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[Khriss]

Sets them up fr life it does , no doubt .... er now  wheres me coat    K

[Johnsond]

41 minutes ago, Big J said:

 

Very much agree.

 

It was pointed out earlier by someone that the Scandinavians have much lower rates of obesity than us. It is pretty standard for each village to have a sports pitch and hall. Given the severity of winter, indoor space is crucial. 

From my time in Finland J the biggest difference for me was the huge amount of cycle,walking and running paths.  Didn’t matter where the road was either in built up area or out in the sticks it was built with an adjacent pathway. All ages used them to cycle incl kids to schools etc, cars obeyed the rules to the letter at crossings. Even in winter you’d see people cross country skiing on them.  I’ve 11 year old twins whom live 3 mile from the village school and there’s no way I’d let them head out on the roads on bicycles. 

[spuddog0507]

There has been some big changes in the last 30yrs that i have seen, when i was back in high school there was not that many people who where over weight and as far as i can remember in our year there was 3 lasses and 2 lads, then when i got to driving about i used to do a fair bit o delivery work for a landscaping co in the early/mid 80s and i used to pass 3 or 4 collages on my rounds and again not many over weight people about then.

 Then back in 2007-2010 i did a bit of relief driving for a kitchen co and the things i noticed then was that there was near on as many over weight students as there was normal ones ?? , when i look back at what we did in our early teens and what todays kids do there is a massive difference in the activitys that we did, if we wanted to go somewhere we just got on our push bikes and went, no asking mummy to take us in the car, we went rabbiting with ferrets,air riffel,s and snares, we went fishing for 2 days at a time and only came home when the food had run out, even in the winter we where out and one favourite place was up the hill at the back of Mrs Thompsons ( Thompsons who own the pleasure beech at Blackpool) this was a steep hill and if we got a bit of snow like today we would go armed with 2 yellow top yield till bags each and create our own bob sliegh run, and if there wernt any snow we still went up there during the winter riding the ponies from Blackpool beach which got wintered up there, I dont see or here of todays teenagers doing any thing like we did it all seems to be armchair related these days, even my own grand kids seem to be bone idol, i tried to get the 2 oldest lads in to fishing and shooting ,but fishing is boring and i dont like the bang that gun makes, but they will sit and play computer games all day where they are killing people in the war games they play, I dont understand how things have got the way they are, but today you can just make a phone call and you only have to go and answer the door when the bell rings to get your tea, Things have changed a lot for sure there are 13/14 yrs olds smoking weed and sharing a bottle of Vodka. back in my day it was 10 No10 and a can of Topdeck shandy and that only happened if we could find enough empty pop bottles in the hedge bottom to take back to the shop, One thing i have read recently is that the NHS will be spending millions on replacement thumb and finger joints by 2035 this is due to excessive use texting on mobile phones and playing on game consoles, 

[Stere]

Japenese   balance bike racing and unicycling. Very few fat people compared to UK

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Stubby]

2 minutes ago, Stere said:

Japenese   balance bike racing and unicycling. Very few fat people compared to UK

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I had the little fella in the white hat down for the win before the off .  You could see his tension and commitment . 

[skyhuck]

I used to be able to ride a unicycle, I'm determined to learn again.

[Stubby]

11 minutes ago, skyhuck said:

I used to be able to ride a unicycle, I'm determined to learn again.

Its like riding a bike Dave ...You know 😁

Edited February 2, 2021 by Stubby

[Johnsond]

Captain Sir Tom caught Covid at hospital amid 'potentially avoidable' infections

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National treasure Captain Sir Tom Moore, who died on Tuesday, caught Covid-19 at Bedford...

There was another article I read today where a son stopped his 93 yr old dad being taken into hospital and onto a covid ward because he had a temperature, he had collapsed with a urinary tract infection which in itself is enough to cause a temperature but protocols dictated that was enough to put him in a ward with confirmed covid cases. He subsequently recovered at home from the infection. 

[spuddog0507]

On 02/02/2021 at 17:04, Big J said:

 

It was the same for me too, and I'm a little younger than you. There were two guys in our school year (of just over 200) who were properly overweight, and really no one else. And they've since slimmed right down as adults as far as I'm aware.

I just despair for their quality of life. If you take a hypothetical lad at 6ft tall, 20 years old. If he's of average build and healthy, he'd be about 75kg (12 stone ish). But so many at that height will be 95-100kg (15-16 stone). The only way I can imagine carrying around that sort of dead weight is to put my 6 year old on my shoulders. I sure as hell wouldn't want to be doing that 24/7.

A little younger !! only a week or two,,, The only place i have been in recent times and seen what we used to see back i the 80s/90s where most people are of a normal slim build was in the Scotish border town of Hawick, i went to Coldstream about 3 yrs ago to collect a old plough, as we was passing through Hawick on the return leg the sixth form collage was coming out and as we where sat there waiting the young lad sat at side of me said, there is some smart lass,s here and he was not wrong, there was, his next comment was, not many if any fatties here is there, But when you look at the landscape round there it dont supprise me at all as there is nothing flat at all, 

[Peasgood]

Captain Tom raised well over £30million for the NHS and in return they gave him Covid.