Curve Blogger told to cover her.....

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I don't think I've ever seen anyone in those places in a bathing suit. Common decency.

probably a media play all the way.

Not my preference in body types.

I'm going to have nightmares now seeing that. 😲

Quote: gordonm888

Not my preference in body types.

That's irrelevant.

If she has permission from the upper management, and has the balls to do it, let her. I respect her decision.

Of course, she could also go out on the sidewalk, or to Fremont St, where she would almost blend in.

Quote: DJTeddyBear

That's irrelevant.

If she has permission from the upper management, and has the balls to do it, let her. I respect her decision.

Of course, she could also go out on the sidewalk, or to Fremont St, where she would almost blend in.

I'd have to see her permission, from upper management , to do a photo shot involving bikinis.

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The very moment I clicked on that link, my wife walked into my study and saw the screen.
I may have to self exclude for a few days $:o)

I'm pretty sure the permission letter was not as revealing as the bikini making the whole event a manufactured publicity stunt.

Quote: OnceDear

The very moment I clicked on that link, my wife walked into my study and saw the screen.
I may have to self exclude for a few days $:o)

That's cuz she knows you got all excited and what you were about to do.

Something doesn't feel right about this story.

She claims she had permission for this photoshoot, but then it gets almost immediately shut down by the people who supposedly gave her permission?

It almost feels like she somehow lied to or misled the PR department, and when they finally caught on they were like, "Uh-uh -- no way." For all we know she just said, "Is it okay to take pictures in the casino?" and the PR people thought she was just some tourist wondering if it was okay to take pics on her iPhone or something... not do a full scale photoshoot.

Or maybe casino management and the PR team totally dropped the ball.

All I know is we've only gotten one side of the story here....

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motion to ban Johnny Q!

my eyes... aiiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

I have a feeling if it was some semi-famous(is she?) hottie (sorry OD, I mean my version of a hottie) they probably would not have shut her down.

I have a feeling once they saw her, they didn't think it was a good look for them and they figured it may turn some people off.

I have a feeling she knew this was a possible outcome and that's what she was going for in order to gain some publicity.

Ah! There's another piece to this puzzle... here's the statement from the casino/hotel in question:

"All guests wearing bathing suits inside our lobby and casino are asked to cover up.

Additionally, Ms. O’Brien never shared with the PR team that she intended to take photos in the lobby in her bathing suit.

Had we understood her intent additional clearances to take the photos would have been required and, if permitted, we would have had a PR team member present to staff."

Quote: AxelWolf

That's cuz she knows you got all excited and what you were about to do.

Like that time your gf caught you "watching" the little league world series?

Seems like she's the type to buy one airline seat for her and her bs service animal that she fed a bunch of salami to preflight.

Quote: AxelWolf

That's cuz she knows you got all excited and what you were about to do.

Thanks for your concern, Foxey. I don't think excited is the word!
It would have been the usual dead giveaway if I'd frantically tried to turn the screen off ( which I don't bother doing anymore )
Now, if she'd been a brunette, I'd have been in trouble.

Farm animals are never allowed in hotel lobbies. What am I missing?

How does a casino accommodate someone of that size at its table games?

I am currently playing in some WSOP Circuit tournaments and I speculate that someone that big would not physically fit in the space allocated to a player at a poker table. And for competitive balance reasons, I assume she couldn't be allocated two seats in a tournament.

Quote: onenickelmiracle

Farm animals are never allowed in hotel lobbies. What am I missing?

Class, to begin with.

Quote: billryan

Class, to begin with.

Hilarious !

Quote: billryan

Class, to begin with.

Damn right. The lady is literally eating for two and not even pregnant, **** her.

Quote: DJTeddyBear

If she has permission from the upper management, ...

As you know, I used to work for the Venetian. Knowing how they ride, I doubt she had official permission for the photo shoot and was in violation of a dress code policy. With what little I know, I have to take the Venetian's side.

Quote: gordonm888

How does a casino accommodate someone of that size at its table games?

I am currently playing in some WSOP Circuit tournaments and I speculate that someone that big would not physically fit in the space allocated to a player at a poker table.

There’s a rule for that:

Quote: TDA Rule 8

Seating, Breaking & Balancing Tables
Special Needs:
Accommodations for players with special needs will be made when possible.

in short, she could be given a seat on the rounded end. Same as someone in a wheelchair.

There are 11 seats at a WSOP table, including the dealer. The ends of the table are quite crowded and cramped. I have indeed seen wheelchair players, but some people, including this attention-seeking blogger, are a lot wider than a wheelchair. I think the key words are "when possible." Some people are so fat that it just might not be possible.

I suspect that the forumites on this thread who are astonished at the obesity of this woman are not, themselves, morbidly obese. I wonder about the contrapositive.

It would help if everyone on this thread would post their body weight, within a range of 50 lbs, when making a comment for or against this woman's extreme weight.

I will go first as an example: I am between 150 and 200 lbs. And I am disgusted by the way this woman has taken care of her body.

Quote: OnceDear

Thanks for your concern, Foxey. I don't think excited is the word!
It would have been the usual dead giveaway if I'd frantically tried to turn the screen off ( which I don't bother doing anymore )
Now, if she'd been a brunette, I'd have been in trouble.

I always had you pegged for a chubby chaser with a footfetish, I didn't realize you had an affinity for brunettes (-;

Quote: gordonm888

. And I am disgusted by the way this woman has taken care of her body.

Infections? Endocrinopathies? Leaky gut syndrome?

I think it was a publicity stunt.

