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Wii Fit Dares to Call Young Girl ‘Fat’

nexus404.com — Who could possibly have envisaged Nintendo ’s Wii Fit as being the next software title to have ‘nanny state’ experts up in arms and calling for reclassification and even a ban, but, thanks to the fact that a certain Wii Fit balance board had the audacity to call a young girl ‘fat’ that’s exactly what’s happened.

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  • fluidfoundation, on 05/20/2008, -2/+256just because her wiimote strap was the size of a belt doesnt mean she is fat.
    • Razer210, on 05/20/2008, -0/+48Hey, you can't run from the truth.
      • limpits, on 05/20/2008, -2/+101well... SHE can't...
      • Morghin, on 05/20/2008, -1/+23Maybe if she was running instead of hiding from the truth she'd get some actual exercise?
      • raynar, on 05/20/2008, -0/+43yea, we shouldnt offend little fat kids who'd rather sit inside and play video games than go outside.

        Maybe she should play Portal...I heard theres cake at the end.
      • DesiGUY, on 05/20/2008, -3/+7Looks like Wii Fit is a *****/badass... calling fatties fat to their face.
        • knetworx, on 05/21/2008, -0/+2Yeah, I might just have to buy it after all.
        • Morghin, on 05/22/2008, -0/+1Atleast she'd get a run for her money? *tongueincheek*
    • actionscripted, on 05/20/2008, -2/+23Sounds like she'd have a problem running, period.
      • gannondork, on 05/20/2008, -0/+27She doesn't have a running problem, she runs to the refrigerator 20 times a day just fine.
    • over900000, on 05/20/2008, -12/+4Perhaps this will make her get off her fat pussy and lose some weight.
      • Morghin, on 05/20/2008, -1/+6No, that's the problem. She was so mortally shocked by the truth she collapsed in a heap of ... obesity ... she won't be able to get up. Ever.
      • dynelol, on 05/20/2008, -0/+6Pussies are couch-suctioncups.
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      • yogiincork, on 05/20/2008, -1/+5lol
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      • DarkShroud, on 05/20/2008, -1/+2Buried & blocked as well.
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      • iamnobody8614, on 05/20/2008, -0/+3Exceptionally dumb bot that only makes one post or bored digger? Whatever, buried and reported either way.
    • dawpa2000, on 05/20/2008, -24/+12Wii Not Very Nice

      Who could possibly have envisaged Nintendo’s Wii Fit as being the next software title to have ‘nanny state’ experts up in arms and calling for reclassification and even a ban, but, thanks to the fact that a certain Wii Fit balance board had the audacity to call a young girl ‘fat’ that’s exactly what’s happened.

      According to the Daily Mail (duly credited), the offending Wii Fit balance board, based somewhere in the South East of England, horrified the family of a 10 year old girl who’s billed as being ‘solidly built’ (purportedly her father’s words, not ours) when it called her ‘fat’.

      “She is a perfectly healthy, 4ft 9in tall 10-year-old who swims, dances and weighs only six stone,” said the father, who did not want to be named for fear of embarrassing the girl further, states the Daily Mail who also reports that obesity experts are now calling for Nintendo’s Wii Fit to be banned as far as young children are concerned.

      Nintendo have responded by issuing a press statement reading: ‘Nintendo would like to apologise to any customers offended by the in-game terminology used to classify a player’s current BMI status, as part of the BMI measurement system integrated into Wii Fit. [The] Wii Fit is still capable of measuring the BMI for people aged between two and 20 but the resulting figures may not be entirely accurate for younger age groups due to varying levels of development.’

      Personally I also have a problem with the Wii Fit as, thanks to having only one TV in the house, my wife persistently working out with her Wii Fit is preventing me from doing an especially lucrative drug deal in GTA IV which is, let’s face it, completely out of order.

      Perhaps I’ll also write to the Daily Mail though I suspect that my story will be axed in favour of a breaking news item where a father breaks down as he details how two (unnamed) insects had the audacity to have a quick shag in front of his daughter (21, slim, blond and not unattractive) occasioning grave offence and a long overdue chat about the ‘birds and the bees’.

      What is the world coming to?

      Daily Mail:
      http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-566754/Obe ...
      • ExitMoose, on 05/20/2008, -1/+2Thanks. Original source is down.
      • STKD, on 05/20/2008, -1/+6Daily Mail... I don't really think any more needs to be said on this "story".
      • Eezyville, on 05/21/2008, -0/+1"According to the Daily Mail (duly credited), the offending Wii Fit balance board, based somewhere in the South East of England, horrified the family of a 10 year old girl who’s billed as being ‘solidly built’ (purportedly her father’s words, not ours) when it called her ‘fat’."

        The whole damn family was horrified?
    • cygnus2112, on 05/20/2008, -2/+166 stone, 4'9" is NOT fat. It's actually borderline underweight.
      • prophetpimp, on 05/20/2008, -0/+4can some one convert this into the metric system for us non British people?
        • dynexx, on 05/20/2008, -4/+9it is about 84 pounds, which is a healthy weight for a 4'9" 10 year old girl
        • shtonkalot, on 05/20/2008, -0/+6Metric, I hear you say. Google says: 6 stone = 38.1017591 kilograms, 4 foot 9 inches = 1.4478 meters
        • GyroTech, on 05/20/2008, -6/+1Wow, knowledge of the metric system for the fail here:

          38kg and 145cm approx.
      • geartype2, on 05/20/2008, -0/+5google says 84 pounds.
        • hypogenic, on 05/20/2008, -13/+3Metric, like in meters please!
        • SonicAD, on 05/20/2008, -0/+22You can't weigh someone in metres, stupid!
        • JudgeMonkey, on 05/20/2008, -1/+2And once you convert it out of that silly stone thing into an actual measurement it's not really THAT hard to convert from there anyway. Just type in google "convert 84 pounds to " whatever. of course, that does work for stones too, so you could still google it, but stones sounds funny.
        • GiggleStick, on 05/20/2008, -0/+8How big of stones are we talking about? Can they float?
        • sexybobo, on 05/20/2008, -1/+1just google this
          84 pounds in kilograms
    • KingGorilla, on 05/20/2008, -0/+1She could just be giant and I don't think we should discriminate against meta-humans
  • whatthehell9, on 05/20/2008, -6/+69in other news, Psychologists predict a rise in "self esteem issues"
    • Pixelante, on 05/20/2008, -5/+4In other news, shrinks are full of *****.
      • Skooma714, on 05/20/2008, -2/+3Indeed, bunch of witch-doctors.
        • nicktheawesome, on 05/27/2008, -0/+1No. Shrinks are a bunch of "which-doctors..."
    • Zempz, on 05/20/2008, -0/+1You know that the self-esteem craze has been debunked by almost every psychological organization?
      ...to other replies,
      psychologists aren't all clinical therapist (or what I'm assuming u mean by shrink). To skooma, take a psych 101 course and tell me that it is mysticism. Psychology isn't magic and doesn't claim to have every answer to human cognitive processes or behavior, but it does a damn good job. Educate yourself before making sweeping generalizations.
    • Shots, on 05/20/2008, -0/+2In other news :

      WASHINGTON — The problem at first was that the problem was ignored: For almost two decades, young people in the United States got fatter and fatter — ate more, sat more — and nobody seemed to notice. Not parents or schools, not medical groups or the government.

      http://www.tdn.com/articles/2008/05/20/this_day/do ...
  • pakruse, on 05/20/2008, -1/+156Which is more likely, that Nintendo's Wii Fit is miscalculating BMI (4'9" and six stone is borderline underweight at a BMI of 18.2, not overweight), or that whoever typed her height in entered a number incorrectly?

