Pretty much a regular day, except we didn’t have any cute dogs in party hats. Which is a shame.

Cool! Sounds like a typical Friday night in Silver Lake, where the BDS&M fagalehs all live. Some a’ them bears can really scamper when you lay the leather to them.

Hell, some of them even run through malls with … uh … sweaty black leather cowls on? Hey, this thread is trailing off into apologies and calls for a return to “normalcy.” About time we all woke up and realized that we’re tenderhearted, inclusive lefties…

Can I start making fun of myself making fun of myself for making fun? Isn’t it time for that endlessly rotating tesseract thing?

The feline who comments on demand, in a properly designated thread, is not the True Feline.

I’m sorry.

…oops. Shouldn’t have said ‘stupid’. Some people have learning difficulties and can’t help it, so no one should never call anyone stupid again.

…the US definition of ‘overweight’ is {BMI in the range 25 to 30} and ‘obese’ is defined as {BMI greater than 30}. The lower cut-off for the Overweight range leaves a lot to be desired — not surprising, since it was lowered arbitrarily back in 1998 [I think], for no better reason than to increase the number of people classed as overweight.

Anyway, I’m stopping now and going off for a snack of deep-fried lard, before I turn S,N into another Crooked Timber.

No mercy for wingnuts. I’m not talking about Republicans, I’m talking about wingnuts. If they’re overweight, if they wear bad clothes, if they have shitty haircuts, if they are women with big ol’ Adam’s Apples, whatever it is, it’s fair game. These are evil, murderous, cowardly jackals we are talking about here.

And please, don’t act like any photoshopped jumbo sandwich is in any way relevant to “the progressive movement.” I saw a lot of that sort of thing at Feministe yesterday, and it is a crock of horseshit.

Could be. I was mainly thinking of epidemiology studies like this one, which found that “The BMI of minimum mortality was 27.1 for black men (95% confidence interval (Cl) 24.8–29.4), 26.8 for black women (95% CI 24.7–28.9), 24.8 for white men (95% CI 23.8–25.9), and 24.3 for white women (95% Cl 23.3–25.4).”

My understanding is that the US definition of ‘overweight’ is 25

Obviously, I need more (and better) drugs.

Anyway, glad to see Qetesh is still holding the line as the feline voice of reason. Ganesh Bengal Cat has also being kept in durance vile, Herr Doktor B, so he feels Mehitabel’s pain.

Because we wouldn’t want to skeeve people out or anything.

As opposed to this fucking bloodbath. No wounded feelings here!

Thanks for the info, btw, Herr Doktor. I have an autoimmune disease, but so far, it has not impacted my weight (probably because I don’t eat or sleep much). I do suspect, however, that some of what used to be muscle is now fat, but since much of it is numb and/or non-functioning, there’s not much I can do about it now.

When are the rest of Teh Felines allowed to post again?

I think S,N should give us all a guest post. We can talk about eating rodent heads and entrails and vomiting and stuff.

So as not to skeeve people out or upset anyone. ;)

Out of curiosity, is this partially due to the failure of the BMI to account for body composition? I realize that BMI is used because it’s easy to acquire (requiring only two pieces of information and all), but it seems like it would obscure a lot of trends (muscle tissue being dense, it boosts your BMI much faster than adipose tissue does, as I’m sure you’re aware). Don’t you think that even slightly more sophisticated assessments of actual body composition would help resolve some of the apparent contradictions in the literature?