[Praetor Lupus]

Via the BBC:

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An anti-bullying charity has called for a gym billboard poster to be removed for being "offensive".
The poster, on Tamworth Road, in Sawley, Derbyshire, shows aliens beaming up a person into their spaceship with the text, "they'll take the fat ones first".
Combat Bullying, based in Nottinghamshire, said it would "further harm" those who are being bullied.
Fit4Less said it wanted to create an "light-hearted and humorous" advert.
'Rip it down'
It reads: "They're coming… and when they arrive they'll take the FAT ones first!". It then has "save yourself!" with an arrow pointing to the gym's website.

One passer-by said the poster was "ridiculous" and he would "rip it down" because "being a big lad myself, it upsets you".

Many other people said it was "in poor taste" and "offensive".
Natalie Harvey, founder of the charity, said the poster has caused her concerns because it would "aid bullying".

"This week alone three cases have been brought to my attention of children being bullied because of weight issues," she said.

"If those children or the perpetrators saw this poster it would cause further harm for the children who are being bullied.

"The poster should be removed and replaced with something more tasteful to attract the gym goers."

'Get people talking'

Kerry Matthews, from the gym in Long Eaton, Derbyshire, said: "We really didn't mean it offensively.
"It was supposed to be a bit cheeky, hence the alien image, and grab people's attention in a couple of seconds.
"So many campaigns use ultra skinny people and that's not the reality."
Ms Matthews added that the gym wanted to get people talking about getting fitter.

Being a big lad myself, my response is:

[samsamsam]

Should be called bear protection.

[Hannibal]

It's hilarious how smokers have been shamed hard for the last two decades because what they're doing is bad for their health and bad for other people by extension, but you apply that same logic to the large population of giant fat fucks and everyone loses their minds.

Oh but we can't have that, obesity is genetic and it's so hard, you have no idea how hard it is to be fat. Waking up every day to eat a gallon of ben and jerry's for breakfast. Breaking a sweat while walking up stairs, this is the definition of oppression by the white male patriarchy. It's not my fault gas stations and vending machines are loaded with as many snacks as I have eaten in the last eight hours. Then there's this sign telling me to stop being fat, that's the real holocaust.

[Surreyman]

I love how left-wing outrage is so predictable that it can be used for marketing.

[RexImperator]

I hate how political correctness kills humor and takes the fun out of things.

That poster is funny. It's great.

People take themselves too seriously.

[Parzival]

Again the UK.
Do you remember this?

   

Just imagine what fat people could have done to get in shape since the last fat shaming scandal. But no, fat people are lazy and prefer to complain.

[RIslander]

Fat fucks should goto the gym instead of crying over a poster.

[Suits]

(04-03-2016 07:36 PM)RIslander Wrote:  

Fat fucks should goto the gym instead of crying over a poster.

Try to see this more positively.

Imagine how many calories they'll burn crying like a fucking baby.

[samsamsam]

(04-03-2016 07:44 PM)Suits Wrote:  

(04-03-2016 07:36 PM)RIslander Wrote:  

Fat fucks should goto the gym instead of crying over a poster.

Try to see this more positively.

Imagine how many calories they'll burn crying like a fucking baby.

Not sure if I am surprised that someone actually thought about this and chose to write an article about it. It was under weight management, and maybe it was asked by a fatty.

An actual Dr. responded (probably an English PHD).

http://www.livestrong.com/article/324409...le-crying/

Quote:

Energy Required
Crying requires little physical exertion and has minimal effect on your metabolic rate. The physical act of crying burns a small amount of calories.

[Suits]

(04-03-2016 07:49 PM)samsamsam Wrote:  

(04-03-2016 07:44 PM)Suits Wrote:  

(04-03-2016 07:36 PM)RIslander Wrote:  

Fat fucks should goto the gym instead of crying over a poster.

Try to see this more positively.

Imagine how many calories they'll burn crying like a fucking baby.

Not sure if I am surprised that someone actually thought about this and chose to write an article about it. It was under weight management, and maybe it was asked by a fatty.

An actual Dr. responded (probably an English PHD).

http://www.livestrong.com/article/324409...le-crying/

Quote:

Energy Required
Crying requires little physical exertion and has minimal effect on your metabolic rate. The physical act of crying burns a small amount of calories.

There's no hope.

