I find it completely preposterous that she is held up as some martyr for real (i.e. obese) women or is classed as some kind of fashion icon.
Am I missing something? I'm all for non-comformist individuality (I have a celtic armband tattoo and every 'The Wire' DVD which is testament to that fact) but this is just some kind of Clerkenwellian pantomime. One decent song - that's IT.
Who classes her as a role model exactly? Because from where i'm standing, take away the sparkly frock, fishnets (!) and make up and what are you left with? A Jamie Oliver documentary that's what.
And her wearing those fishnets just reminds me of...
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This massively obese cake enthusiast and fried food mountain makes me feel physically sick.
People need to stop lying about how she's this "inspirational" figure and tell the horrible fat fucker to stop eating tons of shit and go on a fucking DIET YOU FAT CUNT.
seriously though, would she look much better slim?
Good point. No.
christ, juliet lewis has really let herself go.
Looks at pics *vomits violently* contemplates suicide.
Fuck she's disgusting
Agreed: the songs are shit.
But you all miss the point, no one is celebrating her obesity. She is applauded for her audacity. Which in my opinion is needed in this seemingly beige pop landscape.
How dare a fat woman try to be a pop star, eh? OUTRAGEOUS.
But she'll never pull a bloke looking like that.
Fuck that, she's repulsive
I don't think anyone has stated that her musical talent is in anyway affected by her size, I just think it's a bit of a stretch to describe her as a sex symbol.
Historical precedent is on my side here !
Young Elvis = Talented sex symbol
Old Elvis = Talented fat, bloated, sweaty, stinking advert to stay away from deep fried peanut butter sandwiches
re: Black Flag says...
"But she'll never pull a bloke looking like that."
Bro, she likes the ladies. Trust me as an American...plenty of them like the whole "fat ugly dike" thing.
Chewing her crusty tights gusset would make a great bushtucker trial. Bet she STINKS (like really fat people tend to do).
*Ahem*
Fat People who shower regularly don't stink.
(Speaking as a Fat American.)
She looks like a South Park Kelly Osbourne. If any of you have managed not to lose your breakfast, read this http://www.nme.com/news/gossip/48617
Well thanks for sharing that with me Phil......you cruel heartless wanker
I was particularly drawn to her quote stating
"I started my period about four minutes ago and I was like 'Oh no!'" before putting them on "bleed watch" and saying "If you see period stains you let me know!"
I'm off to hang myself. Fuck you all x
Re: BigPhil's posting - That really should be 'they tried to make me go to fat camp and I said no, no, no'.
Fat is the last taboo. It's now acceptable to be black, gay, a woman... It's not fine to be fat. She's making a point of that. She never used to be so big.
Oh, and can you remove that arrow-key navigation please? Or at least only allow it to work when the images have focus? I seem to spend most of my time having to re-write out tosh because the fucking arrow-keys have yet again worked their magic.
Can I just point out that being black, a woman or gay will not result in you dying young or (more importantly) ending up in hospital costing me a shit load of money in taxes because you couldn't stop shoveling deep fried cakes into your bloated pig-like face.
On another point I totally agree with you re the navigation thing, it is highly fucking annoying !
Hello,
sorry - that was brought in to make it easier! What do you mean when the images have focus?
I'm not sure what "in focus" means but the change you have brought in that means that i can scroll through the pics using the cursor also means that if I make a mistake when typing and I use the cursor keys to try and correct this then I lose the comment I'm typing and I start scrolling through the pics....this does not happen when replying to a comment only when posting a new one on an article with pictures.
Try it out, you'll see what I mean.
Usually when you implement that kind of "helpful" functionality, you put a few caveats in to make sure it isn't more annoying that useful. In the javascript code in your pages you have (and I'm paraphrasing here):
if e.keyCode == 37 or 39 then do the redirectThis effectively "listens" for those particular keys to get pressed (37 and 39, which are left and right arrow keys, respectively) then redirects the page either to the previous or the next pictures. What you need to do is add another level of questioning in there - make sure the use isn't typing a comment in at the time (you can find this out by seeing where the focus is) and only redirect them if they aren't currently inside the comments box.
You can use a bif of JQuery to do this pretty easy. Cheque's in the post, yeah?
Beth Ditto is a fucking munter. End of. She has an interesting sense of style (note: I didn't say GOOD), but the fact remains that she looks like a pile of blubbery arses stacked up on top of each other.
"After what should have been the final song of the set, Ditto remained on stage for an extra 15 minutes as she sung Queen's 'We Are The Champions' with drummer Hannah Billie, sung along to Fleetwood Mac's 'The Chain' (now playing over the PA) and dived into the crowd."
What the FUCK??? Who fucking caught this whale when she belly-flopped onto the punters? I hope they put about 3 tons of sawdust down and reinforced the floor.
"Before finally departing the stage, Ditto gave an inspirational speech telling the audience to "demand respect". She preceded this by saying "My only regret is my whole life, I am Beth 'The Gossip' Ditto"."
"Demand respect". Holy Jesus. What the fuck. I demand respect. Demand. Kiss my hairy peachy arse, you fucking EARN the respect, you orange-minged, bleeding fannied, over-precious fat bastard. We regret you too....
All that road kill meat really gathers round the thighs.
Beth's alright. It takes balls to look the way she does and not give a fuck. She's earning her money doing what she does. She ain't leeching off anyone or flogging fuckeries to kiddies. Rather Beth Ditto than that vampire Victoria Beckham.
Her wearing those fishnets reminds ME of...
I think one of those is my cock :(