My experience at work today reminded me of some more:
broken air conditioners
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Oh, yes! Ew.Chernabog_Rocks wrote:People who chew with their mouths open. Just...the sound alone is enough to drive me crazy, never mind if I'm sitting directly across and have to see it. *shudders*
My list:
- When people throw hissy fits in public (at a restaurant, a convenience store, etc.) because a worker can't help them.
- Parents who do nothing when they’re children scream or fuss around other people.
- People who treat animals and/or children like they’re pieces of property.
- Reality TV. Definitely agree with that. Also, as a jump-off: celebrities who haven’t done anything to earn their fame.
- People who leave sick, nasty comments on blogs. You'll find the worst dregs of humanity when you click on a article/blogpost.
Listening to most often lately:
Taylor Swift ~ ~ "The Fate of Ophelia"
Taylor Swift ~ "Eldest Daughter"
Taylor Swift ~ "CANCELLED!"
I'm going for two!
-Littering: Where is the concern for our environment?
-Shouty warehouse ads, and infomercials: They go on for too long, and they're badly done.
-Limited time only flavours: What a cheap marketing ploy. Just release new flavours and pull them off the shelves if they're not popular
-Baseball caps: What is their purpose?
-Incorrect road use: Pedestrians, Drivers, and Cyclists are all guilty of this. I find myself wanting to tell them that they do NOT have the road all to themselves
-Littering: Where is the concern for our environment?
-Shouty warehouse ads, and infomercials: They go on for too long, and they're badly done.
-Limited time only flavours: What a cheap marketing ploy. Just release new flavours and pull them off the shelves if they're not popular
-Baseball caps: What is their purpose?
-Incorrect road use: Pedestrians, Drivers, and Cyclists are all guilty of this. I find myself wanting to tell them that they do NOT have the road all to themselves
- Commercials. They are annoying, obnoxious and serve no other purpose than to sell us useless crap we don't need. Most are dumb; aim at the lowest common denominator; are sexist or racist; but mainly just plain STUPID. Everytime I see commercials on tv, I get philosophical. I think: "is this really it? Is this what it's all about?" Working your ass off to earn money just to spend it on STUFF? And more stuff, and more stuff? And then I think of the people who created the commercials and then I realize there are so many people in this world whose JOB it is to create them. That there are people who are busy 40 hours a week or longer on just SELLING STUFF. That's such a depressing thought. And then I realize I'm doing the same, since my temporary job (or so I hope) involves selling people stuff over the phone...
Okay, maybe this is not the right subject for a 'pet peeves' thread. Maybe this should go into the 'what sucks about life' thread...
But I really mean it; commercials annoy me to no end.
Related pet peeve:
- DUMB action movies in the cinemas. Only special effects, no story. Only violence, gunblasts and a lot of noise. No genuinity, no authenticity, no exploration of real human themes, emotions or feelings. Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Conan the Barbarian, Final Destination, Transformers, Battle Los Angeles etc. etc. It's all so fake, so EMPTY, so devoid of anything worthwhile. I get saddened by the idea that there are people watching this junk. If this is amusement to most people, then where do we stand as people? Have we really not evolved beyond this?
- What about television? Turn on your sets and what will you see? JUNK. Meaningless, vulgar programs. We are constantly being DUMBED DOWN by it. All you have to do to become a hit on television is to be pretty and stupid. You don't have to know anything, do anything, have any talents. Just be there and smile. I turn on my tv and what do I see? A 'reality show' about three have-been 'showbizz divas' (*PUKE*). Three 60-somethings who never had any talent, but got famous because of whom they fucked. Put them together, let them spend money on useless crap and put a camera on it... done! Or what about the Dutch version of 'Jersey Shore'? And now we've all seen five brainless dolts getting drunk and doing stupid shit, we have a new show: 'an AUDITION SHOW to become part of this gang of low-lifes. Yes, that's right: they are auditioning, on tv, for new talent. And this will be a hit, like everything they've done has become a hit. Like I said: how depressing that hoards of people actually find this entertaining.
"And the people bowed and prayed, to the neon God they made".
