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A Fat Rant: What's Your Response?
A Fat Rant: What's Your Response?
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I am not sure if any of you guys have seen this video floating around the web, but I find it fascinating. That is all I am going to say, so check it out and let me know what you think.
This would be the perfect opportunity for you guys to try out a new feature on TeamSugar: Create Your Own Video. The super easy instructions are here. Make sure to embed them in a comment below in response to the fat rant video. This is going to be fun and I can not wait to see your video comments!
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Posh-Vee 6 years
Argh ! I understand the whole loving one's self bit , but saying it's ok to be fat is not the right message to send. Everyone including myself have had moments where we wanted to do extreme things to lose weight.Those who let their self esteem get the best of them do those extreme things to either lose weight or continue to beat them selves up. Others educate themseles and try to make some sort of effort to be healthy. Some of the things that I read ( from the email I recieved ) came from someone who went through a horrible experience but didn't have the knowledge to help herself. Yes you have to teach YOURSELF to love yourself but telling your self that your healthy with a high body fat percentage and an unhealthy diet is just ridiculous. Youu should be exercising and eating a clean healthy diet and when you notice that your not losing anymore weight don't trip out. It's called a plateau , happens to all of us. Like I said before we are all not going to look rail thin, or like fitness models, we are going to look like ourselves just healthier and happier.
Posh-Vee 6 years
Argh ! I understand the whole loving one's self bit , but saying it's ok to be fat is not the right message to send. Everyone including myself have had moments where we wanted to do extreme things to lose weight.Those who let their self esteem get the best of them do those extreme things to either lose weight or continue to beat them selves up. Others educate themseles and try to make some sort of effort to be healthy. Some of the things that I read ( from the email I recieved ) came from someone who went through a horrible experience but didn't have the knowledge to help herself. Yes you have to teach YOURSELF to love yourself but telling your self that your healthy with a high body fat percentage and an unhealthy diet is just ridiculous. Youu should be exercising and eating a clean healthy diet and when you notice that your not losing anymore weight don't trip out. It's called a plateau , happens to all of us. Like I said before we are all not going to look rail thin, or like fitness models, we are going to look like ourselves just healthier and happier.
truekiller 6 years
I might just have to include my personal story into this because I feel very strongly about this subject since I can relate to what she's saying about the connotation "fat" has in our society. I had an eating disorder when I was in high school. I ate like I had a sickness. I used to chug down water based soup and nothing else until my stomach/intestines got so weak, I couldn't eat solid food without vomiting. Slowly, I got my intestines to get reacquainted with solid foods again. I struggled to be loved by my own indirect family members (aunts, uncles, in competition with cousins for being favored/adored by aunts and uncles). I did track (4 years), judo (1 year), soccer (3 years),in high school. I even had time to be in student government, sports editor for the school newspaper and be an officer in the school's hiker's club... I took diet pills along with my busy schedule (the ones with ephedra before they banned them). At my peak, I was 150 pounds,5'4" resting heart rate of 56, blood pressure of 92/66,... but sometimes suffered from blackouts on the field. I was athletic, but didn't look it. I had a gut (the very last place people lose weight at and the fat there is very resistant to exercise), chubby appendages, and broad shoulders. I felt like all my efforts were just for acceptance in the family. If I could blame someone, I would blame my father for my genetic disposition of being "fat", but it wouldn't be right to blame my parents for having been born. I would blame my resistant and unresponsive metabolism for my chunky appearance, but what's the point, right? I even had a gym membership! after soccer or track practices, I'd head to the gym and run for an hour and a half and do crazy weight repetitions just hoping that my body will eventually respond better (metabolically). The obsession ran my life during those times. I couldn't accept it in my head that I won't ever have hips like my cousin or have abs like my other cousin and they were of average proportions. The woman in the video did include exercise in her mini segment... I remember her wearing workout clothes. I empathized with her in how people in the gym with their tight physiques would judge people fatter than themselves because I do compare myself with other people in the gym, but I won't judge the fat person... I do the opposite. I compare myself to skinnier girls. I still piggyback my workout to compare myself with the skinniest b*tch in the gym and knowing I am stronger and have greater endurance than her gives me great satisfaction. I could hear the words last said by my uncle last year about me needing to "reduce" as I ate a mango in front of him. I ran and climbed steep rocks with my brother in pinecrest and yosemite to front to my uncle that I didn't have a problem and that he had a problem with me. I have to work and go to school and what little time I have left, I prioritize assignments over going to the gym. and yes, I have a gym membership and exercise when I can, but won't sacrifice 5 hours of sleep over it. I'm healthy with bp running around 110/70 at rest... resting heart rate of 64/min. blood sugar at 93 (fasting 12 hours) and normal range ldl and hdl. I am healthy, but my BMI measurement would prove otherwise. I support myself and I can't say others have it harder or a lot easier than me, but I just know that people who do not have weight issues will not understand the stigma behind being "not of normal proportion." They will probably have a hard time understanding what message is being said in this video. It's not about promoting fatness, people; it's about promoting social awareness for acceptance and practicing self love. Because if you hate yourself, you're creating your own enemy. I know the lesson, first-hand. I felt I just had to disclose all that I wrote so that people can learn from it and not remain ignorant. If it wasn't for this holiday weekend, I would have just scoffed off other people's ignorant responses. I just hope other people can read this response and have an enlightening experience. If not, let's put you in a fat suit like Tyra Banks and see what kind of reactions you get from the public.
Posh-Vee 6 years
I remember watching this video and being very ticked off. It's great if this woman's self esteem is that high but she's only fooling herself if she says she's healthy . A high body fat percentage is unhealthy, no one is expected to be a size 2 or look like a fitness or figure competitor ( hell they don't look like that all the time ) but saying that it's ok to be fat is just wrong. This kind of message is just plain wrong.
truekiller 6 years
For people to fully associate weight with health is wrong. Real doctors take into account physical activity, diet, bone structure (i.e. family history), body shape ...among other things. I'm not saying that really really really fat people are healthy. I'm just saying that people won't know what I mean unless they had stepped into our (of "fat" people) shoes. Everybody has fat, but for skinny to regular sized people to act like fat is grotesque must really loathe themselves. I can say that I'm not as "fat" as the girl on the flick... I love my Banana Republic and BCBG Maxazaria ("normal" sizes) that I so happen to be wearing right now. But no doctor would ever say that I can ever be a size 4 and be healthy. Contemplate on that.
