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Velociraptor Dec 2016 4:48pm, 29 Dec 2016 35,143 posts	Quote Pin Velociraptor The "How are you?" questionnaire linked to in the Guardian article about how most of us aren't doing enough healthy stuff ground my gears, asking for my first name at the start and then using it back at me like an insolent spiv. "Well, Raptor, you clearly try, Raptor, but Raptor, you're not doing as much as you could be doing to stay healthy and Raptor Raptor Raptor more exercise more fruit less chocolate blah blah."
Atonal Miserabilist (AFKA TRO) Dec 2016 5:00pm, 29 Dec 2016 14,119 posts	Quote Pin Atonal Miserabilist (AFKA TRO) Couple of nice chilly frosty mornings and it's apparently 'The big freeze, anyone over 65 stay indoors'. FFS, they're acting like it's -35
ChrisHB Dec 2016 5:06pm, 29 Dec 2016 14,344 posts	Quote Pin ChrisHB Agree wholeheartedly with V above. I could feel the computer's disappointment at having to tell me that my smoking and drinking left no room for improvement. At least it didn't come back to me at the end and accuse me of lying about those two points.
Velociraptor Dec 2016 5:23pm, 29 Dec 2016 35,145 posts	Quote Pin Velociraptor At the end, I couldn't even work out where I'd lost loads of marks, it was just like, "Raptor, you got a few things right but you should be making a lot more effort, go away and improve and then come back and see whether I slag off your lifestyle any less." (It did deign to tell me that I should be exercising more. From the content of the questions, I assume it meant, "You dirty slattern, 20 minutes of housework on some days is not enough even if you do have a four-hour blitz on other days.")
Doctor K Dec 2016 5:26pm, 29 Dec 2016 3,885 posts	Quote Pin Doctor K There seems little point in any health questionnaires when the supermarket I was in today has a whole aisle dedicated to sweets and crisp type snackettes.
Wriggling Snake Dec 2016 5:50pm, 29 Dec 2016 14,160 posts	Quote Pin Wriggling Snake The trouble with supermarkets is that they are very efficient machines and react instantly to what people buy, they are choc (:-)) full of crap because that is what people buy, hence the uselessness of the recent sugar tax. Education is the answer and daft 2 minute items on the BBC won't cut it, that'll be forgotten then next health 'scare' comes along. It's a fact, unfortunately that wealthy well educated people eat better food and exercise more because they know they have to.
ChrisHB Dec 2016 6:33pm, 29 Dec 2016 14,345 posts	Quote Pin ChrisHB Depressing though, that small supermarkets contain so very much in the way of alcohol, crisps, sweets and so on, and so few genuine ingredients to make your own food out of. I feel it's worse in the parts of Scotland I've been to lately, but I'm prepared to be wrong.
zp Dec 2016 6:35pm, 29 Dec 2016 141 posts	Quote Pin zp This new blue mole is in no way suspicious.
zp Dec 2016 6:36pm, 29 Dec 2016 142 posts	Quote Pin zp Oops, wrong thread, sorry!
Cuddy Dec 2016 6:37pm, 29 Dec 2016 4,867 posts	Quote Pin Cuddy Mummy milestone cards or anything of the like. FFS. No one cares or wants to know if your child went to the bathroom alone for the first time and it certainly doesn't need an announcement!!!