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- WiseWeasel, on 05/20/2008, -16/+318FTA: "the offending Wii Fit balance board... horrified the family of a 10 year old girl who’s billed as being ‘solidly built’ (purportedly her father’s words, not ours) when it called her ‘fat’."
Uh huh, 'solidly built', eh? Sounds like this little fatty-fat-fat can't take criticism. She should put down the cake and try some real exercise where you actually break a sweat... It's better she found out she was fat from an inanimate object in the privacy of her home, than from kids at school pointing and laughing. : P - fluidfoundation, on 05/20/2008, -2/+256just because her wiimote strap was the size of a belt doesnt mean she is fat.
- Aeron, on 05/20/2008, -0/+211"horrified the family", lol what pussies, I love the Wii Fit even more now
- tehbored, on 05/20/2008, -4/+161FTA:
"According to the Daily Mail (duly credited)"
Yeah OK. Maybe if it came from a legitimate source I'd believe it. - pakruse, on 05/20/2008, -1/+156Which is more likely, that Nintendo's Wii Fit is miscalculating BMI (4'9" and six stone is borderline underweight at a BMI of 18.2, not overweight), or that whoever typed her height in entered a number incorrectly?
Failure. - Cabose, on 05/20/2008, -4/+135Your child is fat. Deal with it. BMI is *****. Deal with it. Wii Fit is not a doctor. Deal with it.
You're a moron. Deal with it. - profboobs, on 05/20/2008, -11/+117It's funny to call young girls fat.
- limpits, on 05/20/2008, -2/+101well... SHE can't...
- B3000, on 05/20/2008, -0/+93So, obesity experts want to ban a game that will get kids to exercise because it might hurt the children's feelings to learn that they are overweight? The stupidity of this is confounding.
- babylonian, on 05/20/2008, -1/+89I don't understand why the word "fat" keeps being used in quotes in this article, and even in the headline. Wii Fit is about as inoffensive and politically correct as you can get. There's no way the game would ever call anyone fat.
Hell, I doubt the game even contains the word "FAT" anywhere in the code, except maybe in reference to the formatting of the Wii's built-in memory. - ursername180, on 05/20/2008, -2/+88Well maybe if she wasn't so fat...
- JayKeaton, on 05/20/2008, -2/+80Most kids need to be told they are fat these days. There is a world food shortage, health care crisis and an obesity crisis, you do the math.
- SnotRag, on 05/20/2008, -1/+73Has no one stopped to think of the poor Wii Fit balance board! How would you like a small mountain jumping on your head all day!
- CarnivalOfDust, on 05/20/2008, -0/+70Hold on, I'll just fetch me harpoon.
- actionscripted, on 05/20/2008, -2/+65Christ, the next few generations are going to be more sissi-fied than others before them. I weep for the future and welcome 2012/2029 so I don't have to see these hyper-sensitive brainless kids grow up to be insecure, suicidal adults.
- whatthehell9, on 05/20/2008, -6/+69in other news, Psychologists predict a rise in "self esteem issues"
- Dundasbro, on 05/20/2008, -0/+61Their tears sustain me.
- benitojuarez, on 05/20/2008, -1/+57for those that dont know
6 stone = 84 pounds = 38.102 kilograms - ssj2119, on 05/20/2008, -3/+53Dugg for:
Personally I also have a problem with the Wii Fit as, thanks to having only one TV in the house, my wife persistently working out with her Wii Fit is preventing me from doing an especially lucrative drug deal in GTA IV which is, let’s face it, completely out of order. - Razer210, on 05/20/2008, -0/+48Hey, you can't run from the truth.
- kravex, on 05/20/2008, -3/+51She's got 'big bones' ,
covered in meat and gravy...
The instruction book clearly says that anyone under 20 will not have an accurate BMI, is it Nintendo's fault they can't read? - ohhoe, on 05/20/2008, -7/+54Maybe it's because BMI is a completely inaccurate calculator and doesn't take into advantage muscle weight, or bone mass, or different body types.
- LordFuxxles, on 05/20/2008, -0/+46After seeing this I have to say: Wii Fit is pretty badass.
- CarnivalOfDust, on 05/20/2008, -0/+43I reckon her mother/sibling edited her height beforehand - y'know, for the lolz.
- gannondork, on 05/20/2008, -2/+45The wii cannot lie, if it says she's a fatty then a fatty she is.
- raynar, on 05/20/2008, -0/+43yea, we shouldnt offend little fat kids who'd rather sit inside and play video games than go outside.
Maybe she should play Portal...I heard theres cake at the end. - crownedgriffin, on 05/20/2008, -0/+43The harpoons; man them.
- Nastjuid, on 05/20/2008, -3/+46pic of girl?
maybe she is?
truth hurts?
F U, easily-butthurt-and-offended-people - kravex, on 05/20/2008, -0/+42'Overweight' 'Obease' are on it but I've never seen the word 'fat' when I've played it.