And to think that this is only the tip of the iceberg. Have you ever seen Italian tv? Watch the documentary 'Videocracy'. I did. And yesterday was another report on tv about Italian tv and its influence on society. Having been on tv, in Italy, is now being considered more important than having a college degree. And to become on Italian tv, you have to be beautiful, and you have to be prepared to show it to the world in tiny bikini's, being portrayed as an object to be lusted at by middle-aged presenters of brainless, DUMB, silly, useless games. Just stand there and pose. Get on tv, get known, and get a career. Maybe in politics? Can be done in Italy. This is how far we've become since Rome's bread and circuses: NOTHING. We have not moved an inch. Two thousand years and... nothing.
That's the way we're going about it in all of the Western world. We're amusing ourselves to death. I once read there was a book with that title. I'd love to read it. We're all going under thanks to mortage, credit and financial crises and what do we do? Nothing. We just sit there. We watch tv, we eat, we drink, we fuck some more. And for what? To find a husband or wife, to start a family, to stay with the same person you can't stand for 40 years, pay for your kids until you're blue in the face until they're all grown up and then to finally just drop dead...?
Back to regular programming now. So, what do YOU think about the Disney Essence? isn't it just the most importanrt thing in the world?
Okay, maybe this is not the right subject for a 'pet peeves' thread. Maybe this should go into the 'what sucks about life' thread...
But I really mean it; commercials annoy me to no end.
Related pet peeve:
- DUMB action movies in the cinemas. Only special effects, no story. Only violence, gunblasts and a lot of noise. No genuinity, no authenticity, no exploration of real human themes, emotions or feelings. Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Conan the Barbarian, Final Destination, Transformers, Battle Los Angeles etc. etc. It's all so fake, so EMPTY, so devoid of anything worthwhile. I get saddened by the idea that there are people watching this junk. If this is amusement to most people, then where do we stand as people? Have we really not evolved beyond this?
- What about television? Turn on your sets and what will you see? JUNK. Meaningless, vulgar programs. We are constantly being DUMBED DOWN by it. All you have to do to become a hit on television is to be pretty and stupid. You don't have to know anything, do anything, have any talents. Just be there and smile. I turn on my tv and what do I see? A 'reality show' about three have-been 'showbizz divas' (*PUKE*). Three 60-somethings who never had any talent, but got famous because of whom they fucked. Put them together, let them spend money on useless crap and put a camera on it... done! Or what about the Dutch version of 'Jersey Shore'? And now we've all seen five brainless dolts getting drunk and doing stupid shit, we have a new show: 'an AUDITION SHOW to become part of this gang of low-lifes. Yes, that's right: they are auditioning, on tv, for new talent. And this will be a hit, like everything they've done has become a hit. Like I said: how depressing that hoards of people actually find this entertaining.
"And the people bowed and prayed, to the neon God they made".
And to think that this is only the tip of the iceberg. Have you ever seen Italian tv? Watch the documentary 'Videocracy'. I did. And yesterday was another report on tv about Italian tv and its influence on society. Having been on tv, in Italy, is now being considered more important than having a college degree. And to become on Italian tv, you have to be beautiful, and you have to be prepared to show it to the world in tiny bikini's, being portrayed as an object to be lusted at by middle-aged presenters of brainless, DUMB, silly, useless games. Just stand there and pose. Get on tv, get known, and get a career. Maybe in politics? Can be done in Italy. This is how far we've become since Rome's bread and circuses: NOTHING. We have not moved an inch. Two thousand years and... nothing.
That's the way we're going about it in all of the Western world. We're amusing ourselves to death. I once read there was a book with that title. I'd love to read it. We're all going under thanks to mortage, credit and financial crises and what do we do? Nothing. We just sit there. We watch tv, we eat, we drink, we fuck some more. And for what? To find a husband or wife, to start a family, to stay with the same person you can't stand for 40 years, pay for your kids until you're blue in the face until they're all grown up and then to finally just drop dead...?
Back to regular programming now. So, what do YOU think about the Disney Essence? isn't it just the most importanrt thing in the world?
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agreed.Disney Geek wrote:I'm going for two!
-Littering: Where is the concern for our environment?
basically to provide a visor for your face during a ballgameDisney Geek wrote:-Baseball caps: What is their purpose?
and Goliath: movies are entertainment. let's not distort what entertainment is. just simply meant to be fun. escapism.
either way, its long past time you stopped stressing out over everything.
