this is the kind of discrimination I can get behind

Reading the following headline on CNN.com this morning made me giggle like a schoolgirl

Dating site for beautiful people expels 'fatties' after holiday weight gain

The dating website www.BeautifulPeople.Com markets itself as a premium dating website and started booting people after they posted pictures of themselves after having put on a couple of pounds with the holiday season.


The Websites founder said

“As a business, we mourn the loss of any member, but the fact remains that our members demand the high standard of beauty be upheld," said Robert Hintze, founder of BeautifulPeople.com. "Letting fatties roam the site is a direct threat to our business model and the very concept for which BeautifulPeople.com was founded."

I love the irony of the internet which is supposed to be the ideal place for faceless interaction discriminating people because they would take up two seats on a JetBlue flight.


You gotta at least say their discrimination wasn’t specific to an ethnicity as they expelled 1,520 users from the U.S., 832 from the U.K., 533 from Canada, 510 from Poland, 425 from Germany, 402 from Italy, 323 from France, 220 from Denmark, 176 from Turkey and 88 people from Russia.


And then they also gave users suggestions for boot camps and workout facilities to get themselves back in shape.


I actually do believe Health-Care should run similar to this. I know there is a big debate about whether Insurance Companies should be able to disqualify people and avoid insuring them if they come with a precondition which I totally disagree specifically when it’s something that you can’t do anything about but when a guy is sitting on his couch eating bacon covered chocolate, chocolate covered bacon or chocolate shaped bacon you should have higher rates than the guy swimming 5 days per week and eating soy flavored tofu.