Quote Rinkadink="Rinkadink"How about the taxpayers? After all, we are the ones footing their bills when the inevitable poor health and the diseases that go with it kick in. To illustrate; never listen to an overweight person banging on about illegal immigration (or legal ones for that matter either), in 2007 obesity cost the NHS £4.2 BILLION - this is set to rise to £6.2 billion per year by the end of 2013.
Do your bit for the economy and country, lose weight!'"
Do you have a source for those rather fanciful numbers? An insight into the methodology of gathering such data would also be interesting.
I am probably overweight, certainly not clinically obese and I couldn't give a flying fook what your OPINION is to be honest. Weight should not deter anyone from engaging in any argument on any subject. I've been a taxpayer for 45 years, so what you have to say means absolutely buggerall to me.
Too fat to run for the bus? Don't worry there'll be another one along soon
Too fat to climb the stairs? That's why they invented lifts and escalators.
Clothes don't fit anymore? Buy some bigger ones then