Obesity is one the worst choices a person can make" - Obese News Anchor rages @ email

Biggins · 03-10-2012 04:54PM

Bam Bam Mickey wrote: »

You see, i like that, personality goes a long way.
I'm only on the wind up, but i don't like people looking for sympathy.

Thats a fair enough opinion.

I personally don't think she was looking for any.
She came across as a person that has a nice character which is well able to stand up for itself.

She did thank those that contacted her (or her husband) which was nice.
Regular viewers to her show I'm guessing appreciated that.

In the clip available I never seen her looking for sympathy or making out in any way that she was looking for any.

You say "personality goes a long way" - and I agree.
Her personality seems to have taken her to where she is today - regardless of how she looks.
Its good to see then that some people have good insight to not just judge a book by its cover.

Feeona · 03-10-2012 04:55PM

marshbaboon wrote: »

"I want to take a moment to address a situation that centres around me. ME. me me me me. I love cake. Me. Delicious cake. Think I'll go home and eat three entire packets of biscuits after this. Me me me me me."

That basically sums up what she said, more or less.

'Nobody cares what I say or takes me seriously. I've been passed over for promotion so many times, it's frustrating. Women don't seem to like me either, they think I"m over bearing and sleazy. So to make myself feel better, I'll spend my time belittling others via email to make myself feel like the big guy.'

And this basically sums up the email the guy sent.

My name is URL · 03-10-2012 04:55PM

I don't get how being fat is setting a bad example. That's like saying that having cancer is setting a bad example. Both can be consequences of an underlying problem like addiction for example, and that in itself is a disease.

Now if she was telling people to live just like her, then that would be setting a bad example.

Pat Mustard · 03-10-2012 04:57PM

dark crystal wrote: »

Every euro spent on sports related injuries is a euro not spent on cancers of varying types

Every euro spent on pre and ante natal care is a euro not spent on cancers of varying types

Every euro spent on car accident injuries is a euro not spent on cancers of varying types

Every euro spent on sexually transmitted diseases is a euro not spent on cancers of varying type

By the way, fat people pay taxes too.

Dammit, looks like cancer treatment is eating up the health budget!

A "Fat Tax" on food served in restaurants and takeaways must be the way forward so.

Biggins · 03-10-2012 04:59PM

marshbaboon wrote: »

"I want to take a moment to address a situation that centres around me. ME. me me me me. I love cake. Me. Delicious cake. Think I'll go home and eat three entire packets of biscuits after this. Me me me me me."

That basically sums up what she said, more or less.

Option 1: Continue to get abuse in silence. Letting the insulter's continue.
Option 2: Reply with reason/wisdom without retorting to equal low-level personal attacks.

So if she says nothing - the email idiot gets away with continuing possible insulting! Fat people today - some other person tomorrow for another reason!

..And if she speaks up and puts across her own position - she wrong?

Damned if she does and damned if she doesn't with some people here!

mitosis · 03-10-2012 05:01PM

She's not obese!

She's curvy
She's plus sized
Or some other self-justifying crap.

Like alcoholism, the first step for the overweight is to admit there's a problem. All this fannying about that surrounds fat people only serves to kill them prematurely.

Iceboy · 03-10-2012 05:11PM

http://blogs-images.forbes.com/bethhoffman/files/2012/08/obesity.jpg

Lollipops23 · 03-10-2012 05:15PM

While I have my own opinions on weight (heck, i'm carrying a fair few spare llbs myself right now), what kind of sad pathetic freak takes the time to write her a letter telling her off for being big? Seriously?

I would never write to someone to tell them I didn't like the colour of their hair, or the top they wore 2 weeks ago. It's the same difference. She's immaculately turned out, wears professional and appropriate clothing. That's where our concern for her appearance should end.

reprazant · 03-10-2012 05:16PM

Iceboy, by your refusal to answer any questions put to you, I guess we are to assume that you are in fact both fat and full of self loathing and so project this loathing onto other people whom you deem to suffer from the same condition as yourself.

