Miquel The Work Geordie Posted 17 July 2009 Posted 17 July 2009 I really don't care about the massive increase in excessively overweight people. If that's how they choose to live, let them. If they don't have the willpower or desire to lose it then there will be no getting through to them.
Bellend Sebastian Posted 17 July 2009 Posted 17 July 2009 At least we won't need to hunt whales anymore to fuel our lanterns
BoneDog Posted 17 July 2009 Posted 17 July 2009 Empty, it still doesn't make it right though, that money could be better spent......plus you've forgot, the diseases that come with obesity.....diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, and the list goes on....................... The money could be better spent but I'm not convinced it would be, I don't think it would be put towards any schemes to benefit the population in general. They are continually making cutbacks on good things to fund the things they are doing around the world which cost many billions a year. If we saved a bit of money from operations on obese people then the spare money would just go into the coffers for the schemes they are involved in.
Dr The Singh Posted 17 July 2009 Posted 17 July 2009 The money could be better spent but I'm not convinced it would be, I don't think it would be put towards any schemes to benefit the population in general. They are continually making cutbacks on good things to fund the things they are doing around the world which cost many billions a year. If we saved a bit of money from operations on obese people then the spare money would just go into the coffers for the schemes they are involved in. Twp wrongs don't make a right, matey, it's not only the operations the prescription drugs for all the illness which outway the cost of the operations. Plus obesity could be avoided, the operations and illness could be avoided, the lifespan of the individual and the distress of there families could be avoided, nobody should be forced to make changes within there life, there's alot more to it then money, the emotional and psychological effects go way beyond the individual. It is well known obese parents pass the legacy to there children...................
Tabou Posted 17 July 2009 Posted 17 July 2009 The money could be better spent but I'm not convinced it would be, I don't think it would be put towards any schemes to benefit the population in general. They are continually making cutbacks on good things to fund the things they are doing around the world which cost many billions a year. If we saved a bit of money from operations on obese people then the spare money would just go into the coffers for the schemes they are involved in. Whilst I admire your apparent ability to make your point in an articulate manner, it would serve you well to use examples, facts and figures, rather than general, feelting statements.
Tommy G Posted 17 July 2009 Author Posted 17 July 2009 it's quite ironic but I want to put on about a stone and a half (but not fat) Has anyone got any spare weight they wanna lend me
Tabou Posted 17 July 2009 Posted 17 July 2009 it's quite ironic but I want to put on about a stone and a half (but not fat)Has anyone got any spare weight they wanna lend me I wanna drop about 2 stone. More than willing mate.
Miquel The Work Geordie Posted 17 July 2009 Posted 17 July 2009 it's quite ironic but I want to put on about a stone and a half (but not fat)Has anyone got any spare weight they wanna lend me I used to weigh 17 stone, now I weigh 10 and a half. Use that.
Dr The Singh Posted 17 July 2009 Posted 17 July 2009 it's quite ironic but I want to put on about a stone and a half (but not fat)Has anyone got any spare weight they wanna lend me I've got plenty of weight in my ball sacks, your quite welcome to extract that..................
Tabou Posted 17 July 2009 Posted 17 July 2009 I've got plenty of weight in my ball sacks, your quite welcome to extract that.................. Shotgun.
