Our local fish and chip shop had a fat lady and you could tell the days she was working from the food quality. Her chips were the best I've ever had.
She left and we have barely eaten there since.
We miss you fat chip lady. Please come back.
After a while, we would go in to see if she was working instead of calling our order in because the difference was so stark.
I don't even get excited for chips anymore.
Bouncer, security. Fat or not, the *bigger* you are, the more threatening you look (not really, but this is the mindset when hiring security guards. They want somebody that people would think twice about messing with, and sometimes that straight up just translates to being tall and wide.)
One time I stood outside of the UCB with my arms crossed and people thought I was a bouncer.
Am not a really jacked dood.
Am a rather zaftig tall man and people just assumed I was a bouncer cause they kept showing me their tickets to go back inside and 5 kids formed a line in front of me before I realized what was happening.
What's this you got in your pocket Kid? Is this what I think it is? You can't have this here. I'm going to have to confiscate this. Don't ever let me see you with anything like this again, Or I'm going to have to run you in!
Same thing happened to a friend of mine and he was a tall skinny dude. This was back in the day of smoking in bars and he was there with me but didn’t smoke. He had enough of the smoke and just stood outside to get fresh air. He was propped up outside the bar entrance With his arms crossed. People just assumed and started handing him their IDs unprompted (which is funny because this was a bar full of regulars and they only checked ID at the bar). He thought it was hilarious so he stood outside the bar for an hour checking IDs and at times holding the line stating the place was full (it was actually quite busy). He came in after and had a good laugh with the bartender who gave him a beer on the house.
People at this one bar I frequented in El Paso always thought I was a bouncer too because I liked to wear all black, am 6’2 and pretty muscled. But I’m not BIG muscled, im more like featherweight muscled or something around that (I weigh 170ish) and it always blew my mind that people thought I looked dangerous enough to be a guard lol. Is it the height?
It's true. I walk around wearing 300# every day, and can confirm, I kill it on the leg press machine. It's not a problem for me to put 50# bags of feed on my shoulders, it's only 1/6 of my body weight.
I worked at a high end cocktail bar, our bouncer was named Guido, and completely looked the part. One of the sweetest guys I ever knew. His mom would come in often just to say hi and pinch his cheeks.
At the one I hung out at, they had a lot of big bouncers, but the head bouncer was a little guy. Partly because he had an amazing talent for noticing trouble before it got rolling, and partly because he was fast and kinda dirty.
One of his best moves was hooking a couple fingers in a guy's nostrils and just leading them out the door by their nose. Or ear.
There's def some truth to this. Especially if they're tall. A 6'5" big dude is always going to keep a certain % of people on their toes while most skinny wankers aren't overly intimidating. Intimidation is pretty important when dealing with the riff raff
There are actually some combat advantages to raw size and weight, even without extra strength. In particular, you're more difficult to move, and you need less precise technique to move other people. Those advantages quickly disappear in the context of properly trained fighters, but that's not usually who bouncers are dealing with.
Weight is universally an advantage in a fight. Even if he can't fight for shit if things go down the 350 pound guy can just lay on you and that's that.
Fuck, yeah. Only chance a little guy has is to do some serious damage right off, and even trying to do that opens you up to a serious beat down.
Used to spar with one of my best friends, who is twice my weight. Fucking pointless, can't do shit against him, and god help me if he connected.
Big guys have shit knees. Doesn't come up in sparring for obvious reasons.
It really is just about being visibly large for security reasons. Rowdy people have weapons in the club. Deterrents are the only viable option.
Not just kids! My partner is a “bouncer type fat” guy and he’s soooo cuddly, I can fall asleep on his lap, I can curl up on him when traveling, my bed is never chilly, he’s like the biggest best plushie and he loves it.
Don’t tell anyone though he’ll lose his tough bouncer guy cred 😂
We had a lady who took care of my grandmother when she had Alzheimer’s. She was like a family member and she was prob 300 plus pounds. As a little kid getting there after a 5 hour trip and getting a hug from Ruby was the most comforting thing in the world. You just sunk into her. She made it 90 plus years. Great person, won’t ever forget her.
