I’m thoroughly convinced that for the most part, it’s not society that fails

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Aug 20, 2019
9:10:18pm

Gerald-DeGroot All-American

I’m thoroughly convinced that for the most part, it’s not society that fails

people in America, it’s people who fail themselves.

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Gerald-DeGroot

Previous username: GoCougarsKris
Bio page: Gerald-DeGroot
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Last login: Feb 17, 2021
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Great idea: If someone wants a handicap parking pass for being obese, the parking pass should be a separate color

DKN JIAW

8/20/19 8:43pm

Another customer?

TNT

8/20/19 8:45pm

Just a few thousand observations

DKN

8/20/19 8:46pm

Hey that spot is mine. I don't want the fatties parking next to me and dinging my door

Slim

8/20/19 8:45pm

Morbid obesity is a disability imo. Those 300+lbers riding around in scooters at

8/20/19 8:46pm

Once you need the scooter, life expectancy can't be beyond 10 years.

8/20/19 8:46pm

And whats going to hold the 78oz Mtn Dew? That barrel isnt going to hold itself

Ron Mexico

8/20/19 8:50pm

His point was that it isn't something that "happened to them."

8/20/19 8:51pm

Yeah sure. Just like drug addiction is a “disease”

8/20/19 9:08pm

Some people eat their way to disability and then get paid to be fat. Then we pay

Powerbait DPM studnt

8/20/19 8:46pm

Wow. CB isn't even waiting until Friday

TNT

8/20/19 8:48pm

I’m thoroughly convinced that for the most part, it’s not society that fails

8/20/19 9:10pm

We were at Disneyland with my daughters theater group earlier this year where one of the parents was telling us with all

cheezedawg

8/20/19 8:49pm

Wall-e is our future.

8/20/19 8:55pm

As someone who is confined to a wheelchair

bubbastats

8/20/19 10:04pm

If you don't have the right to, then nobody has the right to

Biyamiti

8/20/19 11:25pm

Some people do have the right to judge...

bubbastats

8/21/19 7:18am

Not always. I know someone with severe thyroid problems that have led to

Monomachos

8/20/19 10:06pm

RE: Not always. I know someone with severe thyroid problems that have led to

DKN

8/20/19 10:16pm

Don't know what is funny. She is a friend of my wife's who has struggled

Monomachos

8/20/19 11:28pm

The problem is that the phenomenon you're describing has never been replicated in a clinical setting.

Byron McNertney

8/21/19 9:07am

I agree that various medical issues can affect one's body in ways that can make it easier to gain fat, but if it's true

Byron McNertney

8/21/19 8:52am

"Weight gain" is one of the effects of the disease, not just "it makes it

Monomachos

8/21/19 9:07am

I agreed that it can have an effect on weight. Most people severely overstate how much of an effect, however.

Byron McNertney

8/21/19 9:26am

Yeah, she's been to every specialist around. Not everyone fits the "norm".

Monomachos

8/21/19 11:21am

I have a hard time believing the glandular argument

D.T. Survivor

8/21/19 9:11am

Probably true for a lot of people; not necessarily true for all.

Monomachos

8/21/19 9:15am

RE: Great idea: If someone wants a handicap parking pass for being obese, the

8/20/19 11:15pm

Gold stars work well, or so I've heard.

8/21/19 9:04am

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