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And when it is widely known than there are no consequences to not paying your water bill, it's not surprising to see the numbers of people not paying increase. How many of the peop…

I have no interest in being a part of any group that coddles and enables paranoia.

Misogyny: Thinking, saying, or doing something a woman doesn't like.

If your mental/emotional state is at odds with the reality of your circumstances, therapy is in order, not scolding the hapless bystanders you blame for your delusions.

Terrifying. Glib Twitter scolds are the brownshirts of our era.

Try reading threads like this, repeated ad nauseum: http://www.metafilter.com/147527/idea-a-man-exercising-on-a-...

I find this description of the threaded/linear dichotomy outright bizarre. Here I am making a reply that it is not out of the realm of possibility that only you will see, as far fr…

Don't posts like this usually first have some description of the complainant's attempts to notify the offender, the offender's response (possibly a blow-off, even), and THEN commen…

You are spouting nonsensical gobbledygook. To the extent you are making a coherent statement at all and that statement is that diet is not the primary mechanism whereby excessive f…

Intensity matters. Improvement is gained via progressive overload. Showing up but half-assing it is a great way to not make progress and inevitably come to resent the activity (min…

The saying isn't meant as a formal proposition. It is a rhetorical device intended to highlight the difficulty of making changes to body composition without making changes to diet.…

There are several sayings in fitness circles that are similar to this: "You can't outrun your fork." Diet is the primary reason people are obese, not lack of exercise.

People who post "trigger warnings" before endeavoring upon a topic that might cause a special snowflake somewhere to experience a flareup of their fake PTSD. (Because some people a…

> it's just common sense that the body is a machine and the more you stress a machine, the likelier it is to break. The body is a biological organism, not a machine. Biological org…

Horseshit. A central tenet of Fat Acceptance is the denial of the medical consequences of obesity, the "Health At Every Size" movement being the most notable example. ("Size" here …