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| Thread ID: 101467 | 2009-07-16 00:36:00 | Fat programs | Cicero (40) | PC World Chat |
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| 792110 | 2009-07-16 03:47:00 | Cic never can. :p Woah edited much. I agree though, The Office is funny and pretty easy to watch. Survivor is not in the least bit funny and it's plain painful to watch. Those programs documenting overly obese people are disgusting. It serves as a warning to people though, to never get that fat. Rugby costs NZ's healthcare system a hell of a lot of money - as people that have worked at Burwood Spinal Unit who get ready each weekend (yes, 50 a year on average) for another rugby player will tell you. Each rugby tetraplegic still alive in NZ from 1973 onwards is costing over $20 per hour, 24/7 - and that is just the care costs after they are non-acute and in an accessible home environment (that has been altered to their needs often at a cost of $50 - $100k), given a car, a hoist ($6 - $7K), a few wheelchairs ($6K - $25k each), 80% of the salary they could realistically expect to be getting if they hadn't been injured (so if you go and get a commerce degree after your injury you will get 80% of an average management salary), plus associated costs such as healthcare consumables and the list goes on. And we should be so concerned about fat people? |
Deane F (8204) | ||
| 792111 | 2009-07-16 04:25:00 | . . . - and obesity documentary makers never mention that thin people with low cholesterol get heart disease and/or diabetes . But thin people didn't choose to get them blights ;) |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 792112 | 2009-07-16 05:51:00 | But thin people didn't choose to get them blights ;) Far too slick a statement - in fact a lot of them did. Obesity is only one risk factor among many for diabetes and heart disease. |
Deane F (8204) | ||
| 792113 | 2009-07-16 06:10:00 | No way - they only smoked to avoid moth-on-the-lung. Smoking gives immunity from this. | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 792114 | 2009-07-16 06:40:00 | My point was,there seems to be an endless supply of these fats gits getting on TV,so people must watch,maybe they get a kick out of being sick, watching? As an aside 24 was not bad for a while,but now it seriously verges on the ridiculous. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 792115 | 2009-07-16 07:44:00 | What do you expect from American TV no real programs are made there only crap ones and yet it seems lots of you still watch and that's why they make them because people will watch. | gary67 (56) | ||
| 792116 | 2009-07-16 13:09:00 | There's a great spoof of 24 somewhere on the internet - made by uni students in the US I think. It shows what 24 would be like if it was set in 1995, with 56kbps internet etc. Quite funny. | Deane F (8204) | ||
| 792117 | 2009-07-16 21:31:00 | What do you expect from American TV no real programs are made there only crap ones and yet it seems lots of you still watch and that's why they make them because people will watch. They won't make programs unless they are watched and it was the watchers that interested me. There are plenty of crap programs that come out of England,the lowest common denominator rules there just as in USA. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 792118 | 2009-07-16 22:26:00 | Even my kids who look like rakes watch the fat people reality shows. Survivor good last night when the blindsided that cyclist jerk. |
prefect (6291) | ||
| 792119 | 2009-07-16 22:40:00 | Even my kids who look like rakes watch the fat people reality shows. Survivor good last night when the blindsided that cyclist jerk. Good to see both you and your sprogs have such good taste! |
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