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- nofrak1, on 10/10/2007, -9/+90Parliament: raising your kids so you don't have to!
- 35263526, on 10/10/2007, -3/+59Buried for inaccuracy. The IEEP is an independent organization; "the UK" isn't considering *****.
- navitatl, on 10/10/2007, -1/+35Go back to school.
- spudnic, on 10/10/2007, -7/+34"Parliament: raising your kids because you're too stupid to do it properly" more like.
- TheSaladMan, on 10/10/2007, -2/+18I walked 20 mins to school the whole time I was there, get some exercise you lazy git.
- TheSaladMan, on 10/10/2007, -2/+15So walk your kid to school... lead by example and don't let your kid grow up to be 20 stone.
- Conwaysb0718, on 10/10/2007, -2/+15Best weapon against childhood obesity: Parents.
- Piedramente, on 10/10/2007, -3/+15One small step for Freedom!!
- kaelyiesta, on 10/10/2007, -6/+17"It's for your own good."
"This will make you safer"
"We know what is best for you"
These are the phrases that make me homicidal. Coincidentally, these are the phrases meant to justify denying people choice and freedom in their own personal lives. - spudnic, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12same, 25 minutes each way for 11 years. Damn people are lazy.
- Rileyper, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10Anything to beat the yanks in the obese wars...Bring Back Recess DUH!!!, theres a solution
- londubh, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9Gotta have artificial snow machines to and some kind of artificial hill thingy. So the kids can walk through the snow to school uphill both ways just like their grandparents did.
- CountZero75, on 10/10/2007, -11/+19About bloody time!
- superspud, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8Everyone will pay for the permit, the local councils will get richer, no one will walk, and everyone will protest the new stealth tax.
- jlharrity, on 10/10/2007, -5/+12Outright banning seems pretty excessive. Incentives for those who opt to do so or some sort of tax on those who wish to continue driving might be more effective.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7I used to walk nearly two miles to school with a bag full of books and kit; it didn't do me any harm. Kids today should harden the ***** up.
- barc0001, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8Apparently you don't get what I am saying. What I'm saying is that we've given the parents the "liberty" to do their jobs as parents, and it's bluntly obvious a good percentage of them are incapable of doing so. So now is the time to take steps to at least try and make sure that the kids get SOME exercise and not develop type 2 diabetes when they're 15.
A perfect example of parental incompetence in the UK? Watch Jamie's School Dinners when it's run again on Food Network. You'll see a bunch of parents all pissed off that Jamie Oliver is trying to feed their children healthy food. They even go so far as to buy their kids garbage from Mickey Ds and pass it to them through the fence at lunch hour instead of forcing their little ones to eat the healthy food. Absolutely horrible parenting skills. - spudnic, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8Seriously, get a new insult. Dental care in the UK has been fine for decades, we were a bit busy being carpet bombed by ze Nazis and then recovering from it before that.
We have a problem with teenage pregnancy and dissafected working class youths, work on something to do with that. Hell, we're nearly as obese as America now, I'd even settle for that. - 15charmaxwtf, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8And people get paid for making moronic proposals like this? Funnily enough I thought it was the parents and kids responsibility what weight they are, it has absolutely nothing to do with the government whatsoever. Stuff like this festers irresponsibility because some people might think the nanny state is gong to take care of them from cradle to grave.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7It's ridiculous how many kids get chauffeured to school now. Or at worst to the bus stop, with mom or dad making them stay in the car until the bus comes, lest some pedophile come along and abduct them. This has more to do with media-fueled paranoia than laziness, but we'd be better off either way if kids just learned to walk a block on their own and take a bus to school. It's the kids who don't who end up needing their parents to hold their hands through college and even their first jobs well into their mid-20s... they just have no idea how to do something on their own.
My company hires a lot of people right out of college, and it's increasingly less common to deal more with the parent of an applicant than the actual applicant. Mom and dad are calling up, coming in, obsessing over their kid getting their first real job. These people are automatically less likely to be hired. - barc0001, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7Most frequent cause of childhood obesity: Overly permissive and uncaring parents.
There. Fixed that for ya. - MacEnvy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6I used to do it in the snow, uphill both ways.
- TheSaladMan, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7A stone is a weight measurement, it's heavier than a pound.
Also there's no real excuse to be lazy about your kid's health, it makes you a very bad parent. - h4mx0r, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5I already have to walk to school and home. Even when I get my driver's license, I'll probably still wanna walk instead (most of the time).
- vertinox, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Why don't you get it over with and ban everything?
- matador3, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Big Brother is watching out for you.
