tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-555191244102972923.post8334213769213142460..comments2023-05-11T00:38:23.906-07:00Comments on Stupid Is A Five-Letter Word: You can disagree with me, but you would be wrong.Buttercuphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10201235659652895050noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-555191244102972923.post-37768768035516029902014-05-16T07:56:36.765-07:002014-05-16T07:56:36.765-07:00I'm not 'happy at the weight I am" le...I'm not 'happy at the weight I am" let me assure you, the amount of work I would have to do to get to 'Normal" weight, you would never ever do. <br /><br />Some people are ferarris. Some people are yugos. Some people are Bentleys, and some people are bicycles. I am a bulldozer. No matter what I do, I will never be a Ferrari or a bicycle. it is as simple as that. Unless you can become someone else and live their life with their genetics and their metabolism you cannot make judgements about what they can and cannot do, because you cannot know. This is not about being a vegan or being a horse person or liking the color blue, those are chosen behaviors. This is about being Asian or having blue eyes or uneven breasts. We each of us can only do what our genetics allow us to do, and then only within narrow parameters. You might as well be mad because someone had sickle cell anemia and 'Just couldn't shake it". <br /><br />Like I said, there are plenty of bicycles that eat their way to bulldozers; there are also a huge number of bulldozers who have been sold the lie that if they just work hard enough they can be bicycles. Walk a mile in my shoes, or in your friends. unfortunately you have been given the gift of genetics that allow you to more easily control your body's metabolism and size. I don't know your friend so I don't know one way or another- but to automatically assume that it's about willpower or proper diet is to assume that all people are genetically identical- in other words, wrong. <br /><br />I'm not trying to be contentious, this is a pet peeve. I have a stomach the size of a golf ball. I can eat about a handful of something at a time. And without starving myself literally until my hair begins to fall out from malnutrition, I cannot lose any damned weight. I am a fat storing machine, and I am damnably efficient at it. 54 years of this. I have some experience. oghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07551049745184408924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-555191244102972923.post-45468968207703705562014-05-15T18:29:53.676-07:002014-05-15T18:29:53.676-07:00Yup. Yup. And yup.
Yup. Yup. And yup. <br /><br />Buttercuphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10201235659652895050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-555191244102972923.post-1254248502463076182014-05-15T17:42:00.921-07:002014-05-15T17:42:00.921-07:00There are more than one breed of pit bulls, and th...There are more than one breed of pit bulls, and the hybridization of the different breeds has leaned toward favoring the breed that was bred for pit fighting. Otherwise, a dog bred to be vicious, short tempered and aggressive. None of these characteristics are good for a pet, and anyone defending the continued breeding is either twisted, looking to make money, or both. <br /><br />As far as weight control, I've had a weight problem since I was a teenager. The only sure method of keeping my weight healthy is small food portions, avoiding snacks and exercise; three things that demand self-discipline. . <br /><br />Jesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15969361446367636746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-555191244102972923.post-91061144108041202622014-05-15T16:17:02.876-07:002014-05-15T16:17:02.876-07:00makes me mad...not made.makes me mad...not made.Buttercuphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10201235659652895050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-555191244102972923.post-63572934935557051612014-05-15T16:16:13.182-07:002014-05-15T16:16:13.182-07:00Like I said...if you're happy at the weight yo...Like I said...if you're happy at the weight you are - whatever that is - and aren't constantly complaining - I don't care. I find it's mostly women who do this. In fact, I've never once heard a man complain about his weight. But women are fucking ENDLESS whiners about it. Just shut up is all. Shut up. <br /><br />But healthier? Hmmm....I just don't buy it. You can point at anomalies to prove something that statistics of broad populations show is false. Being overweight is not healthy. It just isn't. It's like the stats on pit bulls. Okay, you can point at one pit you've known who was nice and try to disprove statistical evidence. However, at the end of the day, it doesn't matter one way or the other. We all have to die sometime of something. If you've lived your life so that you're happy, then dying of whatever is just what is.<br /><br />But it still makes me made that my friend is going to die pretty damn young because she "could never lose the weight." Horseshit.Buttercuphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10201235659652895050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-555191244102972923.post-88749113022146553162014-05-15T16:10:12.473-07:002014-05-15T16:10:12.473-07:00Fuck that noise is right, girlfriend!
