Fat is Phat! But I don't placate.

Im not sure i believe this. I think that maybe since a lot more people are fat these days, that when a fat person is asked whether they could find another person attractive, they will say ''yes'' so that they dont appear(or feel) hypocritical. Does that make any sense?

To sum up: Fat Chicks are like mopeds. Theyre ok to ride-- as long as your friends dont see you.

Bart sure fell off the thin wagon.

Well with 60 percent or so of adults in the U.S. being overweight/obese themselves, is changing attitudes a surprise? These hogs are looking in the mirror and saying "yeah, I don't look so bad, pretty good actually", then marking fat is phat in the surveys.

Ahh, Amish, you beat me to it. When a fat person says fat is ok in the attractiveness dept. they're thinking either: a) I'm fat and I look pretty good, b) not wanting to be a hypocrite and lying, or c) genuinally attracted to fat because people are often attracted to people who look similar to them. One of those three I think.

Oh and loose shit Ace, you mean a plasma cutter, not an arc welder.

That survey isn't helping MY friggin' sex life...

Especially in L.A. Anybody wider than a credit card is "fat".

Otto,

You miss the subtlety of my humor.

But I've changed the reference for people like you who don't "get" high-level comedy.

Who says you can't cut through a wall with an arc welder? Use a thick-ass stick and turn the amperage up "to eleven", and you can burn through damn near anything.

Sure, the hole will be damn sloppy, but how neat do you have to be when you're cutting a hole in a wall to free a couch-bound orca?

Exactly. Otto just doesn't appreciate "puns" like the one I did with "arc-welder."

Okay, maybe I pulled a boner on that one.

My name is fucking Otho, not Otto.

Yes I know that with enough juice and the steel being thin enough an arc welder will indeed cut (knew someone would bring that up). One question though, I have a self feeding MIG welder that I use for small jobs (including welding the frame on my dad's 'vette), is there any reason the stick arc welders are still being made? Seems like that's old technology and would be obsolete.

just effin' with you, of course I made an error, I meant plasma cutter.

Although, you know, seriously, given enough time, an arc welder would work too.

"Otto? Is that like 'otto parts'?"

(There's gotta be some geek here who can identify that quote.)

well, "fucking Otho", stick welders are still useful for people with large equipment that needs to be stitched back together periodically. I learned how to weld with a Lincoln unit back on the farm, patching discs, trailer frames, and other various pieces of metal. MIG's are nice if you're working on car frames and stuff smaller than that, but they probably wouldn't get enough penetration to do a proper job on 1" plate steel. Of course, oxy/acetalene units are the gold standard for a welder who needs to be able to do anything with his stuff, but as the man says......"That...is another story".

Actually "hole cut through the wall with a sawzall-n-sledge hammer" would probably sound better and be closer to reality. Sawzalls being the ultimate cut through any god damn thing tool, the ducktape of the cutting world.

And then this thread turned into an episode of "This Old House"!

Otho, you are correct. Cordless sawzalls are a gift from the Almighty.

Are you guys feckin high?
You're going to burn down the damn house if use a welder.

More people are okay with fat people because the parameters for obesity are broad enough to include practically everybody.

I'm considered obese or severely overweight according to most charts. Crap, I say!

You guys are closer. It wasn't a SawzAll, though, they used a Chain Saw (Stihl, I believe). But the point is I'm out now.

My name is fucking Otho, not Otto.

That's right Ace! If someone is named after an aged, senile, homosexual Roman Emperor, you damn well ought to make sure and call them by the right frickin' name!

Chris, Katie is looking mighty hot tonight in her red lace teddy...time to go placate.

Do all of you guys really live in houses built of plate steel? 'Cause no way you are strikin' a arc on my concrete bunker, ain't gonna happen.

HA!

I always knew my day would come!

IN YOUR FACE! I AM THE MAN!!

OH YEAH! OH YEAH!!

Chris, Katie is looking mighty hot tonight in her red lace teddy...time to go placate.

If by placate you mean, retire to your bed with a copy of playgirl, then yes I am sure you will placate. I did it all the time.

It's just the influence of PC. Fewer people want to tell some surveyor that they really do think that disgusting fatbodies are disgusting fatbodies.

Michael Moore? Hah! Check out Mikey's bowling buddyin Michigan!