I find it a shame that people are taking an insult to them when it is clearly meant to be put up for a bit of laughter and i can say that it successfully made me and my friend giggle so thankyou i dont take any offence to it and i think that the people that do obviously need to not read it as being personal and lighten up a bit :-)
Your rhyming is exceptional. Well done. The subject would be amusing if it were not for the fact that more than %50 of the population is overweight. I don't think anyone likes being heavy. Fast food and inactivity are the issues, not gluttony. But, on the upside it is the thin people who are more apt to get Alzheimers and cancer than those who are large. Toxins are stored in the fat we carry around. I use to be very thin for years, about 100 lbs. and was often ill. I'm much happier now that I have a more Rubenesque figure and much healthier as well.
Okay Dennis I just came across this poem. It seems to irritate some. However after reading you before and enjoying, I know you meant no disrespect. I think those who complained are feeling guilty about themselves! The rhyming of the poem was exceptional. And I thought it was funny. I am not a skinny person either. Great Write, Dennis.
Ok being on the "fluffy" side all my life; and it is due to medical issues not overeating, I take this piece and think of it in two ways
1.It is intended solely to be a poem of humor, nothing more nor less
or
2. It is a sadly gross lacking plethora of humane decorum that is in need of being used for nothing more than to wipe one's soiled orifice after they have finished some rather messy excreting business!
I truly hope that it is the first of my two conclusions/opinions for if it is not my advice to you is unless you walk even an inch in another's shoes you have no right to poke fun and through prejudice denigrating remarks their way.
very distasteful display of prejudice against a a desease which affects EVERY AMREICAN FAMILY!!! there's nothing poetic here, or humorous, about the ignorance of this desease! No one prefers to be fat, to have high blood pressure, diabetes, heart problems, no one purposely puts themselves in line for a stroke!! If it was just self- ridicule, I wouldn't have commented, but it's dedicated to "fat people"....
The only redeeming factor I can find in this is that it is SELF-RIDICULE & you do quite well telling it like it is regards your over-eating problem...still in all, even as its done in a humorous way I still find it to be rather insulting for the percentage of the population that is overweight...I hope you can get over your over-indulgent eating problems...luck, Ed
I was insulted when I read this. There's nothing funny about being overweight. NOTHING. Society focuses too much on being thin or fit; some people canNOT lose the weight, no matter HOW hard they try! Now, I am not any skinny minnie by any stretch of the imagination, but I do get my exercise when I'm out (walk everywhere; have to, have no choice, have no car!), so it's not like I'm sitting around, eating and feeling sorry for myself. Yet what can I do? I can't work; am disabled, which limits me even more.
Yes, some people do overindulge, but again: there is no laughing matter to being "fat". It's no wonder people feel bad about themselves when they see these (God-awful) "gorgeous" stick-thin people every day on the boob tube, people being pushed on them day in and day out. The exercise commercials are just as bad. NOT everyone can exercise because of health reasons!
You may think you were being funny here, but I didn't find it very amusing, especially since I am one of "The Fat People".
I don't want to pile on. I'm sure you meant humor. I go to the gym 4 mornings a week and watch carefully the food I eat. It pains me to see people who eat circles around me and never gain an ounce.
Obesity is not a laughing matter. I wrote a poem earlier about society's pressure on all (especially women) to conform to the perfect ideal, at risk to health and life. People are dying to be thin. The poem is "Dead is Dead."
I'm overweight, exactly 200 pounds. (Weighed today at doctor's). My cholesteral is within normal limits; my blood pressure was 98/62.
I do not sit around eating all day. Once a day, one meal. Yes, I'd love to eat healthy, but living on less than $230.00 a month keeps me from affording fruit and veggies. I have to buy the cheap stuff (pasta, bread, stuff that will stick with me). I DO NOT EAT SWEETS.
I exercise. Having no car ensures that. Must walk everywhere I need to go.
Until you've been where I am, you've no right to make fun. Unfortunately, I cannot comment on the poem because I am too mad. Sad that too many feel this way.
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The poet/writers style is ..Everything! and should remain untouched...Well done.
1.It is intended solely to be a poem of humor, nothing more nor less
or
2. It is a sadly gross lacking plethora of humane decorum that is in need of being used for nothing more than to wipe one's soiled orifice after they have finished some rather messy excreting business!
I truly hope that it is the first of my two conclusions/opinions for if it is not my advice to you is unless you walk even an inch in another's shoes you have no right to poke fun and through prejudice denigrating remarks their way.
Nicole
as much as you did––and stay on your feet.
s (sorry, I can't stop myself)
Yes, some people do overindulge, but again: there is no laughing matter to being "fat". It's no wonder people feel bad about themselves when they see these (God-awful) "gorgeous" stick-thin people every day on the boob tube, people being pushed on them day in and day out. The exercise commercials are just as bad. NOT everyone can exercise because of health reasons!
You may think you were being funny here, but I didn't find it very amusing, especially since I am one of "The Fat People".
Think about it.
Karen in Texas. :(
Larry
I'm overweight, exactly 200 pounds. (Weighed today at doctor's). My cholesteral is within normal limits; my blood pressure was 98/62.
I do not sit around eating all day. Once a day, one meal. Yes, I'd love to eat healthy, but living on less than $230.00 a month keeps me from affording fruit and veggies. I have to buy the cheap stuff (pasta, bread, stuff that will stick with me). I DO NOT EAT SWEETS.
I exercise. Having no car ensures that. Must walk everywhere I need to go.
Until you've been where I am, you've no right to make fun. Unfortunately, I cannot comment on the poem because I am too mad. Sad that too many feel this way.
Karla.