Fatty thread!

Here we go!!

/only cause I want the rest of fark to suffer

Fat kids get aren't the only ones getting bullied. I recall back when I was in school (maybe things are different since the 80's, but anyway...) I got the crap beat out of me daily because I was scrawny. Bullies liked to pick on me bacause I was a skinny little wimp who couldn't fight back. At least a fat kid could use his weight to his advantage. All I could do was curl into a ball & wait until they were done punching &/or kicking.

I'm fat, and i was teased as a child. Big deal. It never really bothered me much. Tell these brats that everyone gets farked with, even the skinny popular kid.

Ain't nobody gonna make me lose weight!

/nom nom nom
//Beat the parents

RoxtarRyan: /only cause I want the rest of fark to suffer

Is she, uh, taken?

Personal experience time!!!!!

My parents made my sister eat everything on her plate when she was young. They let me stop eating when I felt like I had enough. The result? I've never had a weight problem. My sister has quite overweight, and has a lot of health problems related to her weight. Moral of the story, kids don't eat adult sized portions! Parents, stop feeding your kids as much food as you feed yourselves! Stop giving them cookies, potato chips and candy all the time. Parents are to blame for their kids becoming obese, which results in the bullying. They're worried about the bullying? Then put the damn kids on a diet, that is the problem. No obesity, no bullying. Morans.

In many families, obesity is a two-generation phenomenon among parents and their children

Just give it time and you can up that count. Obesity is a direct consequence of wealth and (relatively) cheap food. Not happy but living in a wealthy country? Hmm, how do you quickly fix that problem..

Losing weight actually doesn't stop bullying. Kids get teased because they used to be overweight. Nor is it the thing that starts bullying, as kids make fun of kids who are noticeably different than the others; a student who is significantly thinner than the others will get teased, too.

The only solution to bullying is to stop the bullying. I still don;t understand the recent change in societal norms where we think it's implicitly acceptable for a child to be savagely beaten every day by the other children in his year for the crime of being "different;" until we have a nation of sheep/robots that would make even Japan cower.

in my school the fatasses were usually the ones doing the bullying.

A doctor said to me recently (in conversation; my lointrophies know how to go outside and run around)that for the first time cholesterol drugs are being perscribed for young children. My response was, how about saving the drugs for the old people and perscribing a few less french fries?

I mean, if your kid was allergic to peanuts, you would avoid them like the plague. Why is it then that to hear

EATING THIS SHIAT IS KILLING YOUR CHILD

makes you want to... feed them more shiat?

ALL kids get picked on. If you're fat, if you're skinny, if you have a plain name, if you have a difficult name, if you try to dress yourself...etc etc.

I think parents just need to TALK to the children. That way, it doesn't affect them as bad.

...most parents are too busy with their blackberries though.

Bullying is the top health concern of parents of overweight children. Apparently "losing weight to avoid bullying" is far too difficult a concept for these morons to understand.

Right.

Because being overweight is a perfectly acceptable reason to be bullied.

DIAF, shiat-for-brains.

Seacop: Is she, uh, taken?

namegoeshere: A doctor said to me recently (in conversation; my lointrophies know how to go outside and run around)that for the first time cholesterol drugs are being perscribed for young children. My response was, how about saving the drugs for the old people and perscribing a few less french fries?

I mean, if your kid was allergic to peanuts, you would avoid them like the plague. Why is it then that to hear

EATING THIS SHIAT IS KILLING YOUR CHILD

makes you want to... feed them more shiat?

Sounds like a plan to me. Feeding them more I mean.

Your damned small chairs won't intimidate me.

O'Doyle Rules!

Gobobo: Just give it time and you can up that count. Obesity is a direct consequence of wealth and (relatively) cheap food. Not happy but living in a wealthy country? Hmm, how do you quickly fix that problem..

Laziness also plays a large factor (I know that kind of fits in with wealth and cheap food) My family and I can afford to eat out every night, but once a week is plenty enough. People don't want to stay home and make chicken, rice and vegetables. They want to drive to Burgerking/taco bell/Pizza Hut, because it's "easier" or "They don't have time". Got news for ya fatty, it's easier than you think.

Sim Tree: I still don;t understand the recent change in societal norms where we think it's implicitly acceptable for a child to be savagely beaten every day by the other children in his year for the crime of being "different;"

Recent? Its been that way for decades. Probably centuries.

stormdragon: Bullying is the top health concern of parents of overweight children. Apparently "losing weight to avoid bullying" is far too difficult a concept for these morons to understand.

Right.

Because being overweight is a perfectly acceptable reason to be bullied.

DIAF, shiat-for-brains.

I think you missed the concept of the headline.

rasthan, I have to wonder what happened to the Chihuahua.

No don't tell me

Nightjars: Sim Tree: I still don;t understand the recent change in societal norms where we think it's implicitly acceptable for a child to be savagely beaten every day by the other children in his year for the crime of being "different;"

Recent? Its been that way for decades. Probably centuries.

I was gonna say... this isn't something new (bullying and whatnot).

hamachan: Personal experience time!!!!!

My parents made my sister eat everything on her plate when she was young. They let me stop eating when I felt like I had enough. The result? I've never had a weight problem. My sister has quite overweight, and has a lot of health problems related to her weight. Moral of the story, kids don't eat adult sized portions! Parents, stop feeding your kids as much food as you feed yourselves! Stop giving them cookies, potato chips and candy all the time. Parents are to blame for their kids becoming obese, which results in the bullying. They're worried about the bullying? Then put the damn kids on a diet, that is the problem. No obesity, no bullying. Morans.

