Awesome stuff you see on the internet
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<p>Let's hope the poster/likers with a combined 75,000-odd TSF posts aren't avoiding hiring Fatso on the grounds that he might be a lazy time waster... :)</p>
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<p>Nope, definitely not. My reasons are more for the business, but also some personal, selfish, arsehole ones. I should point out I'm talking about superfat / obese people only. Being a few pounds/kilos above ideal is very different to being 50kg above.</p>
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<p>The way you look and present yourself matters. How are you supposed to be able to look after other peoples money, if you can't look after yourself. I'm not going to wheel out some fat bastard as a new hire in front of some of our clients, it's just not a good look. And like nobody likes watching a drunk have a drink, or an addict shoot up, I don't like watching fat people eat unhealthy food. Shithouse thing to say? Yep, but factual.</p>
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<p>I have a rather obese sister and I'm the first to admit, that I don't handle it too well. My perceptions of her, certainly taint my entire view of the obese class. The thing that really really really fucks me off, is that 2-3 weeks (just weeks) of healthy living, would make such a noticable change, and the effects of losing weight are snowball, you make that first step, you get motivated, you want to do better and BOOM. But the fact they just won't do it, be it due to addiction or whatever, it just really grinds my gears. That and she's a leftard civil servant socialist. </p> -
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Nope, definitely not. My reasons are more for the business, but also some personal, selfish, arsehole ones. I should point out I'm talking about superfat / obese people only. Being a few pounds/kilos above ideal is very different to being 50kg above.<br><br>
The way you look and present yourself matters. How are you supposed to be able to look after other peoples money, if you can't look after yourself. I'm not going to wheel out some fat bastard as a new hire in front of some of our clients, it's just not a good look. And like nobody likes watching a drunk have a drink, or an addict shoot up, I don't like watching fat people eat unhealthy food. Shithouse thing to say? Yep, but factual.<br><br>
I have a rather obese sister and I'm the first to admit, that I don't handle it too well. My perceptions of her, certainly taint my entire view of the obese class. The thing that really really really fucks me off, is that 2-3 weeks (just weeks) of healthy living, would make such a noticable change, and the effects of losing weight are snowball, you make that first step, you get motivated, you want to do better and BOOM. But the fact they just won't do it, be it due to addiction or whatever, it just really grinds my gears. That and she's a leftard civil servant socialist.</p></blockquote>
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My sister was massive then she went to weight watchers and lost heaps and two years down the track she's put most of it back on . I think keeping it off is just as hard as losing it .<br>
My mum was pretty huge too , she had s gastric bypass which was successful and she lost so much weight she ended being a counsellor for other people having the same surgery. She told me about one woman who was so stuck in the rut of being obese and afraid of what life was like being thinner that she after her surgery she ate crap like kfc potato and gravy and milkshakes to stall it . Obviously every case is different but I'm sure in a lot there's a mental aspect to it too. -
<p>absolutely a mental aspect to it all imo, often something from pretty early on in life. That person I was referring too had a torrid time with bullying (big at school) and that has coloured their perspective about body image etc. A work mate has made a couple of attempts to talk about 'it' but has been rebuffed pretty hard. They have a bunch of young kids and it's sad to think that those eating patterns might get passed on, and/or that the person might not be around due to health issues. </p>
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<p>Why are you all talking about fat chicks instead on continuing the thread focus on breasts?</p>
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<p>Good point, is this the greatest music video of all time?</p>
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<p>Not something I saw on the Internet, but something I found in a box at home along with a stack of Asterix, Tintin, and some school books Mum sent.</p>
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<p>I'd kind of forgotten they were there after we moved house, and had just put them away. I always found this book a bit odd with the strange place names, and wondered why the fuck the Gun Runners talked like gronks.</p>
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<p>In later years, I understood.</p>
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I'd kind of forgotten they were there after we moved house, and had just put them away. I always found this book a bit odd with the strange place names, and wondered why the fuck the Gun Runners talked like gronks.<br><br>
In later years, I understood.<br><br>
Value for $3.95!</p></blockquote>
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But are there breasts?<br><br>
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<p>When I was much younger I was fascinated with the woman in this music video for some reason<br><br><a class="bbc_url" href="
Now I'm older I'm still fascinated.</p>
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<p>The director really missed a trick with that video.</p>