Emeraldy Pebbles · 03-10-2012 05:16PM

mitosis wrote: »

She's not obese!

She's curvy
She's plus sized
Or some other self-justifying crap.

I'm not keen on these terms either, but this newsreader never tries to explain away her appearance.

Biggins · 03-10-2012 05:21PM

Lollipops23 wrote: »

While I have my own opinions on weight (heck, i'm carrying a fair few spare llbs myself right now), what kind of sad pathetic freak takes the time to write her a letter telling her off for being big? Seriously?

I would never write to someone to tell them I didn't like the colour of their hair, or the top they wore 2 weeks ago. It's the same difference. She's immaculately turned out, wears professional and appropriate clothing. That's where our concern for her appearance should end.

Well said.

She comes across as clear, professional, well presented, possession in clarity of thoughts and frankly a sound person who probably also would be fun to accompany on any one to one or large social gathering.

Rather one of her please than ten short-sighted insulting idiots.

Emeraldy Pebbles · 03-10-2012 05:26PM

mitosis wrote: »

She's not obese!

She's curvy
She's plus sized
Or some other self-justifying crap.

Like alcoholism, the first step for the overweight is to admit there's a problem. All this fannying about that surrounds fat people only serves to kill them prematurely.

Why did you post this twice?

AgileMyth · 03-10-2012 05:28PM

She talks a lot about setting an example for children. Fat parents are more likely to have fat children, great example shes setting for her own. But sure who cares if they're fat as long as no one 'bullies' them by pointing it out.

The email was unnecessary, the response even more so. Fair play to her for managing to get payed to talk such ****e, I'd love that job myself.

03-10-2012 05:32PM

Biggins wrote: »

Thats a fair enough opinion.

I personally don't think she was looking for any.
She came across as a person that has a nice character which is well able to stand up for itself.

She did thank those that contacted her (or her husband) which was nice.
Regular viewers to her show I'm guessing appreciated that.

In the clip available I never seen her looking for sympathy or making out in any way that she was looking for any.

You say "personality goes a long way" - and I agree.
Her personality seems to have taken her to where she is today - regardless of how she looks.
Its good to see then that some people have good insight to not just judge a book by its cover.

I did say I was on the wind up.
My weight isn't perfect myself, so I can laugh anything off.
And I wouldn't judge anyone by their weight at all, just can't take anything too serious in the Internet.

ScumLord · 03-10-2012 05:33PM

My name is URL wrote: »

I don't get how being fat is setting a bad example. That's like saying that having cancer is setting a bad example. Both can be consequences of an underlying problem like addiction for example, and that in itself is a disease.

we're going from one extreme to the other here now.

Being fat is rarely like having cancer, it's rarely a case of your body having a problem, for the most part you have to actively put too many calories into your body to make it fat. Cancer can just happen even though lifestyles can increase your chance of cancer you can still get it even if you do all the right things.

Being fat can be a symptom of mental problems and depression I'd agree with that but at the same time people with perfect mental health can end up overweight.

It's increasingly easy to end up overweight in todays society, we have highly efficient bodies that are designed to survive famine and starvation periods. Our food is full of calories and we have bellies that are designed to crave high calorie food.

We also don't have to do anything to get our food so we don't work it off. We don't have to walk, we don't have to run, we don't have to spend hours preparing our food anymore.

It's easy to say people should exercise but even that goes against your inner animal that wants you to do as little as possible for the highest rewards. Exercise is horribly boring for the most part, you get little reward for it in the short term so your not as inclined to do it. It takes a special kind of freak to actually enjoy running on the spot for any length of time.

The modern society we live in breeds fat people, nothing will change until the way we live changes. Luckily I think we'll be forced to change through overpopulation, peak oil and the folly of infinite growth economies. So not to worry, the next generation won't have the opportunity to be fat, we'll go down in history as one of the last of the decadent societies. Enjoy it while you can.

Biggins · 03-10-2012 05:36PM

AgileMyth wrote: »

She talks a lot about setting an example for children...

