Those with privilege carry half the risk of childhood obesity that those in deprived groups have.
This is the real cost of the toleration of income and wealth inequality, discrimination, and the failure to recognise the impact of neurodivergence, since all those subject to these are more likely to be in the deprived groups.
The lumpen are fat because we’re not nice to the autistic.
Well, could be I guess. But I think we’d require some proof, no?
“Those with privilege …”
Have I told you my tale of a friend of a friend who was bullied by his teacher at primary school because of his privilege? The privilege concerned was that his parents were married.
When the ex and I were bringing up our two kids, we used to go to the park or outside on the green with them and play football, tennis, chase, etc. etc. Didn’t need money (which was handy because we didn’t have any), just the will and desire to do some exercise. And it was fun, and good for all our physical and mental well-being (another added benefit was that it knackered the little buggers out).
And that is what these fat, lazy cunts lack, the will or desire, and then blame someone or something else because it’s easier.
Seems like the food banks are giving out too much food.
Saw a video this morning of someone in the UK at a boot sale. The seller (am I allowed to say not white, without getting into trouble?) had a stock of foodstuff for sale, cheap.
The sort of food stuff that is regularly given out at food banks……………
I rather think we have a circular reference here. The definition of privilege being stretched to include everyone who is getting along well and then bounced back as ‘you’re not deserving, you’re privileged’. Privilege in the example above might be more fittingly explained as common sense and willing deferment of pleasure. Self control. The opposite of the low intelligence and poor impulse control of the unprivileged.
We all know that Herr Kartoffelsalat considers “privilege” as someone who can spare a turnip for a rainy day..
It’s telling that even the mentally challenged clowns in Labour, Greens and LibDems don’t want anything to do with him..
That appears to be more to do with personality clashes rather than the bat shit crazy ideas he puts forward.
That’s them not *appointing* him to any function he deems his right due, like vermine..
It’s easy to
stealborrow Ideas, and they so would if they saw merit in it, like re-election or something like that, whether or not the ideas themselves were actually feasible..His notions are so far Out There they’re not even considering using them. Because even those Clowns sense they’re a recipe for disaster.
And that’s saying something….
Is that the childhood obesity that drops off a cliff when each peer group reaches 18 and BMI is measured differently? See Chris Snowdon’s critique on the issue.
I am in Whitby and the Venus of Willendorf seems to be following me everywhere…
The privilege of being born to parents who care about one.
He is poor, fat, and self diagnosed mentally ill. If the world was fairer his genius would be recognised. What more proof do you need?
He has risen to the limit of his capabilities, as do most people in the West (and in market economies generally), and is disappointed and angry because as a result he hasn’t risen far.
Spud’s problem is that he’s not up to much and never was.
Doesn’t the “Peter Principle” indicate that everyone in a hierarchy rises to a level at which they’re incompetent? Spud seems a worked-example of this idea.
It does, and it’s true. As a session musician I rose to a height at which I was performing at my limits and it stopped being fun. That’s why I burned out and quit. That said, I was honest and smart enough not to go beyond my limits in public, fuck up, and let everyone down.
Spud, OTOH…
I had two bosses who successively rose to the top as Chief Investment Manager and were highly competent and then died of heart attacks.
So – not quite everyone.
(I worried about how much I contributed to PG’s heart attack but it occurred a year after I was made redundant so I cannot have been the sole cause.)
From what I heard about JP, it sounded more like a burst AAA (Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm) than a heart attack, the same thing that did for Lindsey Graham the other day (aortic dissection sounds like US-speak for AAA, but in any event must be similar). My dad was found to have an AAA and it was treated by what is now a standard procedure – a stent, which can at least defer the problem to the point you’re likely to die of something else first. As it was then a new procedure, his consultant offered him the choice of doing nothing in which case “you’ll probably drop dead in the next year or two, but if I had to die tomorrow, AAA is the way I’d choose to go, quick, relatively painless and no mess”.
I think the NHS now gives all 60yo men an ultrasound scan for AAA.
I must confess that I should not have known the difference (I passed “Life and other Contingencies” in 1972 and never had to look at it again).
