Women Flips Out Over a Guy Opening a Door For Her, Because #FatPositive or Something

She's "seething with empowerment," David Thompson writes.

So, this woman used to be very fat. She says men didn't hold doors open for her when she was fat. Now, she claims, three times in a week, men either hold a door for her or do some other minor helpful gesture.

And she's enraged about it.

Eh, I kinda get the "Why didn't you treat me like this when I was fat?" -- kind of. Except she doesn't know these random people wouldn't have done that several years ago. She's doing a lot of assuming.

Also, here's a serviceable secondary definition of decadence:

decadence: noun. a state of comfortable disengagement from reality in which one has run out of real problems and must make up fake problems to give the animal parts of her brain a work-out, or a similar state which encourages flights from reality in which decadent people studiously ignore real and difficult problems by inventing fake and easy problems to distract them.

Fake problems are kind of comforting, aren't they? They're entirely within your control. After all, you invented them. You get to be the hero of a dramatic struggle with absolutely no risk of failure or setback, because, well, it's all a fucking joke in the first place.

Posted by: Ace at 02:20 PM

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1 First

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 02:13 PM (EvBgT)

2 Disturbing, what?

Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 24, 2017 02:13 PM (QQ+il)

3
in other words, Woman Screams, "Look at ME, Everyone!, I'm Not Fat Anymore, Look At ME!!"

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at February 24, 2017 02:14 PM (P0DTV)

4 Jabba the Hutt called. He wants his muppet back.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at February 24, 2017 02:14 PM (hqZPQ)

5 We hold the door for her because she's a lesbian.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 24, 2017 02:14 PM (QQ+il)

6 Eh, I kinda get the "Why didn't you treat me like this when I was fat?" -- kind of. Except she doesn't know these random people wouldn't have done that several years ago. She's doing a lot of assuming.

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I don't think it's really assuming about an individual, but a remnant of Marxist/classist thinking that people are no more than a member of their class.

They're not individuals to this woman.

So, when one man two years ago didn't open the door for her, that meant that he was representative of all men.

It's terribly toxic thinking.

Remember, the smallest minority is the individual.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 02:15 PM (EvBgT)

7 Have five cheeseburgers and STFU.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at February 24, 2017 02:15 PM (GX63o)

8 I hold open doors for fat chicks.

Posted by: steevy at February 24, 2017 02:15 PM (r/0kC)

9
Here's a miserable woman who's not getting the attention she believes she deserves.

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at February 24, 2017 02:15 PM (P0DTV)

10 Do you realize how far you have to open a door to let a fat woman go through? It's a lot of extra work.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 24, 2017 02:15 PM (OeQ/D)

11 She is angry that as a thin person she gets more attention than an obese person.
Probably true. And this is human nature, so get over it.

Also probably true that she behaved differently as a fat person than she does as this, which people (men) are responding to as well.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 24, 2017 02:15 PM (NOIQH)

12 Bingo, Soothsayer! There was no interest in an article saying, "I used to be fat, and now I'm hot!" but if you put an SJW angle on it, you can get published and still get your humblebrag point across.

Posted by: Ted K. at February 24, 2017 02:15 PM (I6Vm1)

13 >>>Remember, the smallest minority is the individual.

cool quote!

Posted by: ace at February 24, 2017 02:16 PM (8rNrN)

14 Even for a Guardian writer, she's still not mush to look at.

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at February 24, 2017 02:16 PM (QDr6b)

15 Or "much" to look at. Either way.

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at February 24, 2017 02:16 PM (QDr6b)

16 I've been confronted for holding doors several times in my life, all in the last ten years.
One young woman actually refused to go in, stopping and glaring at me until I had let the door go.

Posted by: IP at February 24, 2017 02:16 PM (yV4wg)

17 I hold doors for women, period.

Guys get the "there ya' go" *flip*.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at February 24, 2017 02:16 PM (6gk0M)

18 How presumptive of her to think that the guys presumed to know her preferred gender identity and orientation. Geez! Some people.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at February 24, 2017 02:16 PM (GX63o)

19 SAVE THE WHALES!!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 24, 2017 02:16 PM (OeQ/D)

20 >>I hold open doors for fat chicks.

I hold the door pen for a lot of people as a common courtesy.
People who get angry over something like that are a$$holes.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 24, 2017 02:16 PM (NOIQH)

21 Looked at the picture. Crazy eyes.

Posted by: tu3031 at February 24, 2017 02:17 PM (qJhUV)

22 So basically she expects that BO chases guys away?

Yeah, I can see that.

Posted by: JEM at February 24, 2017 02:17 PM (TppKb)

23 I was once fat.

Posted by: Third-world guy starving in the desert at February 24, 2017 02:17 PM (qU2ch)

24 Maybe they didn't open the door because they were afraid of a hull breach.

Posted by: broseidon being a capitalist pigdog (yknow, working) at February 24, 2017 02:17 PM (oZ6kz)

25 Why can't she say 'thank you' and move on? Like a well adjusted human being? Reminds me of that nutcase who ranted at the black barrista about her own white privilege or what ever it was.

Posted by: IC at February 24, 2017 02:17 PM (a0IVu)

26 Outside of women I know, I don't do much chivalry to female strangers.

I guess I'm just progressive.

Posted by: Maritime at February 24, 2017 02:17 PM (E+76W)

27 >>>Also probably true that she behaved differently as a fat person than she does as this, which people (men) are responding to as well.

i can attest to that. I get treated a little bit better by barisatas or whatever but that might because I don't have an angry scowl on my face and even smile a little.

Posted by: ace at February 24, 2017 02:17 PM (8rNrN)

28 10 Do you realize how far you have to open a door to let a fat woman go through? It's a lot of extra work.
--

Also, protocol is that you half-jog to the door if somebody's holding it for you. And it's cruel to make a fat woman jog.

Posted by: Geronimo Stilton at February 24, 2017 02:17 PM (4bKiB)

29 13 >>>Remember, the smallest minority is the individual.

cool quote!
Posted by: ace at February 24, 2017 02:16 PM (8rNrN)

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I stole it. No idea where from.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 02:17 PM (EvBgT)

30 So she conquered the physical issues she had, but ignored the mental problems.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at February 24, 2017 02:17 PM (7ZVPa)

31 BO chases chicks away, too.

Time to go to the gym.

Posted by: JEM at February 24, 2017 02:17 PM (TppKb)

32 In other news, Ben Jerry's sales are down 0.00271%.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 24, 2017 02:17 PM (DMUuz)

33 25 Why can't she say 'thank you' and move on? Like a well adjusted human being? Reminds me of that nutcase who ranted at the black barrista about her own white privilege or what ever it was.
Posted by: IC at February 24, 2017 02:17 PM (a0IVu)

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There's your answer:

She's not well adjusted.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 02:17 PM (EvBgT)

34 It's a common cognitive bias...you assume others treated you differently in the past than in the present.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at February 24, 2017 02:17 PM (hqZPQ)

35 Nice humblebrag butterface

Posted by: Lord Sir x at February 24, 2017 02:17 PM (nFwvY)

36 Tell the villagers. Tonight we feast!

Posted by: Tribesman seeing Stacie Huckeba at February 24, 2017 02:18 PM (9MVvY)

37 People who get angry over something like that are a$$holes.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 24, 2017 02:16 PM (NOIQH)

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"Being a victim" has come to mean "Im entitled to act like an asshole".

Posted by: fixerupper at February 24, 2017 02:18 PM (8XRCm)

38 I stole it. No idea where from.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Ayn Rand I believe.

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at February 24, 2017 02:18 PM (QDr6b)

39 Though that Australian hooker says riding fat guys is better 'cause comfortable.

Posted by: JEM at February 24, 2017 02:18 PM (TppKb)

40 I stole it. No idea where from.

Ayn Rand, I think.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at February 24, 2017 02:18 PM (hqZPQ)

41 >>>in other words, Woman Screams, "Look at ME, Everyone!, I'm Not Fat Anymore, Look At ME!!"

also a great point. SJW cannot say they've lost weight -- that would be fat-shaming those who haven't -- but if they contrive a story about being fat-shamed-by-proxy or something, then they can brag.

Lot of good points you guys are making today. Someone must have taken over your accounts from the morons usually running them.

Posted by: ace at February 24, 2017 02:18 PM (8rNrN)

42 38 I stole it. No idea where from.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Ayn Rand I believe.
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at February 24, 2017 02:18 PM (QDr6b)

=================

That would make sense.

Probably somewhere in the middle of a 60 page speech by John Galt.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 02:19 PM (EvBgT)

43 I love this bit:

But the thing is, I was amazing before I lost the weight too. That girl had the strength to become this woman. That girl had the courage to leave home at 16 years old in search of a new life. She had the passion to pursue a career in the arts and actually succeed. And she had a big enough heart to not notice that people were mean to her along the way.

OK, let's agree that you were an amazing person. You were also morbidly obese. That makes you (listen carefully now) medically ill: while that does not justify rudeness, it IS why people found you unattractive. That's how people react to illness in others. You fixed yourself. Great! Now get some therapy, because you clearly have issues and you could get sick again.

Oh, and fuck off. No one cares about your emotional life.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at February 24, 2017 02:19 PM (CPk08)

44 That's because when she was fat she could just open them herself by banging into them with her Hoveround.

Posted by: tu3031 at February 24, 2017 02:19 PM (qJhUV)

45 I open doors for fat women too. Just 'cause that's what I do. Doesn't get me laid by any of them either though. Whatever.

Posted by: Country Boy - just a humble, occasionally hotheaded poster at February 24, 2017 02:19 PM (Jcg9Q)

46 >>>35 Nice humblebrag butterface

if i'm gonna be a dick i might also say she doesn't quite look fit to me yet

Posted by: ace at February 24, 2017 02:19 PM (8rNrN)

47 She says men didn't hold doors open for her when she was fat.

The standing behind the door holding it with two hands hoping there's enough KY on the jamb gets old quick.

Posted by: DaveA at February 24, 2017 02:19 PM (8J/Te)

48 Oh yeah, she was a great big fat person.

Posted by: Jame Gumb at February 24, 2017 02:19 PM (7HtZB)

49 Why did she lose fat? Is she ASHAMED of FAT CULTURE?

Posted by: Mortimer, FINISH HER! at February 24, 2017 02:19 PM (qU2ch)

50 I hold the doors for every female, no matter the age or appearance. It's about my behavioral standards, nothing to do with them. If they don't like it, that is an issue they need to work out in their own heads.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at February 24, 2017 02:19 PM (7ZVPa)

51 There was no interest in an article saying, "I used to be fat, and now I'm hot!"

Isn't that common click bait? As long as they promise pictures.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 24, 2017 02:19 PM (QQ+il)

52 This is where common courtesy flies out.

I hold the door and you bitch - then I slam the fucker in yoru face.

"used to be undesireable" on the outside - still ugly at the core.

Posted by: Fox at February 24, 2017 02:19 PM (DVC2D)

53 She went from 300 to 290. No longer fat. It's a social construct anyway.

Posted by: Kodos the Executioner at February 24, 2017 02:20 PM (jG3ty)

54 Someone must have taken over your accounts from the morons usually running them.

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Why... thank you Ace. That was niiii---

Heyyyyyyy....wait a minute.

Posted by: fixerupper at February 24, 2017 02:20 PM (8XRCm)

55 I read the article, and all I can say is: there is an increasing lack of manners, primarily on the part of leftists. They have denounced true kindness and consideration, and have replaced it with screeching admonitions against white privilege and cultural appropriation-which is bullshit.

So. Ms. Huckabe, or whatever your name is, I hope that people continue to be kind to you, no matter your weight. But I would also hope that perhaps you would learn kindness yourself. You seem to have none.

Posted by: moki at February 24, 2017 02:20 PM (gfRCk)

56 I hold open doors for fat chicks.

Posted by: steevy at February 24, 2017 02:15 PM (r/0kC)

Well, you don't want them to get wedged in there, in case the building catches fire while you're inside.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 24, 2017 02:20 PM (WDdjT)

57 >>Remember, the smallest minority is the individual.

This.

Posted by: Zombie Emmanuel Lewis at February 24, 2017 02:20 PM (ktw54)

58 So looking forward to the day when these frothing lefty stories are like dog biting man.

Interesting, if you're the dog, but otherwise, no.

So tired of these people, I am. Would much rather talk about our serial killer pals.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 24, 2017 02:20 PM (TOk1P)

59 "No you cannot open this door for me because you wouldn't have opened it for me when I was fat as shit!"

But I wasn't allowed to open the service bay door!

Posted by: Dang at February 24, 2017 02:20 PM (8b+oT)

60 So I'm torn. Do I go work out to get abs, or do I stay tubby to be a Cadillac ride for chicks who want to do cowboy?

Posted by: JEM at February 24, 2017 02:20 PM (TppKb)

61 if i'm gonna be a dick i might also say she doesn't quite look fit to me yet

So, MOAR SQUATZZ

Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 24, 2017 02:20 PM (QQ+il)

62 I suppose I was Virtue Signalling by saying that I hold the door open for all women, but truth takes on a life of its own in someone else's head.

Southern hospitality takes root in Northeast Ohio because Parents.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at February 24, 2017 02:20 PM (6gk0M)

63 There's a bit of research on the fat girls that says they get skinny then freak when people are nice because they have been abused as kids and got fat in order to be unattractive to begin with

Posted by: Bigbys Cellphone at February 24, 2017 02:21 PM (icT6u)

64
We all took our Smart Pills today!!

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at February 24, 2017 02:21 PM (P0DTV)

65 50 I hold the doors for every female, no matter the age or appearance. It's about my behavioral standards, nothing to do with them. If they don't like it, that is an issue they need to work out in their own heads.
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at February 24, 2017 02:19 PM (7ZVPa)

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I slam doors in the face of fat women while screaming, "The patriarchy demands conformity! Get hot!"

I usually laugh and point. No one ever says anything because all men join me and women are terrified of crossing the patriarchy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 02:21 PM (EvBgT)

66 I'M PAYING FOR THIS HASHTAG!

Posted by: Zombie Ronald Reagan at February 24, 2017 02:21 PM (hqZPQ)

67 56 It's all about keeping the exits clear.

Posted by: steevy at February 24, 2017 02:21 PM (r/0kC)

68 To quote Shatner - "Get a life!!"

That's all I got to say to this whacked womyn.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 24, 2017 02:21 PM (qpXD6)

69 I can't do that Dave.

Posted by: HAL 9000 at February 24, 2017 02:21 PM (QQ+il)

70 if i'm gonna be a dick i might also say she doesn't quite look fit to me yet
Posted by: ace

There's a 97% consensus among Broscientists the she doesn't lift.
The Broscience is settled.

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at February 24, 2017 02:21 PM (QDr6b)

71 LOLOLOLOL
CNN freaking out about not getting into WH
Sad!

Posted by: @votermom @vm at February 24, 2017 02:21 PM (Om16U)

72 Are people generally nicer to slender attractive women, than they are to heavy, less attractive women? Yes.

So now she is more slender. What does she want to happen? Does she want people holding doors for her or not? If not, she can put her snarly face on and they'll probably leave her alone. Problem solved.

Posted by: grammie winger at February 24, 2017 02:22 PM (bpfzP)

73 The girl had the strength to become this woman. That girl had the courage to leave home at 16 years old in search of a new life. She had the passion to pursue a career.

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You know who else referred to themselves in the third person?

Hint: rhymes with Gitler

Posted by: Mortimer, FINISH HER! at February 24, 2017 02:22 PM (qU2ch)

74 >>i can attest to that. I get treated a little bit better by barisatas or
whatever but that might because I don't have an angry scowl on my face
and even smile a little.

Confidence affects demeanor, posture, behavior (making eye contact vs. intentionally trying to not be noticed). She probably wasn't even aware of how differently she behaves after dropping 200+lbs.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 24, 2017 02:22 PM (NOIQH)

75
speaking of Marie Osmond...

in her weightwatchers tv ad or whatever her before and after pics look the same

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at February 24, 2017 02:22 PM (P0DTV)

76 When I go to China the women are totally confused when you hold the door open for them. Chinese men just slam the door in their faces.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 24, 2017 02:22 PM (OeQ/D)

77 *flips-off CNN*

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at February 24, 2017 02:22 PM (6gk0M)

78 Fat women apparently open the refrigerator door just fine.

Posted by: Dave at Buffalo Roam at February 24, 2017 02:22 PM (ywfPZ)

79 53 She went from 300 to 290. No longer fat. It's a social construct anyway.
*
*
In the article she *says* she is a third of what she used to mass -- so about 120 lbs. In the pic in the Guardian, she don't look like no 120 lbs., baby.

Posted by: Tribesman seeing Stacie Huckeba at February 24, 2017 02:22 PM (9MVvY)

80 Humblebrag is the term.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at February 24, 2017 02:22 PM (7ZVPa)

81 The one fat-girl turned slim that I personally know became a swinger.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 24, 2017 02:22 PM (QQ+il)

82
LOLOLOLOL
CNN freaking out about not getting into WH
Sad!

Democracy died a little today.
Sad!

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at February 24, 2017 02:22 PM (P0DTV)

83 I've been confronted for holding doors several times in my life, all in the last ten years.
One young woman actually refused to go in, stopping and glaring at me until I had let the door go.

Tell them, "I'm not holding the door because you're a lady, but because I'm a gentleman".

Posted by: rickb223 at February 24, 2017 02:22 PM (WFe5M)

84 Perhaps when you were a fatty pants, they just wanted to get in front of you at the buffet?

Also - you are still fat on the inside, apparently.

Posted by: garrett at February 24, 2017 02:23 PM (ktw54)

85 Willowed - Oh man, Ivan the Russian Bear, used to love hating that guy, and Baron Von Roshki with his "Claw". Both end moves used to make me laugh.
RIP.

Also RIP - Just heard about Brenda Buttner of Fox Business. Liked her.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 24, 2017 02:23 PM (ODxAs)

86 Remember, the smallest minority is the individual.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 02:15 PM (EvBgT)

Michael Moore: Sez you

Posted by: TheQuietMan at February 24, 2017 02:23 PM (493sH)

87 At her old size, maybe they're assuming it'd be uncomfortable for her to scoot around them?

Precious.

Posted by: Chupacabra at February 24, 2017 02:23 PM (o/Ar3)

88 Jeez, she used to look like a fat lady and now she looks like a guy.

Maybe the guy opening the door was gay.

Stacie Huckeba HATES GAYS!!!!!

Posted by: Dang at February 24, 2017 02:23 PM (8b+oT)

89
At this rate, Democracy is gonna a thousand deaths.

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at February 24, 2017 02:23 PM (P0DTV)

90 "Why didn't you treat me like this when I was fat?"

Because I never used the freight elevator?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 24, 2017 02:23 PM (jxbfJ)

91 speaking of Marie Osmond...

in her weightwatchers tv ad or whatever her before and after pics look the same

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at February 24, 2017 02:22 PM (P0DTV)

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Ummm. No.

Dont wear your readers when you watch TV dude.

Posted by: fixerupper at February 24, 2017 02:23 PM (8XRCm)

92 Also, it's dangerous. You saw what happened to the Hindenburg.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 24, 2017 02:23 PM (OeQ/D)

93 Ok, I'm old (54) and fat (none of your business) and men hold doors open for me ALL THE TIME.

Posted by: katya the designated driver at February 24, 2017 02:23 PM (DD7HG)

94 71 LOLOLOLOL
CNN freaking out about not getting into WH
Sad!
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4 years of sitting at the anchor desk talking to each other while the cool kids get the straight scoop. Nightmare time.

Posted by: Mortimer, FINISH HER! at February 24, 2017 02:24 PM (qU2ch)

95 From the wiki>In 2013 she began contributing regularly for the Huffington Post

I think we found the true trigger.

Posted by: golfman at February 24, 2017 02:24 PM (48QDY)

96
57 >>Remember, the smallest minority is the individual.

Not if they weigh 300

Posted by: Rodney Allen Ripey at February 24, 2017 02:24 PM (nFwvY)

97 Soylent Green is thin people! Which is corporate evil, because fat people should be able to be food, too.

Posted by: General Zod at February 24, 2017 02:24 PM (Bdeb0)

98 I'm a fat woman of a well seasoned 29 and men hold the door for me and help me with things all the time. As in at least daily.

I'm sorry she lives in an area where people were raised by the stupid wolves who had no manners but that's not a universal condition.

Also, I bet you money that men held the door for her or helped pick up things when she was fat but she didn't notice because she was so self-conscious.

Further also, the part where she started screaming at the poor guy who held the door happened in Tennessee. Honey, let me 'splain something to you. This was in the South. If that man did not hold open that door for you, his Mama would have found out and then there would have been hell to pay.

Posted by: alexthechick - all your caps are belong to me at February 24, 2017 02:24 PM (mf5HN)

99 81 The one fat-girl turned slim that I personally know became a swinger.
Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 24, 2017 02:22 PM (QQ+il)

Dating a singer. I can't decide which is worse.