    Failure.
    • KMye, on 05/20/2008, -13/+649 inches?
      • Cirieno, on 05/20/2008, -3/+8Er, no, they typed 4' 9" -- look closely!
        • KMye, on 05/20/2008, -1/+4I meant that might have been the error; does anyone know whether you enter your height in Fit in inches or feet and inches?
    • CarnivalOfDust, on 05/20/2008, -0/+43I reckon her mother/sibling edited her height beforehand - y'know, for the lolz.
    • chazza125, on 05/20/2008, -1/+21Maybe the "6 stone" that princess' father said requires a 1 placed in front of it?
    • jim1977, on 05/20/2008, -0/+6The truth is most likely she's not 6st, and has a BMI over 25.
    • ohhoe, on 05/20/2008, -7/+54Maybe it's because BMI is a completely inaccurate calculator and doesn't take into advantage muscle weight, or bone mass, or different body types.
      • Morghin, on 05/20/2008, -1/+23If that was the case they could have said "It doesn't take into account factual differences between bone mass and body weight" instead of crying "OMG IT LIEK SAID FAT 2 ME!!!!"
      • Goya, on 05/20/2008, -0/+28Everyone knows you take the weight the woman gives and add 15 lbs to get her real weight. Wii Fit just has this feature already added in...

      • MariusAgricola, on 05/20/2008, -3/+12BMI may have some very slight accuracy issues (that is, for some very small percentage of the population, it doesn't work quite as well), but for the vast majority of cases it is a good indicator to be used with other factors. It provides a very quick way for a health professional to estimate certain weight-related risk factors. Might try reading up on its history before blindly bashing it.
        • laserdog, on 05/20/2008, -0/+10BMI is great for determining the relative health of large groups of people. It's also stupendously easy to calculate, and can be derived from information that is widely available for most patients. That's the only reason it's used.

          It's terrible for individuals. And as convenient it is for health professionals, it becomes equally as inconvenient for those who don't fit it's mold.

          I mean, it's one number divided by another. It's probably the most rudimentary available metric possible. My Junior High Health book had a more nuanced equation for body mass than that.
        • crossmr, on 05/20/2008, -0/+5If you can't look at someone and quickly say that they're a body builder, they're fat and BMI is accurate.
          "big boned" has been a term used by fat people for a long time and again isn't really a significant factor for the majority of people.
        • gpw11, on 05/21/2008, -0/+1"but for the vast majority of cases it is a good indicator to be used with other factors"

          Yes, and other factors is the key word here. Unless you take body fat percentage, age, sex, and regional/genetic variations into account BMI is a pretty useless measurement. The other poster is totally correct in that it's ok for judging and categorizing the obesity level across a wide range of people based on very limited information (like the population of a country), but a horrible metric to apply to individuals.

          It's also an absolutely terrible measurement of fitness, which is comprised of more than just your weight divided by the square of your height. Numerous physically fit athletes would be categorized as 'overweight' or 'obese' under the BMI.
      • AYork, on 05/20/2008, -1/+8I think the poster's point, though, is that if the Wii uses BMI to calculate if someone is overweight, the numbers given by the father do not describe an overweight person by the BMI calculation. And I agree that BMI isn't all that great of a metric.
        In fact, 4'9, 84 lbs is very close to exactly normal for a 10-year old girl.
        At least, according to http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhanes/growthcharts/s ...
        Therefore, I call ***** on the Dad. No parent wants to admit their 10 year old kid is fat, especially their beautiful daughter.
      • pakruse, on 05/20/2008, -2/+24BMI may be inaccurate, but to dismiss that in this case is foolish - if the girl is really 6 stone and 4'9", that's a BMI of 18.2. Period.

        A BMI of 18.2 is officially underweight. What I was saying is that, regardless of the fact that the system ignores the difference between muscle and fat, there's something else going on that this article isn't mentioning. I can come up with four explanations:
        - Nintendo is miscalculating BMI. Unlikely, as it's a very easy calculation.
        - The girl was wearing weights for some reason. Also unlikely.
        - The girl is actually heavier than 6 stone, and the father is lying. At 4'9", the BMI system doesn't label someone as 'overweight' until a little over 8 stone (116 pounds, actually).
        - The parent's typed in her height wrong with the wiimote. This actually seems the most likely to me, because if they typed in 3'9" and she's actually six stone, the system would label her as overweight. A little over six stone at 3'9" and someone would be labeled as obese, which is a step past overweight on the BMI charts.

        I could care less how accurate the BMI system is for actually telling someone whether or not they need to lose weight - my statement was that *in this case* there's something else going on.
      • subliminalurge, on 05/20/2008, -1/+3"Maybe it's because BMI is a completely inaccurate calculator and doesn't take into advantage muscle weight, or bone mass, or different body types"

        This is 100% true. I am by nature a very skinny person, but have spend a lot of time working out over the years, and as a result have a large amount of lean muscle.

        If I calculate my BMI, I come in well into the "overweight" category. However, if I have my actual body fat percentage calculated, I'm bordering on being dangerously low.
        • temsi, on 05/20/2008, -1/+2Arnold Schwarzenegger, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Lennox Lewis.

          What do these men have in common?

          According to the BMI, they're morbidly obese.

          BMI is *****.

          That being said, pakruse is absolutely correct - the numbers in this story do not add up. Someone either lied or made a mistake.
          Either way, hypersensitivity to the word "fat" is really silly.
        • crossmr, on 05/20/2008, -2/+3Its not that hard to look at someone and figure out if they look like the numa numa kid or The Rock.
          Just because you have the same BMI as The Rock doesn't mean you are The Rock.
          If you seriously think you can apologize away BMI like that, you're not fooling anyone.
        • Speed, on 05/20/2008, -1/+2What else do they have in common, temsi? They're all steroid junkies who'll likely die of a heart attack at an earlier age. (Well, not sure about Lewis, but The Rock and Arnold: yes)
        • temsi, on 05/20/2008, -2/+2@crossmr:
          "apologize away"?
          Are you on crack?

