We could always sell their titty oil as fossil fuel.
That being said, "Oh my God, he killed Kenny."
wotyzoid
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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
Do you actually have any argument whatsoever? How exactly do you propose to increase funding to the NHS without cutting other parts of the public sector?
Cut other parts of the public sector? Tax the food?
Do you have any words of your own?
Silky Johnson
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Originally posted by KiNeTiC ENeRgY
LOL, I really love this guy's level of rage. Also sick tats brah.
SYSTEM-J
quote:
Originally posted by wotyzoid
Cut other parts of the public sector? Tax the food?
Do you have any words of your own?
Q: "How exactly do you propose to increase funding to the NHS without cutting other parts of the public sector?"
A: "Cut other parts of the public sector".
You're a ing genius. Run along little boy, the adults are talking.
wotyzoid
quote:
Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
Q: "How exactly do you propose to increase funding to the NHS without cutting other parts of the public sector?"
A: "Cut other parts of the public sector".
You're a ing genius. Run along little boy, the adults are talking.
LMAO wow, you're the one that assumed I would do so without cutting anything. I never said a thing about it.
HAHAHAHAHA
you're so smart, bro
Vector A
I feel like we have run up against an actual English reading comprehension issue here.
wotyzoid
I'm not running for office, I don't have a political agenda. wtf is this?
wotyzoid
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Originally posted by Vector A
I feel like we have run up against an actual English reading comprehension issue here.
Jack's and yours possibly.
Silky Johnson
Aright alright alright, can we get back to fat-hating now please? Ughh.
SYSTEM-J
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Originally posted by wotyzoid
LMAO wow, you're the one that assumed I would do so without cutting anything. I never said a thing about it.
HAHAHAHAHA
you're so smart, bro
Yes, I'm so smart I considered that diverting funding away from vital public services towards treating obesity might actually lower the standard of living for everyone and send the whole country to . It's a situation that the millions of healthy people in this country who do take care of themselves might not be entirely happy with. But no, some wit on the Internet said "taxes are taxes", so all those people.
I always knew you were a ing cretin Kenny, but this is remarkable.
DJ RANN
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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
That's not the opposite at all. It's exactly the same thing. You both agree that the distribution of obesity is not even because you yourself point out contributing socio-economic factors (poor people are a lot fatter than more affluent people) and geographic distribution (obesity being most concentrated in the South, for exmaple). Lews is simply pointing out that there are whole communities, even whole cities and areas, that don't fit the prevailing standards, which someone not familiar with the US (IE: Chimney) should keep in mind. That's exactly the same as someone from London urging perspective so a foreigner doesn't get the impression everyone in England has the diet and lifestyle of someone from Blackburn or Newcastle, even though statistically the latter demographic is probably the great majority.
That point does not exist in opposition with the fact that America generally has a problem with its food culture and the ingredients found in food, that chains like Walmart and McDonalds are pervasive or even that every state taken overall has worrying obesity statistics. It was simply a call for perspective which you've carpet bombed with stats of varying relevance.
The problem with your analysis is that I don't agree that distribution is not even - The entire point I've been saying all along it really doesn't matter where the you go in the states, you'll see the problem on every high street. It may be marginally better in some tiny enclaves firstly it's absurd to use them as some kind of benchmark to excuse an endemic widespread problem and secondly it's still worse in those "good" cities than you'll find in just about any European country.
So to the essence of this thread - the OP being someone in another country looking for relative perspective - even the places that by American standards are "better" in terms of obesity are still worse than the rest of the world, so the USA, regardless of location or how heavily you zoom in, has this problem on a massive indiscriminate scale.
The other part you glazed over is that Lews hasn't offered a single statistic to refute any of this - in fact the only thing he stated was an incredibly esoterically anecdotal "I don't see many fat people in Seattle", yet I've been able to back up every single assertion with official stats and then Vector A did the same.
Lets take your example. If I combine the population of blackburn and newcastle you're not even at 400,000 so to compare this to London at 8m+ (or 14m by weekday) you're using a place with less than 5% of the population of the other to make a comparison. I'm sorry but that doesn't make sense, and in the case of the USA, even if you try to do that the difference between to the two in terms of obesity rate is marginal.
Want final proof? Let's take Lews' seattle example - The obesity rate is over 22%. Yep, that means this beacon of anecdotal health and fitness, is still fatter than every country in Europe with exception to the fat man of Europe, the UK.
Again, we can take examples like the south has a higher level of obesity overall but that doesn't mean in relative terms to the rest of the world that the north is healthy - it's not.
I think one thing that that's keeps getting conflated is that you seem to think it's cultural thing, like personal character differences between say Geordies and Londoners, when in the USA it's really a an American thing regardless of if you're cracker redneck from West Virginia or a fat black guy in Oakland.
wotyzoid
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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
Yes, I'm so smart I considered that diverting funding away from vital public services
You're also so smart you probably think most public service money is well spent or even acquired and distributed proportionally for that matter.