[Nineteen84]

Funny but definitely using a tried and test formula.

They are aware of how successful the yellow 'beach body ready' outrage ad was for Protein world.


Outrage advertising is here to stay

[realologist]

(04-03-2016 07:49 PM)samsamsam Wrote:  

(04-03-2016 07:44 PM)Suits Wrote:  

(04-03-2016 07:36 PM)RIslander Wrote:  

Fat fucks should goto the gym instead of crying over a poster.

Try to see this more positively.

Imagine how many calories they'll burn crying like a fucking baby.

Not sure if I am surprised that someone actually thought about this and chose to write an article about it. It was under weight management, and maybe it was asked by a fatty.

An actual Dr. responded (probably an English PHD).

http://www.livestrong.com/article/324409...le-crying/

Quote:

Energy Required
Crying requires little physical exertion and has minimal effect on your metabolic rate. The physical act of crying burns a small amount of calories.

That's probably why they always whine and cry instead of something that's actually challenging like for instance, dieting, physical activity, discipline.

[King of Monkeys]

(04-03-2016 07:44 PM)Suits Wrote:  

(04-03-2016 07:36 PM)RIslander Wrote:  

Fat fucks should goto the gym instead of crying over a poster.

Try to see this more positively.

Imagine how many calories they'll burn crying like a fucking baby.

I think you're onto something here. If they can manage to squeeze out those chunky pieces of lard glued to their arteries through their tear ducts, they just might be able to drop that weight.

[Matsufubu]

Fat people cry gravy

[Roardog]

There is ALWAYS someone looking to take offense these days. The right person just needs to see it and be triggered by it. Or in reality, see the possibility of getting attention for either themselves or their cause by being triggered by it.

[CynicalContrarian]

You've got pearls before swine & lead a horse to water.

Perhaps the phrase should have been, "you can lead a pig to the gym & cast pearls for it to stay fit, but you can't make it lift."

[Guriko]

As a former HUGE lad, like motherfucking Gabriel Iglesias level 5 – DAMN huge lad I'll just say this:

FUCK OFF with this sanctimonious bullying prevention pretentious bullshit. You are NOT helping kids. People LIKE YOU never HELPED me.



Instead of grabbing my blubber belt while looking me straight in the eye and saying that this is disgusting BUT curable (YES – being FAT and obese IS A DISEASE OF CHOICE) I’ve been shed tears over and fed copious amounts of garbage food that could have been straight white sugar cocaine for how sweet it tasted.

Yet if able I’d rather puke every damn McDonalds burger, ice cream, candy, hot – dog, smoothie, shake, fries etc. for an exchange of a second earlier being able to run with my peers when I was younger.

I couldn’t. I just fucking could not. I tried. The soul was willing but having to run with two sets of spare tires around your waist just does not fucking help.

Like this anti – bullying prevention crap.

What helped? It was my father fucking hitting me for every time I started to whine when he took the time out of his damn busy day to take me hiking. And I deserved. I so deserved it.

And you know what? I shed the pounds like butter that melted under the summer the sun. Then finally I was not left on the bench when we played football or basketball because I was a liability, I got picked because I was an asset to young members of the male pride. It felt FUCKING AWESOME!

Nurturing and sweet words do not help. They are poison to the soul as they are to the body.
Shaming and rigorous training helps.
I am (one of many) the goddamn proof of that.

[Hannibal]

(04-04-2016 06:28 AM)Guriko Wrote:  

As a former HUGE lad, like motherfucking Gabriel Iglesias level 5 – DAMN huge lad I'll just say this:

FUCK OFF with this sanctimonious bullying prevention pretentious bullshit. You are NOT helping kids. People LIKE YOU never HELPED me.
. . .

Nurturing and sweet words do not help. They are poison to the soul as they are to the body.
Shaming and rigorous training helps.
I am (one of many) the goddamn proof of that.

+1 repped.

We need more people like you to tell fatties and their enablers to get real.

[samsamsam]

(04-04-2016 06:28 AM)Guriko Wrote:  

Shaming and rigorous training helps.

Congrats man, that is a great story.

Shaming when done for the benefit of the person being shamed and not for the ego of the person who is shaming is such a powerful tool, yet every SJW or wimp doesn't take it well.

