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Stephen Glover is clearly harbouring paedophile tendencies. He’s brim full of moral outrage at the idea of displaying a picture of a naked ten year old Brooke Shields in an art gallery, perhaps because he feels he could not look at it without some sort of sexual arousal. In an effort to explain to middle england how terrible it he they have illustrated the article with this picture which was taken when Brooke was in Blue Lagoon.

Oh, wait, wasn’t that movie filmed in 1980? Wasn’t Brooke born in 1965?

Oh, yes, she’s not nude so that’s OK. Paedos can only fap off to stuff if there’s *actual* nudity?

Sensibly Ginger says:

Weight loss. It’s simple:, if you eat more food than you need, you put on weight. If you eat less food than you need, you lose weight. Your body’s actually quite good at gauging how much it needs. It regulates this by hunger. When hungry, eat. When you’re not hungry, don’t.

Unfortunately, this system has been by passed by very high calorie foods. So the body’s gauge isn’t as good as it was. This is where common sense comes in. Salad, fruit etc = good. Large quantities of cake and sweets = bad. It’s OK to have these things in moderation, but if you have them excessively, you’ll put on weight. Some people are happy with this.

Others moan. If you’ve over indulged, you’ll put on the pounds. To get rid of them you need to eat less, and get some exercise in. This may take a while. For example: fully aware of what I was doing to myself, at uni, I stopped exercising as I didn’t have the time with labs etc, but maintained my high drinking levels. I left uni overweight, such that my mum, said, “Gosh, you’ve put on weight” or as the bar manager said, “Fuck me, you’re a fatty now”. This didn’t bother me, as I knew that, when I graduated, I’d be back on my bike cycling to work, not drink lots every night, eating better, and rejoining a gym. It took me a good year or so, but I lost the weight.

So please people, don’t go spending a fortune on stupid pills, fad diets, or other gimmicky things. If you’re overweight, it’s your own fault (in the exception of children, then it’s the parent’s fault. If you’re a parent reading this and your child is obese, you should be done for child abuse). But, all you need to do is cut down on the pies, fizzy pop etc, get 30 minutes of exercise in five times a week, and there you go. If you are going down the sensible route, don’t lose more than 1-2 pounds a week, that’s the best level. Losing too much too fast can be bad, especially if you’re morbidly obese, as you can lose the fat faster than your skin can retract, and then you’ll be a healthy weight, but will literally have skin a few sizes to large for you which will not help your self esteem, which would otherwise have been improved by said your weight loss.

It’s no big deal, it’s natures way.

Some twat in Scotland has proposed that a tax should be levied on chocolate; the BBC HYS forum is currently red hot. It’s not a bad idea to do something about obesity but we are attacking it from the wrong angle, the current thinking is to tax everyone in order to waste money telling fatties that they should eat less and exercise more, all the while the fatty food companies are spending more money getting the fatties through the door and plying them with lard. We are now considering taxing everyone for eating crap in the same way that we tax smokers and drinkers, something which the tobacco industry fought by making smokes a luxury and desirable product and something the booze industry fought by lowering production costs, lowering margins and increasing volume.

So if we know that these things don’t work why are we doing them? We tax booze and fags not to lower demand but to line the coffers of the treasury so that they can offset the cost of booze and smoke related illnesses. So why not attack the costs head on rather than trying to scrabble around for the cash to pay for it? Why not just withdraw free NHS treatment for smokers, drinkers and fatties. Not only does it provide a real incentive for people to stop smoking, drinking or cramming junk down the gullets, it means that those who don’t can continue to make that choice without impacting on the rest of society. Sure a few fatties will die but they are going to die anyway and prolonging their lives is a pointles waste of time. Parents who allow their kids to become fatties can of course be prosecuted for child abuse and the kids rehomed with parents who are actually going to take care of them.

The BBC is currently running articles about the stillbirth rate in the UK and how as many as 6500 children die each year before they are 4 weeks old. I understand that losing a child in this way must be truely horrific but with child mortality rates dropping, life expectancy increasing and a global population of around seven billion I have to ask: do we need another 6500 kids every year?

Guest post from ‘Sensibly Ginger’
The Independent, on Thursday 26th Feb said:

“Health officials have been forced to withdraw 21,000 doses of the meningitis C vaccine from GP clinics around the UK after it emerged that some doses may have been contaminated with a blood-poisoning bacterium.
“More than 60,000 doses of the vaccine, which is offered to all four-month-old babies, could be contaminated with the hospital-acquired infection – the Staphylococcus aureus bacterium – and a third of these had already been sent to vaccination clinics before officials became aware of the problem.
“Officials within the Department of Health and the vaccine’s manufacturers are believed to have known of the problem since Tuesday but only issued an emergency recall last night after being contacted about the potential contamination by The Independent. “

Maybe that’s because ALL of the vaccines in the UK were safe, as the Independent evidently knew:

“In a statement, the Department of Health denied that any contaminated samples had entered the UK market. Two batches have been identified and are being recalled as a purely precautionary measure. These two batches passed all routine quality testing, including a sterility test.”

What has happened, as the BBC reported, is:

“The recalled batches of the Menjugate Kit, which were manufactured in Italy, had passed safety checks before leaving the factory to be transported by road to the UK.
“But a small number of samples were sent overseas by aeroplane to test whether the sample would remain secure under different air pressures.
“At the destination, these were found to be contaminated with staphylococcus aureus bacteria, but never entered the supply chain.”

So really, what it should have said is:

Novartis bend over backwards to make sure your kids are safe, and don’t die from meningitis. 

But that wouldn’t sell adverts, if all they did was inform you of the important news you need to know.

The media have fueled the fire, yet again, and are helping the public misunderstanding of science. Vaccines are safe, they really, really are. Children are now dying because parents aren’t getting their children vaccinated.

Raising worries over safe vaccines is not only a fucking stupid thing to do, it is a public health risk.