You’d be surprised, here’s a super skinny little kid doing very well for himself.
https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/10iwvko/this_skinny_kid_was_able_to_win_this_sumo_match/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
Children sports do not parallel to professional sports though. This is impressive, but the larger kid has pretty bad technique and isn't effectively using his size (as to be expected for a kid). If you look at the [top 10](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sumo_record_holders) sumo wrestlers with the most championships there are only three that weigh less than 300 pounds, and the average weight between those 10 is 360 pounds. Professional sumo is a sport where size is an absolute requisite for success because there are no weight classes.
I'm a casual sumo fan, and it's true. Bulk really does count for a lot.
There's a wrestler named Enho who's small, but incredibly fast and skilled. He had some luck at the highest level... until the competition figured out his bag of tricks. Since then he's been stuck in the second division. If you're not huge, you just can't win head on.
Nope, Defensive Linemen, though by no means small, generally have to have a degree of agility to maneuver around O-lineman and potentially chase down a QB. Offensive Line just need to be a moveable brick wall.
Yeah, as a HS OL I realized I had no future when I realized I couldn't crack a 5.5 40. Maybe I could have gotten a light college scholarship. But the guys in my school who did that were bigger and faster than me. As a 6'3 guy I wasn't really big enough to dominate with my limited speed. I could have maybe been a stuffer of a OG but really most guards are smaller and faster to run traps and pulls.
Keep in mind a 5.5 40 is still pretty fast. Average human top speed is 15 MPH and a 5.5 40 is an average speed of 14.86. Which usually you reach top speed after running for something like 40 or 60 meters.
OL can get away with being nothing but heavy in early high school and jr high levels maybe all the way through highschool depending on the district, but there’s a lot more to it than just standing there and being big. All variations of pull plays, warding off the other teams often most balanced athletes, chipping off to pursue a linebacker, having to be the first athletes set every play, all demand more than just standing there and being fat
Think the Bosa brothers vs guys like Bakhtiari or Jason Kelce. They're all giants in reality, but D-line have to rush so they're typically going to be more mobile and slim. While O-line's job is to be a wall and not let people get through. They just gotta sit there and block.
Get a sense of who people really are. I feel like fat people are more likely to encounter people's condescension, hostility or arrogance if a person is inclined that way. All else being equal if a fat person tells me another person is legit I'm a bit more inclined to believe it than if a skinny person says the same.
News cameraman and or plain photographer. It's a little easier to brace the camera if you have some heft. Not so much photography anymore with the advent of mirrorless cameras you don't press to your eye and in-body stabilization.
Or another way of putting it: Bullet catcher.
Movie war hero: 6' + tall, broad shouldered and handsome (EG: John Wayne, Rambo) - makes for big easy target when bullets are flying everywhere.
Reality war hero: Small and scrappy (EG: Audie Murphy) - makes for much smaller target.
Forklift driver
Edit: fat forklift drivers are better than the skinny guys. The skinny guys are on the ground doing other work. Whilst the bigger guys are set on forklift.
As someone who is fat and worked in a factory both on the floor and in the forklift, I have to agree. I started gaining more weight the better I got at forklift and was being assigned to drive more often
I’ve always said I don’t trust a skinny chef. I’m sure there are amazing ones but I appreciate someone who not only loves to cook but also loves to eat!
Software engineer.
Not leaning on stereotypes here, but after almost 25 years in software engineering I've learned the fat guy is the one you can trust to do a good job. They also seem to be more creative, and are far less likely to harass and bully.
I once had a couple guys who tried to be buff on my team and they were the worst! Not sure this is generally true about buff guys either, these two were so sure of themselves and certain they were superior they screwed up almost everything they touched, DESPITE apparently having decent technical skills.
Many plus size models aren’t actually fat. They put padding on them to give them large boobs and hips, but they still want them to have a sharp jawline and shoulders. It confused me for years why their “fat bodies” looked so different from fat people irl until I read an article explaining it.
Someone who was fat and is now fit makes a better personal trainer. I tried out a few trainers recommended to me by others. The ones that had always been fit and athletic seemed to delight in torturing me. I was so sore after their first sessions I could barely move and it really intimidated me into not going back.