Not neccesarily. Movies can be anything. Movies can explore the human psyche; can examine human relationships; can provide meaning; provoke introspection etc. But why are those kind of movies only seen by a handful of people, while mindless remakes and sequels of already useless action vehicles get seen by millions? True, movies are entertainment and there is nothing wrong with escapism, but why does escapism have to be so DUMB most of the time? I'm also talking about the countless 'funny' gross-out comedies like that of the Seth Rogen/Judd Apatow-type. Why do we feel the need to DUMB OURSELVES DOWN? Why do we accept it?ajmrowland wrote:and Goliath: movies are entertainment. let's not distort what entertainment is. just simply meant to be fun. escapism.
either way, its long past time you stopped stressing out over everything.
And I'm sorry if it annoys you, but I think about things a lot and I ask myself questions. I think everybody, at some point, has asked himself: "what is everything all about?" As a famous Dutch stand-up comedian once said: people can do that. People can look at themselves and think their situations and decisions through. A cow can't do that. After four years of grazing in a meadow, a cow doesn't think, "what the hell am I accomplishing with this?" But people can do that. But they don't. Instead, they watch some stupid gameshow or other useless shit.
Right now, our neighbors are having a party. Music blasting through the speakers. You know, the kind of 'party music' that seems to be obligatory when you throw one. The "boom boom, hoom-pa-pa" kind of music. I watch over the fence and I see them drinking a lot and doing silly dances and hear them laugh out loud and try to out-yell each other. And it's like Bob Dylan wrote in his 1997 song 'Standing in the doorway': "All the laughter is just making me sad". Because what worth is there in drinking yourself silly and doing stupid dances to entertain one another? What is it hiding; what's behind the disguise? Why don't people go sit together and get to know one another? Talk to each other. Be real about things. Why do we have the need to avoid that, and instead fill up our time with stupid bullshit?
To end on a lighter note, two of my pet peeves illustrated:
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Goliath wrote:Not neccesarily. Movies can be anything. Movies can explore the human psyche; can examine human relationships; can provide meaning; provoke introspection etc. But why are those kind of movies only seen by a handful of people, while mindless remakes and sequels of already useless action vehicles get seen by millions? True, movies are entertainment and there is nothing wrong with escapism, but why does escapism have to be so DUMB most of the time? I'm also talking about the countless 'funny' gross-out comedies like that of the Seth Rogen/Judd Apatow-type. Why do we feel the need to DUMB OURSELVES DOWN? Why do we accept it?
Well said, Goliath.It's a shame you've been suspended (probably for no reason other than your 'argumentative' nature).
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[/quote]True, movies are entertainment and there is nothing wrong with escapism, but why does escapism have to be so DUMB most of the time?[/quote]
SO TRUE! Just because a movie isn't deep or intellectual doesn't mean that it has to be an inane piece of crap or lack an interesting story and characters. What happened to stuff like "Indiana Jones" or "Back to the Future", movies that were both well-made and lots of fun. Nowadays we just get a bunch of CGI scenes strung together by a flimsy plot... *sigh*
SO TRUE! Just because a movie isn't deep or intellectual doesn't mean that it has to be an inane piece of crap or lack an interesting story and characters. What happened to stuff like "Indiana Jones" or "Back to the Future", movies that were both well-made and lots of fun. Nowadays we just get a bunch of CGI scenes strung together by a flimsy plot... *sigh*
"A day without laughter is a day wasted." -Charles Chaplin
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to put it simply, people enjoy familiarity and they dont want to think. admittedly even the dont like dumb movies, which makes it even more boggling.Goliath wrote:Not neccesarily. Movies can be anything. Movies can explore the human psyche; can examine human relationships; can provide meaning; provoke introspection etc. But why are those kind of movies only seen by a handful of people, while mindless remakes and sequels of already useless action vehicles get seen by millions? True, movies are entertainment and there is nothing wrong with escapism, but why does escapism have to be so DUMB most of the time? I'm also talking about the countless 'funny' gross-out comedies like that of the Seth Rogen/Judd Apatow-type. Why do we feel the need to DUMB OURSELVES DOWN? Why do we accept it?ajmrowland wrote:and Goliath: movies are entertainment. let's not distort what entertainment is. just simply meant to be fun. escapism.
either way, its long past time you stopped stressing out over everything.
