The grumpy thread

[Bobthebeard]

Back to the disabled thing, I have met loads of disabled people and a lot of them are complete cocks with a real sense of entitlement and a view that YOU have to make serious concessions to their lifestyle. I've also met LOADS of disabled people who really AREN'T disabled just fat/lazy/gits.

 

I am disabled (breaking your back does that you know   ), got my blue badge and everyfink. I still don't park like a caant, still smile and try to be pleasant to everyone. I am SUCH a nice person!

 

Oh my,

Such sweeping brush tarring.

I too have met lots of disabled people, some disabled for serious medical reasons and some just for being obese. Where do we even start.

[Negative Creep]

Oh my,

Such sweeping brush tarring.

I too have met lots of disabled people, some disabled for serious medical reasons and some just for being obese. Where do we even start.

 

 

Like any group there is a minority who spoil it for the rest. I have no problem with equal rights, but then there are those who are fine with that until getting treated like everyone else means not getting their own way, in which case they want preferential treatment.

[Lankytim]

I just hate disabled people.

[Bobthebeard]

I just hate disabled people.

Really? Honestly?

[Cavcraft]

I just hate disabled people.

 

 

You are Ken Hate, Len's younger brother, AICMFP.

[fordperv]

I hate the people who get classed as disabled just for being obese the selfish bastards

[Mr_Bo11ox]

^^ seems a bit harsh!!! Saying that, i hate disableds too, going round parking wherever the fugg they like just cos theyve got no legs, kidneys etc. My old dad fought in the hundred years war and still had to park with everyone else, etc etc

[panhard65]

The disabillity thing is a minefield. I know one young lad who is seriously disabled from the chest down since birth, he is also nearly totally blind. He had a nightmare getting the disability allowance. Then on the other hand there was a bloke I knew who even though he claimed disability and had a blue badge still managed to take his bike test and buy a new motorbike. It is the small minority that spoil it for all the people that really need the help. My mate has just managed to drop a lorry on himself and is currently hoping that he might walk again after suffering a broken back. Just makes you think how lucky we are.

[fordperv]

^^ seems a bit harsh!!!

Let me justify my statement, there are cases of people out there with severe physical disabilities who have to fight tooth and nail to get anything and you get someone who is only obese by there own doing who gets handed everything to them on a plate, I think give the fat ones lap bands, subscription to fat fighters and don't give them blue badges or fugging mobility scooters so they can't park right outside a shop etc that way they will get much needed exercise.

[Pillock]

I sort of agree. However before you judge, remember there are disabilities which can cause obesity and weight gain and whatnot. It's OK thinking people are so fat they become disabled, but some of them might be fat because of the disability.

 

Everyone should be treated the same where possible. I'm not suggesting demolishing wheelchair ramps and shit like that but if a chap with one leg is being a twat, he should be told as much; the same as someone with two legs.

[Cavcraft]

It's important we don't get all BNP/UKIP over this. Not all fat people are fat by choice, some disorders can cause it and I'm pretty sure they don't all want to be like that. equally those people with blue badges who seem ok may have a disease or some such that restricts their ability to walk very far.

 

There are piss takers in all walks of life, able bodied or not, the ones who abuse the disability 'system' are pond life though.

[philibusmo]

This whole disabled people are lovely/disabled people are the spawn of Satan argument is starting to get dull - so to go back to the earlier dieting conversation; have any of you tried the Butterfield diet plan yet?

[chaseracer]

Fed up of being a blob of flab...

 

I have a photo of Louise - holding a certain drinking vessel - that proves this is not necessarily so... 

[Wilko220]

I have a photo of Louise - holding a certain drinking vessel - that proves this is not necessarily so...

Hang on a minute - is she not actually Deirdre?

[Louise2cv]

Ha! David, that was a looooooooong time ago now! Two kids ago, in fact. Plus a LOT of cake (hey I'm preggers, let's have more cake! + 3.5years of hey I'm breastfeeding, let's have more cake!).

 

P.S. Please no!

[michael1703]

Being massively interested in baking my own bread doesn't help! Especially as I am on a mission to bake the perfect French baguette!

I have started asking neighbours and friends if they like bread and giving away most of my baking....

As for clothes sizing. WTF? In some shops I am medium, in others XXL.

Does nothing for the self esteem when buying XXL!

Edit... Size 10 or 12? Hardly lardy surely?

I gave up bread two months ago, my energy level is much more consistent as a result, I'd have toast for breakfast, run out of energy by 9.30am then snack, eat an early lunch then need a sandwich at 4 then a big dinner and snack all evening

 

Now I have muesli breakfast, make a salad for lunch with ham/chorizo/olives/peppers etc and then my usual evening meal

 

Breakfast at 6.45am and I don't need to eat again until 1.30-2ish then I can go until evening and eat at 8ish

 

When I ate a lot of bread I was eating all sorts all day long

[Negative Creep]

Just spoke to my grandparents for the first time in ages and they said they want to come down and see me in September. Great!

 

 

Except the small matter that, unbeknownst to them, I live in a complete shithole. They think I have some nice flat somewhere, not a place where I have a single room where use posters to cover up the holes in the walls, the water keeps switching off and people sit outside drinking and smoking all day. It's like the plot to a 70's sitcom, only not funny. Oh wait, neither were they.

