Fat (not "fat") people

Big Rob · **Posted:** Wed May 09, 2012 2:21 am

Don't say 'obese'... you might upset fat people, councils have been warned

Don't say 'obnoxious piece of shit'.... you might upset mail readers, mailwatchers have been warned.

ezinra · **Posted:** Wed May 09, 2012 10:15 am

A decent article about fat-shaming, which Mailites ought to read:

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Fat looks on the surface as though it is about a failure of restraint. It isn't actually any more an issue of restraint than it is for many thin or medium-sized people. Most eating problems don't show. Fat, which may or may not mean an eating problem, does. That doesn't make it immoral or contemptible. It doesn't mean the fat individual has faulty judgment or inferior leadership skills. It certainly doesn't sanction discrimination. What it does demonstrate is that cruelty and stupidity arises when we are pressed to make our bodies into uniform shapes. This creates widespread body anxiety, and makes us search for a scapegoat to feel secure. We know from other forms of discrimination what a fruitless and lousy deal that is.

Big Rob · **Posted:** Thu May 10, 2012 2:54 am

Half of all men in England ‘will be obese by 2040’ - and cost of treating related illnesses may reach £320bn

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But just think of all the money that will be saved in state pension handouts.
- Alistair , Menai, Wales, 10/5/2012 01:30

Very true Alistair. The process of human ageing itself costs the NHS a friggen' bomb so how's about stopping criticizing people for their lifestyles and letting people make their own choices? (As well as having the balls to tax Dacre, Murdoch and the rest of the obscenely rich vampires who are sucking society dry)....

Ahhh I doubt it.... Fatties are an easy scapegoat... Like smokers or drinkers...

Ber · **Joined:** Tue May 10, 2011 5:59 pm **Posts:** 53

How do all these "we're all disgusting fatty boom-booms" stories tie in with all the "parents fury as active child labelled as obese by NHS bodyfascist jobsworths" stories then?

I assume the same parameters are being used to quantify "obese" in all these cases?

ezinra · **Posted:** Thu May 10, 2012 8:16 am

It's common sense, innit? The NHS relies on unnecessary, fancy-dan formulas for measuring obesity; a Mailite can tell just by looking.

ezinra · **Posted:** Fri May 25, 2012 3:17 pm

Real girls post their 'fatkini' pictures in protest against society's obsession with 'beach-ready bodies'

You know at school, there were pupils who'd pretend to be your friend for a short while — they'd say nice things about you, feign empathy. But their real objective was to get close enough to obtain information that would allow them and their friends to laugh at you even more cruelly. Well, the Daily Mail is that friend.

Just like him or her, this article starts with a friendly nod of understanding:

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The bikini has come to inspire both dread and awe as our culture increasingly enshrines physical perfection through magazine features that encourage women to be bikini-ready for summer, and the constant trolling of other women by women.

But you're the ones that…

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Rather than being a statement about health, which it could have easily turned into, the gallery appears to be an endorsement of diversity, and an statement that no one particular size or shape of woman has a monopoly on being considered attractive or even ‘normal’.

Hey, we're buddies!

Wait a sec, what's that bit about health? Where's that coming from?

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The women featured in the gallery look vibrant and confident, regardless of their body-shapes or sizes.

Regardless of? Surely you mean 'because of'? Oh well, at least my new friend didn't say 'in spite of'.

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While the writer and fashion blogger has received a wave of support from readers who applaud her confidence, some have been quick to judge.

Sadly my new friend can't remember any of the supportive quotes, but she can pull out a sackful of nasty ones.

And then, just like that, my new friend disappears and I think you see her sniggering with her Mailite friends in the distance:

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More like REAL MONSTERS

- Don Poole, Poole, 25/5/2012 13:45 Rating 2

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However happy they might be about how they look doesn't change how I feel, and that is I'd rather not look

- Go Einstein, Auckland, NZ, 25/5/2012 14:38 Rating 1

But you clicked on the article anyway.

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I wouldn't want to wear any of them as a hat.

- Owd Tyke, South Devon, 25/5/2012 14:22 Rating 11

Oh, and I do so hate this idea of 'real' women. We're all real, except the plastic ones that Dacre uses for his afternoon workout.

Arnold · **Posted:** Sun May 27, 2012 1:29 pm

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'I can't stand up': The desperate plea from 63-stone teenager which sparked the dramatic £100,000 operation to rescue her from home

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1w4YHv5dZ

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We are no longer accepting comments on this article.

Shouldn't have published it then, should you?

ezinra · **Posted:** Sun May 27, 2012 4:30 pm

I'm sure the vast majority of readers would agree that saving a fat person's life is worth £100,000. That's why the figure, for which the Mail does not show its working, is in the headline, right?

Arnold · **Posted:** Mon May 28, 2012 12:29 pm

But as was asked on the Today Programme this morning, why hadn't Social Services intervened? As she hadn't left the house for six months, her family were complicit.

ezinra · **Posted:** Mon May 28, 2012 1:42 pm

Is that what Minette Marin was arguing? I had to turn her off, I'm afraid. Her qualification for being interviewed was that she'd written a column about it yesterday. It was made clear to her that she didn't know what she was talking about by the man from the NSPCC (or whichever charity it was — I was half-asleep).

Arnold · **Posted:** Wed Jun 20, 2012 10:00 pm

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Bride who stole £200,000 from her company was rumbled when the boss she invited to the wedding wondered how she could afford an award-winning chef and personalised fireworks

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1yMwwOE66

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Look at the size of her....she is no stranger to greed!
- Stevie, Liverpool, UK, 20/6/2012 16:01

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It looks as if they spent half of that money on pies before the wedding.
- Dennis, London, 20/6/2012 15:4

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my goodness, they are both as big as the car !!!
- helen, teddington, 20/6/2012 16:00

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After the wedding, I presume the remaining money was spent on pies.
- Harsh butfair, Solihull, England, 20/6/2012 15:59

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Blimey............BIG FAT WEDDING
- Bish, UK, 20/6/2012 15:49

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Looks like £150000 was spent on food for themselves.
- tony, shrops, 20/6/2012 15:59

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Should of spend the money on a gastric band and surgery.
- methinks, manchester, 20/6/2012 15:50

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Fflaps · **Posted:** Thu Jun 21, 2012 9:08 am

God, don't these people realise that the time they spent thinking up and then posting insults that have nothing to do with the story is 60 seconds of their lives they'll never get back?

Cyclist · **Posted:** Thu Jun 21, 2012 9:55 am

Fflaps wrote:

God, don't these people realise that the time they spent thinking up and then posting insults that have nothing to do with the story is 60 seconds of their lives they'll never get back?

I think you'll find that for many of them thinking up and posting insults is their life. Without this, their lives would be empty and meaningless.

Abernathy · **Posted:** Thu Jun 21, 2012 11:14 am

A pedant writes : You do realise that you never get any period of your time alive back, don't you? A better way of putting it would be "60 seconds wasted forever".

Patrick100 · **Joined:** Mon Mar 05, 2012 11:38 pm **Posts:** 600

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Ten stone at the age of THREE: Amazing video of obese baby from 1930s decades before waistlines bulged

As I , and others have commented this looks very much like a case of Prader-Willi Syndrome, a genetic disorder, which causes extreme excessive appetite and weight gain . among other symptoms. not simple obesity.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ulged.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prader%E2% ... i_syndrome

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