You Fat Norven Monkeys

Homer J
Homer J Posts: 920
edited December 2010 in The bottom bracket
:D
http://news.uk.msn.com/uk/articles.aspx?cp-documentid=155530982

On the bright side we've come top of a league

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  • Tonymufc
    Tonymufc Posts: 1,016
    You mean the Premier League. :D
  • Lagavulin
    Lagavulin Posts: 1,688
    Wait till the "Generation GREGGS" babies have grown up. We might even be able to challenge the US.
    :roll:
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  • Theomerchant
    Theomerchant Posts: 187
    Good God, I was born and raised in the west midlands...the shame!!
  • tlw1
    tlw1 Posts: 22,152
    So which of us is the fatty?
  • seemunkee
    seemunkee Posts: 206
    Don't worry, there is no way you will beat us.
    USA,USA, We're #1, We're #1
    actually #9 world wide, but we'll import enough Samoan's to be #1 if we have to
    http://www.forbes.com/2007/02/07/worlds ... fat_2.html
  • whyamihere
    whyamihere Posts: 7,715
    Makes me want a pie sandwich. Southerners look at you like you're mad when you mention pie sandwiches...
  • blueheeler
    blueheeler Posts: 61
    you Brits may be flogging us in the cricket but you can't beat us in the fattie race.Australia is now rivaling the US as having the highest percentage of obese people across all age ranges...and yes those Samoans that managed to migrate via NZ do help' enormously'

    anyone had the pleasure of squeezed next to a fattie in an aeroplane for 3 hours....what an experience!
  • Warwickshire Whizzer
    Warwickshire Whizzer Posts: 218
    blueheeler wrote:
    you Brits may be flogging us in the cricket but you can't beat us in the fattie race.Australia is now rivaling the US as having the highest percentage of obese people across all age ranges...and yes those Samoans that managed to migrate via NZ do help' enormously'

    anyone had the pleasure of squeezed next to a fattie in an aeroplane for 3 hours....what an experience!

    3 hours?

    Try 9 en route to Dubai. It was hell. Made worse by the fact that Mrs Whizzer was lording it up in business class. And 'Tubs' needed the toilet every 5 minutes. And when she managed to get her foot tangled in her handbag, and was too fat to bend down to untangle it herself and looked at me hopefully... I'd have shot her to put her out of misery, if I was';t on a plane.
  • keef66
    keef66 Posts: 13,123
    What in god's name is wrong with these people?? Do they not have mirrors or bathroom scales? Or any self respect?

    Two thirds of the world is malnourished, so the remaining third tries to eat itself to death?? WTF is that all about??
  • Monty Dog
    Monty Dog Posts: 20,614
    A sad indictment of our car-culture and sedentary lifestyles where people can't be bothered to walk anywhere, take exercise, helped by town planners who no longer create adequate provisions for pedestrians or other means of transport.
    I empathise with you Whizzer, having frequently been 'trapped' by oversize passengers on aircraft who thought it was acceptable to take up half your seat as well. As I'm quite small, I frequently used to climb over the arm rests to escape rather than trying to force some lump of lard to move! LHR to Singapore or LA was never a journey I relished if I couldn't fly business class.
    Make mine an Italian, with Campagnolo on the side..
  • unixnerd
    unixnerd Posts: 2,864
    I think it has more to do with lack of exercise than diet. That said, some folk do seem more prone to putting on the pounds than others.

    I'm one of the annoying ones that can eat like a horse and never put on a lb.
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  • blueheeler
    blueheeler Posts: 61
    When i front the counter now at check in ...I say " please don't put me next to a fat person" and they don't ! After the torture I went through squeezed into half a seat I just don't care...fatties should have to pay for 2 seats and be comfortable.
    Discuss.
  • nick hanson
    nick hanson Posts: 1,655
    blueheeler wrote:
    When i front the counter now at check in ...I say " please don't put me next to a fat person" and they don't ! After the torture I went through squeezed into half a seat I just don't care...fatties should have to pay for 2 seats and be comfortable.
    Discuss.
    My thoughts are that every passenger should be allowed,say 100 kg,& anything else is excess baggage,at punative charges.
    That is to say,an 80kg person gets 20 kg baggage allowance,someone weighing 100 kg,zilch allowance,etc etc
    Airlines would be well in profit :lol:
    so many cols,so little time!
  • Diogenes
    Diogenes Posts: 1,628
    As a product of the North East I take exception to the accusation of obesity. I am from northern mining stock, a breed of men deliberately bred to be short of height but strong of body. Hence I am not overweight but by natural selection I am simply under tall.
    If I were 7'6" I would have the perfect physique.

    D :D
  • Droops
    Droops Posts: 204
    In affluent countries it is often the case that poor people are fat and rich people are thin - the opposite of the case in less developed countries.

    I think I can feel one of those late-night-BBC2-type discussions coming on...
  • Pokerface
    Pokerface Posts: 7,960
    It doesn't take much to be considered overweight in these studies. Hell - you can be a really healthy man with loads of muscle (a gym rat) and fall foul of the BMI line!

    Still - some of these small countries with over 90% of the population being considered overweight!!?? :shock:
  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    Warwickshire Whizzer wrote:
    blueheeler wrote:
    you Brits may be flogging us in the cricket but you can't beat us in the fattie race.Australia is now rivaling the US as having the highest percentage of obese people across all age ranges...and yes those Samoans that managed to migrate via NZ do help' enormously'

    anyone had the pleasure of squeezed next to a fattie in an aeroplane for 3 hours....what an experience!

    3 hours?

    Try 9 en route to Dubai. It was hell. Made worse by the fact that Mrs Whizzer was lording it up in business class. And 'Tubs' needed the toilet every 5 minutes. And when she managed to get her foot tangled in her handbag, and was too fat to bend down to untangle it herself and looked at me hopefully... I'd have shot her to put her out of misery, if I was';t on a plane.

    3 hours? 9 hours? You two don't even know you're born.

    I was once on a coach from Slovakia to England, 24 hour journey, next to a fat-f**k Bulgarian who spilt over into my seat so that his rolls of fat were resting on my arm.

    To make matters worse he was also a smoker, so everytime the coach stopped to give us a break, he came back on stinking of smoke.
  • john-e-big-guns
    john-e-big-guns Posts: 489
    Pokerface wrote:
    It doesn't take much to be considered overweight in these studies. Hell - you can be a really healthy man with loads of muscle (a gym rat) and fall foul of the BMI line!

    I fit into that catagory... at 6'0 and 105 kls[15st 12lbs] with less than 10% b/f...the nurse at the GP's checked me over and said I was over weight for my hight..that was until I stripped my shirt off and gave her an orgasm :wink:
    No Pain; No Gain;

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