Posted by: Tom Petty at February 24, 2017 02:24 PM (7HtZB)

100 At this rate, Democracy is gonna a thousand deaths.

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at February 24, 2017 02:23 PM (P0DTV)

In the dark

Posted by: TheQuietMan at February 24, 2017 02:24 PM (493sH)

101 One young woman actually refused to go in, stopping and glaring at me until I had let the door go.

--

Are you gonna get in or not, lady?

Posted by: @votermom @vm at February 24, 2017 02:24 PM (Om16U)

102 "The Broscience is settled.

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at February 24, 2017 02:21 PM (QDr6b) "

And the other 3% just couldn't respond to the survey because they were in the middle of a FUCKING INSANE MUSCLE PUMP.

Posted by: broseidon being a capitalist pigdog (yknow, working) at February 24, 2017 02:24 PM (oZ6kz)

103 "I'm not holding the door because you're a lady, but because I'm a gentleman".
Posted by: rickb223 at February 24, 2017 02:22 PM (WFe5M)

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**filed away for future retrieval.

Posted by: fixerupper at February 24, 2017 02:24 PM (8XRCm)

104 >>>I love my ass the size it is now. I love the way I look and feel, and the freedom it gives me.<<<

Yeah, this fat broad is coo coo bananas.

Posted by: Fritz at February 24, 2017 02:24 PM (2Mnv1)

105 I will hold the door open for anybody, really. Man or woman. It's rude to let the door shut on somebody as they're beginning to walk through.

Posted by: Mark1971 at February 24, 2017 02:24 PM (gdnq1)

106
Dont wear your readers when you watch TV dude.
Posted by: fixerupper at February 24, 2017 02:23 PM (8XRCm)

I don't. But I put them on for Marie.

Posted by: golfman at February 24, 2017 02:24 PM (48QDY)

107 I stole it. No idea where from.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Ayn Rand I believe.
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at February 24, 2017 02:18 PM (QDr6b)

=================

That would make sense.

Probably somewhere in the middle of a 60 page speech by John Galt.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 02:19 PM (EvBgT)

I think there's a blog also called The Smallest Minority. Seems like I heard about it here.

Posted by: Country Boy - just a humble, occasionally hotheaded poster at February 24, 2017 02:24 PM (Jcg9Q)

108 98 Further also, the part where she started screaming at the poor guy who held the door happened in Tennessee. Honey, let me 'splain something to you. This was in the South. If that man did not hold open that door for you, his Mama would have found out and then there would have been hell to pay.

Posted by: alexthechick - all your caps are belong to me at February 24, 2017 02:24 PM (mf5HN)

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Doesn't matter. Gotta yell.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 02:24 PM (EvBgT)

109 What kind of cad doesn't hold the door just because a woman is fat?

Posted by: joncelli, Present at the Autopsy at February 24, 2017 02:25 PM (RD7QR)

110 Lena?

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at February 24, 2017 02:25 PM (W8bn5)

111
Anyone else ever work with a guy who's mother would die about once a year? Usually his mother would die on a Thursday night, which is why he didn't show up to work on Friday, and then couldn't come in Monday, either.

That's what the Fake News reminds me of. They keep telling us Democracy died every day since Trump.

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at February 24, 2017 02:25 PM (P0DTV)

112 On the weekend MSM reported that Trump had declared media to be the enemy of the people. But that's NOT what he tweeted:

"The FAKE NEWS media (failing @nytimes, @NBCNews, @ABC, @CBS, @CNN) is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American People!"

So today at CPAC, Trump made the point that he never said that media was the enemy of the people, just the fake news outlets.

So here's how USA Today covered it:

Trump again calls media 'enemy of the people'
USA TODAY-1 hour ago

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 24, 2017 02:25 PM (SIY7D)

113 So it seems that WH did exclude a few news outlets from today's press gaggle.

Can't wait for wailing and gnashing of teeth from the MSM.

Posted by: WisRich at February 24, 2017 02:25 PM (hdpay)

114
CNN, NYT, LA Times, and Politico didn't make the A-list for the WH press conference today.

LOL, one of my favorite things about the Trump WH is putting these slime in their place.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 24, 2017 02:26 PM (ODxAs)

115 45
I open doors for fat women too. Just 'cause that's what I do. Doesn't get me laid by any of them either though. Whatever.

Posted by: Country Boy - just a humble, occasionally hotheaded poster at February 24, 2017 02:19 PM (Jcg9Q)

Last couple of days my five year old son held the door open for some ladies. I beamed. Screw this unhappy lubber.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at February 24, 2017 02:26 PM (GX63o)

116 I think there's a blog also called The Smallest Minority. Seems like I heard about it here.

Posted by: Country Boy - just a humble, occasionally hotheaded poster at February 24, 2017 02:24 PM (Jcg9Q)

Run by Robert Reiccccchhhhhhh?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at February 24, 2017 02:26 PM (493sH)

117 "a big enough heart to not notice when people were mean"

and you didn't notice SO HARD that you stored up all that resentment for an opportunity like today.

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at February 24, 2017 02:26 PM (YsNvC)

118 Trump is missing a secret of the border tax. Trump should direct the IRS to collect income tax from companies at the border. At the end of the year companies could file a return and get a refund based on their tax doges. I'm thinking Trump could do this with executive orders. Lets see Apple and Ford get around that. What are they going to do? Say they aren't making any money on them iPhones and them Lincoln MKZ's?

Posted by: Ok at February 24, 2017 02:26 PM (K2SnJ)

119 Posted by: alexthechick - all your caps are belong to me at February 24, 2017 02:24 PM (mf5HN)

First thing I thought of, AtC. But she's from Texas.

Posted by: golfman at February 24, 2017 02:26 PM (48QDY)

120 not even with aces' dick.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 24, 2017 02:26 PM (KP5rU)

121 111
Anyone else ever work with a guy who's mother would die about once a year? Usually his mother would die on a Thursday night, which is why he didn't show up to work on Friday, and then couldn't come in Monday, either.

That's what the Fake News reminds me of. They keep telling us Democracy died every day since Trump.
Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at February 24, 2017 02:25 PM (P0DTV)

====================

Piker. Gotta use grandparents. You've got 4 of them.

Milk it for a while, then go uncles/aunts.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 02:26 PM (EvBgT)

122 >>What kind of cad doesn't hold the door just because a woman is fat?

You always hold the door for fat women, because they might have thin friends.

Posted by: garrett at February 24, 2017 02:26 PM (ktw54)

123 trump should run a state by state law - if you are being an asshole - someone within 30 feet of you gets to slap the shit out of you.

It will have 100% compliance.
And it will also be a h(Y)uge deterrent.

Posted by: Fox at February 24, 2017 02:26 PM (DVC2D)

124 i went to a buffet dinner hosted by a girl i had just started dating and was very very keen on. I was bringing a friend, who had a pronounced trait of being obnoxious. Very obnoxious. I begged him, please, tonight, don't be "You." Be someone else.

He agreed.

Anyway so we get into the self-serve buffet line with people we've literally never met and there's a fat guy behind us and we make some quick hello-type conversation and my friend says, "I had to make a quick move to the line, to get in front of you."

The fat guy goes, "Why?"

And my friend, who promised he would not act like himself but instead act like the normal people he observed all around him, said, "I wanted to get in front of you, because otherwise there would be no food left."

Now if THAT GUY wanted to write a teary confessional for the Guardian or whatever, I'd say: "You've earned that right."

Posted by: ace at February 24, 2017 02:26 PM (8rNrN)

125 @111 ... half the family dying, the other half pregnant....Klinger, don't you feel ashamed of yourself?

Posted by: Lt Col Henry Blake at February 24, 2017 02:26 PM (hqZPQ)

126 What's she talking about? She's still fukking fat. Was she fatter than this before? And I would have opened a door for her no matter how fat she was. My zipper, not so much.

Posted by: Dirks Strewn at February 24, 2017 02:26 PM (kfcYC)

127 The paragraph ending the article:

"It seems to me the moral of the article, albiet unintended, is that it's probably best to avoid (a) excessive weight gain, and (b) feminism, both of which seem likely to engender alienation, resentment and fits of random hysteria."

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 24, 2017 02:26 PM (DMUuz)

128 Soylent Green is thin people! Which is corporate evil, because fat people should be able to be food, too.

Unless they're gender-fluid, 'cause then they're full of trans-fats.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at February 24, 2017 02:26 PM (4WhSY)

129 Dont wear your readers when you watch TV dude.
Posted by fixerupper

=====

I did last night. Tripped and fell on my ass. Apparently, along with my myriad other failings, I also suck at getting old.

Posted by: Mortimer, FINISH HER! at February 24, 2017 02:26 PM (qU2ch)

130 Trump again calls media 'enemy of the people'

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Ummmmm...... Im actually OK with that....

Posted by: fixerupper at February 24, 2017 02:27 PM (8XRCm)

131 105 I will hold the door open for anybody, really. Man or woman. It's rude to let the door shut on somebody as they're beginning to walk through.
Posted by: Mark1971 at February 24, 2017 02:24 PM (gdnq1)

On the flip side, I hate when someone holds a door open too soon, then I have to hurry to the door rather than take my own pace.

Posted by: Tom Petty at February 24, 2017 02:27 PM (7HtZB)

132 Re: Ivan Koloff.

George "The Animal" Steele also passed away.

Posted by: buzzion at February 24, 2017 02:27 PM (cAnNx)

133 Soylent Green is thin people! Which is corporate evil, because fat people should be able to be food, too.

Posted by: General Zod

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The fat people are used to make dip.

Posted by: Dang at February 24, 2017 02:27 PM (8b+oT)

134 -Posted by: alexthechick - all your caps are belong to me at February 24, 2017 02:24 PM (mf5HN)

You can't not love this woman.

...unless she is screeching in your ear.

And even then, Cochran tolerates her.

+5.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at February 24, 2017 02:27 PM (6gk0M)

135 I just went and checked out her pic.

Bow fucking wow.

Posted by: Country Boy - just a humble, occasionally hotheaded poster at February 24, 2017 02:27 PM (Jcg9Q)

136 I've never had a sour word said for holding the door for a woman, even in my lefty hipster neighborhood. That just seems bizarre to me.

Posted by: Chupacabra at February 24, 2017 02:27 PM (o/Ar3)

137 Posted by: ace at February 24, 2017 02:26 PM (8rNrN)

What happened next? Food fight?

Posted by: @votermom @vm at February 24, 2017 02:27 PM (Om16U)

138 I hold the door open for anybody who is within Acceptable Door Holding Distance. If they're too far away it just gets awkward - exceptions can be made for the aged and infirm.

Posted by: broseidon being a capitalist pigdog (yknow, working) at February 24, 2017 02:27 PM (oZ6kz)

139 It puts the grievance on its skin or it gets the hose again.

Posted by: Jame Gumb at February 24, 2017 02:27 PM (RD7QR)

140 Someone's got unresolved self hate to work through with her therapist.

Posted by: H at February 24, 2017 02:28 PM (b4rXB)

141 Fuck you and your internal struggles, lady.

Posted by: Hamilton at February 24, 2017 02:28 PM (sCjDS)

142 Trump again calls media 'enemy of the people'
USA TODAY-1 hour ago
Posted by: Ignoramus at February 24, 2017 02:25 PM (SIY7D)

Chris Plante made a distinction today. PDT says "Fake" news media. So easily ignored by the afflicted.

Posted by: golfman at February 24, 2017 02:28 PM (48QDY)

143 If I'm going out, I will hold the door for any approaching to enter, man or woman. If going in, I will stop and hold the door so a following woman may pass me. Guys not so much unless you look feeble.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 24, 2017 02:28 PM (QQ+il)

144 If somebody is following right behind me as I enter a building I hold the door open for everybody--male, female, fat, thin, beautiful or homely. I just do that.
I believe in being polite.

Posted by: Northernlurker at February 24, 2017 02:28 PM (hJrjt)

145 A door is just like a border fence. You can't keep people out.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at February 24, 2017 02:28 PM (hqZPQ)

146
I hold doors for women, period.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at February 24, 2017 02:16 PM (6gk0M)

Don't start that shit again....

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 24, 2017 02:28 PM (rF0hx)

147 Nobody has as high a regard for the media as the media.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 24, 2017 02:28 PM (OeQ/D)

148 >>Someone's got unresolved self hate to work through with her therapist.

Just sprinkle some bacon bits on that hate. She'll work through it.

Posted by: garrett at February 24, 2017 02:29 PM (ktw54)

149 Yes sir/ma'am
No sir/ma'am
Holding doors
Standing, or giving my seat up
Firm handshake with eye contact
All of these things taught to me, and passed on to my children, come from simple respect.

Posted by: IP at February 24, 2017 02:29 PM (yV4wg)

150 122 >>What kind of cad doesn't hold the door just because a woman is fat?

You always hold the door for fat women, because they might have thin friends.
Posted by: garrett at February 24, 2017 02:26 PM (ktw54)

====================

I'm actually less likely to hold open a door for an attractive woman.

I try to avoid attractive women thinking that I'm into them. Not that I think they'll jump my bones without notice or anything (although...GAINZZ!), but that I just never want to get into a situation that could compromise my marriage.

Doesn't mean I don't do it, but that when there's a borderline situations (is she too far to keep the door open? or close enough?), if the woman's attractive, I'll be slightly more likely to give it up to the distance than hold it for a bit longer than I find convenient.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 02:29 PM (EvBgT)

151 Confirmation bias. Scott Adams (Dilbert) is a no-free-will (atheist?) but believes confirmation bias can make anything true.

Posted by: Ok at February 24, 2017 02:29 PM (K2SnJ)

152 ..."Now if THAT GUY wanted to write a teary confessional for the Guardian or whatever, I'd say: "You've earned that right."
"

-Posted by: ace at February 24, 2017 02:26 PM (8rNrN)

Lesson: Don't Be THAT GUY.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at February 24, 2017 02:29 PM (6gk0M)

153 I hold van doors open for girls.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at February 24, 2017 02:29 PM (hqZPQ)

154 i used to open doors foe females. now, i just let them go ahead of me. the only time i open a door for a female anymore, is for my wife. crazy, screaming, sjws' are everywhere. not taking the chance. don't need their shit.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 24, 2017 02:29 PM (KP5rU)

155 Trump again calls media 'enemy of the people'

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Ummmmm...... Im actually OK with that....

Posted by: fixerupper

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Me too. They say they are going to tell us the news and then make stuff up and hide other things that we should know and they should tell. That's something an enemy would do. Lie to you.

Posted by: Dang at February 24, 2017 02:29 PM (8b+oT)

156 I will hold the door open for anybody, really. Man or woman. It's rude to let the door shut on somebody as they're beginning to walk through.
Posted by: Mark1971 at February 24, 2017 02:24 PM (gdnq1)

On the flip side, I hate when someone holds a door open too soon, then I have to hurry to the door rather than take my own pace.
Posted by: Tom Petty

I love jamming my foot down in a revolving door.
Fucks everybody up.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 24, 2017 02:29 PM (WFe5M)

157 Shot don't even need no border tax, just institute an across-the-board 25% tariff and drop the corporate tax rate to zero. Want to see some good old fashioned recovery summer?

Posted by: Chupacabra at February 24, 2017 02:29 PM (o/Ar3)

158 LOLOLOLOL

CNN freaking out about not getting into WH

Sad!

Posted by: @votermom @vm at February 24, 2017 02:21 PM (Om16U)

I think MSNBC or Salon should get the boot next.

Posted by: redbanzai at February 24, 2017 02:30 PM (9nCnN)

159 "Don't start that shit again...
-Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 24, 2017 02:28 PM (rF0hx)

Yes, Sir.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at February 24, 2017 02:30 PM (6gk0M)

160 If she is all feminisasty... then why didn't SHE open the door for HIM?

Posted by: Don Q. at February 24, 2017 02:30 PM (qf6WZ)

161 I hold van doors open for girls.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie

Mohammed?

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at February 24, 2017 02:30 PM (QDr6b)

162 What happened next? Food fight?

Posted by: @votermom @vm

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"I dare you to throw that in my mouth!!! *opens mouth really big*

Posted by: The other fat guy at February 24, 2017 02:31 PM (8b+oT)

163 I will hold the door open for anybody, really. Man or woman. It's rude to let the door shut on somebody as they're beginning to walk through.

Posted by: Mark1971 at February 24, 2017 02:24 PM (gdnq1)

^^^this^^^ It's nothing more or less than a specific instance of the Golden Rule. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 24, 2017 02:31 PM (WDdjT)

164 She's right. I'm much nicer to hot women than to ugly ones. So what. Deal with it. Hot woman yells "hold the elevator door" I'll throw myself into the closing doors to keep them open. Fat woman yells that and I do that thing where I helplessly scan the panel looking for the Door Open button and then look at her and shrug powerlessly as it shuts in her face.

Posted by: scofflaw_x at February 24, 2017 02:31 PM (y9ZJX)

165 One young woman actually refused to go in, stopping and glaring at me until I had let the door go.

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Are you gonna get in or not, lady?

Posted by: @votermom @vm at February 24, 2017 02:24 PM (Om16U)
________________________________________

Exactly, the van is idling and I ain't waitin forever.

Posted by: IP at February 24, 2017 02:31 PM (yV4wg)

166 --
You get to be the hero of a dramatic struggle with absolutely no risk
of failure or setback, because, well, it's all a fucking joke in the
first place.
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This too, is the story of Obama.

Posted by: irright at February 24, 2017 02:31 PM (pMGkg)

167 I hold the door and let women go in first.

That way, I can check out their asses at close range.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at February 24, 2017 02:31 PM (7ZVPa)

168 She says men didn't hold doors open for her when she was fat.

____

Its so obvious why: when a thin girl runs into a closing door, it could hit her in the face. a fat girl will take it with her considerable belly and bounce it right back, teach that door a lesson in the process!

Posted by: Nurse Ratched at February 24, 2017 02:31 PM (b65hQ)

169 >>I love my ass the size it is now. I love the way I look and feel, and the freedom it gives me.
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And a new Lena Dunham is born...

Posted by: Mortimer, FINISH HER! at February 24, 2017 02:32 PM (qU2ch)

170 I just read the article. I actually think I'd be more likely to open a door for a 365-pound woman, than an average-sized woman. I'd be inclined to think she would be more in need of kindness.

Posted by: Northernlurker at February 24, 2017 02:32 PM (hJrjt)

171 I'll hold the door for anyone. Pisses me off when able-bodied men think you are their fucking doorman/servant.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at February 24, 2017 02:32 PM (p/025)

172 76 When I go to China the women are totally confused when you hold the door open for them. Chinese men just slam the door in their faces.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 24, 2017 02:22 PM (OeQ/D)

Yeah, Korea, too.

Posted by: West at February 24, 2017 02:32 PM (1Rgee)

173 Think of all of the people sitting in Gate C29 waiting to fly to Tulsa who won't be able to watch Trump live, except on their phones.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at February 24, 2017 02:32 PM (hqZPQ)

174 I hold the door and let women go in first.

That way, I can check out their asses at close range.
Posted by: Vashta Nerada

And still be a gentleman! *Fistbump!

Posted by: rickb223 at February 24, 2017 02:32 PM (WFe5M)

175
Anybody that I hold the door open for that thanks me, gets a free slap on the butt, because I'm a gentleman.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 24, 2017 02:32 PM (ODxAs)

176 She's on to me.

I secretly long to curb my normal instinct and refuse to open doors for a fat chick, based on the belief that my need to be just a decent human being is outweighed by her need of the extra exercise involved with balancing her go-box of bonbons into the same ham holding her 48 oz cup of soda syrup, pulling open the door, and manipulating her hippopotamus bulk through an opening generally only rated for the passage of an attractive and normal-sized human.

Plus: I'll get yelled at less.

Posted by: krakatoa at February 24, 2017 02:33 PM (RCS9o)

177 CNN, NYT, LA Times, and Politico didn't make the A-list for the WH press conference today.

Houston: Schadenboner JEM, go for second stage separation.

Schadenboner JEM: Second stage separation complete.

Posted by: JEM at February 24, 2017 02:33 PM (TppKb)

178 ...attractive women...

All women, attractive or not, have at least one negative. Do what Trump does. Only have sex with them if you are willing to impregnate, divorce your present and marry them.

Posted by: Ok at February 24, 2017 02:33 PM (K2SnJ)

179 >>If she is all feminisasty... then why didn't SHE open the door for HIM?

[insert Instapundit quote on chivalry being as system of behaviors for both men AND women blah blah blah]

Also, you can;t win with a feminist. You can't, so why try?

Posted by: Lizzy at February 24, 2017 02:33 PM (NOIQH)

180 For crissakes. Bitches like this ruin it for everyone else.

Posted by: Insomniac at February 24, 2017 02:33 PM (0mRoj)

181 Or she was slower when she was heavier and fell out of the common courtesy vs. doorman range more often.

Posted by: DaveA at February 24, 2017 02:33 PM (8J/Te)

182 In the west, we value our girls. China kills theirs.

Posted by: Chupacabra at February 24, 2017 02:33 PM (o/Ar3)

183 I try to avoid attractive women thinking that I'm into them.

Just give them The Nod as they pass.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 24, 2017 02:33 PM (QQ+il)

184 Just because: Al Bundy insulting fat women
https://youtu.be/IRCHBi0DRFg

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at February 24, 2017 02:33 PM (QDr6b)

185 Bow fucking wow.

Posted by: Country Boy

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Bow fucking no thank you. I saw no wow. None.

