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7 people that will ruin your Thanksgiving dinner

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If you’re planning on hosting Thanksgiving dinner this year, look out! There are Thanksgiving terrorists out there to spoil your feast with ingratitude or misguided enthusiasm. They will come in cars bearing pans of casserole or worse yet, you might be harboring one in your home right now! Read more

VIDEO: New MTV show ‘Chelsea Settles’ is sending a lot of messages

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Given that this is from MTV and is the network’s claim to be a “rebuttal” to the Hills-esque shows it’s produced in the past, can we believe them? The premise, a girl named Chelsea has always wanted to work in fashion. But there’s a problem. *record scratch* She’s 320 pounds and her life kind of ... Read more

6 of the most ridiculous studies ever commissioned

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Scientific studies have brought us some of most important findings in modern history. However, there are some scientific studies that are like your ex-girlfriend; a giant time suck that you waste a ton of money on and end up with nothing to show for it. Read more

400 pound former sumo wrestler is fattest man to complete a marathon

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Kelly Gneiting weighed in at a little over 396 pounds on Sunday, a common number for a man with his career of sumo wrestler. But while all that mass is an asset in the world of sumo, it’s not as good for marathon running, the task which Gneiting tried his hand at this weekend in ... Read more

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If a fat person wants to lose weight, they’d go to a gym, right? Well, apparently not for one heavy gal whose 380-pound frame was kicked out of a gym for “being too heavy to use the machines.” Kind of screwed up, actually. Read more

Russian man gets 267 lbs of fat cut off by surgeons

Obesity is a serious problem in our country and across the globe (except the starving countries who seem to stay remarkably slim, somehow). One Russian man who was in the category of morbidly obese went under the knife to help get a jump on his girth, cutting off more than half of his weight in ... Read more

300-pound woman sentenced after squashing her 120-pound boyfriend

So that headline seems fairly innocent (well, other than the guy dying part), but the story might be a bit more malicious than it seems at first. Hefty gal Mia Landingham sat down on her boyfriend/baby daddy, which typically might be adorable. Except when the woman outweighs the man by 180 lbs and ends up ... Read more

Weight Watchers meeting interrupted by the floor collapsing

You really hate to make fun of people for trying to achieve their goals in fitness because, hey, at least they’re trying. But it’s hard not to laugh in the case of a Swedish Weight Watchers clinic that, during weigh-ins, had the floor collapse upon itself under all of the strain. Read more

Fat people versus gravity is not a winning battle

Oh I’m just having one of those days in which the only thing that could brighten my day is the humorous pain of others (or, as I like to call it, every single day of my life). Fortunately, someone was kind enough to put together a compilation of fat people losing battles versus gravity. That’ll ... Read more

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I’ve never heard of this site, but a Web site touting itself as the best dating site for attractive people called BeautifulPeople.com is apparently doing what it set out to do by eliminating some of the uggos as approximately 5,000 members got kicked off for gaining weight. And the Web site is quite proud of ... Read more

Fat politicians need extra love

The NJ gubernatorial race between Chris Christie and Jon Corzine is getting dirty. And by dirty, I mean dirty because of how hungry Chris Christie is from spilling food from his many meals all over himself. Oh sorry, the propaganda has gotten me. Anyway, Corzine’s attack ads make fun of Christie being a fatty. Read more