That's the biggest load of shiat ever.

I like watching Sally Struthers talking to all those happy young skinny kids.

Nightjars: Recent? Its been that way for decades. Probably centuries.

This. Surely everyone can see the Darwinian element to all of this???

RoxtarRyan: Seacop: Is she, uh, taken?

If she got your name tattooed on her ass, you'd be a the second largest landowner in California.

Sim Tree:
I still don;t understand the recent change in societal norms where we think it's implicitly acceptable for a child to be savagely beaten every day by the other children in his year for the crime of being "different;" until we have a nation of sheep/robots that would make even Japan cower.

Recent? I would say that society has been more accepting than in the last 70 years. The gay kids can be and act gay in high school now and don't have to hide their sexual preference. The 'outsiders' that I went to school with seem to be the social norm now a days.

Seacop: RoxtarRyan: Seacop: Is she, uh, taken?

If she got your name tattooed on her ass, you'd be a the second largest landowner in California.

You mean like... Behind the first?

Had to. Sorry.

Sim Tree: The only solution to bullying is to stop the bullying. I still don;t understand the recent change in societal norms where we think it's implicitly acceptable for a child to be savagely beaten every day by the other children in his year for the crime of being "different;" until we have a nation of sheep/robots that would make even Japan cower.

It takes special talent to criticise bullying by invoking a racial stereotype.

Being fat is a lifestyle choice...

High.

Fructose.

Corn.

Syrup.

That and ginormous portions.

Yeah, never mind all that healthy diet stuff, just give little Booger another pack of Chocolate YumYums and send him off to watch TV. And then cry and wring your own fat hands when kids as school harass the little porker. Idiots! Raise a prime target and complain when that's exactly what happens.

Seacop: RoxtarRyan: Seacop: Is she, uh, taken?

If she got your name tattooed on her ass, you'd be a the second largest landowner in California.

Ow.... it hurts to laugh.... (see pic in profile)

A lot of the fat kids I grew up with became bullies in self defense. Squashing skinny kids half to death builds greater esteem than enduring their taunts.

Not fat, big boned

I've always found the fat people to be the bullies.

Joce678: Being fat is a lifestyle choice...

Just like being gay or handicapped, right?

There were no fat people in Auschwitz.

Oh...cannot get your ship out.

Yeah, because the skinny geeks NEVER get bullied. Suck it up, fatty. Get in line with the rest off us. Its what makes us successful later.

Kids will get bullied for any reason. Fat kids, skinny kids, kids with glasses, the girls with boobs, the girls without boobs, tall kids, small kids...all kids will get bullied. If you can't remember having that experience as a child, you were the bully.

Stop the bullying? Not possible. Any efforts to do so makes the bullying more destructive and secretive and the kids getting bullied less able to deal with it. Parents talk to your kids about how to deal with bullies and get over it. Stop expecting the nonsense that is "zero tolerance" to handle it all.

/Sticks and stones can be hard on bones, when aimed with an angry art - Words can sting, as bad as anything, but only silence can break the heart.
// more slashies because I was bullied horribly as a kid and I'm going to cry now.

submitter:Apparently "losing weight to avoid bullying" is far too difficult a concept for these morons to understand

Yeah, why don't more kids do that? And for that matter, why don't the gay kids act straight to avoid bullying? Why don't girls that have the audacity to start puberty a year before their classmates take some hormones to delay it? And what about those kids of immigrants who talk funny? Surely it's their fault they get beat up - if they just talked normally, the bullies would leave them alone.

I know this is Fark, and we have to have a fatty thread so we can sit behind our computers and feel better about ourselves while mocking others, but geez...

Bullying is a serious problem, and it's getting worse teachers are reluctant to get involved because a) virtually all of their ability to punish has been taken away, and b) the principals are afraid of parents suing because their precious snowflake was accused of bullying. 99% of the time, the only thing the victim has done to encourage the bullying was simply going to school in the first place. Now people like submitter feel that the victim should change simply to please the bully, and we wonder why we have a generation of screwed-up kids.

peon36: Just like being gay or handicapped, right?

I lost 60 pounds by not eating so much and deciding to use my bicycle to get around.

Probably wouldn't work for everybody, but a lot of people are overweight because they don't even try to not be overweight.

I miss the donuts and the half pound hamburgers, but I love being able to hike 30 miles in a day and being able to bicycle for hours straight and not be worn out.

Some people have a real medical condition. I was just lazy. I'm sure there's a few other people in the world who are fat out of laziness, too.

Bullying.
Fatties.

TWO SEPARATE ISSUES! The first is normal but needs to be controlled and made abnormal if at all possible. The second is becoming normal, and never should have been allowed to get to the current situation.

hamachan: Personal experience time!!!!!

My parents made my sister eat everything on her plate when she was young. They let me stop eating when I felt like I had enough. The result? I've never had a weight problem. My sister has quite overweight, and has a lot of health problems related to her weight.

Was pretty much the same with me and my sister growing up. The result? Neither of us have ever had weight problems.

Although i know it's tempting, life and people in general are far too complicated to claim one thing caused something.

Yeah and somehow Barack Obama will fix all of this?

/Mccain for 2008

Fat kids don't stop getting bullied when they lose weight. The only thing that would prevent that would be moving school. Once you're marked as fair game it's next to impossible to remove that mark.

Best way to stop bullying isn't to give harsh punishments; it's to make it unacceptable to other students if they know someone is bullying someone else. Use peer pressure against them. You still get low level bullying but you don't get the worst kind where someone's life is genuinely made unbearable.