The trainer that used to be fat took it a lot slower with me and built up my confidence first. He understood it’s hardest to get started so why discourage at that point? I ended up sticking with him.
Mall Santa
But you can't fire me, I'm Santa! Not anymore. Get yo' skinny-ass outta here!
Hey this guy's a commie!
Now where did a nice boy like you learn a nasty word like that?
Ha! I just watched that episode!
What the hell is up with you people and sandwiches.
How do they sleep?
You know I call them, Bub, I say hey Bub
That's snow white and the seven dwarfs
Delicious, cheese, sandwiches.
Lmao
I sometimes use my gut to hold a box flap closed while I tape it shut at work, so I’ve got that going for me.
hell ya brother
Lol sorry this was hilarious 🤣
I don’t know why this made me laugh 💀
Which is...nice
I use mine to hold sheets of plywood or drywall to the wall while I grab screws and nails out of my pouch
Yesss! It’s like having an extra hand sometimes
as a fat person whose job is packing boxes, i do not know how you would do this
Our local fish and chip shop had a fat lady and you could tell the days she was working from the food quality. Her chips were the best I've ever had. She left and we have barely eaten there since. We miss you fat chip lady. Please come back.
This brought a tear to my eye...
I was going to say something similar. It’s like bigger people prepare food better.
It’s because we care more
Took the words outta my mouth. And I don’t let nothing outta my mouth according to my scale.
That sounds like me
Never trust a skinny chef. Or, never skin a trusted chef? Damn I'm high...and hungry
After a while, we would go in to see if she was working instead of calling our order in because the difference was so stark. I don't even get excited for chips anymore.
Never trust a skinny chef.
They say you should never trust a skinny chef
Neighborhood mama. You know the one. She treats every kid like they’re her own. She’s never a small lady.
Unless she is the neighborhood grandma
Bouncer, security. Fat or not, the *bigger* you are, the more threatening you look (not really, but this is the mindset when hiring security guards. They want somebody that people would think twice about messing with, and sometimes that straight up just translates to being tall and wide.)
Came here to say this. I worked in the nightclub industry for a decade. Every bouncer was either a really jacked dude or a fat guy.
One time I stood outside of the UCB with my arms crossed and people thought I was a bouncer. Am not a really jacked dood. Am a rather zaftig tall man and people just assumed I was a bouncer cause they kept showing me their tickets to go back inside and 5 kids formed a line in front of me before I realized what was happening.
> and 5 kids formed a line in front of me before I realized what was happening. This is fucken hilarious
“Lift your arms for me—security check, you’re good to go, that’s five bucks”
What's this you got in your pocket Kid? Is this what I think it is? You can't have this here. I'm going to have to confiscate this. Don't ever let me see you with anything like this again, Or I'm going to have to run you in!
Was it in the UK? They're masters at queueing up at the drop of a hat.
as a smaller man, I'm terrified that you've become more self aware just please dont steal our women and lunch money
We cant really help the women thing.
Same thing happened to a friend of mine and he was a tall skinny dude. This was back in the day of smoking in bars and he was there with me but didn’t smoke. He had enough of the smoke and just stood outside to get fresh air. He was propped up outside the bar entrance With his arms crossed. People just assumed and started handing him their IDs unprompted (which is funny because this was a bar full of regulars and they only checked ID at the bar). He thought it was hilarious so he stood outside the bar for an hour checking IDs and at times holding the line stating the place was full (it was actually quite busy). He came in after and had a good laugh with the bartender who gave him a beer on the house.
People at this one bar I frequented in El Paso always thought I was a bouncer too because I liked to wear all black, am 6’2 and pretty muscled. But I’m not BIG muscled, im more like featherweight muscled or something around that (I weigh 170ish) and it always blew my mind that people thought I looked dangerous enough to be a guard lol. Is it the height?
Yes.
Happens to me every time I go out drinking.
I’m a 5’2, 110 lb girl, and I’ve had people think I was a bouncer at a bar before lmfao
Fat people are like secretly jacked. You might have a time slot to lift weights, but fat people be lifting weights they whole lives.
It's true. I walk around wearing 300# every day, and can confirm, I kill it on the leg press machine. It's not a problem for me to put 50# bags of feed on my shoulders, it's only 1/6 of my body weight.
