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From this entry written on September 25th, 2008 about why I got my wind turbine tattoo

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I totally cried my eyes out.

I want this man to win.

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A role model for ordinary women? No, Miss England finalist is fat, lazy and a poster girl for ill health

By MONICA GRENFELL - More by this author » Last updated at 08:37am on 4th April 2008

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Chloe Marshall has caused a storm by becoming the first size 16 beauty queen to reach the finals of the Miss England contest.

Feted and fawned over for her courage in daring to break the mould, Chloe boasts she wants to be an "ambassador for curves".

Who on earth does she think she's kidding? What she's demonstrating isn't bravery but a shocking lack of self-control.

Instead of flaunting her figure, Chloe ought to own up to the truth. She is fat and she got that way by over-eating.

I don't take any pleasure in attacking Chloe - after all she's only 17. But I think she has been very badly advised in her bid to champion the cause of bigger girls.

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But as a dietician I am so worried about the damage her well-oiled publicity machine is doing that I think it's vital to speak out.

In my view, Chloe is a terrible role model.

I hope she doesn't win the Miss England title.

It would send an appalling - and very dangerous - message to other young women that it's OK to be fat.

Chloe is a stark reminder that obesity is now virtually normal in our society - and we should all be hanging our heads in shame.

She is an ambassador not for the beautiful larger lady as she'd have us believe but a poster girl for diabetes, strokes, heart attacks, cancers and all the other devastating and potentially fatal health problems that are caused or exacerbated by obesity.

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As a judge on last year's Miss England contest, I was hugely impressed, not just by the beauty but by the skills dedication and determination of the contestants.

For example, most had raised huge sums of money for their favourite charities. They shone out as young women to be admired.

But can the same really be said of Chloe?

At 5ft 10in, Chloe should have a body mass index, or BMI, (indicating her levels of fat) of 20. Hers is 26.03.

BMI is an assessment generally used by GPs and health experts to determine if a person is underweight, overweight or within a healthy weight range.

Chloe's BMI puts her as undeniably overweight.

Our doctors' surgeries are full of people whose problems are caused by their weight.

Devastating conditions - from Type 2 diabetes to heart problems and many cancers - are caused or exacerbated by obesity.

And if Chloe is so overweight at barely 17, one shudders to imagine just how fat she will be a few years down the line.

The Government can do all it wants to urge us to eat more healthily but - as Chloe demonstrates - it's now not simply acceptable but fashionable to be bigger.

She talks about the "skinny minnies" she'll be competing against. "All I wanted to do by entering this pageant was to send a message out to young girls that it is fine NOT to be a size zero."

Well, she's talking total rubbish.

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When I was a Miss England judge I was struck by how elegant, charming and yes, fit, the girls were. None of them was underweight.

It's a total fallacy that young girls are being pressured into near-starving themselves into being too thin.

Take a look around you and you will see that the total reverse is true.

Teenage girls aren't in danger of falling victim to an epidemic of anorexia - but of obesity.

The much-vaunted size zero of catwalk models is actually a UK size four. How many girls do you know that size?

The number of women in this country who are seriously underweight is minute around one in 70.

Levels of bulimia are actually falling. Instead our high streets are packed with young girls - just like Chloe - with "muffin tops" of fat spilling over their jeans.

Larger women may take comfort from the fact that a young girl who is quite self-evidently fat has won a place in Miss England, and Chloe argued last week that she has a healthy diet and exercises regularly.

"I refuse to starve myself to turn my body into something it was never meant to be," she said.

I don't doubt she is telling truth. But yet again she is exposing another myth - that you need to starve yourself to be a healthy weight, and that only junk food makes you fat.

Getting fat by eating good food is perfectly possible - if you eat too much of it.

Chloe claims she "crept up" to a size 16 after dieting to a size 12 on top and 14 on bottom. She's kidding herself.

Her weight didn't "creep on" magically - she ate too much food.

Every excess 1lb of weight she's carrying - and I reckon she is at least a stone overweight - equates to five meals she didn't need.

If Chloe chooses to be curvy, that's fine. It is, after all, her personal choice.

But it's time she stopped telling the rest of us that being fat is great and that the only way to be a healthy weight is by starving yourself.

It's dangerous nonsense.

