Labour's smoking ban killed the British pub

[mudskipper]

The same as everyone else I assume.

When your finger goes through the paper?

[darmstadt]

You aren't allowed to pick on dwarves.

I thought you had to call them PORGs now?

[Mich the Tester]

I thought you had to call them PORGs now?

Welcome back.

[mudskipper]

Some quick research on Google suggests very few medical conditions that cause weight gain. The best known (although still very rare) is hyperthyroidism, and that's treatable.

Cushing's is another one although bizarrely it's more often brought on by obesity.

So, basically, fat is fat due to overeating in say all but one in 50,000 cases.

Hypothyroidism. And a lot more common than you might think. The guidelines for when someone should be considered hypothyroid vary hugely from country to country.

Edit: Hypo - underactive - sluggish metabolism
Hyper - overactive - speeded up metabolism

[hyperD]

Aren't private clubs exempt? For instance private members clubs such as cigar clubs?

Well yes, you would have thought that. I mean a place dedicated to smoking, for people that want to smoke, privately, without "infecting" anyone else that was there against their will, that even staff knew and had the choice what they were getting in to. All reasonable, all good, all personal choice.

Ah, but no, those *******, those parasites, those puritans, those miserablists, those that want to force engineer social changes against the will of a subset of population, those that will never cease to be bansturbators once smoking has been made verboten, will it be sugar next, fast foods, fatty people, colourful drinks, those authoritarians that can't afford for their taxpayers funds to cease (won't someone think of their spawns private schooling...), those bastards have decreed, against all logic, that private members clubs are not exempt from the smoking ban.

Makes you fecking proud.

And this has never been about health.

[Mich the Tester]

Ah, but no, those *******, those parasites, those puritans, those miserablists, those that want to force engineer social changes against the will of a subset of population, those that will never cease to be bansturbators once smoking has been made verboten, will it be sugar next, fast foods, fatty people, colourful drinks, those authoritarians that can't afford for their taxpayers funds to cease (won't someone think of their spawns private schooling...), those bastards have decreed, against all logic, that private members clubs are not exempt from the smoking ban.

Hell, I don't smoke and I love this rant. 11/10.

[EternalOptimist]

Well yes, you would have thought that. I mean a place dedicated to smoking, for people that want to smoke, privately, without "infecting" anyone else that was there against their will, that even staff knew and had the choice what they were getting in to. All reasonable, all good, all personal choice.

Ah, but no, those *******, those parasites, those puritans, those miserablists, those that want to force engineer social changes against the will of a subset of population, those that will never cease to be bansturbators once smoking has been made verboten, will it be sugar next, fast foods, fatty people, colourful drinks, those authoritarians that can't afford for their taxpayers funds to cease (won't someone think of their spawns private schooling...), those bastards have decreed, against all logic, that private members clubs are not exempt from the smoking ban.

Makes you fecking proud.

And this has never been about health.

It's about control. and power.

closing down discussion and debate. the definition of totalitarianism.

[Wanderer]

I've never really found anything to be 'militant' about. Am I missing out on something?

Sure! You're missing the chance to have a good RANT! tulip, I think I need a fag to calm me down.

My outburst is pretty insignificant compared to hyperD's one though. Truly epic, bro! Have a cigar.

[Bunk]

Hell, I don't smoke and I love this rant. 11/10.

Neither does he

[hyperD]

Neither does he

'tis true - I don't smoke!