July 2010
Friday Fight Club II is over the jump.
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The Australian health establishment has denounced a proposal for doctors to stop calling chronically overweight people obese and start calling them fat instead.
The idea is that calling people fat will have more emotional impact, effectively shaming them into doing something about their weight. Sorry to have to point this out but chronically obese people already get called fat, just usually not to their faces. Besides, many overweight people openly talk about themselves being a fat person.
Now the Royal Australian College of GPs says it is a rude and insulting term, preferring “obese” instead because patients should always be treated with respect.
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Kathy says:
@Thinning Fat Fighter…well said, I couldn’t agree more. In my opinion, most people are doing the best they can manage given their life circumstances. Nobody sets out to be fat & unhealthy… Read more »
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Thinning-Fat-Fighter says:
The exercise is simple. The motivation to do it isn’t. Doing a brisk walk as stated thinking to yourself “I don’t want to end up in a cardiac ward” isn’t the answer. Thinking about not dying is not the same as thinking about “living”. If you want people to integrate… Read more »
Just a month ago Julia Gillard declared that the Labor Government had “lost its way”. This past week proves that Labor remains well and truly lost.
Far from “moving forward” (sorry) under Ms Gillard, Labor is mired in poorly planned policy, deep division, frantic media spin, ongoing economic mismanagement and sleight of hand. Nothing has changed.
Let’s look at the past week.
Just a week ago, Ms Gillard announced the laughable “Citizens Assembly” – a year-long talkfest that further delays any Labor decision on climate change. After declaring climate change one of the 3 vital issues she must tackle, this policy is the ultimate backflip and the worst abrogation of responsibility.
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Caz says:
Julia Gillard was educated at ‘Mitcham Demonstration School’ in Adelaide. Brad Boyd, Deputy head at this school, claims that this is what made her what she is today. The history of education in Adelaide is interesting, with a very heavy Froebelian influence, and having been constructed in what we call… Read more »
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Christian Real says:
I see that Tony “Dont believe everything I say ” Abbott is back-peddling by reducing his proposed business tax (levy) from 1.7% down to 1.5% The only problem is for Tony “Don’t believe everything I say” Abbott is that his maths just do not add up, or perhaps he just… Read more »
This week has greatly illuminated Tony Abbot’s unique relationship with public policy.
As the first hint of a proposed massive cut to Australia’s immigration intake surfaced in last weekend’s media we were told that Tony Abbotts’s impending announcement would be a game changer – the ultimate trump card to the population debate.
Barely had he mentioned the figure of 170,000 than his policy was fatally wounded having been hit by shrapnel. Turns out that all Mr Abbott had done was add up the current projected cuts in net overseas migration arising from existing Government policy, and call it his policy.
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Just when you thought that funnelling your hard earned cash into a soulless machine in the darkest reaches of a hotel couldn’t get anymore depressing, it turns out now your kids can watch.
Disturbingly, The Pink Hill Hotel in Beaconsfield has been given permission to build a children’s playroom enclosed with soundproof glass so that parents can keep an eye on their children from the gaming room. Fabulous!
Now the whole family can revel in the joys of daddy getting 3 pyramids in a row on the Queen of the Nile.
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Ryan says:
Well you can’t take your kid to the local park to fly their kite but you CAN take them down to the local club to throw away their weeks food money on a pokie.. There are enough laws and bans in Australia that merely making your way to work would… Read more »
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Rob says:
“How is this in any way a solution to a problem that is destroying people’s lives?” Nobody is actually suggesting that this is a solution to gambling addiction, as it obviously is not. It’s a measure to let parents watch over their kids while they have a punt on a… Read more »
All aboard the conspiracy bus.
The media pack following Opposition Leader Tony Abbott, in the absence of external stimulus in the form of policies, has turned inward.
We now theorise wildly about everything to do with this campaign. The trip is tightly controlled (although apparently not as rigid and paranoid as the Gillard campaign, where the media pack is rumoured to
be on the edge of revolt).
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I was spending some quality time with channel 10 the other night. It was blathering on about how good it’s life is now, and I was only half listening. But I did hear it accidently say Masterchef’s name when it was talking about its new friend, Jamie Oliver’s Road Trip.
You see, Channel 10 needs us, guys. In recent times it was on top of the world: Masterchef was the most watched non-sporting event in Australian television history, with the finale reaching a peak of over four million viewers.
It was raking in sponsorship and commercial money, there’s book royalties to look forward to, it seemed like things could never go wrong.
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Shrif says:
Ohhh i’m going to have to try this. I love making Indian food. One of my home girls is from New Dehli so when we lived ttheoger she taught me a few things, especially about the spices to use. Thanks for sharing this punch recipe!! Read more »
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Zak says:
...and neither did I, not even the final where not quite 20% of the entire country couldn’t find something better to do. What was the point of MasterChef, anyone? Did it teach anybody to cook in a better way than any other cooking show? Did the mock drama and pathos… Read more »
I reluctantly faced one of the simpler but more infuriating challenges that life throws at you. It can be summed up in three words: telco customer service. (Eds - this is a distressing column. Let’s start with some cheery hold music.)
I’ve had a mobile phone account with a leading telco provider for a number of years. Since moving to my new house over a year ago the coverage in the area has been terrible and as such I queried the problem on numerous occasions. It recently came to a head and I did the unthinkable – spent two and half hours of my life either on hold or chatting with one of a multitude of provider staff.
I spoke to iPhone, billing, the provider service centre, customer support and mobile customer support – I was flung like I rag doll around from representative to representative and each time I had to relay the same information; name, address, date of birth and nature of the problem. On two separate occasions, just when I thought I was making progress, the connection failed while I was on hold and just like Groundhog Day I was forced to start all over again.
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Rebecca says:
Just go into the Telstra shop or Vodafone shop or whatever it is. They can’t put you on hold if you’re standing right in front of them. Read more »
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Kate says:
I’m with iiNet for internet and they have a system of phone customer service which is so good, it frustrates the hell out of me whenever I have to ring anyone else. If you call them, and there’s more than 5 minutes wait time, they get you to leave your… Read more »
It’s “say whatever you want” Friday at The Punch. Your time starts now ...
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acotrel says:
Labor supporters probably feel the same way about Latham, that Liberal supporters feel about Turnbull. Chidren should be seen and not heard. When Latham as at his peak, he talked fight, then ended up crying the first time anyone said something nasty to him! But what jerk he is to… Read more »
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Steve says:
@Macca maybe we should ask Muttiah Muralitharan or even the Costellos about his warm generous nature. Maybe the several hundred thousand Iraqis killed when he ordered our troops to invade, or perhaps the schools throughout Australia that missed out on a flag pole because they could not get a member… Read more »
Punchers are reminded to join us here in cyberspace from noon til 1pm this Friday July 30 for the second instalment of Friday Fight Club, where we’ll ask you who’s winning the election campaign and why.
To kick things off in the morning we will also be posting our weekly election diary pieces by Labor’s Richard Marles and Liberal Sophie Mirabella. Also if Kevin Rudd is reading this we’d love him to join in too with any old yarns about crazy stuff Julia used to say in Cabinet.
Simply come to the site at 12 and jump on our Coveritlive module, and go as hard as you like, but no spitting or bleating.
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Marcus says:
Which poll is this?? Read more »
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SkepDad says:
I’ve got a conflict today so I’ll have to miss it. Clear winner to the Coalition this week though, with PPL, pensioners, leaks, climate change inaction, a strong Abbott performance in the debate and a haemorrhaging of the girl power vote for Labor. Biggest fail: Citizen’s assembly. Biggest win: Julie… Read more »
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