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Fat kids in school

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  • #32
    Wolfe Tone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,670 ✭✭✭✭Wolfe Tone


    I used to be a little fatty in school, was because I stuffed my face with sweets and didn't exercise. Started cycling to school,and playing a sport and eating less, its not hard for kids to lose weight.

    This sh!te about kids growing out of it is just that, sh!te, if I hadn't changed my ways(luckily I had the foresight to do it myself, mother was convinced I would grow out of it) I would still be 6'1" or so but I would be a right fat bastard rather than a pretty healthy 75 Kg or so.

    Fat kids and their parents need to cop the fcuk on.


  • #33
    jive
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,762 ✭✭✭jive


    In fairness it's not the kids fault. Children don't know any better and for the most part just eat what they are given with the occasional trip to the shop to get a can of coke or whatever which isn't going to make you obese. The blame must lay entirely on the parents. The parents feed their children. In general fat parents will have fat children because they live on the same ****ty diet, not due to some gene that fat people like to console themselves with.

    I wonder why that gene hasn't spread anywhere outside of the western world even with international travel. Probably due to the fact that to become fat you have to eat in a caloric surplus; your genes won't make you fat, your diet will. With the exception of very rare syndromes the diet / excercise regime (or lack of) is solely to blame. If anyone thinks otherwise they are delusional.


  • #34
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 18,160 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    abouttobebanned wrote: »
    Here's the reason OP.

    When we were in school (ok im 30)..we had sanwiches in tinfoil...a capri sun....and a 54321 bar if we were lucky. If we were really lucky we could get a pound special from the chipper on a friday.

    Nowadays kids are getting their lunches from dominos, chinese restaurants, filled rolls filled with all kinds of meaty ****...all washed down with a bottle of coke.


    When we came home from school we threw our bag in the hall and ran out for a game of world cup. we played for three hours and then came home with grass stains on our grey trousers.

    The kids now come home after having their chicken fried rice for lunch...have another slap up meal...and then spend the night on facebook and on the xbox.

    Exactly.

    I go home for lunch every day and always see secondary school kids having lunch in Four Star Pizza, Kebab Klub and Hillbilly's (if you know Fairview then you'd know these spots). That can't be healthy, I certainly didn't do it as a kid.


  • #35
    ThatFancyChap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13 ✭ThatFancyChap


    cesc77 wrote: »
    Yep,I was disparaging of the fat gene as it is used to often.

    I am a skinny git with a supposedly high metabolism.Would you like to compare my issues with a fat person who consumes more than their daily ?On average do fat people eat 5 portions a day and zero fat?Do fat people just happen to be the way they are due to gene issues?

    If they do then I consider myself corrected.

    Fat people,in general,are fat because they eat fatty food and dont exercise.And yes,maybe they need a kick up the hoop and for the rest of the country to accept that it is not bloody ok to be fat.HOW MANY FAT PEOPLE WERE THERE DURING THE WAR/FAMINE/CONCENTRATION CAMPS?
    I am not being facetious here.It is mainly a lifestyle choice with a few wee fatties who will always be so due to their gene anomaly

    I may have made a mistake in naming ADHD in that equation.

    Hyper kids are not necessarily nutty.I was a cheeky wee rascal as a kid but parents are doping kids with this American "disease"for convenience.

    Dopes the kid and makes them easy to tolerate.

    In response to your "keep your stupid responses to yourself"

    No,I Fcucking wont you patronising fecker.

    I'm skinny as a reed too, eating all manner of things; Why would I count myself as unlucky as a person who's fat without being able to control it? Being fat, as you've so clearly shown, is something looked down upon so greatly, almost as if it's a disease.
    And as I've said, not all fat people are fat cuz of genetic traits or what have you. As you've said, it is down to lifestyle. But I hardly see ranting on a message board in the way you are as being beneficial in any way at all. If you want, try organising something in your community to keep kids active if you're so concerned. Just don't show the same militant hatred on them you've shown here.
    And questioning how many fat people there were during war/famine is a very moot point. It's like saying how many starving people were there in Europe in the 70's, when there was an over-production of food, with a massive surplus?
    And ADHD is not a 'fake American' disease. I know someone who has it. It's a genuine mental illness. Just because you've never seen the effects of it yourself bar from misdiagnoses doesn't mean it's a fake disease.


  • #36
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    Everyone* seems getting fatter in general. A lot of the (very) slim folk I went to school with are growing overweight pretty quickly as we get older. Bald too. And I'm only 23.



    *Not literally "everyone," Dudess.


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  • #37
    cesc77
    Closed Accounts Posts: 874 ✭✭✭cesc77


    wolf moon wrote: »
    who gives a fcuk whether they're fat or not.
    your job is to teach them as good as you can, isn't it?
    end of story.


    Just caught on there that you think Im a teacher from your misinterpretation of the opening thread.


    #1.I do,hence thread(as should you as a human being and *shudder* parent)

    #2.No

    #3."Teach them as good as you can"??? Lad,if youre going to try and belittle me,I would advise lurking a wee bit longer on AH.Its a rough one,granted,but I beg you please stay with us for entertainment value.

