Say Anything Blog

The Body Mass Index is complete garbage.  It’s based on an arbitrary weight/height ratio that’s completely unrealistic for a lot of people.  It simply doesn’t take into account differing body types.  Tom Cruise is considered overweight according to the BMI.

There are better tests to determine obesity (like the “fat pinch” test).

And the fact the New Zealand partly bases their immigration on obesity smacks of Eugenics.  Concerns over healthcare costs are moot.  If socialized medicine can’t even absorb the costs associated with obesity, then it isn’t worth a damn.

go down to the county hospital and watch all the fat fuckers griping about having to pay a buck for their meds that you, me, and everyone else pays for and you’ll be “smacking of eugenics” too!
i have no sympathy for fat people. its their own choice. the government, furthermore, can make whatever rules they want… if you don’t like them, don’t live there. that is what these ‘fatties’ are deciding. there’s nothing wrong with that. new zealand is not forcing anyone to get thin.

Yun Chu said, “You must strictly not express in words what is very significant. Both dragon and snake are killed in one blow.”

i have no sympathy for fat people. its their own choice. the government, furthermore, can make whatever rules they want… if you don’t like them, don’t live there.

Sparkie the Nazi; death to individual choice!

I blame Bush.

"Give the lefties a pile of money, and they’ll spend it buying votes.” - Rush Limbaugh on the “bailout”.

Well, we know that immigration is, in at least one country, taking note of the likely costs of immigration.  There’s at least something going on right here.

But that said, certainly this also demonstrates the hazards of letting big government (or big anything) anywhere near your doctor.

LOL, WHATEVER… how convenient the ol’ hubby went ahead without her!!!!!!
Anyone wanna shed their fat spouse just convince them a move to New Zealand is what will spice up their love lives.

Interesting spin.

"Give the lefties a pile of money, and they’ll spend it buying votes.” - Rush Limbaugh on the “bailout”.

lol! that would NEVER happen in the US.  Maybe what New Zealand is doing to that poor woman will affect the way US travelers spend their cash “down under”.  Think I would EVER go to a country that discriminates unfairly like that?  what do they do with their population that is of “normal bmi” and has diabetes? or high blood pressure? or cancer??? or???? do they DEPORT them?  Way to go New Zealand!  just goes to show you why you are are NOT a democracy.

Hey Robert108.  Get a clue! and a REAL life.

Sheesh… lioness, pull the claws in! LOL, all robert108 did was critique Sparkie and then suggest what I said was another way this could be interpreted. I believe it is the crass Sparkie you should be bashing

Thanks for the support, Anna.  I couldn’t make sense of her comment.  I must say that moving halfway around the world just to get away from your wife seems a bit farfetched, but who knows?  At any rate, there’s nothing in the article to indicate that.

"Give the lefties a pile of money, and they’ll spend it buying votes.” - Rush Limbaugh on the “bailout”.

LOL…

New Zealanders were ranked a troubling 17th as the world’s most obese people – fatter than our Australian cousins and the British, Canadians and Fijians, and gaining on Americans. Overall, 68 per cent of our people were classed as obese by a World Health Organization assessment, based on body mass index measurements – a controversial gauge, and a level double that estimated by the Ministry of Health.

"estimated”; always a key word in such reports.  Who says the estimates are anywhere near accurate?

"Give the lefties a pile of money, and they’ll spend it buying votes.” - Rush Limbaugh on the “bailout”.