Posted by: Dang at February 24, 2017 02:33 PM (8b+oT)

186 Several years ago, based on my Iowa upbringing, I used the appellation "gals" when referring to those of the weaker sex and was told that I should not use that word any longer. I said pardon my old and brokenness. +bows head strikes breast three times and sez mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. I'm not sure what was most offending.. my use of the word gal, my latin confiteor or my old whiteness. prolly all of dem.

Posted by: havildar-major at February 24, 2017 02:34 PM (jpW6t)

187 i only hold doors open when i'm in the range of six or fewer steps ahead of the person behind me. then I open it for whoever it is, including dudes.

if you're more than a second a half behind me, though, you can open the door yourself. I'm not Joe Stands in a Doorway Holding It Open for Strangers over here.

Posted by: ace at February 24, 2017 02:34 PM (8rNrN)

188 142 Trump again calls media 'enemy of the people'
USA TODAY-1 hour ago
Posted by: Ignoramus at February 24, 2017 02:25 PM (SIY7D)

Chris Plante made a distinction today. PDT says "Fake" news media. So easily ignored by the afflicted.
Posted by: golfman at February 24, 2017 02:28 PM (48QDY)

You all missed the connection...

President says Fake news media is the enemy of the people...

MSM then says that the PRESS is the enemy of the people...

ergo, they believe the Press, IS Fake News.... that tacitly admit it!

Posted by: Don Q. at February 24, 2017 02:34 PM (qf6WZ)

189 183 I try to avoid attractive women thinking that I'm into them.

Just give them The Nod as they pass.
Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 24, 2017 02:33 PM (QQ+il)

====================

*tries*

*2 hours later*

"Shit...how did I get naked in this hotel room?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 02:34 PM (EvBgT)

190 146
I hold doors for women, period.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at February 24, 2017 02:16 PM (6gk0M)

Don't start that shit again....
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 24, 2017 02:28 PM (rF0hx)
=====

*looks around for Jen*

Oh god. No.

Posted by: Mortimer, FINISH HER! at February 24, 2017 02:34 PM (qU2ch)

191 Only have sex with them if you are willing to impregnate, divorce your present and marry them.

Works at the eight-figure level, I guess.

Posted by: JEM at February 24, 2017 02:35 PM (TppKb)

192 so, now she only needs the medium size bag of flour? is that the gist of this shit?

Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 24, 2017 02:35 PM (KP5rU)

193 This woman is only deceiving herself if she is upset at a few men opening doors for her because they now find her attractive. Part of the reason she lost the weight was SO THAT others would find her more attractive, and thus receive some of the benefits of being attractive.

Posted by: yaedon at February 24, 2017 02:35 PM (qdhQS)

194 One thing I like to do with strangers is sigh and shake my head forlornly and say "You just don't *Get it*, do you?" and then walk away mysteriously.

Posted by: ace at February 24, 2017 02:35 PM (8rNrN)

195 She would probably feel better if she walked around in a nice pussy hat.

Posted by: MacGruber at February 24, 2017 02:35 PM (C278+)

196 I never hold an elevator door open for a fat person. Self-preservation.

Posted by: Fritz at February 24, 2017 02:35 PM (2Mnv1)

197 >>I secretly long to curb my normal instinct and
refuse to open doors for a fat chick, based on the belief that my need
to be just a decent human being is outweighed by her need of the extra
exercise involved with balancing her go-box of bonbons into the same ham
holding her 48 oz cup of soda syrup, pulling open the door, and
manipulating her hippopotamus bulk through an opening generally only
rated for the passage of an attractive and normal-sized human.
Posted by: krakatoa at February 24, 2017 02:33 PM (RCS9o)

You will send your newsletter to Zod.

Posted by: General Zod at February 24, 2017 02:36 PM (Bdeb0)

198 Joe Stands in a Doorway

Wouldn't that be Carlton.

Posted by: DaveA at February 24, 2017 02:36 PM (8J/Te)

199
CNN, NYT, LA Times, and Politico didn't make the A-list for the WH press conference today.

a.k.a. DNC propaganda outlets

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at February 24, 2017 02:36 PM (P0DTV)

200 It ain't over till the fat lady whines.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 24, 2017 02:36 PM (IqV8l)

201 Fat woman yells that and I do that thing where I helplessly scan the panel looking for the Door Open button and then look at her and shrug powerlessly as it shuts in her face.

It's not like she will be able to catch up.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 24, 2017 02:36 PM (QQ+il)

202 194 One thing I like to do with strangers is sigh and shake my head forlornly and say "You just don't *Get it*, do you?" and then walk away mysteriously.
Posted by: ace at February 24, 2017 02:35 PM (8rNrN)

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You must make a lot of new friends out in the real world.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 02:36 PM (EvBgT)

203 Don't hold the door open too early, as people tend to jog; so as not to inconvenience you.

We know politeness in Ohio.

I pretend to be looking in my wallet or something else before I open the door.

*pro-tip*

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at February 24, 2017 02:36 PM (6gk0M)

204 People are fucked up. I worked in an auto parts store when I was 18. We had a sale on oil, it was some high dollar graphite shit when that was a thing. It was 5 to a customer limit, but people came in every day, or a few times a day to get around the limit.

An older dude with a walker comes in. He says its hard for him to get around, so he can't play the game of coming in every day etc, and can he just have more than the limit.

yeah, NP dude, I got you covered. I let him have what he wanted.

I go to hold the door open for him when he leaves and he goes nuke. He goes on a rant about how he don't need any help, he don't need pity, he can manage, he's not an invalid etc etc

Right...but you got your oil. frigging dick.

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at February 24, 2017 02:36 PM (aMlLZ)

205 I try to avoid attractive women thinking that I'm into them.

Just give them The Nod as they pass.
Posted by: Grump928(c)

====================

*tries*

*2 hours later*

"Shit...how did I get naked in this hotel room?"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

"And where's my f'n kidney??"

Posted by: rickb223 at February 24, 2017 02:36 PM (WFe5M)

206 Confirmation bias. Scott Adams (Dilbert) is a no-free-will (atheist?) but believes confirmation bias can make anything true.

Posted by: Ok at February 24, 2017 02:29 PM (K2SnJ)

It can make anything seem true to the individual whose biases are being confirmed but that doesn't actually make it true in reality.

Posted by: redbanzai at February 24, 2017 02:36 PM (9nCnN)

207
Joe Stands in a Doorway

Wouldn't that be Carlton.
Posted by: DaveA

Lester Maddox

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 24, 2017 02:36 PM (IqV8l)

208 I'm not the sveltest of females and men hold doors for me all the time. Of course, I usually thank them not yell at them.

Posted by: lindarising schadenbutton! at February 24, 2017 02:36 PM (JNDQi)

209 I'm not Joe Stands in a Doorway Holding It Open for Strangers over here.
Posted by: ace at February 24, 2017 02:34 PM (8rNrN)

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....but you'll wear a hijab to be polite???

Posted by: fixerupper at February 24, 2017 02:36 PM (8XRCm)

210 >> One young woman actually refused to go in, stopping and glaring at me until I had let the door go.

'Which soured first, your pussy or your face?'

Posted by: garrett at February 24, 2017 02:37 PM (ktw54)

211

Posted by: fixerupper at February 24, 2017 02:37 PM (8XRCm)

212 You know, fat girls only help me put my couch in my van when I pretend to have a gimpy arm - they never do it when I seem able-bodied. This damn ableist society!

Posted by: Jame Gumb at February 24, 2017 02:37 PM (oZ6kz)

213 I purposefully walk through a revolving door extra slow.

Because screw the people behind me who are in a hurry.

Posted by: MacGruber at February 24, 2017 02:37 PM (C278+)

214 hell hath no fury...

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at February 24, 2017 02:37 PM (WTSFk)

215 179 >>If she is all feminisasty... then why didn't SHE open the door for HIM?

[insert Instapundit quote on chivalry being as system of behaviors for both men AND women blah blah blah]

Also, you can;t win with a feminist. You can't, so why try?
Posted by: Lizzy at February 24, 2017 02:33 PM (NOIQH)

Oh, trust me... I play the game...

I open doors for Ladies all the time...

Had ONE call me on it a couple years ago....

Told her, 'I'm sorry, I always open doors for Ladies, sorry I mistook you for one'... and walked off...

Posted by: Don Q. at February 24, 2017 02:37 PM (qf6WZ)

216 Heck, I'm a woman and I open doors for people all the time. I never thought a thing about it. Isn't it just the polite thing to do?

Posted by: grammie winger at February 24, 2017 02:37 PM (bpfzP)

217 if you're more than a second a half behind me,
though, you can open the door yourself.

Posted by: ace at February 24, 2017 02:34 PM (8rNrN)

That's the difficult part of the calculation. Although a second and a half seems a bit short, especially if she has a nice rack, which of course signals the possibility of a nice ass. But there are many women with unimpressive chests and magnificent backsides, so this is getting damned complicated.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 24, 2017 02:38 PM (rF0hx)

218 Why can't she say 'thank you' and move on? Like a well adjusted human being? Reminds me of that nutcase who ranted at the black barrista about her own white privilege or what ever it was.
Posted by: IC

What if a black lesbian held the door for her and said, "I like you cuz you ain't fat like the other white chicks I've dated".

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at February 24, 2017 02:38 PM (W8bn5)

219 When practicality finally trumps sensitivity, the Fat will be secured and husbanded as a valuable commodity against the famine of the (real) Burning Times.

Posted by: General Zod at February 24, 2017 02:38 PM (Bdeb0)

220 I love my ass the size it is now. I love the way I look and feel, and the freedom it gives me.

No, you harbor deep and unresolved resentment about whatever real or perceived lack of freedom it imposed on you before. There's pretty much no chance you'll ever acknowledge, much less address, this resentment and bitterness and self-loathing, so... keep on bein' you, I guess. Hope that works out.

"Honestly, people are amazing. You just have to really ~~see them~~ berate them for performing a simple and routine act of common decency for a complete stranger, then rationalize it to yourself by writing an article about it."

Posted by: hogmartin at February 24, 2017 02:38 PM (8nWyX)

221 Bow fucking wow.

Posted by: Country Boy

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Bow fucking no thank you. I saw no wow. None.

Posted by: Dang at February 24, 2017 02:33 PM (8b+oT)

I was trying to sound like a dog, but yours is more apropos.

Posted by: Country Boy - just a humble, occasionally hotheaded poster at February 24, 2017 02:38 PM (Jcg9Q)

222 Fat, naaaasty and perpetually offended is no way to go through life, sugartits.

Posted by: Mortimer, FINISH HER! at February 24, 2017 02:38 PM (qU2ch)

223 78
Fat women apparently open the refrigerator door just fine.

Posted by: Dave at Buffalo Roam at February 24, 2017 02:22 PM (ywfPZ)

"PUT THE LOTION IN THE FUCKING BASKET!" is the appropriate response.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at February 24, 2017 02:38 PM (GX63o)

224
I never hold an elevator door open for a fat person.

At college an unlimited class wrestler got on the elevator, it sagged, we heard a twang, it sagged some more, 2 people bailed, away we went.

Posted by: DaveA at February 24, 2017 02:38 PM (8J/Te)

225 Dear Guardian, I never believed it could happen to me but it did. Luckily my buddy ace and I were able get in line before he waddled over and cleaned out the buffet and ace got friendzoned.

Posted by: Ace's friend at February 24, 2017 02:38 PM (nFwvY)

226 I will hold the door open for anybody, really. Man or woman. It's rude to let the door shut on somebody as they're beginning to walk through.
Posted by: Mark1971 at February 24, 2017 02:24 PM (gdnq1)

I ran down to Panera to pick up lunch for me and co-worker today and didn't realize that someone was coming in as I was leaving and I didn't hold the door open and I'm still fretting about it.

You hold doors open for people and help people get stuff off shelves YES I DO THAT TOO old people can't bend over too well and I'm right there at the bottom shelves to get stuff and things like that because it's just freaking polite.

Posted by: alexthechick - all your caps are belong to me at February 24, 2017 02:38 PM (mf5HN)

227 I'm not Joe Stands in a Doorway Holding It Open for Strangers over here

Put out your hand for a tip.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 24, 2017 02:38 PM (QQ+il)

228 "One thing I like to do with strangers is sigh and
shake my head forlornly and say "You just don't *Get it*, do you?" and
then walk away mysteriously."
-Posted by: ace at February 24, 2017 02:35 PM (8rNrN)

I simply ask. "Did you get the thing?" When they are dumbfounded, I sigh and walk away.

"Forget about it".

*slams car door*

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at February 24, 2017 02:38 PM (6gk0M)

229 I get mad if someone holds the door open because that's a rep I didn't get to do, brah!

Posted by: broseidon being a capitalist pigdog (yknow, working) at February 24, 2017 02:38 PM (oZ6kz)

230 I thought Trump was going to send fat chicks to the camps?

Posted by: josephistan at February 24, 2017 02:39 PM (7HtZB)

231 204; i probably would have knocked the oil out of his hands. fuck that old timing dude. asshat.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 24, 2017 02:39 PM (KP5rU)

232 In the west, we value our girls. China kills theirs.

That was true at a point, including possibly the adoptive daughter who's now full of bitchy US attitude...love her and hate her daily, such is life.

Now China is out of girls, it's 1.6 guys per girl and so the marital value is very different.

Posted by: JEM at February 24, 2017 02:39 PM (TppKb)

233 old people can't bend over too well and I'm right there at the bottom shelves to get stuff and things like that

ISWYDT, Your Grace, and I snorted.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 24, 2017 02:39 PM (QQ+il)

234 oops wrong copy/paste.

That was for the chick who refused to walk through the opened door.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at February 24, 2017 02:39 PM (GX63o)

235 228
I simply ask. "Did you get the thing?" When they are dumbfounded, I sigh and walk away.

"Forget about it".

*slams car door*

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at February 24, 2017 02:38 PM (6gk0M)

=======================

*runs up, frantic*

"Why are you still here? Didn't you get the message? Run!"

*runs off*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 02:39 PM (EvBgT)

236
What I hate is cars stopping for me when I'm still two paces from entering the crosswalk.

First of all, I'm a grown man. I don't need to the whole farking world stop every time I cross the street.

Second, I purposely TIMED my pace so I'd could cross the street as soon as you went by. You just wasted my time and your time and made me rush by going out of your way and coming to a complete stop so I could cross the street. Thanks for nothing, Jerkoff.

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at February 24, 2017 02:39 PM (P0DTV)

237 I would like to know where she lived 4 years ago. I live in the same area she does and men AND boys have always opened doors or held doors for me because they are POLITE and well raised. I would hazard a guess she didnt live in the South (Nashville) 4 years ago

Posted by: lb at February 24, 2017 02:39 PM (Ea9jC)

238 the other day a dude (a slim dude, not that it matters) was rushing to the elevator I was in and I did the thing where you pretend you're hitting door open but you're really not (I was late, and I had been waiting for that elevator for a while) t but he was quicker than I estimated and put his arm between the doors and got in.

It would have been uncomfortable but I really didn't care. Dude interrupted my elevator.

Posted by: ace at February 24, 2017 02:39 PM (8rNrN)

239 Actually, I think that women who simply walk through without the customary, "Thank you" are the worst.

I will usually say, in a loud voice, "You're welcome!" if they don't say thanks.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 24, 2017 02:40 PM (rF0hx)

240 CNN, NYT, LaTimes, Buzzfeed are barred from WH Press Conference.

Posted by: HugoStiglitz at February 24, 2017 02:40 PM (aOqpx)

241 I'm not sure what the rule of thumb is for holding the door for a transgendered, especially if I'm going to be droppin' a deuce.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at February 24, 2017 02:40 PM (hqZPQ)

242 Ayaan Hirsi Ali wrote that one of the biggest shocks when she very first moved to the West was men holding the door for her.

Posted by: sunny-dee at February 24, 2017 02:40 PM (QAOZh)

243 228 "One thing I like to do with strangers is sigh and
shake my head forlornly and say "You just don't *Get it*, do you?" and
then walk away mysteriously."
-Posted by: ace at February 24, 2017 02:35 PM (8rNrN)

I simply ask. "Did you get the thing?" When they are dumbfounded, I sigh and walk away.

"Forget about it".

*slams car door*

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at February 24, 2017 02:38 PM (6gk0M)

"Are you with Santiago's people?"

Posted by: josephistan at February 24, 2017 02:40 PM (7HtZB)

244 "you're more than a second a half behind me, though, you can open the door yourself. I'm not Joe Stands in a Doorway Holding It Open for Strangers over here."

Smart because otherwise you run into that awkward situation where you hold the door open and the other person starts walk jogging and you're like "no you don't have to run..." And everyone hates everything.

Posted by: Lauren at February 24, 2017 02:41 PM (sjmF0)

245 I was trying to sound like a dog, but yours is more apropos.
Posted by: Country Boy - just a humble, occasionally hotheaded poster at February 24, 2017 02:38 PM (Jcg9Q)
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Maybe she's more..woof..less bow wow.

Posted by: WisRich at February 24, 2017 02:41 PM (hdpay)

246 Men tend to hold the door for me...if I'm in a tight little number with high heels on, they go out of their way to keep the door open for me...its very sweet.

Posted by: IC at February 24, 2017 02:41 PM (a0IVu)

247
And then there's the stupid shits who don't even pause before entering the crosswalk. They just walk across the street and dare you not to stop....because It's The Law!

Well, guess what?
I Don't Stop.

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at February 24, 2017 02:41 PM (P0DTV)

248 "*runs up, frantic*

"Why are you still here? Didn't you get the message? Run!"

*runs off*
-Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 02:39 PM (EvBgT)

*HAH!*

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at February 24, 2017 02:41 PM (6gk0M)

249

I'd hit it...

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at February 24, 2017 02:41 PM (HSmrB)

250 You hold doors open for people and help people get stuff off shelves YES I DO THAT TOO old people can't bend over too well and I'm right there at the bottom shelves to get stuff and things like that because it's just freaking polite.

Once had a "short" person ask me if I could help her get something off the top shelf. Hell, I'm 6'. No problem.

I picked her up and held her out towards the top shelf.
Bitchy bitchy.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 24, 2017 02:41 PM (WFe5M)

251 246 Men tend to hold the door for me...if I'm in a tight little number with high heels on, they go out of their way to keep the door open for me...its very sweet.
Posted by: IC at February 24, 2017 02:41 PM (a0IVu)

=====================

I keep forgetting that you're a woman.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 02:41 PM (EvBgT)

252 I never hold an elevator door open for a fat person. Self-preservation.

Posted by: Fritz at February 24, 2017 02:35 PM (2Mnv1)

Yeah. You never know the last time those cables got replaced.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 24, 2017 02:41 PM (WDdjT)

253 I've only run into this once and it was a cute, hour glass figured, black chick back in my USAF days. I don't remember what she said exactly but she didn't want no white man holding the door for her. So I didn't, ever again. I had to work with her too. This was in the late 80s. She did have an amazing figure. Too bad she was an entitled and awful person.

Posted by: Puddleglum at February 24, 2017 02:42 PM (Gl9DN)

254 First of all, I'm a grown man. I don't need to the whole farking world stop every time I cross the street.

Maybe not--but all you peasants better be laughing when I bring the funny here. Ace pays me heartily in pine straw and bottle caps, you know.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 24, 2017 02:42 PM (B+qrE)

255
I think so many people anymore have some sort of aspergerers/autism issues it's unbelievable. One of the symptoms is avoidance of eye contact. That makes them extremely uncomfortable.

If I happen to hold a door open for a woman it is only in the mode of the most sorrowful slave on the planet, without any redeeming value at all -- that is, with eyes lowered to the ground, bent slightly at the waist.

*That* is the one and only method that one should use to either hold a door open for a woman or open it. Think I'm kidding? I assure you I'm not.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at February 24, 2017 02:42 PM (ZFUt7)

256 Actually, I think that women who simply walk through without the customary, "Thank you" are the worst.

I will usually say, in a loud voice, "You're welcome!" if they don't say thanks.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 24, 2017 02:40 PM (rF0hx)
====================

Well, Jersey.

Posted by: grammie winger at February 24, 2017 02:42 PM (bpfzP)

257 122
>>What kind of cad doesn't hold the door just because a woman is fat?

You always hold the door for fat women, because they might have thin friends.

Posted by: garrett at February 24, 2017 02:26 PM (ktw54)

And appreciate a good sammich.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at February 24, 2017 02:42 PM (GX63o)

258 CNN, NYT, LaTimes, Buzzfeed are barred from WH Press Conference.

Houston: Schadenboner JEM, you are go for interstellar departure.

Posted by: JEM at February 24, 2017 02:42 PM (TppKb)

259 That kind of disparity usually leads to big, nasty wars, JEM.

That pressures gotta get relieved somehow, and usually it's war that does it.

