Europe Court: Obesity Can Be a Disability

[EVT1]

Rush is an Uglo-American and he found a job   What's the saying- he has a face for radio?

He's the Gerber baby decades later after a drug and fried chicken addiction.

[weltschmerz]

Jan 6, 2015 20:02:40 GMT -5 AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP said:

Jan 6, 2015 11:43:07 GMT -5 djAdvocate said:

part of what many businesses are selling is beauty (in the conventional sense)- they just don't want to admit it.

Once again, Rush beat me to the punch:

www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2011/08/29/uglo_american_affirmative_action

RUSH: Many of you in Kansas City and in Sacramento will remember that one of the things I did as a highly trained broadcast specialist that established me as a great thinker was a commentary entitled, "Ban the ugly." I first did this on radio station KMBZ, to much consternation, and then ultimate praise when people figured it out. Ban the ugly from the streets in the daytime so as to speed up the economic recovery. And people said, "Well, how do you do that?" Well, the first thing we try is make it voluntary, the ugly know who they are, and if that doesn't work, then we gotta take more drastic steps. I revived and modified it when I later went to Sacramento, and then it showed up in various elements of this program starting in 1988, revisions of the 35 Undeniable Truths of Life.

The term "Uglo-American" created by me and used on this program, cutting edge of societal evolution. There was a story in the New York Times over the weekend: Should Ugly People Get Affirmative Action? I kid you not. There was an economist, Daniel Hamermesh, author of a new book, Beauty Pays: Why Attractive People Are More Successful, said in the New York Times, "Beauty is as much an issue for men as for women. While extensive research shows that women's looks have bigger impacts in the market for mates, another large group of studies demonstrates that men's looks have bigger impacts on the job. Why this disparate treatment of looks in so many areas of life? It's a matter of simple prejudice.

"A more radical solution may be needed: why not offer legal protections to the ugly, as we do with racial, ethnic and religious minorities, women and handicapped individuals?"

I'm not kidding you, this was in the New York Times on Sunday, affirmative action for ugly people. "Ugliness could be protected generally in the United States by small extensions of the Americans With Disabilities Act. Ugly people could be allowed to seek help from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and other agencies in overcoming the effects of discrimination. We could even have affirmative-action programs for the ugly." New York Times in 2011. I, El Rushbo, first broached this subject in Kansas City in 1984. I kid you not, folks. Affirmative action for Uglo-Americans. Now, they don't deal with defining the ugly. I had the courage to do that. They don't make it voluntary.

www.nytimes.com/2011/08/28/opinion/sunday/ugly-you-may-have-a-case.html?_r=0

ROTFLMAO!!! Is he willing to stay indoors? He's pretty ugly, himself.

[AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP]

I was very fortunate to learn at an early age that looks have very little to do with anything. Being self-assured- confident- is the single most attractive personality trait, and anyone can develop this.

[Virgil Showlion]

So I'm supposed to transform my workplace into a fat-friendly environment with double-wide doors, extra-wide office chairs, and elevators every 20 meters so that my least productive employee can't sue me?

I can't see how a ruling like this would possibly discourage me from hiring a hyperobese individual in the first place.

This would be a bad idea even if the proceeds of the lawsuit funded a mandatory weight loss program for the plaintiff.

[AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP]

Jan 7, 2015 8:16:57 GMT -5 Virgil Showlion said:

So I'm supposed to transform my workplace into a fat-friendly environment with double-wide doors, extra-wide office chairs, and elevators every 20 meters so that my least productive employee can't sue me?

I can't see how a ruling like this would possibly discourage me from hiring a hyperobese individual in the first place.

This would be a bad idea even if the proceeds of the lawsuit funded a mandatory weight loss program for the plaintiff.

SHHHHhhhhh!!! Don't give the batshit crazy left any ideas.

[Tennesseer]

Jan 7, 2015 7:49:22 GMT -5 AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP said:

I was very fortunate to learn at an early age that looks have very little to do with anything. Being self-assured- confident- is the single most attractive personality trait, and anyone can develop this.

Just one of many quotes from someone who learned at an early age that looks have very little to do with anything.

Mary "Baby Fat" Landrieu SILENT@ 70% Of XL Pipeline Hearings

[weltschmerz]

Jan 7, 2015 7:49:22 GMT -5 AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP said:

I was very fortunate to learn at an early age that looks have very little to do with anything. Being self-assured- confident- is the single most attractive personality trait, and anyone can develop this.

Self-assured is a lot different than arrogant.

Arrogant people are not attractive.

[AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP]

Jan 7, 2015 13:43:21 GMT -5 weltschmerz said:

Jan 7, 2015 7:49:22 GMT -5 AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP said:

I was very fortunate to learn at an early age that looks have very little to do with anything. Being self-assured- confident- is the single most attractive personality trait, and anyone can develop this.

Self-assured is a lot different than arrogant.

Arrogant people are not attractive.

People with low self-esteem often confuse confidence with arrogance.  

[weltschmerz]

Jan 7, 2015 15:52:00 GMT -5 AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP said:

Jan 7, 2015 13:43:21 GMT -5 weltschmerz said:

Self-assured is a lot different than arrogant.

Arrogant people are not attractive.

People with low self-esteem often confuse confidence with arrogance.  

People with a misplaced sense of self-esteem think they're confident, while being arrogant.

[AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP]

Jan 7, 2015 16:09:20 GMT -5 weltschmerz said:

Jan 7, 2015 15:52:00 GMT -5 AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP said:

People with low self-esteem often confuse confidence with arrogance.  

People with a misplaced sense of self-esteem think they're confident, while being arrogant.

Yeah? Well people with a low self esteem who think confident people have a misplaced sense of self-esteem think they're confident, while being arrogant are stinky poopy babies. 

[Virgil Showlion]

Jan 7, 2015 17:30:07 GMT -5 AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP said:

Jan 7, 2015 16:09:20 GMT -5 weltschmerz said:

People with a misplaced sense of self-esteem think they're confident, while being arrogant.

Yeah? Well people with a low self esteem who think confident people have a misplaced sense of self-esteem think they're confident, while being arrogant are stinky poopy babies. 

People with low esteem look at people with misplaced high self esteem and confidently esteem them to be arrogantly competent, but misplace their confidence in the esteem of people whose arrogant self esteem is both confident and esteemed to be misplaced.

There. I took your guys' argument to its logical conclusion.

[AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP]

Jan 7, 2015 18:33:59 GMT -5 Virgil Showlion said:

Jan 7, 2015 17:30:07 GMT -5 AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP said:

Yeah? Well people with a low self esteem who think confident people have a misplaced sense of self-esteem think they're confident, while being arrogant are stinky poopy babies. 

People with low esteem look at people with misplaced high self esteem and confidently esteem them to be arrogantly competent, but misplace their confidence in the esteem of people whose arrogant self esteem is both confident and esteemed to be misplaced.

There. I took your guys' argument to its logical conclusion.

And some people are just assholes. 

[whoisjohngalt]

We are going to have so many "protected classes" soon, I don't know who is going to be left. 

[AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP]

Jan 7, 2015 19:23:33 GMT -5 whoisjohngalt said:

We are going to have so many "protected classes" soon, I don't know who is going to be left. 

The leftists don't understand that you can never feed the PC crocodile enough.  It may eat them last, but it will eat them. There'll be no one left.  Sure, they aren't lopping each other's heads off (yet), but the same thing will happen on the left.  All extremist ideologies eventually turn on themselves.

www.ibtimes.co.uk/syria-isis-chief-executioner-found-beheaded-cigarette-his-mouth-1482101
Syria: Isis chief executioner found beheaded with cigarette in his mouth

In a grotesque twist of the saying "live by the sword, die by the sword", an Islamic State executioner in Syria who carried out beheadings for the jihadist group has been found with his head cut off.

The body of Egyptian-born Abu Zaid al-Masri, the deputy emir of the feared al-Hesbah (or Hisbah) force in the eastern province of Deir al-Zor, was recovered near a power plant in al-Mayadeen city, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

The corpse showed signs of torture and carried the message "This is evil, you Sheikh" written on it. The severed head also had a cigarette in its mouth. It is unclear who carried out the decapitation but the message was obvious.

Islamic State's (formerly known as Isis) ban on cigarettes is one of its signature polices. It has imposed a strict set of Sharia laws barring the use of drugs, alcohol and cigarettes in the territories it has conquered across a swathe of Iraq and Syria.

[zibazinski]

Well, as you watch your employee putting on weight, you find an excuse to let them go, before it's too late. Sad but the only way out of this mess.

[AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP]

Jan 8, 2015 8:52:53 GMT -5 zibazinski said:

Well, as you watch your employee putting on weight, you find an excuse to let them go, before it's too late. Sad but the only way out of this mess.

This is a no-shitter: When I worked for Morgan Stanley there was actually talk of bonuses for healthy lifestyles.  They never implemented these, but there were ideas floated about if you went to the gym in our building, and even weighing in and calculating BMI. One idea was floated for a bonus or a day off for the person who was "most improved" and I joked, "So, I should probably bulk up before these goofy ideas go into effect, huh?"  

Nobody got it.