UK fatties demand ‘hate crime’ status for lardo-baiting

Lewis Page
The Register
Monday, October 19, 2009

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 elsewhere (and pictured) by the Beeb as “a full-figured woman firm in her belief that to be big is not to be bad” as saying that the long-belted community face a grim life of discrimination and abuse in Blighty.

“I have been discriminated against – I am a YMCA qualified fitness instructor, but I have gone for jobs and been laughed off the premises,” the rotund campaigner told the Beeb.

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“I have been punched, I have had beer thrown in my face,” added globular persecutee Marsha Coupe. “They say ‘Move out of the way fatty!’”

“Someone being beaten up should be a crime,” commented Szrodecki.

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Meanwhile in Germany, most people are judged “overweight” by the famously unreliable Body Mass Index (BMI) method. Top Teutonic boffin Matthias Lenz of the Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Natural Sciences of the University of Hamburg decided to look into this, compiling 42 different German health studies together to find out if being in the “overweight” BMI range (as opposed to “ideal” or “healthy”) had any negative health consequences.

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