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[JeffreyLebowski]

Originally posted by: waggy
though for those saying that they are not disabled just fat.

Some disabilities (well side effects) will cause a person to get fat. many with reduced mobility are going to get fat (duh).

though yes it does seem the majority of those in the chairs are just fucking fat.

It's not the diability that makes them fat, it's the calories that makes them fat. If you don't get as much exercise, you don't need to eat as much. You can't gain more weight than you take in.
Christopher Reeves couldn't move, yet he didn't get fat.
people that are so fat they need assistance moving are that way for 1 of 2 reasons. They're lazy, or the only exercise they get is the motions required to get mass amount of food into their gullet.

 

[funboy6942]

I am in a wheelchair when I go out for I cannot walk, not because I am fat but due to back injury I cannot walk more then a few feet without great pain having to stop. I so want to keep walking but cant bare the pain. BUT you would be sooo surprised at the amout of people who do not see you on these chairs, or care to see, refuse to see, or just plain old dont give a damn. I do not say what she did was right, but I am 6'4", and very wide chested, used to do weightlifting before I was hurt and still retain a lot of my mass. I am a huge rolling wall with wheels and a handle bar coming out my ass and people still walk, stop, dart right in my way without blinking a eye or saying sorry or excuse me or anything. They literally do not see the huge wall of wheels right in front of them which I find bull shit. And 90% of them give me the evil eye as if I did something wrong, or as to say fuck you buddy. Some even make it their point when I go down a huge lane, to switch from walking on the other side to right in front of me, towards me, making me have to move over to the other side they moved from just to be a ass.

So to be fair, it works two ways around, you have to see it from both sides before you can go off and just bitch, and see why some people in these chairs may have said fuck em all a long time ago. And to be honest, Im almost there because it gets on my nerve a bit when I go way out of my way for others for my cart is slow, I take up a bit of room, so I always think of head before a react, to be treated in this manner when all I want to do is get out of my house 1-2 times a month and go do something with my wife and kids even if it is rolling around walmart for a few hours with them. Not much else you can do when you in my situation and every thing you do causes pain, just rolling around walmart can be fun, besides I like to suck up the pain sometimes, make it to the other side of walmart so that my kid has to go get the wheelchair. His face with a smile ear to ear coming back is priceless, he loves to drive that thing, its the little things that count sometimes. And when they dont have any of them I just use my regular wheel chair, not quite as fun though, one day I got to get me one of these motorized things, but my manual one does me fine for now, besides that, my arms are freakin huge using my manual chair all these years.

Opps was I typing out loud

 

[giantpinkbunnyhead]

Heh.. just last week, at Fred Meyers, I saw this lady who was larger than a 737, riding along in one of those electric carts. I'm not kidding. She was so wide that I wasn't sure how the seat didn't get lost up her crack. Her cross section, while seated, was about five feet. I couldn't even see how she fit down the damn aisles!

Then 10 minutes later I found out... I happened upon the produce area, where there is a roughly 6-foot-wide pathway containing a roof support pillar right in the middle. Shoppers are forced to either divert left or right around this pole. Anyway, Ms. Jupiter here tries to ride through the 3-foot gap on the left side and gets herself pinned between the pole and the produce display "thing". You know, that thing where they store all the produce and they have the spray hoses that automatically spray the lettuce and stuff and... yeah that thing. Her cart couldn't muscle her out. She was wedged in TIGHT.

Perhaps I am just an ass, but I elected to not help. First, she clearly thinks she's a helluva lot skinnier than she is (say, 600 lb instead of 900) and it's her own damn fault for getting stuck based on her incorrect perception of her actual size. Second, I value my back and I surely would have thrown it out trying to pull her back out. Third, have you ever tried to grab jello? Doesn't work. Anyway she managed to somehow extricate herself without much ado and I walked away wondering if just maybe... she realized that needs to go on a diet. Granted, she WAS in the produce area... maybe she was already making the effort. Who knows. But damn. I thought that shit only happened in cartoons.

