I'm impressed with the amount of venom that you can muster for something that I simply did not understand properly, and that you apparently do not seem to want to elaborate on.

Also the fact that you are not prepared to accept an apology and simply clear up the misunderstanding but instead prefer a fight is quite unlike what is usual on HN.

I'm posting here under my own name, my email address is in my profile and all my domains are linked to my business addresses, I couldn't possibly be less anonymous than that.

You on the other hand are 'someone in San Francisco', last I checked there were quite a few people living there so I hope you don't mind my still calling you an AC.

This is not the 'ok corral' and we're not going to shoot it out at noon. Try to be a little bit more reasonable and put your question in to perspective if you want to be understood.

And I'm impressed with the amount of insensitivity and ignorance with which you can make judgements about other people's lifestyles and body images.

A good friend of mine killed himself after losing 250lbs when he realized he couldn't escape a lifetime of emotional damage from people ridiculing him about his weight. Hating people because of their appearance is just another type of bigotry, no different from racism, homophobia, or religious intolerance.

As a fat man I have NEVER hated anybody for any of these reasons, but as a thin man you somehow get a pass to do so against me because it's currently politically correct to blame fat people for the world's ills?

I never said I hated you, in fact looking over your posting history I'd say that we agree on most things most of the time.

As for the rest of this rant, I think you are simply using this to pick a fight, and you are spoiling for one because of a lot of stuff in your life that bothers you.

If you want stuff to be invented or changed then go and invent stuff or change stuff.

But don't blame others for not inventing stuff that would be convenient for you to have and don't blame others for not liking your body, as far as that is the case.

It seems to be a very sensitive point with you, but you have to keep in mind that some part of your body comes under your control and some part of it you are simply born in to and you'll have to make do with that.

For the record, I've had an extremely disfiguring skin condition, it used to make me feel so uncomfortable that I wouldn't leave the house. I literally used to scratch myself to little bits. It took me a good 15 years to get it under control, careful experimenting with diet and trying to avoid situations that were stressful is what finally did it.

Just because I'm 'thin' doesn't mean I didn't get my own taste of that sort of thing. And even now I have to be careful. But I'm more than ever convinced that we really can make a difference in our own lives and in the ones of people around us by working hard at it.

If your problems are glandular, hormonal or some weird combination of things then there might be something you can do, there might not be. But I've seen one guy kick the issue with an iron fist and go from well over 280 pounds to a regular weight, and his problem was definitely medical.

If he could do it, you may be able to do it too.

As for your friend, that's a really really sad thing that that happened.

If I made a post that asks the questions that you ask and left as much unclear as you did then I would be the last to start using that and a bunch of strawmen to pick fights, HN is not a place to vent your frustration in general, much less one where you get to threaten people with bodily harm.

Doing so makes you look juvenile and unbalanced.