Forum: Here and there

Sep 1 2008 by Andrew Jackson, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

A RIGHT old mixed bag today from our posters.

Like flighty butterflies they seem to be unable to settle on one topic for more than a few seconds before fluttering off to the next point of discussion.

TommyDGNR8, responding to Tory plans to use “positive peer pressure” to help fat kids lose weight at school, said: “So the Tory plan to fight the obesity epidemic is to get the rest of the class to pick on the fat kids?

“State sponsored bullying. Whatever next?

“Oh, they’re going to remove all restrictions on their mates in the fast-food industry.

“How long until KFC and McDonald’s are tendering for school canteen contracts, d'you reckon?”

Lindsey added: “I work in a school and think the dinners are very good, especially compared to when I was at school.

“But the children are too used to having it their own way at home, so they don’t want healthy food when they come into school.

“And for some children in my school (which shall remain nameless) I know lunch time is the only proper meal they'll have that day, but they still wont eat it and want a packet of crisps instead!”

Pgt67 added: “Remember sometime ago when the now departed head at CVHS tried to remove chips from the menu the abuse she got off some parents was unbelievable!

“Like you say kids have it all their own way and don’t they just know that they can do so without any comeback.”

News last week that Edinburgh was the most miserable place in the UK while Powys in Mid-Wales was the cheeriest prompted some severe pushing of tongues into cheeks.

Kirklees was the 40th most miserable place in the UK – just months after Huddersfield was named the happiest in another survey.

Tigger said: “What rubbish... where's the evidence?

“Most of the local people dropping by this board are the most happy go lucky, easy come easy go people you're ever likely to meet...

“If this message board is anything to go by, I'm surprised we ranked as far as forty places from the bottom.”