The World is filling with heavier people, but clothing companies ignore that fact!

As you know (or probably imagine) by the title of my blog and username in various places, I can a "heavy bloke". I stand tall at 6' 1" in my stockinged feet (but that's odd, I have never EVER worn stockings!) and I weigh in at a chair crushing 22st 4lb. This is not the heaviest I have weighed (I used to be 28st) but I have always had a battle with my weight.

I love wearing hoodies, t-shirts and stuff like that and but it is almost impossible to get hoodies in my size. I contacted Vans (one of my favorite clothing brands EVER) and asked what size they go up, and 3XL is a no go, in fact almost nowhere does hoodies in my size. If Vans and other places like that did hoodies in my size, I would start up a hoodie collection (to go with my beanies).

I can get away with 2XL hoodies too but then it is a case of there is no such thing as a universal size and that a 2XL from WWE Shop in the US is huge (My Undertaker hoodie is a good example there) yet I go into Fat Face in Newbury yesterday and try to put on a lovely orange zip up hoodie and I couldn't get it round me....yet I can go to Freespirit in Basingstoke and get a lovely Cream/Brown hoodie in 2XL and it fits nice!

What bugs me is this....why is it that big brands don't make larger clothing if the World is getting populated with ever larger people, and why oh why oh why is it that if I get 2XL (or 3XL when miracles happen) items from more than one brand one will be bigger than the other?

Dammit clothes companies, get your damn act together and this this stupidity out already.

ASCII art wallpapers

I have had some fun this week, as I have been messing about with some ASCII art and at the same time I promoted a few things too!

I made the ASCII art that I did into wallpapers for people to download. most of them have been for charity, but there have been a few company logos I decided to do too, and the links for each one are as follows (In brackets are Twitter usernames and websires):

Bully Free Zone (@BFZonline http://www.bullyfreezone.co.uk)
Percy The Pigeon (@PercythePigeon http://www.areyoubeingbullied.com)
Bullying UK (@bullyinguk http://www.bullying.co.uk)
X-Games 15 (@espnxgames)
Vans (@VANS_66 http://www.vans.com)
Dogs Trust (@dogstrust http://www.dogstrust.org.uk)
Born Free Foundation (@BornFree_UK @BFFoundation http://www.bornfree.org.uk)

I have done some more, but I'll put up the links for those later!
Please feel free to leave your comments here and let me know what you think!