Should Fat People be Heckled like smokers?

youi

So, for the past couple of years it has become socially acceptable to heckler smokers for there bad habit.

Why is it still taboo to not heckle fat people ? More of them die than smokers so it would seem.

I was out to eat a while ago and there was a smoker at the table and an obese person. I thought it was funny that one of my mates was giving out to the smoker telling them, "don't you see that you are killing yourself?", but my mate said nothing to the fat person...

Anyways..

How do you feel? Will it be another decade before it becomes ok to heckle fat people or will it never be ok?

*MODS INSERT A POLL PLEASE. Yes or No. Thanks*

cgarrad

Fat people are a burden on society.

Ihatecuddles-old

People heckle smokers??

joydivision

Needs a poll . I vote yes .

MagicSean

They already are

franktheplank

Lets all pick on everyone whose different from us.

That'll work out well.

Handsome Bob

Yup, fat people never get heckled.

wp_rathead

youi wrote: »

So, for the past couple of years it has become socially acceptable to heckler smokers for there bad habit.

Why is it still taboo to not heckle fat people ? More of them die than smokers so it would seem.

I was out to eat a while ago and there was a smoker at the table and an obese person. I thought it was funny that one of my mates was giving out to the smoker telling them, "don't you see that you are killing yourself?", but my mate said nothing to the fat person...

Anyways..

How do you feel? Will it be another decade before it becomes ok to heckle fat people or will it never be ok?

*MODS INSERT A POLL PLEASE. Yes or No. Thanks*

think you'll find 100% of fat people die.. And 100% of smokers.. and 100% Non-smokers even..



...that is everyone except Shane MacGowan

Madam_X

Yes they should. I'm sick of inhaling their fatness and putting on weight because of it.

imitation

How about heckling nobody, or is that too much to ask ?

Everybody has their hang ups and the hecklers probably have theri own issues they could probably sort out instead of being ignorant bolloxes.

senorwipesalot

A morbidly obese woman where I work had 1200 euro spent on a special office chair for her humungus arse.

SafeSurfer

Maybe we should follow this fascism to its logical conclusion and send all smokers and fat people to the gas chambers. We could build a master race of non smoking thin people.

I have heard of a smoker being heckled by the way.

Sunnyisland

Madam_X wrote: »

Yes they should. I'm sick of inhaling their fatness and putting on weight because of it.

:D:D:D

mikemac1

youi wrote: »

I thought it was funny that one of my mates was giving out to the smoker telling them, "don't you see that you are killing yourself?",

Oh one of them....

When I was a barman we used to serve food out in the beer garden on sunny days.

And the non smokers would be complaining to me about the smokers outside :rolleyes:

I bet your friend waves their hands about and does the fake cough too

squod

youi wrote: »

socially acceptable to heckler smokers

Skinny good looking wimminz are outside the pub smoking, while you're inside heckling them. Interesting.......

monkeypants

Where are these smokers being heckled?

I think what you're really asking is when will it be socially acceptable to abuse smaller/weaker people publically. If you want to bully people, you can do that now, just be prepared for the consequences of doing it to the wrong person who then caves your face in.

hobochris

We should also heckle the skinny for not eating.

HondaSami

If you are a fat smoker you will get heckled on the double. I'm a skinny non smoker so I'm safe thank god, this heckling sounds dangerous.

franktheplank

And what about fat smokers? Should we bully them twice as much, oh omnipotent OP?

Madam_X

monkeypants wrote: »

Where are these smokers being heckled?

I think what you're really asking is when will it be socially acceptable to abuse smaller/weaker people publically. If you want to bully people, you can do that now, just be prepared for the consequences of doing it to the wrong person who then caves your face in.

Be warned: The OP is currently preparing a devastating "lol bet you're all fat" rebuttal... :eek:

squod

HondaSami wrote: »

I'm a skinny non smoker

Pics etc....

Passive smoking affects other peoples health and its not okay to heckle someone for smoking (unless they're deliberately blowing it in your face). Someone else overeating has no effect on you, so you don't get to bully them to make yourself feel better.

Madam_X

Candie wrote: »

Passive smoking affects other peoples health and its not okay to heckle someone for smoking (unless they're deliberately blowing it in your face). Someone else overeating has no effect on you, so you don't get to bully them to make yourself feel better.

But what about the "fat people tax" I see on my payslip every month?

Madam_X

Madam_X wrote: »

But what about the "fat people tax" I see on my payslip every month?

You mean you're not perfect?
How very dare you!
Let the heckling commence!

Gummy Panda

How do you know the fat guy you are heckling isn't a powerlifter?

Lago

How about instead of heckling smokers and fat people for something that they are struggling with, we help and encourage them to change?

I think you'll find that most people who are fat or are smokers, don't actually want to be

.Henry Sellers.

