As someone with a (genuine) underactive thyroid,and probably what Al Murray would call ” a very fast pie arm “,you two don’t know how lucky you are .But if rolling in mud is effective,how come hippos are so big ?P.S. Barry the mod I am NOT FAT !!!

Don’t waste time worrying,mate – what will be,will be.Sad timing I agree , and two of my friends both lost their mothers this week too.Whichever way you look at it,life is short – so you might as well adopt the motto of my student daughter and her friends – “Life’s a bitch/ Tomorrow you die/ So sod the world/ And let’s get high”.I THINK she meant that as a joke.

Anyone else think the Simpsons is just for kids ?

She hasn’t gone – just crying in a corner quietly ( he called me FAT! ).Last year my mother spent three months in an NHS hospital that was pitifully short of even the most basic stuff.If the government has money to burn paying someone to ring people up asking how much they weigh they could channel some of it into that hospital. They could start with a couple of chairs so people like my eighty-five year old Dad don’t have to stand up when they visit.

You are fat! So am I.

Oh cheers mate thanks for that.I’ve been insulted in better places than this.

I live in a town where ten per cent of the population is Muslim and there is very little racial tension because,as has been pointed out already ,the vast majority of Muslim and British people are decent and law-abiding.But two of the convicted fertiliser bombers went to school here ,exactly the same sort of comprehensive school with the same values that my daughter went to.I don’t know any simple answer as to how two young men brought up in this environment could contemplate such atrocity ,but I would like to ask if there’s anyone on the board who can give a Muslim point of view ?

Sounds like a balanced lunch to me !