          I'm not apologizing anything. I'm pointing out how ridiculous a formula is that ONLY uses your height and your weight to determine if you're fat.
          All you're doing is calculating mass, not weight distribution or composition.
          Someone who is in perfect health, has never used steroids and has worked out their whole life, like my brother, would be considered obese by the strictest BMI calculation (height divided by root of weight).
          There's no scientific basis that says "if your body mass index is X, then you have Y amount of excess body fat." It simply does not exist, and it doesn't work.
          Anyone who thinks BMI alone can be used to determine whether or not someone is overweight, is an ignorant fool.

          @Speed:
          So, if Lewis doesn't fit the "what do they have in common", what exactly is the purpose of your response? You just wanted to point out they've used steroids? So what? What does that have to do with a discussion of BMI? Seriously... Stay on topic, please.

    • ICSU, on 05/20/2008, -1/+21It's the Daily Mail.
      It's either completely made up or 90% made up.
    • wiggles, on 05/20/2008, -4/+10You're looking at the BMI calculator for adults. For kids, it's different. Plugging in the values for a 10 year old, she's borderline. A 10 year old at 84 lbs is just barely in the healthy range. 85 lbs is considered 'borderline' and 95 is considered 'obese'. I get my figures from the CDC, at their website here:
      http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/dnpabmi/Result.aspx?&dob= ...
      If that link doesn't work, try this one and run your own query:
      http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/dnpabmi/Calculator.aspx
      • pakruse, on 05/20/2008, -0/+2True. So the next question is - are you asked to enter your age when you first create a character profile? I'm probably getting the game tomorrow, so I can find out for myself then.
      • sidewinderaim9x, on 05/20/2008, -0/+4Completely off mate. What you're reading are percentiles, not pounds. Once you enter the correct height (4'9", not 4'10") she's in the 69th percentile, a little heavier than average but nothing to be alarmed about.
      • djdementia, on 05/20/2008, -0/+3She isn't remotely borderline, you read the chart wrong and entered her height wrong. At 4'9" and 84lbs she is in the 68 percentile, and healthy is between 5 and 85 percentile.

        The description in your link says that 85 percentile is borderline, not 85lbs.
        • wiggles, on 05/20/2008, -0/+3Thanks for the correction. I mistook 85 lbs for 85th percentile.
    • Muncher, on 05/20/2008, -0/+2I think it's most likely that the "stone" is a horribly imprecise way to measure someone's weight.
      • pakruse, on 05/20/2008, -1/+2Except that still doesn't add up - if she's 4'9", she'd need to be a little over 8 stone, not six stone, to be labeled as 'overweight' by BMI. She'd need to weigh about ten stone to be labeled as 'obese.'

        As I said, either her father is lying, her height was entered wrong, or Nintendo is miscalculating BMI. The first two seem far more likely than the last.
  • dustinjr1993, on 05/20/2008, -34/+1ok games like these target people 20+ like brain age! you should know if your fat or not! well girls are especially offended by there weight (cus i someone in my school is like that) you play this game to have fun, not to be criticized!
    • WiseWeasel, on 05/20/2008, -0/+35I DARE you to make less sense.
      • shutaro, on 05/20/2008, -1/+1Emissions in stunned silence crept up his head. He had to themselves, went back as a huge young secretary.
    • LBobRife, on 05/20/2008, -0/+13Let me remind you that you are not forced to buy the game or console. Nintendo can do as they damn well please.
    • Mr.Gone, on 05/20/2008, -0/+3Shut up fatty.
  • WiseWeasel, on 05/20/2008, -16/+318FTA: "the offending Wii Fit balance board... horrified the family of a 10 year old girl who’s billed as being ‘solidly built’ (purportedly her father’s words, not ours) when it called her ‘fat’."

    Uh huh, 'solidly built', eh? Sounds like this little fatty-fat-fat can't take criticism. She should put down the cake and try some real exercise where you actually break a sweat... It's better she found out she was fat from an inanimate object in the privacy of her home, than from kids at school pointing and laughing. : P
    • dudefather, on 05/20/2008, -14/+20“She is a perfectly healthy, 4ft 9in tall 10-year-old who swims, dances and weighs only six stone,”

      read a little more of the article
      • crossmr, on 05/20/2008, -0/+7That doesn't sound like solidly built to me. I had a friend about that height and weight, she was pretty slight. If she is "solid" chances are she weighs more like 10 stone.
        I notice no one has ponied up a picture.
    • adammharvey, on 05/20/2008, -0/+22by the way it seems, im sure kids at school do that already(point and laugh).
    • whatthefu, on 05/20/2008, -12/+10***** yeah. Mocking overweight ten-year-olds with low self esteem for their weight isn't immature at all.
      • dynelol, on 05/20/2008, -1/+13If all of us were mature, it'd be boring.
        • Stevethegreat, on 05/20/2008, -7/+1No it would not, we would have more things to do and talk about than throwing feces to one another.
        • JudgeMonkey, on 05/20/2008, -0/+7if throwing feces is wrong, I don't want to be right. And since I am the judge on such matters, I AM right.
        • Stevethegreat, on 05/20/2008, -1/+2Mr Monkey, I think you have a point there. Maybe throwing feces is great at times....
        • Stevethegreat, on 05/20/2008, -3/+1On a more serious note, since -I see- my comment was completely misunderstood (and buried) here. I was trying to make you throw away your simplistic view for maturity that you have, being in your teens or operating in an equivalent mind. Being mature does not mean being cold and hypocritical, that is -also- an immaturity of a highest order as you simply follow (in that case) the norms of your peers. Being mature is to know how to use your personal freedom. If being mature is being boring then you have no idea when it is to be mature, you most probably watched alleged such people that pretended to be as such. Being immature is boring the same way that playing with a 3 year old is boring after a while (sans if it is your kid of course) as the intelligence to keep you entertained is simply not there. I find your simple take in things highly disturbing, it insults human nature by implying that it gets mechanized/boring when it aspires transcendence and it is great when it is pure (more chimp-like, hence my feces insult towards people of your simple-mindness).