Posted by: Chupacabra at February 24, 2017 02:42 PM (o/Ar3)

260

It would have been uncomfortable but I really didn't care. Dude interrupted my elevator.
Posted by: ace at February 24, 2017 02:39 PM (8rNrN)

===

When Mort is crowned king, all elevators shall be equipped with sideways guillotine technology.

Posted by: Mortimer, FINISH HER! at February 24, 2017 02:43 PM (qU2ch)

261 246 Men tend to hold the door for me...if I'm in a tight little number with high heels on, they go out of their way to keep the door open for me...its very sweet.
Posted by: IC at February 24, 2017 02:41 PM (a0IVu)

It's going to be leghumping from here to 500 posts, now.

Posted by: TexasDan at February 24, 2017 02:43 PM (yL25O)

262 And in general, people caught being nice to you, aren't generally going to punch you in the face when you start being rude.

It's like going off on Fred Rodgers.

Posted by: Axeman at February 24, 2017 02:43 PM (2mC6G)

263 I just hate it when strangers won't tell me what the frequency is. They all just run away!

Posted by: broseidon being a capitalist pigdog (yknow, working) at February 24, 2017 02:43 PM (oZ6kz)

264 >>At college an unlimited class wrestler got on the elevator, it sagged,
we heard a twang, it sagged some more, 2 people bailed, away we went.

Yikes!

One time I got in the elevator and hands were full, so I decided to hold it by sticking my foot between the closing doors. The doors clamped on my foot (with my leg sticking straight out, of course) and froze in place.
I don't ever hold an elevator except by pressing "Door Open" now, fattie or not!

Posted by: Lizzy at February 24, 2017 02:43 PM (NOIQH)

265 "What's the frequency, Kenneth?"

Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 24, 2017 02:43 PM (QQ+il)

266 I think if someone interrupts, or expects you to interrupt, a closing elevator door in progress then that guy's the dick.

What am I, Joe Pushes the Door Open Button for Randos over here?

It's like when a train leaves the station. You don't tell the train to slow down just because you're running late. We all got here on time, Dick.

Posted by: ace at February 24, 2017 02:43 PM (8rNrN)

267 Thanks to Ace and the AoS GAINZZZZZ, I dropped 60 lbs between July and November.

I can tell you, you get treated the way you treat people. Normal run-of-the-mill folks were very nice to me, because I was nice to them. Weight didn't matter. And these days my friends say they are amazed at the weight loss, but I'm not being treated any "better" or with any more deference or whatever than usual.

So I think this woman was just a bitter beyotch and it bled through with her regular interactions with people.

Posted by: VA GOP Sucks at February 24, 2017 02:43 PM (eytER)

268 Deborah Iyall might like you better if you slept together. She might like you better if you slept together. But she's a pig, which is why there's something in your eyes that says maybe, and maybe means never, so you probably won't sleep with her, so Deborah probably won't like you.

Cue saxophone.

Posted by: General Zod at February 24, 2017 02:44 PM (Bdeb0)

269 The primary reason I've enjoined Ace's GAINZZZ program is to make fun of fatties again. Yes, I've dropped 40 lbs out of spite.

Posted by: Regular joe at February 24, 2017 02:44 PM (ROIz5)

270 Jinx, Broceus.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 24, 2017 02:44 PM (QQ+il)

271 CNN, NYT, LaTimes, Buzzfeed are barred from WH Press Conference.

Posted by: HugoStiglitz at February 24, 2017 02:40 PM (aOqpx)
=========================

Were they shown the door? Did anyone hold it for them?

Posted by: grammie winger at February 24, 2017 02:44 PM (bpfzP)

272 Once had a "short" person ask me if I could help her get something off the top shelf. Hell, I'm 6'. No problem.

I picked her up and held her out towards the top shelf.

Bitchy bitchy.

That happened to me too at Target! Racist old bitch!!

Posted by: M. Obama: Former FLOTUS at February 24, 2017 02:44 PM (qJhUV)

273
Sometimes when I see an older person struggling to get up some steps to the door, I hold it open until they are almost at the top, and then scream "too late" as I glide on in.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 24, 2017 02:44 PM (ODxAs)

274
Another thing, as soon as I walk into an empty McDonalds and I'm barely through the door please don't ask me, "Hi, Can I Take Your Order?"

I don't know what I want yet and if I did, I'd prefer not to yell my order to you from 20 feet away.

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at February 24, 2017 02:44 PM (P0DTV)

275 I almost lost a keyboard because of this thread.

Posted by: @votermom @vm at February 24, 2017 02:44 PM (Om16U)

276 I'm about the same height as AtC and I get taller men and sometimes even women to grab things off of the top shelf for me all the time. I've never had anyone say no or yell at me because I'm picking on tall people. I usually thank these people too.
I'm with AtC on helping out people that are older, you know since we are only 29ish.........

Posted by: lindarising schadenbutton! at February 24, 2017 02:44 PM (JNDQi)

277 >>I picked her up and held her out towards the top shelf.

Bitchy bitchy.<<

Lol

Posted by: MacGruber at February 24, 2017 02:45 PM (C278+)

278 As the elevator door closes, shout Going Up!

Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 24, 2017 02:45 PM (QQ+il)

279 I still open doors for women. I've never gotten any complaints, and plenty of compliments. I do know it happens, but not so far to me. Most of the time the women seem surprised and grateful.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylorh at February 24, 2017 02:45 PM (39g3+)

280 I almost lost a keyboard because of this thread.

Posted by: @votermom @vm at February 24, 2017 02:44 PM (Om16U)

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....dont eat the keyboard.

Posted by: fixerupper at February 24, 2017 02:45 PM (8XRCm)

281 221 Bow fucking wow.

Posted by: Country Boy

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Bow fucking no thank you. I saw no wow. None.

Posted by: Dang at February 24, 2017 02:33 PM (8b+oT)

Oh, c'mon. Strictly casual, with no likelihood of any emotional entanglement, I'd hit it.

Of course, the likelihood of opportunity for that with any woman that is not
a) psycho or
b) a hooker
is pretty low. The sure knowledge that she would pretty definitely be at least psycho makes the appearance a nightmare, but past that, not so bad.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at February 24, 2017 02:45 PM (CPk08)

282 Ace misspelled "Womyn."

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 24, 2017 02:45 PM (PY9jH)

283 "And, I am happy to report, I am also a fairly happy, confident person."

I stopped reading at that point.

Posted by: Cymbaline at February 24, 2017 02:45 PM (/1FgJ)

284 "I've only run into this once and it was a cute, hour
glass figured, black chick back in my USAF days. I don't remember what
she said exactly but she didn't want no white man holding the door for
her. So I didn't, ever again. I had to work with her too. This was in
the late 80s. She did have an amazing figure. Too bad she was an
entitled and awful person"
-Posted by: Puddleglum at February 24, 2017 02:42 PM (Gl9DN)

You'd be surprised how a well-placed "shut-up" works. Say it with the affect in which it is meant and even powerful figures acquiesce.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at February 24, 2017 02:45 PM (6gk0M)

285 Sounds like Happy the Feminist Harpy there lost the equivalent of kicking two other people out of her skin sack.

Maybe one of those other people was the nice one.

Posted by: Sort-of-Mad Max at February 24, 2017 02:46 PM (nd1zx)

286 Mopeds of the world unite!

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at February 24, 2017 02:46 PM (hqZPQ)

287 Men tend to hold the door for me...if I'm in a tight little number with high heels on, they go out of their way to keep the door open for me...its very sweet.
Posted by: IC at February 24, 2017 02:41 PM (a0IVu)
_____________________

Hey! Me too!

Posted by: Bruce Jenner at February 24, 2017 02:46 PM (HSmrB)

288 It's amazing how offended people are by manners though.

My kids know to respond to adults with "yes, sir" or "yes, ma'am".

You would not believe how many women get pissy over that. Uh, it's not a commentary of you being an old hag, lady. It's a sign you're older than an 8 year old, ffs.

Posted by: Lauren at February 24, 2017 02:47 PM (sjmF0)

289 Remember how Mooch talked about being asked to reach for something on a tall shelf in Target? Because she was black or something. The white woman didn't recognize she was FLOTUS. All the secret service agents weren't a dead giveaway.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 24, 2017 02:47 PM (PY9jH)

290 258 CNN, NYT, LaTimes, Buzzfeed are barred from WH Press Conference.
Posted by: JEM at February 24, 2017 02:42 PM (TppKb)

Why do I feel there's a showdown coming and I think it's going to be at the O.K. Corral (aka,WH Correspondents Dinner).

The knifes on both sides will be out.

Posted by: WisRich at February 24, 2017 02:47 PM (hdpay)

291 In the submarine community, females of 'husky' build and/or ugly as hell are known as Bremerloes, from the Bremerton WA base where they are rather common. On the East Coast (Groton, CT), they are known as Grotopotomus.

Submariners are keenly sought after by the cognoscenti, given their documented capabilities to "do it deeper".

Submariners, also gentlemen to the last, do hold doors open for one and all.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 24, 2017 02:47 PM (DMUuz)

292 Nothing wrong with holding the door for short women. Usually you can get a glimpse down the shirt front as they pass, and then you can check out the rear view.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at February 24, 2017 02:47 PM (7ZVPa)

293 The doors clamped on my foot

Same elevator caught my fingers one time when I tried slapping the open bumper to hold it for someone. Rode it down with my hand curled up shitting bricks, still have all my fingers.

Posted by: DaveA at February 24, 2017 02:47 PM (8J/Te)

294 >>One young woman actually refused to go in, stopping and glaring at me until I had let the door go.

I'd just go in first and let the door swing shut in her face.

Posted by: Cymbaline at February 24, 2017 02:48 PM (/1FgJ)

295 Was introduced socially to a woman who was perhaps about 22.

She extended her hand. I gently grasped it, turned it horizontally, and did my best rendition of a gallant gentlemanly bow over it, without being so crass as to kiss the hand of someone I had just met.

She frosted over faster than a dead penguin, glared at me, and jerked her hand away theatrically. Then put it back out vertically, visibly wanting to have her hand BY GAIA SHAKEN and without any substitute gestures by superannuated male chauvinist pigs, kthxbye.

Posted by: torquewrench at February 24, 2017 02:48 PM (noWW6)

296 Same elevator caught my fingers one time when I
tried slapping the open bumper to hold it for someone. Rode it down with
my hand curled up shitting bricks, still have all my fingers.

Posted by: DaveA at February 24, 2017 02:47 PM (8J/Te)

Good Lord! Did you lose any fingernails?

Posted by: IC at February 24, 2017 02:48 PM (a0IVu)

297 >>
I'd just go in first and let the door swing shut in her face.

Gotta crop dust her, too.

Posted by: garrett at February 24, 2017 02:48 PM (ktw54)

298 My kids know to respond to adults with "yes, sir" or "yes, ma'am".

Amazing how far that will go.

I was overall, a high school bad boy--long hair, fast car, and all. All my girlfriends' parents loved me because I was polite to them.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 24, 2017 02:49 PM (B+qrE)

299 You would not believe how many women get pissy over that. Uh, it's not a commentary of you being an old hag, lady. It's a sign you're older than an 8 year old, ffs.
Posted by: Lauren

But the first time a teenager calls you sir/ma'am does sting a bit. Or so I'm told, being only 29 and all.

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at February 24, 2017 02:49 PM (QDr6b)

300 >>294
>>One young woman actually refused to go in, stopping and glaring at me until I had let the door go.

Glaring contest...go!

Posted by: General Zod at February 24, 2017 02:49 PM (Bdeb0)

301 "old people can't bend over too well"

Says you.

Posted by: Mitch McConnell at February 24, 2017 02:49 PM (eJmoF)

302 when the urinals are all filled up and there's a guy right behind me I give a gentlemanly sweep of the hand and offer to let him take the urinal first.

if he says "No, go ahead," I say "no, I insist, I want to see what's doin' between those pleats."

Posted by: ace at February 24, 2017 02:49 PM (8rNrN)

303 My favorite thing to do on Earth is exit-fart an elevator.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at February 24, 2017 02:49 PM (hqZPQ)

304 Is it just me that becomes a little giddy when ace comments?

That doesn't make me gay, does it?

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at February 24, 2017 02:49 PM (6gk0M)

305 >>clamped on my foot

Pro Tip : The clamps are for your nipples, not your feet.

Posted by: garrett at February 24, 2017 02:49 PM (ktw54)

306 Submariners, also gentlemen to the last, do hold doors open for one and all.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 24, 2017 02:47 PM (DMUuz)

And twist the knob as they close them, so they don't slam.

Posted by: hogmartin at February 24, 2017 02:49 PM (8nWyX)

307 Ace, you know the rules: pics or it didn't happen.

How else we gonna know if we'd hit that?

Posted by: CNN ABC CBS NBC OTHER LYING SHITWEASELS at February 24, 2017 02:49 PM (49IcX)

308 It's amazing how offended people are by manners though.

My kids know to respond to adults with "yes, sir" or "yes, ma'am".

You would not believe how many women get pissy over that. Uh, it's
not a commentary of you being an old hag, lady. It's a sign you're older
than an 8 year old, ffs.

Posted by: Lauren at February 24, 2017 02:47 PM (sjmF0)

Our son was taught to say "ma'am" and "sir" from the time he could talk. His teachers in IL got pissed because it was "old fashioned" and "Southern." I called one teacher and informed her he was exhibiting good manners.

Shame I had to even bother to explain.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 24, 2017 02:50 PM (PY9jH)

309 I think MSNBC or Salon should get the boot next.

Should have gotten the boot first. CNN and NYT are atrocious, but not as worthless as those pieces of crap.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylorh at February 24, 2017 02:50 PM (39g3+)

310 I hold doors open all the time for women. They always seem to love it and throw a smile. Jersey no less, but I'm in a red sector.

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at February 24, 2017 02:50 PM (aMlLZ)

311 >>That doesn't make me gay, does it?

A little more than a Messenger Bag.

Not quite as much as Crocs.

Posted by: garrett at February 24, 2017 02:50 PM (ktw54)

312 I have had people stop me and lecture me when I didn't hold the door for them.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at February 24, 2017 02:50 PM (vg8iE)

313 One young woman actually refused to go in, stopping and glaring at me until I had let the door go.

It would be fun to wait someone like that out.

Just smiling, waiting. Maybe laughing.

Posted by: TexasDan at February 24, 2017 02:50 PM (yL25O)

314 This woman is only deceiving herself if she is upset
at a few men opening doors for her because they now find her
attractive. Part of the reason she lost the weight was SO THAT others
would find her more attractive, and thus receive some of the benefits of
being attractive.

Posted by: yaedon

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1. Was fat and hated men because couldn't get laid
2. Lost weight
3. Got laid by a drunk guy who didn't call like he said he would
4. Back to hating men

Posted by: Dang at February 24, 2017 02:50 PM (8b+oT)

315 All my girlfriends' parents loved me because I was polite to them.

Posted by: Circa

--

Politeness and a fake veneer of respectability are pretty much all a rascal and scamp needs to get by.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at February 24, 2017 02:50 PM (7ZVPa)

316 "if he says "No, go ahead," I say "no, I insist, I want to see what's doin' between those pleats."

Posted by: ace at February 24, 2017 02:49 PM (8rNrN) "

Did you also help him unzip? It's the gentlemanly thing to do.

Posted by: broseidon being a capitalist pigdog (yknow, working) at February 24, 2017 02:50 PM (oZ6kz)

317 "My kids know to respond to adults with 'yes, sir' or 'yes, ma'am'. You would not believe how many women get pissy over that."

DON'T YOU DARE CALL ME MA'AM! CALL ME 'SENATOR'!!! I WORKED HARD FOR THAT TITLE!

Posted by: Barbara Boxer, D-Senile Dementia at February 24, 2017 02:50 PM (noWW6)

318 I don't hold open doors for fat chicks because I don't want to let them get ahead of me in line. That's it. Fatties are slow and I am in a hurry.

It has nothing to do with attractiveness (Step 1: hold gas station door open. Step 2: receive blow job).

Posted by: wooga at February 24, 2017 02:50 PM (DAKHI)

319 So, this woman used to be very fat. She says men didn't hold doors open for her when she was fat. Now, she claims, three times in a week, men either hold a door for her or do some other minor helpful gesture.

And she's enraged about it.

She needs to chill out. She'll be fat again in 2 years and then she can enjoy not being able to squeeze through single doors. But, she'll have the chubby-chasers, so she won't be totally out of it.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at February 24, 2017 02:51 PM (zc3Db)

320 I read this earlier today, my reply would be calm your tits honey and make me a samich. I have no patients for self made victims. She can open her own fucking doors from now on. The world is not fair sugartits. fuck.

Posted by: USNtakim at February 24, 2017 02:51 PM (hMqvx)

321 253 I've only run into this once and it was a cute, hour glass figured, black chick back in my USAF days. I don't remember what she said exactly but she didn't want no white man holding the door for her. So I didn't, ever again. I had to work with her too. This was in the late 80s. She did have an amazing figure. Too bad she was an entitled and awful person.
Posted by: Puddleglum at February 24, 2017 02:42 PM (Gl9DN)

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At some point I'd have to get snarky. I'd probably ask her if she was pregnant because she seems to be gaining weight.

Posted by: Soona at February 24, 2017 02:51 PM (Fmupd)

322 So, this woman used to be very fat. She says men didn't hold doors open for her when she was fat. Now, she claims, three times in a week, men either hold a door for her or do some other minor helpful gesture.

And she's enraged about it.

Posted by: Ace at 02:20 PM

++++

Thompson missed her point, and I think you are too. The woman wrote a self revelatory article where she realizes her own unfairness, citing that man opening the door for her as an example. Thompson responds by criticizing her for holding views that she herself is criticizing about herself.

He opened that door for me because I wasn't physically offensive to him, and I knew. And it was in that moment that I realised how terrible we are as a society to people, based solely on their appearance. This realisation broke me. It broke me in a way that I've never been broken before. He certainly didn't deserve my outburst, but in that moment I couldn't help myself.

After receiving some pushback in his comments section, Thompson then updates his piece by questioning whether or not she has any factual basis for thinking that the man would have opened that door when she was fat.

I guess I think it is poor form to respond to someone who is admitting fault in themselves - as the woman did in describing her unfair outburst towards the man who opened the door for her - by jumping on that person and to start beating them up for the same thing they are beating themselves up over.

The woman is trying to talk about something real. Her belief that chivalry is very much dependent on the attractiveness of a woman, as perceived by the man who is offering it, or in many cases, not offering it. And, how that rejection can feel to someone who is unattractive. As she herself admitted, that double standard made her act unfairly to someone who didn't deserve her outburst. But, the behavior of others is also worthy of discussion.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at February 24, 2017 02:51 PM (R+30W)

323 >>Just smiling, waiting. Maybe laughing. Posted by: TexasDan at February 24, 2017 02:50 PM (yL25O)

Smiling. Waiting. Laughing. Adjusting.

Posted by: General Zod at February 24, 2017 02:51 PM (Bdeb0)

324 I don't know what I want yet and if I did, I'd prefer not to yell my order to you from 20 feet away.

--------

Man, tough crowd.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 24, 2017 02:52 PM (OeQ/D)

325 299 You would not believe how many women get pissy over that. Uh, it's not a commentary of you being an old hag, lady. It's a sign you're older than an 8 year old, ffs.
Posted by: Lauren

But the first time a teenager calls you sir/ma'am does sting a bit. Or so I'm told, being only 29 and all.
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at February 24, 2017 02:49 PM (QDr6b)

Yeah... I'll admit though that I've gotten huffy a few times when some 20 nothing Kid calls me by my first name...

You ain't earned that Kid... its MR. X....

Posted by: Don Q. at February 24, 2017 02:52 PM (qf6WZ)

326 But the first time a teenager calls you sir/ma'am does sting a bit. Or so I'm told, being only 29 and all.

I've only very recently got to the point I feel mature and dignified enough to be treated with respect by young people. They seem to agree, maybe its how I carry myself or dress or something.

Being 6'3 with broad shoulders might help.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylorh at February 24, 2017 02:52 PM (39g3+)

327 Men tend to hold the door for me...if I'm in a tight little number with high heels on, they go out of their way to keep the door open for me...its very sweet.
Posted by: IC at February 24, 2017 02:41 PM (a0IVu)

=====================

I keep forgetting that you're a woman.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison

It's because you are a sexist. When you see "IC" you subconsciously think "integrated circuit". But you think only men are capable of inventing or comprehending technology, so you assume she's a man. Stop being such an oppressive bigot. Oh, wait, no. You are probably hopeless.

Posted by: Julie Bindel at February 24, 2017 02:52 PM (W8bn5)

328 Never, not once, have I had anyone complain about me holding a door for them. And I do it all the time.

Posted by: tu3031 at February 24, 2017 02:52 PM (qJhUV)

329 My favorite thing to do on Earth is exit-fart an elevator.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at February 24, 2017 02:49 PM (hqZPQ)

"Do you smell burning insulation?" on the way out or it doesn't count.

Posted by: hogmartin at February 24, 2017 02:52 PM (8nWyX)

330 I hate these women.

As a woman, I can open my own door, and often do.

