Discussion » Should we tax the fat?

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Posted by syl_DUPE1, around June 2006:
 
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haha!
Posted by WarHead, around 6th June 2006:
 
I'm not reading all that.
Posted by Doctor Lucid_DUPE1, around 6th June 2006:
 
I read that in the paper originally. Genius. Tax the chubbers cause it's their own fault.
Posted by Grim..., around 6th June 2006:
 
And the criminals!
Posted by Doctor Lucid_DUPE1, around 6th June 2006:
 


In fact, anyone who injures themself in a situation which could have been avoided if they had been more alert.
Posted by syl_DUPE1, around 6th June 2006:
 
Well we tax smokers and drinkers and gamblers, why not fatso's? ;)
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 7th June 2006:
 
simple then. in the same vein as how the uk taxes smokers and drinkers and gamblers and road-vehicle-polluters, just re-instate VAT on food. job done.
Posted by frankie_DUPE1, around 7th June 2006:
 
Why not just kill anyone with a BMI over 30, i mean they're either lazy and useless or, if they have some kind of medical condition then they have faulty fat genes that we probably don't want them passing on to future generations anyway. Plus we could use all the resulting fat from the dead bodies to make soap out of and feed the meat to people in the third world.
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 7th June 2006:
 
sounds good and equally valid. BMI is itself completely borked as a measure of obesity. note that nearly all international-level Rugby players are clinically obese by its standards (and by that NHS rule change proposed a few months back would have been ineligible for most non-emergency surgery and treatments)
Posted by syl_DUPE1, around 7th June 2006:
 
Yeah, a person who is short and has a lot of muscle will also have a high BMI, but is not over-fat. One has to use bodyfat scales.
Foods from the basic food groups (veggies/bread/meat) should be tax exempt, but luxury items like chocolate should be taxed like cigs or booze. It's only fair.

POCKY-TAX!
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 7th June 2006:
 
something else which is not widely advertised: if you control out lifestyle stupidities like smoking, high fat contents are NOT correlated with health problems or lifespan shortenings until you get to extremely high fat contents. and in a delightful triumph of PCism over reality, the BMA has forbidden the NHS to take on board the fact that afro-caribbean blacks are even more robust to fat content than is the average white person, and have to be up past corpulent before they start suffering significant health or lifespan impacts.

ie, the whole fat=ill-health thing is a crock of shit
Posted by syl_DUPE1, around 8th June 2006:
 
Thanks, I'm going to stay fat then. ;)

/waddles off
Posted by Sul_DUPE1, around 8th June 2006:
 
I'm not sure we should tax the fat. Like taxing chocolate or whatever. Tax the services though, sure. Two seats on planes etc if you're a fatty. I'm all for that.

I saw a fat man sobbing on the train the other day. I hate looking at fat men crying. I mean, his wife could've died or something but still, don't cry if you're a fat man. Not in public.
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 8th June 2006:
 
big fat tears rolling down his cheeks?
Posted by Sul_DUPE1, around 8th June 2006:
 
Down his big fat cheecks. A huge wobbling bottom lip. The works.
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 8th June 2006:
 
his bottom has lips?
wow
that IS fat
Posted by syl_DUPE1, around 9th June 2006:
 
*snort*
Posted by syl_DUPE1, around 9th June 2006:
 
don't cry if you're a fat man

HAHAHAHAHAHA!1!!!
Posted by SexCJordan, around 16th June 2006:
 
we shud not tax da fat....
Posted by SexCJordan, around 16th June 2006:
 
.........WE SUD KILL DEM!!! :)
Posted by Salman Rushdie_DUPE1, around 16th June 2006:
 
YEAH!!!
Posted by WarHead, around 16th June 2006:
 
That's right, put at fatwah out on them.
Posted by syl_DUPE1, around 16th June 2006:
 
hahaha!
Posted by Doctor Lucid_DUPE1, 19th April 2007:
 
So I got Neighbours: The Ultimate Collection for Christmas. We watched Helen's death the other day. And then watched Drew and Libby's wedding. Daniel Taylor wanted to watch Madge's death. There's no worse way to round off an evening than watching Harold Bishop weeping at the bedside of Dead Madge. Awful. No-one wants to watch Harold cry.
Posted by Grim..., 19th April 2007:
 
My mate's got that DVD. It's got most of the births, deaths and marriges, right?
Annalise is on it. Grr!
Posted by AxeMan, around 5th January 2008:
 
When I first met Beverly, she was an average size girl who didn't seem entirely happy, although she had an intoxicating smile. Her eyes had a hungry look in them. I knew that look well. She had been dieting for a long time, Beverly had, I could tell. And what for? Beverly was definitely the type of woman that needed food like a fish needs water. She was starving. And I was prepared to feed her.

Some men look at a woman and mentally undress them. I, on the other hand, mentally fatten them up. I picture that woman's perfect weight. I then begin to put on rolls and rolls of sweet, juicy fat, and feel myself getting hard as a stick of dynamite waiting to explode into the large woman's voluminous body. And now I was looking at a sweet but forlorn face, and a body that could drive me into a frenzy --- someday. But first I had to introduce myself.

"Thank you." And she proceeded to make a huge banana split on my cock. As soon was finished, she dove right in.
Posted by Saltation, around 6th January 2008:
 
hope it wasn't plantain. frying stings like fuck.
Posted by AxeMan, around 7th January 2008:
 
is this the place for erotic writing such as this?
Posted by AxeMan, around 7th January 2008:
 
Oh and the dog in the suit is funny !
Posted by Meatwood Flack, around 7th January 2008:
 
Is that Feeder-Fic?
Posted by syl, 9th January 2008:
 
EW
Posted by Saltation, 16th January 2008:
 
Posted by Saltation, 1 week ago:

  hope it wasn't plantain. frying stings like fuck.

Posted by AxeMan, 8 days ago:

  is this the place for erotic writing such as this?


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Posted by Redmaiden, around 17th January 2008:
 
I'm still laughing at that photo of the dog above, omg look at his outfit, he has no style!
Posted by Meatwood Flack, 18th January 2008:
 
I mean, it's not the most co-ordinated outfit, true...

By the way, does anyone know if Stevie Wonder has always been blind, or did he become blind at some point in his life?

If it's the former, who chooses his outfits?

Posted by WarHead, 18th January 2008:
 
Nelson Mandella.
Posted by syl, around 19th January 2008:
 
It looks like he chooses them himself.
Posted by Redmaiden, around January 2008:
 
Stevie Wonder (born Steveland Hardaway Judkins on May 13, 1950, name later changed to Steveland Hardaway Morris. He was blind from infancy. Source wikipedia.

Maybe it felt nice?
Posted by Saltation, around 24th January 2008:
 
kinda embarrassing he missed his own mouth with the microphone
Posted by syl, around 31st January 2008:
 
Haha
Posted by Sul, around 31st January 2008:
 
His surname isn't really Wonder?!
Posted by Redmaiden, around 18th February 2008:
 
Nope it's Judkins
Posted by Meatwood Flack, around 18th February 2008:
 
Judkins --> Morris --> Wonder?