wizfirex 7 years
phatE.... are you her doctor? How do you know she isn't healthy? You cannot judge health by looks alone. It's just impossible to do. To judge her health you would have to see her medical records. You would have to know exactly how tall she is. You would have to test her blood sugar, test her cholesterol... all of these things you'd have to do to KNOW weather or not she's healthy. A bodybuilder who does nothing but eat salads and soups and grains and vegetables and stands 5'10 and weighs 230 pounds... Is not fat. Probably has almost NO body fat. But if they came in and said... I'm 5'10 and I weigh 230, the immediate response would be OOOH YOU'RE FAT! LAZY BUM! STOP EATING TWINKIES! I am fat. I know I'm fat. It's in my state of mind and in my height and weight ratio. I'm fat. I'm not only fat. I am "morbidly obese". My blood sugar is fine. My cholesterol is normal. That doesn't mean I'm healthy. I'm not. I know that. I should go and exercise. Anyone who walked by and saw me sitting at a restaurant or in a car would think. Ugg. What a lazy pig. She's HUGE! She needs to seriously get out and exercise and eat right! I was BORN big. My mother was a size 2-4 up until she got pregnant with me. I have been big from day one. In grade school, I was on the girl's softball team. I was a grade school cheerleader. Junior high I was in basketball... I -never- lost a -pound-. I was a size 18 when in basketball. A size 9 or 10 at in grade school when in cheerleading and softball... At that time, my family -always- cooked good home-cooked meals. We didn't have chips and ice cream and junk food because we were poor. We couldn't afford those 'luxuries' except for once a month and seriously how long is a bag of cheetos or a box of ice cream going to last a family of five one time per month? Not long. In my house, if there ever WERE sweets or junk food... you were lucky if you got one SINGLE serving. Most of us, didn't even get that because my brother and sister were the pigs. And yes, they are both big. My sister was lucky. She got my mother's genes from my mother's side of the family. That girl COULD have been tiny. But not with how she eats. That's HER fault. I was born this way. I didn't get the luxury of choosing to be fat. I took after my dad's side where everyone is 300+ pounds or more. My uncle on my dad's side does -nothing- but eat healthy food. He doesn't drink sodas. He doesn't eat junk. He won't even BUY bread unless it's wheat bread. If there IS a soda in his house, it's a diet one. Mostly he drinks water or sugar free tea. He has spent THOUSANDS on trying to loose weight. He's tried everything from diet and exercise, to more extreme measures like stomach stapling and other things. He is -still- 300 pounds or more. His LIFESTYLE is a healthy one. Yet he's still overweight. I have never seen the man eat a fatty or 'processed' food in my entire life and I practically grew up at his house. Now I said earlier in this post, if anyone looked at me just sitting at a restaurant or at a park or in my car or something. They would immediately think 'Ugg. What a lazy pig. She's HUGE! She needs to seriously get out and exercise and eat right!' They're right. I DON'T exercise. I don't eat right. I DO have bad genetics. Sure these may be written off as 'excuses' but... when someone can give me an answer to these questions that WORK... I'll get skinny. All of the little *'s above the questions are explanations leading into the question asked below them. * I'm in a wheelchair and can't walk. I'm sure there's some way for me to work my stomach muscles and maybe even burn calories, but... I don't know how. 1. How can I do exercise? * When I could walk, I was in basketball and cheerleading and softball and later on, rode my bike or walked 5 miles a day to try and loose weight. I didn't loose a pound. 2. What good is exercising going to do my weight if all of that does nothing? * I lived in a children's home and because they decided I was fat and needed to loose weight; I was put on a 1 serving, no dessert diet of broccoli, salad, cottage cheese, etc and only allowed to drink water... I lost 5 pounds the first month... and gained 30 in the months following. They had a professional dietitian, a nurse, a medically healthy diet, and daily exercise. I -GAINED- weight and 2 pant sizes (which I haven't been able to loose since.) 3. What kind of 'eating right' is good for me if I gained weight by eating the healthy food I was prescribed by a nurse and dietitian alongside of daily exercise? * I am in a very low income situation. Because of my legs, finding work that I am -able- to do, is difficult. I can go to Wal-Mart and buy one of those personal sized Totino's Pizza for 1.00 and that's 1 meal for me. It's actually a bit more than 1 meal as I can't eat a whole thing, even though they aren't very big. 4. What kind of health food can I buy with 1.00 that doesn't taste horrible and will make a full meal where I don't feel hungry afterwards or shortly after eating. I only eat two meals a day because money's so tight. * I have some genetic dental problems that I am working on getting fixed. It's slow going because each dentist's visit is 75.00 due day of service. I cannot eat anything that's A) Too hard. B) Too cold C) Too sweet. D) Too hot. E) Too chewy. 5. What kind of health food can I buy (a full meal) for 1.00 that isn't any of the above? (Though obviously, health food isn't going to be sweet.) These are NOT excuses. These are simple -facts- about -me- personally. I don't care if you think that I'm lazy or if you think that I'm fat, or if you think that I'm disgusting. I don't care. My being fat doesn't cost the government a dime because I'm not on any government founded insurance or healthcare. Everything I pay, I pay out of my pocket-- Money me or my spouse has earned that the government is happily taxing out the rear. So... No one can say my 'fatness' is costing anyone anything because it isn't. I don't sit around and eat Twinkies all day and do nothing. I -can't- eat sweets or chips even because of my mouth. I had the first bowl of ice cream in over six months just a couple of days ago and that's all I had. 1 bowl-- and it hurt my mouth so bad, it'll be well over another six months before I even consider attempting anything sweet again. Sure, I don't eat healthy, but I'm happy to hear answers to the questions I posted above and if someone can tell me a varied selection of full meals I can buy for 1.00, which is about all my limited budget allows for, and a proven work-out routine that you DON'T have to have legs to do... I'll try it gladly! ~~ Just one more 'fatty' as we were called by someone in a previous post... a post that -really- should be reported. It's offensive, narrow minded, unintelligent, and childish.
phatE 7 years
at the risk of sounding horrible.. she's not healthy and acts like being at an unhealthy weight should be celebrated.
sevendayrain 7 years
I really like this video. I love how she can be comfortable with herself and be open about it.:)
hellosdkitty 7 years
I'm eat healthily and work out. I'm not perfect or a size zero and never claimed to be. I also never claimed that media portrayals of women are healthy either. http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/9805/28/obesity/ Read.
chancleta 7 years
OMG I love this video She hit several nails on the head 1. Some people work out, eat right, and are still considered "fat" 2. Genetics are a hard thing to beat. I heart this video and you'll have to excuse me now because I have to send it to everyone I know!
Community-Manager 7 years
Hey Everyone, Please make sure when you comment that you respect other people's opinions! We do not tolerate attacks on other users and please, feel free to report any comments that are offensive. Thanks team
Butrfly4404 7 years
You must be perfect, right? The perfect little size six that "AMERICA" expects from their women? You must have absolutely no flaws at all to be able to criticize others so harshly. You judge anyone that isn't perfect like you with such hate - how do you get through your life!? How do you have ANY friends at all!? Or wait, are they all perfect too? We may have MORE obese people now, but there have been heavy people since the beginning of TIME - and they had to walk everywhere, didn't have TV or processed food and yet, STILL big. In fact, before media became an obsession the body of a woman was considered MORE beautiful post-child - with the big hips and flabby stomach. I will continue to do what is healthy for me to make myself healthy. Yet, I will never fit into that coveted size "ZERO" or even probably a six. And I really don't care. I believe people who spend their lives judging and criticising other people will end their own being judged and criticised harder than you can ever imagine.
hellosdkitty 7 years
Beyond Stellar, Again all I hear are excuses. If you're arguments hold true why are American's more overweight than people of other nations??? They have different genes than other people in other parts of the world? We have a lifestyle in the US that permits us to be overweight. We don't walk anywhere, watch too much tv and eat tons of processed food. I don't think nature ever intended that. Why is being honest and calling someone fat when they are malicious? Should I not say someone is blonde or has brown eyes too? Is that malicous? It is what it is. We all have eyes and can see, I just happen to say what everyone else is thinking.
beyondstellar 7 years
hellosdkitty- wow. I don't mean to be rude, but people have different bodies, metabolisms, and process food differently. Some people (not necessarily anorexic, because that is a mental disorder, but def very skinny people) can not eat enough to gain weight. It is the same for overweight people. You can eat well and exercise but your body simply does not want to give up the fat stores that it is saving for a future famine (this is how people's bodies were designed-to retain fat in case food isnt available in the future), it is a difficult process to fight nature and genes. It is pretty insensitive of you to say that overweight people don't love their bodies, you obviously haven't been there, so how bout you keep those malicious/judgemental comments to yourself!
hellosdkitty 7 years
Fat people don't love their bodies or themselves.The same way anorexics don't. And for the all the fat people who work and watch what they eat but are still fat you sound about as rediculous as the anorexic models who say they eat fried twinkies for breakfast and can't gain weight. People need to stop whining and take responsibility for their actions.
