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I never did appreciate that type of humor. Thanks for submitting the article to the carnival!

//Kailani
12 July 2006 at 11:56 am

[...] The Pink Diary just picked up my post about fat jokes. [...]

//Motivational Keynote Speaker & Humorist Brad Montgomery » Blog Archive » Carnival of Family Life Picked up a Post
17 July 2006 at 11:05 am

That has got to be so humiliating. Overweight people often struggle with poor self-esteem and want to hide. Those types of jokes seem to shine the spotlight on them and make it that much harder for them.

//Tonya
17 July 2006 at 11:01 pm

BTW, I got here through The Carnival of Family Life over at The Pink Diary.

//Tonya
17 July 2006 at 11:02 pm

i don’t think fat jokes are funny, though i’d compare them more to cancer jokes than to others. being fat is dangerous. it raises blood pressure, onsets diabetes, etc. i used to be about twenty pounds heavier…never fat, per se, but definately overweight. people are nicer to think people, i can tell you that. when people are nicer, you have a better self-image, because what are “other people” but the mirror you look into everyday, that feeds you back information about who you are? if people ignore you or treat you badly, it just seems that’s the way it is.

//Miah
18 July 2006 at 10:04 am

[...] Brad from Brad Montgomery’s Blog wants to know . . . Are Fat Jokes Funny? [...]

//pinkdiary808.com » Carnival of Family Life #10
9 August 2006 at 4:02 am

I think if the fat person is mean and rude like the one woman I work with then I don’t feel any remorse telling them. If the person is kind and sweet then I will respect them and not even think about calling them overweight.

//Matthew Walker
12 September 2008 at 10:12 pm

Hey Brad - you know, as time goes on, some things are funny and then they aren’t. Often they reflect the neuroses of the time. A lot of the fat jokes are told by people who used to be fat or who still struggle with it. So it’s self-deprecating humor.

I found this article interesting -it’s the world’s oldest jokes found in archeological digs. None of them seem funny to us now… maybe you had to be there:
http://webcenters.netscape.compuserve.com/whatsnew/package.jsp?name=fte/oldestjoke/oldestjoke&floc=wn-dx

//Beth Terry
19 September 2008 at 1:54 am

fat jokes are extremely funny i hate fat people i make fun of fat people on a daily basis and its extremely funny but i banged a fat girl once it was alright it

//kurtkuddy
25 September 2008 at 6:22 am

im quite fat myself but when some one says fat jokes i find them hillarious because even if they are about me theyre funny you just got to think its funny and dont take it seriously!!!! because they are actully very funny even if i am fat! IM FAT!!!! I DONRT CARE ITS FUNNY!! IM SO FATE A BUS HIT ME AND I SAID OY WHO THROUGH THAT STONE? SEE ITS FUNNY

//MEGAN
12 November 2008 at 3:23 pm

THERE ARE JOKES FOR EVERY KIND OF PEOPLE OUT THERE AND DONT YOU THINK THAT THAT HURTS THEM TO IF YOU DONT LIKE FAT JOKES THAN DONT READ THEM YEAH THERE WRONG BUT SO ARE ALL THE OTHER JOKES THAT PEOPLE SAY ABOT PEOPLE!!!!!!!

//LEEANNE
20 December 2008 at 12:26 pm

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