          If you want to remain monkeys, then go ahead and preach the virtues of immaturity, if you think that being mature is to act like a robot instead of acting in a way which does follows even less norms that immaturity does then you're sad creatures. I hoped that the holywood standards (showing us Tom Cruise as a mature, well-versed man, instead of an immature crybaby that he really is) would not be taken seriously by the simpletons but as it seems, you are not named as such for no reason.
        • dyckdownunder, on 05/21/2008, -0/+1If thats flashing, then lock me up
      • BearinG, on 05/20/2008, -0/+1At that age.. Its the parents fault.
      • retawd, on 05/20/2008, -0/+4Yeah! When will those 10 year old kids stop being immature?!?!?!
    • fquednau, on 05/20/2008, -1/+41But, as pointed out already, using a BMI calculator on the web:
      4ft9in (144.78 cm)
      6 stone (38.1 kg)
      10 years old (woa, finally we agree on a unit?)
      => 18.2 kg/m^2
      which appears to be perfectly normal. So either the parents are lying about her height/weight/age, or the Wii just gets it totally wrong...
      • weizilla, on 05/20/2008, -4/+1that should be the new measurement for fatness. screw BMI, use density!
      • stk198323, on 05/20/2008, -0/+3Well she's probably 4ft7 (but hey it's 4ft9 with her shoes on!) and 6.8 stones but that .8 is inconvenient so we will put her at only 6...

        you know we all tend to do it, I,m 5ft9 and a friend of me once told me how he measured 4ft10... but yet he's still smaller then me!

        I don't think that the parent meant any harm from this but I'm pretty sure there is some details they didn't gave which would explain quite a lot of thing's.

        But anyways, I find it funny that nintendo would include such a term as fat in there game, because of that ''family oriented'' marketing scheme they seem to have. Putting something like you might need to make a bit of exercise to feel better instead of fat seems more nintendo oriented then fat. So overall I think this story is more funny then anything else!
        • pault107, on 05/20/2008, -0/+2Umm, if you're 5ft9 and your friend claims to be 4ft10, of course he's smaller than you. A lot smaller.
        • BearinG, on 05/20/2008, -0/+1That's what i was thinking.. im sure rounding to 6 stones might not help.. but i have no idea on the usage of stones..
    • chillypacman, on 05/20/2008, -0/+22yeah the justification they'reproviding is meh, my guess is Wii Fit called it like it is and in all fairness: if she can't take it from an electronic board she's got another thing coming when real people call her fat.
    • Slade605, on 05/20/2008, -1/+25Without low self esteem who will be our strippers? Next generation is tomorrows hookers.
      • dynelol, on 05/20/2008, -2/+4How many fat strippers do YOU know?
        • DarkprinceArmon, on 05/20/2008, -0/+10You totally missed the brilliance of the statement.
        • belebih, on 05/20/2008, -1/+10Quite a few actually. They're great for when you're on a budget.
        • BearinG, on 05/20/2008, -0/+1Do the big ones actually offer a discount?
    • kevincannon, on 05/20/2008, -16/+1Either way, the real point is that the Wii Fit probably shouldn't use the term 'Fat' at all, especially when evaluating children.
      • dynelol, on 05/20/2008, -0/+13Shut up. The word moron used to be a clinical term. Stop being wimps about words and pretending that other one that mean the same thing are any different. I'm tired of this pampered world.
      • EmperorOfCheese, on 05/22/2008, -0/+0Wii Fit didn't use the word fat at all. The father did. Read the article.
    • samoan27, on 05/20/2008, -0/+2See in the real world A.I. doesn't start with world domination and killing like in The Terminator, it starts with stereotyping and name calling. I guess it's hard to make a movie about that though.
    • MrFisty, on 05/20/2008, -0/+1She's not fat. She's big boned.
  • tehbored, on 05/20/2008, -4/+161FTA:
    "According to the Daily Mail (duly credited)"

    Yeah OK. Maybe if it came from a legitimate source I'd believe it.
  • profboobs, on 05/20/2008, -11/+117It's funny to call young girls fat.
    • Dundasbro, on 05/20/2008, -0/+61Their tears sustain me.
    • flashback99, on 05/20/2008, -0/+41. The Daily Mail is full of *****.
      2. Kids get called much, much worse in school!

      Didn't we learn anything from Rockstar?
    • mike17032, on 05/20/2008, -1/+10Gotta shame them into starving themselves to Hot somehow.
    • Shots, on 05/20/2008, -0/+1I'm sure GTA4 has more interesting things to say about fat chicks.
    • TremorX, on 05/21/2008, -2/+1It's even funnier to call skinny girls fat. They'll puke themselves to death!
  • babylonian, on 05/20/2008, -1/+89I don't understand why the word "fat" keeps being used in quotes in this article, and even in the headline. Wii Fit is about as inoffensive and politically correct as you can get. There's no way the game would ever call anyone fat.

    Hell, I doubt the game even contains the word "FAT" anywhere in the code, except maybe in reference to the formatting of the Wii's built-in memory.
    • kravex, on 05/20/2008, -0/+42'Overweight' 'Obease' are on it but I've never seen the word 'fat' when I've played it.
      • Shots, on 05/20/2008, -0/+1i think mine broke... couldn't take my weight.
    • ursername180, on 05/20/2008, -13/+13You must be a spastic.
  • actionscripted, on 05/20/2008, -2/+65Christ, the next few generations are going to be more sissi-fied than others before them. I weep for the future and welcome 2012/2029 so I don't have to see these hyper-sensitive brainless kids grow up to be insecure, suicidal adults.
    • cdahlkvist, on 05/20/2008, -0/+12You are so right. We just keep creating more sissies.

      This family is probably one of the types that only lets their kid play sports where "everyone is a winner".

      What the hell is that all about? What happened to sports being competitive? Don't parents want their kids to know that they aren't always going to win in life?

      These are the same pansy-assed spoiled brats that start shooting up schools because they didn't get their way.

      "Oh no! This wasn't an 'everybody wins' situation? I kill you!"
    • ICSU, on 05/20/2008, -0/+5If they are suicidal, the problem will take take of itself.
    • jerrycan, on 05/20/2008, -0/+4I agree. I remember walking to school by myself in Toronto for kindergarden (4 years old). I see parents here in Waterloo walk their 10 year olds to school.. What a different world we live in now...
      • colombian201, on 05/21/2008, -1/+1Thats more for security reasons than anything else. Crime commited against little kids has increased significantly since you were a kid. My parents use to do all kinds of thing alone when they were little that would be stupid to let your child do right now.
    • modiggz, on 05/20/2008, -2/+1Yeah she probably is fat for her age and height. It's so annoying people are so politically correct to and avoiding a problem. If her parents fed her right and she went out and played like a normal kid instead of playing wii, she'll be ready for high school. so cry me a river.