Butrfly4404 7 years
I'm only reading a couple other comments, so sorry if I'm reiterating someone else's point, but if you actually watched the whole thing (I know it's long), she says "I exercise, I eat healthy - I'm STILL fat." She does everything to take care of herself, all she's saying is for people to come out of the shell they live in and live for living not for pleasing other people with their looks. It's funny how other people try to tell someone else how they "should" be. Take a look in the mirror and see what you can fix about yourself. Like I tell my ten-year-old: "Worry about YOU. They can take care of themselves." Maybe a little work on your negativity and judgemental attitudes for a few of you.
candy-apple 7 years
exactly, sperle 25, a negativity that we just witnessed in so many of the above postings.. its sad, really.
sperle-25 7 years
my first thought is that she doesnt even look "fat". maybe overweight, but not "fat". my second thought is that most of the posts here focused on health or being happy with yourself. the biggest message that i personally got out of the video is that society treats "fat" people like crap and its not fair. yes, its unhealthy to be "fat", just like its unhealthy to smoke cigarettes. but you dont see the kind of abuse towards smokers that "fat" people get. i think the video was her way of helping herself and other "fat" people deal with the negativity received from all angles of society.
smarler 7 years
I think she was spot-on. The best way to be thin? Have two thin parents, and four thin grand parents. We're not all destined to be waifs.
jennifer76 7 years
Totally agree with asco. It kind of bothers me that everyone is so obsessed with whether or not this woman is healthy. What's with the fascism? Of course everybody SHOULD be healthy. Everybody SHOULD be perfect in every way. But, who the heck is? Health is important to me, and I gather to a lot of you in this thread. But, I don't feel its my mission to impose that priority on everyone else. Kind of reminds me of the overzealous religious types who are so concerned with everybody else's spiritual health...
natalieb1 7 years
Did anyone here notice the part in the video where she says you SHOULD exercise no matter what? I think that most people got completely turned off by the concept and tuned out most of the video. She spent a significant amount of time saying that you should NOT sit around and eat junk food and that you should exercise no matter what size you are. Speaking as a large woman myself, I know that part of the anxiety of exercising when you are fat is the idea that people are staring (and they DO) at the fat girl running. It can be very intimidating and I think that Joy has a point. Sometimes fat becomes a prison in which you think, you are not allowed or deserve to treat yourself right. And just as anorexia is a disease, so is compulsive over eating. Just a thought.
eaker 7 years
I thought this video had a very positive message. I also am a little appalled that so many people assume that if you're fat it's because you eat twinkies all day and don't do exercise. I am physically repulsed by the amount of food my roommate eats, and her relative inactivity . . . she's four dress sizes smaller than me. Conversely I'm in the gym five days a week and watch my calories closely, I'm still overweight. While I do think that people--not just fat people, all people--need to be more cognizant of their food intake, I also think it's very unfair to make such unflattering generalizations about a person's lifestyle based on their size.
leeluvfashion 7 years
It's great that she feels wonderful in her own skin. However you can still love yourself like that while being at a healthy weight. Why not give yourself the gift of a longer lifespan? Because living a long life is not easy, you have to work for it; eat right and work out. I'm not saying she should be a model size but I am saying it would be in her interest to reconsider staying at a high weight.
asco00 7 years
I think people are missing the point here. This woman stated clearly that she works out and plays sports. The point is clear that people need to have a different outlook on their weight. I'm 175 lbs and 5'4", when you look at those two numbers I am fat, actually not just fat obese. I'm cool with it, do you want to know why. I have 26% body fat. Look it up. I work out daily, I eat right but I don't "diet". Is there room for improvement absolutely. The point of this woman's rant in my opinion is that we don't need to justify who we are and we aren't defined by our weight. I have a girlfriend who has lost 100 lbs, she is a size 8, and she still thinks she's fat. She still thinks that she doesn't look good in a bathing suit. She still thinks she has pounds to lose. It's all about how you look at things. I think the "attack" on this woman's attitude is a reflection of her exact point.
sparklestar 7 years
I like what she has to say.. but with my 18.5% body fat I'm still going to outlive her by a good few years. >.< As other users have said - exercising and maintaining a healthy diet is a far healthier attitude than just accepting you are "fat". I'm sorry but I /do/ judge people who are fat. Simply because I've been there myself and had to work damned hard to get the body which I have now. If I can do it, why can't the overweight woman I work with who stuffs her face with chocolate and has dessert every dinner?
pixelhaze 7 years
As many people have mentioned, I think her attitude is great and very infectious, BUT. . .. it is also true that health needs to be a concern . . . for all this girl can be happy with herself, how can she be happy about being unhealthy? I mean being bigger is no big deal, but if she has health problems, they need to be addressed, not explained away. I mean if a severely anorexic girl made the same rant telling people to get off her back because she is happy with the way she is, could any of you get behind that? I've seen a number of comments supporting the video, saying that they are bigger and still love their bodies . . . but then they say their weight and it's a perfectly healthy number. Just because you're not a size 0, it doesn't mean you're fat! Fat is about unhealthy - overweight and obese are clinical terms, they weren't just made up to torture people about their self images. So saying it's ok to be overweight to me is like saying it's ok to ignore that melanoma, if you're happy with your tan screw everyone. This girl said she was frequently over a size 20. I don't know if that counts as obese or morbidly obese or anything, but things need to be put in perspective. In life there's not just "size zero vs everyone else" I'm a relatively small person but have a hard time fitting into a four because of my curves, but Im not beating myself up about it. I was recently diagnosed with high cholesterol and am changing my diet - not because I want to lose weight but because of my health! People seem to lose sight of the fact that health is not a choice and it can become a life and death matter. This distinction needs to be always in our minds, I think.
XDeexDeeX 7 years
I think it's great that she's doing this. It really shows who she is and she probably helped a lot of people. ButI have to say that you still you to be heathly She does do sports and eats normally so I wouldn't say she's FAT.
nessabum 7 years
she has guts to do that. and her basic, underlying theme is really something a lot of girls i know struggle with.
tchotchke 7 years
i really admire her.
prettycitylights 7 years
mwmsjuly19-- Anorexia disgusts you. I don't understand. How can a mental disease disgust you? That would be like saying clinical Depression disgusts you or more so, another addiction, like drug addiction disgusts you... Do you not realize that these things are in fact addictions and often times are gut wretchingly hard to break?
ley 7 years
Okay, I think everyone should be confident about who they are regardless of how much the scale tells you but that doesn't mean that you should not do anything about it. Bottom line is - HEALTH - whether your underweight or overweight. Being a size 00 doesn't always equal to health, I personally could be a healthy weight but chug down alchohol, junk food, etc. It took time to put on those pounds, it'll take time to shed it off. - obviously nobody put on 100 pounds extra overnight.Also I don't think our ancestors had a problem being overweight or obese. The thing is people give up too soon - its about being consistent. People aren't educated enough and make alot of mistakes in terms of health and fitness like people tend to overtrain when they're on the gym thinking it'll burn more calories when it doesn't your putting too much stress on the body. nobody should be working out more than 45 minutes period. People eat too little calories which makes the body hold on to bodyfat bec. the body thinks it on starvation mode. *whew* Im ranting.. anyway I think life is what you make it, you can either change it for the better or stay on the same track.
piraterie 7 years
I appreciate her message - I wish I could have taken it to heart when I was in high school and so miserable about my weight. I'm much more comfortable with myself now, but it's still really hard sometimes to be happy with myself when there is such a stigma attached to being fat. I know that I exercise right and eat right and I feel healthy (and according to my doctor, am in excellent health). But it's definitely true - and I think some of the responses here have proven it - that people see someone overweight and think that they're lazy or eating junk or sitting on the couch all day. And that might be true, but it might not. And there are certainly a lot of skinny people who are lazy and eat junk and sit on the couch all day - that describe's everyone on my mum's side of the family. I take after my father's side where everyone is pretty big; they don't pay a lot of attention to their health, and it makes me glad that I do. I can feel like a whale comparing my size 12 to all the size 2s in my mum's family, but I know I would probably be a size 20-something like my father's family if I didn't take care of myself like I do. Anyway, I have issues with some of her statistics, but I like her overall message. Being happy and being overweight are not mutually exclusive. You can be attractive and dress well and be fat. You can flirt with the boy and be fat. You can be successful and be fat. Being fat shouldn't define your personality, and the pursuit of not being fat shouldn't define your life. You shouldn't deny yourself the occasional bowl of ice cream just because you're fat. That's the issue she's talking about, which is quite apart from health issues. I think people should try to be healthy whatever their weight, and I think losing weight is a good idea for a lot of people (I'm trying to do so right now), but that doesn't mean you shouldn't be happy at whatever weight you are currently at, and that's a good message.
clepiau 7 years
I agree with all the posters who pointed out that being fat and happy does NOT equal healthy, and it annoys me when people pretend like being obese is not a problem, but I think there is such a ridiculous hypocrisy in this country about weight. Smoking is just as unhealthy and a strain on our healthcare system, but I get bitched out whenever I mention that I'm opposed to smoking in public places. Apparently that's un-PC and I should keep such thoughts to myself even though second hand smoke kills innocent bystanders (which obesity does not). Also, the modern standard of beauty (all those size zeros in Hollywood, for example) is not exactly the picture of health. Being an anorexic, cigarette-smoking, coke-snorting, promiscuous slut is decidedly unhealthy, but many of those people are considered the height of cool and are showered with adoration every day on sites like this one. If we are going to be a society that focuses on health, let's not pick on one particular group of unhealthy people who don't look as pretty in the latest fashions while giving attractive unhealthy people a pass. You know what I'm sayin'?
