Fast Food Baby

[thomas]

As a fellow Swindonian you only need to head into the town centre on a saturday to witness the horrors of parenting hell first hand. Kids (that are certainly old enough to be walking!) sat in their pushchairs stuffing their faces with Greggs finest sausage rolls whilst the (almost old enough to leave school) parents are happily puffing away on their cigarettes. The future looks bleak...

Swap Swindon for Orpington and it's the same picture where I live.

Swap parents with children "happily puffing away on cigarettes" and it's Woking

 

[MacB]

I had the misfortune to be in the town centre on Saturday and your description is a good one, just need to add the many smoking pregnant women each surrounded by their own brat pack.

I'm not arguing, but what counts as many here, is it many as in you actually saw dozens or is it many as in Daily Mail headline many?

User has it right, freak shows put on to 'entertain' the masses

 

[BSRU]

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What's more unsettling to me is that TV companies will seek out these extremes of society so that we can all watch the freak show and have our views of the chav reinforced.
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The couple I watched were definitely not chav's, just lazy bad parents.

Unfortunately these "extremes" are become the norm, all it reinforces is the notion that the stupid percentage of the U.K. population is getting bigger as well as U.K. waistlines.

 

[cyberknight]

As the saying goes any "prick" and "c*nt" can make a baby but it takes real men and women to make parents!

+1
Took us 8 years of IVF become parents , i despair at some of the "parents " i see.

 

[swee'pea99]

Jeremy Kyleavision

 

[Crackle]

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What's more unsettling to me is that TV companies will seek out these extremes of society so that we can all watch the freak show and have our views of the chav reinforced.
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Pretty much covers it. Normal people don't make interesting telly.

 

[Archie_tect]

'Normal people' don't watch it either... 'Reality TV' is a self-fulfilling downward spiral.

 

[User482]

The couple I watched were definitely not chav's, just lazy bad parents.

Unfortunately these "extremes" are become the norm, all it reinforces is the notion that the stupid percentage of the U.K. population is getting bigger as well as U.K. waistlines.

How do you know? Is it not more likely that as more of these people are exploited in the name of cheap entertainment, we're just more aware of them?

I don't watch any of these kinds of programmes - it's voyeurism, and exploits people who would be better off with professional help for what may be mental health problems.

 

[subaqua]

As a fellow Swindonian you only need to head into the town centre on a saturday to witness the horrors of parenting hell first hand. Kids (that are certainly old enough to be walking!) sat in their pushchairs stuffing their faces with Greggs finest sausage rolls whilst the (almost old enough to leave school) parents are happily puffing away on their cigarettes. The future looks bleak...

the ubiquitous "Greggs Dummy " first mentioned in Viz many years ago. nice to se its made it all the way doon sooth

 

[BSRU]

How do you know? Is it not more likely that as more of these people are exploited in the name of cheap entertainment, we're just more aware of them?

I don't watch any of these kinds of programmes - it's voyeurism, and exploits people who would be better off with professional help for what may be mental health problems.

Because you can see obese families everyday, shovelling crap into their orifices at various fast food outlets or waddling around the supermarket with a trolley stuffed with crap.
It used to be that it was very rare to see an obese person let alone a whole obese family, now it is common place.

 

[Deb13b]

the ubiquitous "Greggs Dummy " first mentioned in Viz many years ago. nice to se its made it all the way doon sooth

I work in greggs and can confirm their dummies are as popular as ever.

 

[User482]

Because you can see obese families everyday, shovelling crap into their orifices at various fast food outlets or waddling around the supermarket with a trolley stuffed with crap.
It used to be that it was very rare to see an obese person let alone a whole obese family, now it is common place.

You were referring to lazy, bad parents. I don't see that as equivalent to obesity, which is hardly limited to lazy, bad people.

 

[661-Pete]

Watched the first ten minutes of this programme last night and had to change the channel....

Unlike the majority of you lot, I guess, I've watched that programme through to the end. Just now, on IPlayer.

The thoughts that came into my mind during the early part of the programme, perhaps I'll keep to myself. They were prejudiced and misguided. Just like some of those I've read above.

What I got out of the ending of the programme, was something of a 'feelgood' sense. OK, the outcome wasn't perfect, but each of the three families featured had initiated some dramatic improvements. With the help of professionals. It just goes to show, careful, sensitive professionals (not a sniff of the Gillian McKeith's amongst them!) sometime do know how to do their job.

Some people do have to work from a bad starting position. Give them a chance!

 

[BSRU]

Unlike the majority of you lot, I guess, I've watched that programme through to the end. Just now, on IPlayer.

The thoughts that came into my mind during the early part of the programme, perhaps I'll keep to myself. They were prejudiced and misguided. Just like some of those I've read above.

What I got out of the ending of the programme, was something of a 'feelgood' sense. OK, the outcome wasn't perfect, but each of the three families featured had initiated some dramatic improvements. With the help of professionals. It just goes to show, careful, sensitive professionals (not a sniff of the Gillian McKeith's amongst them!) sometime do know how to do their job.

Some people do have to work from a bad starting position. Give them a chance!

I disagree, it does not take a rocket scientist to know giving six cans of Coke and take away food everyday to a 19 month old kid is wrong. 19 months ago they had a new baby a blank canvas to start a fresh but know they gave it crap, the bad starting position was the position the parents chose to start from. When a parent comes out with a statement that they cannot control what their 19 month old kid eats, you realise it is not a case of "cannot" just a case of "cannot be arsed".

I turned off after 10 minutes as it was obvious what was going to happen, family shows how stupid/lazy they are, professionals come in, state the bleeding obvious and hey presto.

 

[661-Pete]

I turned off after 10 minutes...

My point. I was reluctant, above, to admit this, but during the first ten minutes my thoughts ran like "take the wretched sprogs into care .... prosecute parents for child neglect ... (*mutter*) .... (*mutter*) .... (*snarl*)". Probably others thought on very similar lines.

... as it was obvious what was going to happen, family shows how stupid/lazy they are, professionals come in, state the bleeding obvious and hey presto.

I suppose you were expecting a Gillian McKeith* of some sort, to spring in like a dea ex machina and bully the families to a state of abject humiliation - then to flutter off as quickly as she had appeared to tackle the 'next' case. It wasn't like that. The approaches which were tried, to tackle these situations, were quite interesting, constructive, and definitely watchable. I urge you to have a look at the rest of the programme on iPlayer. I can say no more.

*"or to give her her full medical title: 'Gillian McKeith'" - Ben Goldacre. I just had to include that quote!