And I'm sorry if it annoys you, but I think about things a lot and I ask myself questions. I think everybody, at some point, has asked himself: "what is everything all about?" As a famous Dutch stand-up comedian once said: people can do that. People can look at themselves and think their situations and decisions through. A cow can't do that. After four years of grazing in a meadow, a cow doesn't think, "what the hell am I accomplishing with this?" But people can do that. But they don't. Instead, they watch some stupid gameshow or other useless shit.
Right now, our neighbors are having a party. Music blasting through the speakers. You know, the kind of 'party music' that seems to be obligatory when you throw one. The "boom boom, hoom-pa-pa" kind of music. I watch over the fence and I see them drinking a lot and doing silly dances and hear them laugh out loud and try to out-yell each other. And it's like Bob Dylan wrote in his 1997 song 'Standing in the doorway': "All the laughter is just making me sad". Because what worth is there in drinking yourself silly and doing stupid dances to entertain one another? What is it hiding; what's behind the disguise? Why don't people go sit together and get to know one another? Talk to each other. Be real about things. Why do we have the need to avoid that, and instead fill up our time with stupid bullshit?
To end on a lighter note, two of my pet peeves illustrated:
<iframe width="560" height="345" src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/qgmSw-T6Qs4" frameborder="0"></iframe>
<iframe width="420" height="345" src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/eyWsFfd9pqE" frameborder="0"></iframe>
i never said all movies should be simple but they dont all have to be deep and thought-provoking. i like what you say about escapism and the fact that studios are making dumb movies, but that's what makes the good ones so special by comparison.
and your arguments dont annoy me; it's that attitude in your mos recent posts. on the whole thoiugh you are kinda depressing.
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True, movies are entertainment and there is nothing wrong with escapism, but why does escapism have to be so DUMB most of the time?[/quote]Persephone wrote:
SO TRUE! Just because a movie isn't deep or intellectual doesn't mean that it has to be an inane piece of crap or lack an interesting story and characters. What happened to stuff like "Indiana Jones" or "Back to the Future", movies that were both well-made and lots of fun. Nowadays we just get a bunch of CGI scenes strung together by a flimsy plot... *sigh*[/quote]IJ never felt that smart to me.
Honestly, I don't see anything wrong with reality tv if it's used for a good purpose. Let's say I have a business. I would do reality television as a means to advertise and bring exposure to my brand and company. Other than that, I most likely wouldn't do it. That stuff ruins friendships, families, and relationships.
One pet peeve I have is people who don't wash their hands after using the bathroom, especially in public.
One pet peeve I have is people who don't wash their hands after using the bathroom, especially in public.
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-When my brother uses my toothbrush
-When my cat asks for food and doesn't even touch it when I serve her
-Watermelons
-When there is no album cover for the music in my iPod
-When celebrities act like the leaking of their sex tapes are accidental
These all came from when I worked in retail:
-When people assume I speak their language when I speak to them in English first
-When people don't read their coupons and are baffled why they don't work
-People who return Christmas ornaments that cost $1.19
-When people purposefully find broken items and assume they'll get it for free
-Michaels Arts and Crafts stores!!
-When my cat asks for food and doesn't even touch it when I serve her
-Watermelons
-When there is no album cover for the music in my iPod
-When celebrities act like the leaking of their sex tapes are accidental
These all came from when I worked in retail:
-When people assume I speak their language when I speak to them in English first
-When people don't read their coupons and are baffled why they don't work
-People who return Christmas ornaments that cost $1.19
-When people purposefully find broken items and assume they'll get it for free
-Michaels Arts and Crafts stores!!
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Here we go. I'm gonna let quite a few of them out, actually...
