All slim in those days

[Devil's advocate]

No blinged up pick up in those days or tattoos.

 

[Welderloon]

No mobile phones, Deliveroo, Chinese tat or corn syrup either

 

[Yale]

@DaveGrohl

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[DaveGrohl]

@DaveGrohl

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Lol. Overweight/obese only started happening after the food pyramid was established by the geniuses across the pond. We all followed. Even historical skinnies are being lured onto the rocks.
Reckon everyone’s onto this now.
Senate hearing few days ago with some lightweights has gained an awful lot of traction. Imagine how that would’ve gone with some heavyweights (ooh the irony).

 

[GeorgeK]

It's ok, now we have wegovy to turn fat lazy slobs into marginally thinner lazy slobs.

However modern bricklaying is a quantum leap forwards in terms of quality and durability thanks to higher skill levels and modern technology:

Just compare that with this hastily thrown together bodge from Tudor times. I know it's only a chimney, but they could have at least made some effort!

 

[DaveGrohl]

It's ok, now we have wegovy to turn fat lazy slobs into marginally thinner lazy slobs.

However modern bricklaying is a quantum leap forwards in terms of quality and durability thanks to higher skill levels and modern technology:

Just compare that with this hastily thrown together bodge from Tudor times. I know it's only a chimney, but they could have at least made some effort!

Clearly you’ve spilt tea on the first picture and put it on the Aga to dry out.

 

[DaveGrohl]

Just been reading how Tim Spector has put himself on metformin because he’s found out he’s pre-diabetic. So almost no meat, intermittent fasting and 30 plants a week not really working all that well then Tim?

 

[Poorbuthappy]

It's alright, it was on the news this morning, the obesity curve could have peaked.... cos we've got drugs to sort it out now

 

[fgc325j]

It's ok, now we have wegovy to turn fat lazy slobs into marginally thinner lazy slobs.

However modern bricklaying is a quantum leap forwards in terms of quality and durability thanks to higher skill levels and modern technology:

Just compare that with this hastily thrown together bodge from Tudor times. I know it's only a chimney, but they could have at least made some effort!

There was a Documentary series on BBC3 last, year, following brickies, and , they get paid 60p/brick, with a good brickie able to lay 800/day, without breaking sweat.
1000 per day if he had a good, work attitude.

 

[yoki]

Clearly you’ve spilt tea on the first picture and put it on the Aga to dry out.

I was thinking more that it was a purposeful architectural feature.

Y'know, all to do with "eye-lines", "spacial awareness", and all that aul shite these things which they see but we don't.

 

[yoki]

Lol. Overweight/obese only started happening after the food pyramid was established by the geniuses across the pond. We all followed. Even historical skinnies are being lured onto the rocks.
Reckon everyone’s onto this now.
Senate hearing few days ago with some lightweights has gained an awful lot of traction. Imagine how that would’ve gone with some heavyweights (ooh the irony).

Our eldest has lived in the US for five years now.

Put on a huge amount of weight when he went over there, not really doing anything different just getting on with life and it crept up on him.

He got the weight off and has managed since to keep it off, but it's something you have to actively work at every day such is the fast food culture over there.

UK catching up fast though!

 

[onesiedale]

It's alright, it was on the news this morning, the obesity curve could have peaked.... cos we've got drugs to sort it out now

all part of a highly planned media campaign which started a couple of weeks ago with this;

 

[Lofty1984]

There was a Documentary series on BBC3 last, year, following brickies, and , they get paid 60p/brick, with a good brickie able to lay 800/day, without breaking sweat.
1000 per day if he had a good, work attitude.

All good to do that if you have the materials close and aren’t stuck waiting for a forklift to bring you stuff

 

[Poorbuthappy]

all part of a highly planned media campaign which started a couple of weeks ago with this;

Why does man's response to every issue have to be "how can we engineer / science our solution to this", instead of "what caused this"?
Whether it's flood defenses, climate change, obesity, etc

 

[DaveGrohl]

Our eldest has lived in the US for five years now.

Put on a huge amount of weight when he went over there, not really doing anything different just getting on with life and it crept up on him.

He got the weight off and has managed since to keep it off, but it's something you have to actively work at every day such is the fast food culture over there.

UK catching up fast though!

We are almost joined at the hip in reality. There’s a gap between us two and the following pack.

 

[Jasper]

There was a Documentary series on BBC3 last, year, following brickies, and , they get paid 60p/brick, with a good brickie able to lay 800/day, without breaking sweat.
1000 per day if he had a good, work attitude.

Talking to some lads from London and they were getting a pound a brick

 

[yoki]

We are almost joined at the hip in reality. There’s a gap between us two and the following pack.

Fortunately, he'd been used to fending for himself for a few years elsewhere so he just went back to what he'd done before, buying stuff and doing his own cooking as much as possible, but with an adjustment for what was most readily available.

Ironically now, he probably identifies in lifestyle more closely with the Hispanics/Latinos who he's in charge of than those who would be in his social group and for whom eating out would just be the norm.

Billy Connolly's advice, "........if you want to loose a bit of weight don't eat anything that comes in a bucket!"

Sound advice I'd say!

 

[fgc325j]

Talking to some lads from London and they were getting a pound a brick

Christ! - if i had my time all over again. Did enough rebuilding blockwork walls and reroofing sheds when i was younger, a lot of job satisfaction in seeing a finished job.
More than form filling.

 

[bluebell]

Anyone over 60 will remember that back in the 1970s-80s most people were slim? I like most young men had to have extra holes punched into my belt, because my waist was so small, if you dont believe me just look at archieve film from that period, when we were building, new buildings in the 1970s-80s, i well remember cement coming in on flat bed builders merchants lorry, or the bricks straight from the london brickworks, again stacked on flatbeds, with straw between, all had to be hand unloaded, cement in 1cwt (50 kilo) sacks, farming was the same, all the fertilizer in plastic sacks same weight as the cement, bales, before round bales, all the work and time of small bales, no wonder we were fit? Now you sit on your backside, its all on pallets or big this that? Plus we smoked, smoking staved off hunger, whilst today people graze/snack all the time, back then 1970s-80s we smoked, all the time, smoked in the office, smoked in the pub, smoked in the tractor, smoked during breaks all good fun? The older men smoked rollups, with a ritual of rolling filling them from nice shiney tins us youngsters , we craved, we smoked number6, silk cut, marlboro, 2 packs a day?

 

[NorthumbrianFarmer]

Our eldest has lived in the US for five years now.

Put on a huge amount of weight when he went over there, not really doing anything different just getting on with life and it crept up on him.

He got the weight off and has managed since to keep it off, but it's something you have to actively work at every day such is the fast food culture over there.

UK catching up fast though!

Went to America on my honeymoon last year every meal we had was a whole days calories. We shared a slice of cheesecake that had 2800 calories in.

Way too easy to gain weight with meals like that. Glad he’s managed to get the weight off