Breasts bums and muffin tops!

Dumpling, I can well imagine the scenario.

These Middle East lads could have been reared to regard women's bodies as too inflammatory to be shown in public. It was reported this morning that one in three teenagers are ashamed of their bodies. Your body whether or not it's a currently fashionable shape is an aspect of your wonderful, honest, and reliable self and everybody should honour their bodies and express their bodies with the freedom of expression they choose even if the fashions they choose are outrageous. Within the law!

if this conversation was being conducted by men
Hellsgrandad; Well said and welcome to the Gentlemen's Club! Sadly there aren't many of us left, but we wouldn't be anywhere near as judgemental with "live and let live" being our guiding belief! We are what we are and remember, "united we stand, divided we fall!" Keep up your good work!

I presume the ultra critical posts here are coming from body beautifuls?

I'm the opposite of body beautiful. I lost most of my teeth when I was 11. Ten years ago I lost all my hair, it's not going to grow back. It's been horrendous but I've had to try to do something about it, with no help. I try to keep my weight down because that's something I can do something about. My post above did say that health and mental health issues aside, it's possible to lose weight (if you want to). It's not easy.

It's mental health awareness week this week.

I think posters need to have a look at themselves and ask why they need to be so judgemental and sometimes outright nasty to other human beings.

People have so many pressures on them today, maybe they have just thrown on the only clean clothes that are available, or even the only clothes they have.

Perhaps they have put on a few pounds since the weather was last warm and sunny and cannot afford to buy new ones.

I would not have tattoos, but I respect the rights of others to have as many as they wish.

I fear that Gransnett is reflecting the fact that society is turning into an extremely judgemental jungle. Often filled with hatred of anything/anyone that presents different to us or how we perceive "things/people" should be /act?

For me it’s nothing to do with how you look. It’s a health issue pure and simple. My GP told me type 2 diabetes is on the increase and that is directly related to diet and lifestyle. I have no problem with people that are overweight due to various medical conditions but people that eat junk and don’t exercise then expect the NHS to sort out their health problems due to their lifestyle choices is just plain wrong.

Everyone on here is expressing an opinion! Is that not allowed anymore?

We are not passing on the comments to the perpetrators of bad taste just saying that we don’t understand what makes them do it!

Watch out...thought police about!

Boosgran you are right about the cost to the NHS of junk food. It's not always the fault of people who eat junk food it's more the fault of the junk food industry and its retailers. People are what they are and blaming them won't inform them. It's a matter of fact that many people believe advertisers' claims about junk food being good for them. The sales pressures to buy junk food include seductive misleading packaging and images of successful slim people eating it.

Junk food is often easier to prepare, because people don't teach kids to cook. It's not generally known that it's easy to throw some macaroni into a pot and boil it and then stir in some oil and some chopped up vegetables .

I am probably a bit resentful that there is so much help for the obese - gastric bands/bypasses and whatever. When I lost my hair I was suicidal. I was told 'it's bad luck' and 'get a wig' despite having spent (probably) over a thousand pounds trying to help myself. I haven't been the same person since.

GrannyGravy, I completely agree with you. I cannot see the need to be so unkind and judgemental about other people.

Is it unkind if we don’t say anything out loud that could cause offence?

KatyK sounds like you have a had a really tough time.

Every man, woman and dog knows that if you overeat you get fat. Life is slightly more complicated than some smug people would have us believe.
People overeat for all sorts of reasons.

Lily65- totally agree, which is why I try not to bitch.

KatyK - I had a dear friend who lost her hair, hated wearing a wig but couldn’t be seen without it. ?

I am very friendly with two ladies and we have often gone on holiday together. One friend is lovely and slim and my other friend is a large lady. I am somewhere in between. We all seem to eat about the same amount and yet we are all such different sizes. I cant understand it. I do know however, how sensitive my larger friend is about her weight and how hurt she is if someone says anything disparaging. She can remember unkind comments from years ago. I suppose that is why I dont like hearing anybody say (or write) anything unkind about larger people. She does always dress appropriately and beautifully though and takes great care of her appearance.

KatyK

Thanks. Well it hasn't been a walk in the park that's for sure.

Worst sight for me is blokes with their trousers/shorts at half mast, especially if they're bending over for any reason and you get an eyeful of horrible hairy crack. I once quite unavoidably got a close up of one such, whose sheer grossness still haunts me!

There were certainly some sights today in town. One fat woman had tight short shorts and tattoos on her bottom. Many bare midriffs and tattoos galore. Alternatively some elderly people were in anoraks and wool hats.
It was warm in the sun but chilly in the shade, only 14 degrees, and a chilly wind.
I wore a dress and light jacket.

I was waiting at the supermarket checkout yesterday and just looking around as you do, when I noticed a young woman at the next checkout packing her shopping. She was dressed casually, like me, but she had this thin vest top on. As someone earlier said, your gaze has to fall somewhere and it was obvious she was not wearing a bra. Nothing wrong with that, but she did have the 'chapel hat pegs' look about her. For all I know she may have been thinking 'I wish I'd have put my bra on'! Maybe she'd just been in the cold aisle! BTW I used to go braless when younger and still do in my garden, but mine never stood out like that!

Men in shorts, socks with sandals whatever don't bother me. Don't think I'd like to get an eyeful when someone bends down showing half their bum though!

Bijou similar sights in our town centre.

once quite unavoidably got a close up of one such
Witzend; I was just passing on my way to cook (unfreeze!) my evening dinner, but how can you "unavoidably" witness such a scene? And what's with "chapel pegs", or should I "MYOB"?. Think dinner awaits so moving on whilst I have some appetite left!

In doctors surgery this morning tall fat woman in skin tight clinging dress with apparently nothing underneath looked just like Michelin man.

Do you have to be quite so insulting Bijou? Your derogatory comments say more about you than the overweight people you are describing.

The subject of this forum was breasts and bums in warm weather and that was what my post this morning was about. Nothing to do about overweight people. Just that this person was emphasising by inappropriate attire these parts of her anatomy.