I didn't see the article on the BBC news, but I did read this. Oh dear.

I did have to laugh at the comments from the UK activists though. What a sad pair. Especially this:
Umm, I thought 'beating people up' /was/ a crime. :?

If they lost weight they could probably enjoy some proper sex instead of getting some poor bastard passed out drunk, giving him a shove to get him going and letting him ride the ripples.

That's herself... she's a bit chav-tastic having her hair in a Chelsea facelift sort of style.

They also showed an equally heinous video of lots of fat people rolling around the floor (i think in some bizarre fat fighting exercise, though they were proclaming they were proud to be that way) and 'trying' to dance, it was beyond pathos.

I liked this quote:



No discrimination for ill people then...

Wasn't it Billy Conolly who did the "This hole here..." (points at mouth) "...is bigger than this hole here!" (points at arse) gag?

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I don't remember hearing that, but it certainly sounds like something he might say