RedPointyHeels 7 years
You can be heavy and still eat well and exercise. You can't fight genes! I love this video, but I have also been overweight, so maybe it is all about perspective.
JessBear 7 years
It bugs me how whenever someone tries to make a point like this, they always get slammed for not talking more about health and diets. Weight isn't black and white, there's more than one issue involved, and this woman made it pretty clear what she was focussing on- the self esteem issues that come with being overweight. No one can lose 100 pounds overnight, and, what, even if these people are conscious of their health issues, they should spend every minute of every day focused soley on how to lose that weight RIGHT NOW? She knows the health issues involved. That wasn't her POINT. Can't she have ten minutes to, exactly as the title implied, rant on another aspect of the issue? It wouldn't make sense if she tried to encompass every single aspect of fatness into a You Tube rant. She's focussing on one point, and doing it very well. It doesn't mean she's undermining weight management or diet. It doesn't mean she doesn't know they exist. It just means that she assumed she had the freedom, just like skinny people, to focus on a specific topic-self esteem in overweight people- for a brief period of time. And of course there are ways of eating healthy on a budget, no one's denying that, but the fact remains that America is the only country in the world where the wealthy are skinny and the poor fat.
JessNess 7 years
I think she is giving out a great message. I also noticed that he does not look as "fat" as she said her weight is that is probably because she is tall. Tall people definitely carry fat differently. Im 5'10 and currently at 165lbs. I use to weigh 180 and definitely "looked" fat. I know Im healthier at my current weight but anybody could easily look at me and call me fat even though Im technically in a healthy range for my height. I have huge hips and I know I will NEVER be a size 2 let a lone probably a size 6. Its all about knowing your body (type and height) and being healthy. Healthy can come in bigger sizes
emmalou1 7 years
I applaud her attitude and bold approach to life. While there may be much that's controversial in the obesity and healthy weight debate going on here, I'll just add one comment, she's right about this: Happiness is one size fits all.
Miss-Aretha 7 years
The message I like: don't deprive yourself of the joys of life just because you're fat. Have fun. Go on vacation. Talk to the guy. The other thing I like is that it raises awareness about how there need to be more size options at the clothing stores! The thing that drives me insane? Her (completely inaccurate) theory that the vast majority of people who lose weight gain it all back (and then some). This is simply not true and, in this video, it could serve as an excuse for anyone watching it NOT to even bother working out and eating right because, hey, that weight will just come on back anyway.
esk4 7 years
The definition of fat is drab personality, hunched posture, no confidence, overall lack of vitality due to poor nutrition and lack of physicla activity.... well that could also describe the obnoxiously tall super skinny computer gettk in my tenth grade english class... drab personality check, hunched posture check, no confidence check, overall lack of vitality due to poor nutrition and lack of physical activity double check... so I don't see how you're definition really applies to fat per se... like I said before I'm a size ten, I'm 5'8 3/4 I lift weights 2 times a week and do atleast an hour of cardio 3 days a week, and I eat right... but I will probobly never be any skinnier than I am now, and yes I will always LOOK a bit fat next to my 5'9 sister who wears a 00, but thats exactly the thing I would LOOK fat even though I am not because its a perseption of SIZE, and has nothing to do with my body compisition or fitness leval... you can't look at a fat person and just assume they don't hit the gym as much as you do, or don't think about what they put in their mouths, or worry about their health... I'm sure they do some people are just built bigger.
Royal_Red 7 years
I am not convinced at all, being fat is just not right, it is as wrong as anorexia. The definition of fat is drab personality, hunched posture, no confidence, overall lack of vitality due to poor nutrition and lack of physicla activity. A person can be bigger, yet still be fit and at a healthy weight. If a person is fat, chances are they sit around, watch tv, eat packaged, processed food! They refuse to learn more about nutrition and exercise properly. They think that they are eating right or exercising right, but they don't know in fact they are NOT doing it right. Humans are not supposed to be fat if they live a lifestyle that is right. Humans are not created to eat processed food and sit around. If a person lives a lifestyle that is active and eats healthfully, chances are that they will not be fat. The lifestyle you choose to live is an option, but not an expensive option. It is the willpower to choose a right lifestyle and learn truly what is right.
Caramel_07 7 years
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candy-apple 7 years
esk4 - i couldn't agree more! i actually wanted to comment earlier but couldn't find the right way to say what i meant, without offending anyone.. well, reading some of the posts above, maybe i shouldn't have cared so much! some of these comments were so sizeist and ignorant i was actually stunned. i know many people who are thin (as in size 0, 2, 4) and are far less healthy than i am. some of them are naturally skinny- they eat three times as much as i do and never gain a pound. if one of you judgemental posters would see them on the street, you would applaud them for their slim bodies and fitted lululemon gear. when i was a freshman, i weighed 163lbs for 5'6, a size 12. something that among many of you would be labeled "overweight", or "prone to health problems". i was on the intramurals swim team, volleyball team, and ate healthy balanced meals as prescribed by the coaches. even though i'm not in my most optimal shape, i'm pretty sure i can outswim many of the girls here in butterfly and breaststroke. i am attractive, "hot" even, if my boyfriend is to be believed. i have a jlo butt that i've learned not to be ashamed of. i've never had any trouble attracting men. still, when it's among other girls, i always somehow manage to be classified as "large" and even, sometimes, "fat". maybe that's why all my best friends are guys. there's far less sillyness over something as arbitrary as a number.
amiemoos 7 years
I think her message is great! It should apply to all women; yes we should all strive for self-improvement but there's nothing wrong with being happy as you are aswell!
esk4 7 years
I liked the rant... because some people even if they work out may never be skinny... I'm 5'8 3/4 a size ten, I was a size 12, and that was when I was playing D1 volleyball and working out for 3 hours+ a day everyday and training... Some people are just always going to be bigger, I was probobly in better shape than alot of people I knew, I was eating right and exercising, but I wasn't thin, and my doctor was still telling me I was over weight... I don't think she was saying it doesn't matter if you are obease, I don't think she was condoning that people be unhealthy, she was saying that just because you are fat doesn't mean you should use it as an excuse to stop your life. she was saying don't let it stand in the way of actually having fun, or working out or whatever... Its just some of us no matter how hard we work out, or train, or eat right will always be a bit bigger than other people... and maybe her's was an extream case, but as a size ten I know that some people are like omg you're in the double didgets! And its the same the other way, my sister is 5'9 and weighs 104 she's a twig, but a twig naturally, and eats like a horse and works out, but people look at her like she's an anorexic freak, when I assure you she is not. the focus in this country should be on health not SIZE!!! you can't tell a persons body composition by looking at them. You can't just assume people have eating disorders just because they are fat or skinny! you can NOT tell how "healthy" a person is just by looking at them!
bugness 7 years
I agree Pink_Lipstick. I like this community for the most part, but some topics just turn a lot of people into jerks without them knowing it. I think it's interesting how people that are not being spoken to in this video are the ones that are complaining. Until you're in those shoes, don't throw stones. Just because you find it easy and obvious to make healthy food choices doesn't mean everyone can have it that easy. Offended by disgusting fat people? Get over it. Be happy with yourself and leave everyone else alone. Don't think that you can be some superhero and save all the unhealthy people.
