Krymson Tyde: EnderKR: Want to dance on the bar? Lose some weight. I don't see how this is difficult. Men like shinny and pretty.

Is shinny a contraction of sharp and knees!

Omg yes.

I once watched a fat person try to order one of every combo plate at a Mexican restaurant and got audibly and visibly upset that the waitress was in shocked and wanted to clarify what she heard. Bonus, he pushed the door instead of pulling like it said, and proceeded to squeeze his fat ass through it, shaking the whole wall.

I will never forget this as long as I live and will forever associate being fat with ordering every combo plate on the menu in one sitting. Sorry fatties.

The Union Bar. During my time in Iowa City, that place was shut down for liquor violations almost as much as it was open. I wonder how many owners it's passed through since I left.

The_Sponge: EnderKR: Men like shinny and pretty.


You should issue an apologize for misspelling the word "skinny".

/I like em curvy and pretty.

Convex or concave?

ExperianScaresCthulhu Smartest
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2012-05-01 11:59:13 AM


This thread is pathetic, crude and foul.

Life is pathetic, crude and foul. What did you expect?

The whole "Fat Acceptance" movement basically boils down to the following:

- "It's not my fault I'm fat" (the classic self-diagnosed "thyroid problem" is usually used to justify this, or nonsense concepts that people are obese because of genetics or because their body "knows" it's proper size)
- "There's nothing I can do about it", therefore, drastic lifestyle changes will be ineffective, so why bother? (One scary, scary bit of nonsense advocated by some Fat Acceptance proponents is "intuitive eating", that is, the body knows what it needs and triggers these needs through cravings. Feel like eating an entire 20 piece bucket of the Colonel's Extra Crispy? Well then, that must be exactly what your body "needs" right now)
- Outright censorship is perfectly acceptable. Magazines should be prevented for showing lean models, and instead should be forced to show "people of size".
- Any dissenting opinions, no matter how respectful or valid, must be silenced at all costs
- Almost every physician and dietitian is wrong--here's a single sentence cherry-picked from a 50-year old study that proves that obesity is perfectly healthy
- It's society that must change, not the obese individual
- Fat persecution is the same as racial discrimination (imo, it's actually more akin to discriminating against smokers)
- Although I have no qualifications whatsoever, I feel that obesity should be cherished, so you should ignore all medical advice and listen to me (very scary!)

Basically, "Fat Acceptance" is one of the most jaw-dropping cases of willful denial I've ever seen.

Snarfangel: I'm strangely mooved by the apology. You donut see that happen very often.

Maybe they noticed that their food revenue would increase by 500% on nights that this woman and her friends were there.

Austin Fall, 24, of Coralville, said he witnessed the discrimination firsthand when he worked as a bouncer at the bar two-and-a-half years ago. ... Fall said he was told by owners to "keep the fat and ugly girls away from the stage ... Fall also said employees were encouraged to watch black patrons more closely, and that men were not allowed to dance on the platform.

So, Jordan Ramos committed the crime of dancing while fat, and she should be rightly shunned for it. But the bar owner may also be a racist homophobic dick.

rudemix: Daily Iowan(pops)

The article and comments from the UoI newspaper tend to be spot on!

Really? Because all I'm seeing is some RON PAUL college Republican type shrieking about the Civil Rights Act.

ExperianScaresCthulhu: This thread is pathetic, crude and foul.

It's on the main page and it's about women's bodies. That means it inevitably becomes an angry 14-year-old boy with bad acne and no social skills.

Not to sound offensive, but who is she going to complain to when she climbs up there and gets booed by the drunks?

Joe Blowme: usernameguy: The Union Bar. During my time in Iowa City, that place was shut down for liquor violations almost as much as it was open. I wonder how many owners it's passed through since I left.

Was that the same bar doing flaming shots and light a chick on fire a few years back? I remember never needing and ID to get in.

No, I think that was the bar that used to be a McDonald's. I forgot the name. I tended to avoid those bars, because I was a grad student and the Union in particular was pretty much all about the sloppy-drunk undergrads.

I'm going to start smoking and then cry "discrimination" if anyone tells me I can't smoke wherever I want to.

/genius!

Alonjar: I think the owner is moving in entirely the wrong direction here.

I, for one, would prefer going to a bar that disallows fat chicks. Sounds like a good selling point.

As long as fat men are also barred, why not?