What does the adjective fat mean to you?

When you say the word fat a few bad traits pop into my head:

1. Ugly

2. Low self-esteem/hates themselves

3. poverty

4. uneducated/stupid

Reply 47

justanotherposter

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Pretty sure the second one about tight clothes applies more to blokes who want everyone to know that they've been at the gym.

Reply 48

Original post by Red one

When you say the word fat a few bad traits pop into my head:

1. Ugly

2. Low self-esteem/hates themselves

3. poverty

4. uneducated/stupid

You're projecting.

Is this some kind of troll meme, because someone else made another identical post already?

Reply 49

Original post by cole-slaw

You're projecting.

Is this some kind of troll meme, because someone else made another identical post already?

Projecting what? Care to elaborate?

I made that post after reading the title. When I think the word fat I immediately picture an ugly and self-hating person.

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Original post by Red one

Projecting what? Care to elaborate?

I made that post after reading the title. When I think the word fat I immediately picture an ugly and self-hating person.

The word "Fat" doesn't mean that. Look in a dictionary.

Projecting means that when I say "X" you say "ugly and self-hating".

It doesn't matter what X is, because all you have on your mind is "ugly and self-hating" because that is how you view the world, and by extension, yourself.

I say potato, you say "ugly and self-hating"
I say continuum, you say "ugly and self-hating"
I say "Red one" you say "ugly and self-hating".

Reply 51

Original post by cole-slaw

The word "Fat" doesn't mean that. Look in a dictionary.

Projecting means that when I say "X" you say "ugly and self-hating".

It doesn't matter what X is, because all you have on your mind is "ugly and self-hating" because that is how you view the world, and by extension, yourself.

I say potato, you say "ugly and self-hating"
I say continuum, you say "ugly and self-hating"
I say "Red one" you say "ugly and self-hating".

Haha

What is it with pseudo-intellectuals on TSR and psychoanalysis? That's a major leap from saying X is Y to saying that X is Y because Y is an extension of me.

Do you have anything to back it up? Or do you make a habit of making wild and obscure conjectures out of thin air?

By your logic your defensiveness following my initial point could be interpreted as you "projecting" as you were offended by the connotations of ugly and self-hating to the word fat.

Moreover are you fat?

Am I doing it right? :mmm:

Reply 52

Original post by Red one

Haha

What is it with pseudo-intellectuals on TSR and psychoanalysis? That's a major leap from saying X is Y to saying that X is Y because Y is an extension of me.

Do you have anything to back it up? Or do you make a habit of making wild and obscure conjectures out of thin air?

By your logic your defensiveness following my initial point could be interpreted as you "projecting" as you were offended by the connotations of ugly and self-hating to the word fat.

Moreover are you fat?

Am I doing it right? :mmm:

No.

I'm just explaining that if you give completely the wrong definition of a word as you did, there are three possible explanations, either you're chronically stupid and/or don't really understand english, you have personal issues that you are projecting onto others, or you're a troll. You said in another thread that you weren't a troll, your English seems generally competent, so the only remaining conclusion is that you're projecting.

Reply 53

Original post by cole-slaw

No.

I'm just explaining that if you give completely the wrong definition of a word as you did, there are three possible explanations, either you're chronically stupid and/or don't really understand english, you have personal issues that you are projecting onto others, or you're a troll. You said in another thread that you weren't a troll, your English seems generally competent, so the only remaining conclusion is that you're projecting.

You're overreaching and otherwise labouring a point which doesn't have any real merit or indeed evidence. The OP didn't ask us for a literal definition of the word he asked what fat means to you implying that he is interested in any connotations or implications we derive from the word.

You've gone off a long winded tangent about my comprehension when your reading capacity appears impaired without even doing as much as establishing any evidence for your abstruse and visibly dubious conjecture.

Reply 54

Original post by Red one

You're overreaching and otherwise labouring a point which doesn't have any real merit or indeed evidence. The OP didn't ask us for a literal definition of the word he asked what fat means to you implying that he is interested in any connotations or implications we derive from the word.

You've gone off a long winded tangent about my comprehension when your reading capacity appears impaired without even doing as much as establishing any evidence for your abstruse and visibly dubious conjecture.

Visibly dubious? Do you mean ostensibly dubious? Visibly makes no sense in that context.

The fact that the word "fat" means something to you that it doesn't mean to anyone else in the entire universe tells us all we need to know.

Reply 55

Original post by cole-slaw

The fact that the word "fat" means something to you that it doesn't mean to anyone else in the entire universe tells us all we need to know.

It doesn't matter what it means to anyone else, the OP asks us directly what fat means to us as individuals. Hello, are we speaking English or what? :rolleyes:

How do you know what everyone in the entire world thinks when they hear the word fat? This is what I meant when I said that you have a habit of making conjectures. Frankly, you're pulling stuff out of your ass at this point.

:giggle:

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Reply 56

Original post by Red one

It doesn't matter what it means to anyone else, the OP asks us directly what fat means to us as individuals. Hello, are we speaking English or what? :rolleyes:

How do you know what everyone in the entire world thinks when they hear the word fat? This is what I mean with making conjectures you're pulling stuff out of your ass at this point.

:giggle:

The word fat has a specific meaning. That is how language works. You can say that to you, black means white, white means purple and yellow means red, but that doesn't change the meaning of those words, all that means is that you're an idiot. You can equally try and tell us that to you, fat means poor and uneducated. But again, all it shows is that you're stupid*.

*Or in reality, it shows us that you're trolling, which everyone here already knew.

You don't really think that fat means uneducated. You just like the idea of trying to bully and intimidate normal weight people into anorexia because you're an extremely psychotically disturbed individual.

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