This guy seems to think so. I think he's just another PC idiot but would like to hear what you think?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/12/17/nxmas817.xml
A health-conscious Santa Claus is refusing to wear a pillow under his suit because he fears it may promote child obesity.
Bill Winton, a slim 80-year-old, said if children viewed chubby Father Christmas as a role model they could grow up thinking that it was alright to be overweight.
He decided to remove his extra padding after noticing the young children sitting on his knee had become heavier over the years.
Mr Winton, who weighs in at just 12st, is currently dispensing gifts and festive greetings at the Westside Plaza shopping centre in Edinburgh.
He said he was proud of the fact that he had a healthy diet and did not consume sugary drinks.
2007-12-18 03:22:10 · 26 answers · asked by slıɐuǝoʇ 6 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
Very good Shambo!
2007-12-18 03:32:47 · update #1
All this Political Correctness regarding just the holiday season alone, is so ridiculous! Can't say Merry Christmas, have to say Happy Holidays....No Christmas plays in school, now they are "fall festival" or Holiday plays....Geez!! Now they are going after Santa Claus...This crap is done by bitter bored miserable idiotic people with too much time on their hands, who think what THEY think is what we all need. Bull crap! I'm Jewish...I LOVE Christmas lights (have them on my house!!), Christmas trees all lit up...I say Merry Christmas, I love the whole fun about it. OOOoo and Ahhhh, when I see a house all lit up...And I like a Fat Santa!!! Not one who eats Bean sprouts and whole wheat crackers!!! If your religious, that is one thing. If you just enjoy the holiday, then let everyone else enjoy it too...The Miserable people all need to get together and sit around wishing each other a "Happy Holiday", and leave the rest of us the hell alone!!!!!!
Fat Santa All The Way!!!!! MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!!!
2007-12-18 04:54:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
Bill Winton should get another job and leave the traditional Santa alone. This is getting absolutely ridiculous and out of hand. These people should just shut up. Santa has been Santa for hundreds of years. Are they going to ban the Night Before Christmas also? Some people just have to make it a point to ruin things for others. I want to see a jolly looking Santa, not an anorexic looking one. If Mr. Winton wants to be proud of himself for what he does and does not drink - so be it. That is his perogatvie. Don't force it on others.
2007-12-18 04:19:50 · answer #2 · answered by lilith663 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I prefer a healthy looking Santa, not that anorexic in that photo.
This PC stuff is the most idiotic thing I've ever heard. Wow. Now I know why I'm on the pudgy side..... I subconsciously wanted to look like Santa Claus. I wonder why some of my friends are still thin and others gained weight. Hmmmmm. Have to think about this.
HO! HO! HO!
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
2007-12-18 05:32:10 · answer #3 · answered by Eyes 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If we have a thin Santa who would never get stuck in a chimney, we have just lost, most of the Santa Claus jokes!!!
This PC idiot is not giving the children credit for any intelligence whatsoever. They love to see a rotund, jolly Santa.
Ho, Ho, Ho, just doesnt sound the same coming from a
skinny PC Santa.
Please just leave our Christmas traditions and our chidren
alone and let them enjoy a happy childhood Christmas.
2007-12-18 04:18:04 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hi,Mr PC is thick.I grow up thinking & still do of a cuddly santa.I beleive people are getting bigger due to the rubbish like trans fats,additives that food companies are putting into our food.They put all kinds of rubbish into all foods to make a lotta money.They need regulating.
PS/ The link shambo has put is brilliant so funny.
2007-12-18 03:27:29 · answer #5 · answered by Ollie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You would think for one 'season' people could chill out. I don't know about PC I just think he is pompous. He grew up with a jolly fat Santa and Jolly fat old Friar Tuck, Billy Bunter etc etc. He isn't fat. Santa is not the cause our life style has become very 'pampered' and unless we are disciplined we put on weight.
Guilty!!
2007-12-18 03:53:14 · answer #6 · answered by noeusuperstate 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Santa as a role model? I don't know that I ever percieved Santa Claus as a role model when I was a kid. He was just a nice guy who gave me free stuff once a year.
2007-12-18 03:27:19 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
What a load of old tosh! Anybody would be fat with the amount of mince pies Father Christmas scoffs on Christmas Eve. But he does do alot of exercise to offset it though!
2007-12-18 03:26:18 · answer #8 · answered by smith.w6079 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Really, how many children want to grow up to be like Santa? I really don't think Santa's fat is to blame here.
However, I don't see any reason Santa has to be fat. It doesn't really matter. He could just as well be skinny.
2007-12-18 03:33:47 · answer #9 · answered by The First Dragon 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What a fat head. Honestly. Reminds me a bit of my fil - at 80 he was slim and trim. And we all loathed the self righteous, nasty bigot.
It's the size of your loving heart that counts.
2007-12-18 04:25:20 · answer #10 · answered by True Blue Brit 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