Finnegan Posted 17 July 2009 Posted 17 July 2009 I haven't read the last four pages but that's not going to stop me throwing my two penneth in. Our media's obsessed with weight but it all seems a little overboard to me. Yes, I think we should be encouraging our children to excersise more and people to have more active lifestyles but this whole "overweight" wytch hunt is just sad. It's all over our TV and our magazines hammering it into people how they should look and how we're all getting fatter and fatter. It bothers me for two reasons, really. Firtsly and foremostly because it's just like every other bit of scaremongering sensationalism. The streets aren't crawling with overweight people just as they're not crawling with immigrants. Take a trot around Leicester and, as far as I'm concerned, the vast majority of people are just pretty normal looking. I'm sure if you sit watching Jeremy Kyle daily you can be convinced that our entire populace is fat, chavvy and utterly foul but a walk around the real world and it just isn't the case. There may be, statistically, more people overweight in 2009 than at X or Y time in history but I imgine there are more teen pregnancies, more STDs, more binge drinkers, more recreational drug users, more divorces and fook knows what else that's branded around as a flavour-of-the-week social evil. Obesity's just the latest market spinner and while it'll do some good (I'm sure Jamie Oliver's school dinners campaign was overall a good thing) it'll also make a few people really fooking rich, conveniently. The second side of things - and this is the one I'm far more passionate about - is the psychological effect it has on people. Everyone overweight is tarred with the same brush: lazy, unhealthy, stupid, common, useless, ugly, unpleasant. It's disgusting. The only non-criminal group of people more demonized in the UK over the past decade are smokers and that was just as bad a few years ago, but at least most smokers are generally not sensitive about the fact they puff a pack a day. But no problem because it's okay to pick on fat people; you're born black, you're raised Muslim, you just "turn out" gay it's not cool to pick on these people it's not something they choose - but, hell, say what the fuck you want about the overweight because they could have avoided the way they looked if they just didn't eat that extra donut with their super sized McDonalds. Tsh. If the country has an obesity problem and if it needs to be tackled then who am I to say otherwise? I'm not a health expert and I don't work for the NHS, but it should damn well be less of a crusade and something far less demeaning.
lildave3 Posted 17 July 2009 Posted 17 July 2009 I'm launching a bid claiming to be the poster with the unhealthiest diet. But also one of the skinniest. Make of that what you will.
Webbo Posted 17 July 2009 Posted 17 July 2009 Firtsly and foremostly because it's just like every other bit of scaremongering sensationalism. The streets aren't crawling with overweight people just as they're not crawling with immigrants. Take a trot around Leicester and, as far as I'm concerned, the vast majority of people are just pretty normal looking. I'm sure if you sit watching Jeremy Kyle daily you can be convinced that our entire populace is fat, chavvy and utterly foul but a walk around the real world and it just isn't the case. Do you mind if I walk slowly instead? I get out of breath easily
Edmund Posted 17 July 2009 Posted 17 July 2009 I haven't read the last four pages but that's not going to stop me throwing my two penneth in.Our media's obsessed with weight but it all seems a little overboard to me. Yes, I think we should be encouraging our children to excersise more and people to have more active lifestyles but this whole "overweight" wytch hunt is just sad. It's all over our TV and our magazines hammering it into people how they should look and how we're all getting fatter and fatter. It bothers me for two reasons, really. Firtsly and foremostly because it's just like every other bit of scaremongering sensationalism. The streets aren't crawling with overweight people just as they're not crawling with immigrants. Take a trot around Leicester and, as far as I'm concerned, the vast majority of people are just pretty normal looking. I'm sure if you sit watching Jeremy Kyle daily you can be convinced that our entire populace is fat, chavvy and utterly foul but a walk around the real world and it just isn't the case. There may be, statistically, more people overweight in 2009 than at X or Y time in history but I imgine there are more teen pregnancies, more STDs, more binge drinkers, more recreational drug users, more divorces and fook knows what else that's branded around as a flavour-of-the-week social evil. Obesity's just the latest market spinner and while it'll do some good (I'm sure Jamie Oliver's school dinners campaign was overall a good thing) it'll also make a few people really fooking rich, conveniently. The second side of things - and this is the one I'm far more passionate about - is the psychological effect it has on people. Everyone overweight is tarred with the same brush: lazy, unhealthy, stupid, common, useless, ugly, unpleasant. It's disgusting. The only non-criminal group of people more demonized in the UK over the past decade are smokers and that was just as bad a few years ago, but at least most smokers are generally not sensitive about the fact they puff a pack a day. But no problem because it's okay to pick on fat people; you're born black, you're raised Muslim, you just "turn out" gay it's not cool to pick on these people it's not something they choose - but, hell, say what the fuck you want about the overweight because they could have avoided the way they looked if they just didn't eat that extra donut with their super sized McDonalds. Tsh. If the country has an obesity problem and if it needs to be tackled then who am I to say otherwise? I'm not a health expert and I don't work for the NHS, but it should damn well be less of a crusade and something far less demeaning. The sixties