Sometimes what you eat can affect your dreams. But I doubt its been that, I can directly link back to what I did the previous day as to why I had these crazy ass dreams. FYI, a little graphic and maybe TMI for some.

Friday Night's Dream: So I'm passing by this restaurant in this mall/plaza thing. I've seen this restaurant several times in my dreams before. All done up like a Chili's or a Hooters, American cuisine, vibrant atmosphere. Its kind of like a ride/amusement park/theme eatery. In the restaurant there are benches for seating. Leather padded seating. The benches are more like a long box, with individual sections for each person. And in each section was a hole cut out of it. A personal little hole. So the thing with this restaurant is that during a random time, everyone sitting at these benches will get a surprising fucking. No, really. If you're a guy sitting at this bench, you sit there with your penis poking down through the hole, while eating, so you can be prepared for your girl under or in the box/bench thing to start fucking you. And if you're a girl sitting on the bench then you wear a skirt with no panties and you wait for the penis to pop up and start fucking you through that hole. You never see the person. When it happens, everyone gets fucked a the same time. For about 15 minutes, then you just carry on. So I was a customer here and my penis guy wouldn't leave me alone after the 'ride', he kept like fingering me and stuff and I kept trying to shoo him again. "Go away, leave me alone, I'm trying to eat" I was wearing this odd really short mini skirt that I'd otherwise never wear. After all was done and making my leave I took a last look over and there were a few old people sitting in the actual ride part that looked like a roller coaster ride and throwing their hands up while they too were getting fucked. *shrug*

Flash forward to me in this dorm/apartment/camp thing and I'm trying to take a bath in this long hallway, a bathhouse type of thing. Curtains around the claw foot bath tub to give you a little bit of privacy, but the old guys wouldn't leave me alone. I'm relaxing in my blue water (yeah all the water was blue) and they kept tugging at my curtains and teasing me all because I was just trying to get off. Yeah, I dunno. Flash to my dorm room like thing, I have a bunk bed and share a room with Dr. Cox from Scrubs, and there this amazing sexual tension/chemistry between us, we were like having eye sex or something. It was just a silent moment .... and then I woke up.

What I did Friday: Hung out in Berkeley and watched Juno. I'm contributing my sex dreams to the pregnant movie.

Saturday Night's Dream: I'm on this trek, California is gone to hell or something, me and about 50 people are walking under some BART tracks, to the left is the ocean, an actual decent beach, very pretty. The trek was sad but everyone was optimistic. I wanted my camera (my DSLR) and someone was carrying it for me, so I asked them for it and then they tossed it to me. I didn't catch it and it landed in the sand. I totally flipped out. OUT IN THE FUCK COULD YOU ACTUALLY TOSS MY CAMERA?! OH FUCKING DARE YOU! ARE YOU SOME KIND OF FUCKTARD!? I'm beyond pissed obviously because since it landed in the sand my lens wouldn't properly attach. I was very very sad.

Flash to my moms apartment. She's leaving (like she really did a few months ago) and I'm incredibly upset because she's just leaving everything behind. The pictures, the blankets, TVs, momentos, the cats EVERYTHING. I didn't want her to do this, it hurt me that she'd just leave it behind (kinda like she did for real a few months ago) and so I decided that 'FINE! I'll just take over your apartment and its $1500 rent, I don't want you to just abandon this stuff!' so that made me feel a little better, but then I realized that 'oh shit, I have to take care of a WHOLE apartment! That means the kitchen, the living room, the halls, the bathrooms! How am I going to be able to take over that kind of responsibility on my own?! And what am I going to do about my old house?!' I was freaking out super bad and upset because I was afraid I wouldn't be able to pull it off. And then I woke up.

What I did Saturday: I probably thought calling my mom and thats what contributed to that. And my camera thing, I was out that night drinking with friends and taking pictures but then someone decided to tell me not to take pictures of them. I took offensive and put my camera away, sobered up in my car and went home. Thats where the camera bit came in.

Sunday Night's Dream: I'm still recalling bits of it, but what I remember mostly was that some guy was upset about his penis because it had a significant upward curve. It was a major curve. But I reassured him he had nothing to worry about. Then Turk from Scrubs came into the scene and also reassured the guy he had nothing to worry about because his curved to, and he pulled out his penis and showed the guy. The freaking thing was that Turk's penis had hair all over it. Soft short spikey hair all over it. It was kinda gross and freaky. Then I woke up.

