Want some more fries, chunky?

I like how people in this thread seem to only be thinking in extremes. XXL is suddenly "dinosaur-sized," wearing clothes a little loose for comfort is surely only to be trendy and fashionable like rappers and other "rude boys." Exaggerations are far more fun than reality!

I'm 5'11" and weigh roughly 225 lbs., and I can fit into a regular XL shirt if I want to without any trouble. Instead, I wear XXL because it's much more comfortable, looks a bit better I think, and depending on the brand some XL shirts can make it appear as though I have the manboobs of a god when I don't at all. I also prefer a little extra length than what XL tends to have, not for fashion and to impress my posse, but so that if my shirt gets caught on something and gets pulled up (which tends to happen with the poorly made school chairs that often have loose screws on the backs). I think we can all agree that no one should have to see my hairy back, right?

It's silly for stores to charge that much extra between the jump from XL to XXL when it isn't that much of a change. It isn't just some phenomenon in Nutty's area either, as I've seen the same thing at Sears, JCPenny, Dillards, Wal-Mart, etc. around here.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Parn

I like how $2 is a big deal for larger clothes. Next you'll be complaining that larger portions of food cost more.

Oh.

Call me crazy, but I'm 5'11" and 155 pounds, in great shape since I'm fairly active, and I don't shove burgers and cake down my gullet. My dad is 5'9", 245 pounds, in horrible shape since he isn't very active, and he drinks a ton of beer and drinks gravy from the pot.

Wonder what the deal is.

It's called varying metabolism for one thing. A friend of mine eats triple-decker sandwiches as snacks, is the same height as me, does less exercising, and has trouble keeping his weight above 140 lbs. As for your dad, why is he not dead if he's drinking gravy from the pot and never does anything?

Originally Posted by Shin

Mate, I didn't even know they made sizes bigger than XL. Pardon us for not being morbidly obese I'm sure.

Morbidly obese is XXXL or those people who actually need to buy XXL shirts or their gut hangs out. Pardon me for not accepting an exaggeration as fact.

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Originally Posted by Shin

Morbid Obesity is being 100lbs over your ideal body weight or having a BMI of 40 or more.

Your BMI is 31.4 so whilst you're not morbidly obese, you are technically obese and although I am exaggerating slightly, you're a bit beyond "Big boned" don't you think?

Oh definitely, I fully admit that I'm overweight. I don't recall ever claiming that I'm "big boned" or anything like that. I could probably lose a decent amount of weight if I bothered to figure up an exercise regiment and eat a little better (although it's not like I do no exercise at all or shovel burgers into my mouth). I don't feel unhealthy and I look decent enough, so I'm satisfied with it.

Originally Posted by Parn

Blah blah blah, metabolism blah blah blah. Gee, haven't heard this one before. Want to increase your metabolism? Get off your ass and start exercising instead of making that bullshit "my metabolism is slower, it's not fair that Lazy Skinny Friend X can chomp on burgers all day and I can't" excuse. Of course it's not fair. It's also not fair that a friend of mine can put in a lot less effort during a workout and gain way more muscle than I. It's genetics. You play with the cards you're dealt and you move on.

Or, you can keep making excuses. But you sure won't get any sympathy from me for having to pay $2 more for clothes.

Nice job with the hostility when I never once complained or claimed that I was dealt an unfair hand. I was simply responding to your stereotypical "I'm not fat, so the only explanation is that all obese people must be immovable lumps that don't even try to eat healthy" statement. While a good number of blobs do use body chemistry as an excuse, that doesn't mean there isn't truth to it in some cases. Is that my case? Hell no. I enjoy how I live and I don't feel or look unhealthy, so I'm comfortable with it. Maybe a bit of my problem is genetic, but not so much that I couldn't overcome it with some work.

Way to turn a simple complaint about a price ripoff into "lol shutup Fatty McFatfat." Perhaps instead of being so aggressive you could try to help your dad to stop guzzling alcohol and gravy?

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by nuttyturnip

The point is that stores have decided to profit off a segment of the population, and they're not doing it out of the goodness of their hearts (like say, a cigarette tax). What would happen if Sears decided to charge non-English speaking customers $2 more for everything they buy?

I am in favor of this language tax. It should go straight to the cashier as payment for all of the confusion and trouble.

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The XS sizes disturb me almost as much as XXXL. Some of those look like they're made for freaky midget children born without ribcages, not actual adults.

Originally Posted by Lunar Seal

I could easily bitch about how stores overcharge me because I'm a size Small. Why should I have to pay the same price as some lardo?

Perhaps that's because your supply and demand model is inaccurate. If that were true then there would be small price variances between each size rather than one jump between XL and XXL.

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Originally Posted by Lunar Seal

I think it's funny when fat people walk around the mall and diss on the "trendy" stores like AF and shit. Just because you can't fit into the clothes doesn't mean it's a shitty store.
No, I wouldn't pay 100 dollars for jeans either, but I don't see the point in having a grudge against a store just because the people that shop there are thin.

Haha, who dislikes those stores because their customers are thin? That's pretty much the only complaint about them that I haven't heard. They're funny because of their racist hiring practices, walls covered with photos of nearly naked men, and their obscene prices for terribly made clothing.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?