Ok.
EVERYTHING is against me today.
Was trying to find the article I'm going to talk about now, but yeah, apparently, it DOESN'T exist online!! I also then remembered that I of computing knowledge ZERO wouldn't have jackshizer of a clue how to actually LINK you to it.
SO!
HOW ABOUT THIS.
I TELL you what the news report was about, and you JOIN IN my impassioned bitchfest :P
Long story short, an (searches for politically correct word and realizes there is none) obese dude in Brisbane is raising media hell over the fact that a local Indian restaurant closed down their 9.90 All You Can Eat buffet....because he ate too much.
The restaurant guys were really upset about the publicity and one of the proprietors, in a soft (yet still mockable, don't worry) Indian-accented voice said, "7-8 naans and 5 chickens, all for 9.90? It's not right!"
What. The. Hell.
Dear Idiot,
I'm EVER SO SORRY your parents didn't teach you enough SELF DISCIPLINE to not eat your body weight in TWINKIES, but how about you TRY THIS. Step OUT of your size 11ty shoes, and try these on for size: those of the immigrant of likely significantly lower means than you that you threaten to put out of business with your WHINING.
I realize it's called All You Can Eat. But when you tower over the counter demanding to know his ABSOLUTE reasons for closing your beloved source of SOLE nourishment, and repeatedly ask "Is it because of me? Is it because of me? Do I eat too much?!"
Yeah, precious, EXPECT to be told the truth.
And don't expect the poor guy, who's grasp on English probably isn't enough to blow sunshine up your ass, to concoct some excuse to make you feel better about yourself.
You're going to go outside and, what, darling? Cry? CRY?
WALK ON OVER TO THE CHINESE DELI, MORON! Or Pizza Hut! Or the Fish n Chip shop! I'd LOVE to see you walk into Fish Fish Fish and threaten your OWN race like this. When the waiter refuses to serve you your 4th round of fish and chips for the SAME PRICE, DRAG YOUR LAWYERS AND THE MEDIA THERE.
You won't, will you?
You and your damn sense of superiority. Ooh, look at me, I (supposedly) went to school and was raised with ACTUAL food and shelter! I'm so special that I have NO REAL ISSUES so I need to raise the roof over the non problems that DO cloud my righteously indignant day!!
Lose some weight. Get a life. And remember that you can AFFORD to be this spoilt for the sole reason that you have nothing else to feel ungrateful for. Unlike a lot of these people.
Authors Note:
Yeah, I AM probably taking such offense because I'm Indian myself. Please, though, guys, remember that I've been weight obsessed my entire life and have absolutely NOTHING against overweight people. It'll take you three days of knowing me to know that innately. I know it's not easy to be large and be subject to the stigma and sensitivity it creates.
But I AM annoyed that rather than give me headlines about issues that really matter, the news is reporting meaningless things like this.
I DON'T know the full story...all I know is that what I watched on the news told me the story of a spoilt man with almost no self control, who, because he CAN (And for that reason ONLY), is choosing to spoil someone else's livelihood with some awful publicity.