Fat people are like the police, there's never one around when you need one.

Chauncey

Lago wrote: »

How about instead of heckling smokers and fat people for something that they are struggling with, we help and encourage them to change?

I think you'll find that most people who are fat or are smokers, don't actually want to be

How about letting nosy gimps shove their encouragement up their respective arses and let people enjoy an aul smoke or a bit of cake in peace.

Praetorian Saighdiuir

Sure lets stand at the top of a hill and heckle some wheelchair people, if they are fat, smoke, deaf, blind in one eye, a midget and some sort of Spanish, then all the better!

:rolleyes:

Ihatecuddles-old

I'm not exactly skinny but I'm no whale either. I also smoke.

If I was heckled for either, I'd find it hilarious, probably die laughing. Damn clogged arteries

Thoie

senorwipesalot wrote: »

A morbidly obese woman where I work had 1200 euro spent on a special office chair for her humungus arse.

And I bet she's just thrilled that this is such a fascinating topic of conversation that HR told the whole office, and then that you found it so exciting you had to tell the internet.

I'd love to approach management in that place with something confidential.

spankysue

OP, your friends sound like a bunch of judgemental pr1cks bullies, what right do they think they have to go around heckling anyone who's different to them?

To answer your question, no I don't think fat people, smokers or anyone else should be heckled for living their life the way they want to, it's nobody elses business what anyone else does, so don't let it bother you, cop the fcuk on and grow up.

Itwasntme.

Threads bashing fat people are getting tiresome. Why is it your business what someone weighs? And before the 'cost to public funds' arguments roll in, that's just BS. The cost is similar, if not less than the combined cost of the consequences of binge drinking, smoking and other such lifestyle choices. Why don't you heckle every single person falling about on the streets on a Friday night? I will find a link later but according to what I assume is a reliable source, the cost to public funds from treating obesity related conditions is about 1.6 something billion euro per year while the cost to the state from smoking is between 1 and 2 billion per year, so roughly around the same. OP, can you honestly say that you do not do anything that has at one point or another required you to avail of public funds? The point is, where do you get off being judge and jury of another person's lifestyle? If it bothers you to see a fat person, don't look. You want to heckle a fat person? Go ahead. I hope you pick on the wrong person and they give you the slap across the face that you so rightly deserve.

CageWager

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54AW7V2O9xc

Ihatecuddles-old

spankysue wrote: »

OP, your friends sound like a bunch of judgemental pr1cks bullies, what right do they think they have to go around heckling anyone who's different to them?

To answer your question, no I don't think fat people, smokers or anyone else should be heckled for living their life the way they want to, it's nobody elses business what anyone else does, so don't let it bother you, cop the fcuk on and grow up.

Calm down, its not the fm104 phoneshow!

cgarrad

Candie wrote: »

Passive smoking affects other peoples health and its not okay to heckle someone for smoking (unless they're deliberately blowing it in your face). Someone else overeating has no effect on you, so you don't get to bully them to make yourself feel better.

Obesity costs Ireland one thousand six hundred and forty million euro per annum...

Would pay €26 million hole for the carers grant 63 times over.

Greedy fat people making the disabled suffer....

FloatingVoter

Just heckle non-smokers. They're just boring spoilsports who want to be the healthiest person in the graveyard.

kevin65

I feel like heckling ignorant self-righteous people who think it is acceptable to heckle smokers/obese people or anyone who they deem to be unacceptable in their eyes.

Bully much OP?

youi wrote: »

So, for the past couple of years it has become socially acceptable to heckler smokers for there bad habit.

Why is it still taboo to not heckle fat people ? More of them die than smokers so it would seem.

I was out to eat a while ago and there was a smoker at the table and an obese person. I thought it was funny that one of my mates was giving out to the smoker telling them, "don't you see that you are killing yourself?", but my mate said nothing to the fat person...

Anyways..

How do you feel? Will it be another decade before it becomes ok to heckle fat people or will it never be ok?

*MODS INSERT A POLL PLEASE. Yes or No. Thanks*

brosy

Candie wrote: »

Passive smoking affects other peoples health and its not okay to heckle someone for smoking (unless they're deliberately blowing it in your face). Someone else overeating has no effect on you, so you don't get to bully them to make yourself feel better.

Eh, seeing so much fat people helps make being like that more socially acceptable. Are you not disgusted to think that people actually eat themselves to death? Fat people should not be able to judge anybody who uses drugs whatsoever, either legal drugs like tobacco or coffee, or illegal drugs

RandomName2

youi wrote: »

So, for the past couple of years it has become socially acceptable to heckler smokers for there bad habit.

There bad habit of poor grammar?

youi wrote: »

More of them die than smokers so it would seem.