      also, being overweight isn't healthy, especially when you're young and more active. deal with it like a man and acknowledge that your kid needs to lose weight so she can be healthy again. truth hurts, but deal with it.
    • ericrous, on 05/20/2008, -2/+1I grew up in the U.S. South back when it was still okay to call black kids ***** and Jews kykes. We used to say the same thing when they got all pissy about it. Maybe we should all stop being so ***** sensitive, grow some balls, and learn to laugh it off. Everyone is so thin-skinned these days. I too fear for the future.
  • Aeron, on 05/20/2008, -0/+211"horrified the family", lol what pussies, I love the Wii Fit even more now
    • bosssmiley, on 05/20/2008, -0/+39Wii Fit calls it like he sees it: you gotta respect that in a console.
      • Drahkir, on 05/20/2008, -0/+3I don't know why, but your comment actually made me laugh out loud. Thank you.
    • mattlohkamp, on 05/20/2008, -11/+2seriously - genocide, that's horrific. Calling a girl fat when she's not fat - yeah.
  • TheCash, on 05/20/2008, -1/+35"Perhaps I’ll also write to the Daily Mail though I suspect that my story will be axed in favour of a breaking news item where a father breaks down as he details how two (unnamed) insects had the audacity to have a quick shag in front of his daughter (21, slim, blond and not unattractive) occasioning grave offence (sic) and a long overdue chat about the ‘birds and the bees’."

    Funniest part about the whole article, and scariest at the same time as it seems like this is the direction things are really heading.
    • NattyBumppo, on 05/20/2008, -2/+6"Offence" isn't a typo; it's a UK spelling. No need for the "sic."
      • wiresjr, on 05/20/2008, -4/+5and for "UK", read "correct".
        In general: ...ce = noun, ...se = verb.
        • NattyBumppo, on 05/20/2008, -2/+3True in the UK, but not in the US. In the US both the noun and verb are spelled "offense."
  • ursername180, on 05/20/2008, -2/+88Well maybe if she wasn't so fat...
    • fquednau, on 05/20/2008, -2/+3Yup, fat girl is fat...lolgirl?
      • dynelol, on 05/20/2008, -0/+4it's called lolcow. It has never been more appropriate.
    • revenz, on 05/22/2008, -0/+1RTFA she wasn't fat, the wii fit just thought she was. it would have been way funner if she was fat....
  • kravex, on 05/20/2008, -3/+51She's got 'big bones' ,

    covered in meat and gravy...

    The instruction book clearly says that anyone under 20 will not have an accurate BMI, is it Nintendo's fault they can't read?
    • cdahlkvist, on 05/20/2008, -1/+8Of course it's Nintendo's fault. They need to add an additional warning label that says "may cause injury to your sensitive low self-esteem" kind of like how a hairdryer has a label letting morons know they shouldn't use it in the shower or bath.
    • Skooma714, on 05/20/2008, -7/+1She was under 20. Half that actually.
    • jabelar, on 05/20/2008, -2/+1Well, I suppose the software could be made to make it more obvious, for example not even calculating BMI when it knows someone is younger.
  • atingle, on 05/20/2008, -30/+5To Babylonian (re: your comment concerning use of inverted commas around the term ‘fat’):

    I think you have either missed the point or, perhaps, have a particular distaste of (misunderstanding of) the use of inverted commas.

    This is (quite obviously) not intended to be a dig at larger people, if that’s where you’re coming from - perhaps if I had written FAT it could have been seen that way, no? - but because I too am yet to see a/our Wii Fit use this particular term. Perhaps next time I use inverted commas in an entirely appropriate and correct fashion I'll write 300 words first serving to define my terms just for you or perhaps I'll just slap a parental guidance on each article so that those of you that are such delicate wallflowers can steer clear of those highly offensive inverted commas.

    How apt that, in an article bemoaning what the world is coming to, I should have to define my use of those Cert 18 ‘’s. It would almost be funny, if it wasn’t so utterly ridiculous (no offense meant).
    • bumcheekcity, on 05/20/2008, -1/+21We have a reply feature for a reason, idiot.
  • doublsh0t, on 05/20/2008, -7/+14....pics of girl?
  • alanr19, on 05/20/2008, -3/+23So? If they're fat then they're fat. Maybe its about time people started telling them that for their own good rather than congratulating them for being lard asses and saying "its just the way god made you".

    When did we stop liking the idea of telling it like it is?
    • noahhoward, on 05/20/2008, -3/+1No you missed the facts in the article, if they're physically active and in a normal to low weight band the Wii can think they're fat. The girl is not fat.
    • djdementia, on 05/20/2008, -0/+1According to the CDC she isn't fat, or even borderline:
      http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/dnpabmi/Result.aspx?&dob= ...
    • jabelar, on 05/20/2008, -0/+0Well, I suspect that the weight measured by the Wii is different than what they are telling people she weighs. I expect the Wii fit board is decently accurate at weighing people.

      Alternatively, the Wii software is not properly using BMI for younger people (it is a different calculation), so in that case I would lay some fault on Nintendo.
    • jimbo100, on 05/21/2008, -0/+0Around the time when "Political Correctness" was introduced...
  • greenm1981, on 05/20/2008, -2/+38Whatever happened to kids playing outside for exercise?
    • tama00, on 05/20/2008, -3/+13it stopped when protective parents wouldnt allow them to go outside. I bet this girls dad is one of them. "you cant go outside you will catch aids of some hobo get rapped by some drug dealer then get beaten up by some criminals, it happens all the time i saw it on fox news last night!"
      • b3owulf, on 05/20/2008, -3/+3So insensitive to those of us who were actually rapped as children.
        • cdahlkvist, on 05/20/2008, -0/+2It's only insensitive because you can't rhyme.

          Love it or leave it you better gain weight.
          You better hit bull's eye the kid don't play.
    • AparoidX, on 05/21/2008, -0/+0Oh, don't worry about that. The Ad Council already has commercials encouraging kids to play outside for at least an hour a day.

      ...Yeah, a commercial... On TV. >_>
  • cupofjoe88, on 05/20/2008, -34/+6in other words, everyone in america is too over ***** sensitive.

    seriously... this is the only country in the world where you'll hear this type of bull spewing from people.
    • Haoie, on 05/20/2008, -9/+1And the home of senseless lawsuits, too.

      Don't be surprised if someone sues soon.
    • Alucardbsm, on 05/20/2008, -1/+29Maybe other than England, if you rtfa.

      'According to the Daily Mail (duly credited), the offending Wii Fit balance board, based somewhere in the South East of England'
      • cupofjoe88, on 05/20/2008, -8/+2yeah, true.

        But I believe I read over on kotaku or some other site about some psychologist in the united states calling for a ban on wii fit because of this very same thing.

        but yeah, I guess it will happen in any and every overly sensitized first world country, the US and UK included (i'm eyeing at you too, Canada and Aussieland!)
      • Wardonic, on 05/20/2008, -2/+1If you didn't know Canada is not part of the UK.
    • LBobRife, on 05/20/2008, -0/+8You don't read much world news, do you? Most first world nations have plenty of ***** like this.
      • cupofjoe88, on 05/20/2008, -5/+1I do read quite a bit of news, sir.

        most of the ***** comes from the ass of america though, in case you haven't noticed yourself.

