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The League of Fatties Suicide Squad As the unrelieved gloom surrounding freedom in the UK becomes too much to bear, here is a recommendation for all of those who wish to celebrate the diversity of snackdom before the health fascists force us all to eat lentils and turnips.
Visit snackspot and track down all of those arcane foods such as Gummi Zone Gummi Pizza before they are banned by the edict of Nanny Blair.
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Might as well check out the future black market goodies in advance 😉
Forgive me if I’m being a bit too serious about what is probably a light-hearted article, but just because you can do something doesn’t mean that it’s a good idea to do so. And just because the government thinks you shouldn’t do something, doesn’t mean that you should.
I’m entirely in favour of individual rights, but I don’t think we need to prove our individuality by becoming obese and dying of heart attacks before 50.
Once again, apologies for taking this too seriously.
Rob, the point is that it should be your choice. I don’t go to McDonadl’s despite the moanings of the sanctimonious Supersize Me brigade to demonstrate my individuality. I go there because I like it. If those upset individuals don’t like it for whatever reason, that is their business and they are free to never set foot there. Nobody forces them to.
But why should this particular minority be allowed to leverage the coercive power of the state to conform with their particular lifestyle and beliefs ? It seems one only has to claim something is “for your own good” to have it imposed as the law of the land. Well, with all due respect, no. Tell my why it’s good or bad and let me make up my own mind. Or go to hell.
Somehow, I am trusted with the right to vote, I can sign up for military duty, which might involve killing scores of people in faraway lands, but I can’t be trusted with a cigarette or a cheeseburger ? Please.
The Scottish Numptorium are already proposing a ban on “junk food” in schools , ensuring that children from an early age learn that the state knows best and that they should never, ever attempt to make choices for themselves.
George Orwell once wrote something along the lines that it is foolish to cut oneself off from the rest of the human race for the sake of adding a few years to the life of one’s carcass. He was referring to vegetarians, not fatties, but I think this was the same idea.
The problem about eating badly/getting fat is that you don’t always die cleanly. You get all sorts of unpleasant health problems along the road: diabetes, skin ulcers, gangrene, amputations: and osteoarthritis, wheelchair bound, Stanna stairlift: and you can’t reach around to wipe your bum, so you smell: and no-one will touch you medically to put things right ’cause you’re such a bad anaesthetic risk: then you have a stroke because your BP and cholesterol were up and your arteries clogged, or ruptured.
Anyone for a doughnut?
I totally agree – everyone should have the choice to eat whatever food they like. But I still think that people who overeat and suffer health problems as a result are idiots.
My point is that the original blog article advocated eating the kind of foods which can cause such health problems, not because it is a good idea to do so (which it plainly is not) but because the state might, possibly, decide to ‘ban’ them (I’ll be surprised if anything more than a warning label system is proposed).
Just because the government says it’s wrong doesn’t mean it’s right.
But think of the fortunes that will be made in the illicit chocolate traffic or the underground Gummy Bear economy! Thousands of inner city youth will be gainfully employed in the traffic, which will lead to their arrest, thereby justifying a wholly unsupportable rise in the number of police, and their trials, which will keep lawyers, defense and prosecution and the whole apparatus of justice going, and their incarceration, employing the Lord only knows how many correctional officers. And all this from a Gummy Bear. The Mafia couldnt have it better if they’d planned the whole thing…and maybe they did [music from The Godfather swells in the background]
A lot of people who are chronically obese overeat because they are unhappy and it makes them feel better.
Maybe that explains why we seem to be experiencing an “obesity epidemic” over the past few years. Things are just getting too depressing in this country.
I predict that sumo will be the breakout sport of the 21st century, with the Japanese being the pros and the Anglo-Americans providing the comic relief
Rob….and why isn’t it a good idea anyway ? Says who ? In case you didn’t know, mankind has survived and prospered to this day and age on diets our
alleged experts claim to be plain evil. To hell with them.
Better a free idiot than a smart slave.