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| The fattest place on earth? | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Sep 29 2014, 07:49 AM (270 Views) | |
| Luke's Dad | Sep 29 2014, 07:49 AM Post #1 |
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As you may have gathered, we spent the last week at Disney World and I will post some pictures and a few anecdotes about the trip in the road trip thread. Consider yourself warned. However, the biggest negative of the trip truly deserves it's own thread. I was astounded by the obesity levels in that park. There were so many people renting the scooters for no other physical infirmity than being obese. It was beyond absurd. They would proudly line up at the handicapped entrances along with amputees, stroke victims, kids in crutches and in casts, etc... I saw a family of four ride their scooters up to the handicapped entrance of a coaster, each of them dismounted and waddled up the line and each had to take their own cart on the roller coaster. Even the kids! Let me tell you, all of these fat people in the happiest place on earth were not very jolly. They were loud, obnoxious, rude, demanding, and crude. If this is the impression that many foreigners get of Americans, then Lord help us all. I am also more than a little concerned with the physics involved. That much sheer tonnage of human flesh gathered in one spot that also happens to be built over swampy sinkholes? It's amazing the whole place hasn't collapsed in on itself and created a miniature black hole. Edited by Luke's Dad, Sep 29 2014, 07:54 AM.
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| Copper | Sep 29 2014, 07:58 AM Post #2 |
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I'll be at WDW in January. Thanks for the heads-up. I'll call Disney and advise them that we don't want to see a lot of fat people hanging around. Thank goodness it is still OK to discriminate against them. |
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The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy | |
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| Aqua Letifer | Sep 29 2014, 09:00 AM Post #3 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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You're a scooter renter, aren't you Copper.
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| jon-nyc | Sep 29 2014, 09:03 AM Post #4 |
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Cheers
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Ugh. |
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| Larry | Sep 29 2014, 09:24 AM Post #5 |
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Mmmmmmm, pie!
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Saw that in the grocery store a few days ago. Mother and daughter both riding in one of those motorized grocery carts, side by side which of course meant no one else could get through the aisle, or near a meat case... But what really got to me was the almost orgasmic sounding snorting and moaning sounds they made as they examined items they'd picked up off the shelves. I had to leave the store because it was literally making me ill. |
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| Copper | Sep 29 2014, 10:01 AM Post #6 |
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Way back when in the 70's when we had management training the scenarios involved being Joe's boss. And Joe did various things, good and bad, and you had to decide what to do about it. One was what do you do if Joe gets to be very overweight? To make a long story short the right answer was - fire him. I since then I think fat people started to get some traction toward establishing a new protected class. But that idea seems to have faded in the last decade or so. Fat clothing models and tv stars are of course a protected class but in general I don't think fat people are as protected as they once were. |
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The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy | |
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| Copper | Sep 29 2014, 10:02 AM Post #7 |
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I wish. Give me another Mickey Premium Ice Cream Bar. |
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The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy | |
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| Copper | Sep 29 2014, 04:19 PM Post #8 |
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Google Disney Fat People - there is a lot of information. Apparently they go back and forth between accommodating plus sizes and not accommodating them. Here is a good example. They dropped an exhibit encouraging healthy eating habits because it made people who like unhealthy eating habits feel bad. http://www.businessinsider.com/disney-world-closes-obesity-exhibit-because-its-hurtful-to-fat-kids-2012-3
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The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy | |
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| big al | Sep 30 2014, 06:46 AM Post #9 |
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I'm glad not everyone shares that prejudice. I've been overweight since my childhood and that hasn't prevented me from engaging in a successful 40+ year engineering career. Big Al |
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Location: Western PA "jesu, der simcha fun der man's farlangen." -bachophile | |
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| RosemaryTwo | Oct 1 2014, 05:26 AM Post #10 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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LD -- I had a similar Disney experience a few years back. Very hard to walk around the park with all those scooters. Have you seen the children's movie Wall-E (sp?)? |
| "Perhaps the thing to do is just to let stupid run its course." Aqua | |
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