Fat Fees: Paying By Weight

That just sounds weird. How about offering aerobic classes at the hotel?

Wear and tear on the furniture is the reason, I believe.

That's not the right way to be battling obesity.

What they need to do is to stop selling junk foods and start selling healthier foods from sustanable organic farming. They also need to stop feeding cows grains and junk byproducts and start putting them out on the pasture.

Look, we can still get fast food from various outlets and still be healthy. What they just need to do is to stop selling trans-fat laden fries and burgers and subs to people and start selling lightly buttered vegtables and oily salmon and grass-fed steak, cooked under either olive or coconut oil. And You can have a fun and healthy life. Buy an iPod, and start walking and jogging. In the summer, go to the beach and swim in the water instead of just laying in the sand, or have more pool parties with healthy foods. Healthy foods don't have to be tasteless.

But People shouldn't pay extra just because they are overweight. People don't have to squander to choose the right foods. I think that walt disney and pixar should start playing more sea-based movies like they did with The Little Mermaid, and provide a economy of healthy nutritious foods and stop the marketing of junk foods like cookies, doughnuts, french fries, cakes, soda, and hanburgers. The reason why we are fat and suffering heart attacks today is because we are eating too much starches, grains, sugar, and trans fats, and we are cooking with polyunsaturated oils. I think that tomarrow, we could be eating apples, pears, açaí, walnuts, raw spinach, steamed brockley, tomatos, salmon, flownder, mahi-mahi, shrimp, milk, grass-fed steak and bison, free-range ostrich, emu, and chickens, eggs, all organic and naturally grown, and start cooking with olive oil and saturated fats again, like we used to back in 1900.

Just curious James.... Do you cut and paste your posts so you don't have to retype it under every topic?

Hehe, y'know, I was going to ask James the exact same question. -worships thenecklacelady-

... Besides that, I have no relevant commentary. 'Pologies.

Trucks pay fees for the wear and tear they cause on the roads in many countries. Perhaps something like that.

But, really, who cares? If you don't like it, don't patronize the hotel.

The maximum price is for 172 pounds. That's really not that bad, average for men, isn't it?

Perhaps he's not really punishing the overweight, but trying to reward the thin? Perhaps he thinks this will increase the percentage of his clientelle that are thin and (if your thinking goes that route) beautiful. I mean, he's in essence, providing a discount to thin people, so maybe that will attract more thin people, which will make people want to come to his hotel to hang out with the, you guessed it, thin people?

I mean, really, if you're a 5'2" woman that weighs 140 pounds, you probably think you're overweight, but you're still only paying $35 per night? Better than you could get here in the states, and a $4 discount.

I don't think it's wear and tear, I think it's a plan for a different customer base. After all, if you're insulted by the policy, you won't stay there, and (if your logic flows in this direction) you're probably heavier than the other guests - so he doesn't want you to stay there.

I hope this isn't a trend, though. We constantly talk about the right to privacy in this country, and I can't think of anything more invasive than to be weighed-in at every hotel you stop at.

-Danielle

This is crazy!

Anyone met a tall German 6 foot 5 - there are heaps of those buggas! 178 pounds!!

I'm 6 foot 3 at 178 that would make my BMI 22. At the lower end of normal.

What about guys taller than me, and there are a lot!

Too bad if you are a body builder! Those darn unhealthy body builders and their 5% body fats! LOL

ridiculous!

I admit that this is a bit out of the ordinary, but how is it any different than resorts that are catering to people who are extremely overweight? You can't call something discrimination unless it is being done to someone who doesn't have a choice. People who are a certain color, or height, or who have a physical or mental disability - these are things that are out of their control.

If you are fat, or if you are skinny, if you feel that you are being discriminated against, then do something about it. Otherwise, simply don't use products or services that are made specifically for people who are shapped differently than you.

Do you see midgets shopping at the Big & Tall store??

Hooold up.