Conversely, if a man of any race, creed, or age opens a door for me, I make eye contact, give him a huge smile and say "Thank you so much."

It sucks that men are trying to be nice, and are then punished for it.

Eff these feminazis.

Posted by: shibumi, a rational single white female and kitteh servant at February 24, 2017 02:52 PM (J5mC3)

331 CALL ME 'SENATOR'!!! I WORKED HARD FOR THAT TITLE!
====

sucking donor dick is work.

Posted by: Mortimer, FINISH HER! at February 24, 2017 02:52 PM (qU2ch)

332 Suck it fat girls--I gets the door opened for me NOW!!

Posted by: Hermany Humblebragpas at February 24, 2017 02:52 PM (fi5nC)

333 Did you lose any fingernails?

No.

Posted by: DaveA at February 24, 2017 02:52 PM (8J/Te)

334 I'm about the same height as AtC

I've always heard there was a "You must be this tall to enter" requirement and sign outside AoSHQ, but The Moose Out Front told me it mysteriously disappeared about the same time that AtC showed up, and has never been replaced.

Is there any truth to this?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 24, 2017 02:52 PM (DMUuz)

335 I am polite as fuck. And to pretty much everyone...

until.

After they break the code, all bets are off.

Posted by: garrett at February 24, 2017 02:52 PM (ktw54)

336 327 It's because you are a sexist. When you see "IC" you subconsciously think "integrated circuit". But you think only men are capable of inventing or comprehending technology, so you assume she's a man. Stop being such an oppressive bigot. Oh, wait, no. You are probably hopeless.

Posted by: Julie Bindel at February 24, 2017 02:52 PM (W8bn5)

=====================

You read me like a book.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 02:52 PM (EvBgT)

337
The woman is trying to talk about something real.

Not really, tho.

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at February 24, 2017 02:53 PM (P0DTV)

338 Politeness and a fake veneer of respectability are pretty much all a rascal and scamp needs to get by.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at February 24, 2017 02:50 PM (7ZVPa)

yeeuuus to obi-wan you listen.

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at February 24, 2017 02:53 PM (aMlLZ)

339 We were on base with son one time, and I asked what was up with all the fit young Marines with ummm, "hefty" young wives.

Son replied, "We call those wives 'dependopotomusses.'"

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 24, 2017 02:53 PM (PY9jH)

340 ..."She frosted over faster than a dead penguin, glared at me, and jerked her hand away theatrically. Then put it back out vertically, visibly wanting to have her hand BY GAIA SHAKEN and without any substitute gestures by superannuated male chauvinist pigs, kthxbye."
-Posted by: torquewrench at February 24, 2017 02:48 PM (noWW6)

The Hell? That broad needed some corrections. I might have deigned her the First Woman I Did Anal on With No Warning.

...but that's just me.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at February 24, 2017 02:53 PM (6gk0M)

341 Her belief that chivalry is very much dependent on the attractiveness of a woman, as perceived by the man who is offering it, or in many cases, not offering it.

And that--based on what I was taught by me southern forebears--is bullshit.

You open the door for a lady or an elderly man. Period.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 24, 2017 02:53 PM (B+qrE)

342 334 I'm about the same height as AtC

I've always heard there was a "You must be this tall to enter" requirement and sign outside AoSHQ, but The Moose Out Front told me it mysteriously disappeared about the same time that AtC showed up, and has never been replaced.

Is there any truth to this?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 24, 2017 02:52 PM (DMUuz)

===================

The sign fell down. So she was technically taller than the line when she walked in.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 02:53 PM (EvBgT)

343
If someone flashes their headlights to let me know there is a cop up ahead, I will thank them by swerving into their lane.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 24, 2017 02:53 PM (ODxAs)

344 Listen up honey. No one holds the door for me either.

Posted by: Trans-Jenner at February 24, 2017 02:53 PM (6LwXe)

345 Have five cheeseburgers and STFU.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at February 24, 2017 02:15 PM (GX63o)

Stay away from my lite pre-dinner snack!

Posted by: Meg McCain at February 24, 2017 02:54 PM (o/A0v)

346 My favorite thing to do on Earth is exit-fart an elevator.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie

-----

Mine is to entry-shart a revolving door.

On a hot summer day.

Posted by: Dang at February 24, 2017 02:54 PM (8b+oT)

347 I realised how terrible we are as a society to people, based solely on their appearance.

I think there's a problem with modern society in that we want very desperately to pretend beauty isn't real, isn't objective, and isn't worthy of praise. Tom Selleck is a beautiful man, far more so than I am. He's worthy of praise for his appearance (not to mention his character and thoughts), simply because of that.

Beauty enhances and blesses society, it brings our souls joy. Beauty is good. The fact that beauty receives this is not a flaw with society or a wrong.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylorh at February 24, 2017 02:54 PM (39g3+)

348 313 One young woman actually refused to go in, stopping and glaring at me until I had let the door go.

It would be fun to wait someone like that out.

Just smiling, waiting. Maybe laughing.
Posted by: TexasDan at February 24, 2017 02:50 PM (yL25O)

LOL.... I think I'd have to snark... 'I've got all day Toots!'

Posted by: Don Q. at February 24, 2017 02:54 PM (qf6WZ)

349
Posted by: ace at February 24, 2017 02:49 PM (8rNrN) "

Did you also help him unzip? It's the gentlemanly thing to do.
Posted by: broseidon being a capitalist pigdog (yknow, working) at February 24, 2017 02:50 PM

====

A nice neck and shoulder massage will help him relax.

Posted by: Mortimer, FINISH HER! at February 24, 2017 02:54 PM (qU2ch)

350 343
If someone flashes their headlights to let me know there is a cop up ahead, I will thank them by swerving into their lane.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 24, 2017 02:53 PM (ODxAs)

===================

And then write an article in a globally read ezine bitching about it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 02:54 PM (EvBgT)

351 Maybe when I was fat--guys didn't open the door for me cuz they thought they might have to stay and --push.

Posted by: Hermany Humblebragpas at February 24, 2017 02:54 PM (fi5nC)

352 Tom Selleck?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 24, 2017 02:55 PM (OeQ/D)

353 DON'T YOU DARE CALL ME MA'AM! CALL ME 'SENATOR'!!! I WORKED HARD FOR THAT TITLE!
Posted by: Barbara Boxer

I'll call her "employee".

Posted by: rickb223 at February 24, 2017 02:55 PM (WFe5M)

354 As the elevator door closes, shout Going Up!

Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 24, 2017 02:45 PM (QQ+il)

I usually do my Department Store Elevator Oerator impression:

"Seventh Floor, Ladies' Lingerie and Sporting Goods!"

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 24, 2017 02:55 PM (WDdjT)

355 Is there any truth to this?

What? That there is a moose outside?

That's just a fat meerkat people won't open the door for.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 24, 2017 02:55 PM (B+qrE)

356 The woman is trying to talk about something real. Her belief that chivalry is very much dependent on the attractiveness of a woman, as perceived by the man who is offering it, or in many cases, not offering it. And, how that rejection can feel to someone who is unattractive. As she herself admitted, that double standard made her act unfairly to someone who didn't deserve her outburst. But, the behavior of others is also worthy of discussion.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at February 24, 2017 02:51 PM (R+30W)

Yeah, but how many episodes of the cute reporter in the fat suit walking around downtown do we have to endure?

It's really, really amazing that for so many people history starts with them at age 13, and that they have such a need to verbally process all their new discoveries with zero sense of self awareness.

How is it that narcissism and self awareness can be antithetical, anyway?

Posted by: TexasDan at February 24, 2017 02:55 PM (yL25O)

357 anon y. mous,

I just re-read it, and you're all wet. She's upset that people, not her, other people, treated her less kindly when she was fat (she says). She is not finding fault in herself, but in others. The only "fault" she finds is the discovery that she needs to pound people for having it in for the overweight and helping the overweight or something.

She's not apologizing for the outburst. She's saying the outburst was an epiphany (or was the product of an epiphany).

Posted by: ace at February 24, 2017 02:55 PM (8rNrN)

358 >>The woman is trying to talk about something real. Her belief that
chivalry is very much dependent on the attractiveness of a woman, as
perceived by the man who is offering it, or in many cases, not offering
it. And, how that rejection can feel to someone who is unattractive. As
she herself admitted, that double standard made her act unfairly to
someone who didn't deserve her outburst. But, the behavior of others is
also worthy of discussion.

And yet she assumes that this interaction was only impacted by how the man thought and behaved.

There's no introspection there, only, gee, *men* treat me differently because society trained them to do it or something -- and wow, doesn't society suck?!!!.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 24, 2017 02:55 PM (NOIQH)

359 when the urinals are all filled up and there's a guy right behind me I give a gentlemanly sweep of the hand and offer to let him take the urinal first.

if he says "No, go ahead," I say "no, I insist, I want to see what's doin' between those pleats."

Posted by: ace

I take this as a tacit confession that ace is too scared/ashamed to pee in front of another guy, and thus gets urinary constipation.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at February 24, 2017 02:55 PM (W8bn5)

360 Workjng at the University last fall I held thd foor for lots of young ladies, never got nothing but a smile and thank you

Posted by: Skip at February 24, 2017 02:56 PM (HDU3V)

361 194
One thing I like to do with strangers is sigh and shake my head
forlornly and say "You just don't *Get it*, do you?" and then walk away
mysteriously.

Posted by: ace at February 24, 2017 02:35 PM (8rNrN)

When I am going in, I hold the door open for the goes-outers and give them my best Apu, "Thank you. Come Again."The comes-inners sometimes get, "enjoy your stay," as I exit holding the door.
The people who don't offer a gesture or words of thanks get a loud, sing song, "you're welcome."

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at February 24, 2017 02:56 PM (GX63o)

362 But how would the (apparent) man know that the (apparent) women is in fact a woman ?

You could be an amorphosexual.

Male for 5 minutes, then female for 15 minutes then back again.
And how dare anyone dispute this?

Posted by: undocumented SMOD at February 24, 2017 02:56 PM (e8kgV)

363 "Also, here's a serviceable secondary definition of decadence:

decadence: noun. a state of comfortable disengagement from reality in
which one has run out of real problems and must make up fake problems
to give the animal parts of her brain a work-out, or a similar state
which encourages flights from reality in which decadent people
studiously ignore real and difficult problems by inventing fake and easy
problems to distract them."

2 lefty options: fight reality/flight from reality

Massage amygdala, bukakke, profit. Rinse and repeat.

Provisionally O/T but had to share. Email from Paul Ryan:

Subject line: Show them you're serious

Friend,

In November, you delivered. You gave us a Republican mandate.

Now it's our turn to deliver. And we're excited to bring real change to Washington, Here are our top priorities:

Reforming the worst tax system in the industrialized world.

Repealing and replacing Obamacare.

Rolling back regulations.

It's up to us to execute our agenda - but even with our majority, we're facing an uphill battle.

Unlike the left, we don't have mainstream media to deliver our message for us. And unlike the left, we don't benefit from celebrity endorsements.

Despite all this, I'm optimistic. Here's why: We have the right policies. And we have you, Friend.
---------
Cut to request for money. FFS, you're all ALREADY getting paid to do the goddamned job, you lying weasel (no offense to our own Weasel, of course!)

I could fisk this letter with mucho snark, but it's already in your mind as you read it. I sure wish that I could unsubscribe from this - I know I've done so at least half a dozen times, but apparently it's like the AOL virus and you can't get it off the damned email list.

Thank you for allowing this vent.

Cordially,
Miley

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at February 24, 2017 02:56 PM (tHwdc)

364

Tell them, "I'm not holding the door because you're a lady, but because I'm a gentleman".

Posted by: rickb223 at February 24, 2017 02:22 PM (WFe5M)

Yep. That's a rather famous bit of Dear Abby advice from the 80s in response to a guy who was exasperated at annoying feminists who got all bent out of shape when he'd hold the door for them.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 24, 2017 02:56 PM (XWkhW)

365 Posted by: shibumi, a rational single white female and kitteh servant at February 24, 2017 02:52 PM (J5mC3)

Yup. I thank the guy and wish him a good day etc.

Posted by: IC at February 24, 2017 02:56 PM (a0IVu)

366 Tom Selleck's mustache is without a doubt worthy of praise. It is a Platonic ideal of what a mustache should be. All other mustaches are dreary shadows on the cave walls.

Posted by: broseidon being a capitalist pigdog (yknow, working) at February 24, 2017 02:56 PM (oZ6kz)

367 327 It's because you are a sexist. When you see "IC" you subconsciously think "integrated circuit". But you think only men are capable of inventing or comprehending technology, so you assume she's a man. Stop being such an oppressive bigot. Oh, wait, no. You are probably hopeless.

Posted by: Julie Bindel at February 24, 2017 02:52 PM (W8bn5)

Not to mention that IC's are "male" and need "female" connectors.

Did I mention that I was an engineer? I am. And a woman.

Oh, and I'm an engineer. Don't f*ck with ME! Engieers who are women are very special people!

Did I mention that I actually AM an engineer?

Posted by: Brianna Wu at February 24, 2017 02:56 PM (CPk08)

368 The woman is trying to talk about something real. Her belief that chivalry is very much dependent on the attractiveness of a woman, as perceived by the man who is offering it, or in many cases, not offering it. And, how that rejection can feel to someone who is unattractive. As she herself admitted, that double standard made her act unfairly to someone who didn't deserve her outburst. But, the behavior of others is also worthy of discussion.
---

Perhaps all of this is an expression of her hatred of her body, and it's not about what men do or do not do, but it's about her hatred of herself that she'd projecting on men.

Maybe she needs to pay less attention to what other think and work on her own attitude. My guess is that if she's fat, miserable and angry, men might not want to approach her. Not because of "fat" but because of "miserable and angry."

Posted by: shibumi, a rational single white female and kitteh servant at February 24, 2017 02:56 PM (J5mC3)

369 Being nice, polite, gentlemanly...never got me anywhere. I'm tired of being people's fucking doormat anyway. Get your own goddamn door.

Posted by: Insomniac at February 24, 2017 02:57 PM (0mRoj)

370 362 But how would the (apparent) man know that the (apparent) women is in fact a woman ?

You could be an amorphosexual.

Male for 5 minutes, then female for 15 minutes then back again.
And how dare anyone dispute this?
Posted by: undocumented SMOD at February 24, 2017 02:56 PM (e8kgV)

=======================

"Did you just assume my gender you cis-bitch!?!?!"
-Alternate Universe guy who held the door

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 02:57 PM (EvBgT)

371 The woman is trying to talk about something real.

Not really, tho.

Shush sugartits. The men are talking.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 24, 2017 02:57 PM (WFe5M)

372 I am extra polite to the attractive ladies.

Until, they hit on me. Then I just laugh at them.

Posted by: garrett at February 24, 2017 02:58 PM (ktw54)

373 Male for 5 minutes, then female for 15 minutes then back again.
And how dare anyone dispute this?

----

The Left Hand of Darkness. Nailed it.

Posted by: Ursula K. Le Guin at February 24, 2017 02:58 PM (suO/a)

374 One young woman actually refused to go in, stopping and glaring at me until I had let the door go.

I had a woman stop and start to lecture me for holding the door once.

I shrugged, let go of the door, and went about my business.

The door (a heavy glass one) hit her in the face.

I have no regrets.

Posted by: Weirddave at February 24, 2017 02:58 PM (QGamW)

375 If they held the door open for you when you were fat, they'd have to wait until somebody pushed you through from behind.

Posted by: wth at February 24, 2017 02:58 PM (HgMAr)

376 366 Tom Selleck's mustache is without a doubt worthy of praise. It is a Platonic ideal of what a mustache should be. All other mustaches are dreary shadows on the cave walls.
Posted by: broseidon being a capitalist pigdog (yknow, working) at February 24, 2017 02:56 PM (oZ6kz)

======

Heretic!

Posted by: The Cult of John Bolton's Mustache at February 24, 2017 02:58 PM (qU2ch)

377 the revelation that "other people suck and are at fault" is not "SELF-revelatory," Anon Y. Mous.

Posted by: ace at February 24, 2017 02:58 PM (8rNrN)

378 342 334 I'm about the same height as AtC
I've always heard there was a "You must be this tall to enter" requirement and sign outside AoSHQ, but The Moose Out Front told me it mysteriously disappeared about the same time that AtC showed up, and has never been replaced.

Is there any truth to this?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 24, 2017 02:52 PM
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That sign only applies to men.....heh!

Posted by: lindarising schadenbutton! at February 24, 2017 02:58 PM (JNDQi)

379 Fat chicks, as a demographic, are far more likely to engage in anal.

Hold the door open.

Posted by: jwest at February 24, 2017 02:58 PM (Zs4uk)

380 A little more than a Messenger Bag.
Posted by: garrett at February 24, 2017 02:50 PM

Technically, a J. Crew Messenger Bag.

Posted by: zombie Jenna Lyons at February 24, 2017 02:59 PM (DMUuz)

381
72 degrees in February. It is Unholy!

Hate it.

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at February 24, 2017 02:59 PM (P0DTV)

382 376 366 Tom Selleck's mustache is without a doubt worthy of praise. It is a Platonic ideal of what a mustache should be. All other mustaches are dreary shadows on the cave walls.
Posted by: broseidon being a capitalist pigdog (yknow, working) at February 24, 2017 02:56 PM (oZ6kz)

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Heretic!
Posted by: The Cult of John Bolton's Mustache at February 24, 2017 02:58 PM (qU2ch)

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*Charlie Chaplin sulks in the corner, giving Hitler the evil eye*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 02:59 PM (EvBgT)

383 >>Did I mention that I actually AM an engineer?

So, you blow the horn twice before you pull out of the station?

Posted by: garrett at February 24, 2017 02:59 PM (ktw54)

384 So, this woman used to be very fat. She says men didn't hold doors open for her when she was fat. Now, she claims, three times in a week, men either hold a door for her or do some other minor helpful gesture.

That's nothing. She should talk to some girl who was totally flat-chested and got a boob job.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at February 24, 2017 02:59 PM (zc3Db)

385 308 It's amazing how offended people are by manners though.

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To portsiders like her, manners are antigens. They indicate an enemy presence. A person who holds open doors or calls them "ma'am," or smiles, makes eye contact and says a heartfelt "good morning" is probably a product some malarial swamp of wholesomeness: the military, the South, an intact home, a conservative house of worship. Or all of the above.

Posted by: Slo-Pitch Whiffer at February 24, 2017 02:59 PM (5JlYa)

386 "Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at February 24, 2017 02:56 PM (tHwdc) "

I hate form letters so so much, though I'm also a hypocrite because I have to use them at my job. But I hate hate *hate* political form letters that start with a salutation of 'friend' or my first name. At least my work form letters aren't "Hey best buddy!" It's just "Here's your invoice, pay us plz, kthx and we appreciate your business."

Posted by: broseidon being a capitalist pigdog (yknow, working) at February 24, 2017 02:59 PM (oZ6kz)

387 There is nothing gay about a J.Crew Messenger Bag!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 24, 2017 03:00 PM (OeQ/D)

388 Did I mention that I was an engineer? I am. And a woman.

Oh, and I'm an engineer. Don't f*ck with ME! Engieers who are women are very special people!

Did I mention that I actually AM an engineer?
Posted by: Brianna Wu

Wait...a woman AND an engineer?
An engineer in dynamic sammich construction maybe?

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at February 24, 2017 03:00 PM (QDr6b)

389 You know this reminds me of that Tom Cotton town hall. Democrats cheering and booing the most bizarre things.

"Yes I think the climate is warming (cheer), and we have something to do with it (cheer), but I think we have been making some progress (boo) using natural gas (boo) to replace coal (boo). I think renewables (cheer) have a place in helping (cheer), but they are unreliable (boo) because the sun doesn't always shine (boo), and the and doesn't always blow (boo). So for now we need to rely on nuclear power (boo) and work on energy storage technology to allow more wind and solar to be integrated into the grid (confusion cheers and boos).

Think about it - they often cheer the bad news, and boo indisputable facts. Like - they have to create a disagreement over things that are not that disagreeable.

Posted by: Astro Mike at February 24, 2017 03:00 PM (UgF8H)

390 As a teen, I used to go to a beach in SoCal, which has since been gentrified with a Ritz Carlton on the bluff. To get to the beach you walked under an old concrete walkway that was in disrepair. Sprayed on the walkway in large letters was, "No Fat Chicks." It was there for years until the area was upgraded. I can't imagine what the current crop snowflakes would make of that today. Then again in my day, not many people on the beach struggled with weight issues. Today, many coastal areas I'm on look like mass whale beaching grounds.

Posted by: Russkilitlover at February 24, 2017 03:00 PM (SJ8kp)

391 >> Fat chicks, as a demographic, are far more likely to engage in anal.

It's all fun and games until you wake up on a bed covered with fudge buttons.

Posted by: garrett at February 24, 2017 03:00 PM (ktw54)

392 Always a bonus if you can crop dust in one of those revolving doors.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at February 24, 2017 03:00 PM (p/025)

393 "72 degrees in February. It is Unholy!

