Do Fat People Piss You Off a Little?

[cyclonengineer]

Right. But they are skill games as opposed to luck based games (some board games, craps, etc…)

[Brant_Drake]

@RT_Nomad

But even the objective scoring has a component of subjectivity involved. Was the “objective score” obtained without a “subject infraction” being made

Good point. But I feel there’s a difference between a judge and a referee. So Hockey would be a sport, but figure skaters would be athletes.

[Silyak]

@antiquity

@Silyak

Some people are obese and don’t have any negative health consequences.

Eventually they do. Do you know an obese 90 year old?

It’s purely anecdotal, but yes, I do know several people in their 90s who have BMI greater than 30 (technically obese).

[Silyak]

@Brant_Drake

1.) An objective instead of subjective scoring system.
2.) Physical action that needs to be practiced.
3.) Competing against another person.

By number 3, do you mean it needs to be a head to head competition? As in, if the competition could more or less take place in two different places without fundamentally changing what is going on, is it a sport? For instance, weightlifting and sprinting can theoretically be a remote competition. Football would not allow that in any meaningful way.

[anna_5588]

@Silyak

It’s purely anecdotal, but yes, I do know several people in their 90s who have BMI greater than 30

All my living grand relatives are on the heavy side.
Not extremely obese by any stretch of the imagination but certainly over fat

The dead ones were rail thin

However…. They were all rail thin in their youth/most adulthood (literal chinese peasants….)

I think slightly higher levels of fat is somewhat protective for older ppl

[EmilyQ]

@Andrewgen_Receptors

@jshaving

how you liked to intimidate newcomers or young people at the gym, or something along those lines?

That was like 2 years ago, but no - not newcomers or young people specifically, just the people that clog up the equipment doing meaningless sets with no intention of making progress. People lifting with their ego, or who are there as a social venture, but still hog equipment for exorbitant periods of time.
I’m okay with trying to hasten their exit. Warming up with their working weight when i ask to work in sometimes does that. I still dont wish them ill, i just wish them to hurry the fuck up.

See, this is the exact problem I have with @Njord shitting on commercial diet programs, and even his ex’s sister, who shared her enthusiasm for a program with him. And now this from you, Andrew.

Here are people earnestly trying to do the exact thing you guys are whining about, and you ridicule it. I don’t know how many times - hundreds, maybe - I’ve assured people that the gym is for them, too, not just for fit people, and now I read that you’re fine with intimidating them or making them feel stupid and unwelcome because…well, because I guess you just feel like it!

IT IS SO FUCKING UNKIND.

What’s the matter with you both? I feel like I’m going to have some sort of stroke, I’m so outraged and disgusted.

@twojarslave, violence away! They deserve it.

[Brant_Drake]

@Silyak

do you mean it needs to be a head to head competition? As in, if the competition could more or less take place in two different places without fundamentally changing what is going on, is it a sport? For instance, weightlifting and sprinting can theoretically be a remote competition. Football would not allow that in any meaningful way.

Yeah, that would be fine.

[Andrewgen_Receptors]

@EmilyQ

violence away! They deserve it.

Violence in response to words?

Seems reasonable.

[SkyzykS]

So, first and foremost, I owe you & @blshaw an apology- Sorry I offended you.

Second- Thank you to the others.

Third- my apology to other forum participants, lurkers, readers etc. who may have been put off by my responses in this thread.

I’ll do better.

[EmilyQ]

@Andrewgen_Receptors

Violence in response to words?

Seems reasonable.

And the rest of my post? About the hypocrisy displayed by two of the most vehement I-just-want-people-to-be-healthy-so-I-hate-them posters, who it appears are not above sabotaging the people they long to see succeed?

[EmilyQ]

@Andrewgen_Receptors

Violence in response to words?

Also, pull yourself together. Who among us here has not been threatened with being beat up?

They always want you to come to them, so the threat is fairly minimal. I don’t know where you live, but just don’t go to Maine for a couple of days, for god’s sake.

[SkyzykS]

For the sake of clarity- I never threatened to beat anybody up.

I described my lifelong modus operandi.

[anna_5588]

@EmilyQ

Who among us here has not been threatened with being beat up?

Me. Mostly bc my classmates were afraid of me hurting them

Note: I don’t include parents. They never threatened to “beat me up”. Just threatened spanking

[punnyguy]

@EmilyQ

And the rest of my post?

Common tactic employed by those who never admit to being wrong. You be tilting at windmills.

[SkyzykS]

If you were still dahn-tahn I could swing by for a quick smackdown, but alas, you fled the region before I could get my hands on you.

Joking of course. Cuz I’m behaving myself.

[anna_5588]

Honestly I don’t know why ppl were scared of me. I am objectively a very vulnerable target

[SkyzykS]

Its the possibility that you may know kung-fu.

No one wants to find that out the hard way.

[EmilyQ]

@SkyzykS

I never threatened to beat anybody up.

No, no, it wasn’t you. It was…well, me, apparently.

@anna_5588

Me. Mostly bc my classmates were afraid of me hurting them

I meant here at TN. I’ve had a “come here and say that to me” incident. But I didn’t go there. So nothing happened.

[SkyzykS]

@EmilyQ

It was…well, me, apparently.

You are a sniper cat after all. Very fierce. Rawr.

[blshaw]

I appreciate it brother. No hard feelings.