Pit bull ow...Fuck that noise is right, girlfriend!<br /><br />Pit bull owners aren't normal. <a href="http://www.dogsbite.org/dangerous-dogs-pit-bull-owners.php" rel="nofollow">SCIENCE! (studies) prove it.</a> HAHAHA!Buttercuphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10201235659652895050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-555191244102972923.post-10351878059841780432014-05-15T15:44:22.461-07:002014-05-15T15:44:22.461-07:00OH MY GOD I HAVE SO MANY THOUGHTS ABOUT ALL OF THI...OH MY GOD I HAVE SO MANY THOUGHTS ABOUT ALL OF THIS.<br /><br />I have to get off the computer and cook dinner right now, and also get my drink on because holy fucking SHIT I've had a bad day (and a lot of it was because of the pit bull conversation that you know I had this morning with someone), so I'm keeping this short. <br /><br />I goddamn hate pit bulls. Three pit bulls on two continents have attacked four of my dogs and I fucking hate them, and also they are ugly and have beady eyes. <br /><br />And I want to know exactly when pit bulls became the protected class of dogs. It's like you can't even say you think they're ugly and stupid-looking without someone getting offended. Why can I say that I think chihuahuas are ugly and stupid-looking, and nobody gets all preachy at me about statistics and about how YOU SHOULD NOT HATE THOSE POOR INNOCENT DOGS? It's like pit bulls are the Muslims of the dog world. <br /> <br />Fuck that noise.Rachel Lucashttp://www.rachellucas.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-555191244102972923.post-75790346001888118252014-05-15T14:07:33.298-07:002014-05-15T14:07:33.298-07:00I lose weight if I eat zero carbs and about 900 ca...I lose weight if I eat zero carbs and about 900 calories a day. This is a well documented fact. That means mostly clear broth.Yes, iI can continue to do that forever, and my doctor says its healthier to be fat. Many members of my family are over 500 lbs. Most live and work into their 90's. Dad, slim and trim, died at 57. Everyone is different. If I had a dollar for every yenta that said " why don't you just push away from the table?" I could buy Portugal.oghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07551049745184408924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-555191244102972923.post-35872249047970219602014-05-15T14:07:05.784-07:002014-05-15T14:07:05.784-07:00This whole rant on pits was prompted by the viral ...This whole rant on pits was prompted by the viral video of the cat saving the boy from a dog attack. The dog is a Chow/cross, not a pit, but the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qggsy3Cxg4U" rel="nofollow">CAT IS AWESOME!!!</a> Buttercuphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10201235659652895050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-555191244102972923.post-4158275360817332452014-05-15T13:59:16.842-07:002014-05-15T13:59:16.842-07:00I would never call you fat. I think it made it cle...I would never call you fat. I think it made it clear I would never even mention it. And I hope I didn't (but I probably did) imply that ALL people with weight issues are lazy or undisciplined. But you even said you CAN lose the weight. It comes back because you stopped doing whatever it was you were doing to lose it. Really. <br /><br />One of the nicest men I've ever known was a hard working, crazy strong huge guy and he died of a heart attack because of heart disease when he was only 42. He could work circles around me. But he's still dead. It's not healthy.<br /><br />I also never said it wasn't hard. I said it wasn't impossible. I know it's hard. It requires doing different stuff, eating differently, etc. for-fucking-ever. If people don't want to do that, then fine...like I said...I don't care. <br /><br />And right now I have a lovely lovely woman friend who has been obese for many years and is dying. <br /><br />It just pisses me off.Buttercuphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10201235659652895050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-555191244102972923.post-54417179331734980372014-05-15T13:34:45.741-07:002014-05-15T13:34:45.741-07:00BTW that "you" was not directed at you. ...BTW that "you" was not directed at you. Just a general "you people"! (Shakes fist) kind of ",you"oghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07551049745184408924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-555191244102972923.post-82737212645329474582014-05-15T13:33:36.468-07:002014-05-15T13:33:36.468-07:00So true.
