{"id":367,"date":"2009-05-05T20:03:55","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T03:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/?p=367"},"modified":"2025-05-23T17:33:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T22:33:51","slug":"ex-fatty-not-flattered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/ex-fatty-not-flattered\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Fatty Not Flattered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Poor Lucky Me,<br \/>\nI recently lost a good amount of weight, and if I do say so myself, I look pretty hot.  My problem is what to say to the complete social morons who, when they see me, say &#8220;My god, you&#8217;ve lost A TONOFWEIGHT!!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nI suppose they think I will be flattered by their comments, but I silently think &#8220;Did hey really think that I needed to lose a TONOFWEIGHT???&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nI have tried laughing it off and just changing the subject, but nothing seems to work.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nPlease, help.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nSigned,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nSkinny Now<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Dear Skinny Now,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nI know it sounds like these people are just giving you clumsy compliments, but they are actually telling you that they are insanely jealous.  Most asshole behavior is due to jealousy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> I know this because so many people are jealous of me so they say rude things like &#8220;Why don&#8217;t you ever get to work on time&#8221; and &#8220;Why are you drinking scotch out of a milk carton during this meeting&#8221; and &#8220;You have dog poo on your shoe and have walked all around my office and ground it into the carpet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nJerks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nI&#8217;m sure you didn&#8217;t have a ton of weight to lose and I&#8217;m sure you look lovely.  Instead of changing the subject, why don&#8217;t you say &#8220;I know you could lose weight too, if you just try!  Do you want some tips?&#8221;  Then smile sweetly.  Or laugh maniacally.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong> Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Poor Lucky Me<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Poor Lucky Me, I recently lost a good amount of weight, and if I do say so myself, I look pretty hot. My problem is what to say to the complete social morons who, when they see me, say &#8220;My god, you&#8217;ve lost A TONOFWEIGHT!!!&#8221; &nbsp; I suppose they think I will be flattered &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/ex-fatty-not-flattered\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ex-Fatty Not Flattered&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3801,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions\/3801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}