Thread: How to trigger a snowflake

Gold medal performance from Michael Buerk here.

And our resident do-gooder will be along in a while to say how slim he is and bore us to tits with his dreary opinions on how fat everyone else is or something.

BBC host Michael Buerk says the state should let fat people die to save the NHS money.

Buerk, who hosts Radio 4’s The Moral Maze, said obesity should not be classed as a disease, which encourages people to seek treatment on the Health Service.

He added: “You’re fat because you eat too much.”

Writing in the Radio Times, the host suggested allowing deaths due to obesity could be a benefit to society.

“The obese will die a decade earlier than the rest of us,” he wrote.

“See it as a selfless sacrifice in the fight against demographic imbalance, overpopulation and climate change.”

The former I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! star queried Public Health England's claim that overweight and obesity-related ill-health costs the NHS £6.1 billion a year.

He wrote: “Who can calculate how much an obese person would have cost if they were slim?
“How much would he or she cost if, instead of keeling over with a heart attack at 52, they live to a ripe, dementia-ridden old age, requiring decades of expensive care?
“In any case, VAT on takeaways, confectionery and fizzy drinks more than covers it.
“The freedom to make bad choices is what personal autonomy, indeed democracy, is all about . . . who is to say longevity is the ultimate goal in life?
“Give them the facts to make informed decisions; by all means ‘nudge’ all you like, but in the end leave couch potatoes alone. They’re weak, not ill.”

Meanwhile, researchers say getting patients to wear fat suits could reveal medical students' prejudices against overweight and obese people, researchers say.

Scientists at the University of Tuebingen, south Germany, asked trainee doctors to take an anti-fat attitudes test (AFAT) after taking part in a role play with "patients" wearing fat suits.

A total of 207 medical students took part in the study, where volunteers helped to simulate a meeting between a "family doctor" and a "patient with diabetes".

The AFAT responses, published in the British Medical Journal, showed that students harboured more negative attitudes towards obesity than either teachers or the patients.

Students were more likely to agree more strongly with the statements "fat people could lose weight if they really wanted to", "most fat people are lazy", and "there is no excuse for being fat".

Responses were recorded by asking participants to rate on a scale of one to five how much they agreed with statements such as "fat people have no will power" and "fat people are lazy".

The research team said: "We strongly believe that integrating an obesity simulation suit into the routine undergraduate medical teaching context is a valuable tool. It can raise medical students' awareness for communication encounters with patients with obesity."

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/fat-people-die-save-nhs-18838923

“You’re fat because you eat too much.”

but only in about 95% of cases, and yes that 95% should definitely go to the back of the queue for medical treatment, along with the OD druggies, the smokers with pulmonary disease who refuse to stop smoking and the drunks who suffer injuries when falling through shop windows.

I've never fallen through a shop window, sidewalks are too wide here. But I do get where you're coming from. I'm waiting for the likes of Sanders to say hey, all you frugal funkers that saved for your retirement in the form of your own 401k or IRA give it up to the poor folks who never learned to budget and save for theirs.

That's when the guns come in handy hey?

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Gold medal performance from Michael Buerk here.

And our resident do-gooder will be along in a while to say how slim he is and bore us to tits with his dreary opinions on how fat everyone else is or something.

I take it you're a fatso then?

Originally Posted by fishlocker

I'm waiting for the likes of Sanders to say hey, all you frugal funkers that saved for your retirement in the form of your own 401k or IRA give it up to the poor folks who never learned to budget and save for theirs.

Chalk up another win for GOP / Fox News propaganda.

Originally Posted by fishlocker

I'm waiting for the likes of Sanders to say hey, all you frugal funkers that saved for your retirement in the form of your own 401k or IRA give it up to the poor folks who never learned to budget and save for theirs.

Aww... come on fish, get with the program, be a grasshopper, not an ant. Why scrimp and save when you can live off the government dole. Beats the hell out of working for a living. Remember, ya ain't earning six figures cuz sum silver spoon rich kid stole ya job.

Chalk up another win for GOP / Fox News propaganda.

Originally Posted by bowie

Aww... come on fish, get with the program, be a grasshopper, not an ant. Why scrimp and save when you can live off the government dole. Beats the hell out of working for a living. Remember, ya ain't earning six figures cuz sum silver spoon rich kid stole ya job.

And another one.

GOP / Fox: Rich People Convincing The Middle-Classes That The Poor Are Their Enemy Since Forever.

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

Chalk up another win for GOP / Fox News propaganda.

Maybe his usual non-sequitur drivel aint so bad after all.

He has always had a tinge of the 'gawd-damn-liburuls-and-gubmint-gun-grabbers-USA! USA! USA!' about him has the 'ole Fishperson.

So has bowie also I suspect, though he's somewhat constrained in his trolling on this thread but pretending to have posters on ignore and being unable to directly address them.

Originally Posted by Cujo

I take it you're a fatso then?

It's just relaxed muscle.

fuck the fat fuckers - waddle to end of the queue.

And those weak cunts that eat butter, and salt too - why should we pay for their coronarys.

And joggers - bastards clogging up surgeries with their shin splints and buggered knees.

Don't get me started on pregnant women - keep your fucken legs shut and we could get rid of those useless maternity wards.

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

GOP / Fox: Rich People Convincing The Middle-Classes That The Poor Are Their Enemy Since Forever.

Now, if I could only edit that down to a bumper sticker

Originally Posted by Ukan Kizmiaz

And joggers - bastards clogging up surgeries with their shin splints and buggered knees.

I thought you were going to say clogging up sidewalks.

Originally Posted by Agent_Smith

Now, if I could only edit that down to a bumper sticker

like this ?

How to trigger a snowflake"

Extremely easy - post a meme that invades their 'safe space'

There's a cornucopia of them out there! 555

Oh look the gutless lying spambot/scumbag has slithered back.

Bored of back-biting TD with your fellow snowflake Earl?

Originally Posted by baldrick

like this ?

Bit dated.

Maybe Lear jet? Stretch Hummer? Virgin Galactic Space Pod?