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#1 28-07-2010 15:45:12
- Silkie341
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Heres the deal
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healt … ister.html
You can tell me I'm fat if I can say you have skin like a sun bleached rhino and that way we can be even eh? No? Well goodness me that doesn't seem fair at all.
Simply put people are fully aware they are fat in the same way smokers know their habit is bad for them and teenagers know they are obnoxious. They don't care so can the powers that be sod off and find something better to do with their time please?
I like to give a new government time to settle in before I start slagging them off. 
Give me coffee and no one needs to get hurt! Well not physically anyway! "Nothing in this world worth having comes easy" Bob Kelso
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#2 28-07-2010 20:05:46
- alphatwin
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Re: Heres the deal
This, and other uninformed nonsense delivered straight to your government courtesy of Uncanny Valley Ideological Policy Solutions Ltd.
Also, holy crap @ the comments. Apparently insulting people will convince them to eat less cake and do a bit more walking, and if they don't, well, they're just FAT FATHEADS. FATTY. It's almost like these people are children fixated on a right-wing self-responsibility fantasy.
ROBOT LORDS OF TOKYO.
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#3 28-07-2010 21:05:19
- Silkie341
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Re: Heres the deal
Or left wing as they were happy to set up systems where perfectly healthy children were labelled as fat because they didn't exactly fit some silly weight/height index. They all do this as overweight people garner no sympathy and it isn't discrimination to victimize them any more than the unemployed or students. This is why I don't like political correctness as it doesn't change the mind set just who becomes the victim for people to pick on. Swap out the words unemployed or fat with a few ethnic types and notice how the insults have just switched focus without changing the bullying nature behind it.
People eat too much for a lot of reasons and comfort eating in the West is very common so the more depressed they get the more they eat. We haven't got a lot to be cheerful about right now and although going for a walk sounds easy for the average MP the rest of us don't have armed security in tow. I'm a belligerent old sod but frankly the last teenage thug I tangled with took too long to fall for my liking not that there was anything in the wallet he demanded but it's the principle of the thing. 
Give me coffee and no one needs to get hurt! Well not physically anyway! "Nothing in this world worth having comes easy" Bob Kelso
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#4 28-07-2010 21:10:34
- Bengie
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Re: Heres the deal
It's funny that because about a year ago I was told something by the doc and I said "so what your saying is I'm a fat barsteward and I smoke"?, he replied, "I didn't say that", so I said "but that's what you mean"? and he said "well if you want it in todays language - yes".
I said "well you should call a spade a spade and say what you mean". He just smiled.
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#5 28-07-2010 21:41:50
- Silkie341
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Re: Heres the deal
He needs lessons from my doctor as the old sod never minces words but maybe that's just me as he knows I like that sort of attitude. Still I pinched Stephen Fry's idea of listening to books while walking which works out nicely as you can still hear people coming over an audio book. I'm not saying I'm thin but I'm not as fat as I used to be and my belt has tightened by two notches so far so it's a start.
Give me coffee and no one needs to get hurt! Well not physically anyway! "Nothing in this world worth having comes easy" Bob Kelso
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#6 29-07-2010 18:28:49
- boringgit
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Re: Heres the deal
I've not read your article, but as I read it on the BBC news site, what he was trying to do was not to be politically correct, but more to discourage the use of a medical term, Obesity, which he thought was encouraging people not to take responsibility for their own weight - but instead assume it is a medical condition which the doctor needs to sort out.
We always disagree on the subject of government "education", but I think I've just realised why. I assume people are often stupid - you assume they are not. I don't for one second beleive that you aren't well aware what you should be eating, how much and how much excercise you should do. Trouble is that I simply don't beleive that other people do - people are taken in my advertising, either taken in by cleverly worded claims such as "no fat", which chooses not to mention that its absolutely loaded with sugar or simply by incorrect assumptions about what is healthy.
I think the guy was actually trying to cut through some of the crap you dislike so much...
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