 

[InflatableBuddha]

Originally posted by: giantpinkbunnyhead
Heh.. just last week, at Fred Meyers, I saw this lady who was larger than a 737, riding along in one of those electric carts. I'm not kidding. She was so wide that I wasn't sure how the seat didn't get lost up her crack. Her cross section, while seated, was about five feet. I couldn't even see how she fit down the damn aisles!

Then 10 minutes later I found out... I happened upon the produce area, where there is a roughly 6-foot-wide pathway containing a roof support pillar right in the middle. Shoppers are forced to either divert left or right around this pole. Anyway, Ms. Jupiter here tries to ride through the 3-foot gap on the left side and gets herself pinned between the pole and the produce display "thing". You know, that thing where they store all the produce and they have the spray hoses that automatically spray the lettuce and stuff and... yeah that thing. Her cart couldn't muscle her out. She was wedged in TIGHT.

Perhaps I am just an ass, but I elected to not help. First, she clearly thinks she's a helluva lot skinnier than she is (say, 600 lb instead of 900) and it's her own damn fault for getting stuck based on her incorrect perception of her actual size. Second, I value my back and I surely would have thrown it out trying to pull her back out. Third, have you ever tried to grab jello? Doesn't work. Anyway she managed to somehow extricate herself without much ado and I walked away wondering if just maybe... she realized that needs to go on a diet. Granted, she WAS in the produce area... maybe she was already making the effort. Who knows. But damn. I thought that shit only happened in cartoons.

:thumbsup:

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski

Originally posted by: waggy
though for those saying that they are not disabled just fat.

Some disabilities (well side effects) will cause a person to get fat. many with reduced mobility are going to get fat (duh).

though yes it does seem the majority of those in the chairs are just fucking fat.

It's not the diability that makes them fat, it's the calories that makes them fat. If you don't get as much exercise, you don't need to eat as much. You can't gain more weight than you take in.
Christopher Reeves couldn't move, yet he didn't get fat.
people that are so fat they need assistance moving are that way for 1 of 2 reasons. They're lazy, or the only exercise they get is the motions required to get mass amount of food into their gullet.

you can't compare most with reeves. he was on a feeding tube.

 

[buck]

There is a lady on a "little rascal" motor scooter around here that has a wonderful sticker on the back.

"How's my driving. 1-800 EAT SHIT"

One of these days i need to get a camera phone shot of her scooter.

 

[ahurtt]

"Does not give you the right to run over people and your not handicapped"


It's "you're," dumb@ss.

 

[thepd7]

Originally posted by: waggy

Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski

Originally posted by: waggy
though for those saying that they are not disabled just fat.

Some disabilities (well side effects) will cause a person to get fat. many with reduced mobility are going to get fat (duh).

though yes it does seem the majority of those in the chairs are just fucking fat.

It's not the diability that makes them fat, it's the calories that makes them fat. If you don't get as much exercise, you don't need to eat as much. You can't gain more weight than you take in.
Christopher Reeves couldn't move, yet he didn't get fat.
people that are so fat they need assistance moving are that way for 1 of 2 reasons. They're lazy, or the only exercise they get is the motions required to get mass amount of food into their gullet.

you can't compare most with reeves. he was on a feeding tube.

So someone who is overweight couldn't go on a liquid only diet for a while just like that?

 

[purbeast0]

Originally posted by: waggy

Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski

Originally posted by: waggy
though for those saying that they are not disabled just fat.

Some disabilities (well side effects) will cause a person to get fat. many with reduced mobility are going to get fat (duh).

though yes it does seem the majority of those in the chairs are just fucking fat.

It's not the diability that makes them fat, it's the calories that makes them fat. If you don't get as much exercise, you don't need to eat as much. You can't gain more weight than you take in.
Christopher Reeves couldn't move, yet he didn't get fat.
people that are so fat they need assistance moving are that way for 1 of 2 reasons. They're lazy, or the only exercise they get is the motions required to get mass amount of food into their gullet.

you can't compare most with reeves. he was on a feeding tube.

well, and the fact that he's freaking SUPERMAN.

