The "Wellness" industry

[ChildeHarold]

Wellness seems to account for an increasing amount of tv and radio output.  There isn't a local news show that does not have at least one or more segments about mental health, recovery from illness,  addiction, ptsd, lack of services for this or that, how to get a good night's sleep, eating healthily, blah blah blah... harmful effects of... too much of doing this or that... every fucking outdoor event or individual challenge say walking Lands End to John O'Groats with a dildo stuck up your arse has to be linked to a get better charity, not just for the sake of doing it: the "If I can help somebody...." interview or tv documentary... 

Wasn't there a time when, probably before the internet turned everyone into self conscious farts and hypochondriacs, when people JUST GOT ON WITH IT?

[Mike Hunt]

I agree CH, I just don't get myself wound up any more like you are by not watching any TV.  I'll watch whatever I want on YT and for unbiased reporting with no woke slant it's reuters.com.

[Penny Farthing]

Didn't this all spin off from these well notes that replaced sick notes with the big pharma parasites leaping on board these "Welman" "WellMum" and lower than lower "Wellkid" to try to sell vitamins and other snake oil products that they should be getting from a healthy diet rather than eating Maccydees etc. The problem is not so much the TV and the like but these adverts on the back and buses and adverts on walls etc that it is almost impossible not to see.

[ChildeHarold]

7 hours ago, Mike Hunt said:

I agree CH, I just don't get myself wound up any more like you are by not watching any TV.  I'll watch whatever I want on YT and for unbiased reporting with no woke slant it's reuters.com.

YT is worse than fucking FREEVIEW OR SKY it's a nutty slack emporium.  The latest "Wellness" to float across the de-tuned CH aerial is the guy self styled as "The Hardest Geezer" (can you imagine having a nice quiet drink with him on a Saturday night?  "Hi chaps, I 'm The Hardest Geezer") who's run the length of Africa raising XXX thousands £££.  

[ChildeHarold]

3 hours ago, Penny Farthing said:

The problem is not so much the TV and the like but these adverts on the back and buses and adverts on walls etc that it is almost impossible not to see.

I still pick up these toxic charity ads on my harddrive freeview recordings:  there's one obnoxious cunt who tries to prise open your card details with chat about "scenes of babies drinking filthy water swarming with bacteria and insects"  (the charity is Water Aid probably paying its CEO a six figire salary) when YOU know and I know that sterilising water by boiling is the easiest thing to do in the world.  Do they fucking think we're stupid? 

[Hammer of Cunts]

All this BS (along with yoga, pilates etc) is just a modern way of ripping-off silly, vain middle-class women. If their husbands are stupid enough to pay... So what?

[Penny Farthing]

48 minutes ago, Hammer of Cunts said:

All this BS (along with yoga, pilates etc) is just a modern way of ripping-off silly, vain middle-class women. If their husbands are stupid enough to pay... So what?

More worrying are these give what you can charity scammers .. There was one local old biddy who got into debt and could hardly pay to feed her self .. she had fallen victim to a number of these "just £5 a month charities" along the other local "not for profit" outfits and was paying out at least £100 a week. I know someone else who has got caught up in the wealth gospel racket and is paying out 25% of her salary in the hope that prayer will bring her wealth.

[camberwell gypsy]

52 minutes ago, Hammer of Cunts said:

All this BS (along with yoga, pilates etc) is just a modern way of ripping-off silly, vain middle-class women. If their husbands are stupid enough to pay... So what?

The cunts who are coining it in are the personal trainers charging 30 sovs for an hour's session. You can get useful drills off the internet without coughing up to get some muscley cunt shouting BS like "yes, you've got this" "give me more, yeah yeah you've smashed this....."

Too many of these are too fucking lazy to develop their own fitness programs and would rather be treated like a border collie. 

[Penny Farthing]

2 minutes ago, camberwell gypsy said:

The cunts who are coining it in are the personal trainers charging 30 sovs for an hour's session. You can get useful drills off the internet without coughing up to get some muscley cunt shouting BS like "yes, you've got this" "give me more, yeah yeah you've smashed this....."

Too many of these are too fucking lazy to develop their own fitness programs and would rather be treated like a border collie. 

Its is similar to the Wealth Gospel thing If you believe hard enough you will get what ever. Just type  "wealth gospel" into your computer or smart phone and loads of link will pop up mostly from fraudsters posting as evangelicals.