I think if you listen to the video again you might learn she was talking about examples for not letting bully (intimidation) deeply effect a person and that they shouldn't be accepted.

She said NOTHING about setting examples as regards weight.
Maybe your watching a different video clip.

Biggins · 03-10-2012 05:43PM

Bam Bam Mickey wrote: »

I did say I was on the wind up.
My weight isn't perfect myself, so I can laugh anything off.
And I wouldn't judge anyone by their weight at all, just can't take anything too serious in the Internet.

No argument there whatsoever.
I guessed you were on the wind-up - others here didn't though, they thought you were serious.
It was to them that I directed by comments about people being NOT stupid possibly but just uneducated further in such matters such as these.

As for the man that sent the nice lady the email, I personally don't know what his real problem was/is but I bet its hard to pronounce!
I wonder would he have liked people to retort and insult him if he was suffering from something!

Peace and best wishes.

03-10-2012 05:48PM

Biggins wrote: »

No argument there whatsoever.
I guessed you were on the wind-up - others here didn't though, they thought you were serious.
It was to them that I directed by comments about people being NOT stupid possibly but just uneducated further in such matters such as these.

As for the man that sent the nice lady the email, I personally don't know what his real problem was/is but I bet its hard to pronounce!
I wonder would he have liked people to retort and insult him if he was suffering from something!

Peace and best wishes.

My issues with the news lady is she did exactly what the emailer wanted.
The best thing you can do to someone slagging you over your weight, is be more confident in yourself and ignore, it's probably a hard thing to do when you are in the limelight (again my issue is she wants to broadcast it to everyone), it would have to have stronger words than it did to be branded as bullying IMO, sure it wasn't nice, but the Internet isn't a nice place.
But yep, peace and best wishes.;)

ScumLord · 03-10-2012 05:52PM

Bam Bam Mickey wrote: »

My issues with the news lady is she did exactly what the emailer wanted.

No, she shrewdly promoted herself and got a load of publicity for herself and the station she works for. I can guarantee you a publicity board meeting took place before all of her comments. It wouldn't even surprise me if the emailer didn't even exist. Maybe it's just a coincidence the email came in on national anti bullying month.

Da Shins Kelly · 03-10-2012 05:57PM

As other people have already said, f*ck all this "role model" crap. Take some responsibility for yourself and stop worrying about what other people are doing and unnecessarily involving yourself in other people's lives. It's not the over-weight news anchor's job to make sure you don't pile on the pounds, and if you're so worried about your children following suit, then cop on and start parenting them yourself instead of expecting "role models" to do it for you.

Biggins · 03-10-2012 06:03PM

Bam Bam Mickey wrote: »

My issues with the news lady is she did exactly what the emailer wanted.
The best thing you can do to someone slagging you over your weight, is be more confident in yourself and ignore, it's probably a hard thing to do when you are in the limelight (again my issue is she wants to broadcast it to everyone), it would have to have stronger words than it did to be branded as bullying IMO, sure it wasn't nice, but the Internet isn't a nice place.
But yep, peace and best wishes.;)

I guessing but from what I can gather, it was her husband that originally addressed the insulting of his wife through a website he uses to communicate with the tv viewing public.
(What partner would not arise at times to defend their loved ones?)

The response then accumulated in forms of further support for the woman.

It is best to often ignore such idiots but I believe that also too, once in a while a stand has to be made.
The woman did this and used the situation to good use which it seem by coincidence was an upcoming month in her own country that was dedicated towards anti-bullying.
To me she turned a bad thing into a good useful thing. Fair play to her and she did so without 'raging' or equally insulting the original emailer back (that takes a modicum of skill alone).

03-10-2012 06:04PM

mitosis wrote: »

She's not obese!

She's curvy
She's plus sized
Or some other self-justifying crap.

Like alcoholism, the first step for the overweight is to admit there's a problem. All this fannying about that surrounds fat people only serves to kill them prematurely.

no. she's just got a bubbly personality.

