ZombieKitten said:

Are those for real?! She could be a goalkeeper in those! Why has she got two sets of gloves on too?!

JDInteractive said:

I didn't know what they were called so I googled Garden Grabbers and seriously that is the brand name. I would wear gloves underneath too, here in Australia anyway, cause if you are rustling about in dead branches you might meed a red-back spider.

ZombieKitten said:

Well yes, if you're in Australia then that seems sensible enough. Here you'd just look a bit daft!

JDInteractive said:

I am gonna go get some of those now

ZombieKitten said:

You will have to post a pic of you in a goal with them on. That's my new request seeing as I was let down last time.

JDInteractive said:

you know what, I think I will do an earmuffs photo just for you anyway - might take my camera to the hardware shop tomorrow

ZombieKitten said:

Did I ask for that?! Well they have to be pink and fluffy too.

JDInteractive said:

how do you feel about chinese?

Christopher said:

Chinese food in the UK is weird. It's not the same as Chinese food here. Even in the US I notice it's different from region to region. I'm a big fan here at home, but every time I've had it in the UK I've been disappointed.

And don't even get me STARTED on Mexican food there.

CarrieMpls said:

That's because we have robot Chinese cooking the food.

JDInteractive said:

Did you build the robots yourselves?

CarrieMpls said:

I'm not clever enough to do that. We rely on John Travolta.

JDInteractive said:

That way you know the robots are poo-free.

This is what you fucks get for inventing kidney pies.

Christopher said:

Chinese food in the UK is weird. It's not the same as Chinese food here. Even in the US I notice it's different from region to region. I'm a big fan here at home, but every time I've had it in the UK I've been disappointed.

And don't even get me STARTED on Mexican food there.

Like obesity is contagious.

OBESITY 'CONTAGIOUS', EXPERTS SAY

Having a friend, sibling or spouse who is overweight raises a person's risk of being obese too, US researchers say.

They said data on more than 12,000 people suggested the risk was increased by 57% if a friend was obese, by 40% if a sibling was and 37% if a spouse was.

They argued this showed social factors, such as the body sizes of other people, were important in developing obesity.

Experts said the New England Journal of Medicine study was not conclusive as other hidden factors could be to blame.

Researchers at Harvard Medical School and the University of California, in San Diego, looked at data collected over 32 years as part of a heart study.

Participants gave personal information, including their body mass index, and the names of friends who could be contacted.

'Causal relationship'

The authors were able to map social connections including both friends and family members.

The effects were generally larger between people of the same sex.

And their analysis suggested that the links could not be solely attributed to similarities in lifestyle and environment, for example the impact of friends existed even where friends lived in different regions.

Author Professor Nicholas Christakis said: "It's not that obese or non-obese people simply find other similar people to hang out with.

"Rather, there is a direct, causal relationship. What appears to be happening is that a person becoming obese most likely causes a change of norms about what counts as an appropriate body size.

"People come to think that it is OK to be bigger since those around them are bigger, and this sensibility spreads."

Moral support

Dr Richard Suzman, director of the National Institute of Aging's Behavioral and Social Research Programme, said the finding could have important implications.

He said: "This seminal study breaks important new ground in showing how social networks may amplify other factors and help account for the dramatic increase in obesity across the [US] population."

Dr Ian Campbell, medical director of charity Weight Concern, said it was no surprise that people who are obese tended to be friends with others who were obese, but that the fact that the link was more important between friends than siblings was "very interesting".

He said this suggested that social factors were even more important than physical ones in obesity.

He added that, on the positive side, if overweight people had friends who were obese, they could offer moral support to help each other lose weight.

'Speculation'

But Professor Andrew Hill, of the University of Leeds, said it was purely speculation to suggest that people's body images change because their friends become obese.

And he said it was important not to forget things which are known as key factors in obesity, such as diet and exercise.

"The statistics may be meaningful, but in real life this is not very helpful to people who are overweight.

"We don't have an understanding of what is really causing the relationship - it might be very complicated."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/h...914397.stm

JDInteractive said:

ZombieKitten said:

Iv eseen it all now anti-mastibation gloves