Pink_Lipstick 7 years
First of all, I think it may have been a mistake to post this video because commentors could get into really heated arguments over it. Some people don't know how to express their opinions without insulting others. That being said, I totally agree that you should love your body. It isn't fair that women are practically expected to be size 2s in order to be sexy. I don't believe you should diet and exericise to lose weight. I believe you should do it to be healthy and happy and if you have a good routine, then your body will be the shape it's supposed to be. That might not be "thin" to some standards and you need to learn to love your body the way it is. Confidence should always come first. If you don't have confidence, it won't matter what size you are.
mwmsjuly19 7 years
I grew up poor --welfare, public housing poor-- and I still knew the difference between healthy food and junk food, and I knew what laziness looked like. Being poor does not mean you have to buy Twinkies instead of apples or that you have to sit on your behind instead of walking around the block or to a park. Obesity disgusts me. So does anorexia. Being overweight is one thing -- as long as you are truly healthy, per an MD and not because you think you feel good and are happy to be fat. I just quit a job where my two bosses were so fat that their buttons popped and they always sweated and couldn't catch their breath. One was so big, the crotch of his pants tore open. Nasty. Good for Joy Nash that she's happy. If she's healthy, even better. But I am not down with thinking it's OK to be a fatty. Sorry, sister. I am not down with that at all...
Swangeese 7 years
----- Positive attitude doesn't cure diabetes, blood pressure, cholosterol, heart problems, etc. ---- And losing weight isn't a magic cure all for those conditions either. My dad is a healthy weight and yet still has to take meds for high blood pressure and cholesterol. And you don't hear people often discuss the things that come with weight loss like hair loss, hormone swings, and chafing loose skin. I've lost almost 60 pounds and healthwise it's been a mixed bag. ----- This is about dying young, and costing the entire country more money in health care ----- Scapegoating the obese is simply a way to deflect attention from how broken the health care system is in this country. Women cost more in healthcare than men because of the gyno. And there are smokers, people who abuse drugs, people who have had sex with more than one partner, people who don't wear helmets/seatbelts, diabetics and others with expensive conditions,etc...All of the people above are costly as well. If we were to be adjusted for everything, most of us would be uninsured. A person will lose weight when he or she is ready. You can't shame a person into slimming down. Not to mention that there are many different reasons why people are overweight and that they aren't always solved by simply eating less and moving more. And it's also possible to be fit and fat (which is a message promoted in the video). I personally love the video. I suppose you'll never get it unless you've been really overweight. And the scene in the store is all too painfully familiar. I'm thin, but still wear a size 16 jean. Shopping for pants or anything to fit my hips can be challenging since most places only go up to a 14.
fridaporvida 7 years
i sorta despise this woman's message.i hate her attitude and condescending tone throughout the video. she makes it seem as if there is only the super skinny, almost impossible to acheive body type and the fat body type. and that fat girls can't possibly be expected to reach that fashion industry 'ideal,' so why try? awful outlook. i hate that she straight up discourages fat girls to lose weight and just be accepting of the way they are. nothing wrong with being happy, obviously, but that doesn't mean weight loss should be put on the backburner like that. excuses against eating healthy like rachelattack has made are just that...excuses. there was no fast food during say...the depression. both my grandmothers are probably rolling in their graves over this discussion and this woman's video. both my parents grew up in poor households, but healthy food was always provided and both my parents have over 5 siblings each. it still all boils down to laziness and giving in to what's easy. i don't have kids [thank the gods] and i am still lazy all the time and make excuses about not having enough time to go to the grocery store for the healthy stuff. i know how it is. but at least own up to the laziness, and get yourself to the market every once in a while! your wallet and waisteline will thank you. oh, and the healthy stuff isn't always expensive stuff...unless the price of produce and wheat bread and sandwich meats and eggs have greatly increased. [yeah, that's pretty much the extent of my grocery food diet...i can't cook :)] want more arguments against poor time restraint AND cost excuses? ok. look: i work for a shelter and am able to shop for a weeks amount of food for up to SEVEN families [approx 30 people] in less than an hour with only one helper. oh, and i usually spend about 300 dollars, usually less for TWO full carts of food and cleaning products. learn to shop wisely. learn your grocery store, so shopping is faster. and don't buy the fatty, sugary junk [usually more costly] and you're set. as far as exercise. scrub your bathtub more often, buy little 5lb weights at target [please stay away from walmart!!] and park further away at the grocery store. i dunno. everylittlebitcounts! i can't stand excuses. healthy living is possible. even here in america where there's a delicious crunchwrap calling my name everyday on my way home from work. know when to indulge, know when you're being lazy, and be happy.
Posh-Vee 7 years
She had a lot of valid points ( about loving yourself , not waiting to lose weight to enjoy life) but she wasn't as optimistic about losing weight or even promoting it.
alisnot 7 years
i couldn't have said it better than rachelattack. passing judgment on others would be harder if we put ourselves in their shoes. sure, there are lazy people out there with no willpower, but i think the obese and/or unhealthy majority are who she is describing, exactly.
sunsophia 7 years
She's hilarious! Humourous, witty, and straight to the point! Just fun!
rachelattack 7 years
I think people who attribute fat only to being lazy or selfish need to consider something else: socio-economic standards. Being thin and fit is -let's face it- can be more expensive. Sure, walking is free, one COULD just eat less, but hang on a second. My mom is FAT. Growing up with one income and three girls (and nothin' else from the divorce settlement), she worked CONSTANTLY. Convenience store night shifts while she went to work to get 2 more degrees during the day. Certainly, she could have made some whole wheat bread turkey breast sandwiches for lunch, some fresh fruit, yogurt, some high-protein snacks like nuts for snacking on. Or, she could buy a couple CHEAP, FAST food meals and pack in her daily caloric intake. Did she feel or look good? No. But when you only have time to work, what gym are you going to go to? When are you going to take that 45 minute hike? And, in what footwear, because you don't want to harm your most important asset by not having the appropriate (often costly) shoes? This could go on and on! It's not as black and white as some are making it out to be, eating healthy (read: eating less, but also getting appropriate nutrients so we don't end up with some other god-awful disease from eating nothing but ramen noodles) is more expensive and time consuming, AND even if we don't fork out for a gym membership, an hour a day in physical activity could cut into an extra hour of work that helps pay the bills. Or that could just be an hour of sleep. Sometimes the free time it takes up is a luxury. Just thought it was worth mentioning.
truffy 7 years
I love it. She's brilliant. Some previous comments have focused on health and how it may be counter-productive to be comfortable in a dangerous weight, but this woman probably spent a large portion of her life unhappy, and there's no point in any life like that. I think even if people, for whatever physical disposition, are going to live slightly less long, they should be happy and experiencing life. If she became obsessed with losing weight it might consume her life and make her miserable. (I know this is lame, but I think fat is a state of mind. Someone grumpy, tired, quiet, and drab, with 10 pounds extra on them, are "fat". This woman is so outspoken and vivacious, that I found it hard to see her as a "fat person" no matter how much she was driving it home.)
katiedid0985 7 years
I like the rant. Yes I know being overweight or obese isn't healthy, but hating yourself because you can't get your body to conform to the ideal of beauty (ie size 2 or 0 or 00 like shown here) isn't healthy either. I wish I could be as comfortable with myself as she is and I weigh a lot less than she does! My entire life has been a struggle to be thin enough to feel like I'm acceptable, and of course that never works. Maybe someday weight won't be such an issue and we won't feel bad about ourselves anymore because we don't look like that impossibly tiny starlet (who is probably doing unhealthy things to be that thin). A girl can dream...
inertia 7 years
I liked the rant. I wish some of my friends would watch it and take it to heart, because I'm tired of seeing these women I care about beat themselves up over their size and use it as an excuse to avoid going after what could be wonderful opportunities for them. Why shouldn't they apply for that great job or talk to that good-looking guy who's been watching them? All they see in themselves is "fat," and all I see is that they're pretty, intelligent, interesting women who I love hanging out with. I want them to attack life like this woman. But I'm thin, and don't dare send them a link to this video for fear they'll never get past the implied insult to hear the real message.
maggietcat 7 years
I am going to agree with both of the above feedbacks, plus add to them. I don't want to sound nasty towards another person, but obese people need to wake up fast. This is not about looking good, or having a positive self image. This is about dying young, and costing the entire country more money in health care and loss of power in our work force. All of you scale tippers, read this week's Time magazine article on appetite. And to everyone out there trying to become a healthier eater...remember, if it doesn't look like it used to be alive (ie. a real grain, nut, fruit, vegetable, egg, or flesh of some kind) think before you put it in your mouth.