- fquednau, on 05/20/2008, -1/+41But, as pointed out already, using a BMI calculator on the web:
4ft9in (144.78 cm)
6 stone (38.1 kg)
10 years old (woa, finally we agree on a unit?)
=> 18.2 kg/m^2
which appears to be perfectly normal. So either the parents are lying about her height/weight/age, or the Wii just gets it totally wrong... - bosssmiley, on 05/20/2008, -0/+39Wii Fit calls it like he sees it: you gotta respect that in a console.
- duggdowncatisad, on 05/20/2008, -0/+3784 pounds = about 164 dollars
- Neorio, on 05/20/2008, -5/+41I used to be fat, I got called fat, and it sucked. Really, I was just lazy, and let my body go to a slobby ruin.
So I decided to bust myself at the gym, lifting weights and hitting the treadmill every day for a year, started a diet, and stuck to it, took a pile of creatine and fat metabolising supplements. Not people compliment me on my pecs and six pack - and mention that I've lost a lot of weight.
I don't think I actually had to work hard at it - it just had to do it often enough, make a lifestyle out of it, and be patient that the process would eventually work.
So anytime I hear somebody whine because they've been called fat - I just want to tell them to stop being a crybaby, take control of your life, and do something about it. There's no excuse. - greenm1981, on 05/20/2008, -2/+38Whatever happened to kids playing outside for exercise?
- WiseWeasel, on 05/20/2008, -0/+35I DARE you to make less sense.
- nursethalia, on 05/20/2008, -0/+34She was probably doing the BMI test and she was a little in the 'overweight' category and the family flipped out because they didn't want their daughter to have damaged self esteem or something, even if she IS a little on the thick side. Seriously, WTF is up with parents? I knew a kid whose parents fed him whatever he wanted as a baby, and he was a fat toddler. He always stayed huge but his parents didn't want him to get a 'complex' so they never said anything about it, now he's in his teens and is totally pissed that his parents never told him to knock it off because now he's got years of habit to break on his own.
- TheCash, on 05/20/2008, -1/+35"Perhaps I’ll also write to the Daily Mail though I suspect that my story will be axed in favour of a breaking news item where a father breaks down as he details how two (unnamed) insects had the audacity to have a quick shag in front of his daughter (21, slim, blond and not unattractive) occasioning grave offence (sic) and a long overdue chat about the ‘birds and the bees’."
Funniest part about the whole article, and scariest at the same time as it seems like this is the direction things are really heading. - iNaya, on 05/20/2008, -1/+34How ***** stupid do you have to be to think that LBS is metric?
- gcnaddict, on 05/20/2008, -0/+32Overprotective pricks. Your children won't learn when you hover over them like helicopter cops.
- whalt, on 05/20/2008, -0/+31It did say that she had a wonderful personality.
- senorburrito, on 05/20/2008, -4/+33pounds is not metric.
- Taikun, on 05/20/2008, -0/+28Admitting that one is fat is the first, and probably most important step in losing weight.
- Alucardbsm, on 05/20/2008, -1/+29Maybe other than England, if you rtfa.
'According to the Daily Mail (duly credited), the offending Wii Fit balance board, based somewhere in the South East of England' - Goya, on 05/20/2008, -0/+28Everyone knows you take the weight the woman gives and add 15 lbs to get her real weight. Wii Fit just has this feature already added in...
- gannondork, on 05/20/2008, -0/+27She doesn't have a running problem, she runs to the refrigerator 20 times a day just fine.
- Slade605, on 05/20/2008, -1/+25Without low self esteem who will be our strippers? Next generation is tomorrows hookers.
- mzx639, on 05/20/2008, -7/+30 Most of the young girls in the US today are fat.
- magicaltrevor, on 05/20/2008, -1/+24I enjoyed your comment. Deal with it.
- Morghin, on 05/20/2008, -1/+23If that was the case they could have said "It doesn't take into account factual differences between bone mass and body weight" instead of crying "OMG IT LIEK SAID FAT 2 ME!!!!"
- pakruse, on 05/20/2008, -2/+24BMI may be inaccurate, but to dismiss that in this case is foolish - if the girl is really 6 stone and 4'9", that's a BMI of 18.2. Period.
A BMI of 18.2 is officially underweight. What I was saying is that, regardless of the fact that the system ignores the difference between muscle and fat, there's something else going on that this article isn't mentioning. I can come up with four explanations:
- Nintendo is miscalculating BMI. Unlikely, as it's a very easy calculation.
- The girl was wearing weights for some reason. Also unlikely.
- The girl is actually heavier than 6 stone, and the father is lying. At 4'9", the BMI system doesn't label someone as 'overweight' until a little over 8 stone (116 pounds, actually).
- The parent's typed in her height wrong with the wiimote. This actually seems the most likely to me, because if they typed in 3'9" and she's actually six stone, the system would label her as overweight. A little over six stone at 3'9" and someone would be labeled as obese, which is a step past overweight on the BMI charts.
I could care less how accurate the BMI system is for actually telling someone whether or not they need to lose weight - my statement was that *in this case* there's something else going on. -
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