Why are Irish people getting so fat??

yank_in_eire

Where I'm from back in the States it's not unusual to see people who are so fat they can't walk and have to use those electric scooters to haul their lard around.
When I first visited Ireland 8 years ago you had to search far and wide to find a big fattie like that but now your average day trip to the Square will result in more sightings that you can jiggle a cellulite-pocked buttock at.

SO, fair people of Ireland - my question is: Why the hell are you porking up so much? Is it too much calorie-laden food? Too much drink? Too much PS/Xbox/World of Warcraft? Is it glandular? Are you just big-boned? Or are you emulating the sterling image provided by your wonderfully fit Minister for Health??:eek:

Help me understand!

Raze_them_all

Too much american influence

Zonda999

Yes, we're big-boned. That is all.

yank_in_eire

Raze_them_all wrote: »

Too much american influence

Did 2 Bush presidencies teach you nothing?? Don't be like us!!!:P

jumpguy

Look at yourself. What're you doing? Sitting on your growing arse on boards. As roughly 4000 people do at peak time.
Boards is making the Irish fat.

Wait...

Hank Scorpio

every country is getting fatter except maybe china japan etc

Life style and eating habits

/thread

davyjose

yank_in_eire wrote: »

Help me understand!

You're American; this could take some time...

pikachucheeks

We're fat because we're trying to pose as Americans, so we can get out of this recession-laden country!

or because cake is nice. either or!

Whosbetter?

Fat is the new thin.:rolleyes:

ottostreet

i wish i was getting fat

im a tiny little lad!

AnonoBoy

I'm getting fat for two because Ottostreet can't gain weight.

lily lou

It's all the grey skies and rain, they make me wana close the curtains and stuff my face with comfort food:mad::(

Zonda999

yank_in_eire wrote: »

Did 2 Bush presidencies teach you nothing??

Yes, 200 million people can still be wrong

yank_in_eire

davyjose wrote: »

You're American; this could take some time...

Just use small words of no more than 1 syllable or better yet, pictures.

Abi

yank_in_eire wrote: »

Or are you emulating the sterling image provided by your wonderfully fit Minister for Health??:eek:

Don't mention the war.

ejmaztec

yank_in_eire wrote: »

Where I'm from back in the States it's not unusual to see people who are so fat they can't walk and have to use those electric scooters to haul their lard around.
When I first visited Ireland 8 years ago you had to search far and wide to find a big fattie like that but now your average day trip to the Square will result in more sightings that you can jiggle a cellulite-pocked buttock at.

SO, fair people of Ireland - my question is: Why the hell are you porking up so much? Is it too much calorie-laden food? Too much drink? Too much PS/Xbox/World of Warcraft? Is it glandular? Are you just big-boned? Or are you emulating the sterling image provided by your wonderfully fit Minister for Health??:eek:

Help me understand!

If I can hold my gut in long enough to be able to see the keyboard I'll let you know the full story.

El Guapo!

Im getting fat so I can claim disability, sponge off the country, and then ask for even MORE money cause Im so fat and lazy and cant afford to eat healthy cause Im a giant KFC eating, bed-sore ridden waste of a life who's a drain on the rest of society and blames everyone else for my pathetic existence.

You?

Raze_them_all

ottostreet wrote: »

i wish i was getting fat

i've a tiny little lad!

:pac:

davyjose

yank_in_eire wrote: »

Just use small words of no more than 1 syllable or better yet, pictures.

How bout I type slowly too?

fryup

yes the american influence...

McDs, Burger King, KFC, Dominoes Pizza, 4 star Pizza, Pizza Hut, Starbucks.....thanks alot....in a generation or two.....our arse's will be as big as yours

Raze_them_all

davyjose wrote: »

How bout I type slowly too?

That'd make no sense, since ya know the words don't come up as you type, they come up as a full post....

ottostreet

Raze_them_all wrote: »

:pac:

that too

i drew the short straw genetically...

vibe666

there was a HUGE problem in Ireland since you were last here with people having too much money and greed and gluttony followed suit.

but, thank fcuk that after years of trying to undo all the capitalist shenanigans your lot got *us into, the government and banks fixed that for *us, now *we're poor again *we can return to our natural famine ravished pasty skinned boney old selves again.

* i should probably mention that i'm not actually irish.

Naos

It's a medical condition.

bleg

Eating too much and getting less exercise.

piby

I like that everybody in this country is getting out of shape because it means by comparison if you're in any way fit/toned you're practically a model

emeraldstar

Because we are a righteous breed and it is our way of taking a stand against the absurdity that is the size zero phenomenon.




Plus chocolate just tastes really really good.

WindSock

We have more money now than 10 or so years ago = More money to spend on junk food & more money to buy cars & gamey things & internets. And a gingload more American food joints and instant meals + microwaves.

gurramok

Its all those drunks going to the chipper after the pub. All that food inside your belly when drunk is not good for you

karlog

This isn't good for my self esteem:( I'm going to the fridge!!!!

ScumLord

ottostreet wrote: »

i wish i was getting fat

im a tiny little lad!

Follow the white rabbit, follow the white rabbit

magick

op u hit the nail on the head,

basically WoW and a dominoes pizza phone number

BlackandGold

Why are Americans so thick??

thomond2006

Yes, we have become fat, with knowledge.

procure11

BlackandGold wrote: »

Why are Americans so thick??

