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MathLouse's avatar

It's interesting how this plague has developed. When I was at school in the 60s & 70s, there'd be one or two "bloaters" in the whole school. These characters were likely unfortunate folk with metabolic disorders of some sort, because we all got plenty of exercise then. The only "fast food" available was fish & chips. It was only in the 80s that fast food chain outlets appeared in nearly every town. Even so, chronic obesity was still rare. The real up-tick seemed to occur after computers & smartphones became ubiquitous. I remember visiting a colleague around 2000-1, whose teenage son had his mates round with their computers for a "LAN party". I thought they must be a very unusual collection of nerds! With the explosion of internet availability and "smarter" smartphones, this trend has seen explosive growth, capturing wider numbers of "normies". It seems to be perfectly acceptable for young folk to spend a whole weekend immersed in multi-player virtual worlds, only pausing for another gutful of junk food and fizzy crap. We used to walk miles to school and keep the bus fare as spending money. Most of us had pushbikes and would cycle anywhere too far to walk. I am horrified to see "the school run" become a normal thing, with roads clogged by oversized vehicles, driven by oversized parents dropping their darling bloaters at the school gates. The country has gone to the dogs, placed its bets and spent its winnings on burgers and fizzy crap.

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Quantum Animation's avatar

This is absolute gourmet Fast Eddy. Hats off to you. You're the Rodney Dangerfield of Substack. May the fat bastards bust a seam and get caught with their pants down.

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