Hate it.

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at February 24, 2017 02:59 PM (P0DTV) "

Same here. And this weekend it's supposed to snow. Fucking NE Ohio, man.

Posted by: broseidon being a capitalist pigdog (yknow, working) at February 24, 2017 03:01 PM (oZ6kz)

394 So, you blow the horn twice before you pull out of the station?

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No, that's just ice cream.

Posted by: The Penguin at February 24, 2017 03:01 PM (OeQ/D)

395 As an experiment, she should gain back all that weight, and walk through minority neighborhoods in NYC and see how many men wolf whistle at her.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at February 24, 2017 03:01 PM (W8bn5)

396 Never had this happen to me.

Older folks always seem to appreciate the gesture.

Posted by: ScoggDog at February 24, 2017 03:01 PM (FVvBL)

397 379 Fat chicks, as a demographic, are far more likely to engage in anal.

Hold the door open.
Posted by: jwest at February 24, 2017 02:58 PM (Zs4uk)

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Daddy!

Posted by: MILO--is flaming OUT! at February 24, 2017 03:01 PM (fi5nC)

398 382 376 366 Tom Selleck's mustache is without a doubt worthy of praise. It is a Platonic ideal of what a mustache should be. All other mustaches are dreary shadows on the cave walls.
Posted by: broseidon being a capitalist pigdog (yknow, working) at February 24, 2017 02:56 PM (oZ6kz)

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Heretic!
Posted by: The Cult of John Bolton's Mustache at February 24, 2017 02:58 PM (qU2ch)

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*Charlie Chaplin sulks in the corner, giving Hitler the evil eye*
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 02:59 PM (EvBgT)

They should have given Curt Russel's Stache in Tombstone separate billing...

Posted by: Don Q. at February 24, 2017 03:01 PM (qf6WZ)

399 I guess I think it is poor form to respond to someone who is admitting fault in themselves - as the woman did in describing her unfair outburst towards the man who opened the door for her - by jumping on that person and to start beating them up for the same thing they are beating themselves up over.

The woman is trying to talk about something real. Her belief that chivalry is very much dependent on the attractiveness of a woman, as perceived by the man who is offering it, or in many cases, not offering it. And, how that rejection can feel to someone who is unattractive. As she herself admitted, that double standard made her act unfairly to someone who didn't deserve her outburst. But, the behavior of others is also worthy of discussion.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at February 24, 2017 02:51 PM (R+30W)

I read the Guardian article in question. She deserves every single bit of scorn that is being heaped upon her.

The jumping off point of the article is her claim that now that she is not fat, men buy her drinks, help pick up her dropped items and open doors for her, which no single man ever did before and thus it is only those who are within conventions of attractiveness who receive courteous treatment.

That is simply absurd.

Posted by: alexthechick - all your caps are belong to me at February 24, 2017 03:02 PM (mf5HN)

400 374 One young woman actually refused to go in, stopping and glaring at me until I had let the door go.

I had a woman stop and start to lecture me for holding the door once.

I shrugged, let go of the door, and went about my business.

The door (a heavy glass one) hit her in the face.

I have no regrets.
Posted by: Weirddave at February 24, 2017 02:58 PM (QGamW)

Black knighting at its finest. I tip my hat to you sir.

Posted by: Insomniac at February 24, 2017 03:02 PM (0mRoj)

401 The appearance or age of a woman doesn't matter to me. I was taught to call older women by their last name, hold the door open, pull out the chair, take off your hat indoors, etc. Manners maketh man.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylorh at February 24, 2017 03:02 PM (39g3+)

402 Wait...a woman AND an engineer?
An engineer in dynamic sammich construction maybe?"
-Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at February 24, 2017 03:00 PM (QDr6b)

Bitch knows where the cheese goes.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at February 24, 2017 03:02 PM (6gk0M)

403 The men holding doors open for her secretly want her to burn fewer calories and get fat again. She's totally onto us. We should just stop.

Posted by: Dang at February 24, 2017 03:03 PM (8b+oT)

404 When I hold the door open for hot chicks, I follow up with a "Nice ass".
Because I'm polite.

Posted by: wth at February 24, 2017 03:03 PM (HgMAr)

405 In Nashville?

Here's the deal. In the south, we hold the door open for EVERYBODY as a rule. And everybody that passes through says thank you. It's what we do in The A. And we ain't got squat on Nashville for over all genteel ness. Nobody has ever complained to me. Its what we do.

Last week I met a client in Orlando (She's from Chicago) for a
Job. I completely freaked her out because I opened her car door at each of about four stops. She was not physically attractive (To me anyway). I also held the door when the clients came in the warehouse and thanked them
For coming.

That's what most everybody does up there also.

Posted by: Donald at February 24, 2017 03:03 PM (CVs5m)

406 72 degrees in February. It is Unholy!

Hate it.

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at February 24, 2017 02:59 PM (P0DTV)

I was liking it, until the wife asked if I was going outside to pick up sticks and twigs off the lawn.

I said you can't fool me, its winter. lol

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at February 24, 2017 03:03 PM (aMlLZ)

407 That's just a fat meerkat people won't open the door for.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 24, 2017 02:55 PM

Are you saying it just identifies as a moose?

NTTAWWT.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 24, 2017 03:03 PM (DMUuz)

408
Truth be told, if I see some fatty making towards the door and I'll have to perform door holding duty, I usually turn around like I forgot something, get back in my car and drive around the block once.

Who says chivalry is dead?

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at February 24, 2017 03:04 PM (ZFUt7)

409 388 Did I mention that I was an engineer? I am. And a woman.

Oh, and I'm an engineer. Don't f*ck with ME! Engieers who are women are very special people!

Did I mention that I actually AM an engineer?
Posted by: Brianna Wu

Wait...a woman AND an engineer?
An engineer in dynamic sammich construction maybe?
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at February 24, 2017 03:00 PM (QDr6b)

As Ben R would say...

ITS FUNNY BECAUSE THE "REAL" BRIANNA WU IS NEITHER ORIENTAL, NOR A WOMAN

Posted by: Don Q. at February 24, 2017 03:04 PM (qf6WZ)

410 So, you blow the horn twice before you pull out of the station?

Why yes. Yes she does.
Posted by: Tom Horn

Posted by: rickb223 at February 24, 2017 03:04 PM (WFe5M)

411 If I held the door for a fat woman, wouldn't I be shaming her? Like helping a disabled person up out of their chair.

The world is weird - we have set up this state where helping a person who doesn't need it is wrong, and helping someone who does need it is wrong. You can only help someone when a) it is compelled by the state and b) you don't really want to do it.

Posted by: Astro Mike at February 24, 2017 03:04 PM (UgF8H)

412 Fat chicks, as a demographic, are far more likely to engage in anal.

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so.... you're saying you'd tapir??

Posted by: fixerupper at February 24, 2017 03:04 PM (8XRCm)

413 341 Her belief that chivalry is very much dependent on the attractiveness of a woman, as perceived by the man who is offering it, or in many cases, not offering it.

And that--based on what I was taught by me southern forebears--is bullshit.

You open the door for a lady or an elderly man. Period.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 24, 2017 02:53 PM (B+qrE)

++++

That is the way it's supposed to work. But, people don't always live up to the ideal. You are talking about how chivalry is supposed to work. She is talking about how it works in practice, at least for her.

Maybe she's lying. Maybe men were just as willing to hold the door open for her when she was obese. But, I doubt that's the case.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at February 24, 2017 03:04 PM (R+30W)

414 Honestly, instead of opening doors, I wish some nice man would offer to parallel park my car for me, especially when I am in Santa Barbara or Goleta where that seems to be the only freaking option for parking. Gah.

Posted by: IC at February 24, 2017 03:04 PM (a0IVu)

415 Truth be told, if I see some fatty making towards the door and I'll have to perform door holding duty, I usually turn around like I forgot something, get back in my car and drive around the block once.

And then, a Seinfeld episode broke out...

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 24, 2017 03:04 PM (B+qrE)

416 The jumping off point of the article is her claim that now that she is not fat, men buy her drinks, help pick up her dropped items and open doors for her, which no single man ever did before and thus it is only those who are within conventions of attractiveness who receive courteous treatment.

That is simply absurd.

Posted by: alexthechick - all your caps are belong to me at February 24, 2017 03:02 PM (mf5HN)

It's not absurd. It's partially true. Most people with manners don't operate based on looks .... but a guy might certainly up his manners for an attractive woman. It's only sensible since he would like to engage with a pretty woman - maybe he'll get lucky - while he is just being courteous for an unattractive one.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at February 24, 2017 03:04 PM (zc3Db)

417 Today, many coastal areas I'm on look like mass whale beaching grounds.
Posted by: Russkilitlover at February 24, 2017 03:00 PM (SJ8kp)

How is it that since the advent of fitness regimes, diets, workout DVDs, exercise programs, crossfit, every type of gym/facility known to mankind - the population is getting fatter?

My only consolation as the years accrue is that when I look around me I see women half my age who are twice my weight.

Posted by: kallisto at February 24, 2017 03:05 PM (nNdYv)

418 Most normal people ARE repulsed by someone that looks like a Sweathog and smells like ass.

Posted by: Under Fire at February 24, 2017 03:05 PM (6LwXe)

419 Did I mention that I actually AM an engineer?
Posted by: Brianna Wu

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And I actually AM the conductor.

Posted by: fixerupper at February 24, 2017 03:05 PM (8XRCm)

420 I like opening doors for little girls, because they are always so pleased and always say thank you. It makes my heart warm to know that someone cared to teach them that much at least.

Its just little stuff like that which makes a society work and stay together. That's the stuff the left is constantly trying to destroy, and its like kicking the legs out from under a stilt house. Eventually its all coming down.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylorh at February 24, 2017 03:05 PM (39g3+)

421 She says men didn't hold doors open for her when she was fat. Now, she claims, three times in a week, men either hold a door for her or do some other minor helpful gesture.

Maybe people didn't hold the door open for her because she is a bitch. A mistake that one man will have well learned now.

Posted by: The Political Hat at February 24, 2017 03:06 PM (rUIbB)

422 Hold the door for her? Didn't she see the "No Fat Chicks" sign?

Posted by: wth at February 24, 2017 03:06 PM (HgMAr)

423 Did you also help him unzip? It's the gentlemanly thing to do.

No more than two shakes though, or it's ghey.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 24, 2017 03:06 PM (QQ+il)

424 I had a woman stop and start to lecture me for holding the door once.

I shrugged, let go of the door, and went about my business.

The door (a heavy glass one) hit her in the face.

I have no regrets.
Posted by: Weirddave at February 24, 2017 02:58 PM

--

You made me chortle out loud.

As my late Father would say (and I would agree): "There's a man after my own heart."

Posted by: shibumi, a rational single white female and kitteh servant at February 24, 2017 03:06 PM (J5mC3)

425 Did I mention that I was an engineer? I am. And a woman.

Oh, and I'm an engineer. Don't f*ck with ME! Engieers who are women are very special people!

Did I mention that I actually AM an engineer?
Posted by: Brianna Wu

Wait...a woman AND an engineer?
An engineer in dynamic sammich construction maybe?

Posted by: Prince Ludwig

Brianna Wu is a transgendered caucasian guy.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at February 24, 2017 03:06 PM (W8bn5)

426 420 I like opening doors for little girls, because they are always so pleased and always say thank you. It makes my heart warm to know that someone cared to teach them that much at least.
Its just little stuff like that which makes a society work and stay together. That's the stuff the left is constantly trying to destroy, and its like kicking the legs out from under a stilt house. Eventually its all coming down.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylorh at February 24, 2017 03:05 PM (39g3+)
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PERVERT!!!!!!

Posted by: lindarising schadenbutton! at February 24, 2017 03:07 PM (JNDQi)

427 That is the way it's supposed to work. But, people don't always live up to the ideal. You are talking about how chivalry is supposed to work. She is talking about how it works in practice, at least for her.

Maybe she's lying. Maybe men were just as willing to hold the door open for her when she was obese. But, I doubt that's the case.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at February 24, 2017 03:04 PM (R+30W)

Did you read the Guardian article itself?

Posted by: alexthechick - all your caps are belong to me at February 24, 2017 03:07 PM (mf5HN)

428 Speaking of pissy womyn, Shep is after Trump's Golden Scalp Weasel again today.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 24, 2017 03:07 PM (PY9jH)

429 414 Honestly, instead of opening doors, I wish some nice man would offer to parallel park my car for me, especially when I am in Santa Barbara or Goleta where that seems to be the only freaking option for parking. Gah.
Posted by: IC at February 24, 2017 03:04 PM (a0IVu)

Hey... no problemo little Chicka...

Posted by: Hispanic Carjacker at February 24, 2017 03:07 PM (qf6WZ)

430 I'm not buying her premise. I find it VERY unlikely that no one or no man EVER held a door open for her when she was fat. It's made up BS so she can an attention whore.

I hate attention whores....and soy.

Posted by: Tami at February 24, 2017 03:07 PM (Enq6K)

431 I read the Guardian article in question. She deserves every single bit of scorn that is being heaped upon her.

The jumping off point of the article is her claim that now that she is not fat, men buy her drinks, help pick up her dropped items and open doors for her, which no single man ever did before and thus it is only those who are within conventions of attractiveness who receive courteous treatment.

That is simply absurd.
Posted by: alexthechick - all your caps are belong to me at February 24, 2017 03:02 PM (mf5HN)

The heteronormative expectation that people will behave differently to others depending on how they simply look is intolerable. We, as women, and especially as engineers, need o replace it with a society in which everyone gets the same basic human respect, including female engineers. I, as a woman and engineer, want to build that world, because my feelings about how ordinary people behave in ordinary ways that I sometimes find unpleasant, are deeply worthy of a column in a newspaper.

Plus, I am a woman and an engineer, and don't f8ck with female enfgineers, because I am one. An engineer, I mean. And a woman. Both. It isn't impossible, you know. You sh*t.

Posted by: Brianna Wu at February 24, 2017 03:07 PM (CPk08)

432 416
It's not absurd. It's partially true. Most people with manners don't operate based on looks .... but a guy might certainly up his manners for an attractive woman. It's only sensible since he would like to engage with a pretty woman - maybe he'll get lucky - while he is just being courteous for an unattractive one.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at February 24, 2017 03:04 PM (zc3Db)

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I think it's the buying drinks bit that I find absurd.

Of course dudes are only going to buy drinks for girls they want to sleep with, and of course men find thinner women to be more attractive than larger women in general. The idea that men should be spending money on fat women they don't want to sleep with just because is silly.

The other stuff: I doubt all of that. Men may want to go the extra mile for an attractive woman rather than an unattractive one, but we still pick up things and hold doors for fat chicks.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 03:07 PM (EvBgT)

433
Warm days like this in the Winter give The Bad Elements a false sense of Spring Fever and they do stupid things.

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at February 24, 2017 03:07 PM (P0DTV)

434 You could be an amorphosexual.

also know as "temporal gender anomaly"

Posted by: undocumented SMOD at February 24, 2017 03:08 PM (e8kgV)

435
If its gonna take Fatty McHurtbutt 2 minutes to get through the door, I'm gonna let the guy down the block open the door for her when he gets here.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 24, 2017 03:08 PM (ODxAs)

436 I sometimes jump in a revolving door with a lady, wedge the door to a stop with my foot and say, "you aren't gonna fart, are you?" and then just stare at her. You gotta say it right or it could maybe be a little bit creepy. It's all fine.

Posted by: Dang at February 24, 2017 03:08 PM (8b+oT)

437 But, people don't always live up to the ideal.

"People" are outside the confines of my own skin and therefore are beyond my control.

Reminder that she has exactly zero evidence to offer that the same man does not hold doors for unattractive people. Indicting everyone on zero evidence IS what passes for science these days.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 24, 2017 03:08 PM (B+qrE)

438 A small group of women (?) snarked at me one day for holding the door for them.
"Oh look! We needed a bring strong man to hold the door for us ladies."

I just smiled and told them I didn't hold the door because they were ladies, I held it because I was a gentleman.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 24, 2017 03:08 PM (0tfLf)

439
She frosted over faster than a dead penguin, glared at me, and jerked her hand away theatrically. Then put it back out vertically, visibly wanting to have her hand BY GAIA SHAKEN and without any substitute gestures by superannuated male chauvinist pigs, kthxbye.
Posted by: torquewrench

This handshake thing must've started in the 70's. Am still not 100% sure how it's supposed to work.

I was taught as a child how extend a firm but not overly-aggressive handshake.

When I'm about to shake hands with a lady, it takes me a few milliseconds to calibrate it.

Of course 8 times out ten I get the proverbial dead fish in return for my troubles.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 24, 2017 03:09 PM (4YGWz)

440 "She extended her hand. I gently grasped it, turned it horizontally,
and did my best rendition of a gallant gentlemanly bow over it, without
being so crass as to kiss the hand of someone I had just met."

Sorry, but I'm going to have to side with the chick on this one. That is kinda weird.

Posted by: Chris M at February 24, 2017 03:09 PM (eAZVt)

441
Actually the expression is: Any more than 2 shakes and you're playing with it.

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at February 24, 2017 03:09 PM (P0DTV)

442 Dat bitch needs a Snickers.

Posted by: gm at February 24, 2017 03:09 PM (q72E4)

443 One time in law school, I opened a door for a fellow student who happen to be female because I'm polite as I was taught to be by my Mother.

She gave me Resting Bitch Face and said: "Did you open this door for me because you think I am weak?"

"No", I quipped in return, "I opened the door for you because I think you're ugly and fat."

Heh.

Posted by: Sharkman at February 24, 2017 03:09 PM (FXoP8)

444 Someone hit on my peeve above. Open door for a lady behind me and 8 men behind here step up quick and follow her. No eye contact, nothing. So I step in front of the next guy and walk in. For all I know, he is still waiting there for the doorman to come back and open the door for him.

Posted by: The Real Bruce at February 24, 2017 03:09 PM (Qr8dA)

445 The jumping off point of the article is her claim that now that she is not fat, men buy her drinks, help pick up her dropped items and open doors for her, which no single man ever did before and thus it is only those who are within conventions of attractiveness who receive courteous treatment.

That is simply absurd.

Posted by: alexthechick - all your caps are belong to me at February 24, 2017 03:02 PM (mf5HN)

It's not absurd. It's partially true. Most people with manners don't operate based on looks .... but a guy might certainly up his manners for an attractive woman. It's only sensible since he would like to engage with a pretty woman - maybe he'll get lucky - while he is just being courteous for an unattractive one.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at February 24, 2017 03:04 PM (zc3Db)

Holding a door for someone is simply good manners with no correlation to how the other person looks; buying a woman a drink is a whole different thing obviously based on attractiveness.

Posted by: LaSue the most ever deplorable at February 24, 2017 03:09 PM (pWeX5)

446
The jumping off point of the article is her claim that now that she is not fat, men buy her drinks, help pick up her dropped items and open doors for her, which no single man ever did before and thus it is only those who are within conventions of attractiveness who receive courteous treatment.

That is simply absurd.
Posted by: alexthechick - all your caps are belong to me at February 24, 2017 03:02 PM (mf5HN)

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I'm always polite and mannered to any woman holding a flamethrower.

Posted by: Soona at February 24, 2017 03:10 PM (Fmupd)

447 Brianna Wu is a transgendered caucasian guy.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear

My head hurts.

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at February 24, 2017 03:10 PM (QDr6b)

448 417 - Kallisto....I heard about a recent study with fruit flies and mice that fed groups from each either food with artificial sweeteners or food sweetened with sugar. The group eating the artificial sweetener actually ate twice as much food because their brain chemistry was stimulated by the sweet so that the body was expecting a high calorie intake. That not being satisfied by the low cal food sweetened artificially, led to over eating.

Posted by: Russkilitlover at February 24, 2017 03:10 PM (SJ8kp)

449 Who the FCUK logs every damn door encounter with another person anyway?

Probably has every one of her door contacts recorded for posterity on Facebook.

Psycho.

Posted by: Mortimer, FINISH HER! at February 24, 2017 03:10 PM (qU2ch)

450 She says it's now her life goal to something something something...

I think her life goal needs to be to go and find all the men she screamed at and apologize to them for being a frigging lunatic when all they were trying to do was help out a random stranger with a very, very MINOR good deed.

Posted by: Dogstar at February 24, 2017 03:10 PM (ViwBj)

451 35 years ago in college I asked a young woman I met to lunch. Pulled out her chair for her when we were seated, and if looks could kill ...

Needless to say, it was our first and last date.

Posted by: ShainS at February 24, 2017 03:10 PM (BeU6K)

452 Last week I met a client in Orlando (She's from Chicago) for a
Job. I completely freaked her out because I opened her car door at each of about four stops. She was not physically attractive (To me anyway). I also held the door when the clients came in the warehouse and thanked them
For coming.

That's what most everybody does up there also.
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I'm in SE Michigan. That level of politeness does not exist here, and when I run across it, it's like I've won the manners lottery and crossed into Politeness Wonderland.

Moral of the story: if you behave normally and a female absolutely gushes over your actions? It means she's from the not so polite North.