........And yet the whole world is anxiously waiting for them to get over their recession so we can at least have a chance to overcome ours.

Dudess

yank_in_eire wrote: »

SO, fair people of Ireland - my question is: Why the hell are you porking up so much? Is it too much calorie-laden food? Too much drink? Too much PS/Xbox/World of Warcraft?

Obviously it's those.

Countdown to particular focus on Irish women starts... now.

Senna

yank_in_eire wrote: »

Why are Irish people getting so fat??

Because the hole at the front is bigger than the hole at the rear.

LD 50

Too much food, drink, boards, a lack of sex, and not enough exercise, sex, and healthy eating.

Simple as IMO

orourkeda

A penchant for cheesy puffs

yank_in_eire

BlackandGold wrote: »

Why are Americans so thick??

Becasue statistically speaking we are a poorly educated people with a narrow world view.

Snowie

You'd think so, looking at our countrys, government.

*dreams*

Fat Camp for Fianna Fail... wouldn't that be so much fun to watch.....

Bandit12

Cars. People now drive everywhere instead of walking or cycling. Also if you remember years back it was usually the dad in the family who had a car and went to work in it, now every mam has one and the difference is she can fill the thing with food unlike years ago when she could only carry home a few bags of stuff. More food = fatter people.

Fink Goddie

Personally i blame Mary Harney!

metamorphosis

yank_in_eire wrote: »

Where I'm from back in the States it's not unusual to see people who are so fat they can't walk and have to use those electric scooters to haul their lard around.
When I first visited Ireland 8 years ago you had to search far and wide to find a big fattie like that but now your average day trip to the Square will result in more sightings that you can jiggle a cellulite-pocked buttock at.

SO, fair people of Ireland - my question is: Why the hell are you porking up so much? Is it too much calorie-laden food? Too much drink? Too much PS/Xbox/World of Warcraft? Is it glandular? Are you just big-boned? Or are you emulating the sterling image provided by your wonderfully fit Minister for Health??:eek:

Help me understand!

Americanization!

And people are getting lazier than ever and can't put down the fork as wll as the fact 8 years ago people walked everywhere pretty much whereas now everyman and his donkey (except me!) has a car.

BraziliaNZ

the square in tallaght, lol, well you'll see a lot of fat people there. People from poor backgrounds are fat in Ireland these days, especially the females. If you look at what they buy in supermarkets, their trolley will contain heavily processed foods, chips, lots of fizzy drinks, and no fresh fruit/veg. Healthy food is just as cheap but these people wont eat vegetables or anything remotely healthy because they think it tastes awful. It's poor nutritional education. It's strange how the more educated/moneyed you are these days the less likely you are to be fat, it's a class thing now from what i can see. As I type this there are two enormously porky townie girls in pjs wheeling buggies past my office, probably going to buy sausage rolls for breakfast.

jester77

Ah now, people are not getting fatter, you need perspective, you come from the US... that is far away.

This might help explain it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98hO97ky-sA

vibe666

freedom of choice and free trade and capitalism making all the bad choices too easily available.

add to that a misguided societal acceptance that "it's not your fault" and a lack of self control and you have yourself a problem.

i'm overweight and i know exactly why. i take in more calories than I burn, simple as that.

i know that junk food is bad for me, but I like it and it's too easy to go and get a large double whopper with cheese and bacon meal instead of a salad and "sure, one little burger isn't going to make any difference now", even though in the big scheme of things I know that the calories in it are effectively a cumulative poison that is slowly turning me into a whale and poisoning me over time and will eventually (probably) be the cause of my death, but..........

I..........JUST............CAN'T..........STOP.........EATING.......CRAPPY.........FOOD.

for some of us, food is an addictive substance, but unlike other addicts, we can't just cut out our addiction completely because we need it to survive. how many alcoholics or other drug addicts could control their addiction if they needed a small amount of their drug of choice several times a day to stay alive?

i'm sure people will berate me for comparing an addiction to food to the likes of booze or coke or heroin or whatever, but for some of us it's just that addictive.

I used to drink heaps of booze many times a week (3.5 years living it up in tenerife) and could polish off a bottle of vokda in a night and still find my way home at my peak, and i also took a shedload of class A's whilst I was there too and never developed any addiction to any of it. i've even regularly smoked cigarettes and pot since i was in my teens and gave both of those up without any problems whatsoever, but 'food' has it's claws in me and won't let go.

i've tried every diet under the sun and exercised, but i'm just not able to keep them up for any length of time. I'm not looking for any sympathy (not that I'd get any in AH anyways ), I just wanted to say what was on my mind.

sorry, was I supposed to do a funneh answer?

in that case it's cos of YORE MA'S Atari Jaguar.

DamoDLK

No worries, this wee recession will make us skinny wee feckers again! nothing to do with the yanks at all!

super_furry

Because pies are ****ing brilliant!

topper75

Excuses: 1,000,000,000
Reasons: 1 (laziness)

nibtrix

gurramok wrote: »

Its all those drunks going to the chipper after the pub. All that food inside your belly when drunk is not good for you

Whaaaaat?!?!?!?!? Everyone knows that food consumed while drunk contains no calories!!!