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Dating Site Boots U.S. "Fatties" After Holidays
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Published Jan 5, 2010
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Reportedly an international online date site, called BeatifulPeople, is perfectly happy to show their shallow side. CNN reports that they have a "strict ban on ugly people," and recently cut 5,000 members for gaining weight during the holidays! Robert Hintze, founder of the site, explained: "Letting fatties roam the site is a direct threat to our business model and the very concept for which [the site] was founded." The most users expelled from the site were from, surprise, the U.S — in fact, they says, "Every year we see that some of our members from Western cultures eat and drink to excess over the holidays, and clearly their looks suffer. The U.S.A. has been grossly over-indulging since Thanksgiving." [via Boing Boing]
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