UK fatties demand 'hate crime' status for lardo-baiting Woebegone British swingbellies have launched a campaign against anti-lardo "hate crime" and discrimination, even as a survey of possibly gutbusting Germans has revealed that being "overweight" is actually not a health hazard. The British flab-lib campaign is reported today by the BBC, which quotes Kathryn Szrodecki - described …
@ "Someone being beaten up should be a crime", commented Szrodecki.
I entirely agree, you should be punished for being beaten up - good line there that person.
More realistically, beating someone up IS a crime (as far as i'm aware) regardless of the reason for beating said person (unless its self defence or some such thing).
Reallly, go on a diet. People cant change their sexuality or skin colour or religious heritage. Or even being ginger.
You, however, can quite happily stop stuffing your face full of cake if the taunts are getting too much.
I dont like getting up in the morning, but Im not calling for legal protection to protect my rights to being downright lazy.
Stop stuffing your face and do some exercise.
Lard-arse. (Sue me).
"I have been discriminated against - I am a YMCA qualified fitness instructor, but I have gone for jobs and been laughed off the premises,"
Just like I, as a web developer, would be laughed out of pitches if I sent potential customers a Front Page Express page as my portfolio...
I have no problem with half the population being fat and unhealthy - it'll make it easier for the rest of us to hunt and eat them when the world descends into a post-apocolyptic Mad Max-style place after the swine-flu/credit crunch/meteor/Windows 7 armageddon hits.
As a 20 stone tub of lard I have no problems with 'special' people trying to raise their social status above slug level by desperate attempt at humour.
What I do object to is censorious muppets who should be sat on by people like me.
Oh and those prats who can only do simple maths making up stupid rules like BMI - I was once 3 stone heavier than this and had no fat on me at all, now my body is constructed almost completely of fat my BMI is lower and I'm not quite morbidly obese as I was when I could run 60 miles in a week without batting an eyelid.
Where is the IT Angle ? or is some Fatty promoting Boffin who works in Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Natural Sciences justify an IT Angle Now a days.
I think this is just all just load of fatties self promotion and postive spin, they obviously just want to have there Cake and Eat it.
"In the UK there is currently no special legal protection for fatties as there is for those persecuted on religious, ethnic or sexual grounds."
No, and nor should there be. Indeed there should be no 'special' law to protect race or religion either. Why is attacking someone on their race somehow worse than the way they look? Or their sex?
The whole issue of (especially Race and Religion) persecution, so called hate crimes is hugely blown out of all proportion. It simply boils down to one thing; Some people like to hurt others, period, and so look around for a target. Be it a nasty comment from some white shirt beer monster at the long haired student in a town center pub, or three black/white 'yoofs' attacking one white/black person in an underpass.
Animal minds will always have an undercurrent of nastiness, and many will look around for an individual or group to target.
So scrap the racism laws, scrap the pro-handicapped laws, and boil the whole lot down to 'be nice, or be punished' laws. I don't see why calling someone a (insert most villified racial slur you know here) should attract any more of a punishment than attacking someone for their weight, and vice versa, attacking someone because of their weight should bring the same punishment as racism.
If you attack someone, that in itself should be reason enough to have to account for your actions.
Sam
"Someone being beaten up should be a crime," commented Szrodecki
No need for extra ledgislation and laws and red tape. It is a crime, stop eating the doughnuts and walk down to the police station and report it. Standard punishment these days due to the over crowded jails and liberals is a free playstation in the hope the offenders will be to busy play gta to bother committing crimes in the real world
"someone being beaten up should be a crime" - it is.
I used to weigh 27stone and I didn't get any of the shit these people are whinging about.
And a fat fitness instructor is clearly going to find little enthusiasm when most of their customers are looking to lose weight and need someone who can demonstrate they know how to keep fit!
The BBC carries this quote "Not everyone has a free choice about controlling their weight."
So what about the ones who do have a free choice about controlling their weight but are too bloody lazy to do anything about it.
If the so called fatties are troubled by the victimisation they receive and want legal protection, I want the same for smokers, the amount of people that make comments about the "dirty habit" offends me greatly it's not like I have a choice.
(probably over did the exaggeration, but hopefully you get my point)
Can't see any justification for these lard-asses being given any special treatment.
In my opinion, calling someone "lard-ass", "fatty" or "porker" is a reasonable and objective call based on the aforementioned "lard-ass" being unable to keep their feet out of the cake shop. Oh... sorry, silly me. I forgot that obesity is genetic isn't it? Rather than a lack of responsibility of "barrel-boy" to eat sensibly and exercise regularly.
While I am sorry that this person may have has some maltreatment by other members of the public, they have to realise that this also happens to other stereotyped persons... such as "beanpoles", "gingers", "Northeners", and the Welsh.