We had a fantastic cat once who was reco...So true.<br /><br />We had a fantastic cat once who was recovering from fairly major surgery (removing two golf-ball-sized tumors from his belly) though dying of cancer when my then 8-month-old daughter last her balance when sitting near him and landed with her hand and all her weight on his incision. He squeaked and then hissed at her. That was all. We would have forgiven him if he'd nipped her in the circumstances, but all he did was hiss.<br /><br />He died about a month later. It will have been 18 years in two weeks and damn, I still miss that cat. Library-Gryffonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06446982343602702829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-555191244102972923.post-53323642812507856502014-05-15T12:52:03.279-07:002014-05-15T12:52:03.279-07:00I am 330 lbs. I have literally done everything to ...I am 330 lbs. I have literally done everything to lose weight, and I mean every thing. I can lose the weight, and no matter what, it comes back, no matter what I do. <br /><br />I can maintain the 330 with no issues whatsoever. So I am not eating enough to gain weight. My body just goes there on it's own no matter what I do. This diet, that diet, starvation, endless bloody exercise, drugs,and surgery. And here I stay. And yet I cannot find anyone who can keep up with me- the work I do, the hours I keep, the miles I drive, the bullshit I put up with. But I don't as a general rule discuss it with anyone. I have had people "Call me on it" and when I ask them to see if they can keep up with me for one day, they all wimp out. Not one person will put up or shut up. And they keep flapping their jaws about "lazy, undisciplined fat people". Sorry, it's just not that simple. Sure, there are plenty of couch queens (And kings!) who just need to put down the Ben and Jerry's, but I'm not one of them. My work days are usually ten hours with 3 hours travel and then I come home and work around the house for a couple hours. In addition to reading a novel length book a day, blogging, and other hobbies. Feel free to call me fat; it's true. Don't tell me you know why I'm fat, because you don't. I probably eat less than most rail thin people, I know I work a LOT more than most people, and this is what my metabolism does to me for it. oghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07551049745184408924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-555191244102972923.post-28321150376854869402014-05-15T12:44:37.337-07:002014-05-15T12:44:37.337-07:00And another thing while I'm on a rant. I HATE ...And another thing while I'm on a rant. I HATE HATE HATE it when the defenders of these dogs who have attacked and/or killed people try to make it the person's fault. "Oh that kid was by his food." Or "He tried to take his toy." Or whatever. A dog NEVER GETS TO BITE A PERSON AND BE EXCUSED. I don't care is a toddler goes over and grabs the dog's toy. The dog never gets to bite. There is never anything any person could ever do that would excuse a fatal attack or mauling. Never. Ever. Period. It is ALWAYS THE DOG'S FAULT.Buttercuphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10201235659652895050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-555191244102972923.post-73033397634327175062014-05-15T12:42:00.191-07:002014-05-15T12:42:00.191-07:00I know. I saw that on the link about dangerous dog...I know. I saw that on the link about dangerous dogs. In all cases it was a child. I should have stipulated that. An adult is not going to die. Or I should have add PROBABLY. tee hee...Buttercuphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10201235659652895050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-555191244102972923.post-83253877064206915932014-05-15T12:23:36.126-07:002014-05-15T12:23:36.126-07:00Usually not. Fatalities and maulings from some of ...<a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/galleries/2010/10/29/dangerous-dogs.html#slide35" rel="nofollow">Usually not</a>. Fatalities and maulings from some of those tiny dogs was surprising.RGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09171113315326198836noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-555191244102972923.post-22018761385983661532014-05-15T12:18:14.277-07:002014-05-15T12:18:14.277-07:00Yes, Unneutered males, like stallions, have much m...Yes, Unneutered males, like stallions, have much more natural aggression and therefore require firm, consistent handling. But even the BEST handling and training may not prevent an attack from a dog. And it can be a Pomeranian. But if it's a Pom, you're not going to die.Buttercuphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10201235659652895050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-555191244102972923.post-6001412798281906682014-05-15T12:09:16.220-07:002014-05-15T12:09:16.220-07:00That makes sense. Dogs have bred in tendencies, b...That makes sense. Dogs have bred in tendencies, but also have personalities, so it sounds like that one had a personality which exacerbated the tendencies more than training and handling could counter<br /><br />Something else I was reading said that some large percentage (over 80%?) of fatal dog attacks were by unneutered males, which also makes sense.Library-Gryffonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06446982343602702829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-555191244102972923.post-82196669304512187882014-05-15T12:03:11.047-07:002014-05-15T12:03:11.047-07:00I've had a Doberman, an Irish Wolfhound, a Sta...I've had a Doberman, an Irish Wolfhound, a Standard