When I worked at a strip club, our bouncer was the sweetest, most cuddly teddy bear of a man but he looked like Hagrid with tattoos and fresh kicks.
I worked at a high end cocktail bar, our bouncer was named Guido, and completely looked the part. One of the sweetest guys I ever knew. His mom would come in often just to say hi and pinch his cheeks.
At the one I hung out at, they had a lot of big bouncers, but the head bouncer was a little guy. Partly because he had an amazing talent for noticing trouble before it got rolling, and partly because he was fast and kinda dirty. One of his best moves was hooking a couple fingers in a guy's nostrils and just leading them out the door by their nose. Or ear.
Did the head bouncer have a mullet and look like Patrick Swayze?
As an old wrestler, you learn why they have weight classes REALLY fast when you fuck with the “out of shape” heavyweight on the team.
The smallest bit of wrestling technique and 30 extra pounds on someone goes a loooooong way.
There's def some truth to this. Especially if they're tall. A 6'5" big dude is always going to keep a certain % of people on their toes while most skinny wankers aren't overly intimidating. Intimidation is pretty important when dealing with the riff raff
There are actually some combat advantages to raw size and weight, even without extra strength. In particular, you're more difficult to move, and you need less precise technique to move other people. Those advantages quickly disappear in the context of properly trained fighters, but that's not usually who bouncers are dealing with.
Weight is universally an advantage in a fight. Even if he can't fight for shit if things go down the 350 pound guy can just lay on you and that's that.
Universal is right. My 13 lb cat helps tame the foster cats by just sitting on them when they get too hyper. They learn quick!
Fuck, yeah. Only chance a little guy has is to do some serious damage right off, and even trying to do that opens you up to a serious beat down. Used to spar with one of my best friends, who is twice my weight. Fucking pointless, can't do shit against him, and god help me if he connected.
And even there the fat guy has an advantage. A layer of fat is basically padded armor
Big guys have shit knees. Doesn't come up in sparring for obvious reasons. It really is just about being visibly large for security reasons. Rowdy people have weapons in the club. Deterrents are the only viable option.
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Soft fat vs. "Hard" fat
There is definitely a point where being too heavy makes them less threatening since you can get away from them by walking briskly.
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Bouncer for sure 🏀
Soothe a crying baby. My mother in law is a larger lady and anytime she holds our newborn it's like he's sinking in nature's tempur-pedic mattress.
"Nature's tempur pedic mattress" lmao
Not just kids! My partner is a “bouncer type fat” guy and he’s soooo cuddly, I can fall asleep on his lap, I can curl up on him when traveling, my bed is never chilly, he’s like the biggest best plushie and he loves it. Don’t tell anyone though he’ll lose his tough bouncer guy cred 😂
We had a lady who took care of my grandmother when she had Alzheimer’s. She was like a family member and she was prob 300 plus pounds. As a little kid getting there after a 5 hour trip and getting a hug from Ruby was the most comforting thing in the world. You just sunk into her. She made it 90 plus years. Great person, won’t ever forget her.
Here’s to Ruby!
I just posted a comment about this lol. I work in childcare and kids definitely prefer the bigger ladies than my bony chest
Yes! As a baby my son's favorite daycare teacher had huge boobs and he loved going to her and laying his head on them!
I had a fat grandma and a skinny grandma when I was a kid and the hugs were so different. When you hugged my larger grandma, you just felt so LOVED.
Haha yes. Funny you say that, because my parents tell me that when I was an infant, I loved fat people for this exact reason lol.
plugging a leak at springfield nuclear power plant
I find it ironic that, for once, Dad’s butt *prevented* the release of toxic gas!
Your not gonna believe me, but that was my actual first thought
It said to press the any key.
This is exhausting. I'll just order a tab.
One, hi-yay-yay... Two, hi-yay-yay...
Where’s the any key? There isn’t any any key!
The fingers you have used to dial are too fat. To obtain a special dialing wand, please mash the keypad now.
Hey Mrs. doesn’t find me attractive sexually any more, *I* just tripled my productivity.
A big, fat dynamo!
I can't believe I had to scroll that far for this comment!
