The "No tulip Sherlock" news item of the day....

[doodab]

They would probably overheat at some point too, because their surface areas (and ability to dissipate heat) goes with girth squared, whereas mass goes with girth cubed. Though that does assume fat produces heat, whcih it probably doesn't if it isn't being burnt, which it won't be. Burning that fat (e.g. by exercising) might be deadly though.

Wouldn't jiggling it cause kinetic energy to be turned into heat?

I think you might have hit on the reason fat people don't like exercising. Even a sedate jog would be like running a marathon in a fat suit.

[SupremeSpod]

If so, fat retarding forces must also exist. Otherwise fat people would just keep getting fatter, smellier and lazier.

They do, one of which is called "a coronary".

Hth.

[RichardCranium]

Rain causes rise in flood risk

[xoggoth]

But on the plus side has anyone noticed that, with minor exceptions like welfare fraud, you rarely see any really fat criminals? Most crime is by thin ugly people.

[OwlHoot]

Obquote from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar

CAESAR

    Let me have men about me that are fat;
    Sleek-headed men and such as sleep o' nights:
    Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;
    He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.

ANTONY

    Fear him not, Caesar; he's not dangerous;
    He is a noble Roman and well given.

CAESAR

    Would he were fatter! But I fear him not:
    Yet if my name were liable to fear,
    I do not know the man I should avoid
    So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much;
    He is a great observer and he looks
    Quite through the deeds of men: he loves no plays,
    As thou dost, Antony; he hears no music;
    Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort
    As if he mock'd himself and scorn'd his spirit
    That could be moved to smile at any thing.
    Such men as he be never at heart's ease
    Whiles they behold a greater than themselves,

[d000hg]

But on the plus side has anyone noticed that, with minor exceptions like welfare fraud, you rarely see any really fat criminals? Most crime is by thin ugly people.

But prison is an easy place to gain weight. Weird, huh?