03-10-2012 06:05PM

Biggins wrote: »

I guessing but from what I can gather, it was her husband that originally addressed the insulting of his wife through a website he uses to communicate with the tv viewing public.
(What partner would not arise at times to defend their loved ones?)

The response then accumulated in forms of further support for the woman.

It is best to often ignore such idiots but I believe that also too, once in a while a stand has to be made.
The woman did this and used the situation to good use which it seem by coincidence was an upcoming month in her own country that was dedicated towards anti-bullying.
To me she turned a bad thing into a good useful thing. Fair play to her and she did so without 'raging' or equally insulting the original emailer back (that takes a modicum of skill alone).

The point is though Biggins, no one would of heard of this little emailer had they not done this, whilst I would stand up to anyone face to face, by what her hubby did, he gave him the fame he soooo craved.;)

Biggins · 03-10-2012 06:08PM

Bam Bam Mickey wrote: »

The point is though Biggins, no one would of heard of this little emailer had they not done this, whilst I would stand up to anyone face to face, by what her hubby did, he gave him the fame he soooo craved.;)

It seems the insulter posted it to the TV networks site (open to be wrong) where comments could be further openly read by others.
(Something like the set-up of Journal.ie)

Again, I will stand rightly corrected if this is not the case.
If it is the case, it will explain why she suddenly (from all over it might seem) got replies offering her solidarity.

03-10-2012 06:12PM

Biggins wrote: »

It seems the insulter posted it to the TV networks site (open to be wrong) where comments could be further openly read by others.
(Something like the set-up of Journal.ie)

Again, I will stand rightly corrected if this is not the case.
If it is the case, it will explain why she suddenly (from all over it might seem) got replies offering her solidarity.

Oh right, even so, look at twitter for eg.
When. Celeb responds to a tweet, people feel great.
Some celebrities don't respond to any tweets, so then you get the attention whores sending them abusive and insulting tweets to get noticed.
Whoever emailed this lady worded it in such a way to not draw attention from the authorities but definitely get a response from her or her hubby.
Perhaps they knew them or as was said, an inside job.
Reminds me of Leo Traynor:D

Biggins · 03-10-2012 06:16PM

Bam Bam Mickey wrote: »

...Reminds me of Leo Traynor

For those that are wondering about who Leo Traynor is, see: http://www.traynorseye.com/

Spread · 03-10-2012 06:27PM

Why is it that it is generally the stick insects of society that get upset by large people? How come the large ones aren't upset by the skinny ones?
Longevity is mostly genetic ...... as is health.

In the graph underneath, not too many of the uber-lightweights make it past 70. Just sayin'!

Thrill · 03-10-2012 06:27PM

Biggins wrote: »

It seems the insulter posted it to the TV networks site (open to be wrong) where comments could be further openly read by others.
.

She states quite clearly at the start of the video it was an email, which her husband later put up on Facebook.

Madam_X · 03-10-2012 06:33PM

Iceboy wrote: »

cannot believe she was comparing herself to children who struggle with the color of their skin.

I do agree with you that it's ridiculous when overweight people play the race comparison card and when there is complacency and delusion in relation to excessive weight. I don't agree with someone being singled out re their weight (too fat or too thin) by someone who is not a relative/friend though.

Obesity is 100% a personal choice

Not 100% - children who are fed the wrong foods/portions don't have a say in the matter. It is something the individual can do something about all right though, but each case is different. It is not straightforward for everyone.

Humans are becoming more pathetic by the day, you can't even tell someone the truth (even sugar coat it to hell) without them getting rattled to pieces.

But you're an exception of course...

blatantrereg · 03-10-2012 06:36PM

Her weight is her own business.

A realistic cross-section of body shapes on TV sends a far better message than exclusively having thin people. [The latter is actually the case in Romania]

There are occasionally medical reasons why a person is overweight.

News anchors aren't role models for most people in any case.

All in all, really stupid to get onto her about her weight. She does have a case for complaining about bullying.

Obesity is one the worst choices a person can make" - Obese News Anchor rages @ email

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