Benchmark
Is it safe?
Reged: 12/07/2005
Posts: 3034
Loc: Sedgefield, Co Durham
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According to an article published in the Medical Journal The Lancet, obese people are responsible for increasing energy consumtion, carbon emmisions and world food prices. See Here
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Nigel CRIPN and Bar
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Garry McNamara
Snr Tutor/Bongo Banjo
Reged: 16/08/2006
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...and there was me thnking it was short people caused all the problems.
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Benchmark
Is it safe?
Reged: 12/07/2005
Posts: 3034
Loc: Sedgefield, Co Durham
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...and there was me thnking it was short people caused all the problems.
Only if you're too short for your weight Garry. 
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Nigel CRIPN and Bar
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bench_ubbster
Bench Meister
Reged: 08/08/2006
Posts: 2656
Loc: Cambridgeshire, UK
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But Dr David Haslam, of the National Obesity Forum, said it was "stretching it a bit" to blame the obese in the way.
"Really, it is discriminatory towards obese people. They are an easy target at the moment, but I think the causes of climate change and rising food prices is much more complex."
Yes, we are an easy target, but that's because we're so fat 
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downfader
Mr Judgemental
Reged: 24/03/2005
Posts: 5468
Loc: Hugo Strange's Lab
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I know several people who i would personally call of the clinically obese persuasion and its remarkable how many make up excuses as to why they drive less than a mile to work/the shops/etc... I have heard everything from genetics to "health complaints" ...even one person moaning at me "..its alright for you - you're young" as if ages was an excuse (I only asked why she didnt walk to work anymore - even she said she used to walk everywhere)
I dont think theres any excuse for obesity imo. I have been well overweight in the past but have never made excuses for it - I like(d) to eat and wasnt exercising much.
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daft_biker
Action Man!
Reged: 11/10/2006
Posts: 7694
Loc: Doon the glen
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Can remember one contractor at work that was so fat he had trouble sleeping and breathing at the same time  He didn't seem to enjoy it nor seem to be doing much about it but even then I don't think it's his fault for all the things wrong in the world.....you don't have to be fat to be greedy 
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bench_ubbster
Bench Meister
Reged: 08/08/2006
Posts: 2656
Loc: Cambridgeshire, UK
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It's a simple equation. If your energy input equals your output then there should be no problem.
However, some people have a decreased output either because they are lazy or clinically not able (eg some disability). Or some obese people have a fault with the input, may be the way their body handles the food is different (eg some hormone imbalance) or they are addicted to food. Food input stimulates the same areas of the brain as nicotine and cocaine, the addiction to food can be just as strong as other addictions.
I know exactly why I'm overweight, I don't do enough exercise (yes, I walk to the shops and take the dog out twice a day) and I drink too much. But (touches wood), I have not had a day off work because of an illness for over 5 years, nor seen the GP for well over 10 years. I believe you can still have some degree of health as well as being obese.
I know more skinny people who are more lazy, eat more and have more 'sick' days 
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ermintrude
Hinkypuff
Reged: 30/06/2003
Posts: 12548
Loc: London, UK
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Seems a bit of a tenuous link, compared to say the effect of materialism on the same fuel prices, the effect of the media psychologically selling us these foods and materials...
Its also really badly written, some of the sentences don't even make, er, sense... 
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El Sid
Going potty
Reged: 14/04/2003
Posts: 9470
Loc: Sussex-by-the-Sea
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And here's me thinking it was all down to overpaid under-worked quacks with nothing better to do than try and make everyone else's life a misery...
If certain areas of the medical 'profession' spent more time caring for peoples health and less time trying to devise new scare stories I reckon we'd all be a lot better off...........
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Nigel
Completely BSRIPN 
ElSid Gallery
A camera in the hand is more fun than one in the cupboard........
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TheFatControlleR
L'éminence Grise, Devil's Advocate & AP Fanboy!
Reged: 24/04/2001
Posts: 11659
Loc: Not here, it's rubbish...
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I know exactly why I'm overweight, I don't do enough exercise (yes, I walk to the shops and take the dog out twice a day) and I drink too much. But (touches wood), I have not had a day off work because of an illness for over 5 years, nor seen the GP for well over 10 years. I believe you can still have some degree of health as well as being obese.
Innit.
So, forget your immigrants, your Islamists, your tourists, your pedrowatsits & your photographers, I's Public Enemy #1!
Pass me the mayo...
Not just here then...
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TheFatControlleR
And so, my fellow Benchists: ask not what your bench can do for you - ask what you can do for your bench... Ben Chism
Live fat, die young, and leave a self-basting corpse...
