Here’s a tip: If you want to look young and thin, hang around old fat people.
Sorry ladies, but it’s true – if it’s quoted it must be true, right? Especially if it’s quoted by an organization dedicated to slender silhouettes and flauntable fitness, with models and pictures to boot at that. Just so it’s clear, we do not support the idea of slimming down by surrounding yourself with fuller-figured people. We like the idea of getting the support and motivation you need by hanging around like-minded, positive-thinking people.
But when a company with a seemingly refined reputation (knowingly or not) makes distasteful statements – we’re not sure, will you enlist the service of a slimming centre that called you fat? It seems a little more than inappropriate for a corporation like that to make the quote a call to lose weight, or maybe it’s a subtle marketing ploy, you never know with marketers these days.
Whatever the case, diplomacy and tact have proven to have a good track record in most dealings with people, especially with customers, as we have learnt with the whole KFC hullabaloo. In the interest of face (literal and metaphorical) and the rest of the body, displays of insensitivity really should not be made public. As Abraham Lincoln once said, “It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt.”
Sometimes we wonder if beauty and brains are only a once-in-a-Natalie-Portman occurrence.
Oh, and bear in mind that in order to achieve a slim figure, sharing food with the hungry is the way to go.
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