Sadly, Curb Your Enthusiasm is still a show about nothing, AND has people with annoying voices. Why watch a show about nothing? Has watching too much television, thus doing nothing, crossed with existenstialism, which says we are nothing unless we do something, somehow mushed together, making this really popular?
/end cranky monday afternoon
Thing A: Fat and Proud - sadly, the way the world is, being fat is part of who you are, of how people percieve and react to you. Sadly, it's not generally a nice reaction -- people tend to associate fatness with stupidity, poor hygiene, slothfulness, and so on. It's also the last thing that it's cool to make fun of. Just is. I didn't make the rules.
Refusing to cringe and hide in the corner and have some self-respect - that's more what the fat and proud folks are getting at. It's having the courage to give the person who makes the rude comment about your ass size the finger instead of taking it. It's insisting that department stores not carry fashionable clothes above a size 12. It's ignoring the rude stares you get at the gym or the pool when you go to exercise.
Thing B: For the formerly fat: Isn't working hard to reach a goal something to be proud of? It's like getting a promotion or publishing a book or something similar that requires a long concentrated effort. Losing weight requires changing your life. File that under 'proud of what they do.'
certainsome1- I'm about to NOT work at AOL, which is a semi-long story. [I think it's funny.] But, yes I do, for the next couple of weeks.
posted by beezy 20 years ago
Oh yay! I'm one of those horrible people who insists on having you walk around at parties with a nametag with one intriguing fact written on it.
posted by beezy 20 years ago
In "Every Seinfeld episode"
Sadly, Curb Your Enthusiasm is still a show about nothing, AND has people with annoying voices. Why watch a show about nothing? Has watching too much television, thus doing nothing, crossed with existenstialism, which says we are nothing unless we do something, somehow mushed together, making this really popular? /end cranky monday afternoon
posted by beezy 20 years ago
In "They're Here, They're Fat - So What?"
Thing A: Fat and Proud - sadly, the way the world is, being fat is part of who you are, of how people percieve and react to you. Sadly, it's not generally a nice reaction -- people tend to associate fatness with stupidity, poor hygiene, slothfulness, and so on. It's also the last thing that it's cool to make fun of. Just is. I didn't make the rules. Refusing to cringe and hide in the corner and have some self-respect - that's more what the fat and proud folks are getting at. It's having the courage to give the person who makes the rude comment about your ass size the finger instead of taking it. It's insisting that department stores not carry fashionable clothes above a size 12. It's ignoring the rude stares you get at the gym or the pool when you go to exercise. Thing B: For the formerly fat: Isn't working hard to reach a goal something to be proud of? It's like getting a promotion or publishing a book or something similar that requires a long concentrated effort. Losing weight requires changing your life. File that under 'proud of what they do.'
posted by beezy 20 years ago
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