Posts by Jackie Clark
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Electric light orchestra. If anything unforeseen should happen.
70's ELO? Right on.
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There's a really interesting conversation to be had about the factors that contribute to weight, and how often do you meet people who'll talk about endocrinology or the cultural aspects of obesity with you.
Exactly, WH. It's a rare thing, these days, I find, that people think about the complexities around most subjects.
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Ben - so let me summarise. You're right, everyone else has misunderstood you, so we're kind of all wrong. Good on you mate.
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I take Jackie's word for it that she doesn't care if she's eating and smoking herself to death
Honey, we're all dying. I just don't buy into all the malarkey about how chocolate is bad for you, and 10 ciggies a day makes you a walking corpse. Look, are you reading back what you're writing?
This is a futile argument, at cross-purposes, as all discussions about fatness tend to be.
And why would that be, Ben? Hmm? Could it be because for each person, it's a deeply personal thing?
if every discussion t about fatness which leads to the well known conclusion, about what is required to lose weight, is to be considered a veiled insult, then the 'obesity problem' really will not be solved.
Well, you see, I don't think that, in fact, discussions about fatness, are always about what is required to lose weight. I think that when people talk about fatness, there is subtext. When you talk about fatness, for some reason, nerves are hit. Now why would that be? IMHO, it's because all around us the message is: fat is bad, fat is gross, fat is unattractive etc. Whilst most people don't question that message, others internalise it, and women, in particular, spend years of their very short lives, attempting to fit into moulds that really, are unrealistic - because of hormones, and genetics, largely. And in the effort to lose weight, their metabolisms slow down, and their bodies hold onto fat cells, and guess what? They go on more diets to lose weight, and end up gaining more weight, which BTW is enormously straining on the heart. Why, you might ask, when all that is required is a bit less food in the mouth, and a bit more exercise? Because Ben, that's not how our bodies work, by and large. If we expend more energy than we consume, then logically, yes, we lose fat cells. But you see, it's never as simple as that. Does any of this make any sense to you? I just want you to understand that not all fatties are lazy, that not all adipose people are desperate to lose weight, and that, above all, as I think you may have discovered, like it or not, fat is a feminist issue (tm).
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Jackie lets the nonadipose, and formerly adipose, fight it out amongst themselves, because she is adipose and refuses to engage. Oh, and by the way, Ben? I find the amount of words you have used to simply state one thing - ie I used to be fat, now I'm not, yay for me, everyone else should be like me - a bit overwhelming, really. Well, I would, if it weren't immediately apparent in the first post you made pertaining to fat people (tm) that you were a former fattie. It's a bit like reformed smokers, innit? Oh yes, I'm not only fat, I'm a smoker. Long life? I spit on the concept.
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Thankyou Stephen. That saves me a rant.
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Look, one day soon Paul will die, and then we will be able to forget what a giant douchey cheeseball he is
Oh no, Danielle. Say it ain't so! It's a very strange phenomenon. I never much liked the Beatles, but I really loved their work as individuals, or in Paul's case, with Wings. Yes, I loved Wings. And how can you not give Ringo props for Thomas the Tank Engine? I could listen to that voice, all day. But my favourite one is George. I loved George.
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Were Hello Sailor any good, 3410?
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The more *blame* is taken away from the whole obesity equation, the better. Information, and education - and support- work. Blame doesnt.
Yes. Yes. And yes.
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Thankyou for translating my frustrated rant, Danielle. Really.