Barr jumps on childhood obesity bandwagon

That depends… Do you have any more dumb answers?

Definition:
Look: lardarse
Act: generaly lazy even though they would deny it
Sound: often normal

Generally appear fairly unappealing due to their lack of drive, sloppy lifestyles, laziness etc…

Any more dumb questions?

So how are they measuring obesity these days? Define what an ‘obsese’ person is supposed to look/act/sound(?) like.

According to Spicks and Specks on ABC, before Elvis died, he was consuming 94 000 calories/day!

An eye opener for those who choose to open their eyes is the trip up the east coast of Straya… about Port Macquarie the proportion of lardy types increases, especially amongst the blokes, and especially the fat lazy fishermen who find the concept of walking over a dune or two to the beach offensive, and insist on taking their 4WDs onto otherwise pristine beaches.

One of the most interesting little snippets I’ve ever seen was on that show on the ABC about the people given a block of land in Montana and made to live the lifestyle of the pioneers… one of the men went ot a doctor because he was convinced he was wasting away. He went into the program weighing about 13 stone for his 5’8″ frame, and within a month had slimmed to about 10 stone. the doctor told him bluntly that his new weight was what was considered the norm in those days, when the daily work people had to do provided sufficient exercise to act as an automatic diet.

What really pisses me off about the lardarses wallowing in and out of their cars into Woolies and Maccas to further gorge themselves is that they will expect the rest of the population to cover the ever rising costs of looking after their self-inflicted health problems.

Did anyone see the program on ABC2 last night, “America’s Fattest City”? My effin’ god, it was unbelievable. 1 in 3 people in Houston are obese, a high proportion are morbidly obese (I forget the number), 10 yo kids weighing 80 kg, etc. You had to see the program to get the images, they lose their power in words, but those who saw it will understand.

The image that will stay in my mind forever, to haunt me in my imperfect moments, was a woman weighing 200kg (!?) getting into bed and a huge flap of fat from god-knows-where flopped out of her nightclothes and spread out across the entire bed.
I wanted to poke my eyes out with a stick.

I have about 1 large student in each of my classes bar one class where I have students who would all be considered “healthy”. That works out to about 4 in 110 students.

It’s a bit of a wind up from a man who closed local schools, forcing children to catch buses or drive in cars to get to school.

I also wonder about this obesity hysteria. In my childrens schools, (admittedly primary schools only at this stage) there are about 2 fat kids per class. Remembering to my youth(30 years ago), the stats are about the same, and we didn’t have tv in our country then. Also I remember most of the teenagers at my boarding school being plump/fat so I sometimes think it may be an awareness/moneymaking/sky falling in thing.
Saturdays on the sports fields, it’s pretty full with loads of kids and their adoring parents so on the whole exercise is happening.

“Seriously, why the hell would they make this up?”

Because it gets great media coverage?!

Like all statistics, it’s subject to spinning, stretching and skewing. I’d be interested to know the source of these statistics, as well as the scientific study it comes from.

Are you a parent or a teacher? I’m both – hence my doubt.

Well there’s your problem right there. Of course the kids are going to be fat if they’re on the bandwagon! They should be pulling the damn thing, or at least being dragged along behind it.