    Have a good evening


  • #38
    cesc77
    Closed Accounts Posts: 874 ✭✭✭cesc77


    feelingstressed wrote: »
    Maybe you should volunteer for some after school activity when you finish. It's not like you're working after 6pm or even 5pm

    Take them training for GAA maybe
    Get a school team going, enter blitzs and competitions


    Me,squire?

    Not sure if you are addressing me or your points.....


  • #39
    problemchimp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,025 ✭✭✭problemchimp


    "I wash myself with a rag on a stick"


  • #40
    Doyler92
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,664 ✭✭✭Doyler92


    Why do fat chance and slim chance have the same meaning?


  • #41
    cesc77
    Closed Accounts Posts: 874 ✭✭✭cesc77


    Dudess wrote: »
    OP, I don't hang around classrooms, but from what I see generally, fatness among kids is still pretty uncommon.

    How common is that though? Most of the time it's simply surplus calories being consumed, deficit being burned.

    LOL. So you feel an opinion should be censured because you don't agree with it.

    I pay taxes - fat people don't affect me. That's just a commonly used code for "I want to bitch about fat people and I need some piss-poor reason - taxes, that'll do."
    Haven't heard of fatness causing unemployment either.

    High-cal food can be cheap. In the Buenos Aires slums there is a serious obesity crisis. In poor, rural parts of the deep south of America, ditto.

    It's a serious public health issue no doubt, but being arseholey to fat people won't help.


    Respectfully disagree.I am not talking about South America.

    You havent heard of fatness causing unemployment?

    FFS.Where do I start?I thought the noob was a troll till I met you,an experienced poster.Come on?......

    High cal fast food is expensive over here.I couldnt imagine buying happymeals for four kids....20 quid?....but a healthy homecooked dinner would be a quarter of that


    Your final point is guff too.I think being arseholey and basically cutting their burger money and giving them food tokens is the kindly thing to do.

    I would be glad of any sort of handout if I was unemployed(which I have never been )


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  • #42
    southsiderosie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,560 ✭✭✭southsiderosie


    cesc77 wrote: »
    High cal fast food is expensive over here.I couldnt imagine buying happymeals for four kids....20 quid?....but a healthy homecooked dinner would be a quarter of that

    Your final point is guff too.I think being arseholey and basically cutting their burger money and giving them food tokens is the kindly thing to do.

    I would be glad of any sort of handout if I was unemployed(which I have never been )

    I found healthy food to be quite expensive in Ireland. When I lived in Spain, cheap produce and high-quality meat were very cheap and readily available; I was surprised at how much more expensive Ireland was, and I had to go out of my way to buy cheap produce. Bread, sweets, soda, crisps and frozen processed meals were readily available and cheap though.


  • #43
    cesc77
    Closed Accounts Posts: 874 ✭✭✭cesc77


    ThatFancyChap wrote: »
    I'm skinny as a reed too, eating all manner of things; Why would I count myself as unlucky as a person who's fat without being able to control it? Being fat, as you've so clearly shown, is something looked down upon so greatly, almost as if it's a disease.
    And as I've said, not all fat people are fat cuz of genetic traits or what have you. As you've said, it is down to lifestyle. But I hardly see ranting on a message board in the way you are as being beneficial in any way at all. If you want, try organising something in your community to keep kids active if you're so concerned. Just don't show the same militant hatred on them you've shown here.
    And questioning how many fat people there were during war/famine is a very moot point. It's like saying how many starving people were there in Europe in the 70's, when there was an over-production of food, with a massive surplus?
    And ADHD is not a 'fake American' disease. I know someone who has it. It's a genuine mental illness. Just because you've never seen the effects of it yourself bar from misdiagnoses doesn't mean it's a fake disease.


    Please number your issues.They meander a bit.

    No,I dont look down on fatties.Its not a disease its bloody greed or parental laziness.


    "not all fat people are fat cuz" you are proving my point.Simple shortcuts in life will lead to fat people.

    I do not feel that I am ranting.If you want me to I will.

    ORGANISE SOMETHING IN MY NEIGHBOURHOOD? Im going to be polite here and say "no"

    blood pressure rising

    You asked me to compare how many starving people in the 70s?...Im losing it here

    Adhd........may I quote....."I know someone who has it"

    With all non respect you muppet,I know someone who won the Bulgarian lottery with the same numbers that won it the week before.

    Lets compare.

    Im being easy on you as I know you have a fatism.Not a fatwa...

    although,keep it up....


  • #44
    Kojak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,801 ✭✭✭✭Kojak


    mink_man wrote: »
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    had to get my stick to type, fingers too fat.

    Mash the keypad now to obtain your special dialling wand.


  • #45
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    cesc77 wrote: »
    Respectfully disagree.I am not talking about South America.
    But sh1te food is cheap. It isn't all fast-food chain stuff...
    You havent heard of fatness causing unemployment?
    Nope.
    Your final point is guff too.
    Nnnnno it isn't - bullying won't help anyone is my point, which isn't guff. People need to get out of the habit, on this forum, of dismissing a point of view either because they disagree with it or because they can't argue with it.
    I think being arseholey and basically cutting their burger money and giving them food tokens is the kindly thing to do.
    Where did I say that's what I meant by being arseholey?


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