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Kilkrazy wrote: The Advertising Standards Authority enforces standards in advertising.
If you are worried about the government enforcing body image, do not move to Japan, where every year you will be scolded by doctors for being too fat if your waist measurement is higher than the government appointed level.
If I were Japan, my doctor would have to immediately commit seppuku.
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
Kilkrazy wrote: The Advertising Standards Authority enforces standards in advertising.
If you are worried about the government enforcing body image, do not move to Japan, where every year you will be scolded by doctors for being too fat if your waist measurement is higher than the government appointed level.
If I were Japan, my doctor would have to immediately commit seppuku.
Doubt it. He/She more likely hand you the sterilize Tanto and to help you out using a skin ink pen to indicate where to start and the direction of cut
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Mandorallen turned back toward the insolently sneering baron. 'My Lord,' The great knight said distantly, 'I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offence against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fur which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornment for a human face. Is it possibly that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat?' - Mimbrate Knight Protector Mandorallen.
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Kilkrazy wrote: The Advertising Standards Authority enforces standards in advertising.
If you are worried about the government enforcing body image, do not move to Japan, where every year you will be scolded by doctors for being too fat if your waist measurement is higher than the government appointed level.
If I were Japan, my doctor would have to immediately commit seppuku.
Fret not : you'd have been harpooned when you waddled on-shore
The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
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Dreadclaw69 wrote: This is the image for all those who have not yet seen it;
Spoiler:
Why was this ad not tolerated, but United Colors of Benetton's ads involving people dying from AIDS, people suffering from anorexia, clothes riddles with bullet holes and blood from the Bosnian War, and child soldiers were?
that pick isnt dangerously underweight at all...
shes just fit, there is plenty of muscle on those bones, just no fat.
very far from anorexic, and very far from being a problem
Kilkrazy wrote: The Advertising Standards Authority enforces standards in advertising.
If you are worried about the government enforcing body image, do not move to Japan, where every year you will be scolded by doctors for being too fat if your waist measurement is higher than the government appointed level.
What, they have compulsory annual weight checks? Can you not just tell them to bugger off and refuse to visit the doctors?
No. It is done at work. You get a load of free medical checks done at the same time, so it balances out.
Kilkrazy wrote: The Advertising Standards Authority enforces standards in advertising.
If you are worried about the government enforcing body image, do not move to Japan, where every year you will be scolded by doctors for being too fat if your waist measurement is higher than the government appointed level.
If I were Japan, my doctor would have to immediately commit seppuku.
Doubt it. He/She more likely hand you the sterilize Tanto and to help you out using a skin ink pen to indicate where to start and the direction of cut
Kilkrazy wrote: The Advertising Standards Authority enforces standards in advertising.
If you are worried about the government enforcing body image, do not move to Japan, where every year you will be scolded by doctors for being too fat if your waist measurement is higher than the government appointed level.
If I were Japan, my doctor would have to immediately commit seppuku.
Fret not : you'd have been harpooned when you waddled on-shore
This is true. Alternatively, I'm sure the vet for the newly arrived "bipedal walking grizzly bear with bad breath and mange" would understand I'm just putting on fat for the winter.
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-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
I'm not good with this. I'm fed up of the government lecturing me on eating too much sugar, or too much fat, or not exercising enough, or deciding what I can or can't listen too etc etc
Things are getting that bad, Ouze, that it's getting to the stage where I expect to sitting by the telephone one day, waiting for the government's permission to go to the toilet and do a you know what
Edit: Ouze, don't worry about making comments or passing judegement on the UK, we're always sticking our noses in the USA's business.
You should visit the UK the first chance you get - see some good castles and proper battlefields. None of that Lexington and Concord nonsense
I think government permission to use the toilet is very sensible. Elvis died on the toilet, you don't wan't to die, do you?
Kilkrazy wrote: The Advertising Standards Authority enforces standards in advertising.
If you are worried about the government enforcing body image, do not move to Japan, where every year you will be scolded by doctors for being too fat if your waist measurement is higher than the government appointed level.
If I were Japan, my doctor would have to immediately commit seppuku.
Doubt it. He/She more likely hand you the sterilize Tanto and to help you out using a skin ink pen to indicate where to start and the direction of cut
Kilkrazy wrote: The Advertising Standards Authority enforces standards in advertising.
If you are worried about the government enforcing body image, do not move to Japan, where every year you will be scolded by doctors for being too fat if your waist measurement is higher than the government appointed level.
If I were Japan, my doctor would have to immediately commit seppuku.
Fret not : you'd have been harpooned when you waddled on-shore
This is true. Alternatively, I'm sure the vet for the newly arrived "bipedal walking grizzly bear with bad breath and mange" would understand I'm just putting on fat for the winter.
Dreadclaw69 wrote: This is the image for all those who have not yet seen it;
Spoiler:
Why was this ad not tolerated, but United Colors of Benetton's ads involving people dying from AIDS, people suffering from anorexia, clothes riddles with bullet holes and blood from the Bosnian War, and child soldiers were?
that pick isnt dangerously underweight at all...
shes just fit, there is plenty of muscle on those bones, just no fat.
very far from anorexic, and very far from being a problem
Yeah, not really. The number of people who have a body type that allows for "thigh gap" when they're merely "just fit" is pretty small, for the vast majority of women to achieve that "look" they have to be dangerously underweight.