[camberwell gypsy]

20 minutes ago, Penny Farthing said:

Its is similar to the Wealth Gospel thing If you believe hard enough you will get what ever. Just type  "wealth gospel" into your computer or smart phone and loads of link will pop up mostly from fraudsters posting as evangelicals.

A fool and his money.....

It's like these dozy twats who are scammed. Granted, there a few crumblies who's just naive but it's those who should know better. I mean these silly middle aged wimmin who get taken in by some cunt calling himself Mario, some dishy itie widower who is fact some fucking 20 stone sweaty african from Chad. As soon as money is mentioned the red flags should start fucking flying, but these cozy mares fall straight into it. 

I'll never get scammed because I don't fucking trust anyone.

[Penny Farthing]

5 minutes ago, camberwell gypsy said:

A fool and his money.....

It's like these dozy twats who are scammed. Granted, there a few crumblies who's just naive but it's those who should know better. I mean these silly middle aged wimmin who get taken in by some cunt calling himself Mario, some dishy itie widower who is fact some fucking 20 stone sweaty african from Chad. As soon as money is mentioned the red flags should start fucking flying, but these cozy mares fall straight into it. 

I'll never get scammed because I don't fucking trust anyone.

It can be more local Richard Scratchard (now dead) with sex offence record as long as your arm tricked his way into the heart of 60 something woman who should have known better and probably murdered her. There also is some semi wealthy aged 50s woman from somewhere near Gloucester who was conned out about £750k by a serial love rat who pretended to be a secret agent.

[camberwell gypsy]

16 minutes ago, Penny Farthing said:

It can be more local Richard Scratchard (now dead) with sex offence record as long as your arm tricked his way into the heart of 60 something woman who should have known better and probably murdered her. There also is some semi wealthy aged 50s woman from somewhere near Gloucester who was conned out about £750k by a serial love rat who pretended to be a secret agent.

Secret Agent. There's the 'red flag'. A secret agent wouldn't tell you he's a secret agent because.....he's a fucking secret agent. 

[ChildeHarold]

2 hours ago, Hammer of Cunts said:

All this BS (along with yoga, pilates etc) is just a modern way of ripping-off silly, vain middle-class women. If their husbands are stupid enough to pay... So what?

What do you think of this?  It's a kind of Frankenstein mixture of politics, community, sport, and charity with a large dollop of creamy self satisfaction on the top with presumably a sugar coated strawberry. 

https://southwarknews.co.uk/area/bermondsey/the-bermondsey-man-who-turned-palestines-para-cycling-team-into-emergency-aid-workers/

[ChildeHarold]

1 hour ago, Penny Farthing said:

It can be more local Richard Scratchard (now dead) with sex offence record as long as your arm tricked his way into the heart of 60 something woman who should have known better and probably murdered her. There also is some semi wealthy aged 50s woman from somewhere near Gloucester who was conned out about £750k by a serial love rat who pretended to be a secret agent.

Reminds me of that MI6 guy who was found zipped up inside a holdall.  That was never satisfactorily explained.  And the press just dropped it.  Ha ha ha. 

[colonelkurtz]

Wellness my fecking arse . A wise man or woman once said a vigorous wank or a good shit is guaranteed to make all your troubles fade away. Let's see them put that advice out on daytime TV where there's certainly no shortage of willing and able so called expert cunts available. 

[ChildeHarold]

11 minutes ago, colonelkurtz said:

Wellness my fecking arse . A wise man or woman once said a vigorous wank or a good shit is guaranteed to make all your troubles fade away. Let's see them put that advice out on daytime TV where there's certainly no shortage of willing and able so called expert cunts available. 

That for sure is never mentioned. A good sleep, a good shit, and a good meal are three basics.  To my mind the sex is optional unless..... are you Rupert Murdoch? 

[Hammer of Cunts]

2 hours ago, ChildeHarold said:

What do you think of this?  It's a kind of Frankenstein mixture of politics, community, sport, and charity with a large dollop of creamy self satisfaction on the top with presumably a sugar coated strawberry. 

https://southwarknews.co.uk/area/bermondsey/the-bermondsey-man-who-turned-palestines-para-cycling-team-into-emergency-aid-workers/

"Para-cycling"? I was expecting something involving parachutes and unicycles.

[ChildeHarold]

1 hour ago, Hammer of Cunts said:

"Para-cycling"? I was expecting something involving parachutes and unicycles.