        "plenty of ***** like this"? right.
        • ExitMoose, on 05/20/2008, -0/+2You do? Because you evidently didn't read this article before you felt compelled to let everyone know what you feel.
        • vuke69, on 05/20/2008, -0/+6"I do read quite a bit of news, sir."

          Ahhh, but comprehension is the key good sir.

          If you don't notice, while labouring through a couple of paragraphs, that the story takes place in the UK, and not the US... How can we possibly accept your opinion on anything more important than the location of the nearest Walmart?
    • QueensGangsta, on 05/20/2008, -0/+5Don't you feel like a jackass right about now?
    • samoan27, on 05/20/2008, -0/+1A little advice: Think...then talk. If you get it backwards you can look quite the fool.
  • JayKeaton, on 05/20/2008, -2/+80Most kids need to be told they are fat these days. There is a world food shortage, health care crisis and an obesity crisis, you do the math.
    • dood, on 05/20/2008, -0/+3You're right. 'Can Kids Handle the "O" Word?'

      http://www.diet-blog.com/archives/2007/06/15/can_k ...

      'New guidelines for pediatricians and other health professionals recommend that doctors need to start using the term “Obesity” when referring to or talking to overweight children and their parents.

      Dr. Reginald Washington, a committee spokesman and member of the American Academy of Pediatrics, said Tuesday that some doctors have avoided the blunt terms for "fear that we're going to stigmatize children, we're going to take away their self-esteem, we're going to label them."

      By using terms such as "at risk for overweight," and "overweight”, doctors may be softening the health impact this information can have on both the children and the parents.'
      • BearinG, on 05/20/2008, -0/+1Not helping the REAL health impact though..

        If they can't face reality (or at least the parents should be able to "take it") its going to get much worst in the end..

        I'd rather a real doctor tells me I'm fat and need to lose weight..
  • Nastjuid, on 05/20/2008, -3/+46pic of girl?

    maybe she is?

    truth hurts?

    F U, easily-butthurt-and-offended-people
    • UltX, on 05/20/2008, -0/+3I have a pic of her, but she's too big to upload.
  • CarnivalOfDust, on 05/20/2008, -7/+6I'm surprised the game actually has an overweight or obese category - didn't Ninty realise that people don't want to hear the truth?
  • SnotRag, on 05/20/2008, -1/+73Has no one stopped to think of the poor Wii Fit balance board! How would you like a small mountain jumping on your head all day!
  • benitojuarez, on 05/20/2008, -1/+57for those that dont know
    6 stone = 84 pounds = 38.102 kilograms
    • stklaw, on 05/20/2008, -14/+7Metric FTW
    • passedoutghost, on 05/20/2008, -9/+6***** Imperialists.
    • katerpilar, on 05/20/2008, -9/+0that`s like... half of me, and i`m a pretty tall and solid guy, at 1.82 and almost 80Kg... sorry little girl, but half of me is pretty big for an 10yo.
      • passedoutghost, on 05/20/2008, -1/+2Well then you're sense of measurement is screwed.
      • Coffeedemon, on 05/20/2008, -2/+4Thats about the stupidest way ever of arriving at a "suitable" weight for a 10 year old. Should 5 year olds be somewhere around the weight of one of your legs? Do you factor in anything for cultural or ethnic differences? ***** idiot.
    • hypogenic, on 05/20/2008, -1/+0Wow, my dog weighs that much, and she ain't fat.
    • crossmr, on 05/20/2008, -0/+4but we have no proof that is her actual weight.. just "daddies say so"
    • samoan27, on 05/20/2008, -0/+1That's good to know, now I'll know what something weighs when I watch Top Gear.
  • gannondork, on 05/20/2008, -2/+45The wii cannot lie, if it says she's a fatty then a fatty she is.
  • Neorio, on 05/20/2008, -5/+41I used to be fat, I got called fat, and it sucked. Really, I was just lazy, and let my body go to a slobby ruin.
    So I decided to bust myself at the gym, lifting weights and hitting the treadmill every day for a year, started a diet, and stuck to it, took a pile of creatine and fat metabolising supplements. Not people compliment me on my pecs and six pack - and mention that I've lost a lot of weight.
    I don't think I actually had to work hard at it - it just had to do it often enough, make a lifestyle out of it, and be patient that the process would eventually work.

    So anytime I hear somebody whine because they've been called fat - I just want to tell them to stop being a crybaby, take control of your life, and do something about it. There's no excuse.
    • 4rp4n3t, on 05/20/2008, -3/+6Fat AND lazy? Go figure...
    • Elranzer, on 05/20/2008, -6/+3Don't quit your day job to be a nutritionist or personal trainer.
      • dynelol, on 05/20/2008, -0/+5My uncle did just that and it worked out for him.
      • cdahlkvist, on 05/20/2008, -0/+6I think you missed the point of the OP.

        He was saying that it doesn't take much to not be a fatty.

        Diet is another issue. That's about being healthy.

        Yes, you can be thin and still have a high BMI but just being overweight in itself is a health risk. Not eating properly is another health issue.

        When it comes to being a fatty the two are often mutual but are not mutually exclusive.
    • RustyJ, on 05/22/2008, -0/+1WOW! nice pecs and six pack!
    • LanceUppercut, on 05/27/2008, -0/+1Thank you for the typed bowflex ad dialog. It really made my day.
  • ssj2119, on 05/20/2008, -3/+53Dugg for:

    Personally I also have a problem with the Wii Fit as, thanks to having only one TV in the house, my wife persistently working out with her Wii Fit is preventing me from doing an especially lucrative drug deal in GTA IV which is, let’s face it, completely out of order.
    • korvan504521, on 05/20/2008, -0/+15Buy another TV and be grateful you have a wife that works out without you having to dangle chocolate in front of the treadmill.
  • Cabose, on 05/20/2008, -4/+135Your child is fat. Deal with it. BMI is *****. Deal with it. Wii Fit is not a doctor. Deal with it.

