BS: Wide Screening (UK)

Subject: RE: BS: Wide Screening (UK)
From: artbrooks
Date: 02 Oct 11 - 09:55 AM

My bathroom mirror is rectangular, but it shows me as reassuringly fat. I think that your theory that it has something to do with the medium upon which the image is presented is all wet.

Subject: RE: BS: Wide Screening (UK)
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 02 Oct 11 - 07:31 AM

Perhaps they should invent a very tall, thin type of screen which shows people as slender and elongated! But even if (like me) you don't have a very wide-screen TV and don't watch it anyway, there are loads of folk out on the street who are 'reassuringly fat'. And you can't be made to feel guilty in clothes shops by the limited sizes, as even Marks and Spencer have 'reassuringly big' sizes now. I suppose we're all getting fatter, and are starting to see it as normal. I have to admit, when I see a very obese lady in town, I feel quite smug and svelte, even though I'm a bit overweight myself. They're even making 'reassuringly wide' ambulances and operating tables, so my sister tells me, and extra-long scalpels to open folk up with, as they have about a foot of fat to cut through!! (Like flensing a whale, I suppose!!)

Subject: BS: Wide Screening (UK)
From: JHW
Date: 02 Oct 11 - 04:34 AM

The Danish tax on saturated fats prompts me at last. Obesity keeps getting media attention.

A year or more ago my GP/Family Doctor ran a survey requiring my weight, circumference etc. May be similar over the water but here in the UK we are plagued by widescreen TVs. Shops and shop windows, pubs and cafés and in private homes these monstrosities show news readers, tennis players, soap stars, footballers and their wives ALL REASSURINGLY FAT.
Yes even in my GP waiting room the presenters of healthy message videos are REASSURINGLY FAT.
Time for a hefty tax on these things.