Posted by: shibumi, a rational single white female and kitteh servant at February 24, 2017 03:10 PM (J5mC3)

453 Have any of you ever been stuck in a shopping aisle behind two large women trundling side-by-side at a snail's pace? They're usually draped across their shopping carts like it's the only thing keeping them upright.

Gah. Hate.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 24, 2017 03:10 PM (PY9jH)

454 She's just pissed because her cheeks and jowls are still fat.

That's prolly racist or something to point out so I'll go ahead and denounce myself now.

From inside the now locked store door.

Because crazy

Posted by: Suppressed Flasher at February 24, 2017 03:11 PM (X+nFp)

455 Didn't read the comments on the Art Thread today but Mrs Lavoisier survived the French Revolution

Posted by: Skip at February 24, 2017 03:11 PM (HDU3V)

456 453
Have any of you ever been stuck in a shopping aisle behind two large
women trundling side-by-side at a snail's pace? They're usually draped
across their shopping carts like it's the only thing keeping them
upright.

Gah. Hate.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 24, 2017 03:10 PM (PY9jH)
Oh yes. And then have 300 coupons at the check out counter.

Posted by: IC at February 24, 2017 03:12 PM (a0IVu)

457 I think her point is that she was fat and has emotional issues, and it takes longer for a guy to realize a woman has emotional issues than that she is fat - longer than the time it takes to open a door for someone.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at February 24, 2017 03:12 PM (7ZVPa)

458 Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 03:07 PM (EvBgT)

A guy might buy drinks for a fat girl if she's sitting with a pretty friend

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at February 24, 2017 03:12 PM (zc3Db)

459 You never know if you're dealing with someone who's having the worst day of their life. You may as well be polite (despite the nic). You may be the straw that breaks the camel's back, or toe, as it were.

Getting a nice hug from a full-figured girl is a wonderful feeling.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at February 24, 2017 03:12 PM (hqZPQ)

460
Because of the advent of cellphones, I had to adopt a new road rule: I will not pause for an oncoming car who wants to turn left in front of me if the driver is on the phone.

Because they never say thanks. So fuck em.

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at February 24, 2017 03:12 PM (P0DTV)

461 When I went to Ireland I was at the front desk of the hotel getting directions and I heard a little commotion by the door. Well an old man had taken a fall and his wife was trying to help him up. I ran out to help her get him up. I said don't worry I got him, and I guess she heard the accent. She says oh an American, god bless you, thank you, and bless this etc etc It sounded like I was being blessed by an Irish priest. The man brushes himself off and says curse these old stiff bones. I didn't know how long he was there, but when I was out there I did see people by cars in the parking lot that no way could have missed what was going on. I thought that was strange.

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at February 24, 2017 03:12 PM (aMlLZ)

462 ITS FUNNY BECAUSE THE "REAL" BRIANNA WU IS NEITHER ORIENTAL, NOR A WOMAN
Posted by: Don Q. at February 24, 2017 03:04 PM

I KNOW, RIGHT?

Posted by: BEN ROTHLISBERGER at February 24, 2017 03:12 PM (J5mC3)

463 No more than two shakes though, or it's ghey.
Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 24, 2017 03:06 PM

Heretic! Allow me to remind you yet again:

Three shall be the number of the counting and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither shalt thou count two, excepting that thou then proceedeth to three. Five is right out.

Posted by: Brother Maynard at February 24, 2017 03:12 PM (DMUuz)

464 The moral of this story: Stay fat.

Too much GAINZZ makes you cray cray.

Posted by: Mortimer, FINISH HER! at February 24, 2017 03:12 PM (qU2ch)

465 does she have the same response if women hold her door?

I hold the door for anyone older than I, the aged, or women /men with a slew of kids or a baby carriage.
etc
I think most people do this right?

Posted by: willow at February 24, 2017 03:12 PM (R7cwD)

466 Did they guy holding the door ask, "Who bitch this is?"

Posted by: gm at February 24, 2017 03:12 PM (q72E4)

467 That not being satisfied by the low cal food sweetened artificially, led to over eating.
Posted by: Russkilitlover at February 24, 2017 03:10 PM (SJ8kp)

That makes sense, I forgot about the proliferation of faux sugar diet beverages.

Posted by: kallisto at February 24, 2017 03:12 PM (nNdYv)

468 We open doors for ladies because Parents.

By the way, the old saying... "You Never Hit a Lady"... is True.

Here's the caveat... A Lady acts in accordance with civilized rules and behaviors.

Once a bitch draws blood, she enters My World and she will be going to jail with pain.

I don't care how "hot" others perceive her to be. She brought a claw, I brought a 95MPH fistball.

--Yes, this happened.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at February 24, 2017 03:12 PM (6gk0M)

469 I don't always hold the door for womens folk, but when I do I also give 'em a nice pinch on the ass!

Posted by: That Guy at February 24, 2017 03:12 PM (o/A0v)

470 >>35 years ago in college I asked a young woman I met to lunch. Pulled out her chair for her when we were seated

Want to have fun? Do that in a nice place on Valentine's Da. And if your date gets up from the table, you get up when she leaves and when she comes back, you do it again.

Every woman in the place will dry up on their dates.

Posted by: garrett at February 24, 2017 03:13 PM (ktw54)

471 Truth be told, if I see some fatty making towards the door and I'll have to perform door holding duty, I usually turn around like I forgot something, get back in my car and drive around the block once.

Who says chivalry is dead?

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum

Not to be contrarian, but as a guy, and being somewhat antisocial, I do not like to have the door opened for me.

I do the same as what you do, but in reverse. If I'm behind someone, and I suspect they might hold the door for me, I just divert my path and head for another door, or walk away and come back later.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at February 24, 2017 03:13 PM (W8bn5)

472 My husband ALWAYS holds doors for me. He has always been a gentleman and I do appreciate it.

Posted by: lindarising schadenbutton! at February 24, 2017 03:13 PM (JNDQi)

473 I would not at all be surprised that urban girl surrounded by pajama boy urban emasculates didn't have the door opened for her unless they thought she was hot enough to score with. Not a lot of manners our courtesy involved there. Those aren't gentlemen.

Have any of you ever been stuck in a shopping aisle behind two large women trundling side-by-side at a snail's pace?

I don't mind that, at least they're still moving. Its the women -- inevitably women -- that stop in the middle of the aisle, block it entirely and begin to have a long conversation about meaningless crap that makes mister fist start to make an appearance. Even worse: someone with a cart taking up half the aisle, and their useless carcass taking up the other half, staring at their phone.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylorh at February 24, 2017 03:13 PM (39g3+)

474 Trundling. Ha! I'm stealing that one.

Posted by: Under Fire at February 24, 2017 03:14 PM (6LwXe)

475 READ MY MIND!!!

AND IF YOU DON'T I WILL SCREAM MY THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS IN YOUR FACE!!!

Posted by: Formerly fat chick at February 24, 2017 03:14 PM (8b+oT)

476 454 She's just pissed because her cheeks and jowls are still fat.

That's prolly racist or something to point out so I'll go ahead and denounce myself now.

From inside the now locked store door.

Because crazy
Posted by: Suppressed Flasher at February 24, 2017 03:11 PM (X+nFp)

You can diet away Fat...

You can't diet away Bitch...

Posted by: Don Q. at February 24, 2017 03:14 PM (qf6WZ)

477 Maybe she's lying. Maybe men were just as willing to hold the door open for her when she was obese. But, I doubt that's the case.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at February 24, 2017 03:04 PM (R+30W)

Saw her picture. Bunny-boiler for sure.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 24, 2017 03:14 PM (WDdjT)

478 I'm guessing Trump is not the only man she hates.

Posted by: wth at February 24, 2017 03:14 PM (HgMAr)

479 I read the Guardian article in question. She deserves every single bit of scorn that is being heaped upon her.

The jumping off point of the article is her claim that now that she is not fat, men buy her drinks, help pick up her dropped items and open doors for her, which no single man ever did before and thus it is only those who are within conventions of attractiveness who receive courteous treatment.

That is simply absurd.

Posted by: alexthechick - all your caps are belong to me at February 24, 2017 03:02 PM (mf5HN)

++++

She is the extreme, though. She wasn't merely fat. She weighed 365 lbs. She lost 220 lbs. And, I think you are thinking that she is making a wider point than what she actually did. She said that her relative attractiveness had a huge effect on how she was treated as far as simple courtesies. She hadn't been just a bit unattractive, she used to be hugely unattractive.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at February 24, 2017 03:14 PM (R+30W)

480 Really, not one sour puss the whole time at the University, was surprised thinking it would be a bastion of Feminism Leftism

Posted by: Skip at February 24, 2017 03:14 PM (HDU3V)

481
Hopefully gainzzz thread tonight. Because fruit flies and mice prove that diet soda makes one eat more.
Also, peer between the legs of the guy in front of you urinating.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at February 24, 2017 03:14 PM (ZFUt7)

482 The moral of this story: Stay fat.

Too much GAINZZ makes you cray cray.
--

Second moral: People don't always recognize their own psychological issues.

Posted by: shibumi, a rational single white female and kitteh servant at February 24, 2017 03:15 PM (J5mC3)

483 Getting a nice hug from a full-figured girl is a wonderful feeling.

That's the fact, jack. Curvy girls are snuggly and fun to hold. And they keep you warm at night, although for some reason when I lie down my body temperature appears to rise like 15 degrees, so its rarely an issue.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 24, 2017 03:15 PM (39g3+)

484 maybe she's feeling a little bitchy cuz she's hungry.

Posted by: willow at February 24, 2017 03:15 PM (R7cwD)

485 291
In the submarine community, females of 'husky' build and/or ugly as hell
are known as Bremerloes, from the Bremerton WA base where they are
rather common. On the East Coast (Groton, CT), they are known as
Grotopotomus.

Submariners are keenly sought after by the cognoscenti, given their documented capabilities to "do it deeper".

Submariners, also gentlemen to the last, do hold doors open for one and all.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 24, 2017 02:47 PM (DMUuz)

A surface guy from Philly use to call them big booty judies. I still giggle at that one. Everytime a boomer leaves Bangor, Bremalo season opens up.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at February 24, 2017 03:15 PM (GX63o)

486 I was behind an obese woman at the checkout in Kroger one day.

She unloaded the contents of her cart, and then went, "Whoops! I forgot something!" She then proceeded to go up and down all the checkout lines until she found her Precious: a Snickers bar.

Then, she pulled out her checkbook to pay.

I had trouble concealing my rage stroke.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 24, 2017 03:16 PM (PY9jH)

487 Know what grinds my gears in society nowadays?

There's no right way to walk on a sidewalk, as a man, when a woman is also walking on that sidewalk in front of you.

Walk slower than her? Ha, that's not an option. Women always walk at a glacial pace.

Walk the same speed as her? Congratulations, you're a stalker now.

Walk faster than her? That'll really freak her out, and you have to make sure that you pass at a really wide angle so as not to startle her when you pass.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at February 24, 2017 03:16 PM (KUaJL)

488 OT - There is a picture of Karl Lagerfield on Brietbart and at a quick glance, I thought it was RBG. creepy.

Posted by: IC at February 24, 2017 03:16 PM (a0IVu)

489 -Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at February 24, 2017 03:14 PM (R+30W)

Give it up, amigo. This is hitting too close to home for you.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at February 24, 2017 03:16 PM (6gk0M)

490

Somebody's goin' through the door
Somebody's goin' though Hell
Somebody's goin' through the door
Somebody's goin' though Hell
Do me a favor. Slam the door in their face.

Posted by: Paul McCartwheel at February 24, 2017 03:16 PM (IqV8l)

491 I'd be glad to hold a window open for her, if we're above the third floor.

Posted by: wth at February 24, 2017 03:16 PM (HgMAr)

492 It's not absurd. It's partially true. Most people with manners don't operate based on looks .... but a guy might certainly up his manners for an attractive woman. It's only sensible since he would like to engage with a pretty woman - maybe he'll get lucky - while he is just being courteous for an unattractive one.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at February 24, 2017 03:04 PM (zc3Db)

It is absurd. Here's the quote:

"I had been disregarded, overlooked and ignored because of my size for so long that I didn't even realize it until people started being nice to me - until, in other words, I was 'normal sized.' No one had ever done those things for me before."

Those things refers to the following: a man bought her a drink at a concert, a nice man who helped her scoop up her groceries after she dropped her bag and a man holding a door open for her.

Now, the drink at a concert I believe but the other two? No, no, I do not believe it. I flatly do not believe it. I am very very very certain that people treated her with basic common courtesy on a daily basis and she simply didn't notice. Now, I also believe that she got a lot of flack for being very overweight because human beings are awful. But no one ever held a door for her? No one ever helped her pick something up when she dropped it? Pull the other one, it's got bells on.

I do not believe that "That moment changed every single thing about me." either. The only way it did so is if she realized that *she* was a horrible human being who treated others with decency only if she felt they passed some kind of test. If so, then she is the awful person, not the rest of the world.

This mission that she's on? Yeah, most of us learn that by kindergarten, sweetie.

Posted by: alexthechick - all your caps are belong to me at February 24, 2017 03:16 PM (mf5HN)

493
At the skate pond, I will ask the fat gal to hold off until we are all done, its only courteous.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 24, 2017 03:17 PM (ODxAs)

494 294
>>One young woman actually refused to go in, stopping and glaring at me until I had let the door go.

I'd just go in first and let the door swing shut in her face.

Posted by: Cymbaline at February 24, 2017 02:48 PM (/1FgJ)

Or hold it from the other side so she can't get in and see how the angry bitch likes it.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at February 24, 2017 03:17 PM (GX63o)

495 Jane I always get in the slowest line, even if it's just one other person

Posted by: willow at February 24, 2017 03:17 PM (R7cwD)

496 You know what I hate? When someone WAY the fuck ahead of me stops to open the door. Then I have to either:

(1) be the fucking jackass king who makes them WAIT while I get there using my normal speed, or

(2) look like a weirdo as I noticeably pick up the pace of my stroll so I don't have to make them wait.

Either way it harshes my mellow. Look, dude or dudette: I'm a reasonably healthy male, walking without a cane or other device. I can open my own door. Thanks, but no.

Of course, I never actually say any of this out loud, because that would be batshit crazy. So I suffer in silence.

#FirstWordlProblems

Posted by: Dogstar at February 24, 2017 03:17 PM (ViwBj)

497 She is the extreme, though. She wasn't merely fat. She weighed 365 lbs. She lost 220 lbs. And, I think you are thinking that she is making a wider point than what she actually did. She said that her relative attractiveness had a huge effect on how she was treated as far as simple courtesies. She hadn't been just a bit unattractive, she used to be hugely unattractive.

Exactly. This is literally life threatening levels of fatness. Lots of cancers have better 5-year survivorships than that level of obesity.

Posted by: alcoholic Asshole Shut In at February 24, 2017 03:18 PM (CPk08)

498 489 -Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at February 24, 2017 03:14 PM (R+30W)

Give it up, amigo. This is hitting too close to home for you.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at February 24, 2017 03:16 PM (6gk0M)

++++

Ha! I admit, men rarely hold the door open for me.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at February 24, 2017 03:18 PM (R+30W)

499 493
At the skate pond, I will ask the fat gal to hold off until we are all done, its only courteous.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 24, 2017 03:17 PM (ODxAs)

Hmmm.... I always ask them to go first...

Test the ice... ya know?

Posted by: Don Q. at February 24, 2017 03:18 PM (qf6WZ)

500 Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 03:07 PM (EvBgT)

A guy might buy drinks for a fat girl if she's sitting with a pretty friend

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair

TPOP, I'm surprised a man of your learning has never heard of the term "wingman".

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at February 24, 2017 03:18 PM (W8bn5)

501 Haven't read the link. Let me see how close I get :

Fat woman loses weight around the same time she leaves liberal hellhole filled with impolite jerks for sunnier climes in the South.

Lighter woman now super pissed that even old men are holding doors open for her because they all want to have sex with her now.

Posted by: Moron Robbie at February 24, 2017 03:18 PM (/f1mm)

502 10 Do you realize how far you have to open a door to let a fat woman go through? It's a lot of extra work.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 24, 2017 02:15 PM (OeQ/D)

Exactly. You have to measure the door, then the fat chick... And that really pisses them off btw.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at February 24, 2017 03:18 PM (BB1en)

503 304
Is it just me that becomes a little giddy when ace comments?

That doesn't make me gay, does it?

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at February 24, 2017 02:49 PM (6gk0M)

THAT doesn't.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at February 24, 2017 03:18 PM (GX63o)

504 >>>399 The jumping off point of the article is her claim that now that she is not fat, men buy her drinks, help pick up her dropped items and open doors for her, which no single man ever did before and thus it is only those who are within conventions of attractiveness who receive courteous treatment.

---

Speaking as an old guy who used to be -- I'll just say it -- very good-looking. ... Well, I'm still good-looking, but it's obvious I'm over 50, I can sort of see where she's coming from, but I have no sympathy at all. Women are still nice to me sometimes, maybe a little on the edge of flirty once they get to know me a little, but by and large all I get is one quick glance and then the unfocused lookaway. And nowadays I appreciate even the one look! If you've ever had women look at you with genuine attraction that causes your brain to squirt of every tickling hormone it knows of, and then one day wake up and realize That. Will. Never. Happen. Again ... well, it's hard to gin up any outrage on behalf of someone who's coming INTO that personal reality.

Posted by: Slo-Pitch Whiffer at February 24, 2017 03:18 PM (5JlYa)

505 ..."This mission that she's on? Yeah, most of us learn that by kindergarten, sweetie."
-Posted by: alexthechick - all your caps are belong to me at February 24, 2017 03:16 PM (mf5HN)

Summary.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at February 24, 2017 03:19 PM (6gk0M)

506 By the way, the old saying... "You Never Hit a Lady"... is True.

Here's the caveat... A Lady acts in accordance with civilized rules and behaviors.

Once a bitch draws blood, she enters My World and she will be going to jail with pain.

I don't care how "hot" others perceive her to be. She brought a claw, I brought a 95MPH fistball.

--Yes, this happened.
Posted by: Slapweasel

Equality is a stone cold bitch.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 24, 2017 03:19 PM (WFe5M)

507 Submariners, also gentlemen to the last, do hold doors open for one and all.

I certainly hope you make an exception while underwater.

Posted by: moon_over_vermont at February 24, 2017 03:19 PM (kUmUV)

508 if he says "No, go ahead," I say "no, I insist, I want to see what's doin' between those pleats."
Posted by: ace at February 24, 2017 02:49 PM

Wa diz a' fowk want tae ken if anythin' is worn under a kilt?

Posted by: J. Random Highlander at February 24, 2017 03:20 PM (DMUuz)

509 Jane I always get in the slowest line, even if it's just one other person

Posted by: willow at February 24, 2017 03:17 PM (R7cwD)

I always get stuck behind some nitwit arguing over an out-dated coupon or something.

At least I haven't been run down by an electric cart in....8 months or so.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 24, 2017 03:20 PM (PY9jH)

510 "THAT doesn't."
-Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at February 24, 2017 03:18 PM (GX63o)

What does?

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at February 24, 2017 03:20 PM (6gk0M)

511 458 Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 03:07 PM (EvBgT)

A guy might buy drinks for a fat girl if she's sitting with a pretty friend
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at February 24, 2017 03:12 PM (zc3Db)

==================

And yet, minge is still the object.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 03:20 PM (EvBgT)

512 >> I admit, men rarely hold the door open for me.

Anyone lets a door close on me and I slap the thing hard with the flat of my hand as I grab it, right behind their head.

not the sissy titty slap.

A Old Big Ass Slap.

Posted by: garrett at February 24, 2017 03:20 PM (ktw54)

513 At the skate pond, I will ask the fat gal to hold off until we are all done, its only courteous.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 24, 2017 03:17 PM (ODxAs)

Hmmm.... I always ask them to go first...

Test the ice... ya know?
Posted by: Don Q. at February 24, 2017 03:18 PM (qf6WZ)
incorrigible

Posted by: willow at February 24, 2017 03:20 PM (R7cwD)

514 @507 ... Cue the Polish Navy joke.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at February 24, 2017 03:20 PM (hqZPQ)

515 Walk faster than her? That'll really freak her out, and you have to make sure that you pass at a really wide angle so as not to startle her when you pass.

Just shout TRACK! as you pass.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 24, 2017 03:20 PM (QQ+il)

516 Over at ZeroHedge... Trump banned a bunch of people from a media briefing, including CNN, NYT, BBC, Politico, Buzzfeed, The Hill and more. AP and Time boycotted.

Posted by: shibumi, a rational single white female and kitteh servant at February 24, 2017 03:21 PM (J5mC3)

517 Then, she pulled out her checkbook to pay.

I had trouble concealing my rage stroke.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 24, 2017 03:16 PM (PY9jH)

And hadn't pre-filled so much as the date, right?

No jury would convict you.