Get over it. Get off of the sofa. Eat better.
Speaking as a lard-arse who doesn't really appreciate the attention of the mouth-breathers, I'm still utterly against this sort of proposed legislation: in fact I'd rather see existing "hate crime" repealed and instead rely on laws to tackle actual crimes, y'know, assault and stuff. As far as I'm concerned, I'd rather know up-front that some gobshite's a halfwit than have them silenced only to find out later. And if someone wants to dribble about my circumference, so what? I can lose weight, but there's bugger all they can do about being an idiot.
The BMI is a poor guide to obesity, but guess what? It's only one of a number of things a doctor will take into account before declaring you a salad dodger. For instance, my BMI alone would suggest I'm a fat git. However, I'm 6'5" tall (off of most doctors BMI charts), and a body builder, so all that extra weight is mostly muscle. The typical test done in addition to calculating your BMI is a caliper test - immortalised by a breakfast cereal advert which asked whether "you can pinch more than an inch".
This solution makes someone go from being lardy to 'normal' (because the BMI is so cretinously biased towards short-arses).
And the full disclosure says you're 6'3"? Pah! I'm 6' 6": that's a proper height!
Even my doctor agrees that at my 'ideal' BMI I'd snap in half in a high wind.
One of the primary differentiators between a human and an animal is the power of will. Not intelligence, not social skills, but one simple factor - willpower. A human is capable of resisting temptation for a future gain. A human is capable of withstanding pain until it is payback time.
Very few animals can do that and the few that can can do so only for a very short amount of time.
And with all due respect someone who is asking for more human rights while failing one of the basic tests for being a human should go f*** off.
Oh, by the way, I will not pass an obese person on an interview. He has failed the interview before he has even started. If he has no willpower to keep himself in shape, I do not see how to expect willpower for him to stay focused on a project.
Disclaimer - I used to be nearly 16 stone while being 6 feet 1". I used to have to downshift to the lowest gears or outright get off on a bike to cross a bridge. Used to. Not any more. While by the BMI measure I am still overweight I have no problem running for miles or playing basketball for a couple of hours. So to all "rights campaigners" - unless you have a medical condition preventing you from doing so f*** off and go on a diet.
You nearly made it a whole article without causing giggling, you bastard. The footnote was priceless. Bravo!
So the ladies rowing team said no to huge cox then? I'm sorry, but you set that up on purpose, innit?
Anyway, "chuh" and so forth. It's madness gone politically etc. etc.
<- 6 ft 3 and about 13 stone (guessing wildly). Laying off the chocolate to avoid piling on the pounds with a sedentary office job
Most of the discrimination laws aren't actually about violence pratface. If you scrap all the laws at present then how do you judge where discrimination stops? Intelligence? Qualifications? Imagine if the law was such that you can't discriminate against people because of their lack of qualifications?
Equally what if a shop suddenly decided to stop serving black/blind/gay people?
Most assault laws *are* neutral in terms of discrimination. That said there is the small issue of how seriously the police would take it (our local coppers are a joke even about car or house vandalism), and so on. Punching someone might not get their attention, since a single punch isn't what you could call "beating someone up". Even a couple of punches might not get them off their arses, fat or otherwise.
I'm visually impaired, a lot of the laws regarding the visually impaired are for obtaining jobs or services. For example web sites that sell things are required to be "not unreasonably difficult" for us. What if Tesco suddenly decided to redesign and leave us out? We find shopping in physical shops hard because we can't browse the shelves, and even with assistance (which without discrimination laws would not be obliged to be provided) you have to rely on them and trust that they'll get things right. If a blind person had a nut allergy and the person assisting them failed to properly check the items for nut content then this could be very serious indeed, and that is just an extreme example.
There are any number of ways this can go wrong, very wrong.
Full disclosure: The author is 6'3" and 16 stone, ie one of the overweight. He feels able to survive in today's hefty-hating climate without special legal protection, however; though the memory of being refused a place as cox of a ladies' rowing team many years ago still stings.
So he's being discriminated against because he's fat AND male! Oh, the outrage! XD
"Someone being beaten up should be a crime" - Erm it is a crime? Assault, Battery, ABH, GBH? Depending on severity.
Do 'fat' people constitute a minority group? I don't get why they need extra protection, aren't we all equal in the eyes of the law? I could use the cliche of ginger people...
She so fat her baby picture was an aerial shot.
She so fat the back of her neck look like a pack of hot dogs.
She so fat she has to iron her pants on the driveway.
She so fat she was baptized at Sea World.
She so fat she stepped on a pound and made 20 shilling.
She so fat her shadow weighs 14 stone.
She so fat she walked in front of the TV and we missed 5 minutes of Benny Hill
She so fat, at the end of the day, her high heels are flats.
She so fat she jump up in the air, and got stuck.
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