TIRED OF BEING FAT & UGLY?

[samhexum]

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Attracting attention is a difficult beast.

 

Some believe that it doesn't matter how you do it, as long as people are talking about you.

 

Others worry that there's such a thing as the wrong sort of attention.

 

What was Scott Campbell thinking when he put up a sign outside his Pell City Fitness gym that read: "Tired of Being Fat and Ugly? Just Be Ugly!"?

 

Surely he thought it was noticeable.

 

After all, Pell City in Alabama -- a little east of Birmingham -- couldn't have seen a sign quite like this before.

 

And surely Campbell wasn't entirely surprised when the local Sign Enforcement Officer told him to take it down.

 

But why? It seems it may have had nothing to do with fat-shaming. Or even ugly-shaming.

 

Instead, the city

that the sign was put up without a permit. But of course. What else could it have been?

 

He told WVTM that he's had signs up before -- presumably permitless -- and no one had a problem with them.

 

Now, he's been told all his signs have to come down.

 

Then again, we're talking about marketing here, so Campbell is presenting himself as the put-upon barbell facing the mighty muscle of local government.

 

In a Facebook video, Campbell insisted: "I'm not mean-spirited at all." He explained he's a former state trooper and currently in the military.

 

Of the sign he said: "It's supposed to be a playful jab. It's supposed to an attention-grabber."

 

That, it is. But so is, well, headbutting a priest in a strip club, some might mutter.

 

Campbell said that he has his own history with obesity. When he began to work out, he weighed 300 lbs. Moreover, the city manager told the Washington Post: "The City does not object to the content of the sign."

 

Campbell says he's now been given an extension, and hopes the matter will be resolved.

 

Still, he's started a GoFundMe page, in which he's trying to crowdsource the paying of any fine that might descend.

 

He's aiming for $1,000. At the time of writing, he's raised $245.

 

Yet, some would say, the core of advertising is knowing your audience.

 

Time will tell if Campbell knows his.

Edited May 25, 2018 by samhexum

[+ sync]

While I'm not enthusiastic about the sign's verbiage, I do find it more humorous than offensive.

[Mo Mason]

I don't know why so many people are offended by that. My gym had the same sign out front and the owner had to remove it because people were legit complaining about it being offensive. I thought it was funny.

[thickornotatall]

My experience shows me that an unattractive man can become attractive by having a great body and a big dick...a really big dick..the bigger it is the better looking he is...Maybe it blinds me?....

[EastbayMike]

As Mario Cantone said in Sex and the City: "Ugly sex is hot!"

[samhexum]

A suburban Chicago man has pleaded guilty to stabbing the parents of a girl who called him “ugly.”

 

The Daily Herald reports that 21-year-old Zachary Machnikowski faces up to 60 years in prison on charges of attempted first-degree murder.

 

Police say the Naperville man believed a girl called him “ugly” while the two were at the same party in 2015. Machnikowski became angry and left the party to sneak into the girl’s home. Once inside, he grabbed a kitchen knife and stabbed the girl’s parents in the head, neck and body while they were lying in bed.

 

The couple survived after the father was able to knock the knife away.

 

Machnikowski has been held without bail since the night of the stabbing. He faces sentencing later this summer.

 

[marylander1940]

A suburban Chicago man has pleaded guilty to stabbing the parents of a girl who called him “ugly.”

 

The Daily Herald reports that 21-year-old Zachary Machnikowski faces up to 60 years in prison on charges of attempted first-degree murder.

 

Police say the Naperville man believed a girl called him “ugly” while the two were at the same party in 2015. Machnikowski became angry and left the party to sneak into the girl’s home. Once inside, he grabbed a kitchen knife and stabbed the girl’s parents in the head, neck and body while they were lying in bed.

 

The couple survived after the father was able to knock the knife away.

 

Machnikowski has been held without bail since the night of the stabbing. He faces sentencing later this summer.

 

 

I'm sorry about the whole story, I guess he had enough and she messed with the wrong person at the wrong time.

[thickornotatall]

I'm sorry about the whole story, I guess he had enough and she messed with the wrong person at the wrong time.

How much can you take...He went right to the source...that will teach her a well earned lesson...(I wonder what she looks like)

[+ tassojunior]

There are much more important things than good looks.

 

Big dicks.

[+ Avalon]

I remember once reading some porn producer saying a model needed at least two out of three - looks, (cock) size, build.

[marylander1940]

How much can you take...He went right to the source...that will teach her a well earned lesson...(I wonder what she looks like)

 

I wonder that too.

She didn't know she was the last straw till is too late

 

Edited July 5, 2018 by marylander1940

[thickornotatall]

There are much more important things than good looks.

 

Big dicks.

YES YES YES....my BF is back from vacation tomorrow....feast!

[samhexum]