Karla686 7 years
i can't agree more with AMP
AMP 7 years
Ita nice that she has this healthy attitude, but she's kidding herself if she thinks her weight is healthy. And that is the true fact. Souls, self-confidence, etc. or not... Fact is: Unhealthy is unhealthy. No matter how happy or unhappy you are. No matter where you place on the scale or where you place the blame. Being happy in that skin youre in does not mean youre healthy. Positive attitude doesn't cure diabetes, blood pressure, cholosterol, heart problems, etc.
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(the statement "there's no such thing as a free lunch" is a snappy, but slightly under-nuanced version of this idea)
Where people seem to go wrong and create political cleavages seems to be on their understanding of "payment".
A very wise friend of mine said something last night that I liked very much:
"Are you a giver or a taker? I'm a trader."
In any exchange between two people, the total wealth of the people increases. To take a very counter-intuitive example, to make my point, imagine a bread line in the USSR. The people waiting on line to get bread have gained, because they will eat tonight. But so too has the CPUSSR. Clearly, because if it wasn't benefiting them in some way, they wouldn't offer the bread. What they gain is a situation where there is not mass starvation.
When I give my homeless crackhead friend a couple of dollars, I am gaining something from it too. (but in these two examples, we begin to see a complexity appear in the situation, don't we?)
The one major exception to this pattern seems to be what I call "real crime"; that is to say when violence and deception are applied.
In these cases, total wealth is not increased, even though one of the parties may have gained vastly, they were trading against an ultimate value... either someone's physical integrity or their mental integrity.
In the case of the USSR, for instance, what they have taken from the people by violence, far outweighs what they give them in bread. In order to keep holding on to their position, giving away some bread is a cheap deal.
And so, maybe we can see why oligopolies are harmful, and why central banking has demolished the economy despite "growing" it.
Because what has been lost is far greater than what has been gained, but what is lost cannot be measured precisely.
In the case of banking, they pump money into the economy, claiming to be growing it, but what are they growing?
As we've seen before, much of "wealth" is subjective and immeasurable. The old situation where one bought food from a person who had agency and could decide for themselves whether to give Old Lady Cranston a discount on her sack of flour has been replaced by one where we are, with ever growing frequency, human machines, interacting with other human machines. Our sense of agency only comes through consumption, and even then we are arrayed with a pushbutton world where actual pondering and consideration of choice becomes flipping channels of very similar inanity. This sense of alienation has been observed over and over again, but it's not necessarily a function of trade, or even the separation of capital and labor, although that gets closer to the issue. People would (and do) pay a price to gain their agency back, if they are able to.
Bankers give money on the basis of money. The other forms of payment become attenuated, in fact almost impossible. The clerk at the supermarket is a n-th order agent of someone who is merely a manager for dispersed owners who have no idea what is going on except the price of their stock.
And our other social institutions have been forced, by violence masked by deception, to fit this system instead of being allowed to naturally undermine it, as they must if they were spontaneously generated, rather than engineered for an ulterior purpose. Mostly in the name of a fraudulent "growth". Real economic growth comes from transformation of a less desirable pattern to a more desirable one. Trade and production are variations of the same thing.
In our abstracted, dimensionally restricted system, what is gained in measurable cash balances and numbers of units moved is more than lost in other forms of payment.
But this all points at the larger pattern of real crime. Capital tends naturally to accumulate sporadically, by a law of diminishing returns... after that millionth or so apple sold, apples become pretty cheap. And what people desire most, what will turn a profit, is always shifting, markets are (somewhat) efficient. Without any interference, anything that turns a profit today, becomes glutted tomorrow, and the profits go down to the average return on time. And then keep in mind, that wealth is not only the seen, the measurable, but the unseen... clean water, trees, healthy living conditions, nice neighbors are all things people would pay a price for, if they could. (and do, when they can)
What is mostly going on in this pattern of alienation and impoverishment is destruction of capital for the sake of those who already own capital, to make it more scarce, not more abundant. When Keynes decried the shelves full of goods unsold, he was crying out for your impoverishment for the sake of the existing owners of capital. (the bank pumping and relief programs are a way to "patch" that capital destruction so as to prevent mass starvation, it is our equivalent of the USSR's bread lines... it is the price paid for the reproduction of labor)
This is the real reason for War, Regulation, Central Banking, all of it. Even land conservation and real-estate laws. It is to restrict the free movement of capital or to destroy it outright. On the other side, labor is encouraged to reproduce endlessly through various religions and other ideological cousins. And through inflation, taxes and various "protective" regulations, they are inhibited in the accumulation of their own capital.
It is not trade or capital accumulation which has created poverty in the midst of wealth, and environmental destruction, but very well disguised destruction of certain forms of trade or capital accumulation, through means of violence and deception. Take away that violence and deception, and in time, things would right themselves. How do we do that? Well, that's a good question. :) It's worth pondering.


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Australian owned, Pelle Leathers offers a collection of quality upholstery leathers to the commercial/contract and high end residential, national and international markets. Andrew Spanswick founded Pelle Leathers in 2002 with 10 years prior experience in the upholstery leather market. With a dedicated network of sales staff and agents throughout Australia Pelle Leathers set the benchmark for service and quality.
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I was super excited when i came across this recipe then i started making it and started to think this is going to be horrible it smelled gross to me and i just didnt think it would be good. now not only do i like it but my kids do to!! costly but great i used regular onions that i cooked in butter instead of scallions.
Chicken Scallopine with Morels and Spring Vegetables
Becky Luigart-Stayner; Lydia DeGaris-Pursell
Morels have a spongy texture that's perfect for soaking up the sherry-cream sauce. After rehydrating, be sure to rinse the mushrooms well to remove any grit or dirt.
Yield: 4 servings
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Amount per serving
- Calories: 310
- Calories from fat: 30%
- Fat: 10.5g
- Saturated fat: 5.7g
- Monounsaturated fat: 3.1g
- Polyunsaturated fat: 0.8g
- Protein: 33g
- Carbohydrate: 15.4g
- Fiber: 3.9g
- Cholesterol: 94mg
- Iron: 4.1mg
- Sodium: 504mg
- Calcium: 52mg
- 1 cup fat-free, less-sodium chicken broth
- 1/2 cup dry sherry
- 1 ounce dried morels
- 4 (4-ounce) skinless, boneless chicken breast halves
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon Porcini Powder
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 cup (1-inch) sliced asparagus
- 1 cup fresh or frozen petite green peas, thawed
- 1/4 cup whipping cream
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh chives
- 1 teaspoon chopped fresh tarragon
- Bring chicken broth and sherry to a boil in a small saucepan; add morels. Remove from heat; cover and let stand for 30 minutes. Drain mushrooms in a cheesecloth-lined sieve over a bowl, reserving soaking liquid. Rinse mushrooms; drain.
- Place each chicken breast half between 2 sheets of heavy-duty plastic wrap; pound to 1/4-inch thickness using a meat mallet or rolling pin. Sprinkle chicken with salt and pepper. Combine flour and Porcini Powder in a shallow dish. Dredge chicken in flour mixture. Melt butter in large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add chicken; cook 1 minute on each side or until golden. Remove from pan.
- Add mushroom soaking liquid and asparagus to pan; cook until liquid is reduced to 1/4 cup (about 5 minutes). Add chicken, peas, and remaining ingredients to pan; cook 5 minutes or until sauce thickens.
