I'm overweight as well. 5'6" @ 150lbs. Gained 3 lbs over the past 8-9 mths. I got asthma since childhood. Got much better in my 20-30s. I'm in my late 40s and I have a take the steroidal puffer every night. It's very hard, and not that safe, to be active during these Covid-19 "new normal" times when everything is partially closed (gym's closed and I must wear a mask outside, instantly trigger the short-of-breath for me. So I gave up going outdoor except grocery).

You're absolutely right. I don't get the fat pride thing either. It's not OK health-wise no matter what angle you look at it. Personal "freedom" choice, genetic, physical/mental disease... the latter 2 causes are not shameful, and 99% constantly struggle with it in different degrees of difficulty. But "choice"? That I can't respect.

I'm not buying into the puffer fish theory - my money's on giant limpets from space.

As someone who has been bitten by a greedy puffer fish, I probably would have spent a good minute laughing at it first before I felt bad and removed the hook anyway. These guys aren't so innocent and sweet.

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>> ^Payback:

SHARK BAIT! BROUHAHA!


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Now a puffer fish with a cigarette in his mouth...talk about being HOOKED!

>> ^Confucius:

"Considering how poisonous puffer fish are, this is a BRAVE guy."
Well he wasnt trying to eat the fish so I think he was safe.


Yeah, I guess the guy who was trying to catch it with his fishing hook was the bravest one.

Not all that brave -- puffer fish are not venomous, they're just toxic to eat.

"Considering how poisonous puffer fish are, this is a BRAVE guy."

Well he wasnt trying to eat the fish so I think he was safe.

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*promote

MY hero

>> ^dag:

I wonder if he thought your lens was the eye of another puffer.


Indeed, that was what I thought...

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

Magical.

I wonder if he thought your lens was the eye of another puffer.

No, the chef triumphed over the puffer fish.

It's a puffer fish.

http://www.ratemyscreensaver.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/windowslivewriterpufferfish-229arothron-meleagris-by-nps-12.jpg

Unbelievable... Fish on a whole don't seem to have the ability for this kind of bonding, but that said, growing up, my father had a salt-water fish tank and definitely had a few larger fish (a remora and a puffer fish) who certainly recognized my father (or his hand) as opposed to other members of the family and would allow him to handle them in the tank... it always amazed me.

Not quite as dramatic as this, but it was still amazing to see the puffer fish allow my father to pick him up out of the water and not blow up in to a ball. He would happily swim into my father's hand and wouldn't freak out when taken briefly out of the tank... almost like he was curious.

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