Thread: One of the reasons i am leaving UK

I love that picture - makes me feel anorexic !!!

Mr Chawner said: ‘We love TV. It’s on from the moment we get up. Often I’m so tired from watching TV I have to have a nap.’

‘What we get barely covers the bills and puts food on the table. It’s not our fault we can’t work. We deserve more.’

‘We all love nibbling on biscuits. I once bought some pears, but they tasted funny.

Is it a fucking wind up?

Originally Posted by Dan

The Mail is one of the reasons I left England too.

Must admit, the Mail was a big factor in my decission to leave. Second delivery started getting later and later. Once the post office shut at 3.30 pm me fuckin giro was useless unless Big Dave gave us credit in the bookies for the last 3 races.

Originally Posted by Attilla the Hen

I've always wanted to know.
When you're that fat, how do you wipe your arse??

The sumo boys had helpers to do that (seriously).

We've got the same in Canada -- more prevalent in the Prairies where there are more girls and boys from the farm.
There are a few in Vanc, especially at the malls. They walk and eat chips or ice cream, then hit the food court --
some cannot fit into the prefab-formed plastic seats. And can they eat! KFC, pizza, Quebecois poutine (heart
attack special: fries and cheese curds smothered in gravy), banana splits -- all at one sitting. Bladdy hek; I would
fall over and die.

Here's a poutine pic (sorry, stretched the page):

I feel a bit queasy after seeing that

Those people are genetically fucked up. Sure they are fat but do you really think that they would ever be able to become the size of a normal person. The world is becoming screwed up with people like this all over the place. Even here in Thailand there are more and more people who look like these people. I'd say its a combination of availablility of food, sitdown work and lifestyles and DNA that is fucked up. We are going to see more and more of these people for sure as society can't agree to do anything to stop this problem. The only way I see this and the other problems of the world changing is through war. I've given up on society and governments. Ice age, Bronze age, Golden age, Fat Age

Asked why they don’t simply go on a diet, the jobless Chawner family insist: ‘We don’t have the time.’

Oh, yes, they're VERY busy.

They haven’t worked in 11 years, Instead, the family spend their days in front of a television borrowed from a friend.

^^ You're right that being fat on that scale is a combination of things but a large part of it is the food industry's nasty habit of serving up shit for the public to eat and the government's nastier habit of letting them do so. There's not much profit in flogging a sack of spuds but turn that sack of spuds into sugar- or salt-laden artery hardening, stroke-inducing poison and you can make a fortune. But, hey, the bastards doing that are making a profit so that's OK.

Originally Posted by Dan

You're right that being fat on that scale is a combination of things but a large part of it is the food industry's nasty habit of serving up shit for the public to eat and the government's nastier habit of letting them do so.

You saying it's the government's job to mandate what we can and cannot eat?
Whatever happened to personal responsibility?

"It’s not our fault we can’t work."

I don't accept that statement

Originally Posted by Attilla the Hen

Originally Posted by Dan

You're right that being fat on that scale is a combination of things but a large part of it is the food industry's nasty habit of serving up shit for the public to eat and the government's nastier habit of letting them do so.

You saying it's the government's job to mandate what we can and cannot eat?
Whatever happened to personal responsibility?

Of course it is. You think there shouldn't be health standards for food? That food shouldn't be checked for adulterants? I absolutely think that the government should do this. Unless you're a pretty radical believer in total market freedom, it can't see what's wrong with this. As it stands, corporations are able to exploit what was a sound evolutionary policy - ie for humans to favour certain types of food - for their commercial benefit but at massive cost, both individual and public; the financial costs of obesity are born to a high degree by the state but the benefits are entirely private, accruing as they do to transnational corporations. Another example of governments and business colluding to privatise profit and to socialise costs and debts.

It's the smug smiles on their faces that got me.

Why they can't waddle down to Tescos and get some fresh veggies etc. Next week after all the publicity they have had - they will probably be offered gastric bands on the NHS.

BTW my tellie is on when i get up - just for the sound and an occasional glance now and then. I weigh 52 kilos.

Nice sunny day in Switzerland, by the way. Off to the market.

Hasn't that council house got a lawn? They could plant vegies, eat healthy, cheap and get some much needed exercise at the same time.
Lazy useless bunch af layabouts.

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We all love nibbling on biscuits. I once bought some pears, but they tasted funny.

Originally Posted by November Rain

Typical Daily Mail spin, IMO. Sure they don't appear to exercise, but I'm sure they didn't say they 'deserve more' or that after watching TV they're sometimes so tired they need a nap. No-one who wanted to appeal to public sympathy would say those things & I've seen (personally) how journalists put their own spin on things said or sometimes change them entirely.

Another thing is that it's cheaper to eat crap in UK than to eat healthily. Processed foods like own brand burgers & fish fingers are basically nutritionally useless but are far cheaper than decent cuts of meat or fruit & veg. I doubt they even know that much about balancing their diets. Funny that here veg, fish & things that are good for you are usually cheaper than crap (unless we're talking 5bt packets of noodles), but in the UK, the situation is reversed.

Agreed, although they all have fat necks. And i don't like fat necks.

You're leaving the UK cos you been reading the Oz v UK thread and ya cannot stand it anymore.....

Originally Posted by Nawty

You're leaving the UK cos you been reading the Oz v UK thread and ya cannot stand it anymore.....

I think that thread is great nawty. If the people on TD are a cross section of those to be found in LOS then a crazy Brit like me should get along just fine.

I am leaving because i can, whereas before i couldn't, so i didn't.

Originally Posted by Nawty

You're leaving the UK cos you been reading the Oz v UK thread and ya cannot stand it anymore.....

Australia is one of the fattest nations on the planet second only to the great USA so not much to shout about there either.

I've never seen so many fat women anywhere else than in Australia.

How long since you have been back to the UK Tuddy?

I agree with you the girls are getting bigger and wider back in OZ but what about the "huge tracks of land back" in the UK! You know........."Blot out the sun types of forms".

Originally Posted by Loy Toy

How long since you have been back to the UK Tuddy?

I agree with you the girls are getting bigger and wider back in OZ but what about the "huge tracks of land back" in the UK! You know........."Blot out the sun types of forms".

There's more fat birds in Australia than anywhere else I've been. It's really noticeable when your out and about mate, whether that be out drinking or at the shopping mall.

Melbourne is especially bad for them.

Originally Posted by November Rain

Seriously, journalists print whatever will sell

Sure will, my mates sister worked for the gutter press for a bit until she got a job on a brainwashing daytime TV show. She wrote a couple of national stories that weren't exactly true, her boss asked her to.