Dumbest thing I've ever seen

"allowed the previllage of oxygen" and what's worse is they're allowed to breed !!!!

Yep Al,
You've got it in one!

There's at least some form of cursory testing for a drivers licence, but parenting?

Geoff.

perhaps off topic but reminded me of the idiot who reversed his big expensive
trailer boat down the ramp at Blacksmiths (Newcastle) at speed, hit the chocks
& spilt it straight onto the concrete, made a sound like when you drop a watermelon!!!..a rather sad looking chap then winched it back on, picked up the fibreglass pieces & drove off slowly, to quite a bit of unwelcome applause.
No bloody camera of course....oldbaz.

Noimnunoeruno,

This phrase of yours,,,,,,,,,,"she was huge(i dont meen it to ofend) ",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

I put this subject up as a starting point in my war on FAT people. I reckon we should not be afraid ti call 'em what they are - FAT.

Now I know this is 'off topic' but it's something I've been thinking about for a few months. Why should we be afraid to offend FAT people?

For 40 odd years I was a smoker and had it rammed up me every day by every form of media and by people in general, that I was "offensive, a hazard, dangerous, costing the health system millions, unproductive and a nuisance in general" etc, etc.

Now we have a FAT EPIDEMIC and these FAT PEOPLE are almost all of the above. Why should we be afraid to offend them by actually calling 'em FAT? I hate the word "obese" as it seems to hide the term FAT. Is this political correctness at work, I muse?

They will eventually cost us all millions in medical problems, They use more of the worlds resources - bigger knickers, bigger T shirts, they eat more food, they cost more to transport, they wear out load bearing structures quicker, they slow things up, they aren't efficient, etc,etc

Why should I pay the same price for an air ticket when I weigh 65 kilos when a FAT person pays the same price as me and yet it costs twice as much to get him/her off the ground!!

Offend em I say!

Just my 10 cents worth, :)

Bilbo

Never thought of it like that.... I spose most people who are F.A.T. are that way from putting it in their mouth and not being healthy,,,, so i can see your point...
Another self inflicted problem like smoking which leads to millions of tax payers dollars trying to treat the deseases which are an offshoot from being overweight..

All I can say is that smokers pay for the health system, fat people don't. Do a little research into how much smokers in Australia add to the government revenue before claiming that they cost non-smokers anything. The only reason smoking is NOT illegal in countries like Australia is because the government could not afford to lose the revenue it provides.

Tobacco excise and customs revenue

Excise

$5.247b actual for 2003-04

$5.237b actual for 2004-05

The average smoker pays more in excise revenue than they do in Income tax.

Also, the average smoker most likley uses less government supplied pention money as they won't live as long! ;-)

The government actually makes more profit from the sale of cigarettes in Australia than the cigarette companies themselves!

So are there any non-smokers out there putting their hands up to make up that 5 BILLION $ Deficit? I don't think so....

Anyway, now onto FAT, and why people are cautious about calling people FAT.

My step father is a quite large man, has been struggling with his weight for many years now. He has an exercise machine(s) and uses them, he has speant thousands of dollars with different specialists trying to get his weight down.

Yes there are people who are just lazy, but there are genetic issues involved too. I'm lucky, I don't seem to suffer from a weight problem, but I know a couple of people who are more active than me, share the same lifstyle and who still gain weight.

I'd also like to say that we have a friend of the family who is as skinny as a rake, WAS a non smoker, fit , active, had a good diet and had a heart attack at age 40. Then another one, and I think he has had 3 now.

He's now a smoker and drinks like a fish. He figured bugger it, it's going to get him anyway! You don't have to be fat to have health problems...

" I got to say, probably not the smartest in the world, he possibly didn’t relies that he daughter was where she was." I take it you meant "He possibly didn't REALISE"

"It’s your life it’s your choice" No it wasn't, it was his daughter's life, and at 10yo she's not smart enough to know better.

D-Jack

And then we wonder at the bad driving of kids when they get licences!