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Is your child a "fat bastard"*

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  • #32
    _Redzer_
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    Terrible parenting is to blame.


  • #33
    anncoates
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    catallus wrote: »
    I wouldn't say being a feeder is a "common" thing, fetish-wise.

    Certainly not as common as dressing in rubber. Mmmmmm. :)

    I was making a dumb joke so didn't consult the relevant statistics.


  • #34
    Penny Tration
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    PucaMama wrote: »
    really???

    Yup. He was about 4 stone lighter when we got together. Then decided to live off of takeaways and Coke.


  • #35
    anncoates
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    Nuts102 wrote: »
    Here he was onto his fourth bag of a special offer of 6 bags of meanies. .

    Did you stalk them and count?


  • #36
    Aint Eazy Being Cheezy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,634 ✭✭✭Aint Eazy Being Cheezy


    A 50" waist in primary school?!?

    That child sits next to everyone in the class.


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  • #37
    catallus
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    anncoates wrote: »
    I was making a dumb joke so didn't consult the relevant statistics.

    I betcha every single child that has a 50 inch waist has atheist parents. There, I said it.


  • #38
    Tin Foil Hat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,678 ✭✭✭Tin Foil Hat


    anncoates wrote: »
    I have a child in primary school and from what I see there's no way there's many kids of that size.

    I deliver into loads of schools and, your right, the fat kid is still a rare sight. Until you go to the schools in working class areas. It needs to be seen to believed. Frightening.


  • #39
    Gbear
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    RoboRat wrote: »
    I also hate the excuse of it 'being too expensive'... another BS excuse.

    It's idiotic. It's far more expensive to shovel a load processed crap into your face than to cook with simple fresh produce.

    Vegetables are virtually free.


  • #40
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    Nuts102 wrote: »
    At the bus stop the other day see an obese woman and her son coming out of Spar. Crisps and coke etc are bad as it is but i couldn't believe it. Here he was onto his fourth bag of a special offer of 6 bags of meanies. While she was holding his two litre bottle of coke and passing it over to him when he wanted a sup. I have no doubt he worked his way through the 6 packets and a 2 litre of coke for a snack.

    He won't eat proper food!


  • #41
    PucaMama
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    green_screen wrote: »
    Yup. He was about 4 stone lighter when we got together. Then decided to live off of takeaways and Coke.
    at 6'10 is that big a waist an issue?


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  • #42
    anncoates
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    Gbear wrote: »
    It's idiotic. It's far more expensive to shovel a load processed crap into your face

    Have you ever seen that Special K stuff? Unbelievable.


  • #43
    Deranged96
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    The Peanut wrote: »
    I live in the country. I could count on 2 hands the number of what I would class as overweight/fat kids in their primary school of ca 150 kids.

    If I drive to the nearest big town, that number shoots way up.

    Where I live there are no chippers, parents have to cook. The easy options are typically not there.

    Parents are responsible for educating their children about what to eat and when to eat.

    The article in the OP is shocking.

    This is the absolute truth, country children also lean more towards being strong than fat. Probably because GTA5 is replaced by forkin' fodder


  • #44
    Aint Eazy Being Cheezy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,634 ✭✭✭Aint Eazy Being Cheezy


    PucaMama wrote: »
    at 6'10 is that big a waist an issue?

    Only if you've to sit next to him on a plane.


  • #45
    Penny Tration
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    PucaMama wrote: »
    at 6'10 is that big a waist an issue?

    Yup, his bmi was through the roof, body fat % shockingly high, couldn't walk without being out of breath, high blood pressure, etc. I


  • #46
    Penny Tration
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    Nuts102 wrote: »
    At the bus stop the other day see an obese woman and her son coming out of Spar. Crisps and coke etc are bad as it is but i couldn't believe it. Here he was onto his fourth bag of a special offer of 6 bags of meanies. While she was holding his two litre bottle of coke and passing it over to him when he wanted a sup. I have no doubt he worked his way through the 6 packets and a 2 litre of coke for a snack.

    But meanies are lovely!


  • #47
    miss no stars
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    anncoates wrote: »
    I have a child in primary school and from what I see there's no way there's many kids of that size.
    The Cunning Linguist wrote: »
    A 50" waist in primary school?!?

    That child sits next to everyone in the class.

    Sorry, but the report was actually about 40" waists in primary school uniforms and 50" waists in secondary school uniforms. The woman in the interview made a point of clarifying that.


  • #48
    stoneill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,607 ✭✭✭stoneill


    My kid is NOTa Fat Bastard,
    He might be lazy
    He might be stupid
    He might be a Fat Bastard
    But he is NOT gay.


