SOME STUDY TELLS BRITISH PEOPLE WHAT THEY ALREADY KNOW

The Guardian reports that a recent study has concluded that the British are so lazy that they are "in danger of becoming too unfit to perform rudimentary tasks", which makes laziness sound like a bad thing!

And I don't know why it took a study to pick that up; it's been perfectly obvious for some time that British people can't be arsed with most things. Glad to see Birmingham second only to Glasgow as having the most slobs - I would expect nothing less. We know what's important and it's not toned tummies.

Laziness is not so bad. Seems to me that left to their own devices most people manage to be as fit as they need to be. Currently, I need to be fit enough to walk from my car to the office, and visa versa, and sit up straight at a desk all day. I don't see the need to get the dumbbells and treadmill out for that in my spare time. I'd rather have a nap.

True, some people take unfitness to extreme levels and end up stuck in bed the size of a small elephant, having liquidized hamburgers funnelled into their mouths by Feeders, but most of us manage to be unfit within reasonable limits. Whereas fit people are always in danger of spraining an ankle or something and they also move about more doing stuff, using up more of the earth's resources. Laziness is good.

And being fit isn't even sexier than being unfit anymore. Lion Bar Ice Cream say so. The only people who find people who go to the gym really attractive are other people who go to the gym. And gay men. Leave 'em all to it I say.