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Now then, this is a good one. Fat-ism should be a hate crime.....
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holds out wrists for handcuffs...
"This is a very common event - someone being beaten up should be a crime.
it already is
"For instance, people in inner cities are much more likely to be overweight because of poorer education, poorer housing and poorer job opportunities.
this seems to be saying they're fat because they're stupid ? Does one really need an O level to realise that eating too much stuff makes you fat ?
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"Not everyone has a free choice about controlling their weight."
sure you do... fattie
Oh crap, now I'm going to get arrested!
Would the fact that I'm a bit podgy myself help my defence? "Is it because I is hefty?" 
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I really dislike the idea that "being fat" is some sort of identity that has to be protected.
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his seems to be saying they're fat because they're stupid ?
Possibly, though I suspect it is also saying they are fat because they are on lower incomes and stodgy, processed food is generally seen as cheaper than "healthy food".
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They want the UK to follow San Francisco ................... curbs doctors from pressing patients to lose weight.
brilliant.
"The San Francisco ordnance says you may want to mention weight to the patient but if the patient says they do not want to talk about that then you are asked to respect those wishes."
"i know you're a bit upset at the moment what with the fact you can't move without sweating like walrus in bermuda, but you've got cancer."
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Surely if people have less money, they won't be able to eat as much.
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Id expect its more likely that many of the people theyre talking about have never been taught to prepare and cook food from ingredients properly.
That is the key to eating healthily on a budget. Preprepared processed, junk food slung in the oven is easy and inexpensive (see Iceland adverts).
Home prepared healthy food is also inexpensive (see sainsburys adverts)
Id hazard a guess that those that prepare their own food have probably learnt from parents, read recipes, hold dinner parties and occasionally drink Le Piat d'Or.
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speaking of which Im just off to the kitchen to make a chicken casserole. Im guessing it's using about £1 of vegetables (2lbs carrotts, celery, onions), a 50p tin of tomatoes, about £3.00 of chicken (1lb) and a dash of Le Piat d'Or.
Add £1 (5lbs) spuds, and thats <£1 per person.Or its turkey twizzlers and microchips.
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stodgy, processed food is generally seen as cheaper than "healthy food".
Not sure how this perception is held though, I eat only (ok, 95%) fresh cooked, unprocessed and mainly veg and high quality meats, yet I spend very little a week on it (and still manage to put on weight!). When I used to eat junk because I was coming home from work late and too tired to add another job to the list I was spending a fortune on pre-made meals, and so called cheap processed foods. I dont understand the needing to be taught thing either, for one of my first fresh-cooked meals I picked up a free magazine article and just threw the stuff in a pan and cooked it as it said. There was no education involved, and for £3 you can buy a book with hundreds of decent recipes. It's just lack of effort IMO.
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You see, Stoner's post just exemplifies the patronising fattism of the toned middle classes. Stoner isn't fat, he doesn't understand anything about it. He doesn't value fat people for themselves. He shows no appreciation of their unique culture, diet and cuisine. He just wants to stamp fatness out entirely by forcing fat people to cook their own fibrous meals of broccoli, lentils and lean chicken breasts. How is that different from making millions of jews breathe poisonous gas? How is it different from stoning gays to death by throwing stones at them? Would that be allowed? Of course not! Yet Stoner wants to feed fat people thin gruel and force them to do exercise until they cease to be fat! It is this sort of oppression that the fat community faces on a daily basis. This is why they need the full protection of the law.
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listen'ere you scrawny streak of legal piss!
You need fattening up!Posted 2 years ago # -
have never been taught to prepare and cook food from ingredients properly.
I would sooner go hungry
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I think skinny people need protection. I go in constant fear of being sat on by a fat person
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i'm sure that stoner will be eaten by the bloaters of malvern before the day is out....
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Well they can do what they want in the privacy of their own homes BigDummy, but I don't see why they should come round here and be all fat in front of people.
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the fat inbreds from down in the bogs cant get this high up the hills without wheezing to a sweaty halt halfway up.
Im safe up here thank you.
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I think we should make food more expensive - like it was say 50 years ago. Then we would waste less, grow our own, value the food we eat etc. Its not the price that makes you fat, its low value, lazyness and a lack of education.
We should also pressure people into seeing that being fat is a form of self abuse that is not acceptable. Especially when parents make their kids fat.
