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Howard, my good man,
Let me clear a few things up for you.
I am not a Mod of this site, and haven't been for a long time - I am a member, just like yourself and everyone else here with the exception of Andy2Tanx and Jay (Heads Up) - hereinafter referred to as 'The Owners of YD'. The Mods concept was done away with sometime ago as the board was then thought to be (correctly in my mind), and has proved to be, largely 'self-policing'. On that much, I think we can agree, right?
Vis-a-vis me being, as you might have it, 'size-ist' - not a bit of it; indeed no more so than the light-hearted banter which flows merrily and in spades upon these boards in the whole 'Ard Northerners vs Soft Shandy Drinking Southerners' gigglesworth.
And, as a matter of fact, this light hearted comment was made by a female friend of mine who is, by her own admission, and quite gloriously so (in Naval parlance), 'rather broad through the beam', so to speak, and she had no problem with offering the line either. An act so lacking in self-consciousness as to be both noteworthy and laudable!!
The whole point of the debate with my friend - granted not put forth clearly here by me - was that it is singularly refreshing for some one to win one of these consummately trite-n-trashy competitions on the strength of her voice alone; regardless of looks and at the expense of the usually Biafran belles who usually take the laurels on the basis that they 'look good, are photogenic, have nice tits' and invariably have a rib-cage you could use as a Xylophone and that's it!!
The fact that they are all trying desperately to ape Mariah Carey and her ilk is skipped over (along with any talent, originality in concept, style or delivery) for the sake of how the final product - for sure they all become - might 'sell'? Who cares what they sound like. Ergo irony, writ large, in this case.
Might we just be being a tad over sensitive here Howard? Race, colour and sexuality are things with which we are, in my book, born - size, on the other hand is a (no pun intended) 'moveable feast'. Either way, and to use Association Footballing parlance: "The girl done good".