welck12 Posted 17 July 2009 Posted 17 July 2009 I'm launching a bid claiming to be the poster with the unhealthiest diet.But also one of the skinniest. Make of that what you will. I'll run u a very close second i reckon
Bryn Posted 17 July 2009 Posted 17 July 2009 I haven't read the last four pages but that's not going to stop me throwing my two penneth in.Our media's obsessed with weight but it all seems a little overboard to me. Yes, I think we should be encouraging our children to excersise more and people to have more active lifestyles but this whole "overweight" wytch hunt is just sad. It's all over our TV and our magazines hammering it into people how they should look and how we're all getting fatter and fatter. It bothers me for two reasons, really. Firtsly and foremostly because it's just like every other bit of scaremongering sensationalism. The streets aren't crawling with overweight people just as they're not crawling with immigrants. Take a trot around Leicester and, as far as I'm concerned, the vast majority of people are just pretty normal looking. I'm sure if you sit watching Jeremy Kyle daily you can be convinced that our entire populace is fat, chavvy and utterly foul but a walk around the real world and it just isn't the case. There may be, statistically, more people overweight in 2009 than at X or Y time in history but I imgine there are more teen pregnancies, more STDs, more binge drinkers, more recreational drug users, more divorces and fook knows what else that's branded around as a flavour-of-the-week social evil. Obesity's just the latest market spinner and while it'll do some good (I'm sure Jamie Oliver's school dinners campaign was overall a good thing) it'll also make a few people really fooking rich, conveniently. The second side of things - and this is the one I'm far more passionate about - is the psychological effect it has on people. Everyone overweight is tarred with the same brush: lazy, unhealthy, stupid, common, useless, ugly, unpleasant. It's disgusting. The only non-criminal group of people more demonized in the UK over the past decade are smokers and that was just as bad a few years ago, but at least most smokers are generally not sensitive about the fact they puff a pack a day. But no problem because it's okay to pick on fat people; you're born black, you're raised Muslim, you just "turn out" gay it's not cool to pick on these people it's not something they choose - but, hell, say what the fuck you want about the overweight because they could have avoided the way they looked if they just didn't eat that extra donut with their super sized McDonalds. Tsh. If the country has an obesity problem and if it needs to be tackled then who am I to say otherwise? I'm not a health expert and I don't work for the NHS, but it should damn well be less of a crusade and something far less demeaning. You win the thread, where do I send the trophy?
lou Posted 17 July 2009 Posted 17 July 2009 I'm launching a bid claiming to be the poster with the unhealthiest diet.But also one of the skinniest. Make of that what you will. Youre young... wait til you hit middle age m8!! I could eat/drink what I wanted til I hit 40 then the metabolism stops
lildave3 Posted 17 July 2009 Posted 17 July 2009 Youre young... wait til you hit middle age m8!! I could eat/drink what I wanted til I hit 40 then the metabolism stops Yeah but by then it won't matter
StanSP Posted 17 July 2009 Posted 17 July 2009 I'll run u a very close second i reckon I got a VERY unhealthy diet too.
Vacamion Posted 17 July 2009 Posted 17 July 2009 I live in the West of Scotland, home of the unhealthy diet and crushing pains in the chest. My local kebab/curry place serves: "Hoagie" - a Pitta bread wrapped around chips, cheese and donner meat "Deep Fried Calzone Donner Pizza" - fat wrapped in fat, covered in fat, deep fried "Skyscraper Burger" - A deep fried burger, topped with donner meat and cheese They do a "munchie box", the contents of which probably contain enough caloiries to feed a village for a week. If you live in a town where onions and tomato sauce constitute two of your 5-a-day, it can only end in tears...
Daggers Posted 17 July 2009 Posted 17 July 2009 I live in the West of Scotland, home of the unhealthy diet and crushing pains in the chest.My local kebab/curry place serves: "Hoagie" - a Pitta bread wrapped around chips, cheese and donner meat "Deep Fried Calzone Donner Pizza" - fat wrapped in fat, covered in fat, deep fried "Skyscraper Burger" - A deep fried burger, topped with donner meat and cheese They do a "munchie box", the contents of which probably contain enough caloiries to feed a village for a week. If you live in a town where onions and tomato sauce constitute two of your 5-a-day, it can only end in tears... I've just changed my holiday plans.
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