Overweight 'should be protected'

drunken car bombers?

After drinking a few Irish car bombs i'd be surprised if I wasn't drunk.

assaulting people and discriminating against them because of their physical appearance is illegal in this country, and rightly so.

No it's not.

After drinking a few Irish car bombs i'd be surprised if I wasn't drunk.

ill drink to that!

Fat people are individuals, with one thing in common. The urge to bundle together a disparate group of people just so we can prod them with a judgemental stick is a bit pathetic. Fat doesn't equal lazy, or greedy, or anything, really, except having eaten more calories than you've expended. I don't think we have any right to assume why someone's fat, or really anything about someone on the basis of that one fact.

There's no moral judgement to be made - except by self-righteous idiots who value vanity above everything else, and those who happen, by dumb chance, to have genes that accord with fashion.

Very eloquently put.

On several occasions I've noticed an undercurrent of 'fatism' on this forum and to be honest it's rather distasteful. It only serves to undermine what is otherwise a very inclusive and welcoming place. Any overweight newbie reading this thread could easily (and rightly so) be put off their plans to lose weight and get fit.

In terms of contributing (aren't fat people all lazy?) I've paid over £100,000 in taxes over the last 3.5 years of my previous job, not bad for a fat cunt. So stick that in your skinny jeans and smoke it.

My doctor's a fat fucker...

EDIT: Not in a chubby-chasing way either.

(As far as I know).

I'm going to campaign to make it legal to sue anybody using the phrase "Never trust a skinny chef" as I find it is very discriminatory and I find that it reduces the career hopes of skinny chefs-to-be.

Fat doesn't equal lazy, or greedy, or anything, really, except having eaten more calories than you've expended.

Following the suit, slim people aren't fucking anorexic, like most shitty coluorful magazines for ladies try to imply recently. All articles are written by ugly or fat who are on the mission to turn the tables. Makes me sick. My wife took enough stick from other woman for being slim ergo not Black enough. Even though she's had a sixpack, they still called her anorexic.

All articles are written by ugly or fat who are on the mission to turn the tables.

This is utter nonsense fella. The media is as much a reflection of the masses as it is a projection.

As an aside and an example of just how complex the issue is there's also a good deal of homophobia around size 0 models being the 'must have' for top-end labels. In as much as gay fashion designers are being blamed for this trend, some citing that gay designers only want to see their clothes on stick thin models because they have no hips or bits to speak of and hence look more boyish / attractive to the designer.

It's all just a big fat excuse to point the finger at another target - queers, fatties, darkies, they're all in it together, trying to ruin the middle-class sensibilities of middle-England.

This is just like the Beth Ditto thread though[t]

I'm going to campaign to make it legal to sue anybody using the phrase "Never trust a skinny chef" as I find it is very discriminatory and I find that it reduces the career hopes of skinny chefs-to-be.

Good point. Marco Pierre-White is an excellent example of a skinny chef who's totally untrustworthy and has done little to nothing for culinary excellence.

This is just like the Beth Ditto thread though[t]

Not as good though.

Not as good though.

I wondered how long it would take you to show up. Did you have to stop for a breather? ;)

I'm going to campaign to make it legal to sue anybody using the phrase "Never trust a skinny chef" as I find it is very discriminatory and I find that it reduces the career hopes of skinny chefs-to-be.

But my ex was a skinny chef and kept burning food. I didn't trust him to cook.

someone being beaten up should be a crime.

that article was stupid.

it's just difficult to comprehend the grouping of fat people called the Size Acceptance Movement, an organisation that would have been unthinkable when I was at school, have actually come to the point of lobbying government for discrimination legislation.

The fights that have gone before for Race Equality, Women's Rights, Age Rights, Disability Rights were very long fought and related to a personal characteristic that could not be changed and didn't have related health risks and that is why this article seemed so ridiculous to me.

The rate of obesity in the UK is still on the rise and the power of such a loby could increase. I suspect that when the Government of the day decides that they have cracked the Smokers they will turn thier attentions to the FAT.. look out for taxes on fattenning food sooner rather than later. This will be done using the urgument of costs to the NHS from obese citizens.

But my ex was a skinny chef and kept burning food. I didn't trust him to cook.

That proves what exactly?

Gary Rhodes..... good case in point

Obesity is just another indicator of the spread of "Americanization" of society...... Martha Stewart.. skinny tax dodging american cook/crim

Don't forget this guy!

http://www.belfastcity.gov.uk/news/photoquality/PaulRankin.jpg

my eyes!

That proves what exactly?

Nothing, just my experience of a skinny chef-to-be :P

It's all just a big fat excuse to point the finger at another target - queers, fatties, darkies,

You forgot "Ginger"

Gary Rhodes..... good case in point

Obesity is just another indicator of the spread of "Americanization" of society...

As is poor spelling...
EDIT: Yes, I saw the quotation marks. Just saying.

You forgot "Ginger"

It's fat, queer, ginger, Jamaican Jews thatI feel sorry for - like BRM.

As is poor spelling...
EDIT: Yes, I saw the quotation marks. Just saying.

irony is lost on most.... particularly Americans

As is poor spelling...
EDIT: Yes, I saw the quotation marks. Just saying.

You forgot grammatical form, an ellipse should only be three stops...