Fantasy Feeder

Growing up fat...

JustinNasty wrote
You all realize that pretty much everyone in elementary school got picked on? Skinny, fat, white, black, short, tall.

ANYTHING that makes you stand out makes you a prime canidate for getting picked on. Maybe 10% of kids never got made fun of... pimples, being skinny, being fat, being really tall, being short, any physical disability, a bad hair cut, glasses, braces, freckles, the list goes on and on.

Being picked on made you all who you are and made you realize its wrong and actually able to empathize with people. Me getting picked on for being pale, skinny, and having pointed ears when I was little made me who I am today. I know not to bully smaller people and that people are different, just respect it.

I feel like this is opening a door for whiners

This is true, but you rarely get the kind of animosity with the others as you get when you're overweight. Everyone, and I mean everyone, goes out of their way to make you utterly miserable. It's a rather soul crushing experience, the only other group that is attacked more mercilessly than the fat is the gay. When other children sense that there is something that makes you very different on a fundemental level then they open the floodgates.

I'm not trying to say that others don't get picked on, I'm not even really trying to say that fat kids got picked on more than others. The message here is that fat kids, because they are easily identifiable as different, get another kind of ridicule.

15 years

OniGumo

Growing up fat...

thexvob wrote

OniGumo wrote
I was made fun of alot in Elementary School. Those years sucked. No other description for it. But the ridicule began to taper off in Middle School, and not because of any increase in maturity of the other kids mind you, that was when I broke 6'. Mostly it was the other boys who made fun of me, but after I got to be twice their size and a foot or so taller than them I guess they just didn't have the balls to say anything else.

Strange ... I live half a world away in an absolutely different country, and yet when I read this it struck me: this is MY life, including the 6' stuff, etc; like long lost twins in a soap opera. By the way, my kids haven't been bullied in elementary school, even though they were rather chubby. Who knows, maybe we are becoming more tolerant?

True enough lol, the kids in the lower grades look for easy targets and as soon as the kid no longer fits that they move on.

I hope you're right, this world could certainly use more tolerance.

15 years

OniGumo

Women asking men out

Maximum wrote

FriesWithThatShake wrote
I never understood why some guys and girls would ask people they didn't know out for a date.

lol I don't get this either, like when you see a pretty girl out somewhere and you know you'll never see them again, you think most guys would just ask them out, but how do you ask out someone who you know nothing about? :S

As for the hints thing, lol don't bother girls, I wouldn't know if a girl wanted me if she stripped and sat on my lap, i'm that oblivious to those kind of things...

It's easy to ask a strange girl out, you just walk up to her *in your polyester liesure suit mind you* and say in an overly exagerated way "Hey baby, what's your sign", this tends to work out better if you draw some inspiration from Shatner

15 years

OniGumo

Waste to hip ratio

disconnectedsmile wrote

jellybellyrolls wrote
don't mean to be a bug or anything but I'm literally dying of curiosity and anticipation. Does anyone now anything about waste-to-hip ratio's?

don't you mean waist-to-hip?
typically, waste deals with a whole different area of the body.

lol

15 years

OniGumo

Bigger waisted jeans/trousers/shorts

PaulUK wrote
I love my gaining and have lost/gained/lost/gained over the years. My only real gripe with gaining is finding decent jeans/shorts. I'm 35 and still like to wear good fashionable stuff but find it hard to get anything bigger than a 38 or sometimes a 40 inch waist. I'm comfortably in a 40 but now can't find a good pair of combats. So big guys, where in the UK are you buying good clothes in big sizes?

I'm pretty big, close to 600lbs and about 6'6", and I get most of my clothes from a catalog called KingSize, though it's American based you may be able to use it in the UK.

15 years

OniGumo

Increase stomach capacity not gain

winterstocking wrote
Should add that my water poisoning experience had nothing to do with gaining. I'm just stupid.

Oh, I'm sure that's not true

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As for the subject, carbohydrate rich foods that expand when you add water are definately your friends in this arena. Try rice and noodles, these are low calorie, which satisfies your desire not to gain, and when they reach your stomach they will absorb liquids and expand. Eat a couple of servings of them wait for a bit and then drink a glass of water, that should do the trick.

15 years

OniGumo

Losing weight to look better stuffed

As you gain weight you can expect that big bulbous belly you get from stuffing yourself to "diminish" for lack of a better word. This happens for obvious reasons, as the fat accumulates around your midsection there is more material to stretch out, so therefore it is less evident when you do stretch it out.

So basically, if you want that dramatic "stuffed" belly back you probably will have to lose a few pounds.

15 years

OniGumo