Fatties are 'destroying the world'

Time for

bonsai children?

Statistics

Never forget 50% are below average

Does it help?

If pervasive dieting "eases strains on the planetary ecosystem" then it's because of our finite resources. Finite resources mean our population can't grow indefinitely, and pervasive dieting would still not allow us to do so: it would only increase the number of people we can cram in here, and this guy seems to think we should try to cram in as many as we can.

Lunatics

Somebody should buy an island in some not very hospitable waters and deport all these nutcases and their families there, so that they could demonstrate on their own example how healthy and wonderful will the lifestyle they advocate be.

Added benefit - one can make a new reality TV show. Instead of eviction there will be extinction, though.

They couldn't keep their mouth shut

Here is how it was supposed to be announced:

QUOTE:

18/9/2012 T.V. Flash on all Dial-A-Program Services

This is an announcement from Genetic Control:

"It is my sad duty to inform you of a four foot restriction on

Humanoid height."

Extract from conversation of Joe Ordinary in Local Puborama

"I hear the directors of Genetic Control have been buying all the

Properties that have recently been sold, taking risks oh so bold.

It's said now that people will be shorter in height,

They can fit twice as many in the same building site.

(they say it's alright),

Beginning with the tenants of the town of Harlow,

In the interest of humanity, they've been told they must go,

Told they must go-go-go-go."

UNQUOTE:

If you are so fat you have to drive everywhere, that's bad. If you are so fat that you can't leave your house without taking the door-frames out, then you will not be using fuel for transport, and that's good.

But seriously- I think much could be done to save on food wastage, rather than the food that is actually consumed. I remember an interview with the tennis player Martina Navratilova in which she said she has only eaten half of every meal served to her in a restaurant since she moved to the States- the rest she would take home and eat later. That struck me, because as a professional athlete, one would expect her to be expending more energy than most of her adopted compatriots.

If it's all the same to you, I'm going to stay here in crazy BMI cuckoo world rather than joining the real world where I'd need to gain 2 stone to start being labelled as healthy.

primitive savages

Just wondering which people would own up to being such.

Darwin awards

They blame you for being killed on the roads, they blame you for getting fat, and they will blame you when the planet fries.

Well, considering the fact I'm a pedestrian, I've seen how stupid some people are, they'll walk out on a busy road without even looking, assuming that the car will stop.

It generally is your fault if you get fat, anyone who goes "oh its too hard to diet" is just lazy. I'm fat, I got that way by eating KFC every other day while at uni, and now i'm working on losing it. I don't blame KFC, its not their fault I love their chicken. It's mine.

And yes it will be my fault the planet fries... once my moon laser is complete.

The only thing I remotely agree on is the thing about cars. I don't think we shoudl get rid of them, but I do wish the government would put in more incentives for using biofuels or electric cars for use around town. The amount of parents driving SUVs to school is annoying as hell.

They could probably do with lowering the price of train fair too.

And one great idea I had long ago. Rent-a-car. Not the classic type but in big cities etc. You sign up to some rent-a-car service somewhere in the nation where you get an electric car for home. You want to go to london? Call the rent-a-car and book it through them, get the train to london, hop off, and in the car park would be a rent-a-car waiting for you, electric of course.

It'd be like that bike thing they're doing in london, only with electric cars.

A long term breeding program ?

Instead of starving children into being short we could just breed for thinner

If perhaps the typical slightly rotund programmer could be paired with an over skinny super-model the average size of the offspring could be reduced gradually.

I commend this idea to the house.

Hobbit meals

You know how much a hobbit eats?

One is like a family of Americans.

How did the Shire feed them?

Articles like this don't help, just reading about fatties makes me want chips

I am one of these fatties, and, I can confirm that I destroyed part of the world this afternoon