 

[tyler811]

nklj,m

 

[upsciLLion]

Originally posted by: funboy42
I am in a wheelchair when I go out for I cannot walk, not because I am fat but due to back injury I cannot walk more then a few feet without great pain having to stop. I so want to keep walking but cant bare the pain. BUT you would be sooo surprised at the amout of people who do not see you on these chairs, or care to see, refuse to see, or just plain old dont give a damn. I do not say what she did was right, but I am 6'4", and very wide chested, used to do weightlifting before I was hurt and still retain a lot of my mass. I am a huge rolling wall with wheels and a handle bar coming out my ass and people still walk, stop, dart right in my way without blinking a eye or saying sorry or excuse me or anything. They literally do not see the huge wall of wheels right in front of them which I find bull shit. And 90% of them give me the evil eye as if I did something wrong, or as to say fuck you buddy. Some even make it their point when I go down a huge lane, to switch from walking on the other side to right in front of me, towards me, making me have to move over to the other side they moved from just to be a ass.

So to be fair, it works two ways around, you have to see it from both sides before you can go off and just bitch, and see why some people in these chairs may have said fuck em all a long time ago. And to be honest, Im almost there because it gets on my nerve a bit when I go way out of my way for others for my cart is slow, I take up a bit of room, so I always think of head before a react, to be treated in this manner when all I want to do is get out of my house 1-2 times a month and go do something with my wife and kids even if it is rolling around walmart for a few hours with them. Not much else you can do when you in my situation and every thing you do causes pain, just rolling around walmart can be fun, besides I like to suck up the pain sometimes, make it to the other side of walmart so that my kid has to go get the wheelchair. His face with a smile ear to ear coming back is priceless, he loves to drive that thing, its the little things that count sometimes. And when they dont have any of them I just use my regular wheel chair, not quite as fun though, one day I got to get me one of these motorized things, but my manual one does me fine for now, besides that, my arms are freakin huge using my manual chair all these years.

Opps was I typing out loud

Nobody here has a problem with people who have absolutely no other choice but to use a wheelchair, much like yourself. The issue is with people who made themselves so fucking fat that looking at them tastes bad.

 

[Whisper]

Just to throw the point out there, it's entirely possible that the condition leading to these people being wheelchair bound also caused them to become depressed...which can result in significant increases in appetite and lethargy. It's not all necessarily directly due to a person being "lazy," even if their medical condition did not directly cause the obesity.

To use an example with which most people are familiar: imagine the last time you had a bad break-up, or a close family member passed away. The last thing most people want to do at these times is go out and get some exercise. While the majority of people are able to move past such periods of sadness, some simply lack the necessary coping skills to do so.

 

[funboy6942]

Originally posted by: upsciLLion

Originally posted by: funboy42
I am in a wheelchair when I go out for I cannot walk, not because I am fat but due to back injury I cannot walk more then a few feet without great pain having to stop. I so want to keep walking but cant bare the pain. BUT you would be sooo surprised at the amout of people who do not see you on these chairs, or care to see, refuse to see, or just plain old dont give a damn. I do not say what she did was right, but I am 6'4", and very wide chested, used to do weightlifting before I was hurt and still retain a lot of my mass. I am a huge rolling wall with wheels and a handle bar coming out my ass and people still walk, stop, dart right in my way without blinking a eye or saying sorry or excuse me or anything. They literally do not see the huge wall of wheels right in front of them which I find bull shit. And 90% of them give me the evil eye as if I did something wrong, or as to say fuck you buddy. Some even make it their point when I go down a huge lane, to switch from walking on the other side to right in front of me, towards me, making me have to move over to the other side they moved from just to be a ass.

So to be fair, it works two ways around, you have to see it from both sides before you can go off and just bitch, and see why some people in these chairs may have said fuck em all a long time ago. And to be honest, Im almost there because it gets on my nerve a bit when I go way out of my way for others for my cart is slow, I take up a bit of room, so I always think of head before a react, to be treated in this manner when all I want to do is get out of my house 1-2 times a month and go do something with my wife and kids even if it is rolling around walmart for a few hours with them. Not much else you can do when you in my situation and every thing you do causes pain, just rolling around walmart can be fun, besides I like to suck up the pain sometimes, make it to the other side of walmart so that my kid has to go get the wheelchair. His face with a smile ear to ear coming back is priceless, he loves to drive that thing, its the little things that count sometimes. And when they dont have any of them I just use my regular wheel chair, not quite as fun though, one day I got to get me one of these motorized things, but my manual one does me fine for now, besides that, my arms are freakin huge using my manual chair all these years.

