…and not with a “ph”
one week in to the new year, how’s it going with that resolution to lose some lbs? health-minded gym goers in the u.k. are no dount wondering if the gym overcrowding can be blamed on the new year’s resolution or on the posters advertising the country’s largest independent gym–the cadbury house hotel gym. ads for the gym read “When the aliens come, they will eat the fatties first.” not surprisingly the ads have caused considerable outrage. here are some of the comments:
- I am not overweight yet I still find this extremely offensive and patronising but how much more so to someone genuinely overweight?
- I am shocked and disgusted that they feel they have the right to blatantly discriminate like this.
- The people who came up with this idea and sanctioned the advert need a good, stiff kick up the backside, and if that backside is a rather bony one, then they will feel this all the more.
a spokesman for the gym said “The alien campaign has been developed as a tongue in cheek look at the fact that people generally, over the Christmas period, do put on a little weight…Our view is that people should not feel stigmatised by the use of the word “fatties” as it encompasses everyone who might have over-indulged during the holidays and now wants to do something about it.” what i want to know is: how come nobody is annoyed that adding insult to injury, the gym’s name is cadbury?
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