Daily Archives: 15 March 2010

I know where to begin with this glurge

UPDATE: The Guinness Book does not grant awards based on people’s weight. Also, larger women than Ms. Simpson are on record as having given birth.

Fraud.

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Donna Simpson says she wants to be in the Guinness Book of World Records again.

She’s in there once already for being the largest woman to have given birth at 532 pounds–with the help of 30 medical personnel and a high-risk Caesarian birth. That much fat involved in abdominal surgery almost guarantees fat embolisms and peritonitis, and knowingly involving a baby in such a birth is unconscionable and obscenely negligent.

Now she aims to be the largest woman in the world, period.

Her grocery bill runs $3000/month, and she supports that bill by offering a pay-per-view webcam so that those people who want to watch a woman slowly killing herself with McDonalds and KFC can watch.

Hmmm. Something sniffs wrong here.

There is a possibility that was brought up by Trophy Fiancé©, and it seems plausible.

This is all a fraud.

There’s no sign of the webcam. Google doesn’t find it, under all permutations of ‘”donna simpson” + webcam’. There are hundreds in the blogosphere looking for the webcam site, without success.

This reeks of someone who is trying to scare up fame and money by lying and then not delivering what was promised.

Here is quite likely another case of how viral material might be fallacious as easily as it could be factual.

“What’s in a word?”

Tired of reading PC crap? Okay.

“Nigger, Boogie, Jig, Jigaboo, Skinhead, Moolimoolinyon, Schvatza, Junglebunny. Greaser, Greaseball, Dago, Guinea, Wop, Ginzo, Kike, Zebe, Heed, Yid, Mocky, Himie, Mick, Donkey, Turkey, Limey, Frog. Zip, Zipperhead, Squarehead, Kraut, Heinie, Jerry, Hun, Slope, Slopehead, Chink, Gook.

“There is absolutely nothing wrong with any of those words in and of themselves. They’re only words. It’s the context that counts. It’s the user. It’s the intention behind the words that makes them good or bad. The words are completely neutral. The words are innocent. I get tired of people talking about bad words and bad language. Bullshit!”

Ah, the words of the immortal George Carlin.

There are so many other words we’re not supposed to say. If I may expand upon what Mr. Carlin says above, it’s not just the context of the speaker that counts. It’s also the context of the listener; in fact, I’d hazard to say that the context of the listener is far more important.

I’ve posted politically incorrect material before. Some others see it as an oddly-drawn guy with a lit, old-fashioned iron ball bomb perched on his head. Others see it as a representation of facts and concepts about religious extremism in today’s world. (I would be included in this group.)

A few see such material and would react by greeting me with a machete and an axe.

This last says something about me, but says far, far more about those like the attacker who wish me to say nothing that offends them.

Bullshit on that.

“The object of art is to give life a shape.”

There is a notion in the study of aesthetics (the philosophy of art) that says that great art reduces complex concepts, containing tens or hundreds of ideas and opinions, and takes them to the perceptual level–i.e., such art makes complex ideas simple to see and understand.

Mike Stanfill does this regularly, and damnit! He makes me wish I could draw.