Hey Paps,,

I totally agree, if someones is fat because they over indulge and sit around all day, tax away. I've known people who piss and shit in a bucket next to their chair so they didn't have to go down stairs. People like that need to be taxed. On the other hand, I used to play baseball with a fat kid. He loved sports, and he was even one of the better players on our team. Sadly by highschool his knees were totally shot because of his weight- he shouldn't be taxed.

When I was 17, I decided to do something about my weight. First I tried a 900 calorie diet as recommended by my doctor. I almost vomited on my English teacher and was so weak my vision got blurry. On the day of two tests, I was functionally illiterate. I had to quit that diet. Then, I walked twenty four miles a day to lose weight. Went for 293 to 226 by my eighteenth birthday. But one day my legs gave way since I had been walking for a month and a half on a stress fracture. Told myself not to be a pussy and that the pain was natural. I fell. I landed on my right wrist so badly there were bits of street inside. Ended up in a wheelchair for four months and my body was never the same after that. My left leg still hurts if I tax it too much and a lot of exercises have become difficult because one of the bones in my hand never healed. Pushups for one thing are excruciating. I went up to 270 again over the course of a few years. Recently, I made it back down to 228. Not everybody who's overweight is that way out of sheer indolence, just as not everyone who's poor is that way because they're stupid or a junky. Fruits and vegetables are getting pricey while a cheesburger is a dollar. Some people will BA's and higher degrees are living in tents. Get some perspective, people.

I have a friend who is probably one of the sportiest guys I know. He's my age and does a lot of working out. He already has a relatively clear six pack. Anyway, he didn't go to the gym for about a month and suddenly started complaining about getting fatter (though he looked no different). His Dad's a doctor and the two of them came up with a diet plan. It consisted of having nothing but water for four days and then for the next three having only small portions of fruits and vegetables, then slowly building it up from there. He says he lost quite seven pounds in just over a week but I dread to think what that did to his health.

It's possible to bring your body fat so low that your skin actually starts to look and feel like an onion skin. Such is the case with the bodybuilders you see on TV with the rediculous muscles. However, even trained professionals can only maintain such low bodyfat levels for a few days, before irreversible damage can start to occur. It's no easy task to get that 'cut', it takes months of training and weighing of food and excriment yadda yadda ya.
Drinking only water for 4 days sounds like a real good way to get an ulcer, or even kick start your body into survival mode-where you lose muscle instead of fat and your body stores everything you eat for the next couple days. Why not water and small portions of fruits and vegetables at the same time? It sounds like your friend needs to spend less time flexing in the mirror.

I've never gotten good diet ideas from a doctor in my life.

I struggled to find a picture of him on his social networking account that didn't have him posing topless.

Haha, I learned alot about bodybuilding and nutrition from a coworker (exMarine/pro-bodybuilder) a few years back. We had a ongoing joke about flexing in the mirror too long. You can always tell who the 'flex in the mirror' guys are.

However I don't really think they should be taxed for it.

Redneck or hilllbilly sounds like a very racist term (to me) depending on someones socio/economical/geographic racist term....kinda like a white version of nigger.

I'm irish so i'm not 100% sure of USA slang but this definally sounds like a derogatory ethnic slang aimed torwards 'lower/rural/working class' white folks..

Hey ferrot,

The terms actually describe two groups of people in a similar region, with very different backgrounds. Rednecks were a group of non-union workers who formed an army to literaly battle the union-busters(who were paid soldiers by the owners of certain very corperations who refused to recognise the unions. The men wore red hankercheifs around there neck as identification and the term redneck was born. They were considered hard working people who simply wouldn't put up with no shit. Even if that meant marching to gun fight they simply couldn't win.

Hillbillies were families who lived in the Southern Apalachan mountains before the Tenesse river damn project came through. Hillbillies lived in there own little world, seperated from society. With there seperation came inbreading and low test scores, they were also cheep and hard working sorce of labor for large southern projects-such as the many damns built on the Tennesse River.

Put the two together and you got NASCAR and country music.

As far as racism, both hillbillies and rednecks have probably harbored more racism than any other social group. And they are both proud to be called either one.

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Never punch a hillbilly in the face-EVER! You will only make it madder. I repeat, never ever puch a hillbilly in the face.