Wimbledon ..seriously obese line judges.

What’s the craic ..?
I’m watching the Konta match at the moment and in a sport that is full of athletic players there is the equivalent of a Sumo wrestler as one of the line judges ..there was also a similarly sized one in the previous ( Williams ) match ..
It’s distracting ..

Makes no difference to their job, what’s your problem with it?

I`ll get the biscuits

Are they taking up all the screen?

Umpire biscuits I hope.

I’ve already said ..

I`ll get the biscuits

I think they’ve all gone

WTAF?

I know tennis is dull but if you are watching the line judges then you should probably turn the television off.

Would have thought it was an advantage ….

Fatties, after all, are well used to standing crouched over with their hands on their knees, after any kind of “brisk” exercise

Sorry ..got that wrong..
There’s actually two oversized line judges ..one at each end ..

Mister P ..I’m not exactly watching the line judges..but to be fair they are taking up most of the screen whenever the cameras fix on them ..

Ah I see, you’re a chubby chaser 😉

Wait? Are differently shaped people a thing? I didn’t know this.

Not really ..but hats off to the LTA ..they have obviously employed these ladies in case rain stops play and they can then provide a wrestling match to keep the crowd entertained ..

Poor Jo ..just wasn’t on it today ..

It’s distracting ..

So you like fat chicks.

Ah, fat shaming.

Shall we have a casual racism thread too? Then we just need something about using disabled toilets when people don’t look sick and we’ve probably got a full set for today.

Then we just need something about using disabled toilets when people don’t look sick

What’s wrong with that?  If I’m desperate for a crap and no one disabled is waiting I’m in there.  If Premier Inn can put me in a room fitted out for disabled people because there isn’t a disabled person booked in to use it, the same applies to a toilet.

And, should a disabled person wander up to the door while I’m using it, why should they receive positive discrimination and automatically assume to be first to the queue for the trap?

Its not a law, its facility which offers extra assistance to those who need it.

think you might be missing the point there

What’s wrong with that?

I’m assuming though that you’re unlikely to soil yourself. Someone with Chrones / IBS / bladder continence / many many other issues might not be so lucky. If you’re happy to open the door to someone sitting in a pool of their own piss then you go right ahead, it’s your conscience.

think you might be missing the point there

Indeed, I was talking about prejudice against “hidden” disabilities. It’s something I’ve had second-hand experience of, and it’s not pleasant.

Fat shaming ..don’t think I’ve gone that far ..what I can’t understand is why there were two obviously obese judges in the same match ..it’s as if the LTA have responded to some sort of criticism that they never show fat people and in response have gone completely off the scale in the other direction ..at least that’s how it appeared to me ..
There’s always someone though ( Cougar ) who wants to take the thread off in a different direction ..
As for liking fat chicks ..I’ve never been with one ..ll the ladies in my life have been real ” lookers ”
What’s it like then Philx1975?

Indeed, I was talking about prejudice against “hidden” disabilities. It’s something I’ve had second-hand experience of, and it’s not pleasant.

You should have made that clear yet if there’s no one at / near the toilet when I get to it with a snake out the cave/stomach issues of my own, what’s the odds of me having and accident vs someone with one of those illnesses suddenly turning up whilst I’m in there?

I appreciate the issue, but your basically saying its an exclusive toilet and I should be prepared to shit myself on a slim chance that a disabled person rocks up whilst I’m in there.

Its a toilet, of course I’d give preference to a disable person and of course I wouldn’t sit in their reading a mag for 20 mins, but its not forbidden to able bodied people per se.

seriously obese?

Surely you mean hilariously!

Er, s’ok. I’m going.

You’d think it’d be a health and safety issue, they present a larger surface area to be impacted by wayward shots.

You’d think it’d be a health and safety issue, they present a larger surface area to be impacted by wayward shots.

Aye, but less likely to sustain injury.

Doesn’t this thread need moderating? I mean the OP has said oooh look at that fat bastard. People get jobs like this on merit, their weight has **** all to do with it. Why comment other than to reveal to the rest if us that you are a bit of a ****?

what I can’t understand is why there were two obviously obese judges in the same match

what I can’t understand is why you think there wouldn’t be. Should they have gone “hang one, we’ve got one obese person on court, we can’t have another as we’ve reached our quota!” I saw two brown people in the same place once but I didn’t feel the need to hit the Internet expressing my surprise.

You should have made that clear

I thought I had. If you misunderstood, that kinda just highlights that it’s a point worth raising.

I appreciate the issue,

I don’t think you do.

By way of example, which I didn’t really want to get into but here we are: An ex of mine had a condition where she’d go from not needing to go to the toilet to being absolutely desperate to go in the time it takes to click your fingers. And when I say desperate, I’m talking the order of seconds before an accident. Even if you’ve got a bad case of the squits you generally get more notice than that.

Planning trips we’d to know where the nearest throne was at all times, and we’d often get shitty looks and occasionally snide comments from people seeing an apparently able-bodied person using the loos (she wasn’t that either, but that’s another story). Some people were just utter shits, it was horrendous for her.

but your basically saying its an exclusive toilet and I should be prepared to shit myself

No, I’m saying that the likelihood of you shitting yourself is very low under normal circumstances. If you were genuinely in danger of soiling yourself and no other traps were available then it’s hard to argue against that, it is in essence a disability albeit temporary.

There’s actually two oversized line judges ..one at each end ..

Over what size? Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy taking the piss out of fatties as much as anyone. I hope no-one ever does it to me, though.

Also, if “it’s not against the law” was my only source of moral compass, I’d be having a hard look at myself.

“it’s not against the law”

That seems to be the basis for your average German’s moral compass….

Yup, also noticed the number of obese/fat/big boned/low metabolism line judges.

I wondered how they get into it (the line judging, not their uniform) and how they get chosen.

And then there’s the idea that with the hawk eye ball tracking they aren’t needed anymore.

I wondered how they get into it (the line judging, not their uniform) and how they get chosen.

They have an interest in tennis, complete a course, probably cover a set number of matches then apply to work at Wimbledon.

Op well done. You win Internet bell end of the month. Nice job.

There’s a bloke in a pub I use who likes to fatshame various clientele.
Turns out his wife left him and he has no real friends.

😂😂

To be fair hodgydndnydnnoggy whatever…. You have made me look out for the rotund people 🙂 I hate Wimbledon… And tennis anyway. Silly sport.

hodgynd and pals down the pub earlier…

Good for you doncornonmetoeend..like I give a shit for your opinion anyway ..
but thanks for the nomination ..are you also in for the same award ?

Maybe they’re on fat killing community service.

By being forced to exercise

That’s fine hogmydoggygyndoomogofatshaming turnip. Opinions make the world go round.

And I thought it was just my planetary alignments that were making me a tad tetchy recently… Looks like we’re all in this together.