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Cill94 · 20-10-2012 01:07PM

Emeraldy Pebbles wrote: »

I'm not overweight and I exercise, so no excuses here. Who would I be excusing exactly? I am a former bulimic though.

The push to buy food to binge on was a compulsion for me, it didn't matter how later it was at night, if I wanted to binge, I would go out and find the food. I would later purge it. Binge-eating disorder is like this, but without the purging bit. It's a difficult mindset to extricate oneself from, it's almost obsessive-compulsive. It's hard to understand if you don't suffer from it. It's easy to understand why someone might get caught up in the binging side but pass on the purging bit. Making yourself throw up is unpleasant, as I well know, so many wouldn't be able to make themselves do it. You won't do enough exercise in a day to work off this massive excess of calories. And anorexia would be a no go for many people. I will always have bulimic tendencies, they are very hard to fight, but I'm coping well after receiving help.

Obviously there are overweight people who have no such malady but I'm convinced it's more common than people think.

And "psychologically weak"? Yeah, I think that's what they used to say about sufferers of depression. For fuuuuuck's sake.

I never said you were making excuses for yourself, but you are for other people.

Fair enough it must be very tough to just say no to food if it's a mental compulsion you have. I still believe it can be overcome, as your experience with bulimia suggests.

Anyway, my original post was referring more to the vast majority of people who are fat for reasons other than because of mental disorders. I think the kind of person you're talking about is in the minority.

Emeraldy Pebbles · 20-10-2012 01:11PM

Cill94 wrote: »

Anyway, my original post was referring more to the vast majority of people who are fat for reasons other than because of mental disorders. I think the kind of person you're talking about is in the minority.

Equating food addiction to other addictions is troublesome, as food is someone we need so we can't excise it from our lives.

I don't know if the numbers would be that insignificant. If someone is mindlessly stuffing themselves, something HAS to be up. Addiction is very likely too, as sugar is very addictive, but like I said, it's trickier to deal with than other addictions.

Cill94 · 20-10-2012 01:31PM

Emeraldy Pebbles wrote: »

If someone is mindlessly stuffing themselves, something HAS to be up.

A lot of the foods that people gorge themselves on have MSG in them. I would think that is a big culprit for food addiction.

krudler · 20-10-2012 01:42PM

1ZRed wrote: »

Brad Pitt's Chanel ad shows off his raw acting ability, and it also shows off what a useless actor he is.

Overrated actor/man

Pitt is a great actor, it'd be easy for him to take light romcom roles but he doesnt, The Assasination Of Jesse James? Tree Of Life? Fight Club? all excellent performances.

Tom_Cruise · 20-10-2012 01:45PM

john47832 wrote: »

You didnt rate him in Meet Joe Black?

I thought he played death very well

Meet Joe Black consists of watching Brad Pitt acting like a retard who escaped from an asylum, especially the part where he discovers peanut butter.

Emeraldy Pebbles · 20-10-2012 01:46PM

Cill94 wrote: »

A lot of the foods that people gorge themselves on have MSG in them. I would think that is a big culprit for food addiction.

I'd put sugar up there with it in the additiveness stakes.

mark renton · 20-10-2012 08:55PM

Tom_Cruise wrote: »

Meet Joe Black consists of watching Brad Pitt acting like a retard who escaped from an asylum, especially the part where he discovers peanut butter.

He was playing death personified - impossible to say he didnt play it perfectly

OisinS94 · 20-10-2012 09:27PM

Black people are getting more and more sensitive.

Also I believe communism is better than democracy.

The King of Moo · 20-10-2012 09:35PM

OisinS94 wrote: »

Black people are getting more and more sensitive.

Also I believe communism is better than democracy.

Do you go around pinching black people and seeing how much it hurts, comparing your notes year by year?

mark renton · 20-10-2012 09:52PM

The King of Moo wrote: »

Do you go around pinching black people and seeing how much it hurts, comparing your notes year by year?

Either that or he has just noticed the sales increase in mousturizing products amongst African Americans

Da Shins Kelly · 20-10-2012 11:19PM

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

And I would take from the names you mentioned, but Gaye for instance contributed to his output, the most recognised song he himself formalised was Sexual Healing.

This is probably my naked nostalgia but these acts were the real thing, they were part of the business. It's quite difficult to describe what is currently happening in the industry, as far as I'm concerned they've sailed it down the river with ugly personalities and attitude. To bring it back to Rihanna, she is a a bad tempered broad with limited talent, she doesn't deserve it....It used to mean something to have a number one.

My mistake on Gaye.

Totally agree about Rihanna. I find her astronomical success baffling. Like you say, a horrible personality and very limited talent. But then this seems to be the trend across the board in mainstream music, for the most part. While there is great music being made today and loads of great artists out there, the most successful popstars are truly awful people, as far as I can see. When you consider the biggest personalities in music of the past - Morrissey, Robert Smith, Kurt Cobain, Janis Joplin, Billie Holiday and so on, these are artists that people can actually identify with. When you compare them to the likes of Rihanna or Katy Perry or Chris Brown and the likes, it's no wonder that kids are so f*cked up these days. They have no one to relate to. Not in the mainstream anyway.

