BS: Hardest living country? Aye laddy!

Subject: BS: Hardest living country? Aye laddy!
From: gnu
Date: 11 Jun 10 - 07:44 AM

And they didn't include haggis!

Looking at five health-threatening behaviours -- smoking, heavy drinking, lack of exercise, poor diet, obesity -- researchers found that twice as many Scottish men and women face a triple threat or worse than in any continental European country in which a similar study has been done.

Only in England and the United States are levels of risk even remotely close.

"Scottish people are living dangerously," said David Conway, a professor at the University of Glasgow and the main architect of the study.

Subject: RE: BS: Hardest living country? Aye laddy!
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Jun 10 - 10:06 AM

Well, everyone who lives in country where the men were kilts in high winds and where they play music on a boiled sheep's stomach stuffed with oatmeal lives in extreme danger. Shows how very brave the Scots really are.

Subject: RE: BS: Hardest living country? Aye laddy!
From: Arthur_itus
Date: 11 Jun 10 - 10:09 AM

Now I know why the Scots never made it to the World Cup!

Mind you the Scot's are the world's best at shooting Haggis!

Subject: RE: BS: Hardest living country? Aye laddy!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 11 Jun 10 - 10:33 AM

It's the noisy neighbours that drive us to drink. Always whinging and complaining, and with delusions of grandeur. They think they own the place!



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Subject: RE: BS: Hardest living country? Aye laddy!
From: gnu
Date: 11 Jun 10 - 11:02 AM

Hehehee.

Subject: RE: BS: Hardest living country? Aye laddy!
From: Darowyn
Date: 11 Jun 10 - 01:34 PM

"97% of Scots are unfit" was the headline on the radio.
If you set the criterion of fitness to be the ability to do the 100 metres in under ten seconds, perhaps!
If you drink more than two glasses of wine, you're a binge drinker.
If you weigh more than seven pounds more than the average, you are dangerously obese.
We're all doomed!
Doomed to a sucession of stupid health scare stories dreamed up by half baked uneducated journos.
Cheers
Dave

Subject: RE: BS: Hardest living country? Aye laddy!
From: mg
Date: 11 Jun 10 - 03:57 PM

I remember the Scots as being the handsomest people in Europe..not that I have seen it all.

The ones who struck me as the healthiest, strongest-looking were Chezck..oh how do you spell that..who seemed very healthy although all I saw them eating was beer and sausage..who is to say that is not a healthy diet for some people though, assuming you throw in some cabbage now and then. And this was at the tail end of communism...what a great country...I happened upon some sort of industrial fair there and the products, again during the collapse of communism, were unbelievable in their construction..washing machines that could double as Army tanks...toys that would last as long as the world does.

But this is about Scotland..very very handsome men there as I recall. I don't remember anything about washing machines there. mg

Subject: RE: BS: Hardest living country? Aye laddy!
From: Arthur_itus
Date: 11 Jun 10 - 04:05 PM

You have to be pretty strong to toss a caber.

http://www.grandfather.com/media/GMHGpics/caber3.jpg By God he has a big un.

However Curling is never going to make you fit.

http://www.dailyworldbuzz.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Curling-Game-Scoring-A-Brief-Description-of-the-Sport.jpg The women look nice though.

Subject: RE: BS: Hardest living country? Aye laddy!
From: gnu
Date: 11 Jun 10 - 04:09 PM

Apparently, you have never curled.

Subject: RE: BS: Hardest living country? Aye laddy!
From: Arthur_itus
Date: 11 Jun 10 - 04:23 PM

Well I Have watched them doing it, when I lived in Scotland.

Subject: RE: BS: Hardest living country? Aye laddy!
From: Paul Burke
Date: 11 Jun 10 - 06:27 PM

When it comes to unfitness, I'll take on ANNY TREE OF YEZ.

Subject: RE: BS: Hardest living country? Aye laddy!
From: maple_leaf_boy
Date: 11 Jun 10 - 08:42 PM

The Scottish comedian "Danny Bhoy" mentions this in his show and cracks
a few jokes about it. He didn't mention haggis, but he mentioned black pudding. If you think Old Scotland has an unhealthy lifestyle, look at
the New Scotland. Heavy smoking and drinking is very common.

Subject: RE: BS: Hardest living country? Aye laddy!
From: artbrooks
Date: 11 Jun 10 - 08:51 PM

For some reason, this seems like a good place to put this. I like the beer-gut-cut myself.