  • #49
    GreeBo
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    anncoates wrote: »
    I have a child in primary school and from what I see there's no way there's many kids of that size.

    Well for one thing they wouldn't all fit unless their teacher is a Tetris champion.


  • #50
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    miss no stars wrote: »
    Sorry, but the report was actually about 40" waists in primary school uniforms and 50" waists in secondary school uniforms. The woman in the interview made a point of clarifying that.

    A 40 inch waist (I've a 28 inch waist) in a child, is wrong, wrong, wrong wrong.


  • #51
    knickerbocker
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    Aglomerado wrote: »
    There probably wouldn't be so many fat children if the parents stopped insisting on driving them right up to the fúcking classroom door in their massive wagons.

    This could be a ploy to roll their kids to seconary school!


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  • #52
    The Peanut
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    The Cunning Linguist wrote: »
    A 50" waist in primary school?!?

    That child sits next to everyone in the class.

    Shouldn't laugh but....


  • #53
    osarusan
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    No, just a bastard.


  • #54
    anncoates
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    miss no stars wrote: »
    Sorry, but the report was actually about 40" waists in primary school uniforms.

    I know

    And I was saying I just don't really see any kids that size in my kids primary school.


  • #55
    miss no stars
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    anncoates wrote: »
    I know

    And I was saying I just don't really see any kids that size in my kids primary school.

    Sorry, thought you were responding to someone talking about a 50" waist in primary school :o

    Yeah, kids that big are (thankfully) still rare. By that woman's comments she sells about 100 odd pairs of trousers for 11-12 year olds in a 40" waist. However, that's just her sales, that doesn't include the mens trousers taken up to fit, or those that other suppliers will sell. She mentioned that she's done custom trousers up to 58" waist for secondary schools.

    So these kids exist and they're becoming more and more frequent. At the moment, it's more restricted to poorer areas. Eventually, though, it will become a problem in all areas if left unchecked. Ten years ago my brother was in 6th class and there was nowhere near that level of obesity in general. 100 kids need a 40" trouser this year. How many more in ten more years?


  • #56
    Czarcasm
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    I wonder how many of us have noticed anecdotal evidence of children who are under-weight?

    They're usually a bit harder to spot, but I would say it was a far more prevalent issue than the amount of overweight children.


  • #57
    miss no stars
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    Czarcasm wrote: »
    I wonder how many of us have noticed anecdotal evidence of children who are under-weight?

    They're usually a bit harder to spot, but I would say it was a far more prevalent issue than the amount of overweight children.

    Kids' BMI ranges are different than those of adults. A 12 year old boy very well can be perfectly healthy with a BMI of 15.

    Have a look at the bands for kids:
    http://www.cdc.gov/healthyweight/images/growthchart_example1.gif


  • #58
    Tokyo
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    Czarcasm wrote: »
    I wonder how many of us have noticed anecdotal evidence of children who are under-weight?

    They're usually a bit harder to spot, but I would say it was a far more prevalent issue than the amount of overweight children.

    a 40" waist in a primary school kid isn't overweight - it's morbidly obese and then some. Hell, *I'd* be hitting on morbidly obese if I had a 40" waistline. I'd imagine that if children were rocking up to school morbidly underweight, it would get far more of a reaction, and would be hailed as child abuse far quicker than the other extreme.


  • #59
    Wabbit Ears
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    There was this thing I read on FB a while back where a hippo of a woman and her bohemoth kid were politly told but the owner in a communion dress shop that they didnt cater for her kids size, they had petite sizes in stock. Que war against the shop by jabba the mommy on how her child had been so mortified and how evil the dress shop owner was for calling her kid fat.

    Absolutly Zero personal responsibility for her kid's morbid obesity......


  • #60
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    green_screen wrote: »
    Yup, his bmi was through the roof, body fat % shockingly high, couldn't walk without being out of breath, high blood pressure, etc. I

    You busy this evening?


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  • #61
    _Redzer_
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    Czarcasm wrote: »
    I wonder how many of us have noticed anecdotal evidence of children who are under-weight?

    They're usually a bit harder to spot, but I would say it was a far more prevalent issue than the amount of overweight children.

    Doubtful considering a huge % of kids are overweight and obese.

    I think it's more to do with the fact that many parents don't know what a healthy weight looks like for a child. I've seen overweight children being thought of as having a healthy weight, and normal, thinner children being thought of as skin and bone.
    I think this is a problem right throughout many peoples lives when I've seen lads claiming 5'10 and 15 stone is average. Eh, no, no it's not, you're very overweight.

    My cousins were thought of as being skin and bone by some parents -who shockingly had chubby kids themselves. My cousins ate like horses and never stopped racing around the place, so they were actually the healthy ones.


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