Self-conscious about your weight? Think twice before sitting on a bench in a bus shelter in Amsterdam!
To be more precise, some bus shelters in Amsterdam have been fitted with weight meters that show people waiting for the public transportation what their weight is and whether they should start losing some extra flab.
http://gadgets.softpedia.com/news/Bus-Shelters-in-Amsterdam-Point-Out-Fat-People-1822-01.html - via joeydevilla
(image credit: The Design Blog)From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by Lee.
Check out this 1938 Popular Science Mag ad...
Can you even imagine???
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people would be stuffing their faces with more nasty, fattening bits thinking they weigh less. typical
let them eat cake, let them be fat
They (the ubiquitous they) should put them in front of grocery stores, convenience stores, bars, and fast food joints.
Hey, I saw some Americans yesterday that weren't fat; how quaint.
"Seems like a good way to get people to avoid taking mass transit."
Only if the bus charges by the pound.
I'm sure we've all see the galleries of crazy bus graphics, like the doors that look like shark teeth and things like that.
And there's plenty of really interesting bus stop ads like this one.
Weird.
Moving swiftly on, I think that this is horrible. A person's weight is their own business and there is no reason to announce it to a bunch of people you are about to get onto a bus with. It's just another way to pick on fat people. Fat people get bullied enough.
Right, because if you are fat you have no idea that you are or what you should do about it.
thisisit, that statement is either self loathing or you're a health nut.
Hurry up and weight.
it's just neatorama
ha
Hurry up and weight."
Good one Kalel
He/She was 'unpleasently not suprised' by the characters in his/her own invention. That's quite interesting!
(and no packpedaling with claims of 'joking' or 'sarcasm', just to save face.)