Opps was I typing out loud

Nobody here has a problem with people who have absolutely no other choice but to use a wheelchair, much like yourself. The issue is with people who made themselves so fucking fat that looking at them tastes bad.

I wasnt going for that, but to show my spin on what I have to deal with now that I have to use one and the kinds of people I have to deal with while in one. Some people just get in the way, or get in the way get to do it. I dare anyone to act disabled and get on a cart and see just how some people react towards you. Your views will change.

Again im not saying it is right, its just my take that after being in one now for over 3 years, dealing with the types of people who do what they do to me while in one, I can see why someone will just plow through a crowd if they had it being treated that way by some, or most. And I am sure that because she is massively obese she gets it much worse then I with the looks or people treating her bad.

You wouldnt think that to happen, but it does, just look at all the people here in this thread talking bad about this, then those are usually the ones that get in my way just to be a dick, or act as if I am invisible. I cannot tell you how many times I have to either swerve out of the way, or at times even have to put my feet out to stop fast enough so I dont hit anyone because they decided to cut me off or stop right in front of me.

But again, I invite anyone in here to hop on one and see what happens to you and how people change towards you no matter if your fat, skinny, what have you.

 

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: slsmnaz
I suddenly got an image of George Costanza riding his electric chair

the image in my head was of Homer trying to dial the phone with his fatty fingers.

Operator: To obtain a special "dialing wand," mash the keypad with your palm now.

 

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: clamum
4/10

Needs more anger and cuss words.

I don't know; the OP's rage was clearly conveyed through dropped prepositions and adverbs.

6/10.

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: waggy
though for those saying that they are not disabled just fat.

Some disabilities (well side effects) will cause a person to get fat. many with reduced mobility are going to get fat (duh).

though yes it does seem the majority of those in the chairs are just fucking fat.

Ultimately its irrelevant! Neither of those things gives you a right to be a huge fucking asshole. If anyone else did that, they'd get decked. When people get hit by some waste of space case they don't know how to react. Their anger is muddied with pity and disgust and it short circuits the part of the brain that makes short fused people punch assholes in the face.

 

[dainthomas]

Why is ATOT so obsessed with fat people?

 

[GoatMonkey]

Originally posted by: funboy42

Originally posted by: upsciLLion

Originally posted by: funboy42
I am in a wheelchair when I go out for I cannot walk, not because I am fat but due to back injury I cannot walk more then a few feet without great pain having to stop. I so want to keep walking but cant bare the pain. BUT you would be sooo surprised at the amout of people who do not see you on these chairs, or care to see, refuse to see, or just plain old dont give a damn. I do not say what she did was right, but I am 6'4", and very wide chested, used to do weightlifting before I was hurt and still retain a lot of my mass. I am a huge rolling wall with wheels and a handle bar coming out my ass and people still walk, stop, dart right in my way without blinking a eye or saying sorry or excuse me or anything. They literally do not see the huge wall of wheels right in front of them which I find bull shit. And 90% of them give me the evil eye as if I did something wrong, or as to say fuck you buddy. Some even make it their point when I go down a huge lane, to switch from walking on the other side to right in front of me, towards me, making me have to move over to the other side they moved from just to be a ass.

So to be fair, it works two ways around, you have to see it from both sides before you can go off and just bitch, and see why some people in these chairs may have said fuck em all a long time ago. And to be honest, Im almost there because it gets on my nerve a bit when I go way out of my way for others for my cart is slow, I take up a bit of room, so I always think of head before a react, to be treated in this manner when all I want to do is get out of my house 1-2 times a month and go do something with my wife and kids even if it is rolling around walmart for a few hours with them. Not much else you can do when you in my situation and every thing you do causes pain, just rolling around walmart can be fun, besides I like to suck up the pain sometimes, make it to the other side of walmart so that my kid has to go get the wheelchair. His face with a smile ear to ear coming back is priceless, he loves to drive that thing, its the little things that count sometimes. And when they dont have any of them I just use my regular wheel chair, not quite as fun though, one day I got to get me one of these motorized things, but my manual one does me fine for now, besides that, my arms are freakin huge using my manual chair all these years.

