are
I think it should be "are morbidly obese"

I blame all the processed shut people eat full of salt and shit. We had a veg patch as a kid, meaning food budgets could stretch to better quality meats and stuff as we saved on veg. I wonder how many kids whos parents have an allotment are fat?
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Thu 18 Apr 2013, 8:57, 3 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

That and people (and therefore supermarkets) insisting that all veg must look perfect
despite the fact that the shape has nothing to do with the taste, if you're going to slice/dice/mash it anyway, so what?
Loads of veg gets chucked/sent for animal feed unnecessarily cos of being less than perfect.
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:05, Reply)

I like my vegetables as suggestive as possible.

( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:06, Reply)

I'm feeling suggestible already
/Blackwood
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:11, Reply)

Well shape does have some bearing on your eating experience.
Otherwise why would you bother to slice, dice or Madge(?) everything?
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:10, Reply)

Smaller pieces cook faster
No idea why my phone thinks mash should be Madge!
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:13, Reply)

You are wrong, WP, soz.
*One* is.
One (in four) is.
Not 'one' are.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:07, Reply)

but...
You're actually talking about plural "one" in that context means many.
(PsychoChomp, Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:11, Reply)

Pardon?
One means 'one'. You're talking utter bollocks now I'm afraid.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:13, Reply)

GRAMMAR FIGHT!

( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:14, Reply)

In this context it means 25% of the population.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:14, Reply)

It means one person in four FFS

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:18, Reply)

Who is this person?

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:19, Reply)

The fat one.
Jesus wept can someone else help me out here? Someone with a basic command of English?
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:21, Reply)

Oh I get it now, you evil trolls.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:22, Reply)

not tolling, you're wrong.

(PsychoChomp, Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:25, Reply)

Dude, you can't even spell 'trolling'.
Which of us is likely to be right here? You're the stats man here. Come on.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:27, Reply)

Sorry 'which of us are likely to be right'

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:28, Reply)

I wasn't really arguing for substituting 'are' for 'is', just y'know, fanning the flames, as it were...

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:23, Reply)

Oh sorry, didn't recognise you for a minute there, Monty.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:21, Reply)

LOL
Well I have put on a lot of weight since I moved down here to Croydon.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:22, Reply)

I blame Chicken Thursday.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:24, Reply)

Chicken Fri-Weds haven't helped either.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:25, Reply)

one in four
Children in croydon. Does not mean one child though does it you spastic
unless this whole thread is a personal attack.
(PsychoChomp, Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:15, Reply)

Of course it fucking does.
One child out of every four children. One of them is obese out of every four.

Is it National Retard Day today or something?
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:19, Reply)

if i have 200 drug pills. And then invite Barry round one in four drug pills ARE taken.
(PsychoChomp, Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:23, Reply)

I like how you have framed this in terms Monty can easily understand.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:24, Reply)

Yes Chompy
One pill are taken. I see that now.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:25, Reply)

50 pills is taken.

(PsychoChomp, Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:26, Reply)

One = singular. Fifty = plural.
Surely even you know this?
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:28, Reply)

yes
You're correct. If you totally ignore the context. One singular. One in four plural.
This is what you get when you learn grammar by repeating rules not actually thinking.
(PsychoChomp, Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:31, Reply)

One in four NOT plural
The context that one (a singular entity) out of four (a group of four, a plural) is obese. One of them is. Not one of them are. It's almost frighteningly simple and you aren't an actual retard so I know you're just winding me up and I'm not falling for it (any more).
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:34, Reply)

Yes, but they didn't just survey 4 kids and find one fat one, did they?

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:37, Reply)

DON'T YOU FUCKING START,
They surveyed all of them and if you break them down into groups of four, out of that group of four one of them IS fat.

Now fuck off.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:40, Reply)

I doubt they surveyed all of them.
More likely a sample group, then the figures scaled up.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:44, Reply)

IF The four represents more than four.
THEN the one represents more than one.
THEREFORE plural
(PsychoChomp, Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:40, Reply)

EXACTLY
It's a statistical description, not a quantity.

Oh. ...quantities, I see the difficulty now.
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:43, Reply)

According to Nakers list of days
April the 18th is “World Heritage Day”


I’m not sure how accurate his list is though, as it has neither “Chicken Thursday” or “Coincidence Day” in it
( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:29, Reply)

well colour me corrected.
It just didn't scan right in my head, probably all the terrible teachers I've had over the years.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:11, Reply)

I got fat as soon as I left home as I found out that I could eat sausages for every meal and no-one would tell me off
I don't blame anyone just my own weak will and desire for sausages
( Theoban What of it, Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:26, Reply)

see, the chicken talk up there had me craving KFC,
Now this sausages talk is making me rethink that.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:29, Reply)

Have chicken sausages

( Theoban What of it, Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:30, Reply)

if these exist, I shall seek them out.

( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:32, Reply)

Such a beast does exist

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:35, Reply)