    You're a moron. Deal with it.
    • magicaltrevor, on 05/20/2008, -1/+24I enjoyed your comment. Deal with it.
    • mattvander, on 05/22/2008, -0/+2i hate fatty fat fats too. deal with it.
  • B3000, on 05/20/2008, -0/+93So, obesity experts want to ban a game that will get kids to exercise because it might hurt the children's feelings to learn that they are overweight? The stupidity of this is confounding.
    • LacY, on 05/20/2008, -0/+6Yeah, kids know they're overweight. You can pretty much guarantee they hear it every day at school. Seeing it on a game that gets them to exercise isn't going to push them over the edge.
  • gcnaddict, on 05/20/2008, -0/+32Overprotective pricks. Your children won't learn when you hover over them like helicopter cops.
  • nursethalia, on 05/20/2008, -0/+34She was probably doing the BMI test and she was a little in the 'overweight' category and the family flipped out because they didn't want their daughter to have damaged self esteem or something, even if she IS a little on the thick side. Seriously, WTF is up with parents? I knew a kid whose parents fed him whatever he wanted as a baby, and he was a fat toddler. He always stayed huge but his parents didn't want him to get a 'complex' so they never said anything about it, now he's in his teens and is totally pissed that his parents never told him to knock it off because now he's got years of habit to break on his own.
  • bhavna12, on 05/20/2008, -20/+0Talking bout cinema, this blog i came across is simply awesome in regards to it. As in, it just takes a whole new look at cinema, as an industry & as a passion. http://www.film-crew.blogspot.com/

    • Matri, on 05/20/2008, -0/+3Who said anything about cinema, you spamming idiot.
  • Piontek, on 05/20/2008, -6/+254'9", six stone.. what the *****.. metric please
    • AndrewDB, on 05/20/2008, -23/+10How ***** lazy do you have to be to not type "Six Stone in LBS" into google and get a conversion?

      six stone = 84 pounds.
      • iNaya, on 05/20/2008, -1/+34How ***** stupid do you have to be to think that LBS is metric?
    • senorburrito, on 05/20/2008, -4/+33pounds is not metric.
    • xMotu, on 05/20/2008, -15/+5It's called Google, and a stone is about 14 pounds so doing the math: 6 stones = 84 pounds.
    • passedoutghost, on 05/20/2008, -8/+20Metric *****, do you understand it?!

      [38 Kilograms, 1.4478 meters tall]
      • Anonchrist, on 05/20/2008, -3/+2That was the saddest attempt at metric conversion I have ever seen.
      • passedoutghost, on 05/20/2008, -1/+3At least I gave the right answer unlike the others.
        • NinjaAdmin, on 05/20/2008, -4/+1Except that kilograms are a unit of mass, not weight.
        • yetAnotherCroc, on 05/20/2008, -0/+2well since mass is what he is trying to communicate the use of Kilograms seems quite appropriate, doesn't it?
    • DNABeast, on 05/20/2008, -0/+1I typed those values into a BMI calculator online and it gave me (for 4 feet 9 inches and 84 pounds) a BMI of 18.2 or Underweight.
      WTF??
      • wiggles, on 05/20/2008, -0/+4In case you didn't see my reply above, here it is again:

        You're looking at the BMI calculator for adults. For kids, it's different. Plugging in the values for a 10 year old, she's borderline. A 10 year old at 84 lbs is just barely in the healthy range. 85 lbs is considered 'borderline' and 95 is considered 'obese'. I get my figures from the CDC, at their website here:
        http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/dnpabmi/Result.aspx?&dob= ...
        If that link doesn't work, try this one and run your own query:
        http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/dnpabmi/Calculator.aspx
    • erichw1504, on 05/20/2008, -0/+1six stone = 5.6039203577 kilowatts = 3.0000013 gigabolts = 1,000,000,000.1 pounds...

      ...i think
  • GreatWhiteShaky, on 05/20/2008, -18/+6God bless America, the only place where you can buy a video game with the expressed purpose of using it to get yourself into shape and then become offended and call for a ban of said game when it tells you the truth.
    • dudefather, on 05/20/2008, -1/+16'South East of England'
    • vuke69, on 05/20/2008, -1/+12Wii Fit is not even out in the US yet, and the story is from the UK.

      You illiterate retard.
    • dynelol, on 05/20/2008, -0/+5Anti-America statements on Digg always look stupid. Imagine how ridiculous YOURS is.
  • bloodwings, on 05/20/2008, -7/+6video games are serious business. we should all take them very seriously. AMIRITE?
    • cdahlkvist, on 05/20/2008, -0/+2I just whooped Through the Fire and Flames on expert mode in Guitar Hero III and I was so pissed when I couldn't pick up the real guitar and play that song.

      Damn videogames! Liars!
  • steveoco, on 05/20/2008, -5/+18I hate how the conservative world can not take even observational fact without being up in arms. If you call a fat person fat... there is no crime. If it is a fact, than where is the harm?
    • Matri, on 05/20/2008, -6/+1It's not a fact if they don't agree with it.
    • bainfu, on 05/20/2008, -4/+9I don't think you would think that this is a conservative issue. It's the liberals that use pc terms like festivally plump. Conservatives tell it like it is. 4'9 and 84 pounds isn't overweight.

      Doing a quick search for a BMI calculator:

      A 10 year old (female) child
      who is 84 pounds
      and is 4 feet and 9 inches tall has
      a body mass index of 18.2,
      which is at the 69th percentile,

      Something must of been misentered. But then again, Wii fit was designed in Japan, and they are all insanely skinny.

      • dynelol, on 05/20/2008, -1/+4***** off with your "liberal" and "conservatives" speak. This isn't about politics, you pedophile.
      • cdahlkvist, on 05/20/2008, -0/+4"festivally plump"

        And there went my coffee all over the laptop.

        Dugg.
    • DarkShroud, on 05/20/2008, -6/+3Try again, this is the liberal "I'm controller by my feelings" world that's doing this. I know many actual Christians who make their kids exercise play outside and tell them if they start to get pudgy.
    • ender7074, on 05/20/2008, -1/+0Your stupidity is so sharp its painful. Its the Libs who are the big PC crowd. You fail.
  • LordFuxxles, on 05/20/2008, -0/+46After seeing this I have to say: Wii Fit is pretty badass.
  • tama00, on 05/20/2008, -3/+12im waiting for the next south park epp.

    congratulations, you.. are... _FAT_
    • CCmachined, on 06/01/2008, -0/+1Congratulations, You've been playing Guitar Hero enough to score 1,000,000 points...
      YOU..
      ARE..
      __FAGS__!!
  • nociva, on 06/30/2008, -1/+18"They fear the game could damage children's body image and called on the company to warn parents it is not suitable for their offspring." (dailymail article)

    Yea, because we're all aware that TV, magazines and movies (along with our peers) don't-really-do-that-at-all. The video-game industry not only promotes violence and misogyny, it also creates horrible self-esteem issues! BAN!
  • mzx639, on 05/20/2008, -7/+30 Most of the young girls in the US today are fat.
    • iNaya, on 05/20/2008, -0/+12Almost as fat as the ones in the UK.
    • tisiphoneneme, on 07/10/2008, -0/+0The obesity crisis in the UK is not even close to the one in America. Probably because up until a month or so ago it was cheaper to buy fruit then a chocolate bar. Now its cheaper to get two hamburgers from MacDonalds then a loaf of bread - at least in Manchester.
  • Taikun, on 05/20/2008, -0/+28Admitting that one is fat is the first, and probably most important step in losing weight.
    • iNaya, on 05/20/2008, -5/+1The most important step to losing weight is to not eat too much fat/oil/sugar/simple carbohydrates. Or a combination of the above depending what you're sensitive to. "Too much" is relative to the person.