A Heath Robinson approach to a fucking problem that needs joint international military intervention and both parties put their noses to the negotiating table with a knife at their throats. 

[Hammer of Cunts]

41 minutes ago, ChildeHarold said:

A Heath Robinson approach to a fucking problem that needs joint international military intervention and both parties put their noses to the negotiating table with a knife at their throats. 

It's not an approach to the problem it's a fucking vanity project. Organisers sniffing MBEs at least. I'm sure the participants are well-meaning and deserving of our sympathy but any good they may do must be balanced against the risks to those who will have to rescue them when it goes tits-up.

[camberwell gypsy]

4 hours ago, colonelkurtz said:

Wellness my fecking arse . A wise man or woman once said a vigorous wank or a good shit is guaranteed to make all your troubles fade away. Let's see them put that advice out on daytime TV where there's certainly no shortage of willing and able so called expert cunts available. 

'A wise man or woman once said a vigorous wank or a good shit is guaranteed to make all your troubles fade away'.

That was Dame Margaret Rutherford in an interview after she won the Oscar for Best Supporting role in 'The VIPs'.  

[ChildeHarold]

1 hour ago, Hammer of Cunts said:

It's not an approach to the problem it's a fucking vanity project. Organisers sniffing MBEs at least. I'm sure the participants are well-meaning and deserving of our sympathy but any good they may do must be balanced against the risks to those who will have to rescue them when it goes tits-up.

You hit the nail on the head Hammer.  So much of this do-gooding has a selfish motivation and an eye on something.  Look at the so called stars who fucking go on Children in Need and the Lenny Henrys and Geldolfs.  How did that fucking Geldolf get to buy a Chelsea house out of one fucking hit single? 

[camberwell gypsy]

6 minutes ago, ChildeHarold said:

You hit the nail on the head Hammer.  So much of this do-gooding has a selfish motivation and an eye on something.  Look at the so called stars who fucking go on Children in Need and the Lenny Henrys and Geldolfs.  How did that fucking Geldolf get to buy a Chelsea house out of one fucking hit single? 

He had two with Boomtown Rats  I Don't Like Mondays was a fucking massive hit 

[ChildeHarold]

45 minutes ago, camberwell gypsy said:

He had two with Boomtown Rats  I Don't Like Mondays was a fucking massive hit 

Enough to buy a Chelsea pied a terre?  I don’t think so.  He looks like Fiddler on the Roof. 

[Wolfie]

49 minutes ago, camberwell gypsy said:

He had two with Boomtown Rats  I Don't Like Mondays was a fucking massive hit 

 

56 minutes ago, ChildeHarold said:

You hit the nail on the head Hammer.  So much of this do-gooding has a selfish motivation and an eye on something.  Look at the so called stars who fucking go on Children in Need and the Lenny Henrys and Geldolfs.  How did that fucking Geldolf get to buy a Chelsea house out of one fucking hit single? 

How has Geldof managed to generate such a personal fortune (est. £40m) from just one UK hit in 1979, which reached only no. 73 across the Big Pond?

This cunt's cunt has made a career and amassed tens of millions from other people's poverty (like Billy Bragg, who sang about greedy bankers from London... and then sold his Dorset house to one), and in doing so has behaved in precisely the opposite way he scolds others for. This is what politicians are also good at doing – exploiting under a facade of goodwill.

He's the definition of a champagne socialist. A greedy, phony fucking wanker. It's little wonder everyone around him opts for suicide.

Oh, and you can have an extremely rare like for your comment, Harold, which ought to improve your l/p ratio by around 50%.

[ChildeHarold]

3 minutes ago, Wolfie said:

 

How has Geldof managed to generate such a personal fortune (est. £40m) from just one UK hit in 1979, which reached only no. 73 across the big pond?

This cunt's cunt has made a career and amassed tens of millions from other people's poverty (like Billy Bragg, who sang about greedy bankers from London... and then sold his Dorset house to one), and in doing so has behaved in precisely the opposite way he scolds others for. This is what politicians are also good at doing – exploiting under a facade of goodwill.

He's the definition of a champagne socialist. A greedy, phony fucking wanker. It's little wonder everyone around him opts for suicide.

Oh, and you can have an extremely rare like for your comment, Harold, which ought to improve your l/p ratio by around 50%.

I have said some harsh things about you because you've been a cunt to me recently and this rare Like doesn't make up for the pain and suffering  you inflicted on my soul like a drunken night in Frimley Lakeside.  Just kidding.