Scales that tweet your weight to the world :(

poppy · **Posted:** Sun Jan 10, 2010 6:11 am

http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/3218543/Tweet-yourself-thin-with-web-scales[/url]

Amethyst · **Posted:** Sun Jan 10, 2010 6:37 am

What a load of bullocks.

delenda · **Joined:** Fri Dec 25, 2009 9:00 pm **Posts:** 6147

Better than this:

An ad campaign paid for by a private gym in the Netherlands. Basically a scale is attached to the bus-stop bench and the weight of the person sitting down is displayed to everyone within eye-shot in big red numbers.

Public fat shaming!

An anonymous person recovered from anorexia wrote to the gym about the impact unknowingly sitting on it would have had. "It would have given me not only another opportunity to cultivate my dangerous preoccupation with my weight, but a little more confirmation that the rest of society completely supported (hell, demanded) it"

Recovery Warrior · **Joined:** Sat Jul 21, 2007 12:02 am **Posts:** 6421

Holy Shi*! that's messed up!!!!!!

FadingHippie · **Joined:** Mon Oct 09, 2006 1:38 pm **Posts:** 5278

that is jacked

Kizzi · **Joined:** Fri Nov 27, 2009 7:42 pm **Posts:** 2473

My fiance used to work as a Sales Manager for Fitness First. I'm DISGUSTED.

minzoel · **Joined:** Sat Feb 28, 2009 11:05 am **Posts:** 530

how awfully terrible and disgusting!

Olivia · **Posted:** Sun Jan 10, 2010 5:43 pm

oh....

I feel a bit sick. That's crap.

delenda · **Joined:** Fri Dec 25, 2009 9:00 pm **Posts:** 6147

FadingHippie wrote:

that is jacked

As in stolen? I'm confused.

Yes, it is just awful. I can't even imagine the horror I would feel if I unknowingly sat down on that bench.

epic · **Posted:** Sun Jan 10, 2010 6:29 pm

I can't believe it. Has this caused public outrage?

Amethyst · **Posted:** Sun Jan 10, 2010 9:35 pm

That last one's absolutely disgusting. No one in their right mind has the right to put scales on a bus stop! No-one should have to be tormented or judged just because they want to fucking sit down!!

ArielleLee · **Posted:** Sun Jan 10, 2010 10:42 pm

FadingHippie · **Joined:** Mon Oct 09, 2006 1:38 pm **Posts:** 5278

delenda wrote:

FadingHippie wrote:

that is jacked

As in stolen? I'm confused.

jacked as in jacked up... similar to screwed up... used in phrases (in the U.S.) such as "you have jacked up teeth"

delenda · **Joined:** Fri Dec 25, 2009 9:00 pm **Posts:** 6147

Oh, I've never heard that phrase before. It's not an idiomatic phrase around here.

I imagine this would make people pretty uncomfortable... if there wasn't a petition to have the scale removed, I'm sure no one was sitting on it!

FadingHippie · **Joined:** Mon Oct 09, 2006 1:38 pm **Posts:** 5278

delenda wrote:

Oh, I've never heard that phrase before. It's not an idiomatic phrase around here.

I imagine this would make people pretty uncomfortable... if there wasn't a petition to have the scale removed, I'm sure no one was sitting on it!

I always find that so interesting... what phrases are popular and where...

like mon petit chou... aka my little cabbage... which is a term of endearment in some parts of France

Scales that tweet your weight to the world :(

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