"Your society's broken, so who should we blame? Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No, lets blame the people with no power and no money and those immigrants who don't even have the vote. Yea, it must be their fething fault." - Iain M Banks
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"The language of modern British politics is meant to sound benign. But words do not mean what they seem to mean. 'Reform' actually means 'cut' or 'end'. 'Flexibility' really means 'exploit'. 'Prudence' really means 'don't invest'. And 'efficient'? That means whatever you want it to mean, usually 'cut'. All really mean 'keep wages low for the masses, taxes low for the rich, profits high for the corporations, and accept the decline in public services and amenities this will cause'." - Robin McAlpine from Common Weal
It takes very, very little to have an advert banned in the UK. I believe even a small number of complaints about something will make the Advertising Standards Agency look at something.
Dreadclaw69 wrote: This is the image for all those who have not yet seen it;
Spoiler:
Why was this ad not tolerated, but United Colors of Benetton's ads involving people dying from AIDS, people suffering from anorexia, clothes riddles with bullet holes and blood from the Bosnian War, and child soldiers were?
that pick isnt dangerously underweight at all...
shes just fit, there is plenty of muscle on those bones, just no fat.
very far from anorexic, and very far from being a problem
Yeah, not really. The number of people who have a body type that allows for "thigh gap" when they're merely "just fit" is pretty small, for the vast majority of women to achieve that "look" they have to be dangerously underweight.
Indeed. I can say from plenty of first hand experience that the picture in question is outright disturbing.
I get some blood elf
Spoiler:
vibes, actually. It's that bad.
I have no problems with the government stepping in here.
I'm sorry, but in accordance with the Advertising Standards Agency rules your image will have to be removed as the AT-AT walkers are all displaying a significant thigh gap that may have a pernicious influence on other AT-ATs, and AT-STs.
Huh, guess its only body shaming when they are overweight and unattractive. SJWs being hypocrites? Nah. Just stay offended forever and complain when your feelings are hurt.
Rick Priestley said it best:
Bryan always said that if the studio ever had to mix with the manufacturing and sales part of the business it would destroy the studio. And I have to say – he wasn’t wrong there! The modern studio isn’t a studio in the same way; it isn’t a collection of artists and creatives sharing ideas and driving each other on. It’s become the promotions department of a toy company – things move on!
Ravenous D wrote: Huh, guess its only body shaming when they are overweight and unattractive. SJWs being hypocrites? Nah. Just stay offended forever and complain when your feelings are hurt.
I know this is likely futile, given you jumped straight to "ermagerd SJW amirite guise?!", but lets give it a go anyway. This is nothing to do with "body shaming". It is not about judgement, about tying someone's body-type to their worth as a person. There is a demonstrable link between the standards of beauty promoted by the fashion and clothing industry and the behaviour and attitudes of people among the general populace, and that link is primarily achieved through advertising. When the standards of beauty being promoted are ones which require the vast majority of women to become dangerously unhealthy to attain, that is a problem. We're not talking about girls going on the Special K diet here, we're talking about young girls literally(and I mean that in the dictionary sense of the word) starving themselves to the point it has long-term health consequences, and those are the ones that achieve their goal; far more attempt to attain a figure with "thigh gap" and end up stuck in a cycle of depression-driven binging and purging because it's simply not biologically possible for them to achieve. People like to pretend advertising doesn't work and such people are just "weak" because acknowledging that reality forces them to confront the idea that perhaps their behaviour is not entirely their own choice, but that's willful ignorance.
Consider it this way; lets say the standards of beauty valued by the industry were to change, that it were to become fashionable to be monstrously, morbidly obese; a body type just as "unnatural" for most women as being so thin as to have a "thigh gap", and which also brings with it serious health problems. Regardless of what you personally find attractive, regardless of whether there are a small minority of people out there who naturally tend towards that body type and could achieve it without any serious impact on their health, would it not be irresponsible for the industry to promote the attainment of that level of morbid obesity in full knowledge that doing so would cause health problems, physical and mental, for large numbers of women? And if they are not willing to be responsible members of society, is it not justifiable to compel them to, just as we do to corporations in many other ways?
People can talk blether on about "government overreach" and SJW's all they like, it's comfortable and easy to dismiss the issue. Spend some time volunteering with mental health charities and try to keep whinging about SJW's after you've seen a girl of 20 who has to wear dentures and has diminished kidney function because she starved herself so severely as a teen as a result of the pressure to conform to that unattainable standard that her teeth fell out and she ended up in hospital being fed intravenously.
"Your society's broken, so who should we blame? Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No, lets blame the people with no power and no money and those immigrants who don't even have the vote. Yea, it must be their fething fault." - Iain M Banks
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"The language of modern British politics is meant to sound benign. But words do not mean what they seem to mean. 'Reform' actually means 'cut' or 'end'. 'Flexibility' really means 'exploit'. 'Prudence' really means 'don't invest'. And 'efficient'? That means whatever you want it to mean, usually 'cut'. All really mean 'keep wages low for the masses, taxes low for the rich, profits high for the corporations, and accept the decline in public services and amenities this will cause'." - Robin McAlpine from Common Weal
You guys have some weird standards if that picture is so disturbing to you. It's a relatively skinny set of hips, but looks well within 'normal' to me. Go google "really skinny model" and you can find some creepy stuff. This is not that bad.
I mean, what's the solution here? There are a bunch of you talking about how this is a problem, but I'm not seeing a whole lot of suggestions on what we should do. There are always going to be prettier people out there.
The solution is clearly for in depth investigation of the issue.
Just saying. Its for SCIENCE!
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
djones520 wrote: Barely average? Her thighs are about the size of my waist.
I'm not saying she's fat, but she does not have an "average" build.
According to the internet she's a US dress size 12, which is the equivalent of UK dress size 14 or 16. In the UK size 14-16 is the average dress size for women. From a quick google search apparently the average dress size in the US is 10-14, so she's average there, too.
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