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"Fat People"

I was watching this programme on ITV a few minutes ago and there were two families on it who were competing to lose the most weight. The winning family won a holiday to America in a 4-star hotel and they got some spending money with it.
To enter for the show though, you've obviously got to be pretty fat so those of us that are currently a reasonable weight don't stand a chance. The way I see it, people are being rewarded for piling on the pounds by being lazy and stuffing their faces then just losing a bit before they more than likely get fat again.
One of the contestants on the winning team started out at 27 stone and was only 13 years old. At the final weigh-in he was still just over 23 stone so does someone like that really deserve such a prize.
I'll admit I'm not the the most active person in the world but I do work hard to make sure I don't become overweight. I suppose I shouldn't be jealous though because I knowing that this holiday is the best thing that'll ever happen to him because at the rate he's going I imagine he'll die when he's 40 from some sort of fat person's disease.
How do people become so amazingly fat?

What really p!sses me off is people who are fat, and complain about it.

Yeh, you know you'r fat, instead of whining about it, get out there and lose the fecking pounds! If you've accepted you're fat, then you've either gotta accept it, ie no whining about it, or actually lose some bloody weight.

Also, fat people who wear tight clothes, eugh

I'm 10 stone(to the closest pound). I think that's OK for my height.

Errr, according to what I eat, I should weigh tonnes, but because I don't jsut sit around watching TV all day (contrary to popular belief) I don't gain much weight.
In fact, I find it difficult to gain weight.
I'm currently trying to break the 10 stone barrier, but nooooo.

Stop defending fat people

They're fat

How do they become so fat?

Mostly, because they are poor in a nation where traditional methods of food production and distribution have been usurped by supermarkets.

Before the rise of the supermarket quality food would be availiable from specialist shops in every village or town. If you wanted bread you'd go to the bakers, if you wanted meat, the butchers. The poor would buy thier food from such shops, and would not get fat because it was quality food.

With the rise of the supermarket cheap food became availiable, and obviously poor people would go for the cheaper food. Problem is that the cheap food is (generally) really, really bad for you. As everyone buys from the supermarkets, specialist shops either fold or become more expensive. Poor people cannot afford quality, healthy food anymore.

{I don't think I explained that very well}

Also, advertising, which again is most effective upon the vunerable. I dont think I need to explain how that works.

"If there's one thing that's dragging Britain down, it's fat people. They're rude, lazy, they take up space, and in summer they smell."
- Tom Baker (Little Britain)

God I love that show.

There should be rehab for fat people.

Eh? They're rewarding people for losing weight by sending them to America?...

"Here, now you've lost weight, go eat!"

At what point in your titanic swelling do you realise you actually have a serious problem and should probably stop eating?
When you get out of breath standing up?
When you need to turn sideways to fit through doors?
When you have to reinforce all your chairs?
When you can't leave the house?
When you flesh starts fusing with the sweaty couch fibers you've been ballooning into for the past 4 years?

t'Azul wrote:
> Reefer wrote:
> they're depleting the Earth's resources.
>
> Unlike everyone else of course.
> Oh, wait a minute!

Yeah, but they're doing it moreso. Hell, if some fat guy is 27 stone, he's depleting the food stock at a rate of 3.5x more than me.