      Exercise won't help much, and will probably increase risk of heart disease.

      Why are we so willing to accept ourselves or others being fat? For goodness sake, it's a matter of life and death.
      • Nort9, on 05/20/2008, -0/+6"Exercise won't help much, and will probably increase risk of heart disease."

        Hang on ... Exercise is bad for your heart now?!?
        • dynelol, on 05/20/2008, -0/+4EVERYTHING seems to be able to have an adverse affect on your heart. ***** it. Just live and try to be fairly sensible.
        • cdahlkvist, on 05/20/2008, -0/+7Didn't you get the memo? Exercise is loaded with Trans-Fats.
  • ZykluZ, on 05/20/2008, -0/+10Well if they want to ban Wii Fit because of that, they have to ban the BMI too...
    • iNaya, on 05/20/2008, -0/+7And doctors. Damn doctors, calling people overweight, they should be ashamed of themselves.
      • JBobtheGr8, on 05/20/2008, -0/+3Don't forget that someone who's not a doctor might call you fat. We should just ban society all together so no one's feelings are hurt.
  • IanCube, on 05/20/2008, -0/+14I'm really curious how Wii Fit will fair in the US. It's done extremely well in Japan already, but in the US:

    1. Either people will embrace it as a new way to exercise, because obesity is am epidemic here...OR

    2. People will be too lazy to do it, because obesity is am epidemic here.

    Intuition tells me #2, but then again, the Wii has proved everyone wrong this generation from the start.

    In other news, Miyamoto talks Wii Fit in a new Q&A interview.

    http://www.thewiire.com/news/1311/1/Wii_Fit_QA
    • crossmr, on 05/20/2008, -0/+3you forget how many people won't be able to get on it in such an obese society..unless they're going to sell an extra robust version in the US>
    • BearinG, on 05/20/2008, -0/+2I always find it funny when i hear that there is an obesity epidemic ..

      An epidemic like its a disease traveling through the air infecting everyone..
  • luckyguy2000, on 05/20/2008, -1/+13it should have called her hippopotamus from the start
  • crownedgriffin, on 05/20/2008, -0/+43The harpoons; man them.
    • sotose, on 05/20/2008, -0/+3Yarrr,i see the beasty cap'n!Port bow!
    • TacticalPenguin, on 05/20/2008, -1/+1Oh FFS as scrawny as most diggers are, I'm sure most of them can lift 85 pounds on their own.
    • JBobtheGr8, on 05/20/2008, -0/+0We're gonna catch us some fatties!
  • whalt, on 05/20/2008, -0/+31It did say that she had a wonderful personality.
  • goerg, on 05/20/2008, -3/+13arent most british girls....fat?
    well, every time ive been to britain i only saw...fat...girls
    sorry to the british but...
    • iNaya, on 05/20/2008, -1/+7Same goes for the Americans. Fatties. Not just the girls though, the men are disgustingly overweight there too.
    • fatas, on 05/20/2008, -5/+1All you Anglos are fat *****.

      Not that there is anything wrong with that.
    • DriXiLB, on 05/20/2008, -2/+4There's too many fat people in every western country, but America is far the worst.
    • epyon8282, on 05/20/2008, -0/+2Hey man its not fat, just more to love is all those girls got. I'm all about more cushion for the pushin.....(and just to clarify for all you pervs, I'm not talking about the girl in the article)....
    • estvir, on 05/20/2008, -1/+2England, USA, Australia, etc are all horrible overweight and not just the girls or children. I think in Australia for adults it's now over 50% are overweight.

      Bloody disgusting and embarassing.
    • absurdist, on 05/20/2008, -0/+2Damn... you guys have never been to Germany, have you?
  • Kas70, on 05/20/2008, -3/+8Wii, and apparently lots of Diggers are "not very nice".
    • JayKeaton, on 05/20/2008, -0/+7That is not a very nice thing to say about Wii and a lot of diggers :(
    • CylonPete, on 05/20/2008, -0/+9Yeah, I feel kinda offended. Can we ban that comment, please? Or at least rate it for 18+ only? lol
  • Shawkab, on 05/20/2008, -0/+18Why not? i mean if something was calling me fat.. I wouldnt want to be fat anymore, so id work out untill it starts calling me fit.

    sometimes fat people need to be told they're kinda gross.
  • jtinz, on 05/20/2008, -0/+13“She is a perfectly healthy, 4ft 9in tall 10-year-old who swims, dances and weighs only six stone”
    For the imperialistic-measurements-challenged of us, the girls is 1.45 meters tall and weighs 38 kilograms.
    • mattlohkamp, on 05/20/2008, -1/+1Also, for 99% of the US who has never heard of 'stone' as a measurement: 84lbs.
      • wiresjr, on 05/20/2008, -0/+2Yes! We'll take your imperial measurements ... but only the ones we like the sound of.
      • Morte42, on 05/20/2008, -2/+6But...but this stone in my yard weighs more than 14 lbs...I'm so confused...stupid british and their damn lifts and boots and biscuits. *shakes fist*
      • DominicUK, on 05/20/2008, -2/+3Why don't Americans use stone anyway? I mean does anyone actually know? It seems odd to use pounds but not stone... it's a very sensible unit for weight above pounds. I'm guessing they use hundredweights and tons in the US, so why not stone? I'm 13 stone, and that's much easier to remember than whatever the large number in pounds is...
        • Andrwmorph, on 05/20/2008, -1/+4We don't take kindly to logical forms of measurement in this town...
        • Morte42, on 05/20/2008, -2/+2I'm sorry, but I have to ask. That is that new thing called sarcasm right? If so, well done on the convincing performance. If not...um...congrats...on...something else?
        • BearinG, on 05/20/2008, -0/+1I don't think Americans use pounds.

          stone seems like pretty imprecise. what about stuff that weights less then 14 pounds.. do you use decimals with stone? (ie 0.3)
        • DominicUK, on 05/20/2008, -0/+1No, of course not - you use pounds. A stone is just 14 pounds. For example, at the moment my weight is 14 stone and 4 pounds, and that's exactly how everyone would give their weight. That's my point - it's the *same* measurement system, not something different like metric, but we just seem to use more units.
  • tomjm5000, on 05/20/2008, -0/+3Only six stones! Crikey!
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