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<p>Good point, is this the greatest music video of all time?</p>
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<p>A candidate for the committee's consideration</p>
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<p>When I was much younger I was fascinated with the woman in this music video for some reason<br><br><a class="bbc_url" href="
Now I'm older I'm still fascinated.</p>
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<p>Leslie Knauer. Man I was hypnotised by that video when "Baby it's you" first came out. The bloke's her brother, so I assumed I was still in with a chance.</p>
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<p>It was never on TV enough for my liking and there weren't VCR's in every home then so you had to strike it really lucky to see it. No surprise to me at all that it got to number one as I reckon every bloke in NZ was buying the single just so the video would get shown on Ready To Roll.</p>
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<p>Edit: Just remembered it was probably the one time I remember my old man sitting quietly while RTR was on rather than telling us to turn that rubbish off. It never dawned on me at the time he was probably hypnotised too.</p> -
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<p>Leslie Knauer. Man I was hypnotised by that video when "Baby it's you" first came out. The bloke's her brother, so I assumed I was still in with a chance.</p>
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<p>It was never on TV enough for my liking and there weren't VCR's in every home then so you had to strike it really lucky to see it. No surprise to me at all that it got to number one as I reckon every bloke in NZ was buying the single just so the video would get shown on Ready To Roll.</p>
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<p>I just saw it was number one for 5 weeks here, sterling work there 80s kiwis. </p>
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<p>I just saw it was number one for 5 weeks here, sterling work there 80s kiwis. </p>
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<p>Also that other 80s icon Samantha Fox is a lesbian now apparently.</p>
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<p>As is Kelly McGillis.</p>
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<p>Someone, somewhere back in the 80s was not pulling his weight.</p> -
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Finland doing something on this as well?</p></blockquote><a class="bbc_url" href="http://yle.fi/uutiset/study_over_half_the_population_supports_basic_income_scheme/8583547">http://yle.fi/uutiset/study_over_half_the_population_supports_basic_income_scheme/8583547</a><br><br>
"According to a recent survey conducted by the Foundation for Municipal Development, 51 percent of Finnish respondents support the idea of a basic income provided to all citizens of Finland. Just 23 percent indicated their opposition, with the rest undecided. <br><br>
The clear majority, 68 percent, believe that a basic income from the government would make it easier to start a business, and would also mitigate the financial difficulties after the fact, if the business failed to succeed. Support for the idea came from all segments of the population, but the most backing came from entrepreneurs, the unemployed and students.<br><br>
"The government has commissioned Kela, the national social insurance provider, to study the concept, calculate the costs, and run a two-year experiment to judge the feasibility of rolling it out across the country. The results will be evaluated in 2019."<br><br>
The finnish social services are a mess and very expensive for the taxpayer as there are two instances, the aforementioned Kela and a Social welfare office and about a hundred different support payments. Anyone with half a brain understands that there is too much bureacracy and too many bureacrates running this shit. <br><br>
That is exactly why the majority are leaning towards basic income and also becouse at present, if you are on social support/welfare and get a short term job, say 1-2 month with "possible" extension, you loose the welfare for 1-3 months afterwards, so long term unemployed people cant afford to take short term jobs and I can assure you, it is a MASSIVE shame in Finland to be unemployed, so the majority of unemployed people would take those part time chances of it wouldnt wreck their personal economies for months.<br><br>
And to stay ontopic, I give you the former sports and Culture minister of Finland Tanja Karpela(Saarela)<br><br><a class="bbc_url" href="https://media.riemurasia.net/albumit/m10001/483241510.jpg">https://media.riemurasia.net/albumit/m10001/483241510.jpg</a> -
<p>Guess we're all remembering this one too?</p>
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<p>I weight discriminate. And I will continue to do so.</p>
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<p>If you are interviewing and you have 2 identical candidates but one is obese and one isn't, why would you choose the obese?</p>
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<p><strong>In fact, I would probably go so far to take a lesser candidate who was fit and healthy over a better candidate who was obese.</strong></p>
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<p>The problem being that 'skinnier' people can be as unhealthy and unfit as a fatty - unless of course you just hire gym bunnies, but they'll likely be on the juice anyway ;).</p> -
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<p>As is Kelly McGillis.</p>
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<p>Someone, somewhere back in the 80s was not pulling his weight.</p>
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<p>Or over pulling his weight, given she was raped.</p>
