THE BRITISH THREAD II

When you get off your sofa, do you sit up then stand up, or do you roll off onto the floor and then get up off your knees?

I tend to do the latter. If nobody's watching.

Well done to Joe Calzaghe, by the way.

I'd visited the church where John Locke tomb's is recently, in High Laver/Essex.

Quite interesting interior ...



... poor as a church mouse

Do they keep moving it about then?

Pity about the camera.

For that joke to work, Walter would have had to have used the verb "was".

But he didn't.

Let's pick an emoticon

I cant see a mouse!

Have you heard?? The bloody cheek of it. They are going to bribe people to lose weight.

They should whip their legs. They'll be bribing them to stop saving money next.

People have now become so selfish under the atheistis materialist drive that they only have kids so they have somebody to drop in the ****.

No I haven't heard that.

What would be effective might be, to bar people who are obese from the benefits of the National Health Service.

And people who smoke tobacco, of course.

That can't be done Mac. A sick person presents to a doctor and a doctor has a duty of care towards that person.

There are many other self-inflicted conditions which require treatment besides those resulting from smoking and a lot of the activities causing them are, by comparison, tax free and often more expensive to treat.

I presume you would withdraw rescue services for pot-holers. mountaineers and sailing fanatics. Even motorists.

You also have the problem of proving that the smoker's illness is caused by smoking.

Your head has been twisted and fed by Grauniad woman.

I watched the memorial at the Cenotaph this morning. I'm speechless.

And very angry.

I presume at a load of desk-bound free-loaders milking on the udder of our war heroes. They make me sick.

Steve, I watched the ceremony at 11:00 for five minutes or so.

What was making you angry? The futility of war, the attitudes of our leaders, or what?

If you pay fat people, they're only going to spend the money on pies and cream cakes.

You might well think that, but if you spend some time in the Las Vegas walk-in health centre you may change your mind.

Most of these rescue services are manned by volunteers.

On the basis that Britain's hardy sons and daughters need their adventure sports more than the obese need their cream cakes, I would allow them continued access to hospital treatment.

And there's plenty of evidence that people need their fags. And "The People" even more.

It has been downplayed. I humbly suggest you pass the subject by just as smokers let your non-smoking pass them by.

I do know that the Medical Profession came within an ace of hounding the founder of the NHS out of office and scuppering his plans.

Much as I admire them as body mechanics they have not taken over my mind.

I do not accept that smoking has caused all the things they have said it does.

I do not accept that finding a dead bird on some marshes which has just flown in from somewhere or other is sufficient grounds for closing down agricultural areas of considerable size and importance or for putting the sensitive ladies into a muck-sweat.

You simply do not understand the workings of the human mind when acting in concert. The only reason I can think of for why the medical profession wants us to live longer is to provide itself with an ever growing number of customers and a large pile of supine nit-wits to experiment upon. Why it would want to "save our lives" I cannot imagine.

Why does it not try to ban work? Work kills. You can tell that's true by the lengths all sane men go to avoid work. And not just here. In the tin mines in Bolivia too. Or do those men not come under their fabled Hippocratic Oath?

I bet there's an ambulence a minute pulling up in some hospital with a guy on a stretcher in an oxygen mask who had been overworking either as a producer or a consumer. Okay-the mechanics fix most of them up these days but really they were goners under any known evolutionary principles.

Get a comfy couch Mac and take it easy. Try King Solomons Mines for drollery.

I'm getting no support at playing the health nazi, it seems. And devil's advocacy evidently does not suit me.

Just the same, how many skinny people do you see in wheelchairs? Just very sick ones, that's all. But plenty of rosy-cheeked tubs of lard. I rest my case.

Wait a minute Mac. It was me who called into question Manchester's wisdom in spending £4.5 million on bribes to reduce obesity which they claim to be costing £150 million. Most of the £4.5 million will go on "admin". Total cost now £154.5 million.

Has The Grauniad been running a campaign about obesity to soften the public up?

The tubby side of Manchester does not read that august organ, or indeed anything.

No campaign that I've seen, no. But it's well known that tubbies cost.

Have you seen It's Nice Up North. It was on Sky Arts 1 just now. It will be repeated I'm pretty sure.

Pure Dada.

You've got Sky? Jeez, I haven't.
There have been a few music programmes this week which I would have liked to have seen, but couldn't.
When I get my new couch or Laz-y Boy, I'll invest in Sky.


I'll look out for It's Nice Up North. But what has it got to do with your father?