Remember the controversy over Anorexia Nervosa and Thinsporation? Body image sites that advocate the extreme anorexic form as right and proper and advocate thigh gap status often get downplayed.

Quote: gordonm888

I will go first as an example: I am between 150 and 200 lbs. And I am disgusted by the way this woman has taken care of her body.

212. It is her body, why should I care how much she weighs ? I don't.

Obviously, she is trying to get attention. She wants attention for her blog/job whatever. Mission accomplished.

Everyone here is feeding into why she is even doing this. To get attention to the controversy and insults directed towards obese people

Your insults towards her weight are the ammunition which keeps her going

I personally find thin women as my primary attraction but several members of my family are morbidly obese so I have some empathy

As far as the actual decision by the casino I agree she probably misled them and they did the right thing as general policy

I have stayed in a couple hundred hotels over 40+ years of traveling. ANY hotel above a mom n pop 12 room joint on Daytona Beach doesn't allow people in swimsuits in their lobbies, restaurants, or other public areas. Most have it written in their rules and/or signs near the pool.

So I really doubt she disclosed the swimsuit modeling, if she even got into detail at all, or the hotel would not have given blanket permission (as they said).

As to the fat shaming, whatever. Trolls are everywhere.

Mmmmkay, so I'm not exactly sure if this qualifies as being out & about with more or less of... something, but I have seen a lady sitting right smack in the middle of a casino gaming floor frantically playing the slots two machines at a time while wearing the following articles of clothing: a pair of bunny slippers, and a bath robe. Nothing else. Trust me, nothing else. Nobody noticed, or at least everybody in the place did an excellent job of pretending not to notice, or were soused & jaded enough from the cheesy "dealertainer" acts on the earlier shift so that surprise was no longer really possible.

On the other hand, it was not quite a VIP wing of the Venetian she chose for her dry-shower/gambling multitasking. It was a bit downmarket from Venetian type standards. It was the dingy crumbling old Imperial Palace, before the decrepit neo-fascist themed cheap dump was gutted and spiffed up for artsy yuppies. And it was about 3am. Ms. Floppy Terrycloth Robe was a middle aged lady, but it was also during Spring Break for a lot of Cali schools, so the IP was mostly chock full of impoverished twennysumpins shacked up six or eight to a room above that low-rent casino, while majoring in freedom from adult authority and experimental acts of social non-conformism while enrolled in a multidisciplinary undergrad group seminar on the effects of a continuous ten day binge drunk on novice boozers. And for them, maybe she resembled someone's mom who used to get beer for them. So, whatever the formal written policies of the IP might have been on the matter (in the extremely unlikely event anyone working there could've located any of them to find out what they said - there"s a story about that for another day) the informal standards may not have been exactly identical to the expectations of the Venetian/Palazzo property further up the Boulevard a bit.

I'm not saying any of that to suggest what I think about this other sparsely attired miss, or make any case for what others ought to think or do about about this blogger gal posing blondely in that lobby - I don't wanna get near this tar baby. My real point of recalling this is: I don't have a point. Except if you're around a lot during some of the wee small hours you eventually see... a whole bunch of stuff & things. Like the night the bride & groom struggled to stay upright in their seats in front of their castles of empty tequila shot glasses while still wearing their somewhat soiled tux & wedding dress at the poker table at 4am, at the same time the more lively game at the other table had Huggy Bear the Pimp (Antonio Vargas from Starsky & Hutch) & Tony Soprano Jr. (the actor who played him) positioned across the table from someone even blonder than this blogger, who I was authoritatively told was supposed to be some kind of really super duper world famous big-time pornstar gal whose X-rated cinematic talents were supposed to amount to goddess level stuff for real big bimbo aficionados. And there were a couple of prominently persuasive reasons to believe what I was told about Miss Magnificent Endowment.

But with all that pointless anecdotal reminiscing, I do have one itty bitty little fuddy-duddy question. What the fleck is a "Lifestyle Blogger?" Besides blonde.

This woman's claim to "fame" is her obesity. In that sense I don't think criticizing her weight is off-limits, because that is her public image that she is trying to capitalize on. It's literally her "brand" or "business model" or whatever you want to call it. It would be different if she were just some random tourist on a vacation minding her own business, and in that sense it would be fat-shaming or trolling, but this is this woman's public image that she is trying to get a reaction with.

I just think it's silly that people, no matter what their weight, somehow make a living taking pictures of themselves and putting it online.

I just want to agree with Tiger Wu, above.

Morbid/extreme obesity (>100 lbs overweight) in person A is none of person B's business - until person A takes revealing photos of their morbidly obese body and posts it on the internet in a flaunting manner and media begin reporting on a "fat person rights" issue. Then it becomes fair game for critical comments and disparaging humor, imo.

Morbid obesity is not (just) a matter of "body image" or cultural attitudes towards beauty - it is a form of negligence and recklessness. And very extreme obesity is like a neighbor who neglects all maintenance on a house and just allows it to deteriorate until it collapses. It has some similarities to an alcoholic or drug-addicted homeless person. It is sad, even tragic, but there is nothing about it to respect, in my opinion.

Google the medical implications of extreme obesity -the list is staggering.

I could walk down the street in a swimsuit or my underwear. They could be the same size and cover the same amount of skin, but someone's going to call the police if I forgot to put on my pants.

People that want to argue the point that I should be able to walk down the street in my underwear are just anarchists.

I guess this lady just wants to rock the boat. And rock she does. Her bikini shots may not be to popular, but she's got her 15 minutes of fame.

I've always liked it when women leave a little to our imagination. I thank her for that.