Who else is getting fed up of fat people trying to get the world to revolve around them?

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asim18 said:
Seriously?

How is demonising obesity counter-productive? Counter-productive to what? ending obese people? Isn't that a bit of a contradiction?

You can't want to get rid of obesity and not demonise it at the same time, because then all you're doing is allowing it to become an established part of humanity, which is what has evidently happened as humanity has evolved as well as the fact that obesity rates are STILL increasing. Everybody has it wrong, if we didn't have it wrong it wouldn't be getting worse would it?
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People demonise drug users, all that's done is serve to drive it underground. In countries where it's decriminalised and treated it's completely different.

Saying "Hey fatty sort your **** out!" will work to get some people to change but for most it'll just serve to make them want to hide away and keep eating.
 
Not about fat people. Sugar has a low nutritional value, it's consumed excessively so it poisons the body in the long term. It should be heavily regulated through taxes, labels and advertising in the same manner as tabacco.
 
tom_e said:
People demonise drug users, all that's done is serve to drive it underground. In countries where it's decriminalised and treated it's completely different.

Saying "Hey fatty sort your **** out!" will work to get some people to change but for most it'll just serve to make them want to hide away and keep eating.
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I see the future, it's all unscrupulous "donut dealers" shiftily hanging round on street corners, Coca-cola dens and street sugar cut with saccharine. Oh the humanity!
 
tom_e said:
People demonise drug users, all that's done is serve to drive it underground. In countries where it's decriminalised and treated it's completely different.

Saying "Hey fatty sort your **** out!" will work to get some people to change but for most it'll just serve to make them want to hide away and keep eating.
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This, and tbh having this attitude is nothing but arrogant and hypocritical. I have said it a lot of times on here, but I wonder how many of the 'fatty' haters smoke, or drink, or drive their car too fast etc.
 
fatiain said:
I see the future, it's all unscrupulous "donut dealers" shiftily hanging round on street corners, Coca-cola dens and street sugar cut with saccharine. Oh the humanity!
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With the amount of people who seem to think taxing sugar and removing it from everything it really wouldn't surprise me :D
 
mrk said:
We have not yet harnessed the power of mavity control.
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Take your fusion power research and cram it, when we can harness the mavity energy of all these fatties who don't know what a gram is, we're in free energy territory!
 
tom_e said:
People demonise drug users, all that's done is serve to drive it underground. In countries where it's decriminalised and treated it's completely different.

Saying "Hey fatty sort your **** out!" will work to get some people to change but for most it'll just serve to make them want to hide away and keep eating.
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BINGO. The problem is not to do with the lack of fancy sugar visualisations on coke cans. It's to do with mentality.

People seem to have a bad concept of cause and effect. So depicting sugar in a more fancy/visual method will somehow stop a fatty hiding away and drinking their coke??
 
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us 'fat people' as you so eloquently put it, don't give a stuff whether the world revolves around us or not... its the liberal Nanny state and the EU who insist on covering everything with labels that no one reads!
 
People are fat, obese or unhealthy for a variety of reasons. Helping people make a sensible, informed decision is not a bad thing. Pretending this is just pandering to 'fatties' is missing the point IMO. There is so much fat and sugar hiding in processed foods, putting it into context will only help people make people make a better informed decision.

Also, as to your point in the opening post - I'd wager that the vast majority would have no idea how much 1g of sugar actually is - but would know what a teaspoon of sugar looks like, and whether that is a lot in the context of the product. As long as the 'teaspoon' is an standardised weight to allow for consistency.
 
Talking about labels, the thing I hate most is that the majority of goods will not tell you the amount of calories in the whole packet. Its always the values for 100g when it weighs 123g or something stupid leaving you to have to work it out.

Does anyone ever actually share the "more to share" big bags of chocolate or just scoff it all in a few handfuls like myself?
 
Scottland said:
Also, as to your point in the opening post - I'd wager that the vast majority would have no idea how much 1g of sugar actually is - but would know what a teaspoon of sugar looks like, and whether that is a lot in the context of the product. As long as the 'teaspoon' is an standardised weight to allow for consistency.
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That's the thing isn't it. You can try to "standardise" a teaspoon, but when a fat person is making tea do you think they put in 5 heaped teaspoons? or 10 levelled ones? or somewhere in between?

You can try to standardise a teaspoon, but in practice it's very hard to actually fill a teaspoon with the standard amount.

A "teaspoon" in practice is relative to the individual.
 
Talking about labels, the thing I hate most is that the majority of goods will not tell you the amount of calories in the whole packet. Its always the values for 100g when it weighs 123g or something stupid leaving you to have to work it out.
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That's hardly difficult maths though, is it?
 
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