[dollywobbler]

Oh and me Fed up of being a blob of flab I have quit basically EVERYTHING NICE: 

 

Oddly, even I'm getting in on the diet thing. Watched Dr Michael Mosley and his fasting diet thing on the Beeb last night. Eat what you like for five days a week, eat a quarter of your usual intake two days of the week. I had breakfast this morning, and an apple this evening. I am bloody hungry, but apparently getting to this state makes your cells repair themselves or something like that. 

 

I do actually need to lose a bit of flab. I find this rather depressing as I've never considered myself a weight watcher. Even Mrs DW is thinking about doing it and her usual approach to the idea of caring about her weight is to throw a fit and spread more butter on her food. Weight loss is an interesting concept when we've never owned scales, but it's more about just trying to feel nicer and hopefully be a bit healthier. 

 

I'm looking forward to breakfast tomorrow though!

[Lankytim]

Really? Honestly?

 

 

No, of course I love disabled people!

[Junkman]

Everyone should be treated the same where possible.

 

I beg to differ...

[saucedoctor]

Oddly, I've only recently gone back UP to 11 stone for the first time since 2006, when I had dysentery. By fuck does the weight fall off, but as a weight loss strategy, I wouldn't recommend it.

[mat_the_cat]

Plus the dog has been left low on the priorities since the babies arrived, now they are that kind of age where they won't miss me for an hour, the pooch to 5k thing is a really nice thing to do FOR him, and WITH him.

 

I used to be pretty fit when I was younger, but a few years ago some of my trousers started to become a squeeze :oops; Luckily it coincided with getting a dog (no kids yet) so I take her for a run (or is it the other way around?) most evenings. It was difficult to judge any improvement in fitness to start with, as I always felt knackered afterwards! But then I started realising that the hill I had to have a breather on, I could now run all the way up.

 

Then I started keeping tabs on exercise with a smartphone app, and it's incredible to see how the distance builds up with just a little every day. It also helps that it compares your times with other people who've done the same routes, and can get addictively competitive! We're now working on taking her when we go cycling, but that's more difficult in areas where dogs have to be on leads...

 

As a motivator, how about comparing photos of yourself as you progress? You WILL be making a difference, but a gradual day by day change is difficult to perceive.

[jakebullet]

I has hatred for the blue badge holders who give you the 'you've only got a blue badge cos your a fat bastard' look. Not proper disabled like me. Make me want to get in their face and ask what their disability is, complete lack of manners?

 

Oh, n I'm not disabled cos I'm a fat bastard. I'm not disabled at all.... but my passenger is. It's her badge ms. snootypants looking down your big nose at me.

[Spiny Norman]

DVLA.

 

Is it just me or are they taking fucking ages to send out V5s just now?

 

Today the 'You are no longer responsible for....' letter arrived for the Volvo 240 I sold at the start of June, and I've given up waiting for the reg document to arrive for the Leganza I bought on the 6th and sold a week ago and written to them telling them I'm no longer the keeper of that one either.

Must be the same mob that are doing the passports...

[Pillock]

Ha! David, that was a looooooooong time ago now! Two kids ago, in fact. Plus a LOT of cake (hey I'm preggers, let's have more cake! + 3.5years of hey I'm breastfeeding, let's have more cake!).

 

P.S. Please no!

 

Plus the man that denies a pregnant woman cake is either a) brave or  stupid but almost certainly c) never going to reproduce again.

[Junkman]

DVLA.

 

Is it just me or are they taking fucking ages to send out V5s just now?

 

I haven't received it yet for the Mitsubishite I bought on 12th January.

So I taxed it - again - on the green slip today and sent off a V62.

It was a mistake to tax it all the time, actually, since for the duration your paperwork is being processed, you are not obliged to tax your car.

Would have saved me four scares, since of course the rent was increased again.

I'm a way too overintegrated, law abiding furrinna, me.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

I gained four stone this year, I'm a disaster.

 

But in the past I have lost significant amounts of weight (just over 7st) with the help of the myfitnesspal website and app, which I thoroughly recommend. 

[Lord Sterling]

I never bother weighing myself, I just look at myself. If I'm built like a barrell, I'm overweight, if my clothes are a little too big on me then great. I only achieved the "clothes too big on me" level after working at FedEx a few years ago. Took a while to shed the bulk but it went.

 

It came back though after job loss and I havnae exactly been eating very healthily recently. However, Ramadan is here and I'm now fasting for about 19 hours a day. Strangely enough, I've no felt very hungry/starved, though today after a large bout of walking I've needed the toilet fairly urgently seemingly to rid of whats been laying around.

 

I'm due to go to Turkey on Friday, hopefully the warmer climate and fasting will make me sweat the rest of the bulk off.

[wuvvum]

Aye, but the days will be shorter, so you won't be fasting for as long.  Swings & roundabouts...

[Lord Sterling]

Aye, but the days will be shorter, so you won't be fasting for as long.  Swings & roundabouts...

Arse. Forgot about that. Mind you, I'll only be there for a week, then hopefully Belgium will be warmer upon my return