Posted by: hogmartin at February 24, 2017 03:21 PM (8nWyX)

518 This woman has so many issues, she's into Volume 201 of a multi-issue run.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 24, 2017 03:21 PM (9MVvY)

519 The thing about buying drinks for the attractive woman in the tavern is that they'll insist that you buy one for her fat girlfriend. And inevitably, she'll want you to dance with her fat friend because no one else is asking her. And while you're dancing with her fat friend, some other hot dog strolls over and stats hitting on the attractive woman.

Posted by: Soona at February 24, 2017 03:21 PM (Fmupd)

520 486 I was behind an obese woman at the checkout in Kroger one day.

She unloaded the contents of her cart, and then went, "Whoops! I forgot something!" She then proceeded to go up and down all the checkout lines until she found her Precious: a Snickers bar.

Then, she pulled out her checkbook to pay.

I had trouble concealing my rage stroke.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 24, 2017 03:16 PM (PY9jH)

=====================

"And a Diet Coke."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 03:21 PM (EvBgT)

521
Walmart aisle etiquette.

People standing in groups, chatting, and blocking access to an item you wish to purchase.

People searching the shelves for the exact item at the best price, and blocking the entire walkway. How do you push past them.

Old man at the check out; new guy running the scanner/cash register. Between the two of them, they manage to confuse the computer/card reader so badly a supervisor is required to reset the transaction while people patiently (and quietly) wait for their turn.

Roadway etiquette - me first. no me first. Get out of my way you waste of oxygen.

Posted by: Leslie Dumore at February 24, 2017 03:21 PM (KdllV)

522 CNN = Fat chick trying to get into 54

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at February 24, 2017 03:22 PM (hqZPQ)

523 Jane I always mutter in my head at the coupon peoples,
but then I realize I probably could have saved a few much needed bucks if i'd done the same
so it starts at an eyeroll and ends up at self disgust.

Posted by: willow at February 24, 2017 03:22 PM (R7cwD)

524 I think it is more likely that her relocation to a southern city is more of a factor in mens' behavior towards her than her former corpulence.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at February 24, 2017 03:22 PM (7ZVPa)

525 @487, @496 Thank you. I thought I was the only one who had such hypersensitive paranoid thoughts. It's nice to know that civilization has made us all batsh*t insane. I want to go into the woods and pound bongo drums like that idiot, what's his face.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at February 24, 2017 03:22 PM (W8bn5)

526 487 Know what grinds my gears in society nowadays?

There's no right way to walk on a sidewalk, as a man, when a woman is also walking on that sidewalk in front of you.

Walk slower than her? Ha, that's not an option. Women always walk at a glacial pace.

Walk the same speed as her? Congratulations, you're a stalker now.

Walk faster than her? That'll really freak her out, and you have to make sure that you pass at a really wide angle so as not to startle her when you pass.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at February 24, 2017 03:16 PM (KUaJL)

===================

That, my friend, is called a microaggression. And, if I understand the concept correctly, it gives you free reign to yell at her.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 03:22 PM (EvBgT)

527 I hold the door open for men/women. Men/women hold the door open for me. Common courtesy. It is not complex. It is a non-issue.

Posted by: washrivergal at February 24, 2017 03:22 PM (Ivjge)

528 Submariners, also gentlemen to the last, do hold doors open for one and all.

I certainly hope you make an exception while underwater.

Internal doors can be stolen.

Yes, we stole the goat locker door on deterrent patrol once.

It had 32 bolts. Not a single person asked what we were doing. We held it hostage for pistachio nuts.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 24, 2017 03:22 PM (B+qrE)

529 Test the ice... ya know?
Posted by: Don Q. at February 24, 2017 03:18 PM (qf6WZ)
incorrigible
Posted by: willow at February 24, 2017 03:20 PM (R7cwD)

Hmmmm... time to update the Nic...

Posted by: The Incorrigible Don Quixote! at February 24, 2017 03:23 PM (qf6WZ)

530 I hat auto cucumber.

Posted by: Soona at February 24, 2017 03:23 PM (Fmupd)

531 Once a bitch draws blood, she enters My World and she will be going to jail with pain.

I don't care how "hot" others perceive her to be. She brought a claw, I brought a 95MPH fistball.

--Yes, this happened.
Posted by: Slapweasel

Once you strike someone with intent to harm, you've started a fight and the other person can respond in kind. If the other person wins because bigger, stronger, better fighter? Then you've learned a lesson, now, haven't you?

I have no patience for women get to physically abuse men and men cannot defend themselves. None.

Posted by: alexthechick - all your caps are belong to me at February 24, 2017 03:23 PM (mf5HN)

532 Nood. Colmes-over.

Posted by: Lord Chancellor johnd01 at February 24, 2017 03:23 PM (ukNFU)

533 Ridiculous. Men open the door for me all the time-when I'm thin, when I'm fat, when I'm in between. They also open the door for my husband and he's always been fairly thin and has never been a woman These narcissists are embarrassing.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 24, 2017 03:23 PM (fDdVG)

534 I'm a gentleman and will hold the door open even for a really fat lady.

And I always yell, "COMMIN' THROUGH!!!" as she goes through the door.

If you say it right, it's really cute.

Posted by: Dang at February 24, 2017 03:23 PM (8b+oT)

535 CNN = Fat chick trying to get into 54

thread winner

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 24, 2017 03:23 PM (B+qrE)

536 Posted by: Moron Robbie at February 24, 2017 03:18 PM (/f1mm)

Exactly what I wash thinking. Same kind of men come down here and get all pissed off that the cashiers chat with them, or people in line strike up a conversation with them.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 24, 2017 03:23 PM (QgJPg)

537 I got stuck behind a wise Latina the other day, who couldn't for the life of her figure out how to use the debit card reader.

I'm doomed, I tells ya.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 24, 2017 03:23 PM (PY9jH)

538 And inevitably, she'll want you to dance with her fat friend because no one else is asking her. And while you're dancing with her fat friend, some other hot dog strolls over and stats hitting on the attractive woman.
Posted by: Soona

That's why you need to have a wingman like Spicy McHaggis.
https://youtu.be/_ZN3weW1udE

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at February 24, 2017 03:23 PM (QDr6b)

539 I always get stuck behind some nitwit arguing over an out-dated coupon or something.

At least I haven't been run down by an electric cart in....8 months or so.
--

My general experience is:

"Oh, so you're paying in a foreign currency and we need to get an out of state exchange rate quote from another time zone where it's lunch? Sure, we'll wait and not open any other registers."

or

"We need to get that approved by our manager. She's a lunch and should be back in 55 minutes or more. We can wait and not open any other registers."

Posted by: shibumi, a rational single white female and kitteh servant at February 24, 2017 03:24 PM (J5mC3)

540 I was wondering what the strange smell in my house is, then I remembered I'm making slow-cooker beef stew.

Posted by: @votermom @vm at February 24, 2017 03:24 PM (Om16U)

541 531 Once you strike someone with intent to harm, you've started a fight and the other person can respond in kind. If the other person wins because bigger, stronger, better fighter? Then you've learned a lesson, now, haven't you?

I have no patience for women get to physically abuse men and men cannot defend themselves. None.
Posted by: alexthechick - all your caps are belong to me at February 24, 2017 03:23 PM (mf5HN)

======================

Someone's read Locke.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 03:24 PM (EvBgT)

542 I'm thinking that if she doesn't stop inventing bullshit issues she'll soon be shoveling cheesecake into her gaping maw until she looks like the Hindenburg. Just sayin'.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at February 24, 2017 03:25 PM (BB1en)

543 510
"THAT doesn't."

-Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at February 24, 2017 03:18 PM (GX63o)

What does?

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at February 24, 2017 03:20 PM (6gk0M)

The rest of it. You know how I can tell you are gay?

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at February 24, 2017 03:25 PM (GX63o)

544 Internal doors can be stolen.

Yes, we stole the goat locker door on deterrent patrol once.

It had 32 bolts. Not a single person asked what we were doing. We held it hostage for pistachio nuts.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 24, 2017 03:22 PM (B+qrE)

Shellback Initiation when I was a Wog...

Stole the Goat Locker door the night before, and held it for ransom...

Deal was struck, and the Chiefs left us alone... but we caught HELL from the rest of the Shellbacks...

Worth it though...

Posted by: The Incorrigible Don Quixote! at February 24, 2017 03:25 PM (qf6WZ)

545 357 anon y. mous,

I just re-read it, and you're all wet. She's upset that people, not her, other people, treated her less kindly when she was fat (she says). She is not finding fault in herself, but in others. The only "fault" she finds is the discovery that she needs to pound people for having it in for the overweight and helping the overweight or something.

She's not apologizing for the outburst. She's saying the outburst was an epiphany (or was the product of an epiphany).

Posted by: ace at February 24, 2017 02:55 PM (8rNrN)

++++

Yes, she is definitely finding fault in others. But, she also admitted her own fault. The thing that Thompson and others are focusing on is her outbusrt towards the man who did nothing but hold a door open for her.

And,most of us have heard of something like this before. Although, usually, it is some horrid feminist type that objects to being abused by the patriarchy through the simple act of politeness. The variation here is that she was screaming her head off because she didn't get that treatment in the past.

But, she admitted fault. She then gave us her perspective of how she got so crazy, with a large prescription of how others could improve. But, she didn't try to convince us that she was right or that men should stop offering to open doors for women.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at February 24, 2017 03:25 PM (R+30W)

546 I always hold the bathroom door open for them, then show them my penis.

Posted by: Andrew Cuomo at February 24, 2017 03:25 PM (HgMAr)

547 Just shout TRACK! as you pass.
Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 24, 2017 03:20 PM (QQ+il)

I thought you shout�"On your left!" as you pass on their left. Like annoying bikers on a mixed-use trail.

Of course some will just shout "left!" which is confusng because are you ordering me to move to the left?

Posted by: @votermom @vm at February 24, 2017 03:27 PM (Om16U)

548 And hadn't pre-filled so much as the date, right?

Yeah, I don't mind checks, but if you haven't filled out at least the date, your signature, and the name of the establishment before its time to pay up, you're just a lazy thoughtless jerk.

I got stuck behind a wise Latina the other day, who couldn't for the life of her figure out how to use the debit card reader.

In her defense, every one of the damned things is different. Then there's that stupid chip reader, that takes 20 times as long as just swiping. This is more convenient???

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 24, 2017 03:27 PM (39g3+)

549 540 I was wondering what the strange smell in my house is, then I remembered I'm making slow-cooker beef stew.

Posted by: @votermom @vm at February 24, 2017 03:24 PM (Om16U)

Yeah that happened to me once and it was this odd occurrence of Heidi actually cooking something.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at February 24, 2017 03:27 PM (BB1en)

550 548 In her defense, every one of the damned things is different. Then there's that stupid chip reader, that takes 20 times as long as just swiping. This is more convenient???
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 24, 2017 03:27 PM (39g3+)

====================

It's not more convenient, but supposed to be more secure.

No idea how, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 03:27 PM (EvBgT)

551 I got stuck behind a wise Latina the other day, who couldn't for the life of her figure out how to use the debit card reader.

I'm doomed, I tells ya.
---

I get stuck with:

Person tries to use credit card. Doesn't work. Tries again. And again. Credit card is declined. Uses a different one, but only for a few dollars. Pulls out a third one for few more dollars. The next one is declined. The one after that is declined. Then the one after that. They then decide to write an out of state check, oh my, where is their ID, and then, after that's cleared by the manager, they pay the final amount in small change that's at the bottom of their purse.

Maybe that's why I like the self check out lines. Although that doesn't guarantee there won't be problems.

Posted by: shibumi, a rational single white female and kitteh servant at February 24, 2017 03:28 PM (J5mC3)

552 Mine is to entry-shart a revolving door.

Posted by: Dang at February 24, 2017 02:54 PM (8b+oT)
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Sounds painful!

Posted by: Axeman at February 24, 2017 03:28 PM (2mC6G)

553 "We need to get that approved by our manager. She's a lunch and should be back in 55 minutes or more. We can wait and not open any other registers."
--

Shopping off-hours at Kroger, I've been getting plenty of:

"Let me just finish the story I'm telling the bagger. I'm not actually saying this out loud. I'll just hold up one finger to let you know that I saw you there."

(Which is better than Downtown Target, where you don't even get the finger.)

Posted by: Geronimo Stilton at February 24, 2017 03:28 PM (10LGw)

554 I always hold the bathroom door open for them, then show them my penis.

Posted by: Andrew Cuomo at February 24, 2017 03:25 PM (HgMAr)
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It's every 12-year-old girl's right to see your penis.

Posted by: Axeman at February 24, 2017 03:30 PM (2mC6G)

555
75
speaking of Marie Osmond...

in her weightwatchers tv ad or whatever her before and after pics look the same

In one of the pictures she is walking on her hands and the other picture she is walking on her feet.

Posted by: R. DUKE at February 24, 2017 03:30 PM (ONH2e)

556 Then, she pulled out her checkbook to pay.

I had trouble concealing my rage stroke.

Posted by: Jane D'oh

Ugh. I once came up to a checkout line and there was a full grocery cart there. So I just pushed it aside and started checking out my stuff. Then the person came back holding something or other that they went back to get and was like "excuse me! I was there!" I just completely ignored them. When I forget items, I just go back to the stacks without even *thinking* I could reserve my place and delay other shoppers. I don't know what is wrong with these people. I cannot comprehend it.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at February 24, 2017 03:31 PM (W8bn5)

557 alex the chick @531:

That's why I don't understand why that Nebraska running back was such a villain. You know, the black dude that coldcocked the drunk white chick who wouldn't leave him the fuck alone.

Posted by: Dogstar at February 24, 2017 03:32 PM (ViwBj)

558 I use the self-checkout.
It can be confusing. I had gotten some big loose potatoes (for the stew).
I don't know the code so I look it up on the pictures. I hit "bulk russet potato, large"
I get the big flashing error "RECALLED ITEM. OVERRIDE REQUIRED"
The clerk comes by and says, did you pick large? Most people do. It's small. He types in the code.
Me: They look large...

Posted by: @votermom @vm at February 24, 2017 03:33 PM (Om16U)

559
451 35 years ago in college I asked a young woman I met to lunch. Pulled out her chair for her when we were seated, and if looks could kill ...

Needless to say, it was our first and last date.
Posted by: ShainS at February 24, 2017 03:10 PM (BeU6K)

That's why you go to a restaurant that only has booths on the first date. That or a bowling alley.

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at February 24, 2017 03:35 PM (FtrY1)

560

346 My favorite thing to do on Earth is exit-fart an elevator.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie

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Mine is to entry-shart a revolving door.

On a hot summer day.

Waiting in long line to pay for X-Mass shopping.

Posted by: R. DUKE at February 24, 2017 03:36 PM (ONH2e)

561
when you're ugly inside, it doesn't matter how you change your outside...

the ugly still comes through.

to quote the Tom Sellick character in a western: "You don't know how little your problems concern me..."

Posted by: redc1c4 at February 24, 2017 03:37 PM (g1xej)

562 obitnood

Posted by: @votermom @vm at February 24, 2017 03:38 PM (Om16U)

563 I think her butt and thighs are probably still yuge which is why she had the pic taken standing behind that coffee bar.

Posted by: DJT at February 24, 2017 03:39 PM (P5fqQ)

564
Of course some will just shout "left!" which is confusng because are you ordering me to move to the left?
Posted by: @votermom @vm at February 24, 2017 03:27 PM (Om16U)

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That exact thing happened to me. I was getting out of my car believing I was utterly alone when a loud voice behind me shouted "LEFT." In the instant it took for the shock to subside, before I even turned around, I had moved one step to the left, because that was the command my brain was following. He missed me by about three inches and, of course, being a bicyclist, shouted "Asshole!" at me. Which, of course, he was right to do, because everyone knows that in a collision between a bicyclist going 25 mph and a pedestrian standing flat-footed, only the bicyclist is going to be injured, and I was fully cognizant of that when I disobeyed his order to move to my right, which should be clear when anyone shouts "LEFT" at you at the top of their lungs.

Posted by: Slo-Pitch Whiffer at February 24, 2017 03:41 PM (5JlYa)

565 its hard to open the door for a fat person. they take up too much space.

Posted by: Avi at February 24, 2017 03:43 PM (jBXZd)

566 I'm sorry I missed this one.

Posted by: Flyboy at February 24, 2017 03:50 PM (JKGcx)

567 Most people who lose a lot of weight the first time gain it back rather quickly

Miss Former Fatass is going to rediscover doors not opening for her

Posted by: kbdabear at February 24, 2017 03:56 PM (Ya7zs)

568 I'm certain my fellow morons have mentioned it but when you are fat, you need the exercise of opening a door...and no, I don't mean the refrigerator door.

Posted by: torabora at February 24, 2017 03:57 PM (aHSNJ)

569
1 Grab her by the back of her head
2 Open the door to bang her head with it
3 Go to #2, 5x
4 Ask, "How do you like me now?"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 24, 2017 04:15 PM (UGWs/)

570 I always get stuck behind some nitwit arguing over an out-dated coupon or something.
At least I haven't been run down by an electric cart in....8 months or so.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 24, 2017 03:20

My pet peeve is when the woman ahead of me, it's always a woman, waits until the checker tells her the total and then starts digging around in her purse for the exact change.

It's like she never expected to pay. At least dig out your wallet while they're ringing stuff up.

Posted by: Farmer at February 24, 2017 04:20 PM (o/90i)

571 I don't believe anyone was rude to her when she was fat.

I think she is lying about it to excuse her rotten behavior right now.

Posted by: Beaches at February 24, 2017 04:26 PM (zpOmS)

572 OK, someone probably already brought this up, but remember that 10+ year period where if a man opened a door he got his head bit off because feminism? I did that for about a month then decide it was stupid to make men think that their courtesy and manners were unacceptable in the public sphere. But over time I noticed men weren't opening doors for me, and I was pretty cute. I'm older now, heavier, etc., and in the last 6 months have noticed men opening doors for me all the time! And I smile and thank them and walk right through. I think she forgot about that time when it was "wrong" for man to open a door for a woman.

Posted by: biblio at February 24, 2017 04:29 PM (6FY0P)

573 How fuckin' BIG was the door she could not get thru...L'Arc De Triomphe?..or tha Caty Combs...don't break the door on yer way IN & OUT Fatima.

Posted by: saf at February 24, 2017 05:02 PM (+zN6H)

574 I hold doors open for fat girls, too. Just don't ask me to sleep with her. I haven't been that drunk in ages!

Posted by: Bill R. at February 24, 2017 06:55 PM (jKUeC)

575 I'm sure plenty of guys held doors open for her, even when she was a porker.

Her real problem, here, is something that happens to, well, really, everyone. We forget the nice little things that happen to us every day, and we remember the occasional lame little incident forever.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler. Welcome to Trumpdome, bitch! at February 24, 2017 09:09 PM (0OG8D)

576 Continued from #575: There's a reason devout Christians are so happy... they make a point of counting their blessings, which helps them remember those nice little things longer.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler. Welcome to Trumpdome, bitch! at February 24, 2017 09:13 PM (0OG8D)

577 Wow! As the author of the article in question, it's amazing what someone can do with my words when they are taken completely out of context and moved around to suit a specific narrative. I find it interesting that you didn't bother to mention that the name of the column is "A Moment That Changed Me" and how that was the moment, but eh entirety of the article is about me discussing how wrong I was in that moment and why my reacting to someone in such a completely unacceptable fashion made me realize that I was the one who needed to change and did so. You fail to mention that it was a very human and vulnerable moment. I had been fat my whole life. I didn't realize I had been discriminated against until I no longer was. Yeah, it was heart-breaking. I thought people were wonderful all along. To find out that some were not hurt badly. I'm not sure I understand why that is so hard for you to comprehend. Have you never had a moment where due to your own personal stuff you lashed out at someone who didn't deserve it? And what is it about that notion that bothers you so much? Is it that I admitted it or regretted it? - Listen, the world treats fat people like crap in general, that just is. I try to speak out about it, not against it, just about it. I don't want another girl to have to go through that. I don't want another stranger to get yelled at like that. What is so terrible about that? - Either way, thanks so much for writing about it. The additional exposure caused by this kind of backlash has reached hundreds of women who have reached out to me with their own personal stories and with gratitude for giving them a voice where they felt like they had none. And for that, I am truly thankful.

Posted by: Stacie Huckeba at February 25, 2017 02:30 PM (5x9zo)

578 I have been morbidly obese for years and men hold the door open for me all the time. I smile and thank them. When I reach the door first, I open it, which usually embarrasses men, but they never fail to acknowledge me with a smile and a "thank you." If it's a close call, they will rush to get there first, and I graciously allow them to do so. I don't know in what sort of barbaric urban wasteland this woman lives, but polite men are polite no matter how unappealingly fat a woman happens to be. (I had a few decades in my youth when I was quite pretty and had a killer figure, so I have a good baseline for comparison.) (And I was fat before I was old, so it's not just a help-the-elderly thing, either. Men were still polite when I was middle-aged and fat.) Stop second-guessing everyone's motives. Maybe you walked around with a "don't f-ck with me" scowl when you were fat. We're not all jolly.

Posted by: Crabby Old Bat at February 27, 2017 03:19 PM (ZVKoE)

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