I still don't get (this comes from my Oprah rant) - these fatties feel bad they emotional eat, they feel good - healthy at any size, etc. - they still eat. Maybe they just like to eat?

[Aurini]

(04-03-2016 03:20 PM)Hannibal Wrote:  

It's hilarious how smokers have been shamed hard for the last two decades because what they're doing is bad for their health and bad for other people by extension, but you apply that same logic to the large population of giant fat fucks and everyone loses their minds.

Not to mention all of the pro-social benefits of smoking.

*Looks cool as shit
*Cigarettes can be used to punctuate pontifications
*Smokers always have a source of fire on them
*Employs hardworking American farmers
*Boost IQ
*Prevents Alzheimers
*Turns a 3 year decline into a 3 month slip-in-slide, saving end-of-life expenses

and most importantly

*reduces appetite so that one doesn't become a FAT FUCK.

[Ringo]

Some campaigns are made for convincement; others are made for eyeballs.

The gym must have invested what, US$1000 for the design and billboard? And now they got millions and millions of people seeing their brand and possibly visiting their website.

From Ryan Holiday's "Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator":

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In under two weeks, and with no budget, thousands of college students protested the movie on their campuses nationwide, angry citizens vandalized our billboards in multiple neighborhoods, FoxNews.com ran a front-page story about the backlash, Page Six of the New York Post made their first of many mentions of Tucker, and the Chicago Transit Authority banned and stripped the movie’s advertisements from their buses. To cap it all off, two different editorials railing against the film ran in the Washington Post and Chicago Tribune the week it was released. The outrage about Tucker was great enough that a few years later, it was written into the popular television show Portlandia on IFC.

I guess it is safe to admit now that the entire firestorm was, essentially, fake. I designed the advertisements, which I bought and placed around the country, and then promptly called and left anonymous complaints about them (and leaked copies of my complaints to blogs for support).

I alerted college LGBT and women’s rights groups to screenings in their area and baited them to protest our offensive movie at the theater, knowing that the nightly news would cover it. I started a boycott group on Facebook.

I orchestrated fake tweets and posted fake comments to articles online. I even won a contest for being the first one to send in a picture of a defaced ad in Chicago (thanks for the free T-shirt, Chicago RedEye. Oh, also, that photo was from New York).

I manufactured preposterous stories about Tucker’s behavior on and off the movie set and reported them to gossip websites, which gleefully repeated them. I paid for anti-woman ads on feminist websites and anti-religion ads on Christian websites, knowing each would write about it. Sometimes I just Photoshopped ads onto screenshots of websites and got coverage for controversial ads that never actually ran.

[Guriko]

(04-05-2016 09:32 AM)samsamsam Wrote:  

(04-04-2016 06:28 AM)Guriko Wrote:  

Shaming and rigorous training helps.

Congrats man, that is a great story.

Shaming when done for the benefit of the person being shamed and not for the ego of the person who is shaming is such a powerful tool, yet every SJW or wimp doesn't take it well.

I still don't get (this comes from my Oprah rant) - these fatties feel bad they emotional eat, they feel good - healthy at any size, etc. - they still eat. Maybe they just like to eat?

Thank you samsamsam.

When it comes to eating as a fatty, it's a vicious cycle. The people may tell you it's ok but you know deep down in your big gut that in truth - it is not.

It's the whole what women truly want dynamic again. They say they want a steady provider with a nice personality but in reality they long for a badass stud that’d fuck them into next Tuesday and never call again. The same principle applies - people tell you it's ok to eat but are giving you the look. The look of condescension; it's not obvious, but you can feel it.

And you feel pathetic. As much as fatties proclaim to love their bodies on Tumblr as they post their naked pictures in reality most of them feel guilt, shame and pain. I did. And this was before the internet with the whole fat acceptance community thing. You feel different and out of place. We humans are social beings and if there is something that can quietly erode a soul is the notion of being an outcast.

Being fat is not in the nature of Man. And Nature wins every time.

Because you feel pathetic you eat and because you eat you feel pathetic. Shaming is needed in order to smash the fucking cycle of destruction. It acts like a force that catapults you out onto another road which hopefully leads health and happiness. But people have been conditioned to avoid any kind of pain whatsoever.

That is why we are literally drowning in blubber.

Shame and encourage. Shame and encourage is the antidote. I help as much as I can. Being fat... it's just a miserable experience all together. Fuck it.