All Women's Fault.....

[MrZigster]

people are fat because they eat and drink too much, and don't exercise enough.

how does lack of discipline in schools make people fat?

how does divorced parents make people fat?

etc...

[MrZigster]

jono said this:

to which you mostly agreed with

nice

really nice

[oafc0000]

there'll be as many reasons why people are fat as there are fat people. Trying to pin it down to a handful of reasons, or just one even (feminism?) is just too simplistic.

[rexclark]

When I was a kid I'd eat sweets, drink fizzy drinks and eat crisps all the time, dinners weren't exactly healthy either, but I'd be out from 9am till 9pm running around, riding my bike, playing football. The reason kids today are fat are because they're lazy f**ks.

[markeee]

When I was a kid I'd eat sweets, drink fizzy drinks and eat crisps all the time, dinners weren't exactly healthy either, but I'd be out from 9am till 9pm running around, riding my bike, playing football. The reason kids today are fat are because they're lazy f**ks.

[rexclark]

yea, too much sitting inside playing on consoles / watching tv

[markeee]

I blame the paedos, parents are to sacred to let kids run around all day.

[rexclark]

All you need is a ball and a piece of grass or two kerbs. You don't need fancy facilities.

[Paul ™]

yea, too much sitting inside playing on consoles / watching tv

[rexclark]

plenty peados on xbox live.. buy a ps3

Edited September 26, 2010 by rexclark

[Paul ™]

PS3 is where the groomin is?

[rexclark]

Naw xbox live

[oafc0000]

When I was a kid I'd eat sweets, drink fizzy drinks and eat crisps all the time, dinners weren't exactly healthy either, but I'd be out from 9am till 9pm running around, riding my bike, playing football. The reason kids today are fat are because they're lazy f**ks.

[oafc0000]

I blame the paedos, parents are to sacred to let kids run around all day.

[bunique]

There aren't many nice parks or places for kids these days

[gratedenini]

As has been said by some on here... Me Mam never seen me from morning till night, until she stood on the step and shouted "Dennnnnnnnnn! time to come in!"

(it was a nightmare to be the first one to be called in).

I used to go into town on the bus when I was 8, go to the pictures with me mates, ride me bike everywhere.

And-- I venture that there was the same number of nonces in soceity then as now!

Same number of murderers etc etc.

But the biggest increase has came in... arse-twitching worried parents

Fat kids... there was always one in your class eh... and they did get ripped to shreds--and God forbib you had to wear glasses!

It is a fact that there are far less green spaces for kids to play now. When I go back to the area I grew up... I find it so sad that nearly all the bits of green are now covered with buildings.Was so lucky to have a lovely park on the doorstep though.

When I think back to my diet... I suppose it wasnt very healthy tbh. Quite a bit of meat,not much veg etc... but I was as fit as a butchers dog with all the running about etc.

No MaccyDees in those days!

And of course, todays culture is all Battery Operated isnt it. I really despair over it.

Theres no stopping it and ultimately, this is how societies "develop" I suppose.

My opinion about fat kids (apart from some obvious medical condition) is that they just f**kin eat too much--given to em by their parents.

I have seen so many times... when we been out as a family at one of those Eat as Much as You Can Chinky Boo Buffets etc.. we are sat eating our bait... and next to us is a family who are clearly overweight...and their plates are piled up liike a f**kin skyscraper...and the kids do the same!

Ah well, I`m off to soak some tripe for me tea....

den

[feral chile]

it's definitley more to do with economics than feminism

but even that's too simplistic for me (having thought about it). People eat too much for all sorts of reasons, emotional instability, etc, and people don't exercise enough for lots of different reasons too.

We're conned into eating crap food by the advertisers. Even chocolate has been elevated to something which baffles me.

[feral chile]

i still think the fact that parents both work now has a lot to do with it, plus community changes in general. Parental guilt and anxiety is certainly a factor here. If you have a primary caretaker at home, available if there's any trouble, and neighbours around who can keep an eye out, of course you feel happier letting your kids out to play.

if you're out all day, you're more likely to get stressed if your child is out without you having any idea where they are. If something happens, it could be hours before you become aware of it. So, to ease your conscience, you prefer them to be safe and snug at home. Then you spoil them to make up for all the time you've been away. With food and the odd computer game.

It's just parents doing the best they can with the options they have.

[rabid]

All you need is a ball and a piece of grass or two kerbs. You don't need fancy facilities.

[gratedenini]

BBC2 now 11.30am Tiger Bay 1959. Bloke comes back from sea and goes home... the streets are full of kids playing out. Dozens of the bastards..all over the shop. Theres no fatties mind!

den

[feral chile]

BBC2 now 11.30am Tiger Bay 1959. Bloke comes back from sea and goes home... the streets are full of kids playing out. Dozens of the bastards..all over the shop. Theres no fatties mind!

den

[rabid]

I think the reasons are much more varied than that. I think kids, in general, are having a much more stressful time of it than when I was growing up. Global warming, terrorism, immigration... all issues that kids are being conditioned into worrying about, when the reality is there's precious little that has much to do with them.. .directly at least.

Plus the issues of their self image is out of control. Programmes like Ugly Betty for example. It's plain moronic... she has glasses and braces and she's called ugly..??

[feral chile]

You do feel for them, all we had to worry about was thermonulclear annihilation.

Edited September 26, 2010 by feral chile

[rabid]

but there wasn't 24 hour rolling news coming out of your ears, or free crap newspapers spouting half thought-out stories...

you don't think it's tougher being a kid now?

and I'm not in any way suggesting that some of things we're being told we should be worried about are as relevant, or important as they actually are (like terrorism, or the country being overrun by 'foreigners', etc). A lot of todays 'problems' have been around for ages, they're just somehow more scary now because it's in the medias interests to perpetuate it as they do.

[gratedenini]

but there wasn't 24 hour rolling news coming out of your ears, or free crap newspapers spouting half thought-out stories...

you don't think it's tougher being a kid now?

and I'm not in any way suggesting that some of things we're being told we should be worried about are as relevant, or important as they actually are (like terrorism, or the country being overrun by 'foreigners', etc). A lot of todays 'problems' have been around for ages, they're just somehow more scary now because it's in the medias interests to perpetuate it as they do.