- LucidHawk, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6http://youtube.com/watch?v=88REf0tjZHo
"..why don't they put you on a diet your a little overweight!" - chedabob, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5I commute 40 minutes every morning to college, with two large programming textbooks, and another 2 decent sized ones. Stop your whining.
- epmatsw, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6I don't know about the UK, but at least where I live, the school zones aren't that big. Anyone else think it's sad when we consider walking 100 yards excercise?
- Savor, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Unless you live in a city you most likely would live close enough to walk anyway. Besides, the constant downpour of rain is good for kids...
- barc0001, on 10/10/2007, -4/+8At the same time, if you're doing such a wonderful job that your little flower resembles a bowling ball, perhaps others need to step in for the health of the kid. Everyone bitches and screams when there's a news story about how some vegans managed to starve their kid, but nobody says jack when 20%+ of the kids are obese these days. It's not the kids' fault...
- ArrEmmDee, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Yeah! Way to put yourself at serious health risk! That'll teach them!
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+520 stone.
14 pounds to the stone.
20 * 14 = 280 pounds or 127kg.
Hmm, a British measurement. Maybe you shouldn't even be in the argument as you aren't British? - spudnic, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4So cycle. Hey, you can even buy another set of books with the money you'd save on petrol so you can leave one at school and one at home.
- jason469, on 10/10/2007, -3/+6Umm... when I was in high school we had to buildings that were about 100 yards apart from each other and the second building had 5 floors to it, with no elevators. I think all of walking is going to do more harm than good in the long run, remember most of the time you've got at least 2 heavy books and some notebooks in your bag, so walking with it for long periods of time can really do some damage to your back as a young teen. As an adult I'm not bothered by it at all, but I'm done with 'growing' so that might be why.
I think more walking would be nice for them as long as they could keep their books in school or have laptops instead of heavy books to carry around. - achortleaday, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5you do realize this article is about the UK ... ?
- spudnic, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4127 Kilos.
- meatmcguffin, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Unit of measurement for weight equal to around 6.4kg, 20 of them
- SandorClegane, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5This is exactly the kind of asinine ***** we've come to expect from the do-gooder twits on both sides of the pond. People don't walk enough? Last I checked it's *NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS*. I swear these people would call for your mouth to be removed to assist you in breathing through your nose. *****
- parax, on 10/10/2007, -3/+6I'm fundamentally against laws and regulations to protect people from themselves. These types of regulations might help from a statistical perspective, but from an individual perspective they punish people who make good decisions. You can't force people to make good decisions. I'm all in favor of motivating people to exercise, stay in shape, and make good decisions. It's just wrong to move beyond motivation and into the realm of regulations "for your own good".
It all reminds me of "Demolition Man". No cursing, no meat, no salt, no sex. It's all for your own good. If I want to ***** up my life and my body, I should be free to do so. People are imperfect, and making them perfect by regulation is no kind of way to live. If you force people to succeed by regulation, those successes are hollow. - mstoneburner, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Like the UK doesn't have enough poorly conceived nanny-state social engineering projects already...
- wageslaven, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Rain, cold, heat and snow. Those are called "things you find outdoors". Have you heard of it? This "outdoors"? BTW, more than half of people in the USA live "in the city." And sprawl is a big problem also.
- minoss, on 10/10/2007, -4/+7Why don't they just force people to go to daily government mandated workout programs? Guess America isn't the only place where the government thinks they own our lives and body.
- wageslaven, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3"media-fueled paranoia"
Ding Ding Ding! - Leomarth, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Lets go back to a horse driven economy where particulate made from horse feces pollutes our air quality instead of a car.
- breadfred, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3God forbid, fat kids might loose weight and get fit! Parents might actually have to LOOK AFTER their children!
- empirefalling, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4An excellent idea!
- wageslaven, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Dear Parent of Obese Child;
Our Health Care records indicate that your child is obese. Obese children cost 150% more than other children to care for until the age of 18. As a result, the National Health Service will be imposing a $500 incremental fee onto your tax bill.
This fee will go to compensate the public trust for your refusal to act in the best interest of your child's health.
Signed,
Your Community. - yohan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I laughed, really hard! Zing!
- ArrEmmDee, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4Hey this sounds awesome!
Do you guys know what it's been like to walk half an hour to and from school most of my life, rain or shine or ***** freezing snow and winds, only to watch the closer I got to school a bunch of people who were only a five or ten minute walk from school getting driven by those ridiculous soccer moms day in and day out?
I don't see what the crisis is for some of you, unless you're so sure matters of principle as far as a five minute walk to school or a two minute drive are infringements upon your rights. Pick your fights, people. -
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