10/14 grumpyoldwoman
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miserablemoaninggit

miserablemoaninggit

The bland quality of so many recent comments on TWG makes for tedious reading; they read like some computer-generated attempt at artificial intelligence.
22/10/14 miserablemoaninggit
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GD

GD

weight is a real problem in the world today.

I am overweight.

I have had a health scare.
it is a real pitty that it have taken a health scare to give me a wake up call.
thus morning my breakfast was one apple, one pair, a benecol yogurt and a little actimel drink. oh and a coffee.

I have given up alcohol and I do not (and never have) smoke.

the reason I am overweight is simple. alcohol and un healthy foods and too much of both.
22/10/14 GD
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anon

anon

"So all you Gluttons out there.......stop stuffing your face, there are plenty of people in the world who don't get enough to eat so next time you stuff that pork pie, kebab, crisps, chips in your gob feel guilty....please"

Some people overeat because of psychological problems and really don't need to be made to feel even worse about themselves.

Yes, there are people in the world who don't have enought to eat. It's because they are poor , not because someone else eats too many crisps! If you are concerned about poverty then do something to help them.
22/10/14 anon
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Stalag14

Stalag14

"Alot of people assume if someone is overweight it is due to eating too much"

Calories in calories out.

Most of the food you eat is just to maintain body temperature and any excess input of food is stored as fat; any excess of protein is excreted and not stored.

Just watch "secret eaters" on the telly, it is never their fault that they are overweight.

Being overweight is .....always..... caused by eating too much!

If you eat nothing at all you will loose about 3/4 Lb a day, after a few weeks, (eight?) you will be skinny and dead, according to how much you weighed at the start.

So all you Gluttons out there.......stop stuffing your face, there are plenty of people in the world who don't get enough to eat so next time you stuff that pork pie, kebab, crisps, chips in your gob feel guilty....please.
22/10/14 Stalag14
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Me H

Me H

It annoys me aswell as I feel that making fun of people generally is horrible but some people cannot help how they are. Alot of people assume if someone is overweight it is due to eating too much but sometimes they are other reasons and people don't think about those. It just shows how narrow minded people are
21/10/14 Me H
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marmalade

marmalade

The overweight peoples do best to avoid the butter-basted turkey birds, and baste their own creatures with vegetable oil or similar. This is the way not to add protein and keep the calorific content down to lower levels. Me, I do not eat turkey birds as they are so innocent and sad, I just have a little grouse, some duck and goose-bird, ptarmigan and ersters.
03/12/13 marmalade
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