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hmmm... the F word.
Will "bubbly people", as must now refer to them, reclaim the F** word and use it in popular music, and call each other F** as part of their unique, underground, large sub-culture.Posted 2 years ago # -
Stoner - Member
listen'ere you scrawny streak of legal piss!
You need fattening up!
Long Pig?
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a form of self abuse that is not acceptable.
Hey now, there's nothing wrong with self-abuse..
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Hey now, there's nothing wrong with self-abuse.
but round here at least it's frowned upon in public (I've found)
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but we'll no longer be allowed to use the word 'Fat' to describe something as cool or great, as we all commonly do.
"That gig was FAT!"
That would be a no-no.
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i heard her interviwed on the radio (4 or 5 not sure which this am). It was worryingly amusing. She accused the Doctors of peddaling misinformation to make money ..like heart attacks and Diabetes and early deaths are not facts.
She spoke like it was a myth there was any health issues associated with obesity [which she called there word for it] or eating too much.
It was beyond peoples control to erm control their weight and but for the millions made we would not be talking about this. Apparently we all stare at them to laugh and point.I really did think there was link between what you consumed, the energy you used up and the weight you were. Thank God she cleared it all up for me.
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What really annoys me about fat people is that...
...they are diverting attention away from the down-trodden, discriminated against and insufficiently legislatively protected gingers.
It's not on.
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I dare say the instances of people being beaten up because they're overweight are pretty rare.
It just seems like this article is another case of the ridiculous march of political correctness. 100% over reaction and 0% fact.
On the subject of suggesting that a doctor shouldn't raise the issue of weight though...that's ludicrous. If it's a private doctor then fair enough, they will happily stay quiet as they'll make a packet out of the patient. But if it's an NHS doctor, then unless the person has a valid medical condition causing the weight gain, they need to be told the truth in my opinion.....purely so tax payers money is well spent on those that need it.
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I might start a similar thing to campaign for the rights of shorties not being able to reach certain magazines without jumping for them like a circus performer and the rights of tall people having to stoop to pass through a standard door.
The 'big-boned' can lose weight, but the short-ies & tall-ies can't gain or lose height willy nilly. And that is clearly Mother Nature discriminating against our human rights to be as short or tall as we want.
I wonder if there's some tall/short laws in America I can nick to use as an example?
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speaking of which Im just off to the kitchen to make a chicken casserole. Im guessing it's using about £1 of vegetables (2lbs carrotts, celery, onions), a 50p tin of tomatoes, about £3.00 of chicken (1lb) and a dash of Le Piat d'Or.
Add £1 (5lbs) spuds, and thats <£1 per person.
Or its turkey twizzlers and microchips.The wine was free then?
At the dodgy pizza takeaway near where I used to live you can get 2 large pizzas for £6. Would easily feed a family of 6. Plus you don't need to spend a fiver on a bottle of wine either. You'd also have no risk that your kids would turn up their noses at your boooring vegetables and chicken stuff, of that you'd burn things or cook them badly, whereas with your thing, if you're not a confident cook, you might mess it up and have wasted a tenner or whatever it cost.
Joe
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I think you'll find, Samuri, you're confusing 'Fat', with it's homophone; 'Phat'
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Would easily feed a family of 6.
Must be pretty **** big pizzas. I find a 14" pizza is just about big enough for one when its the whole meal.
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pretty weak argument there joe.
Wine is not a mandatory ingredient
Its not rocket science to make a casserole taste nice, nor indeed the vegetables within it. Just because a child turns its nose up at something, doesnt give it the right to be fed crap in its place. Its called discipline.There's between 2.0 and 4.0 g of salt in a serving of dominos personal pizza. (RDA is 6g)
15-30g of fat (RDA = 53g) with saturated fat representing around 30% of that (Recommendation is no more than 10% of your fat intake should be saturated)(BTW Chicken breast has fat of about 6g per portion and I added 2x pinches of salt = 1/2g to be divided by 6)
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There's no need for homophonia
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are you calling me jey?
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Is fat the new black ??
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coffeking - great find!
Might have to re-think my whole "grumbling about the inequality of it all" stance as someones beaten me to it and the tall-ies are tall enough to stick up for themselves.
Is there NOTHING that hasn't been covered on the internet?!
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