What I did Sunday: Worked at EB, and then had Sushi with Tolerable. I can't find any association of what I did that day to figure out the cause of the Penii in my dream.

Verdict: I'm crazy.

The *paw cheek* thing just nailed. NAILED IT!

*REPEAT*

Didja know I'm allergic to bananas? How's that you ask? Well read on, its kinda interesting.

Banana
Scientific Name:    
Musa acuminata; Musa balbisiana(hybrid)

Allergy Information:    
Banana allergy can take two different forms: one associated with allergy to tree pollen, such as birch, and another type associated with latex allergy. People with birch-pollen allergy can develop symptoms either immediately or up to 1 hour after eating fresh banana or a banana-containing food. Symptoms comprise local reactions in the mouth and throat with itching and inflammation (called oral allergy syndrome, OAS).

Others develop banana allergy because of the similarity between the allergens in banana and natural rubber latex (e.g. gloves, condoms, balloons) a condition known as the latex-fruit syndrome. Symptoms developed by these individuals comprise generalised urticaria, abdominal pain, vomiting and sometimes life-threatening symptoms. These individuals often develop adverse reactions to chestnut, avocado, mango and kiwi.

I'm affected by the latter. And before you ask, no condoms don't bother me because I don't use natural latex condoms, and I don't ingest them. Oy. That's the number one question I get.

I'm not affected by avacados though. Dunno why. I've had this banana allergy for a really long time just never knew what it was until I did some investigating and found out many others have the same problem.

The more you know. (TM)

;)

What I wanted to contribute to the recent assassination of Benazir Bhutto. Over at It's Oz.

(Click it, you might learn something)

I took a road trip by myself to Arkansas back in October. The drive was fine, but there was something I noticed. Once I hit New Mexico or Texas, hell I don’t remember they all look the same at 3am in the morning, I noticed neat little signs that kinda warmed my heart:

Report Drunk Drivers Call 911.

I was dumbfounded. I had no idea I could be the law for a few minutes and report asshat drunk drivers. Knowing that these states encourage drivers to police for inebriated drivers made me feel a little safer. That was until I remembered that my own home state didn’t have these signs.

Of all the states, California should have been the one to have these up in the first place. With so many fucking retards in this state and on the road, you would have thought that some tightwad would ... [Read More]

If this doesn't make you go 'aww' you have no soul!

Can't stop watching this, I even searched for more of them and found out Jimmy Kimmel had them on their show! Note also, Happatai (the group name) was made to mock the boy band genre. Once I found that out it was a lot easier to take them in.


In support of the WGA


And to finish up, an oldie, but goodie rather good. :)

Street Artist in Downtown Berkeley

If you need help deciding your candidates,  check this link.

Thanks to aratiel for posting it!

Oy, I hate getting backed up in my blogging. Heh, sounds kinda hot. Anywho..

Most recently I finished "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini. It was pretty good and as I suspected, not as good as "The Kite Runner". But with this being my second book that has to do with the Middle East (speicfically Afghanistan), I'm all tuned and ears to the ground with all events about the area. I'm honestly concerned and want to do something.

With my fat 40% discount over at Barnes and Noble, I picked a few more books about the Middle East. "The Middle East for Dummies" and "Three Cups of Tea", along with "Lucky from Alice Sebold.



I never ever thought I'd be this interested in events over there. All of my life in fact was spent avoiding the subject because I just couldn't understand, there was so much I had no idea where to begin. Reading novels and essays along with the Dummies book is already helping. While enjoying a great book I get to learn so much as well.

We all keep hearing the words 'jihad' and 'mujahideen', and I didn't know what they meant, I associated them with "oh those must be bad people, bad words" when I couldn't be any more wrong. A jihad is pretty much a holy warrior, someone in a fight, conflict, struggle for the cause of God, or Allah. And mujahideen is a plural form of the word. I feel so horrible for associating these incorrectly, hell I thought they were two completely different words.

I know I'm not the only one to think this. These words are so easily tossed around in stories that also tangle in words like 'terrorists' and 'suicide bombers' and 'bin Laden'. These jihadists and such are not all bad people. Don't confuse jihad with Taliban. I'm sure I'll make a future blog post helping to explain it to you too.

