Horrifying naked people
The unwritten laws of the tiny gym in our apartment complex state that the first person to arrive in said gym gets to pick the channel on the TV. Usually, the worst that happens from this rule is that I'm forced to watch CNBC's reporters obsessing over the stock market or Ann Coulter on Fox News slamming Gloria Steinem for an hour.
Sadly, last night's gym experience proved that oh yes, it can get worse.
The woman who was running on the treadmill when we got there had chosen as her workout entertainment a show on Discovery Health called "Plastic Surgery Before and After: Best of Weight Loss."
And let me tell you, the show should really be entitled "Horrifying Naked People."
Discovery Health's description of the show is thus: "A makeup artist, a school psychologist, a man who wants to ride his bike again and a mother/daughter pair who've been through divorces, what do they all have in common? They all lost massive amounts of weight and now need surgery get rid excess skin."
And...you, the viewer, get to see ALL of that "excess skin" in a bunch of gratuitous and barely-censored nude and almost-nude shots of these people at the cosmetic surgeon throughout the show.
Vom.
Seriously, I had my eyes closed most of the time and just focused on my iPod, but I'd occasionally open them to check my progress on the elliptical machine and catch a glimpse of OH GOD THAT CANNOT BE HUMAN before quickly slamming my eyes shut again.
Our plan? The next time Josh and I are in the gym, we plan on "accidentally" deleting the Discovery Health channel from the lineup.
And someday, those images will stop haunting my nightmares.
Sadly, last night's gym experience proved that oh yes, it can get worse.
The woman who was running on the treadmill when we got there had chosen as her workout entertainment a show on Discovery Health called "Plastic Surgery Before and After: Best of Weight Loss."
And let me tell you, the show should really be entitled "Horrifying Naked People."
Discovery Health's description of the show is thus: "A makeup artist, a school psychologist, a man who wants to ride his bike again and a mother/daughter pair who've been through divorces, what do they all have in common? They all lost massive amounts of weight and now need surgery get rid excess skin."
And...you, the viewer, get to see ALL of that "excess skin" in a bunch of gratuitous and barely-censored nude and almost-nude shots of these people at the cosmetic surgeon throughout the show.
Vom.
Seriously, I had my eyes closed most of the time and just focused on my iPod, but I'd occasionally open them to check my progress on the elliptical machine and catch a glimpse of OH GOD THAT CANNOT BE HUMAN before quickly slamming my eyes shut again.
Our plan? The next time Josh and I are in the gym, we plan on "accidentally" deleting the Discovery Health channel from the lineup.
And someday, those images will stop haunting my nightmares.
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by Annie @ 9:28 AM
1 Comments:
At 7:51 PM,
SusanSusanSusanSusan said…
I was always a fan of "The Operation," an educational show that went in to simple operations such as a gall bladder or appendix removal, heart valve repair, or something else that improved the quality of life.
Then they showed "breast reduction surgery." It was the most horrifying thing I ever saw. I ended the hour hugging my chest and wimpering. My husband assures me I'll never have to go through that medieval torture. I feel your pain.
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