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I'm curvy without the curves :-D

you guys crack me up.......
:-D :-D

One of my favorite modern artists is Beryl Cook

http://www.berylcook.org/desktopdefault_BC.aspx?

Curvy ladies are much more fun.

My OH some years ago kindly bought me a picture. It hangs in the downstairs loo. It is of a sheep and it says "Ewes not fat ewes cuddly".

Our Tesco nor our Sainsbury's charge for trolleys. Morrisons do.

The Tesco we use has trollies that the wheels lock when they reach the perimeter of the car park. Well that is what it says on each trolley. I wouldn't know if it is true because I have never tested it.. And every time we go shopping I take my trolley back to the trolley park, then spend ages straightening out all the other trolleys of the same sort so they can be pushed into the park out of the way of cars. why can't people park them tidily when they do take them back? :-)

I have spent all day round car parks pushing them tidy.

And not one trolly out of place in any supermarket in South Wales today. Is it a Welsh thing perhaps. Is that why we say tidy a lot? :-S :-S

Waddle, waddle>>>>>>>>>>>>>

I don't know John I'm not Welsh like you.

Sadly the fact is that most people who are overweight eat and drink to much, but won't admit to it. When in public they only eat in moderation, but what you don't see are the extra snacks and drinks in between.

Yes, of course, there are those with medical conditions who can't help it and need all the sympathy and help they can get, but they are in the minority.

On the subject of trolleys, our local mega Tesco had them left all over the car park until they replaced them with a £1 slot version last year. Might be a tad annoying to some but it does work.

Sylvia - 25cents? we have to put the equivalent of $1.50 in.....!

Did you forget to put a full stop after the word "Welsh", BK?

Just hoping :-)

Like you too, by the way.

InspectorGreenPen, as a medicated Diabetic, there is no chance of drinks and snacks in between. Do not tar every overweight person with the same brush.

Thank God not everybody thinks as you do. You should wash your mouth out.
You try to portray yourself as someone with intelligence, but at the end of the day, you are just the same.

Julia in Derbyshire
Very, very much offended

Aside from myself, the "fat" people I know all eat a sensible diet, they do not gorge nor do they eat in secret...they do however have medical conditions which limit the amount of exercise they can do ( some cannot walk more than a few yards due to arthritis, or inoperable conditions which affect mobility) ... they eat to live not live to eat, their condition means that though they eat the dietary needs recommended by their doctor they cannot lose weight or easily keep it stable due to the side effects of the medication they HAVE to be on.

Thin, or bang on correct weight, does NOT mean you are immune to ill health, nor does being obese mean one is lazy or greedy. It is wrong to generalise without knowing individual circumstances.

It seems to me that IGP is stating simple and accepted fact. He excludes medical conditions in his second sentence, so absolutely no need for offence imho

Whilst there is an obvious connection between calorie intake, calorie usage and weight loss or gain in the vast majority of us, I am not so sure that overweight or obese equals lazy.

I think it often does, but that is only an opinion. I know I feel much less lazy when I am close to my ideal weight.

It has nothing to do with you John, so you would not be offended. It has to do with me, and people in the same position as me, so I have every reason to be offended. But you would not understand. Would you. Mind your own business, and keep out of it, for once.

Julia in Derbyshire

i hate in when you struggle to push your trolley in something like a straight line and when you get back to your car some old fella is pushing dozens of them with no trouble at all

i hate in when you struggle to push your trolley in something like a straight line and when you get back to your car some old fella is pushing dozens of them with no trouble at all

Ohh to be perfect!! :-|

Oh Lord it's hard to be humble

When you're perfect in every way
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If you can grab an inch, you're fat, so they say :-D

It depends on whether it's your inch you're grabbing Wend :-)

LOL Rose :-D

25c for a trolley? I wish!

Two types of trolley in our supermarket. The big ones are free, you have to deposit either $1 or $2 in the small ones. I have no idea why the large one is non-deposit.

I have to use the small trolley, because I cannot bend over to put things in the trolley or take them out at the checkout.

By the time I have walked around the supermarket, and got back to the car, my legs are swollen, from halfway down my calves, my ankles & my feet.

I can't stay on my feet for more than hour without this happening.

YES I have seen a doctor, YES I have had loads of tests. Doc has no idea what is causing this.

I return the trolley and get my $1 or $2 back.

Scottish blood wins against discomfort!!!!!!!!!

:-D

Have you ever seen a runaway trolley in a shopping centre carpark?? They cause terrible scratching on cars, I hate to think what would happen if a toddler got run into.