…Who needs him? What with all the New Year reminders that fat is evil.

Take the hilarious story about a health club in Bristol which took it upon themselves to point out in an ad that
“When the aliens come, they will eat the fatties first”

Needless to say, the locals were far from impressed.

And earlier in the week, a story so bad that I am in two minds as to whether it was born from mind-blowing stupidity or mind-blowing genius:  dating site BeautifulPeople.com – which only allows new members to join if existing members deem them to be good looking enough – has axed 5,000 members for having posted photos of themselves showing weight gain.

And the official company quote?

“As a business, we mourn the loss of any member, but the fact remains that our members demand the high standard of beauty be upheld,” said site founder Robert Hintze. “Letting fatties roam the site is a direct threat to our business model and the very concept for which BeautifulPeople.com was founded.”

Yes, you did read that right. “Letting fatties roam free”.  Somebody approved that.

I don’t know whether to be appalled or impressed, I really don’t.