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Today, I was making out with this guy I had been seeing, and things start to get pretty steamy. As he paused for a second, I thought he was going to get up and find a condom, but instead he turns to me and says, "I think I'm going to go to the library." I wasn't invited. FML
Today, while doing my waitress job, I finished serving a British family, and instead of a tip, they left a note that said "Use your own accent, American trash!" I was born in and lived in Britain for 12 years. FML
Today, marks the second week straight without sex. Being a newlywed isn't as great as I thought. FML
Today, the guy I like called me, and my mom picked up. Just as it happened I slipped and fell in the shower and was sitting there moaning. The guy asked if he could speak to me, but my mom heard me and answered "Well, she is masturbating right now, but I'll tell her to call you later!". FML
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Today, I asked my husband if he thought I was pretty. He replied "compared to what?" He was serious. FML
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15 June 2012 11:47
The 1000cc sports bike class has ripped in two and there are now two distinct camps. In the 'extreme' corner there's the super-powerful, electronically-enhanced superbikes, like the Aprilia RSV4, BMW S1000RR, Ducati Panigale and Kawasaki ZX-10R. Over in the other is the new Fireblade, GSX-R1000 and R1.
These much-loved Japanese machines are the old guard and have all been worthy MCN superbike group test winners over the last 11 years.
They're still blindingly fast, with handling to exceed the talents of most and are cheaper and gruntier than their top-spec European rivals, but they're now left behind in the race to set the ultimate lap.
But let's face it, lap times don't really matter in the real world and actually, has the Honda, Suzuki and Yamaha not changed much because they don't need to? Is it actually cooler to go for a Blade than a BMW?
We took the R1, Fireblade and GSX-R1000 on a road test to the Nurburgring along with a Kawasaki Z1000SX wild card.
What do you think; do we really need superbikes with more electronics than Apollo 11 or are simple superbikes like the Fireblade the way to go on the road? Let us know in the comments below.
We've put together three real world superbikes currently for sale on mcnbikesforsale.com which we think are excellent bikes on the road.
2005 Suzuki GSX-R1000, £4,500
Suzuki went straight to the top of the superbike tree in 2005 and stayed there, pretty much ever since. The reasons for the Suzuki GSX-R1000's dominance are simple. Sublime, lithe ergonomics and handling, radical styling and full-on usable power. So good BMW used it as a benchmark for the S1000RR.
2009 Yamaha R1, £6,595
The 2009 R1 changed the game with it's MotoGP-derived cross-plane crankshaft. Thanks to the clever engine design it grunts off corners like a V-twin, while giving superb feel through the rear tyre, and howls along straights like the mad, bad in-line-four it really is.
2009 Honda Fireblade, £7,000
The 2009 Fireblade was the first ABS-equipped superbike. The system isn't intrusive and stays in the background until you really need it, as good ABS systems should. The magic of the Honda Fireblade is its grunt and searing acceleration - the power is easy to use all the way through the rev-range and the throttle response perfect.
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An Aprilia RSV for 6 years, recently took it for a major service and was lent an Aprilia RSV4 APRC for the weekend. Hated it, got back on my old bike and it felt fantastic, the V4 is a track bike, for the road the old twin has stacks of low down grunt and is spacious enough to ride all day two up with a protective fairing.
I think they've gone too far, too extreme as the roads are too heavily policed/potholed to use thepower of these new miniscule pocket rockets.
13 July 2012 22:41
Fireblade for me
I picked up my 2001 'blade last weekend for just £2600 and I haven't stopped smiling since. Full Honda service history, 2 owners and low mileage - i just couldnt turn it down for that money. I'm sure that any of the new bikes, even the 600's, would probably be quicker on paper but its more than enough power for the congested roads near me.
18 June 2012 14:24
2000 R6 is best
New ones are too bogged down with tech that weighs it down and is just one more thing to break. The old R6 is as resillient as it gets. My dad has had his running for at least 12 years now (bought new). All these electronics just take attention away from the fact that they are just both ...bikes... And thats all we want. We don't need something to tell us when we are losing grip in our back tire , we dont want something to tell you when your right front indicator bulb is going to blow. Sure it is nice. But is it really needed?
18 June 2012 13:02
May be better in the UK due to graduated licensing, but here in the US I would not buy a used sport-bike unless thoroughly gone over by a mechanic and/or provided with some warranty by a dealer. Too many teen-aged "squids" that ride extended wheelies, do burn-outs, etc, that will definitely decrease the longevity of the bike and/or require expensive repairs prematurely.
17 June 2012 01:29
I love my GSXR1000L0 and have ridden a mates S1000RR and TBH I never needed the traction control or ABS. That's because I'm not riding on the limit on the roads though, I find modern tyres to be amazing that the bike just doesn't lose any traction how I ride. I'm a very confident rider but I can understand that some may want the security of these TC & ABS systems so it's definitely a good thing that they are available. Others may want to use the bike on track or ride faster, to the point where TC is required.
For me, it would be best to offer it as an optional extra, just like BMW have, so those that need or want it can pay the extra bit for it and those that don't get the bike a bit cheaper. I've nothing against any of the systems and think progress is good but the cost of bikes keeps going up so if they could be kept lower by making some things options then it can only be good.
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Oxford Stadium campaigners celebrate conservation area ruling
Updated 8:12pm Wednesday 9th April 2014 in News
OXFORD Stadium has been given more protection against developers as councillors voted through plans to list it as a conservation area.
The greyhound and speedway stadium in Sandy Lane was designated a conservation area at Oxford City Council's City Executive Board in Oxford Town Hall.
A government planning inspector will hear evidence on Galliard Homes' plans to bulldoze the stadium to build 220 homes from September 9.
But campaigners hope the move will make it harder for the developers to get permission to knock it down.
Save Oxford Stadium campaigner David Martin, 49, of Peat Moors, Headington, said: "I am very happy but it is what we expected after all the support we have been given in the last 16 months.
Councillor Colin Cook said: "I am really proud we have designated this site as a conservation area.
"I think the community value of this site is enormous."
The stadium was closed in December 2012. Oxford City Council rejected Galliard's plans in January, but the developer launched an appeal to the planning inspectorate.
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8:27pm Wed 9 Apr 14
Dilligaf2010 says...
.......there's always uproar when a local business closes, but if the locals had kept said businesses profitable, they wouldn't close.
9:51pm Wed 9 Apr 14
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10:08pm Wed 9 Apr 14
rodtrotter says...
10:40pm Wed 9 Apr 14
Miss Cynical says...
I look forward to the debates about alternative locations where these homes should be built.
And I look forward to returning to the stadium. Oh, wait,it's shut.
11:05pm Wed 9 Apr 14
rodtrotter says...
Miss Cynical wrote:There are 100s of homes for sale in Oxford at the moment so do we actually need anymore? They won't exactly be giving them away - will they? Build a small dwelling in your back garden like many others....
Phew. Thank Goodness we've just made it even harder to provide more homes which the city so desperately needs. We couldn't go putting homes on a brownfield site surrounded by housing...
I look forward to the debates about alternative locations where these homes should be built.
And I look forward to returning to the stadium. Oh, wait,it's shut.
12:19am Thu 10 Apr 14
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2:07am Thu 10 Apr 14
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9:01am Thu 10 Apr 14
Andrew:Oxford says...
bishbosh wrote:The interest on the loan is offset against other income. As long as the debt is serviceable - then it isn't really an issue.
Affordable housing is a myth...the only reason a massive property developer like Galliard want to build is to make a healthy profit, Is it worth losing a source of local entertainment and all those jobs/ No. Galliard/GRA/Risk Capital owe 50 million to NAMA why should that have an adverse effect on Oxford
NAMA has just sold off a large section of UK debt to Cerberus Capital Management. Land in Oxford is essentially a AAA asset and fantastic security for a loan that has historically, over a 10 year period, only ever increased in value.
No matter how people may protest otherwise, "doing nothing" with land in Oxford is an effective strategy. There is plenty of evidence - Oxford colleges have done it for at least 700 years.,
10:24am Thu 10 Apr 14
Miss Cynical says...
HomerSimpsonDoh wrote:I don't think my post actually said anything like that, actually. The stadium is not a functioning leisure centre - it is closed. It is an uninspiring brownfield site which is currently not being used for any useful purpose. I haven't seen many kids playing footie on it recently.