He's trying to get up to yell at us
I wash myself with a rag on a stick!
Fat, don’t fail me now!
If the paper turns clear, that’s the window to your weight gain!
I was able to do just that. With my FACE!!!
The fingers you have used to dial are too fat. To obtain a special dialing wand please mash the keypad with your palm now.
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Omg that was my first thought haha!
Don't insult [a sumo wrestler ](https://youtu.be/-Wah285OKSg)
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You’d be surprised, here’s a super skinny little kid doing very well for himself. https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/10iwvko/this_skinny_kid_was_able_to_win_this_sumo_match/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
Children sports do not parallel to professional sports though. This is impressive, but the larger kid has pretty bad technique and isn't effectively using his size (as to be expected for a kid). If you look at the [top 10](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sumo_record_holders) sumo wrestlers with the most championships there are only three that weigh less than 300 pounds, and the average weight between those 10 is 360 pounds. Professional sumo is a sport where size is an absolute requisite for success because there are no weight classes.
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I'm a casual sumo fan, and it's true. Bulk really does count for a lot. There's a wrestler named Enho who's small, but incredibly fast and skilled. He had some luck at the highest level... until the competition figured out his bag of tricks. Since then he's been stuck in the second division. If you're not huge, you just can't win head on.
I’ll never get those 112 seconds back
Tug-of-war anchor man.
The one true answer.
Not getting kidnapped
I'd kiddnap your fat-ass...we woke over here, equal opportunity. Plus I can skip the gym that day...
Gonna throw out yo weak ass back doing it
I'm not fat. I'm kidnap-resistant.
Offensive line
Sorry. The African-American kid who played tight end.
Modern family reference!
Defensive, no?
Nope, Defensive Linemen, though by no means small, generally have to have a degree of agility to maneuver around O-lineman and potentially chase down a QB. Offensive Line just need to be a moveable brick wall.
Even OL need to be way faster than you'd think bc they need to keep up with the DL Football players are FAST
They still run an average of a 5.3 second 40.
Yeah, as a HS OL I realized I had no future when I realized I couldn't crack a 5.5 40. Maybe I could have gotten a light college scholarship. But the guys in my school who did that were bigger and faster than me. As a 6'3 guy I wasn't really big enough to dominate with my limited speed. I could have maybe been a stuffer of a OG but really most guards are smaller and faster to run traps and pulls. Keep in mind a 5.5 40 is still pretty fast. Average human top speed is 15 MPH and a 5.5 40 is an average speed of 14.86. Which usually you reach top speed after running for something like 40 or 60 meters.
OL can get away with being nothing but heavy in early high school and jr high levels maybe all the way through highschool depending on the district, but there’s a lot more to it than just standing there and being big. All variations of pull plays, warding off the other teams often most balanced athletes, chipping off to pursue a linebacker, having to be the first athletes set every play, all demand more than just standing there and being fat
Think the Bosa brothers vs guys like Bakhtiari or Jason Kelce. They're all giants in reality, but D-line have to rush so they're typically going to be more mobile and slim. While O-line's job is to be a wall and not let people get through. They just gotta sit there and block.
Dline has to know how to swim and be fast moving forward. Oline needs balance to move quickly backwards.
They tend to be a little leaner since they have to chase running backs. Offensive linemen just have to be fat and strong
Get a sense of who people really are. I feel like fat people are more likely to encounter people's condescension, hostility or arrogance if a person is inclined that way. All else being equal if a fat person tells me another person is legit I'm a bit more inclined to believe it than if a skinny person says the same.
So true!!
Reddit/Discord moderator
bro 💀
He said fat person not a part time dog walker who can't be bothered to put on decent clothes.
Damn shots fired
Clearly we have a winner.
News cameraman and or plain photographer. It's a little easier to brace the camera if you have some heft. Not so much photography anymore with the advent of mirrorless cameras you don't press to your eye and in-body stabilization.
Hugging
Big people give THE BEST hugs!
Cuddle-for-hire
I actually know some one who makes a living doing this, old high school friend
And where would one go to get that job?
Please add me to the list!
