people think luke is fat
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i read a thread that said Luke looked he eat all the pies
Luke is not he may not be the skinniest person
so what if he was overweight its still wrong to make thread about a teenage child's weight
Luke is not he may not be the skinniest person
so what if he was overweight its still wrong to make thread about a teenage child's weight
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i just came across the thread today and was horrified that people comment on a teeanage kid's weight
I was called fat at his age and I was thinner than Luke is now. And, for many of us, it was not that he was fat, but that he got fat. Given the work pressure and such and people in the house cooking healthy meals, how did he pack on so much padding? Given the hair, the clothes and the alleged musical influences it led some to speculate that he'd been getting the munchies.
Luke has put himself in the public eye - he will get stick. Some say we like to tear down our heroes, personally I prefer to have a pop or two when their on the way up.
You keep posting mean comments about really good contestants like Luke and Abi!!!!
& yet, you strangely felt compelled to do so....
Yes and no.
I have written mildly disparaging remarks about Ms Alton, but she's not good. Read my comments carefully and actually I'm just mocking her fans; is that you?
I've said nothing depracating at all about Master Friend; though he was quite good. He's fat, it's just a statement. If it bothered him, he'd lose weight.
I was a tad disparaging of Matt Cardle recently and he's the best singer I've seen on XF - so, in a wider context, you are right.
Read King Lear and consider the role of the fool...
Maybe those "insults" are defensible.
My BMI is too high, but at 24 it is within the normal range. It was <22 this time last year, so I've put on weight too. Fire away.
Luke put himself on to the X Factor, fair enough. However, he is nowhere near what would be considered an unhealthy weight. What sort of impression are we giving to others in this country? Teenagers could be reading insults like this on the forum and twitter, picking up the wrong idea.
This is supposed to be a discussion board, but as the years go on it increases in the level of spite and hate. These insults aren't original or funny, they just create negitivity and if you want to put your name to that, David_Morgan, then fair enough, be very proud of yourself.
Luke's had it easier than, say, Hannah, who has been called both fat and uncultured on DS. Heck, the hair jokes dried up when Luke washed his hair in front of the camera (see: Week 3). I'd like to feel bad but Luke's probably fine.
Also, Luke's in the public eye. If he can't handle the wrath of internet trolls, he's not meant to go far.
P.S. I've never called Luke fat.
As I said, Luke is a lot chubbier than I was at his age; more than three decades ago. If Luke is now considered to be a fine-figured lad then we are all going to hell in a hand basket as the epidemic of obesity related illness becomes pandemic. If teenagers begin to think that being fat is unhealthy then that is as it should be.
Negative, yes, very good. This is the Internet - it's full of trolls.
"Fat" is just a word; I'm, technically, not overweight, but call myself "fat".
There's many a chubster out there with an active social life and engaged in a relationship; I see this on the streets. There are slender people with complexes about how they look who hide away in lonliness; that's obvious from forums. Some people are screwed up and weight is one of the ways it manifests, but it is isn't the cause of their problems.
I accept that making people feel uncomfortable is not nice, but, as a nation, we are getting fatter and that is causing us huge problems and will cause us more. Should we not deal with this just because some are frightened of labels?
Absolutely! Mr Friend seems to be attractive because he is confident in how he looks. He doesn't need to lose weight for the sake of appearance.
Obesity? He's probably at the end of his average BMI, he is nowhere near obese. That shouldn't relate at all. You can blame obesity on supermarket deals, takeaways, advertising, lack of exercise - but don't look to media representation because it's the unhealthy end of the scale which is more represented.
Yes, it is full of trolls and you seem to be just another one. It must be so great to have all this free time to troll, you're adding so much back to this forum.
By the end of the series, I'd say Mr Friend had wobbled up toward the top end of the overweight category - BMI in the high twenties. Of course, the real figure is between him and his bathroom scales, but he was definitely outside of "normal". As to the causes of our obesity epidemic, you are right, there are many suspects - from high fructose corn syrup to our video game culture. Recent research suggests that young people are, in fact, expending as much energy as ever, but they are taking in around 200 calories a day more than children of thirty years ago; It soon adds up.
Thanks, I'm glad somebody noticed.
I don't take any notice of BMI - it doesn't take the heaviness of a person's frame into account. At 5 ft 8 when we got married my husband was 12 stone 10 which was 'overweight' on the BMI scale - if he had been any thinner he would have been too thin. People take too much notice of BMI - if you eat healthily and are slightly over you acceptable BMI, who cares?
As regards Luke - I would have said he was stocky but a perfectly healthy size, and as for those that make comments I reckon they have something to hide themselves.