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I don't get that though. How can you have no money, yet still afford to get obese?
Easy. Processed mass-produced food is cheaper that fresh produce, especially in winter. Check the price per kg of crisps or Tesco ice cream and compare it to broccoli or lettuce. Processed food have abnormally high levels of salt, sugar and fat, mostly which are empty calories.
And poor and unemployed people tend to drink more alcohol. 5 pints of lager is easily 1000 calories, when an office worker's normal intake is 2000 calories a day.
We have created a perverse system that even poor people get fat.
Yeah. I regularly hear people saying that poor people getting fat is kind of like a paradox - but it isn't. Cheap food is more fattening than expensive food. A lot of cheap foods are high in calories. You need less of it to gain weight..
Definitely not hard to see why poor people are often really fat.
Scotland isn't poor though. They just like deep-fried everything. And people in those post-industrial towns like Barnsley are indeed very fat.
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BTW, do the court verdicts in England reflect the general conservativism of the areas they operate in? In Finland the Royal Courts (yeah they are called that, ie the courts of appeal) tend to hand out harsher punishments for some crimes like white-collar crime, but more lenient for rape and such in Eastern and Northern Finland, while the opposite in Southern and Western Finland.
Not sure about that. Not that white collar crime isn't bad but I can't see it warranting a more severe punishment than rape which IMO is one of the worst crimes a person can commit (along with murder and child sex abuse).
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Not sure about that. Not that white collar crime isn't bad but I can't see it warranting a more severe punishment than rape which IMO is one of the worst crimes a person can commit (along with murder and child sex abuse).
The Royal Court of Eastern Finland has been scrutinised a lot for being very lenient on rape and domestic violence. If you beat and rape your wife, it is almost granted that you get a longer sentence in Helsinki, Turku or Vaasa than you do in Eastern Finland or Rovaniemi.
Here in Peru Im shocked at how unhealthily people drink, everything comes with Inca Cola or chicha morada or hot chocolate, its like people here dont know how to drink water
The Royal Court of Eastern Finland has been scrutinised a lot for being very lenient on rape and domestic violence. If you beat and rape your wife, it is almost granted that you get a longer sentence in Helsinki, Turku or Vaasa than you do in Eastern Finland or Rovaniemi.
I went out in Barnsley once but didn't see many fat people, most of the people seemed fairly normal, and were amazed by our accents.
I hope this is Sarcasm! If it isn't, I don't even know where to start!
I don't even live in England and there are plenty of people with Southern English accents where I live. I wouldn't bat an eyelid if I heard one. So why would someone from your own country be so amazed to hear your accent?
I hope this is Sarcasm! If it isn't, I don't even know where to start!
I don't even live in England and there are plenty of people with Southern English accents where I live. I wouldn't bat an eyelid if I heard one. So why would someone from your own country be so amazed to hear your accent?
I hope this is Sarcasm! If it isn't, I don't even know where to start!
I don't even live in England and there are plenty of people with Southern English accents where I live. I wouldn't bat an eyelid if I heard one. So why would someone from your own country be so amazed to hear your accent?
Because most people would never go out in Barnsley if they lived in London.
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