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[Graknorke]

...any argument is people telling each other things. At its most basic level anyway. There's different kinds of things and different ways they'll do it, but ultimately it just comes down to telling the other person something.

[Sinistar]

...any argument is people telling each other things. At its most basic level anyway. There's different kinds of things and different ways they'll do it, but ultimately it just comes down to telling the other person something.

... no it's not.

[MarcAFK]

...any argument is people telling each other things. At its most basic level anyway. There's different kinds of things and different ways they'll do it, but ultimately it just comes down to telling the other person something.

... no it's not.

yes it isz!

[martinuzz]

Geesh! I knew David Cameron was an asshole. I didn't know yet he was a nazi fascist fuck.

His new idea: force people that depend on social security, who are fat, to lose weight, or they lose their income (and their home, and everything).
Now I'm not fat, but I do know that there are a lot of fat people out there who really cannot help being fat. (Even though I admit there also are some who can help it).
Cameron should be put on trial in the Hague for this.

[Sheb]

I'm in favour of this. Soon, only the rich will be able to afford being fat, fat will become fashionable again, and the bourgeoisie will just eat itself away.

[hector13]

Geesh! I knew David Cameron was an asshole. I didn't know yet he was a nazi fascist fuck.

His new idea: force people that depend on social security, who are fat, to lose weight, or they lose their income (and their home, and everything).
Now I'm not fat, but I do know that there are a lot of fat people out there who really cannot help being fat. (Even though I admit there also are some who can help it).
Cameron should be put on trial in the Hague for this.

'T ain't just the fatties, it's the junkies too!

It's obviously your fault if you're fat though. I mean, it might have something to do with the fact that junk food is cheaper than healthier options, minimum wage is still lower than Living wage so you have to work long hours to afford anything useful and are thus too tired to prepare a balanced meal, or even weight gain in response to other health issues, but you're obviously just a weak person if you can't keep your appetite in check. Obviously.

[MarcAFK]

You're obviously getting too much welfare if you can afford more food than the bare minimum. Everyone should be anorexic, for efficiency.

[Owlbread]

The majority of overweight people in the UK, Scotland especially, are from the poorest backgrounds. Similar to the bedroom tax issue, you have to be poor to claim most benefits, so once again this is a way of royally shafting the working class of Britain while allowing the corrupt bankers who got us into this economic crisis to get away with it. It's all part of the Tory plan to shift the blame off them and onto the people at the bottom of our society; the disabled, immigrants, the poor, the "underclass". I predict we'll see yet more suicides from people with mental health problems over this.

Tragically I think a recent YouGov poll showed the vast majority (something like 60%) of people in the UK support stopping benefits for overweight people. It's against stuff like that that I take comfort in the fact that, somehow, in a country like mine we managed to convince 45% of the population to vote for independence. How we even did that I'll never really understand.

It's obviously your fault if you're fat though. I mean, it might have something to do with the fact that junk food is cheaper than healthier options, minimum wage is still lower than Living wage so you have to work long hours to afford anything useful and are thus too tired to prepare a balanced meal, or even weight gain in response to other health issues, but you're obviously just a weak person if you can't keep your appetite in check. Obviously.

All of my this.

[Sergarr]

Thank god junk food in Russia is extremely high priced!

[scriver]

There also the issue that once you're obese enough (and I assume this all concern "medically obese" people, or whatever we could call it) your body goes into "I don't know what the fuck I'm doing mode" and react with "starvation hoarding" tactics to any kind of weight loss, making it particularly difficult to loose weight without aid/through the standard eat-healthier-exercise-more lifestyle changes.

[10ebbor10]

In other news, just 9 days till Greek bankruptcy

[mainiac]

It's against stuff like that that I take comfort in the fact that, somehow, in a country like mine we managed to convince 45% of the population to vote for independence. How we even did that I'll never really understand.

Probably because the UK has seriously botched it's economic policies and it made people receptive to a change.

[Owlbread]

It's against stuff like that that I take comfort in the fact that, somehow, in a country like mine we managed to convince 45% of the population to vote for independence. How we even did that I'll never really understand.

Probably because the UK has seriously botched it's economic policies and it made people receptive to a change.

You can reduce it to that, but I'm not sure if misguided economics alone is responsible for everything e.g. the enormous divide in this country between certain parts of England and the rest of the Union. That divide is socio-economic, political, cultural... the measures taken/are taking to deal with the economic crisis just widened the divide and made it more obvious.

I'm not saying Scotland is virtuous, or better than England or something; polling results across the board show that we're a socially conservative country (in favour of the death penalty, tighter control on immigration etc) but economically quite left wing, even Socialist. I think we're harkening back to the post-1945 Welfare State that the London elite are hell bent on eroding or something. We don't really have a "metropolitan elite" similar to or anywhere near as powerful as the London one, and "middle Scotland" is quite different from middle England in some ways. They do have similar attitudes but I think there's a marked swing towards left-wing economic policy in middle Scotland when compared with middle England. Of course nobody wants to pay higher taxes, even though they want the railways nationalised and the energy companies and so on, but that's to be expected.

The divide as far as I see it is that Scotland is a fairly run-of-the-mill, small (but not too small), socially conservative, cautious country with an elderly population in Northern Europe welded onto a huge, 60-million strong Atlantic behemoth of a country packed into half of an island with unspeakably wealthy elites doing whatever the hell they like, with all the power concentrated almost entirely in a tiny area in the South East. Somehow I don't think this arrangement can last.

[mainiac]

"Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist."

[Fniff]

In other news, just 9 days till Greek bankruptcy

On the 9th day of Impending Bankruptcy, my finance minister gave a report to me...
9 violent protests,
8 failed solutions,
7 suicidal advisors,
6 angry Germans,
5 capsizing banks,
4 bail-outs,
3 victories for the far-right,
2 streetlights failing to work,
and a country on the edge of the abyss.