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Of course you would - but you do so well Wench on such a restricted diet. I am full of admiration of anyone with a difficult row to hoe.

No, not really Wench, I've never met you.

A couple of years ago I was on an eight hour flight home and was seated next to an obese woman. It meant I was squashed right up against the window and was very uncomfortable. Not wanting to humiliate the woman but aggrieved that I had paid for a full seat but not allowed to make use of it all, I approached the stewardess and discreetly asked if there was another seat available. Luckily there was and I could move but if the flight had been full I would have only had half a seat.
Yes, larger people have rights and should not be weighed in with the luggage but it's not fair to take one and a half seats, causing someone next to you to have paid the same amount but to be squashed into the window.

Billy FYI 'steamed fish, steamed chicken, rice, steamed veg and some salad items' are not classically junk food items. ;-)

I hope you are on a strict diet - not one of those holier than thou types - who are naturally skinny and can eat shedloads of c*ap without putting on weight.

On the matter of diet I have yet to meet a skinny person (without a medical condition) who is not faddy about food - my skinny brother-in-law eats no vegetable or fruit for instance.

I thought the same when I ready Billy's comments and was trying to work out why he was being so insulting. Then realised he was extremely tongue in cheek and taking his own comment literally, and to the letter.

"He has never MET a fat person who didn't stuff themselves with junk food...."

and he hasn't MET Wench, so technically his comment could be correct.


As an aside, I HAVE met Wench, and I would consider her to be of normal size, not skinny, not a heffalump....picky eater thou

Just like americans were all getting fatter because inherently people are lazy and want food quick/don't want to cook, cheap right here and now.
If you look at how things have changed, peoples heads down in the phone, or stuffing junk or pasties in their fat feeding mouths with the brain switched off....the dumb look on their faces as they eat.
Weve turned into a selfish insular consuming at all cost mass, people would never eat in the street years ago. cheap food is usually junk fat sugar processed etc
Its a funny irony that we love tv chefs and buy their books/watch their tv progs but in reality we actually eat complete crap.
If you go into a generic shopping centre all you see in the uk is people who look like the missing link wandering like bored skittles farting round shops with prams ,a sausage roll, traky, shouting on their phone, stereo typical tattoos and stupid red hair, rolls of fat etc etc.
Humans never take responsibility for their own body....if youre fat or smoking like a chimney or on drink/drugs....ITS YOUR CHOICE AND FAULT.....im amazed how peoples bodies put up with the abuse, its amazing the human body.
If you get ill or die from them, guess whos fault it is then too !?........its not "an addiction" as so many moan ......ITS YOUR CHOICE.....accept the consequences!!

2st 2lb lighter than when I last saw you Not a picky eater, picky about where I sleep. If I stray from the boring stuff I have to eat, I end up in APH. I don't like sharing my bed/bedroom

So, just to recap:

You don't like sharing YOUR bedroom
You like control over your sleeping arrangements.
You've never slept whenever we've met
Something you're now doing is burning up stored energy (losing weight).

Have I covered everything there ?