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downfader
Mr Judgemental
Reged: 24/03/2005
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Loc: Hugo Strange's Lab
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And here's me thinking it was all down to overpaid under-worked quacks with nothing better to do than try and make everyone else's life a misery...
If certain areas of the medical 'profession' spent more time caring for peoples health and less time trying to devise new scare stories I reckon we'd all be a lot better off...........
Saw an interesting thing on the telly a few years back about how if you wanted a research grant all you had to do was mention "impact on the environment" in your proposal and money was far more likely to be thrown in your direction.
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NorthernNikon
Bulls Hitter
Reged: 16/12/2005
Posts: 6179
Loc: Harrogate, North Yorks
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...and there was me thnking it was short people caused all the problems.
Only if you're too short for your weight Garry.
Yeah, it's all the endomorphs' fault.
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Learning
Ethelred the Ill-Named
Reged: 26/09/2006
Posts: 2341
Loc: Nottingham
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They also block escalators and get upset when you shove past them.
Anyone who allows themselves to get into that state is as ill-self-disciplinned as a crackhead.
Don't bother to tell me I'm opinionated; I know, thanks.
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Clodhopper
Manyana
Reged: 04/04/2007
Posts: 449
Loc: Norfolk 'n good
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I thought you were supposed to stand still on escalators...
It's rather rude to shove past people.
I'm too fat btw. Just kill me now.
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Learning
Ethelred the Ill-Named
Reged: 26/09/2006
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Loc: Nottingham
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I thought you were supposed to stand still on escalators...
No, you are meant to travel at the speed of the escalator plus normal speed for running up steps. The system is well understood by Londoners on the Underground.
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NorthernNikon
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Loc: Harrogate, North Yorks
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I thought you were supposed to stand still on escalators...
No, you are meant to travel at the speed of the escalator plus normal speed for running up steps. The system is well understood by Londoners on the Underground.
I wish it were understood by the rest of the population. Invariably it's people either in pairs standing side by side, or general f-wits who stand on the left hand side immediately behind someone standing to the right.
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Clodhopper
Manyana
Reged: 04/04/2007
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Loc: Norfolk 'n good
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I thought you were supposed to stand still on escalators...
No, you are meant to travel at the speed of the escalator plus normal speed for running up steps. The system is well understood by Londoners on the Underground.
I wish it were understood by the rest of the population. Invariably it's people either in pairs standing side by side, or general f-wits who stand on the left hand side immediately behind someone standing to the right.
Oh... Londoners... that explains it.
You'll have to forgive me for being a slow f**kwit.
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Learning
Ethelred the Ill-Named
Reged: 26/09/2006
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Loc: Nottingham
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I thought you were supposed to stand still on escalators...
No, you are meant to travel at the speed of the escalator plus normal speed for running up steps. The system is well understood by Londoners on the Underground.
I wish it were understood by the rest of the population. Invariably it's people either in pairs standing side by side, or general f-wits who stand on the left hand side immediately behind someone standing to the right.
Oh... Londoners... that explains it.
You'll have to forgive me for being a slow f**kwit.
I am not a Londoner. I'm from Leeds and have never lived much south of where I am now. I just give Londoners credit for knowing how to use an escalator.
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NorthernNikon
Bulls Hitter
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Loc: Harrogate, North Yorks
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I thought you were supposed to stand still on escalators...
No, you are meant to travel at the speed of the escalator plus normal speed for running up steps. The system is well understood by Londoners on the Underground.
I wish it were understood by the rest of the population. Invariably it's people either in pairs standing side by side, or general f-wits who stand on the left hand side immediately behind someone standing to the right.
Oh... Londoners... that explains it.
You'll have to forgive me for being a slow f**kwit.
I am not a Londoner. I'm from Leeds and have never lived much south of where I am now. I just give Londoners credit for knowing how to use an escalator.
I'm not a Londoner either, and equally far away from London as Learning. In fact it's the ultimate irony that Londoners actually behave with a modicum of common sense on escalators while the rest of the country seems to leave their brains at the foot and wait for them to catch up.
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ermintrude
Hinkypuff
Reged: 30/06/2003
Posts: 12548
Loc: London, UK
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I thought you were supposed to stand still on escalators...
No, you are meant to travel at the speed of the escalator plus normal speed for running up steps. The system is well understood by Londoners on the Underground.
Only if you're on the left hand side.
I really hate the tw@ts who shove past you just as you reach the top and then get in the way like a lemon, so the poor fat person who was lazily minding their own business lands right on top of 'em and suffocates 'em to death. Serves 'em right  I have wet dreams of killing tw@ts in that way
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