Because there are more fat people than smokers.

youi wrote: »

I was out to eat a while ago and there was a smoker at the table and an obese person. I thought it was funny that one of my mates was giving out to the smoker telling them, "don't you see that you are killing yourself?", but my mate said nothing to the fat person...

Were either your friend or yourself drinking? Should have got a right heckling if you were.

For the record I've known or known of a couple of dozen of people who've died of heart attacks. None of them smoked or were fat. You could hardly say that Páidí Ó Sé lived an unhealthy life ... :pac:

coolhull

brosy wrote: »

Eh, seeing so much fat people helps make being like that more socially acceptable. Are you not disgusted to think that people actually eat themselves to death? Fat people should not be able to judge anybody who uses drugs whatsoever, either legal drugs like tobacco or coffee, or illegal drugs

yeah okay. Maybe fat people should not have any opinions on any subjects. The government, politics, crime, cost of living, murder, all subjects other than weight gain should be out of bounds to anyone that you deem acceptable. What a sad, thin, lonely little person you must be.

Gee_G

cgarrad wrote: »

Obesity costs Ireland one thousand six hundred and forty million euro per annum...

Would pay €26 million hole for the carers grant 63 times over.

Greedy fat people making the disabled suffer....

Greedy fat people making the disabled suffer....
What about the overweight people that are that way because of a medical condition. Or someone who has a disability/special need that means they are immobile and obviously will gain weight.
I think this is hilarious. Yes there is some people who choose to "eat themselves to death",as someone posted before me, but come on!

Collie D

mikemac1 wrote: »

Oh one of them....

When I was a barman we used to serve food out in the beer garden on sunny days.

And the non smokers would be complaining to me about the smokers outside :rolleyes:

I bet your friend waves their hands about and does the fake cough too

Smokers are sent packing to beer gardens in the middle of winter to freeze their nuts off which as a smoker I find fair enough. However, on those two weeks of the year when the weather is good the "regular" beer garden users can't find a seat. If someone gave out to me for smoking outdoors I'd tell them to go to hell.

Should be a five smoke minimum to use beer garden when temperature reaches 20 degrees :pac:

Wattle

I'd say watching programmes like The Biggest Loser is a passive form of heckling.

the purple tin

Here OP, run down to the shop and get me 20 major and a mars bar would ya?

kingcobra

We should heckle people who heckle others since they are the cause of this debate after all.

Super-Rush

This didn't happen did it op?

I think you're pulling quotes from Supersize Me.

I think it's about 25 minutes into the film.

Handsome Bob

Stupid-Rush wrote: »

This didn't happen did it op?

I think you're pulling quotes from Supersize Me.

I think it's about 25 minutes into the film.

If true that is absolutely hilarious.

ciaran12

youi wrote: »

Why is it still taboo to not heckle fat people ? More of them die than smokers so it would seem.

Hmmm.... I've been not heckling fat people for years, I never realised it was taboo

On a more serious note, I'm neither fat nor a smoker, but I do not think it's okay to heckle either. I mean, seriously, why heckle smokers? If they're being an ass and blowing smoke at you or something then tell them they're being an ass.

If we start going round lecturing all smokers on the adverse effects to their health (which they already know about!), then chances are the HSE are just gonna have to spend more treating all the broken noses of those who've been knocked off their high horses...

jaffacakesyum

Collie D wrote: »

Smokers are sent packing to beer gardens in the middle of winter to freeze their nuts off which as a smoker I find fair enough. However, on those two weeks of the year when the weather is good the "regular" beer garden users can't find a seat. If someone gave out to me for smoking outdoors I'd tell them to go to hell.

Should be a five smoke minimum to use beer garden when temperature reaches 20 degrees :pac:

I'm fairly anti-smoking. I think it's one of the stupidest habits to have but each to their own, I don't heckle or lecture people. What I do hate is that A LOT of smokers have no problem lighting up beside you, blowing smoke in your face, see no problem with throwing their cigarette buts on the ground etc. I have absolutely no problem with people choosing to smoke but have some common courtesy not to blow smoke in my face or litter.

People giving out about people smoking outside pubs is riduclous though. There is a smoking area for a reason!

That said, I would love if there were a few pubs around Dublin that had nice beer gardens that were no smoking areas too. :pac:

As for fat people, I don't believe they should be heckled but there does need to be more education in this country about eating healthy, regular exercise, and the consequences of obesity. It needs to start in schools and parents need to be more educated. Feeding your children crap day in day out is child abuse. There are of course a lot of overweight people who are that way due to medical reasons and genetics but the vast majority are through lifestyle choices. I don't claim it to be easy to lose weight, but it can be done. Same way it's not easy to quit smoking but most certaily can be done!

Super-Rush

S. De Sousa wrote: »

If true that is absolutely hilarious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDqqiWhXAFE

From 26.29 on.