-People who act super super friendly towards people but deep inside feel no such feelings whatsoever and are putting on a deceitful show
-On the opposite end of the scale, people who come across as rather rude in social situations and defend their actions by claiming themselves to be "rational" or "reserved"
-People with opinions that are so painfully misshapen yet insist that they are glorious, winning arguments
-Sexism: both misogyny and misandry (no matter what anyone says, the latter does exist)
-Racism
-Prejudices against sexual orientation
-The carelessly obese*
-Uncultured people
-Dreadful politicians
-Sexual repression and the hypocrisy surrounding it
-Meddling parents who think they're better teachers than the teacher when they're clearly not
-Injustice
-Teachers whose heart isn't really set on teaching, and are subsequently incompetent as a result
-British tabloids: they pander to the lowest common denominator and seem just to exist for nasty moderately intellectual people to dictate what "lessers" think
-Turning cartoons into live-action films: hopefully Disney will never go the way of Hanna-Barbera or perhaps even Warner Brothers
-Religious zealots
-Political extremists
-Political pundits (especially some of the awful American ones)
-Fast food
-People who can't seem to understand that English isn't the only language spoken
-The grammatical complexities of the German language
-People who can't cook
-People who view books as pointless
-Parents/guardians who let their kids become obese
-Mathematics
-Finding out news/gossip through the likes of Facebook (actually not really a peeve, more just something I find embarrassing)
-People who claim to be an expert on something when they honestly don't have much of a clue
-Patronising/poorly written children's literature
-The shoe-horning of animation as a novelty genre or as "kid's stuff"
-Disney marketing themselves as a brand rather than a particularly iconic film studio
-RyanAir (low-cost airline in Europe)
-Dirty people
-Provincial minded people
-People who have pets, but don't know how to keep them (especially a problem with dogs where people don't get that they have a different mode of thinking to humans, resulting in either spoilt yappers or violent monsters)
-Evil dogs
-Wasps
-People not using citronella when eating outside in summer
-The culture of worryingly excessive drinking over actually going to clubs/bars/parties and having a truly nice time socialising with only a few drinks
-People who can't take non-verbal hints (to quote Goliath) - especially a problem in places like post offices and banks
-Awful "blockbusters"
-When charities try and blackmail or guilt-trip people into supporting them, often with the use of people in streets preying on potential subscribers
-Men who make themselves out to only like manly things, and shun men whose tastes in whatnot are a bit more neutral
-Football (aka soccer) in the UK: I have no qualms with the sport itself, but I just don't like the behaviour of professional footballers and the way supporters turn it into some kind of cult.
-Overly suspicious people
-Child cruelty
-Writing children off as complete failures
-Crime
-When "Install Automatic Updates?" pops up on my computer
-People who act super super friendly towards people but deep inside feel no such feelings whatsoever and are putting on a deceitful show
-On the opposite end of the scale, people who come across as rather rude in social situations and defend their actions by claiming themselves to be "rational" or "reserved"
-People with opinions that are so painfully misshapen yet insist that they are glorious, winning arguments
-Sexism: both misogyny and misandry (no matter what anyone says, the latter does exist)
-Racism
-Prejudices against sexual orientation
-The carelessly obese*
-Uncultured people
-Dreadful politicians
-Sexual repression and the hypocrisy surrounding it
-Meddling parents who think they're better teachers than the teacher when they're clearly not
-Injustice
-Teachers whose heart isn't really set on teaching, and are subsequently incompetent as a result
-British tabloids: they pander to the lowest common denominator and seem just to exist for nasty moderately intellectual people to dictate what "lessers" think
-Turning cartoons into live-action films: hopefully Disney will never go the way of Hanna-Barbera or perhaps even Warner Brothers
-Religious zealots
-Political extremists
-Political pundits (especially some of the awful American ones)
-Fast food
-People who can't seem to understand that English isn't the only language spoken
-The grammatical complexities of the German language
-People who can't cook
-People who view books as pointless
-Parents/guardians who let their kids become obese
-Mathematics
-Finding out news/gossip through the likes of Facebook (actually not really a peeve, more just something I find embarrassing)
-People who claim to be an expert on something when they honestly don't have much of a clue
-Patronising/poorly written children's literature
-The shoe-horning of animation as a novelty genre or as "kid's stuff"
-Disney marketing themselves as a brand rather than a particularly iconic film studio
-RyanAir (low-cost airline in Europe)
-Dirty people
-Provincial minded people
-People who have pets, but don't know how to keep them (especially a problem with dogs where people don't get that they have a different mode of thinking to humans, resulting in either spoilt yappers or violent monsters)
-Evil dogs
-Wasps
-People not using citronella when eating outside in summer
-The culture of worryingly excessive drinking over actually going to clubs/bars/parties and having a truly nice time socialising with only a few drinks
-People who can't take non-verbal hints (to quote Goliath) - especially a problem in places like post offices and banks
-Awful "blockbusters"
-When charities try and blackmail or guilt-trip people into supporting them, often with the use of people in streets preying on potential subscribers
-Men who make themselves out to only like manly things, and shun men whose tastes in whatnot are a bit more neutral
-Football (aka soccer) in the UK: I have no qualms with the sport itself, but I just don't like the behaviour of professional footballers and the way supporters turn it into some kind of cult.
