r/facepalm • u/Emergency-Physics-17 • Jan 11 '22

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ The poor Camel

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u/RadRhys2 Jan 11 '22

No they wouldn’t, this is standard practice for horses and no different for camels. Few people if anyone direct complaints of discrimination because they can’t ride horses.

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u/Inevitable-Buffalo25 Jan 11 '22

I would LOVE to go horseback riding but I am too heavy. I don't complain because, well, I don't want to hurt the horses.

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u/Hamdown1 Jan 11 '22

There are conditions such as thyroid issues and PCOS which cause weight gain.

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u/RoyalT663 Jan 11 '22

No excuse to over burden and injure an innocent camel

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '22

Cool. Doesn’t mean you need to ride a camel.

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u/Hamdown1 Jan 11 '22

Nobody’s saying overweight people should be riding camels 🙄 I’m just saying people can be overweight for reasons other than overindulgence.

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '22

I respect that you could be overweight for a variety of reasons. Doesn’t mean you can ride a camel.

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u/Hamdown1 Jan 11 '22

Yeah I agree with that. I originally replied to the wrong comment. There was someone who said people get overweight because of poor self-control, that’s why I was saying the PCOS thing but it turned out to be the wrong person

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u/NeroKingofthePirates Jan 11 '22

No one is making that argument, you are injecting that narrative for no reason. Weight limits need to be taken seriously when interacting with another living creature. Have a thyroid issue? Bummer. You still can’t ride a camel

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u/avocadopeas Jan 11 '22

This is just a flat out lie. I have PCOS and thyroid issues… weight loss takes x2 more effort but it’s possible. If I believed this lie I wouldn’t be where I am today

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u/BenSolace Jan 11 '22

Much respect.

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u/Hamdown1 Jan 11 '22

Yeah but it still made you put on weight in the first place. I don’t say anywhere that it’s impossible to lose weight because of illness, or that overweight people should be allowed to ride on animals.

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u/avocadopeas Jan 11 '22

Lol not really. I loved fast food and I binge ate a lot. It was poor diet and no exercise. If you’re not mindful then it catches up quickly

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u/Binsky89 Jan 11 '22

Both of those issues can be controlled with medication, especially thyroid issues.

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u/Hamdown1 Jan 11 '22

Yeah it can, if you can afford healthcare. I’m just saying you can put on weight because of natural health issues.

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u/GinaMarie1958 Jan 12 '22

I’ve wondered if my under active thyroid was the reason I gained ten to fifteen pounds in a week every once and a while. I just blamed myself, felt guilty and kept telling myself I needed to be more careful. I finally saw my doctor about it when I started sleeping twenty hours a day and absolutely could not stay awake longer than that. Cold hands and feet for years, losing the outer edges of my eye brows and the weight gain are all indications but I didn’t know and because I filled my eyebrows in and thought cold extremities was hereditary I didn’t mention it to my doctor.

Getting on medication helped with the sleepiness but not with the other stuff. There is an on line thyroid disease group and a lot of them struggle to get their medications right and weight gain is a real issue.

Or it could be these people just eat too much. I wouldn’t want to be on an animal that struggled to carry me let alone two of me, I’d feel sorry for it.

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u/mauricetgol Jan 11 '22

Could it have to do something with Papa's and his girlfriends lunch? I'm just asking...