According to Miss Cynical we should flatten all leisure places and build on them. So no cinemas, bowling, football, cricket, play areas!!! Doh
On another note, I really don't see why people have such a problem with others making money. Maybe they did want to sell it for housing. Maybe they had a rubbish time running it as a stadium and having worked hard, they thought they would sell their land and earn a few quid. I don't see anything wrong with that - that's capitalism and everyone who has a job is part of the same system.
This ideological idea of victory is nonsense. Even if the developers are stopped, then what on Earth is going to happen to that site? You cannot make someone run a greyhound stadium if they don't want to! They're going to appeal, and most likely, they will win.
As for no shortage of houses, the Council is required by the Government to build hundreds more. If they don't go here, they will go somewhere else, and then we will have the NIMBY brigade to deal with.
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For the business aviation market, CMC Electronics has introduced a compact satcom antenna the company calls SatLite. As the name implies, this antenna was designed with size and weight in mind.
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CMC has delivered approximately 2,000 Inmarsat satcom antenna systems to more than 100 airline, OEM, military, corporate and VIP customers, the company said.
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Day 28 – The worst sequel to a game
I don't know if it is THE worst sequel to a game… But it is definitely a fair one…
Alone in the Dark, originally known as Alone in the Dark: Near Death Investigation and informally known as Alone in the Dark 5 to avoid naming confusion, is the fifth installment of the survival horror video game series under the same name created by Atari. The game was released in 2008 and despite receiving mixed to negative reviews, Alone in the Dark was a financial success.
Gamespot: 6.5
Day 24 – Your favourite gaming genre
Survival Horror!!!!
It is a subgenre of action-adventure video games inspired by horror fiction. These games make the player vulnerable by providing them with less ammunition and fewer heavy weapons than other action games. Although combat can be a part of the gameplay, the player is in various ways made to feel less powerful than in typical action games, because of limited ammunition, health, speed, or other limitations. The player is also challenged to find items that unlock the path to new areas, and solve puzzles at certain locations. Games make use of strong horror themes, and the player is often challenged to navigate dark maze-like environments, and react to unexpected attacks from enemies.
It has great games/ series, such as:
- Fatal Frame
- Silent Hill
- Resident Evil
- Alone in the Dark
- Alan Wake
- Left 4 Dead
- Rule of Rose
- Siren
- Condemned
- Dead Space
- etc.
Day 19 – Your least favourite character in a video game
When the Tank comes… Well, it is always hell QQ
Left 4 Dead (abbreviated as L4D) is a cooperative first-person shooter video game. Set during the aftermath of an apocalyptic pandemic, the game pits its four protagonists—dubbed the "Survivors"—against hordes of the infected. There are four game modes: a single-player mode in which allied characters are controlled by AI; a four-player, co-op campaign mode; an eight-player online versus mode; and a four-player survival mode. In all modes, an artificial intelligence (AI), dubbed the "Director", controls level pacing and item placements, in an attempt to create a dynamic experience and increase replay value.
Gamespot: 8.5
Day 04 – Your favourite video game series
I was in doubt about Mario, specifically Mario Kart, but I don't if that is considered a series, so I chose Fatal Frame.
Fatal Frame is a survival horror video game series consisting of four installments and a spin-off. The first and second games in the series were released for the PlayStation 2 and the Xbox, the third game is only available for the PlayStation 2, and the fourth game has been released for the Wii. The series' plot deals with ghosts, exorcism, and dark Shinto rituals.
Created by Tecmo, Fatal Frame is one of the most well received survival horror games to date. It was a unique entry in the genre, as the player explores a mansion and takes photographs of ghosts in order to defeat them. The Fatal Frame series has since gained a reputation as one of the most distinctive in the genre, with the first game in the series credited as one of the best-written survival horror games ever made, by UGO Networks.
Gamespot: 7.1
Day 18 - Film that is your guilty pleasure
I just LOVE the game (the series as a whole) and the movie is a pretty good adaptation, of course it turned out to be a trashy film, but it's great! =D
Silent Hill is a 2006 movie based on the Silent Hill series of survival horror video games created by Konami. The film, particularly its emotional, religious and aesthetic content as well as its creature design, includes elements from Silent Hill, Silent Hill 2 and 3. The film also includes some music, such as "Wounded Warsong", from Silent Hill 4: The Room. A game in the series released after the film, Silent Hill Homecoming, incorporates some elements of the film.
The film follows a mother, Rose, who takes her troubled adopted daughter, Sharon, to Silent Hill, the town the girl cries out for while sleepwalking. After being unconscious in a car crash outside the town, Rose awakens and is shocked to find Sharon missing and the town engulfed in an alternate reality of fog and falling ash. While searching for Sharon, she faces reality shifts and monsters while uncovering her daughter's connection to the town's past.
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Produced by: Tommy Farese
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Closest Relative: Nothing
GENRE: Hard Rock
Volume 2 is pretty similar to Volume 3. That damn drum sound is till clapping away over the tracks, totally annoying the crapper out of the listener. The backing band is basically the same. Dominic Esposito and Tommy Farese handle most of the vocals. Al Pitrelli is on guitars on three tracks.
Why the guys thought they would hand out punishment to just Guns N Roses tracks I am unsure of, but punish them they have.
The guys are all fairly faithful to the original versions, taken from the GNR catalogue. But mainly they pale in sound comparison, considering the money poured into the Gunner's albums' verses what's been put into these. It all might have benefited from a better mix though.
Welcome To The Jungle has a little of that Axel rasp in Esposito's vocals. But the production is a third rate once compared to the awesome original.
Paradise City has a totally different guitar sound and the drums are they again, plus the backing vocals make the song sound like a gothic tribute. Farese sounds OK until he tries the Axel scream.
Sweet Child O Mine is OK, but it has to be a cover, give my Sheryl Crow any day. She has a better drum sound too!!
It's So Easy is bogged down by a poor mix. Too much going on in the song and none of it clearly.
Patience sounds like a Rod Stewart tribute, not a GNR one...nice guitar from Pitrelli, but the vocals of Farese are very average.
Out To Get Me & Nightrain - same as It's So Easy.
Mr Brownstone has Farese doing his best psychedelic Axel impersonation. Funny, GNR were never really that psychedelic!?
My Michelle is one of my favourite Gunner tracks. A very cool song. On this album Esposito is singing and as bad as it is, I quite like it. Thrashy, punky, loose and totally un-produced.
A cover of a band's cover. Not a good idea. For that reason alone, Knocking On Heaven's Door should be missed, but it's an OK version. Nothing really to do with Guns N Roses.
You Could Be Mine was going to be hard, because there is now way the production team here was ever going to come close to the original. But it ain't that bad, one of the better tracks on the album.
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Albany-- Michael O'Keefe faces two federal charges of making, distributing, and selling child pornography on the Internet.
A former math teacher at Lee County High School and Darton College, O'Keefe stood before a Judge Wednesday morning for the first time.
Educators at the school he worked for are shocked by the federal charges. O'Keefe, 37, taught at Lee County High from August 2000 to July 2003. The feds say he was producing child porn and putting it on web sites during that same period.
A federal grand jury indicted him last summer, telling him to stop teaching while facing these charges. Lee County High educators say they were surprised today to learn the reason he resigned last July.
O'Keefe's attorney, Pete Donaldson, admits the child porn was on his computer but says O'Keefe is not guilty. "There are some bad things on his computer, but they are not things that he put there," said Donaldson. "We've been working with some people in California, and I think we will be able to establish that we have a hacker problem here. And it's a problem everyone needs to be afraid of."
"We tried to work with the government, show them how certain things got on his computer, and we've just got a disagreement," said Donaldson.
Michael O'Keefe could face up to 25 years in prison and a fine of a half million dollars if found guilty. He was freed on a $15,000 bond, but ordered to stay off the Internet. His trial is expected to be held in two to four months.
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Bertrand Goldberg - "Bertrand Goldberg: Architecture of Invention," at the Art Institute of Chicago from Sept. 17 through Jan. 15, 2012, is the first comprehensive retrospective of the architect's work. Bertrand Goldberg's iconic Marina City apartment towers, in Chicago, shown here around 1965, feature prominently in the exhibition. Hedrich Blessing Archive, courtesy of the eChicago History Museum.
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