Half-ton Man Dies, family blames government

Originally Posted by Shin

I think the family had a case for asking for help right up until the guy got bed-ridden. After that, as he's clearly unable to get his own food, they had to be feeding him and obviously they weren't just feeding him the 1,000 or so calories a day a recumbent needs. I'm pretty sure you don't have to be a doctor to realise that when someone weighs a fucking ton, they could do with eating less yet they kept feeding him until he died. If you did that to a dog you'd get prosecuted for animal cruelty in this country so I fail to see how doing it to a person allows you to blame someone else when that person carps it. Anyway, it's not like he was unaware of his situation. The fat fuck was in the Guinnes book of records which means someone called them to show him off, more than likely a family member or even himself. I have no sympathy for fatties at the best of times, the ones that eat themselves into the grave are especially pathetic.

It is surprisingly difficult to help these kinds of people lose weight, actually. There have been a ton of ton-sized people who died by well-meaning but idiot attempts to get them to lose weight; commonly through heart attack or starvation (f'real). It's not something your familly should undertake lightly since it requires professional help, but unfortunately there's a lot of vultures who would love to popularize their diets off of the mega-fatties like this Zone Diet guy.

Anyway, the family may have a claim if they were asking for emergency transport that the government denied them, but outside of that, the guy was going to die anyway. It's pretty sad all around.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Shin

I think a major contributing factor to the amount of fatties around these days is that schools are cracking down so hard on bullying. When I was a kid, the fat kid got picked on, mercilessly, all day every day. What this did was encourage them to lose some weight so they wouldn't get picked on (Either that or point out there was someone more deserving of a kicking, normally the ginger kid). This then set in all the kids minds that being a fatty is a bad thing and as such, nobody wanted to be one when they grew up.

These days you've got all this bullshit about how kids aren't allowed to hit the fat kids or even call them names. All this does is make excuses for the chunky fucks, makes them think that it's in any way socially acceptable to be fat and does nothing to encourage them to lose weight. It's only when they grow up a bit they realise that being fat is incredibly socially debilitating and means you're far less likely to find gainful emplotyment, form meaningful relationships with anyone other than other fatties and that you'll die young and leave a blubbery, greasy corpse. By the time they realise this though they're already locked into the cycle of comfort eating and the realisation that they're going to be a social outcast forever only makes them eat more, rather than having the effect it would have if they'd realised earlier of making them, you know, actually try to lose some fucking weight.

Basically, fat people are pathetic and the faster they die off the better it is for the rest of society.

There were lots of gigantic people back in the prehistoric ages of Before Our Generation. If you're talking about a greater trend towards obesity that's one thing, but the Frosting Mammoths such as the dead guy in this article have always been with us.

Personally, I blame an all-too-human tendancy to see just how bad something can get; yes, I am suggesting that feeders are to blame for our historical Human Monuments. Not just one or two, but entire teams of them, shoveling sweet meats into the specimen's mouth like so much coal into a boiler's fire. It is no secret that being overweight was a status symbol of yore; no doubt there were races to claim the Ye Olde Fattest Man title for the realm.

There's nowhere I can't reach.