A large majority of previous generations were not privileged, and yet they were far from fat.Indeed being fat could a sign of privilege, As with the the Prince Regent and the Dear Leader of North Korea.
deprived groups used to go hungry and be smaller and thin, now they are the obese fattys. the face of Poverty has undergone a transformation…
Ed, same as in times gone by when those who had a motor car had money and those who were poor had horses.
Proof?
We ain’t got no Proof!
We don’t need no proof!
I don’t have to show you any stinkin’ Proof!”
Correlation causation, or reverse causation?
Maybe being “overweight” and “low income” are both symptoms of a common causal factor, such as laziness?
Then if you were lazy youd maybe look for some easy grifts, such as discrimination and mental health diagnosis.
I think it all boils down to if you have money you can buy better things for yourself. This not only applies to food but everything else.
Of course, our communist overlords would like everyone to die early, be under-malnourished and not own anything.
However, in this day and age, even those on the dole have enough to buy decent food. They just don’t and buy phone and netflix subscription instead.
“and the streets are paved with gold”
In Zimbabwe, they tell tales of British wealth:
“Even the poor kids are fat!”
“That’s crazy talk!”
Neurowhat? What does that mean, commie dick?
NFW he knows.
Do you want the NewSpeak definition, or the actual reality… 😉
And yes, Spud understands as much about neurodiversity as he does about Quantum…
Starting with the fact that “neurodiversity” is what kept us going as a species against all odds, and one of our strongest traits for survival.
Starting with the fact that our firmware/software is *far* more flexible than our chemistry-bound bodies, and that it’s exactly *that* why so many species have a measure of Intelligence and are capable of learning from experience….
the risk of childhood obesity
Wut? Childhood obesity has no consequences. Horrible for adults, but not for kids.
Childhood obesity used to make the individual a laughing stock
Until the individual fell on you. (See what Jack Handey says about patches of ice and ants.)
Could be that all those problems make you poor. Without all that crud you can get on your feet and make something of yourself. Making “the menatally and physically distressed” rich won’t fix their lives, they’ll just be briefly well off and the descend back into poverty.
I think we’re about to see that demonstrated via “reparations”.
Commies aren’t interested in helping “the poor.” They are props.
Commies are interested in destroying prosperity. “Helping the poor” sounds way better than “destroying wealth.”
“Tax the rich,
Feed the poor,
Until there are no rich no more.”
I didn’t realise how naive Alvin was until he wrote that.
Privileged means you were brought up to use a knife and fork. Unprivileged means trotters in the trough.
You used a hanky after picking your nose.
I help organise an annual lunch for 100+ at the Capital City College in Victoria. It’s run by the catering department, which trains chefs and front-of-house staff. The staff tell me that most of their students arrive at the age of 16 never having used a knife and fork (or certainly not laid a place setting).
Entirely irrelevant but full marks to the US federal government’s security arms: their deployment of codenames is masterly.
“According to the newspaper, Malia had been registered at the Royal Antibes [hotel] under the codename D-POTUS, indicating the daughter of the US president.”
OT speaking of food and risks….
Cyclos[pora outbreak in the US… Vegans hardest hit….
Risk is a cause and effect statement. Correlation does not equal causation I.e Spud is spouting bollocks as usual.
“Those with privilege carry half the risk of childhood obesity…” so we should increase it to 100% of the risk?
selective quoting , Charles m’boy…..
Got to include the latter part as well to get the full content and intent….
Not that it’s any less insane and unfounded…. But don’t truncate sentences to “prove” a point or make a dig…
You’re ….Spuddian… if you do that…
That [period] at the end of a sentece is there for a Reason… Don’t be like Herr Kartoffel…..
I don’t see what you’re complaining about. The general point is the usual one about inequality, so falls foul ot the general point about inequality which is that you can remove inequality by making things worse for everyone else until we are all poor, sick, or whatever.
If we merely want to remove this tolerance of inequality, this can be done by removing the privileges and making everyone have 100% of the risk of the deprived groups. Any mechanism which improves things for the worst off relies on temporary inequality, so removing that prevents improvement.