Opps was I typing out loud

Nobody here has a problem with people who have absolutely no other choice but to use a wheelchair, much like yourself. The issue is with people who made themselves so fucking fat that looking at them tastes bad.

I wasnt going for that, but to show my spin on what I have to deal with now that I have to use one and the kinds of people I have to deal with while in one. Some people just get in the way, or get in the way get to do it. I dare anyone to act disabled and get on a cart and see just how some people react towards you. Your views will change.

Again im not saying it is right, its just my take that after being in one now for over 3 years, dealing with the types of people who do what they do to me while in one, I can see why someone will just plow through a crowd if they had it being treated that way by some, or most. And I am sure that because she is massively obese she gets it much worse then I with the looks or people treating her bad.

You wouldnt think that to happen, but it does, just look at all the people here in this thread talking bad about this, then those are usually the ones that get in my way just to be a dick, or act as if I am invisible. I cannot tell you how many times I have to either swerve out of the way, or at times even have to put my feet out to stop fast enough so I dont hit anyone because they decided to cut me off or stop right in front of me.

But again, I invite anyone in here to hop on one and see what happens to you and how people change towards you no matter if your fat, skinny, what have you.

I think some people are just assholes in general and feel the need to assert themselves in situations like that. They must have some kind of alpha-dog type issues. They do it to everyone, but it's a lot more noticeable when you're in a wheelchair and it's a bigger pain in the ass to get around them.

 

[compman25]

I'm fat, 6' 375 lbs and it pisses me off seeing these assholes riding around on those electric chairs and parking up front in the handicap spots. They're effing lazy asses. If they waddled their ass to more than just the buffet tables and got some exercise they wouldn't be stuck using a chair with wheels.

Just push them over, they're too fat to get back up.

 

[WraithETC]

Those people always seem to be in the worse mood. During my summer job working retail everytime I encountered one of those mobile beasts they'd always be pissy and difficult.

One of the assistant managers noticed I was helping one of them and he must have talked to her before because after that he ran away at light speed.

 

[Xavier434]

I don't like it anymore than you do, but I really can't see myself always being polite and in a good mood if I were in their shoes. It's a terrible way to live.

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: moshquerade
it is sad, but those people are trapped in a living hell and can't see any way out so they don't care what other people think of them or their actions.

A living hell of their own making.

Funny, piles of third-world people are "trapped in a living hell" as well, but they're plenty polite.

Originally posted by: waggy
though for those saying that they are not disabled just fat.

Some disabilities (well side effects) will cause a person to get fat. many with reduced mobility are going to get fat (duh).

though yes it does seem the majority of those in the chairs are just fucking fat.

No one is debating those points. There are a few people who really do need the help. We're angry at the majority, who do not.

 

[purepolly]

hehehe...

We had a 500+lb patient on our floor. A royal pain in the butt. He kept insisting he could walk to the bathroom, which he couldn't. When he fell, it would take every available male nurse in the hospital (3rd shift) to lift this idiot back into bed. It got so bad, that we use to put a pillow under his head, and cover him with blankets while he lay on the floor until we could eventually get around to hauling his butt back into bed. I never even heard a thank you out of his mouth, we were just "lazy" because we wouldn't put him on the toilet.

 

[LordMorpheus]

Rice loans these chairs out to kids who break their legs, that kind of thing. A good buddy of mine broke his leg skiing so we had one to play with. I've found that if it's going at speed and you stick a steel-toed boot toe under the back wheel it's tipping over.

So next time you go out wear work boots ... and let them run over your foot.

 

[alkemyst]

at Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party (MNSSHP) one of those dudes on a Lark totally cut line, flattened a kid, grabbed the candy and pulled away without saying a word; pushing more kids out of the way...

that was until no less than 4 moms and Disney crew members stopped him