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A) It would be unspeakably cruel to put a 240-pound rider on an average riding horse with tack and harness. It would be painful and slowly cripple the horse. Armored knights often didn't even reach this weight and needed massively large war horses to do the job.

It isn't bigotry, it's simple fucking physics.

B) Baldur's balls, is the life expectancy now only 72? I thought it was low eighties for men, high eighties for women.

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It’s been dropping for awhile, primarily due to obesity and fentanyl.

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Accelerating due to death jabs even more

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Totally agree. And the jabs are more lethal to the young and healthy than Covid could ever be. Plus the fatties accelerated the death count on the Covid wards.

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So if I'm a reasonable weight and don't do drugs, I can probably estimate on the old ones? :)

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That’s probably too optimistic of an outlook: https://youtu.be/10hb001WqIU

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So life expectancies are meaningless numbers with no statistical grounding?

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No, the data is meaningful, but I never pass up a chance to expose the world to the late, great Warren Zevon.

From the President of the United States

To the lowliest rock and roll star

The doctor is in and he'll see you now

He don't care who you are

Some get the awful, awful diseases

Some get the knife, some get the gun

Some get to die in their sleep

At the age of a hundred and one

Life'll kill ya

That's what I said

Life'll kill ya

Then you'll be dead

Life'll find ya

Wherever you go

Requiescat in pace

That's all she wrote

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It is a really good song.

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In Conan the Destroyer you will see Arnold Schwarzenegger riding a horse, he is around 230. Wilt Chamberlain also rides a horse, he is around 270.

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In most shots you can see they're visibly larger horses. Also, the shots of them are no more than a few minutes at a time (and probably getting off between takes)- they're not on their back continuously for an hour, let alone a full day.

You could have an obese woman ride a draft horse all day. But most dude ranches aren't going to have those. They're more expensive to buy and maintain.

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LAFPA: laugh at fat people again 😂

Problem solved

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Oct 5, 2022·edited Oct 5, 2022Liked by Ben Bartee

Another cracking piece illuminating clown world and how wokeism tries to weaponise fitness enthusiasts as extremists, oh my goodness.

In Thailand people will routinely and casually say "oh long time no see, hey you've gotten fatter, haven't you?" It's a kind of a 'cruel to be kind' mantra that is normalised here, weird to get used to....certainly got me back on the treadmill when I once ballooned to 90kg at 31 years old; now fitness is number one priority.

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The Thai fat shaming method is superb.

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I love it that libtards are self exterminating themselves through abortion, gay marriage, and a complete disregard for their own physical well being.

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The social justice left depends on infecting and converting the general population, not on literal reproduction. Hence infiltrating education departments in higher education, so that the teachers of tomorrow are primed to pass on the social contagion to all of their students. The strategy is about co-opting the youth, like any cult-like ideology does.

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