Fat people are the root cause of all the world's problems.

[SlowwHand]

people are the root cause of all the world's problems.

True.

[Provost Harrison]

My eyes, my eyes

I see the fatty hunt is on again...interesting...

[Dauphin]

If we hunt the fatties enough perhaps all their running will make them lose weight? Nah, they'd just used those little scooters of theirs to get away.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

News just in-

As fatties don't live as long, their lifespan carbon footprint is reduced, pointed out a spokesman from the Global School of Stating the ****ing Obvious today.

[MarkG]

communist countries dont have fat people. so perhaps we should....

[Impaler[WrG]]

They are also responsible for using more fuel

I cant see how this is true as the Fat are on average poorer and would have less to spend on fuel guzzling activities such as air travel. Their increased mass would be negligible when factoring in their gas-millage so I can only speculate that this claim is based on the fuel used in the production and delivery of more food. But I'd suspect their not taking any mitigating factors such as the poor thing I mentioned into account.

[ZEE]

OP: Do I... KNOW you from somewhere...?

[Wezil]

Originally posted by Lazarus and the Gimp
News just in-

As fatties don't live as long, their lifespan carbon footprint is reduced, pointed out a spokesman from the Global School of Stating the ****ing Obvious today.

Smokers tried that excuse (unsuccessfully).

[Traianvs]

Originally posted by Impaler[WrG]


I cant see how this is true as the Fat are on average poorer and would have less to spend on fuel guzzling activities such as air travel. Their increased mass would be negligible when factoring in their gas-millage so I can only speculate that this claim is based on the fuel used in the production and delivery of more food. But I'd suspect their not taking any mitigating factors such as the poor thing I mentioned into account.

The fat poorer on average? Have you ever walked into a boardroom packed with managers? Anyone there with a BMI less than 30 is an exception or younger than 40 and well on his way to obesity

[Darius871]

Originally posted by Traianvs
The fat poorer on average? Have you ever walked into a boardroom packed with managers?

Have you ever walked into a Wal-Mart?

[Traianvs]

Originally posted by Darius871


Have you ever walked into a Wal-Mart?

No - I live in Belgium . Their imperium doesn't stretch out that far yet.


Btw: it does seem to damage your wealth

Obese men and women are damaging their wealth as well as their health.

As people put on weight, their pay packets and bank balances shed pounds, and men and women who are obese are worth half as much as thin people, research said. While the average obese person and his or her family are worth around pounds 70,000, thinner people and their kin have a net worth of pounds 160,000

The researchers from Ohio and Boston universities, led by Dr Jay Zagorsky from Ohio State University's economics department, took into account values of houses and cars as well as savings and income. The results, which appear this week in the journal Research on Ageing, showed that for a one-point increase in the body mass index, annual wealth, including income, fell by around pounds 700. "Over the entire life span, obese individuals have the lowest net worth, with the average obese individual having roughly half that of those with normal body mass," said Dr Zagorsky.


One theory is that employers may discriminate against the obese, either because of safety fears, health concerns, or simply because of worries about their public image.

"Research shows obesity is dangerous to health, but there is no research on whether obesity is dangerous to wealth," he said.

"It is an American study but the results apply to the UK and Europe too because the obesity problems are pretty much the same."

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4159/is_20031214/ai_n12748497

Seems that you're probably right then, heh

[Riesstiu IV]

Originally posted by AAHZ
OP: Do I... KNOW you from somewhere...?

Yeah, I post on this forum called Apolyton.

[LordShiva]

WTF is Apolyton?

[Darius871]

Originally posted by Traianvs


No - I live in Belgium . Their imperium doesn't stretch out that far yet.

I didn't suppose you had, but the point being that at least in the U.S., the poor are far more likely to be obese than intuition would suggest, and any stroll through a bad neighborhood, ride on an inner-city bus, visit to a NASCAR event, or stop by your local discount store makes that clear as day. I don't know if the cause is the relatively higher proportion of cheap & high-calorie fast food they eat, lack of time and facilities to exercise, the fact that they have less incentive to be concerned with appearance than the upwardly mobile, or some ungodly combination, but the ultimate result is obvious.

For that matter, every sample of upper management I've ever come across has been relatively health-conscious, but that might just be a yankee thing.

[Traianvs]

Originally posted by Darius871


I didn't suppose you had, but the point being that at least in the U.S., the poor are far more likely to be obese than intuition would suggest, and any stroll through a bad neighborhood, ride on an inner-city bus, or visit to your local discount store makes that clear as day. I don't know if the cause is the higher proportion of cheap & high-calorie fast food they eat, or the fact that they have less incentive to be concerned with appearance than the upwardly mobile, or a combination of both, but the ultimate result is obvious.

I can imagine. It's a lot more expensive to buy fresh quality goods, and the McDonalds etc over here often seem to target either students or poorer people when marketing new burgers 'n so on

For that matter, every sample of upper management I've ever come across has been relatively health-conscious, but that might just be a yankee thing.

I wouldn't know since I'm a student . The big bloated corporate dick's just a cliché that keeps popping up in my mind when I think of top managers. Then again, I live in a region known for its bon-vivants so it might be a bit true here