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Novocastrian

Mar 18th 2009 3:59 am

Re: Anyone care to defend this lunacy?

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Originally Posted by iaink;

I suspect that an IQ above 80 (thats my opening bid anyway?) might be a prerequisite of that sort of job unfortunatly, or at least a 2.2 from one of the redbrick universities...

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Originally Posted by clynnog;

Do they have the get up and go and high moral ground required of lawyers?

Uh-oh. Thread drift alert.

Lorna at Vicenza

Mar 18th 2009 3:59 am

Re: Anyone care to defend this lunacy?

They're not even that fat ......... ugly but not that fat.

kate white

Mar 18th 2009 4:02 am

Re: Anyone care to defend this lunacy?

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Originally Posted by Lorna at Vicenza (Post 7393862)

They're not even that fat ......... ugly but not that fat.

ouch:rofl: but I still say they are over weight and need to loose some of it for their own sake

elfman

Mar 18th 2009 4:02 am

Re: Anyone care to defend this lunacy?

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Originally Posted by dbd33 (Post 7393761)

I was just in a meeting where half the attendees looked like that and I'm not even in Newfoundland or New Jersey.

New Jersey actually has one of the lower rates for obesity among US states - to see real fatties you need to head for the south

act1980

Mar 18th 2009 4:04 am

Re: Anyone care to defend this lunacy?

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Originally Posted by Lorna at Vicenza (Post 7393862)

They're not even that fat ......... ugly but not that fat.

:rofl::rofl::thumbsup::thumbsup: They all look inbred to me!!:rofl:

farjojo71

Mar 18th 2009 4:05 am

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ooooooo I knew that I recognised the blonde daughter on the Telegraph article....have a look at this!! :lol:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1j73o8lric

Obviously being humiliated on national TV by Simon Cowell was not enough for them.....a newspaper article was needed to complete the shame.

They obviously were not too fat to stand in the queue with 1000's of other hopefuls waiting for an audition!! :rofl:

Brownstar

Mar 18th 2009 4:06 am

Re: Anyone care to defend this lunacy?

I'd wager that they are from north of Watford Gap

albertabound

Mar 18th 2009 4:11 am

Re: Anyone care to defend this lunacy?

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Originally Posted by Brownstar (Post 7393887)

I'd wager that they are from north of Watford Gap

So there's no spongers down south??

iaink

Mar 18th 2009 4:13 am

Re: Anyone care to defend this lunacy?

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Originally Posted by albertabound (Post 7393909)

So there's no spongers down south??

Not fat ones anyway:rolleyes: All the UKs ills are caused north of the watford gap services, did you not get that memo?

<that was irony in case there is any confusion about it>

mr.mac

Mar 18th 2009 4:14 am

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Hmmm any TV producers out there? why not combine the weight loss reality TV format with the "give me a job" reality TV format and chuck Gok Wan (the only man whose name is an obscene anagram) for good measure.

Sorted :D

albertabound

Mar 18th 2009 4:14 am

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Originally Posted by iaink (Post 7393917)

Not fat ones anyway:rolleyes: All the UKs ills are caused north of the watford gap services, did you not get that memo?

No I suppose the spongers down south keep trim by running around doing their "jobs on the side"

dbd33

Mar 18th 2009 4:20 am

Re: Anyone care to defend this lunacy?

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Originally Posted by elfman (Post 7393874)

New Jersey actually has one of the lower rates for obesity among US states - to see real fatties you need to head for the south

Yeah, I worked in Jackson, Mississippi for a bit. NJ always come to mind though because the OH, who's from CO, had endured years of reading internet posts about "fat Americans" without any comprehension. Then we hubbed through Newark and the scales fell from her eyes. Half the people in the airport looked like the featured family and were wearing jackets with casino logos.

kate white

Mar 18th 2009 5:05 am

Re: Anyone care to defend this lunacy?

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Originally Posted by dbd33 (Post 7393949)

its the ones in tight leggins and T/shirts I find bad and they think they are sexy :eek: wheres the bucket

Brownstar

Mar 18th 2009 5:14 am

Re: Anyone care to defend this lunacy?

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Originally Posted by iaink (Post 7393917)

Not fat ones anyway

You beat me too it and on closer inspection of the article I was right.............thy are from fried egg capital of the world, Blackburn :rofl:

Littletashy

Mar 18th 2009 6:28 am

Re: Anyone care to defend this lunacy?

I honestly think its inexcusable to be so over weight that you put your health at such a serious risk, and even worse when your children think its ok to be over weight and lazy. That comes from the mentality that they deserve to have everything without having to contribute anything for it, Kudos to the younger one for at least having a job!

However, I want to say that some people are not clever enough to feed themselves properly, some people dont know how to cook proper food and some of them have been 'fed up' by people who think they are doing the right thing, these people are on benifits sometimes because they are NOT clever and they are stuck in a cycle, these people are not like that, they ARE clever and working the system to their advantage and getting away with it, if they can pose for photos and stand up they can sit on a chair behind a till and work in ASDA, or some other supermarket, and by doing so will be loosing weight, being more active socially and physically and also having access to better food information.

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