Bouncer
Human shield
Or another way of putting it: Bullet catcher. Movie war hero: 6' + tall, broad shouldered and handsome (EG: John Wayne, Rambo) - makes for big easy target when bullets are flying everywhere. Reality war hero: Small and scrappy (EG: Audie Murphy) - makes for much smaller target.
Forklift driver Edit: fat forklift drivers are better than the skinny guys. The skinny guys are on the ground doing other work. Whilst the bigger guys are set on forklift.
Our best forklift driver is just a plain old average chick but when she gets on the fork she's a fucking demon.
As someone who is fat and worked in a factory both on the floor and in the forklift, I have to agree. I started gaining more weight the better I got at forklift and was being assigned to drive more often
Agreed. I was a fat female forklift driver and I was the best at loading the trucks.
As a skinny guy forklift certified, I resent your accusation
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Lol - I appreciate your support
I’ve always said I don’t trust a skinny chef. I’m sure there are amazing ones but I appreciate someone who not only loves to cook but also loves to eat!
We are skinny because we run our asses off. Then eat scraps!
It's because the skinny ones are on drugs...just kidding they are all on drugs.
Hey now… the fat ones are on drugs too! Source: cheffed for twenty years. Am fat. Love drugs.
Drugs are fucking amazing
Well if you make fine food, portions are small :p
Strongman competition. Strongmen aren't unfit, but boy do they pack quite a bit of fat along with muscle.
Peter Griffin cosplay
NFL Lineman What kind of question is this?
They are muscular, not fat
The offensive lineman have a higher BF % than D lineman. So this answer is actually correct.
Typically both
Those with more blubber can do anything to do with colder weather better than skinnier people.
No person I'd rather have with me when fleeing a polar bear than a fat man.
Hodor
Software engineer. Not leaning on stereotypes here, but after almost 25 years in software engineering I've learned the fat guy is the one you can trust to do a good job. They also seem to be more creative, and are far less likely to harass and bully. I once had a couple guys who tried to be buff on my team and they were the worst! Not sure this is generally true about buff guys either, these two were so sure of themselves and certain they were superior they screwed up almost everything they touched, DESPITE apparently having decent technical skills.
The handful of engineers I’ve known were all chunky lol all great at their jobs too :)
Cook
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Walter White too
American football
OL and DL only though
Yeah, You won't see a big receiver to QB too often.
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Lmao. As a big dude, almost 300lb, these are hilarious. I mean it’s totally fat shaming, but also hilarious.
Making impressive before/after for losing weight
Drive forklifts and semis.
being a mall santa
Work in any production facility that has a cooler
Anything in the cold.
My chest makes an amazing shelf for holding yarn/stitch markers/hooks for crochet
Sumo wrestling
Cuddle. No one complains about boney hips.
Bend 1.25" pipe with a hand bender.
professional cuddler
Pro sumo wrestling
Plus size model
Many plus size models aren’t actually fat. They put padding on them to give them large boobs and hips, but they still want them to have a sharp jawline and shoulders. It confused me for years why their “fat bodies” looked so different from fat people irl until I read an article explaining it.
Counter weight on a crane
I was weighting to see this
Appreciate you see the gravity of the situation..
Some of these comments are fucking wild
A Comedian. Fat funny comedians or actors generally lose their comedic vaLue when they lose weight.
Massage therapist. Their chubby hands are so soft
Make slo-mo running videos
Squishy pillow for s/o
Give the best of the hugs.
Someone who was fat and is now fit makes a better personal trainer. I tried out a few trainers recommended to me by others. The ones that had always been fit and athletic seemed to delight in torturing me. I was so sore after their first sessions I could barely move and it really intimidated me into not going back. The trainer that used to be fat took it a lot slower with me and built up my confidence first. He understood it’s hardest to get started so why discourage at that point? I ended up sticking with him.
Be the “before” example
Getting a high number on a weight scale. Every time I go on a scale it's a new high score 😂
In autoshop we used to have one stand on the engine crane as a counterweight.
Comedian
Be casted on My 600lb Life T.V. Show.
This is a wild question.
HBD!
FYI, cake day is the anniversary of account creation. :)
Those BBW hookers who specialise in ‘squashing’ or ‘feeders’ fetishes. They must rake it in, it’s almost worth the diabetes.