Getting Weighed On The Street - and Chrissie Isn't Happy 😡

In a (very misguided) attempt to address obesity, Turkey has launched a campaign where they will publicly weigh its citizens. This triggered Chrissie as she remembers her trauma when doing WeightWatchers and they would weigh you and give you badges if you had gained or lost weight...

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Fits In with Kate Richie podcast.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
I'll tell you where they're policing that sort of high
fat dish turkey. Do not go there. Overweight people are
being publicly weighed. Let that sink in publicly weighed. And
if you want to work out how this how this happens.

(00:24):
These people are going about their day as they are
wont to do, going to sports games, catching the tram
whatever bus train, and then out of the blue, medical
examiners like plane clothes police randomly are doing spot body

(00:49):
mass index checks.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
What fat police.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Yes, they put them on scales for public weighing. I'm sorry, sorry,
that is fresh hell. And this is coming from somebody
whose first public weighing would have been ten years old.
At Weight Watches meeting.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
Oh my god.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
I I had to get up in front of Joy
and Pan who had little badges and say, oh yeah,
I've put on point four? Oh god?

Speaker 3 (01:24):
Is that what you had to do? Is that?

Speaker 2 (01:26):
What?

Speaker 3 (01:28):
What were they called chrissy like? So you signed up
to weight Watches and you'd have to rock up in
front of other people and do that.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
Every single week. You would queue up to get on
the scales and then someone would record your weight on
a little card.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
You get a badge, and then you would get some
more recipe suggestions.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
Yes, and you'd have.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
A point system. Wasn't it was like a number system?

Speaker 2 (02:01):
Well not when not? When not? When I was in
primary school, it was like, you know, you'd have to
tick a box. It was fresh hell? And then what
about it? At school? They used to have this grid
with squares on it. Do you remember or is this
just like a problem. You would stand in front of

(02:23):
it and then someone would count how many squares you
you know you were blue? Yeah? I mean what about recently?
I mean this is probably just my my personal fresh
what about recently? There was a story an airline might

(02:45):
have it. I remember this.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
I remember this.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
If you looked to be you know, in a in
a slightly larger body that is considered normal, you would
be scanning your ticket to get on the plane, and
the flight attendant would say, can you just stand on
these please, I've got to check your weight to see
if you are containing within your body excess baggage, and

(03:12):
then they would charge you fatty.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
Yeah, it's annoying because I was always smuggling drugs. That's
why I looked so big. Extra.

Speaker 3 (03:23):
I mean to go to it. I mean the AFL Now,
I think there's certain clubs that don't do skin folds
anymore and check your fat content because I remember that
was always coming back from off season. Was always daunting
because you would do it in front of the team,
but there were guys that would embrace it. I remember
Tony Lockett standing out the front of all the players

(03:44):
holding up a cricket bat when I've worked in walked
in on my first day at the Sydney Swan Swanye,
Why is everyone giving him a standing ovation? He was
holding up a cricket back because he just got a
hundred in his skiin folds he came back. That's the spirit.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
I went to Jambaroo over the summertime.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
What's jam That.

Speaker 3 (04:06):
Is where you control the amusement part. Yeah, magnificent.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
So Jambou it's like Went and Wild and it's awesome.
And they have public scales because you can't be over
a certain weight to go down one of the water slides,
so all the everybody's playing on it, like all the
kids are stepping on it and you're weighing yourself. If
you're larger, you have to go and stand on it
with just your board shorts on, because you've been on

(04:31):
every other water slide, but to go on this water
slide you have to go and check your weight.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
And I it's like a little bit scale too. You
are a dirty animal, it is. Were you close, like
you know, was there just a pooint it and you
would have you would have got gotten under.

Speaker 1 (04:49):
Unfortunately it was over. An alarm went off and then
I was tranquilized and sort of marched out of there.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
Vines collected you and suspended you over.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
Why what's the best ride of the day?

Speaker 3 (05:02):
You got the nickname Jambrong.

Speaker 2 (05:05):
The first ride was the ride home in the car.

Speaker 3 (05:07):
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