-Overly suspicious people
-Child cruelty
-Writing children off as complete failures
-Crime
-When "Install Automatic Updates?" pops up on my computer
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I didn't even think of that, but good point.
I was just thinking of how utterly pointless it is. I've heard every excuse to try justifying it but, usually, people who complain about fat people are superificial to the point of being angry just because they have to look at another person or have an attitude of superiority when, really, the difference between the fat person and the skinny person is metabolism. Sorry we're not all so lucky to be born the same. Skinny like you. But way too many skinny people are only happy to sit on their ass judging that person when they don't have to work to stay at a thin person's weight. But the fat person has to work to be skinny. And if they don't have the time (seeing how cutthroat the world we live in still is, many people don't) or have to deal with potentially severe trauma (a lot of people with weight problems, INCLUDING thin people with anorexia or bulemia, have significant psychological issues that can't be undone with a snap of someone's finger) then they're deserving of scorn or disapproval? And, if you were actually so concerned with their health, would you be insutling them in the first place? Not by calling them fat (they know that already) but by voicing how annoying you think they are.
Hence why it's pointless. Nothing's going to be changed by being so selfish you have to go "I'm thin and you're not." Because that's exactly what you're saying.
I was just thinking of how utterly pointless it is. I've heard every excuse to try justifying it but, usually, people who complain about fat people are superificial to the point of being angry just because they have to look at another person or have an attitude of superiority when, really, the difference between the fat person and the skinny person is metabolism. Sorry we're not all so lucky to be born the same. Skinny like you. But way too many skinny people are only happy to sit on their ass judging that person when they don't have to work to stay at a thin person's weight. But the fat person has to work to be skinny. And if they don't have the time (seeing how cutthroat the world we live in still is, many people don't) or have to deal with potentially severe trauma (a lot of people with weight problems, INCLUDING thin people with anorexia or bulemia, have significant psychological issues that can't be undone with a snap of someone's finger) then they're deserving of scorn or disapproval? And, if you were actually so concerned with their health, would you be insutling them in the first place? Not by calling them fat (they know that already) but by voicing how annoying you think they are.
Hence why it's pointless. Nothing's going to be changed by being so selfish you have to go "I'm thin and you're not." Because that's exactly what you're saying.
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Lazario wrote:Wow, you just made it onto my official Peeve list:Wonderlicious wrote:-Fat people
#1. People who complain about fat people.
Sotiris wrote:Yes, Wonderlicious. You say that you dislike hatred, injustice, prejudice etc and then say that you also dislike fat people. Can't see the irony there? Not to mention your dislike for "people who can't cook" which I find utterly ridiculous.
Lazario wrote:I didn't even think of that, but good point.
I was just thinking of how utterly pointless it is. I've heard every excuse to try justifying it but, usually, people who complain about fat people are superificial to the point of being angry just because they have to look at another person or have an attitude of superiority when, really, the difference between the fat person and the skinny person is metabolism. Sorry we're not all so lucky to be born the same. Skinny like you. But way too many skinny people are only happy to sit on their ass judging that person when they don't have to work to stay at a thin person's weight. But the fat person has to work to be skinny. And if they don't have the time (seeing how cutthroat the world we live in still is, many people don't) or have to deal with potentially severe trauma (a lot of people with weight problems, INCLUDING thin people with anorexia or bulemia, have significant psychological issues that can't be undone with a snap of someone's finger) then they're deserving of scorn or disapproval? And, if you were actually so concerned with their health, would you be insutling them in the first place? Not by calling them fat (they know that already) but by voicing how annoying you think they are.
Hence why it's pointless. Nothing's going to be changed by being so selfish you have to go "I'm thin and you're not." Because that's exactly what you're saying.
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You should be very PROUD of who you are! BBW ftw!
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