BroBeans353 · 20-10-2012 11:30PM

I'm kind of glad Kurt Cobain died because if that never happened Dave Grohl probably would have never made the Foo Fighters and instead would have continued being the drummer of an extremely average rock band (Bar two or three good songs)

Emeraldy Pebbles · 20-10-2012 11:50PM

BroBeans353 wrote: »

I'm kind of glad Kurt Cobain died because if that never happened Dave Grohl probably would have never made the Foo Fighters and instead would have continued being the drummer of an extremely average rock band (Bar two or three good songs)

If Nirvana are average, that must make the Foo Fighters the absolute dregs.

Nirvana > Foo Fighters

And it's not even close.

Magill · 21-10-2012 12:14AM

Emeraldy Pebbles wrote: »

If Nirvana are average, that must make the Foo Fighters the absolute dregs.

Nirvana > Foo Fighters

And it's not even close.

bullsh!t... Nirvana are one of the most overrated bands ever imo. Nothing more than above average.

Pearljam >>>>> Nirvana.

Da Shins Kelly · 21-10-2012 12:14AM

Couldn't call myself a huge fan of either band, but Nirvana are definitely better, and the fact that Dave Grohl now gets to be the frontman of his own band isn't really a good reason to be glad that someone is dead.

Napper Hawkins · 21-10-2012 01:15AM

BroBeans353 wrote: »

I'm kind of glad Kurt Cobain died because if that never happened Dave Grohl probably would have never made the Foo Fighters and instead would have continued being the drummer of an extremely average rock band (Bar two or three good songs)

I reckon Foo Fighters would've happened regardless.

If Kurt hadn't checked out in such an OTT fashion I'm pretty sure he would've just disbanded Nirvana anyway and gone and played guitar with Hole or someone else. Leaving Dave to do his own thing.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 21-10-2012 01:33AM

BroBeans353 wrote: »

I'm kind of glad Kurt Cobain died because if that never happened Dave Grohl probably would have never made the Foo Fighters and instead would have continued being the drummer of an extremely average rock band (Bar two or three good songs)

Very unfair assessment. They were a band with only 3 studio albums (Incesticide being a B side album) but yet they made a long lasting impression on the music scene. They reinvigorated the industry at the time in America and were the bridge between the dire 80s and 90s.

Emeraldy Pebbles · 21-10-2012 08:25AM

Magill wrote: »

bullsh!t... Nirvana are one of the most overrated bands ever imo. Nothing more than above average.

Pearljam >>>>> Nirvana.

Well, it's all subjective so, no, it's not bullshít. I'm not a huge fan of Nirvana but I don't think they were overrated.

Real Life · 21-10-2012 10:14AM

Magill wrote: »

bullsh!t... Nirvana are one of the most overrated bands ever imo. Nothing more than above average.

Pearljam >>>>> Nirvana.

but he never said nirvana were better than pearl jam, just better than foo fighters.

jessiejam · 21-10-2012 10:31AM

john47832 wrote: »

If that was an indirect question then the answer is yes, I do hold this opinion, unpopular as it is...

And might I ask how in the name of fuk do you have any idea how painful childbirth is?

Magill · 21-10-2012 10:36AM

Real Life wrote: »

but he never said nirvana were better than pearl jam, just better than foo fighters.

I know, i was just being a tit.

mark renton · 21-10-2012 10:57AM

Nirvana are crap
Foo Fighters are crap
Pearl Jam are crap

mark renton · 21-10-2012 10:59AM

jessiejam wrote: »

And might I ask how in the name of fuk do you have any idea how painful childbirth is?

Sorry missus, that was about 10 pages back and I'm afraid you might be a little too uptight for this conversation so I must abstain...

flutterflye · 21-10-2012 11:00AM

john47832 wrote: »

Nirvana are crap
Foo Fighters are crap
Pearl Jam are crap

No.

mark renton · 21-10-2012 11:10AM

flutterflye wrote: »

No.

Tis true...

1D rule

flutterflye · 21-10-2012 11:12AM

john47832 wrote: »

Tis true...

1D rule

1 Direction is it?!
Yeah, Niall Horahan is so dreamy.

mikemac1 · 21-10-2012 11:31AM

Setting a rule that employees must have a doctors cert for a sick day will not drive down absenteeism, it will drive it up

People spent 50 euro or so with the doctor and for that kind of money they will take off another day

Some rules have to be set by a business but a cert for one day does not work

Pherekydes · 21-10-2012 11:32AM

jessiejam wrote: »

And might I ask how in the name of fuk do you have any idea how painful childbirth is?

He doesn't. He's just posting an unpopular and idiotic opinion. He's almost certainly never even attended a live birth, barring his own.

NegativeCreep · 21-10-2012 11:37AM

In fairness, 1D aren't awful. I like that song 'you don't know you're beautiful.' such a tune :L

mark renton · 21-10-2012 11:40AM

Pherekydes wrote: »

He doesn't. He's just posting an unpopular and idiotic opinion. He's almost certainly never even attended a live birth, barring his own.

:rolleyes:

idiotic is subjective Pher - Did you go to mass this morning?

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