Can you be fat and work at Tesco?

Emmzi

I suspect the median size would be a more useful measure.

I'll tell you now, it ain't a 10....

looby75

xXMessedUpXx wrote: »

I can guarantee the girls in the first picture don't have to take mood stabilisers, which have caused all the people i know taking them (self included) to gain a lot of weight. Excercsising and dieting has made NO difference since being on these drugs. If i stop taking them i'd lose weight, but i'd also lose my mind.

Maybe you should watch Shallow Hal

Case in point i went from this (borderline on being anorexic)


to this:

believe me you don't have to worry about how you look, I know many many people who will be very attracted to you post meds you look fantastic xxx

Jacks_xxx

Caliendo wrote: »

What a ridiculous thing to say! There's not just one way to be and people who are a size 4. 6, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 30 or 32 are still normal people.

I'm not so sure about people whose first instinct is to be mean and unkind and judgemental though. Is that "normal"?

chopandchange wrote: »

Do some of the people commenting not understand how averages are calculated?

Say we're surveying ten people and five of them are very fat and five are very skinny. The researchers will add their weights together, divide them by ten, and announce that "the average person in this group of people is medium weight" despite the fact that there is no one of medium weight in the group at all. "Average" is a mathematical term but people mis-use it when they want an adjective, as though it were a synonym for "normal," or "most commonly ocurring" which it isn't. Therefore, to say that the average-sized woman in the UK is a 16 does not necessarily mean that there are loads of size 16 ladies. It may in fact be more accurate to say that there are a lot of people who are over a size 16, and a lot who are under, so the "average" is announced as being somewhere in between.

Suppose there are 14 people and they are every size from 4 to 32?

Average bra size in the UK is a 36D - and nobody who is an 8 or 10 is that size and very few size 12s would be either.

Jacks_xxx

looby75 wrote: »

believe me you don't have to worry about how you look, I know many many people who will be very attracted to you post meds you look fantastic xxx

:TI was just going to post the same thing. You look lovely. xXMessedupXx

snugglepet20

chopandchange wrote: »

Do some of the people commenting not understand how averages are calculated?

Say we're surveying ten people and five of them are very fat and five are very skinny. The researchers will add their weights together, divide them by ten, and announce that "the average person in this group of people is medium weight" despite the fact that there is no one of medium weight in the group at all. "Average" is a mathematical term but people mis-use it when they want an adjective, as though it were a synonym for "normal," or "most commonly ocurring" which it isn't. Therefore, to say that the average-sized woman in the UK is a 16 does not necessarily mean that there are loads of size 16 ladies. It may in fact be more accurate to say that there are a lot of people who are over a size 16, and a lot who are under, so the "average" is announced as being somewhere in between.

Just to point out that you are wrong. What you describe is in fact the mean, 'average' is a general term used to describe either the mean, the mode or the median. If the mode was used to calculate 'average' size that would in fact be the size most women are. If you want to be pedantic at least be accurate.

Oh and please would people stop entertaining Raver69 as he is the most blatant troll ever.

Mrs_Ryan

Heidi, I hope you do well - you go girl!

I'm a size 24-26 and in my job, trust me its an advantage when you've got a crazed patient trying to knock
you over or batter the door down with various pieces of furniture!

Raksha

Jacks_xxx wrote: »

:TI was just going to post the same thing. You look lovely. xXMessedupXx

Wish I had that 'frontage'

SUESMITH_2

indeed, i know which one most men would go for!

bubbles0169

hope you get the job heidi, let us know
if you do you get it you get to wear your own clothes for 3 months anyway till after your trial period x

tazwhoever

Mary Byrne not your size 6!, but works at Tesco and sings well, but I guess she would be beaten by Cher Lloyd.

OP, size doesn't matter, Doing the job matters!