Even with as little as I have read, I already feel better informed; I know the geography a little better, which country is which, and even a few of their capitals. Even if I can't directly help out with the conflicts in the Middle East, at least my self education can help influence the minds of thinkers out here. You guys, other readers. And that can be at least one mind that use to think negatively, or wrongly that I can help fix, and perhaps eventually it will ripple out.

I mean come on, me of all people, getting involved and informed with the situation in the Middle East. If I can get interested then I know I can catch the attention of at least a few other people.

Click on the pics to see the rest of the awesome set! The show was awesome. I almost didn't go because I knew a couple of douche nozzles that were going to show up, and my friend that had come with me was pissing me off. But I'm glad I did. Very very very awesome!

I have other videos as well over at my Youtube.

Yes!

... to bring you a jumping kid.


And a super nice kitteh

2 oil spills in less than 3 weeks.

58,000 gallons in the San Francisco Bay Area

Over 500,000 gallons in the Black Sea Strait

Just typing those sentences makes me scared. And it's making me very skeptic.

These events... are....

COME ON! Two spills in less than three weeks?! Oil companies have to be in on it. They totally could be. No, don't argue with me that the price per barrel just went down like $7, because you know its going to go right back up. The oil companies are doing this on purpose. Dump the oil in the ocean and they can spike the price of oil. They make Hummer's look good.

I just really wanted to share my thoughts on that. Get some minds running. Perhaps I'm not alone in this?

For getting me all smart and caught up on current events.

Like I said, it makes my book list grow! I did just finish The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. Which was great. Sad that it ended, and I'm afraid that her new one that I'm reading (The Almost Moon) isn't going to be as good. Its already depressing enough that I can't read it at night.

Well perhaps thats good, cause then at night I could work on reading A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. I read (read: listened) to The Kite Runner by him on my way home from Arkansas. That was great. I don't have any doubts about this one I'm working on.

But Kite Runner, it opened my eyes a bit. Made me realize that my generation knows nothing of Afghanistan before the wars started. The book took place in the 1970's before Russia came in. See that alone, I didn't know Russia invaded Afghanistan. And in the book, they go to movies, parks, they talk about the beauty of Afghanistan, the snow, the winters. All of this, I knew nothing about. When I think of Afghanistan, or anything that has to do with the middle east, all that comes to mind is desert and war. So now I keep my ear even lower to the ground when I hear things from that region, so I can pay closer attention and become better educated.

Keeping my ear a little more open has lead me to follow the happenings in Pakistan. Musharaff declared a state of emergency a few weeks ago, and I really didn't know what that meant so I attacked wikipedia.org. And then that lead me to find out that the United States is under nearly constant state of emergencies. Did you know we're still under a state of emergency from 9/11?

So as much as I playfully go 'grrr' at NPR, I really appreciate it. I'm noticing a change in my interests, and I like it. Noone is allowed to change my radio dial. It stays only on NPR. I read more, I check news more.

Oh and get this. I was going to buy Colbert's book, I am America (And So Can You), thinking it'd be a good funny read. But I'm too impressionable, I don't know enough politics to be able to separate his humor and wit from the truth. I don't want to be left influenced just because the guy is funny. The same thing happened when I got really into Michael Moore. Any time someone discussed something me with me it always ended up in my head 'because Michael Moore said so'. I can't have that. They may be right, but I have to find that out for myself, not through a funny and irresistable book.

Now back to my news!

Chilling at a B&N killing time and burning more loud music for my drive.

I'm thoroughly enjoying my time out here. Pagne is on her way to meet me and then later I'm seeing Bats and then getting my last lunch with Roman.

I hit the road about 5pm tonight to head to Austin, Texas. I am very worried about this drive. Sure I handled the one down here just fine and that was 12 hours. But this one is going to be at night. LONG LONG stretch of nothing from El Paso to Austin.

I encourage you all to randomly call me tonight. Anytime between midnight and 7am. I'll be up, and hopefully not in a ditch.

I'm going to stop by the store before I head out to stock up on a lot of caffiene and foods.

At Romans house. Having a great time. Its crazy being with my friend who I haven't seen in 5 years to feel like we've never been seperated.

The drive was fine. I'm concerned about tomorrow's drive to Austin. Its a long one, but I seemed to handle this 12 hour one just fine so the 14 hour to Austin shouldn't be a problem.

More updates later. Even perhaps by phone, that keeps me awake.