Poodle and two Cavaliers. I love the big dogs, but they are just a bigger hassle -- everything from feeding them to traveling with them. Everything is just BIGGER. I'm simply in love with the breed Cavalier King Charles Spaniel. Sooooooooo precious. Lovely, lovely dogs.Buttercuphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10201235659652895050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-555191244102972923.post-10845370654401125302014-05-15T12:00:19.637-07:002014-05-15T12:00:19.637-07:00Exactly! The Rotties near where I lived had been ...Exactly! The Rotties near where I lived had been sweet dogs, (one of the kids who was attacked told his father that they'd had to go to the hospital because the dogs bit them, and he guessed that the dogs didn't know them anymore), but were left to go wild by their owners, and unsurprisingly, did. <br /><br />That being said, I agree with you. I'd never get a pit (maybe one of those little terriers like the Target dog, but not the full sized mastiff ones) because I know that I don't know what to do with it. My kid wants something large. I told her if we ever did get a dog, it would be small so if we messed up the training, we could still pick it up. I don't want a 150lb dog who thinks it belongs on my bed.Library-Gryffonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06446982343602702829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-555191244102972923.post-30052154051776604372014-05-15T11:50:35.996-07:002014-05-15T11:50:35.996-07:00And I woman who owned and bred TOP Rotties had a N...And I woman who owned and bred TOP Rotties had a National Champion. She said she always knew there was something "off" about the dog, though it had never done anything wrong, and it was such a winning champion that she kept him. One day it attacked and nearly killed her 7 year old daughter. Out of the blue. Do I dislike Rotties like I do pits? Not as much, but I would be very careful around one.Buttercuphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10201235659652895050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-555191244102972923.post-68675213336621151222014-05-15T11:48:43.397-07:002014-05-15T11:48:43.397-07:00I was attacked by a Rottweiler -- it was just a pu...I was attacked by a Rottweiler -- it was just a puppy and on a chain. I was VERY quick and the dog missed me by scants inches. No one had done anything to the dog. The owner was a very knowledgeable animal owner who rode with me at a competitive show barn. She put the dog in the car and took her to the vet and had her put down that day. I never shed a tear. Frankly, neither did she. She got a Golden Retriever next.Buttercuphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10201235659652895050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-555191244102972923.post-78480043828130272732014-05-15T11:46:42.785-07:002014-05-15T11:46:42.785-07:00As for pit bulls and owners. Yes, owners can and d...As for pit bulls and owners. Yes, owners can and do often make it worse. But not always by encouraging the dog's aggressive tendencies. A LOT of the time it's because the owners have no fucking clue about dominance behaviors and allow the dog to be Top Dog. A submissive or clueless owner of an aggressive breed is a tragedy waiting to happen.<br />Buttercuphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10201235659652895050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-555191244102972923.post-30737006996666669802014-05-15T11:44:33.264-07:002014-05-15T11:44:33.264-07:00Agreed on all points with both of you.
It just m...Agreed on all points with both of you. <br /><br />It just makes my main point about people complaining about weight loss like it's some scientifically impossible goal -- and not ever asking someone who might know a little about it. Yes, there are all sorts of interactions in the body via insulin and the conversion to ATP, use of proteins/fats as fuel, etc. There are a myriad of factors that influence calorie usage vs calorie storage, and it is necessary to understand nutrition to really get fit and healthy. Most people don't and won't. They just gripe. And when you tell them, they aren't interested. <br /><br />But at the end of the day, no matter what, if you don't eat, you lose weight. So it is, finally, about calories in and calories used. <br /><br />It's the evasions, lies, and delusions that we are all supposed to support politely that really irks me. Frankly because we aren't doing anyone any favors. Being seriously overweight is a big health issue. Pretending they can't do anything about it can lead to diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease and hypertension. Buttercuphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10201235659652895050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-555191244102972923.post-1226637041561654372014-05-15T11:34:41.923-07:002014-05-15T11:34:41.923-07:00Pit Bulls and whinging fat people, that's an o...Pit Bulls and whinging fat people, that's an odd combination to be bedeviled by. Since pit bulls were bred to be tough and aggressive fighters I don't know why anybody would think they'd suddenly become just cuddly old soppies. <br /><br />The science on weight gain/loss seems to have become less settled in the last few years. Logically if calories in > calories out then calories stored has to go up. But there are indications that the source of the calories (carbohydrates) affects the equation, either increasing appetite or changing the metabolism.RGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09171113315326198836noreply@blogger.com