Mr. Potts, midgets are not found at Big n' Tall stores because, unlike your typical hotel room, clothing relates directly to a person's size and shape. Initially, I do not believe anyone was worrying about whether or not their accommodations would fit. If the name of the place was "Skinny Suites", or the floors of the rooms had some sort of (clearly stated) holding capacity that is of concern to heavier patrons, then I'd see your point.

Quote by Potts: "You can't call something discrimination unless it is being done to someone who doesn't have a choice."

Hmm I thought this blog was not allowing maliscious comments ?

That sort of soap-boxing will put a lot of people's noses out of joints.

You are probably best to leave your fat bashing in the school yard.

I don’t have any sympathy for this belly aching about discrimination against fat people. It is just more expensive to be different in a society of mass production. The way things are going I am sure skinny people will be discriminated against next.

As a tall person (6’ 10”) I have been discriminated against for years in many areas. From clothing, to cars, to furniture, to homes, to airline tickets – big costs more. Now ironically even the Big and Tall stores discriminate – I weight 235lbs and have 10 percent body fat. The clothes at the Big and Tall stores are for people that are either fat or tall and fat, not just tall. Fat is in, so relax - your day has come!

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I could see maybe charging by weight if somehow it were applicable to the situation. I could see charging extra for heavier people for say, an amusement park ride where your weight would actually matter. Or a gym that has special and costly equipment for heavy people. But a hotel room? How is a fat guest any different for the hotel than a thin guest? Are they making an assumption that heavier people would eat more of the "free breakfast" or something? The only valid reason that I can even think of is that maybe he just wants thin guests to stay there. I don't know...maybe all the furniture is really cheap and won't stand up to heavy use. So instead of just buying better furniture, he's getting around it by telling heavy people they can't stay there.

lowcarb_dave: "Quote by Potts: "You can't call something discrimination unless it is being done to someone who doesn't have a choice."

Hmm I thought this blog was not allowing maliscious comments ?

That sort of soap-boxing will put a lot of people's noses out of joints.

You are probably best to leave your fat bashing in the school yard."

So, umm... you're trying to say big people DON'T have a choice to get skinny, and that to claim they DO have a choice is equivalent to "bashing" them?

On another note, I think that hotel's idea is great. Offer people incentives to get thin instead of pacifying them, which only feeds the problem... telling someone it's fine to compromise their health... big is NOT beautiful and obesity is NOT okay, and you're damn right you should be charged more money if you're consuming more product. You pay for what you get. As a clothing designer, I'm positing this scenario right here: I make a dress for a thin lady, I use 3 yards of fabric, fabric cost me, let's say, $30. I make the same one for a big lady, I use 6 yards of fabric, it cost me $60 (not to mention more sewing). Should I charge the two women the same amount for their dresses? Should I sacrifice my profit just to do the big lady a favor? Hell no, she pays for what she gets. If she wants the same price, she gets the same amount of product... a skinny lady's dress, or a single seat on an airplane, or a single plateful at the buffet. It's not fair that skinny people consume less and yet pay the same amount; that adds up to big people getting special privileges, and anti-thin discrimination.

I'm sick of anti-thin discrimination. Only in America, I tell you! Like that comedienne Monique who's televised with her stand-up routine calling thin women "nasty skinny bitches" and "skeleton-looking motherf---ers"... Imagine if a thin woman made such slurs about big women on TV... that would NEVER fly, would it? (She makes me sick. What a stupid, sh*tty person.) OK, now that you see the tables turned... chew on that...

Ok Succubus you obviously hate fat people. And you sound pretty nasty about it too. Well, I'd rather hang around a fat person than someone with your negative, discriminatory attitude.

HAHAHA, kay so now this i must say with shame, is about my fifth time reading james posts. Though i am now getting a giggle out of them,I cant beleive iv wasted my time reading the same mind numbing "cows are bad, disney should make movies about sea creatures, organic" babble.

Its one thing to have an oppinion, but my GOOOODNESSS. Yikes, someone is obsessed. I also have the same question as thenecklacelady, and Jen...im sure more people are wondeirng the same thing.. hmmmmm*